Frédéric Baret

39.5k citations
363 papers · 32.2k · 12 hit papers · h-index 82

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.01%
    • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Environmental Engineering top 0.05%
    • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
    • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
    • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping

Papers in

  • Ecology 237
    • Remote Sensing in Agriculture 237
  • Environmental Engineering 23
    • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing 10
    • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications 10
    • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping 3
Co-authors
Marie Weiss (111 shared papers)Stéphane Jacquemoud (22 shared papers)G. Guyot (15 shared papers)M. D. Steven (6 shared papers)Geneviève Rondeaux (2 shared papers)Josep Peñuelas (7 shared papers)Iolanda Filella (8 shared papers)Inge G. C. Jonckheere (3 shared papers)
Journals
Remote Sensing of Environment (67 papers)Plant Phenomics (16 papers)Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (15 papers)International Journal of Remote Sensing (13 papers)Remote Sensing (12 papers)
Partner nations
FranceUnited StatesSpain

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Baret

353 papers receiving 31.0k citations

Frédéric Baret's Hit Papers

An Overview of Global Leaf Area Index (LAI): Methods, Products, Validation, and Applications 2019 · 699 citations
6990+12+24Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2019 Reviews of Geophysics
  2. 2017 Remote Sensing of Environment
  3. 2013 Remote Sensing of Environment
  4. 2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. 2009 Remote Sensing of Environment
  6. 2007 Remote Sensing of Environment
  7. 2003 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  8. 2003 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  9. 1996 Remote Sensing of Environment
  10. 1994 HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  11. 1991 Remote Sensing of Environment
  12. 1990 Remote Sensing of Environment

Peers

Frédéric Baret
Comparison fields: 5 of 96
  • Ecology 18.3k
  • Environmental Engineering 3.0k
  • Media Technology 593
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.1k
  • Plant Science 1.9k
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All Works

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1
Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Geneviève Rondeaux, M. D. Steven, Frédéric Baret
Hit paper breakdown →		19962397
2
PROSPECT: A model of leaf optical properties spectra
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Stéphane Jacquemoud, Frédéric Baret
Hit paper breakdown →		19901984
3
Potentials and limits of vegetation indices for LAI and APAR assessment
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Frédéric Baret, G. Guyot
Hit paper breakdown →		19911626
4
PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Stéphane Jacquemoud, Wouter Verhoef, Frédéric Baret, Cédric Bacour, Pablo J. Zarco‐Tejada, Gregory P. Asner, Christophe François, Susan L. Ustin
Hit paper breakdown →		20091382
5
Review of methods for in situ leaf area index determination
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Inge G. C. Jonckheere, Stefan Fleck, Bart Muys, Pol R. Coppin, Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret +1 other
Hit paper breakdown →		20031230
6
Review of methods for in situ leaf area index (LAI) determination
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret, G.J. Smith, Inge G. C. Jonckheere, Pol R. Coppin
Hit paper breakdown →		2003978
7
An Overview of Global Leaf Area Index (LAI): Methods, Products, Validation, and Applications
Reviews of Geophysics ·Hongliang Fang, Frédéric Baret, Stephen Plummer, Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub
Hit paper breakdown →		2019699
8
LAI, fAPAR and fCover CYCLOPES global products derived from VEGETATION
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Frédéric Baret, Olivier Hagolle, Patrice Bicheron, Bastien Miras, Mireille Huc, Béatrice Berthelot, Fernando Niño, Marie Weiss
Hit paper breakdown →		2007660
9
Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance
Remote Sensing of Environment ·B. Combal, Frédéric Baret, Marie Weiss, Alain Trubuil, D. Macé, Agnès Pragnère, Ranga B. Myneni, Yuri V. Knyazikhin
2002576
10
Semi empirical-indices to assess carotenoids/chlorophyll A ratio from leaf spectral reflectance
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·Josep Peñuelas, Frédéric Baret, Iolanda Filella
Hit paper breakdown →		1994571
11
Semi-empirical indices to assess carotenoids/chlorophyll alpha ratio from leaf spectral reflectance
Photosynthetica ·Josep Peñuelas, Frédéric Baret, Iolanda Filella
1995490
12
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 ·Frédéric Baret, Marie Weiss, Roselyne Lacaze, Fernando Camacho, H. Makhmara, P Pacholcyzk, Bruno Smets
Hit paper breakdown →		2013470
13
Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yuri V. Knyazikhin, Moritz Schüll, Pauline Stenberg, Matti Mõttus, Miina Rautiainen, Yan Yang, Alexander L. Marshak, P. Carmona
Hit paper breakdown →		2012421
14
Validation and intercomparison of global Leaf Area Index products derived from remote sensing data
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Sébastien Garrigues, Roselyne Lacaze, Frédéric Baret, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Marie Weiss, Jaime E. Nickeson, Richard Fernandes, Stephen Plummer
2008417
15
Relating soil surface moisture to reflectance
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Frédéric Baret, Gu Xingfa, Tong Qingxi, Zheng Lanfen, Bing Zhang +1 other
2002392
16
Validation of global moderate-resolution LAI products: a framework proposed within the CEOS land product validation subgroup
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·J. T. Morisette, Frédéric Baret, J. L. Privette, Ranga B. Myneni, Jaime E. Nickeson, Sébastien Garrigues, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Marie Weiss
2006380
17
Estimates of plant density of wheat crops at emergence from very low altitude UAV imagery
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Xiuliang Jin, Shouyang Liu, Frédéric Baret, Matthieu Hemmerlé, Alexis Comar
Hit paper breakdown →		2017372
18
Investigation of a model inversion technique to estimate canopy biophysical variables from spectral and directional reflectance data
Agronomie ·Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret, Ranga B. Myneni, Agnès Pragnère, Y. Knyazikhin
2000368
19
Leaf optical properties with explicit description of its biochemical composition: Direct and inverse problems
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Th. Fourty, Frédéric Baret, Stéphane Jacquemoud, G. Schmuck, VERDEBOUT Jean rene
1996360
20
Neural network estimation of LAI, fAPAR, fCover and LAI×Cab, from top of canopy MERIS reflectance data: Principles and validation
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Cédric Bacour, Frédéric Baret, David Béal, Marie Weiss, K. Pavageau
2006360

About Frédéric Baret

Frédéric Baret is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, Media Technology and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 363 papers that have together received 32.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (237 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (18 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (10 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (10 papers), Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (6 papers), Calibration and Measurement Techniques (5 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (3 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (18.3k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.0k citations), Media Technology (593 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.1k citations) and Plant Science (1.9k citations). Frédéric Baret has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Marie Weiss, Stéphane Jacquemoud, G. Guyot, M. D. Steven, Geneviève Rondeaux, Josep Peñuelas, Iolanda Filella, Inge G. C. Jonckheere, Pol R. Coppin and Aleixandre Verger. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Plant Phenomics, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, International Journal of Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing.

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