B. Combal

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 938 citations indexed

About

B. Combal is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Combal has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 938 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in B. Combal's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (4 papers). B. Combal is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (4 papers). B. Combal collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United Kingdom. B. Combal's co-authors include Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret, Yuri Knyazikhin, D. Macé, Ranga B. Myneni, Alain Trubuil, Étienne Bartholomé, Eva Haas, Harumi Isaka and C. M. Trotter and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

B. Combal

17 papers receiving 886 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance

2002 533 citations B. Combal, Frédéric Baret et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Combal France	10	760	503	434	304	128	19	938
Yen-Ben Cheng United States	15	683 0.9×	535 1.1×	301 0.7×	185 0.6×	103 0.8×	31	801
J.F. Hanocq France	11	622 0.8×	412 0.8×	457 1.1×	212 0.7×	111 0.9×	14	862
Hitoshi Toritani Japan	8	645 0.8×	419 0.8×	240 0.6×	252 0.8×	220 1.7×	21	895
Anke Schickling Germany	16	916 1.2×	879 1.7×	283 0.7×	355 1.2×	116 0.9×	33	1.2k
Wenhan Qin United States	15	842 1.1×	492 1.0×	633 1.5×	269 0.9×	192 1.5×	24	1.1k
Javier Pacheco‐Labrador Spain	22	736 1.0×	800 1.6×	269 0.6×	258 0.8×	151 1.2×	43	1.1k
A. Wiegand Germany	6	1.0k 1.4×	420 0.8×	588 1.4×	326 1.1×	217 1.7×	9	1.3k
Herman Eerens Belgium	12	595 0.8×	543 1.1×	232 0.5×	170 0.6×	161 1.3×	25	877
G. Andreoli Italy	8	798 1.1×	370 0.7×	345 0.8×	409 1.3×	113 0.9×	13	946
Fábio Marcelo Breunig Brazil	13	579 0.8×	316 0.6×	333 0.8×	174 0.6×	71 0.6×	62	747

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. Combal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of B. Combal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of B. Combal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with B. Combal. B. Combal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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19 of 19 papers shown

Smith, Geoffrey M., et al.. (2021). An Operational Service for Monitoring Grassland Dominated Natura2000 Sites with Copernicus Data. 731–734. 1 indexed citations

Combal, B. & Albert Fischer. (2016). Ensemble mean of CMIP5 Sea Surface Temperature projections under climate change and their reference climatology. 11. 1 indexed citations

Clerici, M., B. Combal, Jean‐François Pekel, et al.. (2013). The eStation, an Earth Observation processing service in support to ecological monitoring. Ecological Informatics. 18. 162–170. 10 indexed citations

Combal, B., et al.. (2009). Projection of Meteosat images into World Geodetic system WGS-84 matching Spot/Vegetation grid. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3 indexed citations

Combal, B., et al.. (2009). Operational monitoring of water bodies in arid and semiarid regions with SPOT-VEGETATION satellite: Contribution of Eumetcast and recent research projects. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 20(1). 48–56. 2 indexed citations

Haas, Eva, Étienne Bartholomé, & B. Combal. (2009). Time series analysis of optical remote sensing data for the mapping of temporary surface water bodies in sub-Saharan western Africa. Journal of Hydrology. 370(1-4). 52–63. 92 indexed citations

Balzter, Heiko, France Gerard, Charles George, et al.. (2007). Coupling of Vegetation Growing Season Anomalies and Fire Activity with Hemispheric and Regional-Scale Climate Patterns in Central and East Siberia. Journal of Climate. 20(15). 3713–3729. 67 indexed citations

Balzter, Heiko, France Gerard, Graham P. Weedon, et al.. (2007). Climate, vegetation phenology and forest fires in Siberia. Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester). 3843–3846. 4 indexed citations

Bella, Carlos M. Di, Robert Faivre, Françoise Ruget, et al.. (2004). Remote sensing capabilities to estimate pasture production in France. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25(23). 5359–5372. 47 indexed citations

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Bella, Carlos M. Di, Robert Faivre, Françoise Ruget, et al.. (2004). Use of SPOT4-VEGETATION satellite data to improve pasture production simulated by STICS included in the ISOP French system. Agronomie. 24(6-7). 437–444. 4 indexed citations

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Coquillat, Sylvain, B. Combal, & Serge Chauzy. (2003). Corona emission from raindrops in strong electric fields as a possible discharge initiation: Comparison between horizontal and vertical field configurations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(D7). 13 indexed citations

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Combal, B., Frédéric Baret, & Marie Weiss. (2002). Improving canopy variables estimation from remote sensing data by exploiting ancillary information. Case study on sugar beet canopies. Agronomie. 22(2). 205–215. 90 indexed citations

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Combal, B., Frédéric Baret, Marie Weiss, et al.. (2002). Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment. 84(1). 1–15. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

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Combal, B. & Harumi Isaka. (2002). The effect of small topographic variations on reflectance. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 40(3). 663–670. 9 indexed citations

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Combal, B., et al.. (2001). Using multispectral reflectance to retrieve LAI and chlorophyll content of maize and soybean. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Baret, Frédéric, et al.. (2000). Maximum information exploitation for canopy characterization by remote sensing.. Aspects of applied biology. 71–82. 19 indexed citations

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Combal, B., et al.. (2000). Statistical framework of the inverse problem in the retrieval of vegetation parameters. Agronomie. 20(1). 65–77. 4 indexed citations

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Combal, B., Harumi Isaka, & C. M. Trotter. (2000). Extending a turbid medium BRDF model to allow sloping terrain with a vertical plant stand. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 38(2). 798–810. 30 indexed citations

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Wigneron, Jean‐Pierre, B. Combal, U. Wegmüller, & Christian Mätzler. (1996). Estimation of microwave parameters of crops from radiometric measurements. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 17(14). 2875–2880. 8 indexed citations

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