Hans Lievens

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Hans Lievens is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans Lievens has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Atmospheric Science, 48 papers in Environmental Engineering and 15 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hans Lievens's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (46 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (26 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (25 papers). Hans Lievens is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (46 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (26 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (25 papers). Hans Lievens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Italy. Hans Lievens's co-authors include Niko E. C. Verhoest, Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles, Diego Fernández‐Prieto, Richard de Jeu, Robin van der Schalie, Hylke E. Beck, Wouter Dorigo, Gabriëlle De Lannoy and Francesco Mattia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Hans Lievens

65 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

2017 1.8k citations Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles et al. profile →

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Susan Steele‐Dunne Netherlands

Klaus Scipal Netherlands

E. D. Gutmann United States

Alexander Loew Germany

Valentijn Pauwels Australia

Vahid Naeimi Austria

Robert Parinussa Australia

Jinyang Du China

Olivier Merlin France

Maria‐José Escorihuela France

Susan Steele‐Dunne Netherlands

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Fiona, Hans Lievens, Thomas E. Shaw, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel‐1 SAR Derived Snow Depth Retrievals Over the Extratropical Andes Cordillera. Water Resources Research. 61(2).

Dunmire, Devon, et al.. (2024). A machine learning approach for estimating snow depth across the European Alps from Sentinel-1 imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 314. 114369–114369. 5 indexed citations

Gascoin, Simon, Kari Luojus, Thomas Nägler, et al.. (2024). Remote sensing of mountain snow from space: status and recommendations. Frontiers in Earth Science. 12. 14 indexed citations

Brangers, Isis, Hans Lievens, Augusto Getirana, & Gabriëlle De Lannoy. (2024). Sentinel‐1 Snow Depth Assimilation to Improve River Discharge Estimates in the Western European Alps. Water Resources Research. 60(11). 1 indexed citations

Brangers, Isis, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Hans‐Peter Marshall, et al.. (2024). C-Band Radar Measurements in a Snow-Covered Boreal Forest Environment. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.

Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2024). Assimilation of Sentinel‐1 Backscatter to Update AquaCrop Estimates of Soil Moisture and Crop Biomass. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 2 indexed citations

Brangers, Isis, Hans‐Peter Marshall, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2024). Tower-based C-band radar measurements of an alpine snowpack. The cryosphere. 18(7). 3177–3193. 7 indexed citations

Brangers, Isis, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity of Sentinel-1 C-band SAR backscatter, polarimetry and interferometry to snow accumulation in the Alps. Remote Sensing of Environment. 316. 114477–114477. 2 indexed citations

Girotto, Manuela, Giuseppe Formetta, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2023). Identifying snowfall elevation patterns by assimilating satellite-based snow depth retrievals. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167312–167312. 11 indexed citations

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Lievens, Hans, Isis Brangers, Hans‐Peter Marshall, et al.. (2022). Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over the European Alps. The cryosphere. 16(1). 159–177. 79 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Michel Bechtold, et al.. (2022). Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(18). 4685–4706. 20 indexed citations

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Lievens, Hans, Isis Brangers, Hans‐Peter Marshall, et al.. (2021). Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over theEuropean Alps. 8 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Alexander Gruber, et al.. (2021). Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land. 3 indexed citations

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Rains, Dominik, Hans Lievens, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2021). Sentinel-1 Backscatter Assimilation Using Support Vector Regression or the Water Cloud Model at European Soil Moisture Sites. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 19 indexed citations

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Hostache, Renaud, Dominik Rains, Kaniska Mallick, et al.. (2020). Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) brightness temperature into a large-scale distributed conceptual hydrological model to improve soil moisture predictions: the Murray–Darling basin in Australia as a test case. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(10). 4793–4812. 11 indexed citations

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Martens, Brecht, Diego G. Miralles, Hans Lievens, et al.. (2016). GLEAM v3: updated land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture datasets. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Gobeyn, Sacha, Jeffrey Neal, Hans Lievens, et al.. (2016). Calibration of a flood inundation model using a SAR image: influence of acquisition time. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Gobeyn, Sacha, Hans Lievens, Hilde Vernieuwe, et al.. (2015). Impact of the SAR acquisition timing on the calibration of a flood inundation model. EGUGA. 3822. 1 indexed citations

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Lievens, Hans, Jesús Álvarez‐Mozos, Philip Marzahn, et al.. (2010). Soil moisture retrieval from C- and L-band SAR using modeled effective roughness. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3163. 1 indexed citations

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Lievens, Hans, Hilde Vernieuwe, Jesús Álvarez‐Mozos, Bernard De Baets, & Niko E. C. Verhoest. (2009). Error in Radar-Derived Soil Moisture due to Roughness Parameterization: An Analysis Based on Synthetical Surface Profiles. Sensors. 9(2). 1067–1093. 63 indexed citations

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