Samuli Junttila
Research Director
Associate professor in Forest Health and Earth Observation
School of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology
[email protected] | +358 50 305 1004
Research topics and interests:
Vegetation water dynamics
Remote sensing (especially laser scanning)
Forest decline and tree mortality
Science communication
Research groups
Publications
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Assessing annual change in forest canopy mortality in Southern Finland, using very high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning
Ajithkumar, Nivedhitha; Blomqvist, Minna; Ahishali, Mete; Laukkanen, Ville; Peltola, Heli; Vastaranta, Mikko; Junttila, Samuli, 2026, IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 19, 28395-28410. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Assessing the effects of forest structure on vegetation optical depth in boreal forests
Ajithkumar, Nivedhitha; Junttila, Samuli; Saarinen, Ninni; Vastaranta, Mikko, 2026, Scandinavian journal of forest research, 41, 4, 298-310. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Estimating tree mortality timing using PlanetScope satellite image time series
Nowak, Jesse; Holopainen, Markus; Kattenborn, Teja; Junttila, Samuli, 2026, Isprs journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 235, 261-278. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Multispectral airborne laser scanning for tree species classification: A benchmark of machine learning and deep learning algorithms
Taher, Josef; Hyyppa, Eric; Hyyppa, Matti; Salolahti, Klaara; Yu, Xiaowei; Matikainen, Leena; Kukko, Antero; Lehtomaki, Matti; Kaartinen, Harri; Thurachen, Sopitta; Litkey, Paula; Luoma, Ville; Holopainen, Markus; Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Ronnholm, Petri; Vaaja, Matti; Polvivaara, Antti; Junttila, Samuli; Vastaranta, Mikko; Puliti, Stefano; Astrup, Rasmus; Kostensalo, Joel; Myllymaki, Mari; Kulicki, Maksymilian; Sterenczak, Krzysztof; Pires, Raul De Paula; Valbuena, Ruben; Carbonell-Rivera, J, 2026, Isprs journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 233, 278-309. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Satellite embeddings as complementary predictors of standing dead-tree volume fraction in boreal forests
Chowdhury, Anwarul Islam; Ahishali, Mete; Vastaranta, Mikko; Uddin, Md. Jamal; Junttila, Samuli, 2026, Ecological informatics, 98, 104013. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Uncovering growth dynamics in Scots pine through the detection of the onset of height growth using near-daily terrestrial laser scanning time series
Korpelainen, Taiga; Campos, Mariana Batista; Yrttimaa, Tuomas; Junttila, Samuli; Kukko, Antero; Hyyppä, Juha; Wang, Yunsheng; Puttonen, Eetu, 2026, Ecological informatics, 95, 103685. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
deadtrees.earth - An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics
Mosig, Clemens; Vajna-Jehle, Janusch; Mahecha, Miguel D.; Cheng, Yan; Hartmann, Henrik; Montero, David; Junttila, Samuli; Horion, Stephanie; Schwenke, Mirela Beloiu; Koontz, Michael J.; Maulud, Khairul Nizam Abdul; Adu-Bredu, Stephen; Al-Halbouni, Djamil; Ali, Muhammad; Allen, Matthew; Altman, Jan; Amoros, Lot; Angiolini, Claudia; Astrup, Rasmus; Awada, Hassan; Barrasso, Caterina; Bartholomeus, Harm; Beck, Pieter S. A.; Bozzini, Aurora; Braun-Wimmer, Joshua; Brede, Benjamin; Breunig, Fabio Marce, 2026, Remote sensing of environment, 332, 115027. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Benchmarking tree species classification from proximally sensed laser scanning data: Introducing the FOR-species20K dataset
Puliti, Stefano; Lines, Emily R; Müllerová, Jana; Frey, Julian; Schindler, Zoe; Straker, Adrian; Allen, Matthew J; Winiwarter, Lukas; Rehush, Nataliia; Hristova, Hristina; Murray, Brent; Calders, Kim; Coops, Nicholas; Höfle, Bernhard; Irwin, Liam; Junttila, Samuli; Krůček, Martin; Krok, Grzegorz; Král, Kamil; Levick, Shaun R; Luck, Linda; Missarov, Azim; Mokroš, Martin; Owen, Harry JF; Stereńczak, Krzysztof; Pitkänen, Timo P; Puletti, Nicola; Saarinen, Ninni; Hopkinson, Chris; Terryn, Louise; To, 2025, Methods in ecology and evolution, 16, 4, 801-818. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Dual-task learning for dead tree detection and segmentation with hybrid self-attention U-Nets in aerial imagery
Rahman, Anis Ur; Heinaro, Einari; Ahishali, Mete; Junttila, Samuli, 2025, International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, 144, 104851. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Implications for the distributional range of the European bark beetles under future climate change
Jian, Shengqi; Han, Yufei; Kasanen, Risto; Honkaniemi, Juha; Junttila, Samuli; Asiegbu, Fred O, 2025, Scientific reports, 15, 1, 29556. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research