Maurizio Santoro

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
154 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Maurizio Santoro is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Maurizio Santoro has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Environmental Engineering, 82 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 52 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Maurizio Santoro's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (81 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (70 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (43 papers). Maurizio Santoro is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (81 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (70 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (43 papers). Maurizio Santoro collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. Maurizio Santoro's co-authors include J. Askne, Oliver Cartus, U. Wegmüller, Johan E. S. Fransson, Christian Beer, Andreas Wiesmann, Charles Werner, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Nuno Carvalhais and Martin Thurner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Maurizio Santoro

146 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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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.

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

2014 673 citations Nuno Carvalhais, Sassan Saatchi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maurizio Santoro Switzerland	38	2.3k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	154	4.7k
Guoqing Sun United States	43	4.0k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.9×	942 0.7×	896 0.8×	180	5.5k
Josef Kellndorfer United States	26	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	622 0.5×	469 0.4×	67	3.0k
James Brasington United Kingdom	35	3.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	3.9k 2.6×	571 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	76	8.5k
Laura L. Hess United States	25	1.0k 0.5×	2.9k 1.7×	1.7k 1.1×	542 0.4×	655 0.6×	44	5.0k
Wayne Walker United States	30	2.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.6×	2.1k 1.4×	255 0.2×	447 0.4×	59	5.3k
Nancy F. Glenn United States	36	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	148 0.1×	690 0.6×	131	4.1k
Dean B. Gesch United States	24	896 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	940 0.6×	296 0.2×	1.1k 0.9×	59	3.3k
Carolyn T. Hunsaker United States	29	1.3k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	2.1k 1.4×	120 0.1×	750 0.6×	72	4.9k
Matthew Westoby United Kingdom	22	1.8k 0.8×	490 0.3×	928 0.6×	443 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	44	4.2k
Alexandra G. Konings United States	42	2.5k 1.1×	3.9k 2.3×	1.1k 0.8×	207 0.2×	2.9k 2.5×	116	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maurizio Santoro

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Cartus, Oliver, et al.. (2025). A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318. 114601–114601.

Besnard, Simon, Viola Heinrich, Nuno Carvalhais, et al.. (2025). Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1848–1860. 1 indexed citations

Mitchard, Edward T. A., et al.. (2024). A new circa 2007 biomass map for China differs significantly from existing maps. Scientific Data. 11(1). 287–287. 2 indexed citations

Babcock, Chad, John Armston, Maurizio Santoro, et al.. (2024). A geostatistical approach to enhancing national forest biomass assessments with Earth Observation to aid climate policy needs. Remote Sensing of Environment. 318. 114557–114557. 6 indexed citations

Santoro, Maurizio, Oliver Cartus, Oleg Antropov, & Jukka Miettinen. (2024). Estimation of Forest Growing Stock Volume with Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Comparison of Model-Fitting Methods. Remote Sensing. 16(21). 4079–4079. 2 indexed citations

García-Duro, Juan, et al.. (2023). Seasonality and directionality effects on radar backscatter are key to identify mountain forest types with Sentinel-1 data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 296. 113728–113728. 10 indexed citations

Zhu, Lei, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2023). Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation. Nature Geoscience. 16(3). 244–249. 38 indexed citations

Santoro, Maurizio, et al.. (2023). Implications of the steady-state assumption for the global vegetation carbon turnover. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 104036–104036. 1 indexed citations

Tanase, Mihai A., et al.. (2021). Growing Stock Volume Retrieval from Single and Multi-Frequency Radar Backscatter. Forests. 12(7). 944–944. 6 indexed citations

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Mialon, Arnaud, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Maurizio Santoro, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the Sensitivity of SMOS L-VOD to Forest Above-Ground Biomass at Global Scale. Remote Sensing. 12(9). 1450–1450. 37 indexed citations

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Santoro, Maurizio, Oliver Cartus, Stéphane Mermoz, et al.. (2018). A detailed portrait of the forest aboveground biomass pool for the year 2010 obtained from multiple remote sensing observations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 18932. 13 indexed citations

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Wegmüller, U., Maurizio Santoro, & Charles Werner. (2013). Multi-Temporal SAR Data Filtering For Land Applications. 722. 42. 4 indexed citations

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Santoro, Maurizio, Céline Lamarche, Sophie Bontemps, et al.. (2013). INTRODUCING A GLOBAL DATASET OF OPEN PERMANENT WATER BODIES. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 722. 119. 3 indexed citations

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Werner, Charles, U. Wegmüller, Othmar Frey, & Maurizio Santoro. (2012). Interferometric Processing Of PALSAR Wide-Beam ScanSAR Data. ESASP. 697. 42. 1 indexed citations

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Tanase, Mihai A., Maurizio Santoro, Juan de la Riva, Eric S. Kasischke, & Mikhail Korets. (2010). L-Band SAR Backscatter Prospects for Burn Severity Estimation in Boreal Forests. ESASP. 686. 44. 5 indexed citations

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Wegmüller, U., Maurizio Santoro, Anna Balenzano, et al.. (2010). Progress in the Understanding of Narrow Directional Scattering over Agricultural Fields. ESASP. 686. 248. 1 indexed citations

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Cartus, Oliver, et al.. (2008). Sentinel-1 Land Applications based on Multi-temporal Data Acquisitions. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Santoro, Maurizio, Johan E. S. Fransson, Leif E. B. Eriksson, et al.. (2008). Investigations on Forestry Applications in Sweden Using ALOS PALSAR. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 664. 52. 1 indexed citations

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Santoro, Maurizio. (2007). Puerto Rican Spanish: a case of partial restructuring. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 10(9). 47–57. 1 indexed citations

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Eriksson, Leif E. B., et al.. (2004). Stem Volume Retrieval with Spaceborne L-band Repeat-pass Coherence: Possibilities and Limitations for Boreal Forest. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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