Heresh Fattahi

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Heresh Fattahi is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Geophysics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Heresh Fattahi has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 11 papers in Geophysics and 9 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Heresh Fattahi's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (23 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (12 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (11 papers). Heresh Fattahi is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (23 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (12 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (11 papers). Heresh Fattahi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and United Kingdom. Heresh Fattahi's co-authors include Falk Amelung, Zhang Yunjun, P. S. Agram, M. Simons, Estelle Chaussard, Roland Bürgmann, Christopher Johnson, P. A. Rosen, I. A. Johanson and T. Taira and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Geophysical Journal International.

In The Last Decade

Heresh Fattahi

33 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Small baseline InSAR time series analysis: Unwrapping error correction and noise reduction

2019 373 citations Zhang Yunjun, Heresh Fattahi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heresh Fattahi United States	17	917	598	405	346	297	39	1.5k
Ivana Zinno Italy	17	901 1.0×	416 0.7×	391 1.0×	421 1.2×	266 0.9×	72	1.4k
Karsten Spaans United Kingdom	12	905 1.0×	519 0.9×	412 1.0×	474 1.4×	206 0.7×	23	1.4k
Yu Morishita Japan	15	656 0.7×	662 1.1×	219 0.5×	320 0.9×	166 0.6×	46	1.2k
Milan Lazecký United Kingdom	16	896 1.0×	451 0.8×	266 0.7×	439 1.3×	228 0.8×	88	1.4k
Pietro Tizzani Italy	22	775 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	378 0.9×	504 1.5×	164 0.6×	72	1.8k
J. W. Bell United States	16	680 0.7×	551 0.9×	445 1.1×	302 0.9×	294 1.0×	26	1.4k
Manuela Bonano Italy	24	1.2k 1.3×	401 0.7×	420 1.0×	519 1.5×	336 1.1×	83	1.7k
Michael Foumelis Greece	20	619 0.7×	362 0.6×	316 0.8×	356 1.0×	212 0.7×	80	1.2k
Giovanni Zeni Italy	19	1.0k 1.1×	448 0.7×	486 1.2×	609 1.8×	260 0.9×	53	1.6k
Cristiano Tolomei Italy	24	605 0.7×	891 1.5×	348 0.9×	407 1.2×	166 0.6×	91	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heresh Fattahi

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Rosen, P. A., G. W. Bawden, Bruce Chapman, et al.. (2025). The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 13(2). 8–34. 1 indexed citations

Lavalle, Marco, Fabio Del Frate, Heresh Fattahi, et al.. (2025). Optimizing the Radiative Transfer Model Using Deep Neural Networks for NISAR Soil Moisture Retrieval. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 12697–12712.

Fattahi, Heresh, et al.. (2023). Assessment of Terrain Dependence of Radiometric Terrain Corrected C-Band Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter over Different Target Types. 4286–4289.

Khan, Shuhab D., et al.. (2023). Hazard Potential in Southern Pakistan: A Study on the Subsidence and Neotectonics of Karachi and Surrounding Areas. Remote Sensing. 15(5). 1290–1290. 6 indexed citations

Fattahi, Heresh, et al.. (2023). NISAR SweepSAR Echo Simulation: Summary and Results. 876–879. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Bo, et al.. (2023). Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation of NISAR Data using Slow Time Eigenvalue Decomposition. 5479–5482. 1 indexed citations

Fattahi, Heresh, Franz J. Meyer, Seongsu Jeong, et al.. (2023). The Opera Radiometric Terrain Corrected Sar Backscatter from Sentinel-1 (RTC-S1) Product. 880–883. 2 indexed citations

Fattahi, Heresh, et al.. (2022). On Closure Phase and Systematic Bias in Multilooked SAR Interferometry. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–11. 31 indexed citations

Yunjun, Zhang, Heresh Fattahi, Xiaoqing Pi, et al.. (2022). Range Geolocation Accuracy of C-/L-Band SAR and its Implications for Operational Stack Coregistration. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–19. 29 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Heresh, et al.. (2021). UAVSAR Observations of InSAR Polarimetric Phase Diversity: Implications for NISAR Ionospheric Phase Estimation. Earth and Space Science. 8(4). 2 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Heresh, P. S. Agram, Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva, & David Bekaert. (2019). FRInGE; Full-Resolution InSAR timeseries using Generalized Eigenvectors. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Amelung, Falk, et al.. (2019). Non-linear phase inversion package for time series analysis. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 3 indexed citations

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Tymofyeyeva, Ekaterina, P. S. Agram, Heresh Fattahi, & David Bekaert. (2019). Transient creep on the Concord Fault, Eastern Bay Area, revealed by InSAR time series. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.

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Yue, Han, Zachary E. Ross, Cunren Liang, et al.. (2017). The 2016 Kumamoto M_w = 7.0 Earthquake: A Significant Event in a Fault–Volcano System. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 122(11). 9166–9183. 79 indexed citations

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Yun, Sang‐Ho, S. E. Owen, Hook Hua, et al.. (2017). Global Rapid Flood Mapping System with Spaceborne SAR Data. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 2 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Heresh, M. Simons, & P. S. Agram. (2017). InSAR Time-Series Estimation of the Ionospheric Phase Delay: An Extension of the Split Range-Spectrum Technique. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(10). 5984–5996. 91 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Heresh & Falk Amelung. (2016). InSAR observations of strain accumulation and fault creep along the Chaman Fault system, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(16). 8399–8406. 80 indexed citations

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Chaussard, Estelle, Roland Bürgmann, Heresh Fattahi, et al.. (2015). Interseismic coupling and refined earthquake potential on the Hayward‐Calaveras fault zone. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 120(12). 8570–8590. 48 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Heresh & Falk Amelung. (2015). InSAR bias and uncertainty due to the systematic and stochastic tropospheric delay. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 120(12). 8758–8773. 91 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Heresh & Falk Amelung. (2014). InSAR uncertainty due to orbital errors. Geophysical Journal International. 199(1). 549–560. 84 indexed citations

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