Jacques Descloitres

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Jacques Descloitres is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacques Descloitres has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jacques Descloitres's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (6 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Jacques Descloitres is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (6 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Jacques Descloitres collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Malaysia. Jacques Descloitres's co-authors include Louis Giglio, Yoram J. Kaufman, Christopher O. Justice, David P. Roy, C. O. Justice, Jennifer Owens, S. Korontzi, J. T. Morisette, Samuel Alleaume and F. Petitcolin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jacques Descloitres

24 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

An Enhanced Contextual Fire Detection Algorithm for MODIS 2002 2026 2010 2018 2003 2002 400 800 1.2k
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. An Enhanced Contextual Fire Detection Algorithm for MODIS
    2003 1.4k citations Louis Giglio, Jacques Descloitres et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. The MODIS fire products
    2002 972 citations C. O. Justice, Louis Giglio et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacques Descloitres France 12 2.5k 1.2k 969 456 295 26 2.9k
G. Roberts United Kingdom 28 2.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 797 0.8× 653 1.4× 319 1.1× 70 3.3k
Ivan Csiszar United States 32 3.7k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 1.6k 1.7× 908 2.0× 609 2.1× 74 4.4k
E. M. Prins United States 22 3.4k 1.4× 2.3k 1.8× 717 0.7× 372 0.8× 288 1.0× 32 3.9k
S. Korontzi United States 15 1.7k 0.7× 985 0.8× 590 0.6× 235 0.5× 183 0.6× 17 2.0k
Patricia Oliva Chile 9 1.4k 0.6× 314 0.3× 641 0.7× 338 0.7× 317 1.1× 22 1.6k
F. Petitcolin France 12 1.1k 0.4× 731 0.6× 485 0.5× 582 1.3× 105 0.4× 17 1.6k
Anupma Prakash United States 26 642 0.3× 530 0.4× 394 0.4× 455 1.0× 173 0.6× 76 1.9k
Rudi Goossens Belgium 22 881 0.4× 264 0.2× 810 0.8× 645 1.4× 74 0.3× 107 1.8k
Dongdong Wang United States 33 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 1.4× 801 0.8× 1.2k 2.7× 18 0.1× 96 3.3k
Aliihsan Şekertekin Türkiye 27 886 0.4× 576 0.5× 433 0.4× 1.2k 2.6× 28 0.1× 67 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jacques Descloitres

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacques Descloitres

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacques Descloitres

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jacques Descloitres. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jacques Descloitres 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 Jacques Descloitres. Jacques Descloitres 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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Aimène, Yamina, Jacques Descloitres, Luc Courtrai, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Wind on the Spatial Distribution of Pelagic Sargassum Aggregations in the Tropical Atlantic. Water. 17(6). 776–776.
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Jouanno, Julien, Malik Chami, Léo Berline, et al.. (2025). Understanding the Sargassum phenomenon in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean: From satellite monitoring to stranding forecast. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 216. 117923–117923. 4 indexed citations
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Cavazzani, Stefano, S. Ortolani, Carmine Giordano, et al.. (2023). Aerosol–cloud interactions at the four candidate sites of the ANAtOLIA project. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2(1). 420–431. 2 indexed citations
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Courtrai, Luc, et al.. (2023). Detection of Sargassum from Sentinel Satellite Sensors Using Deep Learning Approach. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 1104–1104. 11 indexed citations
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Jouanno, Julien, et al.. (2022). Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Pelagic Sargassum. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(6). 13 indexed citations
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Jouanno, Julien, et al.. (2021). Impact of Tropical cyclones on pelagic Sargassum. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations
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Descloitres, Jacques, et al.. (2021). Revisited Estimation of Moderate Resolution Sargassum Fractional Coverage Using Decametric Satellite Data (S2-MSI). Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5106–5106. 14 indexed citations
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Tanré, D., et al.. (2018). Le pôle Icare : son historique, son fonctionnement, ses réalisations. La Météorologie. 31–31.
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Descloitres, Jacques, et al.. (2006). Near-real time retrievals of land surface temperature within the MODIS Rapid Response System. Remote Sensing of Environment. 106(3). 326–336. 29 indexed citations
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Quayle, Brad, R. A. Sohlberg, & Jacques Descloitres. (2004). Operational remote sensing technologies for wildfire assessment. 3. 2245–2247. 10 indexed citations
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Descloitres, Jacques, et al.. (2003). Near Real Time Land Surface Temperature in the MODIS Rapid Response System. AGUFM. 2003. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Kai, A. J. Fleig, Éric Vermote, & Jacques Descloitres. (2003). Simulating observations from the MODIS instrument with variable surface and atmospheric conditions. 2. 1328–1331. 1 indexed citations
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Descloitres, Jacques, R. A. Sohlberg, Louis Giglio, et al.. (2003). The MODIS rapid response project. 2. 1191–1192. 9 indexed citations
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Giglio, Louis, Jacques Descloitres, Christopher O. Justice, & Yoram J. Kaufman. (2003). An Enhanced Contextual Fire Detection Algorithm for MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment. 87(2-3). 273–282. 1356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roy, David P., Jacques Descloitres, Sadashiva Devadiga, et al.. (2002). The MODIS land quality assessment approach. 5. 2056–2058. 6 indexed citations
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Vermote, Éric, et al.. (2001). A SeaWiFS global monthly coarse-resolution reflectance dataset. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 22(6). 1151–1158. 5 indexed citations
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Vermote, Éric, et al.. (2001). A SeaWiFS global monthly coarse-resolution reflectance dataset. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 22(6). 1151–1158. 5 indexed citations
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Pawłowska, Hanna, Jean‐Louis Brenguier, Y. Fouquart, et al.. (2000). Microphysical and radiative properties of stratocumulus clouds: the EUCREX mission 206 case study. Atmospheric Research. 55(1). 85–102. 11 indexed citations
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Parol, F., Jacques Descloitres, & Y. Fouquart. (2000). Cloud optical thickness and albedo retrievals from bidirectional reflectance measurements of POLDER instruments during ACE-2. Tellus B. 52(2). 888–908. 12 indexed citations
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Descloitres, Jacques, F. Parol, & J. C. Buriez. (1995). On the validity of the plane-parallel approximation for cloud reflectances as measured from POLDER during ASTEX. Annales Geophysicae. 13(1). 108–110. 7 indexed citations

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