Bruno Smets

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Bruno Smets is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruno Smets has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bruno Smets's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (12 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). Bruno Smets is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (12 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). Bruno Smets collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and France. Bruno Smets's co-authors include Marcel Buchhorn, Nandin‐Erdene Tsendbazar, Myroslava Lesiv, Luc Bertels, Martin Herold, Fernando Camacho, Roselyne Lacaze, Frédéric Baret, Marie Weiss and H. Makhmara and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Bruno Smets

25 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers—Collection 2

2020 535 citations Marcel Buchhorn, Myroslava Lesiv et al. Remote Sensing profile →
GEOV1: LAI and FAPAR essential climate variables and FCOVER global time series capitalizing over existing products. Part1: Principles of development and production

2013 440 citations Frédéric Baret, Marie Weiss et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruno Smets Belgium	12	877	864	583	303	179	26	1.5k
Yingxin Gu United States	16	782 0.9×	974 1.1×	367 0.6×	384 1.3×	141 0.8×	27	1.5k
Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez Spain	22	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	529 0.9×	366 1.2×	231 1.3×	47	1.9k
Wanjuan Song China	17	911 1.0×	613 0.7×	518 0.9×	261 0.9×	190 1.1×	39	1.2k
Kyle Pittman United States	9	1.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	461 0.8×	235 0.8×	145 0.8×	9	1.6k
Valerie J. Pasquarella United States	13	758 0.9×	673 0.8×	345 0.6×	220 0.7×	86 0.5×	27	1.3k
Marc Paganini Italy	15	747 0.9×	662 0.8×	600 1.0×	223 0.7×	98 0.5×	37	1.4k
Mitchell Schull United States	13	1.2k 1.4×	900 1.0×	663 1.1×	304 1.0×	373 2.1×	22	1.7k
Tiangang Liang China	19	901 1.0×	665 0.8×	408 0.7×	287 0.9×	118 0.7×	66	1.4k
Clare S. Rowland United Kingdom	18	776 0.9×	616 0.7×	515 0.9×	174 0.6×	190 1.1×	45	1.4k
C. Milesi United States	20	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	617 1.1×	298 1.0×	313 1.7×	42	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruno Smets

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruno Smets

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruno Smets

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruno Smets. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruno Smets 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 Bruno Smets. Bruno Smets is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Bagstad, Kenneth J., Stefano Balbi, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, et al.. (2025). Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom?. Ecosystem Services. 72. 101705–101705. 2 indexed citations

Lumbierres, María, Pedro Beja, Aletta Bonn, et al.. (2025). Towards implementing workflows for essential biodiversity variables at a European scale. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03699–e03699. 1 indexed citations

Kokkoris, Ioannis, Bruno Smets, Lars Hein, et al.. (2024). The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions. Ecosystem Services. 70. 101659–101659. 1 indexed citations

Buchhorn, Marcel, et al.. (2023). Facilitating the Management of Protected Areas through Multi-Level Ecosystem Accounting on an Example in West Africa. Sustainability. 15(12). 9198–9198. 1 indexed citations

Buchhorn, Marcel, et al.. (2022). Establishing a reference tool for ecosystem accounting in Europe, based on the INCA methodology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 5 indexed citations

Tian, Feng, Zhanzhang Cai, Hongxiao Jin, et al.. (2021). Calibrating vegetation phenology from Sentinel-2 using eddy covariance, PhenoCam, and PEP725 networks across Europe. Remote Sensing of Environment. 260. 112456–112456. 95 indexed citations

Buchhorn, Marcel, Bruno Smets, Luc Bertels, et al.. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: version 3 Globe 2015-2019: Product User Manual. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 73 indexed citations

Buchhorn, Marcel, Luc Bertels, Bruno Smets, et al.. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: version 3 Globe 2015-2019: Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 24 indexed citations

Sánchez-Zapero, Jorge, Fernando Camacho, Vicente García‐Santos, et al.. (2020). Quality Assessment of PROBA-V LAI, fAPAR and fCOVER Collection 300 m Products of Copernicus Global Land Service. Remote Sensing. 12(6). 1017–1017. 114 indexed citations

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Smets, Bruno, Marcel Buchhorn, Luc Bertels, et al.. (2019). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover Change 100m: version 2.1 Africa demo 2015-2018: Product User Manual (deprecated). Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 7 indexed citations

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Buchhorn, Marcel, Myroslava Lesiv, Nandin‐Erdene Tsendbazar, et al.. (2019). Copernicus Global Land Cover Service - Elastic, Operational Land Cover Mapping at Global Scale using Time Series Analysis. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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León-Tavares, J., Else Swinnen, Bruno Smets, & Jean‐Louis Roujean. (2017). Angular normalisation of PROBA-V 300m NDVI. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Camacho, Fernando, Roselyne Lacaze, Marie Weiss, et al.. (2016). Validating GEOV3 LAI, FAPAR and vegetation cover estimates derived from PROBA-V observations at 333m over Europe. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3 indexed citations

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Camacho, Fernando, et al.. (2015). Preliminary validation of Albedo, FAPAR and LAI Essential Climate Variables products derived from PROBA-V observations in the Copernicus Global Land Service. EGUGA. 2345. 1 indexed citations

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Camacho, Fernando, et al.. (2015). Early validation of PROBA-V GEOV1 LAI, FAPAR and FCOVER products for the continuity of the Copernicus Global Land Service. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. XL-7/W3. 93–100. 14 indexed citations

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Lacaze, Roselyne, Bruno Smets, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, et al.. (2015). Sentinel-3 for the Copernicus Global Land Service: Monitoring the Continental Ecosystems at Global Scale. 734. 32. 1 indexed citations

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Lacaze, Roselyne, Bruno Smets, Isabel F. Trigo, et al.. (2013). the copernicus global land service: present and future. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 15. 3 indexed citations

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Baret, Frédéric, Marie Weiss, Roselyne Lacaze, et al.. (2013). GEOV1: LAI and FAPAR essential climate variables and FCOVER global time series capitalizing over existing products. Part1: Principles of development and production. Remote Sensing of Environment. 137. 299–309. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Verger, Aleixandre, Frédéric Baret, M. Weiß, et al.. (2012). LAI, FAPAR and FCOVER products derived from AVHRR long time series: principles and evaluation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7844. 4 indexed citations

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Lacaze, Roselyne, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2010). GEOLAND2 - Towards an operational GMES land monitoring core service; first results of the biogeophysical parameter core mapping service. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 354–359. 8 indexed citations

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