Frédéric Baret

38.2k total citations · 12 hit papers
262 papers, 27.5k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Baret is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Baret has authored 262 papers receiving a total of 27.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 213 papers in Ecology, 129 papers in Environmental Engineering and 120 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Baret's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (211 papers), Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (83 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (82 papers). Frédéric Baret is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (211 papers), Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (83 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (82 papers). Frédéric Baret collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Morocco. Frédéric Baret's co-authors include Marie Weiss, Stéphane Jacquemoud, G. Guyot, M. D. Steven, G. Rondeaux, Pol Coppin, Cédric Bacour, Aleixandre Verger, Ranga B. Myneni and Alexis Comar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Baret

260 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices 1990 2026 2002 2014 1996 1990 1991 2009 2003 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices
    1996 2.2k citations Frédéric Baret et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. PROSPECT: A model of leaf optical properties spectra
    1990 1.8k citations Frédéric Baret et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  3. Potentials and limits of vegetation indices for LAI and APAR assessment
    1991 1.6k citations Frédéric Baret, G. Guyot Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  4. PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization
    2009 1.3k citations Frédéric Baret et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  5. Review of methods for in situ leaf area index determination
    2003 1.2k citations Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret et al. profile →
  6. Review of methods for in situ leaf area index (LAI) determination
    2003 931 citations Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret et al. profile →
  7. LAI, fAPAR and fCover CYCLOPES global products derived from VEGETATION
    2007 624 citations Frédéric Baret, Marie Weiss et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  8. An Overview of Global Leaf Area Index (LAI): Methods, Products, Validation, and Applications
    2019 600 citations Frédéric Baret et al. profile →
  9. Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance
    2002 533 citations B. Combal, Frédéric Baret et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  10. Semi-empirical indices to assess carotenoids/chlorophyll alpha ratio from leaf spectral reflectance
    1995 470 citations Frédéric Baret et al. profile →
  11. 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 →
  12. Estimates of plant density of wheat crops at emergence from very low altitude UAV imagery
    2017 353 citations Shouyang Liu, Frédéric Baret 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
Frédéric Baret France 75 21.9k 12.6k 11.5k 11.1k 3.3k 262 27.5k
Anatoly A. Gitelson United States 90 24.4k 1.1× 9.6k 0.8× 10.8k 0.9× 14.4k 1.3× 3.2k 1.0× 203 35.2k
Pablo J. Zarco‐Tejada Spain 72 15.3k 0.7× 6.9k 0.6× 7.7k 0.7× 9.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 208 20.7k
Susan L. Ustin United States 77 14.7k 0.7× 6.9k 0.5× 9.0k 0.8× 5.2k 0.5× 2.7k 0.8× 329 21.1k
John A. Gamon United States 61 14.1k 0.6× 4.2k 0.3× 8.7k 0.8× 7.8k 0.7× 2.3k 0.7× 141 19.7k
Alfredo Huete United States 77 31.3k 1.4× 15.5k 1.2× 23.8k 2.1× 7.3k 0.7× 6.9k 2.1× 354 43.2k
Michael E. Schaepman Switzerland 63 10.7k 0.5× 5.9k 0.5× 7.5k 0.7× 2.3k 0.2× 2.6k 0.8× 398 17.7k
Onisimo Mutanga South Africa 57 9.1k 0.4× 5.2k 0.4× 4.8k 0.4× 2.5k 0.2× 1.5k 0.4× 383 13.5k
Clement Atzberger Austria 54 9.4k 0.4× 5.2k 0.4× 4.7k 0.4× 3.1k 0.3× 1.7k 0.5× 178 12.1k
Stéphane Jacquemoud France 38 9.4k 0.4× 4.3k 0.3× 4.7k 0.4× 4.9k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 81 11.2k
Craig S. T. Daughtry United States 58 9.0k 0.4× 5.3k 0.4× 4.7k 0.4× 4.8k 0.4× 1.6k 0.5× 232 13.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Wei, Shouyang Liu, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2023). RSARE: A physically-based vegetation index for estimating wheat green LAI to mitigate the impact of leaf chlorophyll content and residue-soil background. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 200. 138–152. 31 indexed citations
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Li, Wenjuan, Marie Weiss, Sylvain Jay, et al.. (2023). Daily monitoring of Effective Green Area Index and Vegetation Chlorophyll Content from continuous acquisitions of a multi-band spectrometer over winter wheat. Remote Sensing of Environment. 300. 113883–113883. 14 indexed citations
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Verger, Aleixandre, Jorge Sánchez-Zapero, Marie Weiss, et al.. (2023). GEOV2: Improved smoothed and gap filled time series of LAI, FAPAR and FCover 1 km Copernicus Global Land products. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 123. 103479–103479. 15 indexed citations
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Madec, Simon, et al.. (2022). SegVeg: Segmenting RGB Images into Green and Senescent Vegetation by Combining Deep and Shallow Methods. Plant Phenomics. 2022. 9803570–9803570. 29 indexed citations
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Li, Wenjuan, Jingyi Jiang, Marie Weiss, et al.. (2021). Impact of the reproductive organs on crop BRDF as observed from a UAV. Remote Sensing of Environment. 259. 112433–112433. 38 indexed citations
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Jin, Shichao, Yanjun Su, Yongguang Zhang, et al.. (2021). Exploring Seasonal and Circadian Rhythms in Structural Traits of Field Maize from LiDAR Time Series. Plant Phenomics. 2021. 9895241–9895241. 23 indexed citations
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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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David, Étienne, Simon Madec, Pouria Sadeghi‐Tehran, et al.. (2020). Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) Dataset: A Large and Diverse Dataset of High-Resolution RGB-Labelled Images to Develop and Benchmark Wheat Head Detection Methods. Plant Phenomics. 2020. 3521852–3521852. 168 indexed citations
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Jay, Sylvain, Frédéric Baret, Dan Dutartre, et al.. (2018). Exploiting the centimeter resolution of UAV multispectral imagery to improve remote-sensing estimates of canopy structure and biochemistry in sugar beet crops. Remote Sensing of Environment. 231. 110898–110898. 174 indexed citations
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Jay, Sylvain, Nathalie Gorretta, J. Morel, et al.. (2017). Estimating leaf chlorophyll content in sugar beet canopies using millimeter- to centimeter-scale reflectance imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 198. 173–186. 126 indexed citations
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Weiss, Marie & Frédéric Baret. (2017). Using 3D Point Clouds Derived from UAV RGB Imagery to Describe Vineyard 3D Macro-Structure. Remote Sensing. 9(2). 111–111. 100 indexed citations
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Camacho, Fernando, Roselyne Lacaze, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2015). Collection of Ground Biophysical Measurements in support of Copernicus Global Land Product Validation: The ImagineS database. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2209. 9 indexed citations
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Ganguly, Sangram, R. R. Nemani, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2014). Long-Term Data Records of Biophysical Parameters from Multiple Satellite Systems. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Kandasamy, Sivasathivel, Frédéric Baret, Aleixandre Verger, Pierre Neveu, & Marie Weiss. (2013). A comparison of methods for smoothing and gap filling time series of remote sensing observations – application to MODIS LAI products. Biogeosciences. 10(6). 4055–4071. 178 indexed citations
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Baret, Frédéric, et al.. (2011). CONSISTENCIA ENTRE LOS MAPAS GLOBALES Y LOS MAPAS REGIONALES DE LA CUBIERTA TERRESTRE EN EL ESTADO DE MICHOACAN, MÉXICO. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Vermote, Éric, C. O. Justice, Martin Claverie, et al.. (2009). A Terrestrial Surface Climate Data Record for Global Change Studies. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 5 indexed citations
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Menenti, Massimo, M. Rast, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2003). Understanding Vegetation Response to Climate Variability From Space: Recent Advances Towards the SPECTRA Mission. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2004. 193–206. 1 indexed citations
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Kneubühler, Mathias, et al.. (2003). Calibration and Validation of Envisat MERIS Part 1: Vicarious Calibration at Rail Road Valley Playa (NV). ESA Special Publication. 531. 5 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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Major, D. J., Frédéric Baret, & G. Guyot. (1990). A ratio vegetation index adjusted for soil brightness. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 11(5). 727–740. 296 indexed citations

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