John C. Curlander

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

John C. Curlander is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Curlander has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in John C. Curlander's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (25 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (18 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (11 papers). John C. Curlander is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (25 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (18 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (11 papers). John C. Curlander collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. John C. Curlander's co-authors include Robert N. McDonough, R. Kwok, C.Y. Chang, Robert K. McConnell, Shiyan Pang, D. N. Held, Chialin Wu, A. Freeman, R. Jordan and S. Hensley and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and International Journal of Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

John C. Curlander

49 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems and Signal Processing

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Curlander United States	16	1.6k	436	334	304	287	56	2.2k
I. Cumming Canada	21	2.3k 1.5×	386 0.9×	370 1.1×	433 1.4×	701 2.4×	61	2.7k
Hartmut Runge Germany	22	1.8k 1.1×	287 0.7×	430 1.3×	302 1.0×	402 1.4×	116	2.3k
Francesco Serafino Italy	20	1.5k 0.9×	273 0.6×	375 1.1×	450 1.5×	282 1.0×	67	2.0k
W.‐M. Boerner United States	22	1.5k 1.0×	290 0.7×	453 1.4×	708 2.3×	318 1.1×	135	2.1k
Hanwen Yu China	27	1.6k 1.0×	319 0.7×	238 0.7×	453 1.5×	252 0.9×	108	2.1k
Gilda Schirinzi Italy	26	2.1k 1.3×	247 0.6×	441 1.3×	592 1.9×	598 2.1×	181	2.5k
Josef Mittermayer Germany	26	2.7k 1.7×	160 0.4×	396 1.2×	522 1.7×	680 2.4×	114	2.8k
Timo Lensu Finland	4	937 0.6×	111 0.3×	161 0.5×	164 0.5×	246 0.9×	5	1.2k
Xiaolei Lv China	17	857 0.5×	162 0.4×	155 0.5×	190 0.6×	267 0.9×	107	1.3k
G. Franceschetti Italy	25	1.6k 1.0×	141 0.3×	283 0.8×	370 1.2×	422 1.5×	81	2.5k

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Chang, C.Y., John C. Curlander, & Shiyan Pang. (2005). A New Approach For Operational Multi-look Processing For Sar Data. 1333–1336.

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Chang, C.Y., et al.. (2005). SAR Processing Based On The Exact Two-dimensional Transfer Function. 355–359. 9 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C.. (2002). Interferometric synthetic aperture radar for terrain mapping. 5. 2801–2804. 3 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C.. (1994). MAPJTC- AN ALGORITHM FOR GENERATION OF GEOCODED DATA PRODUCTS FROM SPACEBORNE SAR IMAGERY. 1 indexed citations

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Fang, Wai-Chi, et al.. (1994). VLSI systolic binary tree-searched vector quantizer for image compression. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 2(1). 33–44. 18 indexed citations

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Nathan, K. S. & John C. Curlander. (1990). Reducing Speckle In One-Look SAR Images. NASA Tech Briefs. 14(2). 1 indexed citations

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Freeman, A. & John C. Curlander. (1989). Radiometric correction and calibration of SAR images. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 55(9). 1295–1301. 42 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C.. (1989). The Earth Observing System (Eos) SAID Ground Data System. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1101. 210–210. 1 indexed citations

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Chang, C.Y., R. Kwok, & John C. Curlander. (1988). Spatial compression of Seasat SAR imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 26(5). 673–685. 10 indexed citations

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Nathan, K. S. & John C. Curlander. (1987). Speckle noise reduction of 1-look SAR imagery. 2. 1457–1462. 11 indexed citations

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Kwok, R., et al.. (1987). Rectification of terrain induced distortions in radar imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 53(5). 507–513. 30 indexed citations

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Kwok, R. & John C. Curlander. (1987). Automated rectification and geocoding of SAR imagery. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 6 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C. & Vasilis Z. Marmarelis. (1987). A linear spatio-temporal model of the light-to-bipolar cell system and its response characteristics to moving bars. Biological Cybernetics. 57(6). 357–363. 3 indexed citations

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Chang, C.Y., et al.. (1987). Image coding of SAR imagery. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C., et al.. (1987). A post-processing system for automated rectification and registration of spaceborne SAR imagery†. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 8(4). 621–638. 32 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C.. (1984). Utilization of Spaceborne SAR Data for Mapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. GE-22(2). 106–112. 39 indexed citations

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Carsey, F., et al.. (1983). Shear zone ice deformation using supervised analysis of Seasat data. 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 3 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C. & Vasilis Z. Marmarelis. (1983). Processing of visual information in the distal neurons of the vertebrate retina. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. SMC-13(5). 934–943. 6 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C., et al.. (1982). Geometric registration and rectification of spaceborne SAR imagery. 4 indexed citations

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Curlander, John C., et al.. (1982). Automated preprocessing of spaceborne SAR data. 14 indexed citations

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