Frédéric Bretar

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Frédéric Bretar is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Frédéric Bretar has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Environmental Engineering, 8 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Frédéric Bretar's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (17 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers) and Forest ecology and management (7 papers). Frédéric Bretar is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (17 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers) and Forest ecology and management (7 papers). Frédéric Bretar collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Portugal. Frédéric Bretar's co-authors include Clément Mallet, Michel Roux, Christian Heipke, Uwe Soergel, Stéphane Jacquemoud, François Pierrot, António Ferraz, L. Gomes Pereira, Paula Soares and Gil Gonçalves and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Frédéric Bretar

26 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.

  1. Full-waveform topographic lidar: State-of-the-art
    2008 605 citations Clément Mallet, Frédéric Bretar ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Frédéric Bretar 1.2k 558 534 316 252 27 1.4k
Thomas Melzer 1.0k 0.8× 464 0.8× 368 0.7× 181 0.6× 235 0.9× 27 1.3k
Christian Briese 1.2k 1.0× 919 1.6× 488 0.9× 166 0.5× 129 0.5× 59 1.7k
Aloysius Wehr 894 0.7× 454 0.8× 327 0.6× 191 0.6× 113 0.4× 12 1.1k
Gottfried Mandlburger 1.5k 1.2× 920 1.6× 646 1.2× 217 0.7× 153 0.6× 74 1.9k
Anssi Krooks 929 0.7× 479 0.9× 480 0.9× 241 0.8× 77 0.3× 25 1.2k
Andreas Ullrich 1.0k 0.8× 585 1.0× 430 0.8× 190 0.6× 318 1.3× 52 1.2k
Eero Ahokas 987 0.8× 542 1.0× 455 0.9× 169 0.5× 85 0.3× 32 1.3k
Eetu Puttonen 1.4k 1.1× 437 0.8× 813 1.5× 517 1.6× 65 0.3× 80 2.0k
K. Clint Slatton 754 0.6× 363 0.7× 329 0.6× 225 0.7× 67 0.3× 61 1.3k
Peng Wan 1.2k 1.0× 702 1.3× 473 0.9× 344 1.1× 31 0.1× 18 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Frédéric Bretar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frédéric Bretar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Frédéric Bretar. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Frédéric Bretar. The network helps show where Frédéric Bretar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frédéric Bretar

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Persello, Claudio, Saurabh Prasad, Gemine Vivone, et al.. (2024). 2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 12(2). 109–112. 4 indexed citations
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Suquet, R. Rodriguez, S. Ricci, Christophe Fatras, et al.. (2024). The SCO-Flooddam Digital Twin Project: A Pre-Operational Demonstrator for Flood Detection, Mapping, Prediction and Risk Impact Assessment. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2009–2012.
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Huang, Thomas, Cédric H. David, Sina Hasheminassab, et al.. (2024). Open-Source Framework for Earth System Digital Twins. 2323–2327. 1 indexed citations
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Suquet, R. Rodriguez, Sophie Ricci, Andrea Piacentini, et al.. (2023). The SCO-Flooddam Project: Towards A Digital Twin for Flood Detection, Prediction and Flood Risk Assessments. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1000–1003. 5 indexed citations
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Ferraz, António, Clément Mallet, Stéphane Jacquemoud, et al.. (2015). Canopy Density Model: A New ALS-Derived Product to Generate Multilayer Crown Cover Maps. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 53(12). 6776–6790. 17 indexed citations
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Heggy, Essam, et al.. (2014). Quantification of L-band InSAR coherence over volcanic areas using LiDAR and in situ measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment. 152. 202–216. 19 indexed citations
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Fauchard, Cyrille, Raphaël Antoine, Frédéric Bretar, et al.. (2013). Assessment of an ancient bridge combining geophysical and advanced photogrammetric methods: Application to the Pont De Coq, France. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 98. 100–112. 19 indexed citations
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Bretar, Frédéric, Wolfgang Wagner, & Nicolas Paparoditis. (2011). Advances in LiDAR data processing and applications. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 66(6). S1–S1. 2 indexed citations
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Mallet, Clément, Florent Lafarge, Michel Roux, et al.. (2010). A Marked Point Process for Modeling Lidar Waveforms. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 19(12). 3204–3221. 60 indexed citations
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Ferraz, António, et al.. (2010). 3D segmentation of forest structure using an adaptive mean shift based procedure. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 281–291. 3 indexed citations
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Bretar, Frédéric, et al.. (2009). Terrain surfaces and 3-D landcover classification from small footprint full-waveform lidar data: application to badlands. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(8). 1531–1544. 45 indexed citations
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David, Nicolás, Clément Mallet, & Frédéric Bretar. (2008). Library concept and design for lidar data processing. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 4 indexed citations
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Chehata, Nesrine & Frédéric Bretar. (2008). Terrain modeling from lidar data: Hierarchical K-means filtering and Markovian regularization. 34. 1900–1903. 9 indexed citations
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Mallet, Clément & Frédéric Bretar. (2008). Full-waveform topographic lidar: State-of-the-art. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 64(1). 1–16. 605 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bretar, Frédéric. (2007). Processing Fine Digital Terrain Models by Markovian Regularization from 3D Airborne Lidar Data. xxxv. IV – 125. 3 indexed citations
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Bretar, Frédéric & Michel Roux. (2005). Extraction of 3D planar Primitives from Raw Airborne Laser Data: a Normal Driven RANSAC Approach.. Machine Vision and Applications. 49(1). 452–455. 9 indexed citations
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Bretar, Frédéric, et al.. (2004). Solving the strip adjustment problem of 3D airborne Lidar data. 7. 4734–4737. 22 indexed citations
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Weydahl, Dan Johan, et al.. (2004). Comparison of RADARSAT-1 and IKONOS satellite images for urban features detection. Information Fusion. 6(3). 243–249. 10 indexed citations
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Weydahl, Dan Johan, et al.. (2003). Comparing RADARSAT-1 and IKONOS satellite images for urban features detection. 305–308. 5 indexed citations
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Sigmundsson, F., R. Pedersen, K. L. Feigl, et al.. (2001). Joint Interpretation of Geodetic Data for Volcano Studies: Evaluation of Pre- and Co-eruptive Deformation for the Hekla 2000 Eruption From InSAR, Tilt, GPS and Strain Data. AGUFM. 2001. 3 indexed citations

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