Éric Pottier

10.7k citations

130 papers · 7.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Aerospace Engineering top 0.05%
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
- Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques
Environmental Engineering top 0.1%
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Papers in ⓘ

Environmental Engineering 63
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing 52
Aerospace Engineering 102
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques 98
- Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques 39

Co-authors: S.R. Cloude (11 shared papers)Jong-Sen Lee (4 shared papers)M.R. Grunes (3 shared papers)Laurent Ferro-Famil (26 shared papers)Laurent Ferro-Famil (11 shared papers)J.S. Lee (4 shared papers)Jong‐Sen Lee (1 shared paper)Andreas Reigber (6 shared papers)
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (20 papers)Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (5 papers)IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (4 papers)Electronics Letters (3 papers)IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (3 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Éric Pottier

119 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Polarimetric Radar Imaging 2010 · 794 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Polarimetric Radar Imaging
1997 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
1996 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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1	A review of target decomposition theorems in radar polarimetry IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·S.R. Cloude, Éric Pottier Hit paper breakdown →	1996	1867
2	An entropy based classification scheme for land applications of polarimetric SAR IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·S.R. Cloude, Éric Pottier Hit paper breakdown →	1997	1852
3	Polarimetric Radar Imaging Jong-Sen Lee, Éric Pottier Hit paper breakdown →	2010	794
4	Unsupervised terrain classification preserving polarimetric scattering characteristics IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Jong‐Sen Lee, M.R. Grunes, Éric Pottier, Laurent Ferro-Famil	2004	363
5	Unsupervised classification of multifrequency and fully polarimetric SAR images based on the H/A/Alpha-Wishart classifier IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Laurent Ferro-Famil, Éric Pottier, J.S. Lee	2001	277
6	Quantitative comparison of classification capability: fully polarimetric versus dual and single-polarization SAR IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Jong-Sen Lee, M.R. Grunes, Éric Pottier	2001	271
7	An Unsupervised Segmentation With an Adaptive Number of Clusters Using the $SPAN/H/\alpha/A$ Space and the Complex Wishart Clustering for Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Analysis IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Éric Pottier	2007	125
8	Scene characterization using subaperture polarimetric sar data IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Éric Pottier, W.‐M. Boerner	2003	103
9	Tropical forest canopy height estimation from combined polarimetric SAR and LiDAR using machine-learning ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Maryam Pourshamsi, Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya, Mariano Garcı́a, Marco Lavalle, Éric Pottier, Heiko Balzter	2020	83
10	Sentinel-1 InSAR Coherence for Land Cover Mapping: A Comparison of Multiple Feature-Based Classifiers IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·Alexander Jacob, Fernando Vicente-Guijalba, Carlos López-Martínez, Juan M. López‐Sánchez, Marius Litzinger, Harald Kristen, Alejandro Mestre-Quereda, Dariusz Ziółkowski, Marco Lavalle, Claudia Notarnicola, Gopika Suresh, Oleg Antropov, Shaojia Ge, Jaan Praks, Yifang Ban, Éric Pottier, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Javier Duro, Marcus Engdahl	2020	81
11	Evaluation of Using Sentinel-1 and -2 Time-Series to Identify Winter Land Use in Agricultural Landscapes Remote Sensing ·Julien Denize, Laurence Hubert‐Moy, Julie Betbeder, Samuel Corgne, Jacques Baudry, Éric Pottier	2018	73
12	Estimation of Soil Moisture and Faraday Rotation From Bare Surfaces Using Compact Polarimetry IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·My-Linh Truong-Loi, A. Freeman, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Éric Pottier	2009	70
13	Effect of level of linseed on fatty acid composition of muscles and adipose tissues of lambs with emphasis on trans fatty acids Meat Science ·Pierre Bas, Valérie Berthelot, Éric Pottier, Jérôme Normand	2007	68
14	A Potential Use for the C-Band Polarimetric SAR Parameters to Characterize the Soil Surface Over Bare Agriculture Fields IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Nicolas Baghdadi, Rémi Cresson, Éric Pottier, Maëlle Aubert, Mehrez Mehrez, Andres Jacome, Sihem Benabdallah	2012	61
15	Multitemporal classification of TerraSAR-X data for wetland vegetation mapping Journal of Applied Remote Sensing ·Julie Betbeder, Sébastien Rapinel, Thomas Corpetti, Éric Pottier, Samuel Corgne, Laurence Hubert‐Moy	2014	56
16	Application of the «H / A / α» Polarimetric Decomposition Theorem for Unsupervised Classification of Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Based on the Wishart Distribution Éric Pottier, J. S. Lee	2000	54
17	New insights into the influence of breed and time of the year on the response of ewes to the ‘ram effect’ animal ·Audrey Chanvallon, L. Sagot, Éric Pottier, Nathalie Debus, Dominique François, Thierry Fassier, R. J. Scaramuzzi, Claude Fabre‐Nys	2011	48
18	Investigations on OFDM Signal for Range Ambiguity Suppression in SAR Configuration IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Vishal Riché, Stéphane Méric, Jean‐Yves Baudais, Éric Pottier	2013	42
19	Overview of the PolSARpro V4.0 software. the open source toolbox for polarimetric and interferometric polarimetric SAR data processing Éric Pottier, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Sophie Allain, S.R. Cloude, Irena Hajnsek, Kostas Papathanassiou, Alberto Moreira, Mark A. Williams, Andrea Minchella, Marco Lavalle, Yves-Louis Desnos	2009	42
20	The effect of maternal linseed supplementation and/or lamb linseed supplementation on muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue fatty acid composition of indoor lambs Meat Science ·Valérie Berthelot, P. Bas, Éric Pottier, Jérôme Normand	2011	39

About Éric Pottier

Éric Pottier is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Space and Planetary Science, Media Technology and Atmospheric Science, having authored 130 papers that have together received 7.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (98 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (52 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (39 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (20 papers), Geophysical Methods and Applications (18 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (13 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (9 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aerospace Engineering (5.7k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.3k citations), Media Technology (1.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.4k citations) and Ocean Engineering (1.0k citations). Éric Pottier has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include S.R. Cloude, Jong-Sen Lee, M.R. Grunes, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Laurent Ferro-Famil, J.S. Lee, Jong‐Sen Lee, Andreas Reigber, Wen Hong and Carlos López-Martínez. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Electronics Letters and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

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