Lei Deng

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Lei Deng is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Deng has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 23 papers in Environmental Engineering and 16 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Lei Deng's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (23 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (21 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (15 papers). Lei Deng is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (23 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (21 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (15 papers). Lei Deng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Nepal. Lei Deng's co-authors include Fuzhou Duan, Yanan Yan, Zhihui Mao, Xiaojuan Li, Zhuowei Hu, Prakash Ghimire, Lin Zhu, Cuizhen Wang, Shuang Wu and Ran Jing and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Lei Deng

52 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

UAV-based multispectral remote sensing for precision agriculture: A comparison between different cameras

2018 361 citations Lei Deng, Zhihui Mao et al. profile →

Peers

Lei Deng

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GPC

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José Bessa Portugal

Yonglin Shen China

‪Rama Rao Nidamanuri India

Fuzhou Duan China

Jonáš Hruška Portugal

Camille Lelong France

Jere Kaivosoja Finland

Lauri Markelin Finland

Anna Brook Israel

Rocío Ballesteros Spain

José Bessa Portugal

Lei Deng

462 ×0.8

ECOLO

293 ×0.6

EE

282 ×1.1

PS

116 ×0.6

GPC

250 ×1.4

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Citations per year, relative to Lei Deng Lei Deng (= 1×) peers José Bessa

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Deng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Deng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Deng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Deng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Deng 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 Lei Deng. Lei Deng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Liu, Xinyi, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial laser scanning in forestry: Accuracy and efficiency in measuring individual tree parameters. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0331126–e0331126.

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Wu, Shuang, et al.. (2025). Estimating Long-Term Fractional Vegetation Cover Using an Improved Dimidiate Pixel Method With UAV-Assisted Satellite Data: A Case Study in a Mining Region. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 4162–4173. 3 indexed citations

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Mao, Zhihui, et al.. (2025). A Comparative Analysis of SAR and Optical Remote Sensing for Sparse Forest Structure Parameters: A Simulation Study. Forests. 16(8). 1244–1244.

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Li, Yongxin, et al.. (2025). Strategies for Automated Identification of Food Waste in University Cafeterias: A Machine Vision Recognition Approach. Applied Sciences. 15(9). 5036–5036.

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2023). A Feature-Level Point Cloud Fusion Method for Timber Volume of Forest Stands Estimation. Remote Sensing. 15(12). 2995–2995. 12 indexed citations

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Mao, Zhihui, et al.. (2023). DBH Estimation for Individual Tree: Two-Dimensional Images or Three-Dimensional Point Clouds?. Remote Sensing. 15(16). 4116–4116. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Shuang, et al.. (2022). Wheat leaf area index prediction using data fusion based on high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle imagery. Plant Methods. 18(1). 68–68. 33 indexed citations

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Wu, Shuang, et al.. (2021). Fusion of China ZY-1 02D Hyperspectral Data and Multispectral Data: Which Methods Should Be Used?. Remote Sensing. 13(12). 2354–2354. 20 indexed citations

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Yan, Yanan, et al.. (2019). Application of UAV-Based Multi-angle Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in Fine Vegetation Classification. Remote Sensing. 11(23). 2753–2753. 49 indexed citations

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Chen, Baohua, Lei Deng, Yueqi Duan, Zhixiang Chen, & Jie Zhou. (2016). Multiple model fusion in 3-D reconstruction: Illumination and scale invariance. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 56(9). 969–973. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei & Yanan Yan. (2016). Improving the Yamaguchi4 Decomposition Method Using Selective Polarization Orientation Compensation. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 42(2). 125–135. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2015). Improved POLSAR Image Classification by the Use of Multi-Feature Combination. Remote Sensing. 7(4). 4157–4177. 19 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei & Cuizhen Wang. (2013). Improved Building Extraction With Integrated Decomposition of Time-Frequency and Entropy-Alpha Using Polarimetric SAR Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 7(10). 4058–4068. 21 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2013). Tracking the evolution of public concerns in social media. 353–357. 5 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2013). Event Evolution Analysis in Microblogging Based on a View of Public Opinion Field. 193–197. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2012). Using Social Intelligence for New Event Detection in Microblog Stream. 434–439. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jia & Lei Deng. (2012). Emergency Case Ontology Model and its Application in Earthquake Disaster. Advanced materials research. 518-523. 5793–5797. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2011). Application of Remote Sensing in the Field of Disaster Reduction and Response. Yaogan jishu yu yingyong. 26(4). 512–519. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunhao, et al.. (2010). Experimental research on urban road extraction from high-resolution RS images using Probabilistic Topic Models. 445–448. 6 indexed citations

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Deng, Lei, et al.. (2010). Application and discussion on Emergency Data Exchange Language in emergency management. 11. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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