James D. O'Brien is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Oceanography.
According to data from OpenAlex, James D. O'Brien has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 514 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 2 papers in Environmental Engineering and 1 paper in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in James D. O'Brien's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (4 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (4 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (1 paper). James D. O'Brien is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (4 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (4 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (1 paper). James D. O'Brien collaborates with scholars based in United States. James D. O'Brien's co-authors include W.K. Jenkins, D.C. Munson and D. N. Held and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Proceedings of the IEEE and Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE.
In The Last Decade
James D. O'Brien
5 papers
receiving
476 citations
Hit Papers
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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.
A tomographic formulation of spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar
1983508 citationsD.C. Munson, James D. O'Brien et al.Proceedings of the IEEEprofile →
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Fields of papers citing papers by James D. O'Brien
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James D. O'Brien
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A tomographic formulation of spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar breakdown →
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