Kun‐Shan Chen

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
210 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Kun‐Shan Chen is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun‐Shan Chen has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Environmental Engineering, 100 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 73 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kun‐Shan Chen's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (95 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (87 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (40 papers). Kun‐Shan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (95 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (87 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (40 papers). Kun‐Shan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Taiwan and United States. Kun‐Shan Chen's co-authors include Jong-Sen Lee, Thomas L. Ainsworth, Jiangyuan Zeng, Zhao-Liang Li, Tzong‐Dar Wu, Haiyun Bi, Quan Chen, Zhen Xu, Chenyang Cui and Xiaofeng Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Kun‐Shan Chen

194 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Improved Sigma Filter for Speckle Filtering of SAR Imagery 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2021 100 200 300 400
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. Improved Sigma Filter for Speckle Filtering of SAR Imagery
    2008 469 citations Kun‐Shan Chen et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  2. Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future
    2021 189 citations Zhao-Liang Li, Kun‐Shan Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kun‐Shan Chen China 31 1.7k 1.4k 1.3k 477 429 210 3.6k
Antonio Iodice Italy 33 1.1k 0.6× 769 0.6× 2.0k 1.6× 450 0.9× 521 1.2× 247 3.5k
Daniele Riccio Italy 35 1.3k 0.7× 749 0.5× 2.2k 1.8× 461 1.0× 681 1.6× 246 4.0k
Mingsheng Liao China 38 838 0.5× 1.7k 1.3× 3.1k 2.4× 442 0.9× 622 1.4× 291 4.7k
Nazzareno Pierdicca Italy 36 2.7k 1.6× 2.7k 1.9× 2.0k 1.6× 1.7k 3.5× 500 1.2× 285 5.0k
Antonio Pepe Italy 37 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 2.9k 2.3× 497 1.0× 120 0.3× 169 4.4k
Michael Eineder Germany 37 2.1k 1.2× 2.0k 1.4× 4.5k 3.6× 535 1.1× 178 0.4× 243 6.4k
Thomas L. Ainsworth United States 27 1.9k 1.1× 991 0.7× 3.3k 2.7× 226 0.5× 1.4k 3.3× 130 4.6k
Pau Prats Germany 37 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 5.8k 4.6× 166 0.3× 311 0.7× 249 7.1k
Marwan Younis Germany 32 1.6k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 6.4k 5.1× 205 0.4× 313 0.7× 232 7.5k
Linlin Ge Australia 32 720 0.4× 615 0.4× 2.1k 1.7× 307 0.6× 132 0.3× 180 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Kun‐Shan Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kun‐Shan Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun‐Shan Chen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Ying, Kun‐Shan Chen, Jón Atli Benediktsson, & Magnús Ö. Úlfarsson. (2025). Physical Interpretation of Microwave Emission From Snow-Covered Stratified Sea Ice With Rough Boundaries. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–17.
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Chen, Kun‐Shan, Hongliang Ma, Husi Letu, et al.. (2025). Synergizing machine learning and interpolation methods: A Stacking framework for global-scale satellite soil moisture gap filling. Remote Sensing of Environment. 331. 115040–115040. 1 indexed citations
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Nunziata, Ferdinando, et al.. (2024). Scattering Model-Based Oil-Slick-Related Parameters Estimation From Radar Remote Sensing: Feasibility and Simulation Results. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–12. 8 indexed citations
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Zeng, Jiangyuan, Kun‐Shan Chen, Hongliang Ma, et al.. (2024). Global-Scale Assessment of Multiple Recently Developed/Reprocessed Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Datasets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–18. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Ying, et al.. (2024). Surface Parameter Bias Disturbance in Radar Backscattering From Bare Soil Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–17. 1 indexed citations
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Zeng, Jiangyuan, Kun‐Shan Chen, Hongliang Ma, et al.. (2024). Spatial Representativeness of Soil Moisture Stations and Its Influential Factors at a Global Scale. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–15. 12 indexed citations
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Zeng, Jiangyuan, Kun‐Shan Chen, Hongliang Ma, et al.. (2024). GAP Filling of SMAP Soil Moisture Products Using Different Approaches. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 5052–5055. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhen & Kun‐Shan Chen. (2021). Effects of the “Stop-and-Go” Approximation on the Lunar-Based SAR Imaging. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Kun‐Shan, et al.. (2018). Huge fetal hepatic Hemangioma: prenatal diagnosis on ultrasound and prognosis. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 18(1). 2–2. 17 indexed citations
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Cui, Chenyang, Jia Xu, Jiangyuan Zeng, et al.. (2017). Soil Moisture Mapping from Satellites: An Intercomparison of SMAP, SMOS, FY3B, AMSR2, and ESA CCI over Two Dense Network Regions at Different Spatial Scales. Remote Sensing. 10(1). 33–33. 142 indexed citations
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Chen, Kun‐Shan, et al.. (2015). EXTENSION AND VALIDATION OF AN ADVANCED INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL FOR BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM ROUGH SURFACES. Electromagnetic waves. 152. 59–76. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Kun‐Shan, Zhao-Liang Li, & Yu Liu. (2015). Model analysis of bistatic scattering from randomly rough surfaces. Beijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue xuebao. 41(10). 1765. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jing, et al.. (2013). DSA-guided foam sclerotherapy for the treatment of venous malformations in children: clinical observation. Journal of interventional radiology. 22(9). 738–741.
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Chu, Chih‐Yuan, et al.. (2012). Sandbar analysis of polarimetric SAR images using four-component scattering decomposition. International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. 102–105. 2 indexed citations
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Tang, Ronglin, et al.. (2012). Evaluating one- and two-source energy balance models in estimating surface evapotranspiration from Landsat-derived surface temperature and field measurements. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(9-10). 3299–3313. 43 indexed citations
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Chen, Kun‐Shan, et al.. (2011). Simulation of complex target RCS with application to SAR image recognition. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Kun‐Shan, Chih‐Yuan Chu, Chih‐Tien Wang, et al.. (2011). Small satellite SAR mission definition and analysis for Taiwan. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. 594–597. 2 indexed citations

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