Els Knaeps

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Els Knaeps is a scholar working on Oceanography, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Els Knaeps has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Oceanography, 12 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 12 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Els Knaeps's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (19 papers), Water Quality Monitoring Technologies (12 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (9 papers). Els Knaeps is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (19 papers), Water Quality Monitoring Technologies (12 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (9 papers). Els Knaeps collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and Argentina. Els Knaeps's co-authors include Kevin Ruddick, Sindy Sterckx, Ana I. Dogliotti, David Doxaran, Bouchra Nechad, Dries Raymaekers, I. Reusen, Claudia Giardino, Mariano Bresciani and Liesbeth De Keukelaere and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Els Knaeps

36 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. A single algorithm to retrieve turbidity from remotely-sensed data in all coastal and estuarine waters
    2014 349 citations Ana I. Dogliotti, Kevin Ruddick 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Els Knaeps Belgium 17 746 438 413 400 342 37 1.4k
Tingwei Cui China 24 1.2k 1.7× 484 1.1× 398 1.0× 422 1.1× 320 0.9× 83 1.8k
Sindy Sterckx Belgium 19 441 0.6× 459 1.0× 242 0.6× 385 1.0× 238 0.7× 56 1.2k
Young-Je Park South Korea 23 1.5k 2.0× 464 1.1× 326 0.8× 658 1.6× 375 1.1× 87 1.9k
Víctor Martínez-Vicente United Kingdom 21 1.1k 1.5× 397 0.9× 260 0.6× 392 1.0× 324 0.9× 47 1.6k
Susanne Kratzer Sweden 28 1.5k 2.1× 431 1.0× 468 1.1× 542 1.4× 458 1.3× 49 2.0k
Ming Shen China 22 949 1.3× 344 0.8× 670 1.6× 365 0.9× 449 1.3× 64 1.6k
Evangelos Spyrakos United Kingdom 21 1.2k 1.6× 428 1.0× 689 1.7× 392 1.0× 542 1.6× 62 1.9k
Heng Lyu China 26 1.0k 1.4× 417 1.0× 655 1.6× 291 0.7× 535 1.6× 76 1.6k
Tristan Harmel France 22 701 0.9× 259 0.6× 184 0.4× 417 1.0× 177 0.5× 47 1.1k
Krista Alikas Estonia 18 1.1k 1.4× 548 1.3× 694 1.7× 425 1.1× 586 1.7× 34 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Els Knaeps

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Els Knaeps

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Iordache, Marian-Daniel, et al.. (2025). Feasibility of Oil Spill Detection in Port Environments Based on UV Imagery. Sensors. 25(6). 1927–1927. 1 indexed citations
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Koirala, Bikram, Nicholus Mboga, Els Knaeps, et al.. (2023). Study on the Potential of Oil Spill Monitoring in a Port Environment Using Optical Reflectance. Remote Sensing. 15(20). 4950–4950. 4 indexed citations
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Leone, Giulia, et al.. (2023). Hyperspectral reflectance dataset of pristine, weathered, and biofouled plastics. Earth system science data. 15(2). 745–752. 4 indexed citations
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Keukelaere, Liesbeth De, Els Knaeps, Sindy Sterckx, et al.. (2023). Airborne Drones for Water Quality Mapping in Inland, Transitional and Coastal Waters—MapEO Water Data Processing and Validation. Remote Sensing. 15(5). 1345–1345. 24 indexed citations
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Castagna, Alexandre, Heidi M. Dierssen, Lisa Devriese, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of historic and new detection algorithms for different types of plastics over land and water from hyperspectral data and imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 298. 113834–113834. 11 indexed citations
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Iordache, Marian-Daniel, et al.. (2022). Targeting Plastics: Machine Learning Applied to Litter Detection in Aerial Multispectral Images. Remote Sensing. 14(22). 5820–5820. 18 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, et al.. (2021). Hyperspectral-reflectance dataset of dry, wet and submerged marine litter. Earth system science data. 13(2). 713–730. 37 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, et al.. (2021). Spectral reflectance of marine macroplastics in the VNIR and SWIR measured in a controlled environment. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5436–5436. 86 indexed citations
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Keukelaere, Liesbeth De, Sindy Sterckx, Stefan Adriaensen, et al.. (2020). Coastal Turbidity Derived From PROBA-V Global Vegetation Satellite. Remote Sensing. 12(3). 463–463. 2 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, David Doxaran, Ana I. Dogliotti, et al.. (2018). The SeaSWIR dataset. Earth system science data. 10(3). 1439–1449. 26 indexed citations
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Adriaensen, Stefan, Sindy Sterckx, Liesbeth De Keukelaere, Ruben Van De Kerchove, & Els Knaeps. (2018). Atmospheric Correction Icor and Integration in Operational Workflows. 3524–3526. 2 indexed citations
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Stelzer, Kerstin, Carsten Brockmann, Luc Bertels, et al.. (2016). Cloud and Cloud Shadow Masking of High and Medium Resolution Optical Sensors- An Algorithm Inter-Comparison Example for Landsat 8. 740. 407. 2 indexed citations
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Doxaran, David, Édouard Leymarie, Bouchra Nechad, et al.. (2016). Improved correction methods for field measurements of particulate light backscattering in turbid waters. Optics Express. 24(4). 3615–3615. 38 indexed citations
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Sterckx, Sindy, Els Knaeps, Stefan Adriaensen, et al.. (2015). OPERA: An Atmospheric Correction for Land and Water. ESASP. 734. 7. 14 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, Kevin Ruddick, David Doxaran, et al.. (2015). A SWIR based algorithm to retrieve total suspended matter in extremely turbid waters. Remote Sensing of Environment. 168. 66–79. 85 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, Ana I. Dogliotti, Dries Raymaekers, Kevin Ruddick, & Sindy Sterckx. (2012). In situ evidence of non-zero reflectance in the OLCI 1020 nm band for a turbid estuary. Remote Sensing of Environment. 120. 133–144. 54 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, Dries Raymaekers, Sindy Sterckx, & Daniel Odermatt. (2010). An intercomparison of analytical inversion approaches to retrieve water quality for two distinct inland waters. Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute). 6 indexed citations
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Knaeps, Els, Dries Raymaekers, Sindy Sterckx, Luc Bertels, & Daniel Odermatt. (2010). Monitoring inland waters with the APEX sensor, a wavelet approach. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Wal, Daphne van der, P.M.J. Herman, Rodney Forster, et al.. (2008). Distribution and dynamics of intertidal macrobenthos predicted from remote sensing: response to microphytobenthos and environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 367. 57–72. 75 indexed citations
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Bertels, Luc, Sindy Sterckx, Els Knaeps, et al.. (2006). Monitoring of coral reefs using hyperspectral data - A case study: Fordate, Tanimbar, Indonesia. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).

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