Mahecha, M. D., Kraemer, G., Reinhardt, M., Montero, D., Gans, F., Bastos, A., Feilhauer, H., Flik, I., Ji, C., Kattenborn, T., Migliavacca, M., Mönks, M., Quaas, J., Sippel, S., Walther, S., Wieneke, S., Wirth, C., & Camps-Valls, G. (2026). Accelerated north–east shift of the global green wave trajectory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(9). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2515835123
Publications
Selected research across Earth observation, Earth system data cubes, vegetation dynamics, artificial intelligence, and open scientific software. The complete record is available on Google Scholar.
2026
Mosig, C., Vajna-Jehle, J., Mahecha, M. D., Cheng, Y., Hartmann, H., Montero, D., Junttila, S., Horion, S., Schwenke, M. B., Koontz, M. J., Maulud, K. N. A., Adu-Bredu, S., Al-Halbouni, D., Ali, M., Allen, M., Altman, J., Amorós, L., Angiolini, C., Astrup, R., … Kattenborn, T. (2026). deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. Remote Sensing of Environment, 332, 115027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115027
Mosig, C., Kattenborn, T., Montero, D., Vanja-Jehle, J., Brandt, J., Jacobs, N., Khanal, S., Xing, E., Schwartz, M., Muller-Landau, H. C., Beloiu, M., Bozzini, A., Cheng, Y., Ganz, K., Grüning, B., Hartmann, H., Hempel, J., Horion, S., Junttila, S., … Mahecha, M. (2026). Sub-pixel mapping of disturbance and tree mortality dynamics from Sentinel-2 time series around the globe. California Digital Library (CDL). https://doi.org/10.31223/x5b18w
Muñoz, E., Anaya, J. A., Clerici, N., Estupinan‐Suarez, L. M., Lopera, I., Richter, S., Salazar, A., Sierra, C. A., Tangarife‐Escobar, A., Mahecha, M. D., Montero, D., Palacios‐Rodríguez, P., Ramos, P., & Botía, S. (2026). An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia. Plants, People, Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70157
2025
Galaz, V., Schewenius, M., Donges, J. F., Fetzer, I., Zhivkoplias, E., Barfuss, W., Delannoy, L., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Gelbrecht, M., Heitzig, J., Hentati-Sundberg, J., Kennedy, C., Knecht, N., Lotcheris, R., Mahecha, M., Merrie, A., Montero, D., McPhearson, T., Mustafa, A., … Vadrot, A. (2025). AI for a Planet Under Pressure. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2510.24373
Söchting, M., Scheuermann, G., Montero, D., & Mahecha, M. D. (2025). Interactive Earth system data cube visualization in Jupyter notebooks. Big Earth Data, 9(2), 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2471646
2024
Montero, D., Kraemer, G., Anghelea, A., Aybar, C., Brandt, G., Camps-Valls, G., Cremer, F., Flik, I., Gans, F., Habershon, S., Ji, C., Kattenborn, T., Martínez-Ferrer, L., Martinuzzi, F., Reinhardt, M., Söchting, M., Teber, K., & Mahecha, M. D. (2024). Earth System Data Cubes: Avenues for advancing Earth system research. Environmental Data Science, 3. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2024.22
Martinuzzi, F., Mahecha, M. D., Montero, D., Alonso, L., & Mora, K. (2024). SpectralIndices.jl: Streamlining spectral indices access and computation for Earth system research. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W12-2024, 89–95. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w12-2024-89-2024
Montero, D., Aybar, C., Ji, C., Kraemer, G., Söchting, M., Teber, K., & Mahecha, M. D. (2024). On-Demand Earth System Data Cubes. In IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 7529–7532). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10640742
Aybar, C., Bautista, L., Montero, D., Contreras, J., Ayala, D., Prudencio, F., Loja, J., Ysuhuaylas, L., Herrera, F., Gonzales, K., Valladares, J., Flores, L. A., Mamani, E., Quiñonez, M., Fajardo, R., Espinoza, W., Limas, A., Yali, R., Alcántara, A., … Gómez-Chova, L. (2024). CloudSEN12+: The largest dataset of expert-labeled pixels for cloud and cloud shadow detection in Sentinel-2. Data in Brief, 56, 110852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110852
Söchting, M., Mahecha, M. D., Montero, D., & Scheuermann, G. (2024). Lexcube: Interactive Visualization of Large Earth System Data Cubes. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 44(1), 25–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2023.3321989
Montero, D., Mahecha, M. D., Aybar, C., Mosig, C., & Wieneke, S. (2024). Facilitating advanced Sentinel-2 analysis through a simplified computation of Nadir BRDF Adjusted Reflectance. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W12-2024, 105–112. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w12-2024-105-2024
Aybar, C., Montero, D., Contreras, J., Donike, S., Kalaitzis, F., & Gómez-Chova, L. (2024). SEN2NAIP: A large-scale dataset for Sentinel-2 Image Super-Resolution. Scientific Data, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04214-y
Aybar, C., Montero, D., Donike, S., Kalaitzis, F., & Gómez-Chova, L. (2024). A Comprehensive Benchmark for Optical Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 21, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2024.3401394
Montero, D., Mahecha, M. D., Martinuzzi, F., Aybar, C., Klosterhalfen, A., Knohl, A., Koebsch, F., Anaya, J., & Wieneke, S. (2024). Recurrent Neural Networks for Modelling Gross Primary Production. In IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 4214–4217). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10640715
Kattenborn, T., Wieneke, S., Montero, D., Mahecha, M. D., Richter, R., Guimarães-Steinicke, C., Wirth, C., Ferlian, O., Feilhauer, H., Sachsenmaier, L., Eisenhauer, N., & Dechant, B. (2024). Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01712-0
Martinuzzi, F., Mahecha, M. D., Camps-Valls, G., Montero, D., Williams, T., & Mora, K. (2024). Learning extreme vegetation response to climate drivers with recurrent neural networks. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 31(4), 535–557. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-31-535-2024
2023
Montero, D., Aybar, C., Mahecha, M. D., Martinuzzi, F., Söchting, M., & Wieneke, S. (2023). A standardized catalogue of spectral indices to advance the use of remote sensing in Earth system research. Scientific Data, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02096-0
2022
Montero, D., Aybar, C., Mahecha, M. D., & Wieneke, S. (2022). spectral: Awesome Spectral Indices deployed via the Google Earth Engine JavaScript API. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W1-2022, 301–306. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w1-2022-301-2022
Aybar, C., Ysuhuaylas, L., Loja, J., Gonzales, K., Herrera, F., Bautista, L., Yali, R., Flores, A., Diaz, L., Cuenca, N., Espinoza, W., Prudencio, F., Llactayo, V., Montero, D., Sudmanns, M., Tiede, D., Mateo-García, G., & Gómez-Chova, L. (2022). CloudSEN12, a global dataset for semantic understanding of cloud and cloud shadow in Sentinel-2. Scientific Data, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01878-2
2021
Montero, D. (2021). eemont: A Python package that extends Google Earth Engine. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(62), 3168. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03168