Hanwen Yu

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Hanwen Yu is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanwen Yu has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 30 papers in Environmental Engineering and 25 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Hanwen Yu's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (77 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (55 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (23 papers). Hanwen Yu is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (77 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (55 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (23 papers). Hanwen Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Hanwen Yu's co-authors include Yang Lan, Mengdao Xing, Hyongki Lee, Lifan Zhou, Jianlai Chen, Zhihui Yuan, Junyi Xu, Ning Cao, Buge Liang and Gang Xu 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

Hanwen Yu

94 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Phase Unwrapping in InSAR : A Review

2019 251 citations Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine profile →
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends

2022 133 citations Gang Xu, Bangjie Zhang et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hanwen Yu China	27	1.6k	518	453	319	252	108	2.1k
Gilda Schirinzi Italy	26	2.1k 1.3×	325 0.6×	592 1.3×	247 0.8×	598 2.4×	181	2.5k
I. Cumming Canada	21	2.3k 1.4×	265 0.5×	433 1.0×	386 1.2×	701 2.8×	61	2.7k
Xiaolei Lv China	17	857 0.5×	173 0.3×	190 0.4×	162 0.5×	267 1.1×	107	1.3k
Kaichang Di China	32	1.2k 0.8×	556 1.1×	254 0.6×	375 1.2×	44 0.2×	195	3.0k
John C. Curlander United States	16	1.6k 1.0×	218 0.4×	304 0.7×	436 1.4×	287 1.1×	56	2.2k
Yunkai Deng China	20	976 0.6×	118 0.2×	218 0.5×	189 0.6×	212 0.8×	126	1.2k
Marc Jäger Germany	15	769 0.5×	252 0.5×	238 0.5×	157 0.5×	113 0.4×	61	1.2k
Andreas Reigber Germany	30	3.9k 2.4×	312 0.6×	1.5k 3.3×	628 2.0×	827 3.3×	149	4.5k
Yunkai Deng China	27	2.1k 1.3×	181 0.3×	210 0.5×	83 0.3×	600 2.4×	155	2.4k
Andrea Monti Guarnieri Italy	33	3.7k 2.3×	153 0.3×	1.3k 2.9×	915 2.9×	484 1.9×	234	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Hanwen Yu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hanwen Yu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gao, Yuexin, Min Xue, Hanwen Yu, & Jianlai Chen. (2025). A Nonparametric Translational Motion Compensation Algorithm for ISAR Imaging by Using the Alternating Iteration and LBFGS Algorithm. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 11623–11633.

Zhou, Lifan & Hanwen Yu. (2025). MoDL-PU: Model-Based Deep Learning for InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–11. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Gang, Biqin Tan, Bangjie Zhang, et al.. (2025). Manifold Low Rank and Sparse Tensor Method for High-Resolution Radar Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–14.

Yang, Lei, et al.. (2025). MAFNet: Deep Merged Autofocusing Network for SAR Recognition Under Defocused and Noised Dataset. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–17. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Gang, et al.. (2025). Dual-Stream Manifold Multiscale Network for Target Recognition in Complex-Valued SAR Image With Electromagnetic Feature Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15.

Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2025). High Phase-Preserving Autofocus Imaging for Squinted Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15.

Zhou, Hong‐Hao, Gang Xu, Xiang‐Gen Xia, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Matrix Completion Method for Superresolution Tomography SAR Imaging: First Large-Scale Urban 3-D High-Resolution Results of LT-1 Satellites Using Monostatic Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 22743–22758.

Chen, Jianlai, et al.. (2024). Nonparametric Full-Aperture Autofocus Imaging for Microwave Photonic SAR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 23 indexed citations

Yang, Taoli, et al.. (2024). Interpretable PCA and SVM-Based Leak Detection Algorithm for Identifying Water Leakage Using SAR-Derived Moisture Content and InSAR Closure Phase. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 15136–15147. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bangjie, Gang Xu, Xiang‐Gen Xia, et al.. (2024). Super-Resolution ISAR Imaging Using the Off-the-Grid Structured Low-Rank Method. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 73(1). 482–495. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Gang, et al.. (2024). A Robust Nonlocal Tensor Decomposition Method for InSAR Phase Denoising. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–11. 5 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan & Hanwen Yu. (2023). A Novel Mathematical Framework for Multibaseline InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–8. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Vito Pascazio, & Mengdao Xing. (2022). PU-GAN: A One-Step 2-D InSAR Phase Unwrapping Based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–10. 58 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianlai, Junchao Zhang, Hanwen Yu, et al.. (2022). Blind NCS-Based Autofocus for Airborne Wide-Beam SAR Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 8. 626–638. 17 indexed citations

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Yu, Hanwen, et al.. (2022). PDNet: A Lightweight Deep Convolutional Neural Network for InSAR Phase Denoising. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–9. 28 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan, Shengrong Gong, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). CANet: An Unsupervised Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Efficient Cluster-Analysis-Based Multibaseline InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 42 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). Deep Learning-Based Branch-Cut Method for InSAR Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 70 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). Artificial Intelligence In Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Phase Unwrapping: A Review. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 9(2). 10–28. 67 indexed citations

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Yu, Hanwen, Mengdao Xing, & Zhihui Yuan. (2020). Baseline Design for Multibaseline InSAR System: A Review. 2(1). 17–24. 28 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, & Yang Lan. (2020). Deep Convolutional Neural Network-Based Robust Phase Gradient Estimation for Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping Using SAR Interferograms. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(7). 4653–4665. 99 indexed citations

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