Selected latest research articles:
2026
Aavik, Tsipe; Reitalu, Triin; Kivastik, Marianne; Reinula, Iris; Träger, Sabrina; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Barberis, Marta; Biere, Arjen; Castro, Sílvia; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Csecserits, Anikó; Dariotis, Eleftherios; Fišer, Živa; Grzejszczak, Grzegorz; Huu, Cuong Nguyen; Hool, Kertu; Jacquemyn, Hans; Julien, Margaux; Klisz, Marcin; Kmoch, Alexander… Zobel, Martin** (2026). A pan‐European citizen science study shows population size, climate and land use are related to biased morph ratios in the heterostylous plant Primula veris. Journal of Ecology, 114 (1), e14477. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14477
2025
Guamán-Pintado, Pamela; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Mejia, Danilo; Szabó, Szilárd (2025). How does air quality reflect the land cover changes: remote sensing approach using Sentinel data. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197, 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103057
Kmoch, Alexander; Harrison, Clay Taylor; Choi, Jeonghwan; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2025). Spatial autocorrelation in machine learning for modelling soil organic carbon. Ecological Informatics, 86, 103057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2491177
Virro, Holger; Kmoch, Alexander; Lidberg, William; Muru, Merle; Chan, Wai Tik; Moges, Desalew Meseret; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2025). Detection of drainage ditches from LiDAR DTM using U-Net and transfer learning. Big Earth Data, 1−12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2491177
Uuuemaa, Evelyn; Virro, Holger; Muru, Merle (2025). Tehisaru aitab Eesti teadlastel kaardistamata kuivenduskraave tuvastada. Novaator. https://novaator.err.ee/1609685099/tehisaru-aitab-eesti-teadlastel-kaardistamata-kuivenduskraave-tuvastada
Kmoch, Alexander; Sahr, Kevin; Chan, Wai Tik; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2025). IGEO7: A new hierarchically indexed hexagonal equal-area discrete global grid system. AGILE: GIScience Series, 6, 1−6. DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-6-32-2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-6-32-2025
Oleksandr Borysenko, Jan Pisek, Alexander Kmoch, Holger Virro, Wai Tik Chan, Eveli Sisas, Ats Remmelg, Marta Jemeljanova, Evelyn Uuemaa (2025). Developing a Data Cube for Biodiversity and Carbon Dynamics Assessment in Estonia with Remote Sensing data. ESA Living Planet Symposium. ESA Living Planet Symposium. https://lps25.esa.int/programme/programme-authors/?id=6a0e45ec-f8c2-4f83-b19c-610cedc71924
Karasov, Oleksandr; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Jarv, Olle; Kuffer, Monika; Tammaru, Tiit (2025). Predicting Household Income with Sentinel and Street View Imagery: A Comparative Study across Amsterdam, Sydney, and New York. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 143, ARTN 104828. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2025.104828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104828
Choi, Jeonghwan; Kmoch, Alexander; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2025). Optimisation of sampling design for multivariate soil mapping with machine learning. In: Albani, Sergio; Lumnitz, Stefanie; Kempeneers, Pietern (Ed.). Proceedings of the 2025 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS'25). (201−204). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/2119408
2024
Toming, Kaire; Liu, Hui; Soomets, Tuuli; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Nõges, Tiina; Kutser, Tiit (2024). Estimation of the Biogeochemical and Physical Properties of Lakes Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Applications. Remote Sensing, 16 (3), 464. DOI: 10.3390/rs16030464
Moges, Desalew Meseret; Virro, Holger; Kmoch, Alexander; Cibin, Raj; Rohith, A. N.; Martínez-Salvador, Alberto; Conesa-García, Carmelo; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2024). Streamflow Prediction with Time-Lag-Informed Random Forest and Its Performance Compared to SWAT in Diverse Catchments. Water, 16, 2805. 10.3390/w16192805
Jemeļjanova, Marta; Kmoch, Alexander; Uuemaa, Evelyn. (2024).
Adapting machine learning for environmental spatial data - A review
Ecological Informatics, Volume 81, 102634,ISSN 1574-9541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102634
Kmoch, Alexander; Bovy, Benoit; Magin, Justus; Abernathey, Ryan; Coca Castro, Alejandr; Strobl, Peter; Fouilloux, Anne; Loos, Daniel; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Chan, Wai; Delouis, Jean-Marc; Odaka, Tina. (2024). XDGGS: A community-developed Xarray package to support planetary DGGS data cube computations.
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. XLVIII-4/W12-2024. 75-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W12-2024-75-2024
2023
Moges, Desalew Meseret; Virro, Holger; Kmoch, Alexander; Cibin, Raj; Rohith, A. N.; Martinez-Salvador, Alberto; Conesa-Garcia, Carmelo; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2023). How does the choice of DEMs affect catchment hydrological modeling? The Science of The Total Environment, 892, ARTN 164627. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164627.
2022
Karasov, Oleksandr; Heremans, Stien; Külvik, Mart; Domnich, Artem; Burdun, Iuliia; Kull, Ain; Helm, Aveliina; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2022). Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services, 53, 101391. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101391.
Moges, Desalew Meseret; Kmoch, Alexander; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2022). Application of satellite and reanalysis precipitation products for hydrological modeling in the data-scarce Porijõgi catchment, Estonia. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, 41. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101070.
Virro, Holger; Kmoch, Alexander; Vainu, Marko; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2022). Random forest-based modeling of stream nutrients at national level in a data-scarce region. The Science of The Total Environment, 840, 156613. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156613.
Kmoch, Alexander; Moges, Desalew Meseret; Sepehrar, Mahdiyeh; Narasimhan, Balaji; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2022). The Effect of Spatial Input Data Quality on the Performance of the SWAT Model. Water, 14 (13), 1988. doi: 10.3390/w14131988.
Kmoch, Alexander; Vasilyev, Ivan; Virro, Holger; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2022). Area and shape distortions in open-source discrete global grid systems. Big Earth Data, 1−20. doi: 10.1080/20964471.2022.2094926.
2021
Virro, Holger; Amatulli, Giuseppe; Kmoch, Alexander; Shen, Longzhu; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2021). GRQA: Global River Water Quality Archive. Earth System Science Data, 13 (12), 5483−5507. doi: 10.5194/essd-13-5483-2021.
Kmoch, Alexander; Kanal, Arno†; Astover, Alar; Kull, Ain; Virro, Holger; Helm, Aveliina; Pärtel, Meelis; Ostonen, Ivika; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2021). EstSoil-EH: a high-resolution eco-hydrological modelling parameters dataset for Estonia. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 83–97, doi: 10.5194/essd-13-83-2021
Buo, Isaac; Sagris, Valentina; Burdun, Iuliia; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2021). Estimating the expansion of urban areas and urban heat islands (UHI) in Ghana: a case study. Natural Hazards. doi: 10.1007/s11069-020-04355-4
2020
Uuemaa, Evelyn; Ahi, Sander; Montibeller, Bruno; Muru, Merle; Kmoch, Alexander (2020). Vertical Accuracy of Freely Available Global Digital Elevation Models (ASTER, AW3D30, MERIT, TanDEM-X, SRTM, and NASADEM). Remote Sensing, 12 (21), 3482. doi: 10.3390/rs12213482
Toming, Kaire; Kotta, Jonne; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Sobek, Sebastian; Kutser, Tiit; Tranvik, Lars J. (2020). Predicting lake dissolved organic carbon at a global scale. Scientific Reports 10, 8471.doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65010-3
Montibeller, Bruno; Kmoch, Alexander; Virro, Holger; Mander, Ülo; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2020). Increasing fragmentation of forest cover in Brazil’s Legal Amazon from 2001 to 2017. Scientific Reports, 10 (1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62591-x
Moges, Desalew Meseret; Kmoch, Alexander; Bhat, H. Gangadhara; Uuemaa, Evelyn (2020). Future soil loss in highland Ethiopia under changing climate and land use. Regional Environmental Change, 20 (1). doi: 10.1007/s10113-020-01617-6
2019
Rahmati, Omid; Yousefi, Saleh; Kalantari, Zahra; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Teimurian, Teimur; Keesstra, Saskia; Pham, Tien Dat; Tien Bui, Dieu (2019). Multi-Hazard Exposure Mapping Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Case Study from Iran. Remote Sensing, 11 (16), 1943. doi: 10.3390/rs11161943.
2018
Uuemaa, Evelyn; Palliser, Chris; Hughes, Andrew; Tanner, Chris (2018). Effectiveness of a Natural Headwater Wetland for Reducing Agricultural Nitrogen Loads. Water, 10 (3), 1−17. doi: 10.3390/w10030287.
Kmoch, Alexander; Uuemaa, Evelyn; Klug, Hermann; Cameron, Stewart G.; (2018). Enhancing Location-Related Hydrogeological Knowledge. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7 (132, 4). doi: 10.3390/ijgi7040132.
Uuemaa, Evelyn; Hughes, Andrew O.; Tanner, Chris C. (2018). Identifying Feasible Locations for Wetland Creation or Restoration in Catchments by Suitability Modelling Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Water, 10 (4), ARTN 464. doi: 10.3390/w10040464.
Brodaric, Boyan; Boisvert, Eric; Chery, Laurence; Dahlhaus, Peter; Grellet, Sylvain; Kmoch, Alexander; Letourneau, Francois; Lucido, Jessica; Simons, Bruce; Wagner, Bernhard (2018). Enabling global exchange of groundwater data: GroundWaterML2 (GWML2). Hydrogeology Journal, 26 (3), 733−741. doi: 10.1007/s10040-018-1747-9.
