Manabu Watanabe

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Manabu Watanabe is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Manabu Watanabe has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 67 papers in Environmental Engineering and 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Manabu Watanabe's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (79 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (35 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (31 papers). Manabu Watanabe is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (79 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (35 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (31 papers). Manabu Watanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Egypt. Manabu Watanabe's co-authors include Masanobu Shimada, Rajesh Bahadur Thapa, Åke Rosenqvist, Tomohiro Shiraishi, Nobutaka Ito, Takeshi Motooka, Takuya Itoh, Richard Lucas, Takeshi Motohka and Takeo Tadono and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Manabu Watanabe

122 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

New global forest/non-forest maps from ALOS PALSAR da... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2014 2007 100 200 300 400 500

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Manabu Watanabe Japan 23 1.2k 954 818 635 460 126 2.5k
Craig Glennie United States 33 2.0k 1.7× 559 0.6× 712 0.9× 313 0.5× 277 0.6× 117 3.4k
Roderik Lindenbergh Netherlands 34 2.2k 1.8× 407 0.4× 605 0.7× 523 0.8× 655 1.4× 174 3.7k
David C. Mason United Kingdom 34 1.1k 0.9× 384 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 2.1k 3.3× 929 2.0× 77 3.9k
Darren Turner Australia 23 2.9k 2.5× 899 0.9× 1.4k 1.7× 637 1.0× 608 1.3× 48 4.7k
Kalifa Goı̈ta Canada 25 1.2k 1.0× 426 0.4× 431 0.5× 419 0.7× 1.2k 2.6× 103 2.2k
Hongsheng Zhang China 31 894 0.8× 270 0.3× 907 1.1× 1.1k 1.7× 591 1.3× 208 3.1k
Jiangui Liu Canada 36 1.5k 1.3× 336 0.4× 2.6k 3.1× 1.3k 2.0× 688 1.5× 134 4.7k
Josef Kellndorfer United States 26 1.8k 1.5× 622 0.7× 1.5k 1.8× 1.1k 1.7× 469 1.0× 67 3.0k
Malcolm Davidson Netherlands 27 1.8k 1.5× 1.3k 1.4× 493 0.6× 470 0.7× 1.9k 4.1× 143 4.0k
Chris H. Hugenholtz Canada 36 1.3k 1.1× 399 0.4× 792 1.0× 716 1.1× 1.3k 2.8× 102 3.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manabu Watanabe

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nagai, Hiroto, et al.. (2017). Multiple remote-sensing assessment of the catastrophic collapse in Langtang Valley induced by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 17(11). 1907–1921. 10 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Manabu, et al.. (2017). Trial of Detection for Landslide Areas from Wide Range of Image Obtained by L-band SAR (PALSAR-2). National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 37(1). 21–26. 2 indexed citations
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Ohki, Masato, Manabu Watanabe, Ryo Natsuaki, et al.. (2016). Flood Area Detection Using ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 Data for the 2015 Heavy Rainfall Disaster in the Kanto and Tohoku Area, Japan. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 39(4). 348–359. 18 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Manabu, Hiroto Nagai, Ryo Natsuaki, & Masanobu Shimada. (2016). Phase shift observed over a forest stand with PALSAR-2 SAR interferometry in Hakone. Japan Geoscience Union. 2016. 9. 1 indexed citations
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Kushida, Keiji, Satoru Hobara, Shiro Tsuyuzaki, et al.. (2015). Spectral indices for remote sensing of phytomass, deciduous shrubs, and productivity in Alaskan Arctic tundra. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 36(17). 4344–4362. 14 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, Manabu Watanabe, Noriyuki Kawano, et al.. (2014). Detecting Mountainous Landslides by SAR Polarimetry: A Comparative Study Using Pi-SAR-L2 and X-band SARs. TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. 12(ists29). Pn_9–Pn_15. 15 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, et al.. (2014). New Global Forest/Non-Forest Maps from ALOS PALSAR data (2007-2010). Japan Geoscience Union. 2 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, Manabu Watanabe, Takeshi Motooka, Masato Ohki, & Yutaka Wada. (2014). PALSAR-2 and Pi-SAR-L2 - Multi frequency Polarimetric Sensitivity on Disaster. 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, Noriyuki Kawano, Manabu Watanabe, Takeshi Motooka, & Masato Ohki. (2013). Calibration and validation of the Pi-SAR-L2. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. 25 indexed citations
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Thapa, Rajesh Bahadur, Masanobu Shimada, Manabu Watanabe, Takeshi Motohka, & Tomohiro Shiraishi. (2013). L-band SAR data and spatially explicit model to analyse forest loss between 2007 and 2030 in central Sumatra. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. 108–111. 2 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Manabu, Keiji Kushida, Chinatsu Yonezawa, Motoyuki Sato, & M. Fukuda. (2012). PALSAR Full-Polarimetric Observation for Peatland. 11(3). 2 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, Manabu Watanabe, Takeshi Motooka, et al.. (2011). Generation of 10m resolution PALSAR and JERS-1 SAR MOSAIC and forest/non-forest maps for forest carbon trackning. IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Thapa, Rajesh Bahadur, Masanobu Shimada, Takeshi Motohka, Manabu Watanabe, & Tomohiro Shiraishi. (2011). Spatial modeling of tropical deforestation using PALSAR data. 2. 1468–1471. 2 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Manabu, et al.. (2007). An Detectability of Debris Flow by Using PALSAR and PiSAR (L-band) Data. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 27(4). 386–393. 2 indexed citations
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Niinomi, Mitsuo, et al.. (2007). Effects of Heat Treatment and Load on Frictional Wear Characteristics of β-Type Ti-Nb-Ta-Zr System Alloy for Biomedical Applications in Air and Simulated Body Environment. Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials. 71(4). 407–414. 2 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, et al.. (2007). Polarimetric Calibration of Spaceborne L-band SAR, PALSAR. National Remote Sensing Bulletin. 27(4). 344–353. 5 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, et al.. (2006). Interferometric capabilities of ALOS PALSAR and its utilization. ESASP. 610. 34. 5 indexed citations
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Ouchi, Kazuo, Haipeng Wang, Manabu Watanabe, et al.. (2005). On the Forest Biomass and the Order Parameter of K-Distribution in High-Resolution Airborne Polarimetric SAR Data. IEICE Technical Report; IEICE Tech. Rep.. 104(699). 5–9. 1 indexed citations
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Shimada, Masanobu, Åke Rosenqvist, Manabu Watanabe, & Takeo Tadono. (2005). The Polarimetric and Interferometric Potential of ALOS PALSAR. ESASP. 586. 41. 15 indexed citations
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Kweon, In-So, Manabu Watanabe, Kazunori Onoguchi, & Yoshinori Kuno. (1992). A behavior-based intelligent robot in dynamic indoor environments. International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 1 indexed citations

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