Jaan Praks

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
175 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Jaan Praks is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jaan Praks has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 63 papers in Environmental Engineering and 50 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Jaan Praks's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (52 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (44 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (35 papers). Jaan Praks is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (52 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (44 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (35 papers). Jaan Praks collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Estonia and Germany. Jaan Praks's co-authors include Oleg Antropov, M. Hallikainen, Kaupo Voormansik, V. Poikalainen, I. Veermäe, Karlis Zalite, Tiit Kutser, Ele Vahtmäe, Yrjö Rauste and Elena Simona Lohan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Jaan Praks

161 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Through Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites: A Survey on Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities

2022 133 citations Fabricio S. Prol, Rubén Morales Ferré et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jaan Praks Finland	27	1.1k	811	469	423	242	175	2.3k
Luciano Vieira Dutra Brazil	22	431 0.4×	586 0.7×	295 0.6×	691 1.6×	408 1.7×	124	1.7k
Anup Das India	19	338 0.3×	373 0.5×	153 0.3×	205 0.5×	98 0.4×	90	1.1k
Chao Chen China	22	73 0.1×	284 0.4×	362 0.8×	453 1.1×	707 2.9×	124	1.6k
Peijun Li China	29	87 0.1×	445 0.5×	618 1.3×	655 1.5×	513 2.1×	198	2.6k
J. R. Carr United States	16	59 0.1×	686 0.8×	132 0.3×	203 0.5×	180 0.7×	44	1.8k
Eugene Yee Canada	31	623 0.6×	2.1k 2.6×	649 1.4×	84 0.2×	617 2.5×	157	3.6k
Jean‐Stéphane Bailly France	30	64 0.1×	1.1k 1.4×	145 0.3×	956 2.3×	694 2.9×	91	2.2k
Cheng Hu China	27	2.1k 2.0×	340 0.4×	245 0.5×	240 0.6×	68 0.3×	291	3.0k
S. Pal Arya United States	29	384 0.4×	1.6k 2.0×	1.6k 3.3×	151 0.4×	1.0k 4.1×	92	3.1k
Frieke Van Coillie Belgium	17	47 0.0×	799 1.0×	517 1.1×	802 1.9×	808 3.3×	47	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jaan Praks

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Kohout, T., et al.. (2025). Lossless Hyperspectral Image Compression in Comet Interceptor and Hera Missions with Restricted Bandwith. Remote Sensing. 17(5). 899–899.

Sharma, Mayank, Fabricio S. Prol, Elena Simona Lohan, et al.. (2025). LEO-PNT Feasibility Aspects: Satellite Navigation Payload Size, Weight, and Power Analysis. IEEE Access. 13. 110069–110089.

Darvishsefat, Ali Asghar, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Hyrcanian Forest Height and Aboveground Biomass Predictions: A Synergistic Use of TanDEM-X InSAR Coherence, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 8409–8423. 1 indexed citations

Prol, Fabricio S., M. Zahidul H. Bhuiyan, Sanna Kaasalainen, et al.. (2024). Simulations of Dedicated LEO-PNT Systems for Precise Point Positioning: Methodology, Parameter Analysis, and Accuracy Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 60(5). 6499–6516. 13 indexed citations

Tomppo, Erkki, Yrjö Rauste, Ronald E. McRoberts, et al.. (2023). Sentinel-1 Time Series for Predicting Growing Stock Volume of Boreal Forest: Multitemporal Analysis and Feature Selection. Remote Sensing. 15(14). 3489–3489. 6 indexed citations

Prol, Fabricio S., Sanna Kaasalainen, Elena Simona Lohan, et al.. (2023). Simulations using LEO-PNT systems: A Brief Survey. Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University. 381–387. 9 indexed citations

Praks, Jaan, Petri T. Niemelä, Rami Vainio, et al.. (2023). Foresail - CubeSat platform and missions to higher orbits. 1–4. 2 indexed citations

Su, Weimin, et al.. (2022). Improved LSTM Model for Boreal Forest Height Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Time Series. Remote Sensing. 14(21). 5560–5560. 7 indexed citations

Prol, Fabricio S., Rubén Morales Ferré, Petri Välisuo, et al.. (2022). Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Through Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites: A Survey on Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities. IEEE Access. 10. 83971–84002. 133 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tomppo, Erkki, et al.. (2021). Detection of Forest Windstorm Damages with Multitemporal SAR Data—A Case Study: Finland. Remote Sensing. 13(3). 383–383. 16 indexed citations

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Lemmetyinen, Juha, J. Lahtinen, Anna Kontu, et al.. (2020). SodSAR: A Tower-Based 1–10 GHz SAR System for Snow, Soil and Vegetation Studies. Sensors. 20(22). 6702–6702. 6 indexed citations

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Marbouti, Marjan, Oleg Antropov, Jaan Praks, et al.. (2020). TanDEM-X multiparametric data features in sea ice classification over the Baltic sea. Geo-spatial Information Science. 24(2). 313–332. 6 indexed citations

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Tomppo, Erkki, Oleg Antropov, & Jaan Praks. (2019). Boreal Forest Snow Damage Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 Data. Remote Sensing. 11(4). 384–384. 22 indexed citations

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Marbouti, Marjan, Jaan Praks, Oleg Antropov, Eero Rinne, & Matti Leppäranta. (2017). A Study of Landfast Ice with Sentinel-1 Repeat-Pass Interferometry over the Baltic Sea. Remote Sensing. 9(8). 833–833. 27 indexed citations

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Antropov, Oleg, Yrjö Rauste, Tuomas Häme, & Jaan Praks. (2017). Polarimetric ALOS PALSAR Time Series in Mapping Biomass of Boreal Forests. Remote Sensing. 9(10). 999–999. 54 indexed citations

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Kestilä, Antti, Tuomas Tikka, Antti Näsilä, et al.. (2013). Aalto-1 nanosatellite – technical description and mission objectives. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 121–130. 47 indexed citations

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Kokin, E., Jaan Praks, V. Poikalainen, et al.. (2012). Energy consumption in animal production - case farm study. Agronomy Research. 10. 39–48. 26 indexed citations

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Poikalainen, V., Jaan Praks, E. Kokin, et al.. (2010). Elaboration of basic methods for automatic analysis of cows' gait.. Agronomy Research. 8. 216–225. 7 indexed citations

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Colin, Élise, et al.. (2010). A review about alternatives to classical Polarimetric SAR parameters. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

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Praks, Jaan & M. Hallikainen. (2005). Combining High Resolution and Low resolution Information in Synoptic representation of Fully Polarimetric SAR Images. ESA Special Publication. 586. 59. 2 indexed citations

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