Leland Pierce

1.5k total citations
53 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Leland Pierce is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Leland Pierce has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Environmental Engineering, 24 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 17 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Leland Pierce's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (22 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers). Leland Pierce is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (22 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers). Leland Pierce collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Leland Pierce's co-authors include F.T. Ulaby, M.C. Dobson, Hua Xie, Kamal Sarabandi, Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, Mahta Moghaddam, Kathleen M. Bergen, Terry L. Sharik and Pan Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics.

In The Last Decade

Leland Pierce

49 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leland Pierce United States 14 565 483 289 262 225 53 1.1k
Sidnei J. S. Sant’Anna Brazil 14 329 0.6× 530 1.1× 339 1.2× 110 0.4× 191 0.8× 78 1.1k
Henri Laur Italy 8 282 0.5× 387 0.8× 372 1.3× 302 1.2× 368 1.6× 17 1.3k
E. Nezry France 11 499 0.9× 711 1.5× 749 2.6× 214 0.8× 815 3.6× 40 1.7k
J. S. Lee United States 5 421 0.7× 776 1.6× 441 1.5× 185 0.7× 195 0.9× 8 1.2k
Alessandro Capra Italy 19 254 0.4× 193 0.4× 71 0.2× 215 0.8× 212 0.9× 95 1.1k
Giuseppe Ruello Italy 23 400 0.7× 697 1.4× 390 1.3× 289 1.1× 187 0.8× 147 1.7k
Toni Schenk United States 16 344 0.6× 159 0.3× 107 0.4× 246 0.9× 161 0.7× 51 789
Leandro Chiarantini Italy 12 218 0.4× 180 0.4× 389 1.3× 187 0.7× 175 0.8× 28 856
Yasser Maghsoudi Iran 20 449 0.8× 914 1.9× 247 0.9× 303 1.2× 51 0.2× 87 1.4k
Gintautas Palubinskas Germany 17 189 0.3× 364 0.8× 344 1.2× 86 0.3× 214 1.0× 84 997

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leland Pierce

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leland Pierce

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benson, Michael L., Leland Pierce, Kathleen M. Bergen, & Kamal Sarabandi. (2020). Model-Based Estimation of Forest Canopy Height and Biomass in the Canadian Boreal Forest Using Radar, LiDAR, and Optical Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(6). 4635–4653. 19 indexed citations
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Terry, Fred L., Leland Pierce, Md. Nazrul Islam, et al.. (2019). Active Mid-Wave to Long-Wave Supercontinuum FTIR Sensor for Standoff Chemical Detection. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 37(14). 3626–3636. 11 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland. (2019). Progress in SAR Metadata Standards. 4435–4437. 1 indexed citations
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Benson, Michael L., Leland Pierce, & Kamal Sarabandi. (2016). Estimating boreal forest canopy height and above ground biomass using multi-modal remote sensing; a database driven approach. 2. 2498–2501. 2 indexed citations
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Benson, Michael L., et al.. (2011). Forest structure estimation using SAR, LiDAR, and optical data in the Canadian Boreal forest. 2609–2612. 2 indexed citations
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Humbert, J. Sean, et al.. (2011). Velocity estimation using optic flow and radar. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8031. 803112–803112. 1 indexed citations
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Sarabandi, Kamal & Leland Pierce. (2009). An overview of research in advanced microelectronics for micro-autonomous platforms. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7318. 73180M–73180M. 1 indexed citations
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Jagsi, Reshma, Merav Ben‐David, Jean M. Moran, et al.. (2008). Adverse Cosmesis in a Protocol Investigating IMRT with Active Breathing Control for Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI). International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 72(1). S153–S153. 7 indexed citations
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Liang, Pan, Leland Pierce, & Mahta Moghaddam. (2005). Radiative transfer model for microwave bistatic scattering from forest canopies. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 43(11). 2470–2483. 58 indexed citations
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Bergen, Kathleen M., Leland Pierce, M.C. Dobson, & F.T. Ulaby. (2005). A multi-temporal classifier for SIR-C/X-SAR imagery. 3. 1568–1570.
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Pierce, Leland & Mahta Moghaddam. (2005). The MOSS VHF/UHF spaceborne SAR system testbed. 1. 400–400. 2 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland, et al.. (2004). A Computationally Efficient Multivariate Maximum-Entropy Density Estimation (MEDE) Technique. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 42(2). 457–468. 11 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland, et al.. (2003). Fusion of optical and SAR data for forestry applications in the Sierra Nevada of California. 3. 1771–1773. 6 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland, Kathleen M. Bergen, M.C. Dobson, & F.T. Ulaby. (2002). Land-cover classification using SIR-C/X-SAR data. 2. 918–920. 3 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland, Kathleen M. Bergen, M.C. Dobson, & F.T. Ulaby. (1998). Multitemporal Land-Cover Classification Using SIR-C/X-SAR Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 64(1). 20–33. 66 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland, et al.. (1998). An automated unsupervised/supervised classification methodology. 1781–1783 vol.4. 5 indexed citations
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Dobson, M.C., Leland Pierce, & F.T. Ulaby. (1996). Knowledge-based land-cover classification using ERS-1/JERS-1 SAR composites. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 34(1). 83–99. 127 indexed citations
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Dobson, M.C., F.T. Ulaby, & Leland Pierce. (1995). Land-cover classification and estimation of terrain attributes using synthetic aperture radar. Remote Sensing of Environment. 51(1). 199–214. 147 indexed citations
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Pierce, Leland, Kamal Sarabandi, & F.T. Ulaby. (1994). Application of an artificial neural network in canopy scattering inversion. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 15(16). 3263–3270. 19 indexed citations

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