Lin Yan

4.3k citations

38 papers · 3.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Ecology top 0.5%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Environmental Engineering top 0.5%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Papers in

Media Technology 15
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification 15
- Advanced Image Fusion Techniques 8
Ecology 25
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 24

Co-authors: David P. Roy Éric Vermote Hankui K. Zhang Haiyan Huang H.K. Zhang Zhongbin Li Sanath Kumar Alexey Egorov
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (17 papers)Remote Sensing (7 papers)GIScience & Remote Sensing (1 paper)IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (1 paper)Remote Sensing Letters (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States China Hong Kong

In The Last Decade

Lin Yan

37 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Characterization of Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 top of atmosphere, surface, and nadir BRDF adjusted reflectance and NDVI differences 2018 · 289 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Remote Sensing of Environment
2016 Remote Sensing of Environment

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lin Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Lin Yan, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	A review of remote sensing in coastal aquaculture: data, geographic hotspots, methods, and challenges GIScience & Remote Sensing ·کتایون بهارلویی, Lizhen Lu, Lin Yan, Hankui K. Zhang	2025	0
2	Assessment and improvement of GEDI canopy height estimation in tropical and temperate forests Science of Remote Sensing ·Services Treuhand, David P. Roy, Duc-Huy Pham, Lin Yan, 岸川貴司	2025	1
3	Using Landsat 8 and 9 operational land imager (OLI) data to characterize geometric distortion and improve geometric correction of Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) imagery Remote Sensing of Environment ·Lin Yan, David P. Roy	2025	1
4	Reconstruction of seamless harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) time series via self-supervised learning Remote Sensing of Environment ·Hao Liu, Hankui K. Zhang, Bo Huang, Lin Yan, И.В. Ружицкий, Yuean Qiu, Xiaoyang Zhang, David P. Roy	2024	15
5	Automated extraction of aquaculture ponds from Sentinel-2 seasonal imagery – A validated case study in central Thailand SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Lin Yan, David P. Roy, Steve A. Porcelli, Jefferson Fox, Yongguang Zhai	2022	11
6	Spatially and temporally complete Landsat reflectance time series modelling: The fill-and-fit approach Remote Sensing of Environment ·Lin Yan, David P. Roy	2020	83
7	Operational Coregistration of the Sentinel-2A/B Image Archive Using Multitemporal Landsat Spectral Averages IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ·Philippe Rufin, David Frantz, Lin Yan, Patrick Hostert	2020	39
8	Sharpening the Sentinel-2 10 and 20 m Bands to Planetscope-0 3 m Resolution Remote Sensing ·Zhongbin Li, Hankui K. Zhang, David P. Roy, Lin Yan, Haiyan Huang	2020	19
9	Improving Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) geolocation by least-squares-adjustment based time-series co-registration Remote Sensing of Environment ·Lin Yan, David P. Roy	2020	20
10	Landsat 4, 5 and 7 (1982 to 2017) Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Observation Coverage over the Conterminous United States and Implications for Terrestrial Monitoring Remote Sensing ·Alexey Egorov, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, Zhongbin Li, Lin Yan, Haiyan Huang	2019	50
11	Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping - A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach Remote Sensing of Environment ·David P. Roy, Haiyan Huang, Luigi Boschetti, Louis Giglio, Lin Yan, Hankui K. Zhang, Zhongbin Li	2019	192
12	Sentinel-2A multi-temporal misregistration characterization and an orbit-based sub-pixel registration methodology Remote Sensing of Environment ·Lin Yan, David P. Roy, Zhongbin Li, H.K. Zhang, Haiyan Huang	2018	63
13	Landsat 15-m Panchromatic-Assisted Downscaling (LPAD) of the 30-m Reflective Wavelength Bands to Sentinel-2 20-m Resolution Remote Sensing ·Zhongbin Li, Hankui K. Zhang, David P. Roy, Lin Yan, Haiyan Huang, Jian Li	2017	31
14	Separability Analysis of Sentinel-2A Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) Data for Burned Area Discrimination Remote Sensing ·Haiyan Huang, David P. Roy, Luigi Boschetti, Hankui K. Zhang, Lin Yan, Sanath Kumar, José Gómez‐Dans, Jian Li	2016	131
15	An Automated Approach for Sub-Pixel Registration of Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral Instrument (MSI) Imagery Remote Sensing ·Lin Yan, David P. Roy, Hankui K. Zhang, Jian Li, Haiyan Huang	2016	106
16	Landslide mapping from aerial photographs using change detection-based Markov random field Remote Sensing of Environment ·Zhongbin Li, Wenzhong Shi, Ping Lü, Lin Yan, Qunming Wang, Zelang Miao	2016	129
17	Characterization of Landsat-7 to Landsat-8 reflective wavelength and normalized difference vegetation index continuity Remote Sensing of Environment ·David P. Roy, V. Kovalskyy, H.K. Zhang, Éric Vermote, Lin Yan, Sanath Kumar, Alexey Egorov Hit paper breakdown →	2016	887
18	Region-based geometric active contour for classification using hyperspectral remote sensing images OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) ·Lin Yan	2011	1
19	The application of information extraction of aerial infrared remote sensing images in Daling coalfield,Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Journal of Northwest University ·Lin Yan	2009	1
20	A new ground-based stereo panoramic scanning system Rongxing Li, Lin Yan, Kaichang Di, Bo Wu	2008	3

About Lin Yan

Lin Yan is a scholar working on Media Technology, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Ocean Engineering, having authored 38 papers that have together received 3.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (24 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (15 papers), Advanced Image Fusion Techniques (8 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (6 papers), Satellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry (6 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (5 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.0k citations), Environmental Engineering (1.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.6k citations), Media Technology (593 citations) and Ecological Modeling (171 citations). Lin Yan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Frequent co-authors include David P. Roy, Éric Vermote, Hankui K. Zhang, Haiyan Huang, H.K. Zhang, Zhongbin Li, Sanath Kumar, Alexey Egorov, V. Kovalskyy and Jian Li. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, GIScience & Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters and Remote Sensing Letters.

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