Mike Schwank

4.9k total citations
81 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Mike Schwank is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Schwank has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Environmental Engineering, 64 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mike Schwank's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (75 papers), Climate change and permafrost (43 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (41 papers). Mike Schwank is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (75 papers), Climate change and permafrost (43 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (41 papers). Mike Schwank collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Netherlands. Mike Schwank's co-authors include Christian Mätzler, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Reza Naderpour, M. Guglielmetti, Yann H. Kerr, H. Flühler, Patricia de Rosnay, Andreas Wiesmann, Juha Lemmetyinen and J.P. Grant and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Mike Schwank

78 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Schwank Switzerland 29 2.3k 2.1k 287 272 190 81 2.6k
Philippe Richaume France 17 2.4k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 278 1.0× 360 1.3× 101 0.5× 22 2.6k
Philippe Richaume France 20 1.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 254 0.9× 210 0.8× 58 0.3× 48 1.6k
A.Y. Hsu United States 17 1.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 443 1.5× 205 0.8× 118 0.6× 47 1.7k
P. Pampaloni Italy 28 2.4k 1.1× 1.9k 0.9× 974 3.4× 166 0.6× 179 0.9× 132 3.0k
Giovanni Macelloni Italy 26 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.8× 496 1.7× 61 0.2× 79 0.4× 152 2.2k
Jean-Michel Martinuzzi France 4 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 245 0.9× 209 0.8× 68 0.4× 6 1.4k
N.S. Chauhan United States 11 1.1k 0.5× 690 0.3× 444 1.5× 95 0.3× 86 0.5× 32 1.2k
Quan Chen China 15 758 0.3× 934 0.4× 296 1.0× 131 0.5× 71 0.4× 55 1.2k
A. Monerris Spain 17 1.0k 0.4× 716 0.3× 388 1.4× 115 0.4× 89 0.5× 53 1.1k
M. Zribi France 12 893 0.4× 592 0.3× 419 1.5× 143 0.5× 103 0.5× 14 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Schwank

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Schwank

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All Works

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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.
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Rautiainen, Kimmo, Juval Cohen, Arnaud Mialon, et al.. (2025). An operational SMOS soil freeze–thaw product. Earth system science data. 17(10). 5337–5353.
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Mialon, Arnaud, Alain Royer, Mike Schwank, et al.. (2025). Retrieving frozen ground surface temperature under the snowpack in the Arctic permafrost area from SMOS observations. ˜The œcryosphere. 19(9). 3571–3598.
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Ebtehaj, Ardeshir, et al.. (2024). Global estimates of L-band vegetation optical depth and soil permittivity of snow-covered boreal forests and permafrost landscape using SMAP satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 306. 114145–114145. 4 indexed citations
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Lemmetyinen, Juha, Mike Schwank, Anna Kontu, et al.. (2024). Retrieval of ground, snow, and forest parameters from space borne passive L band observations. A case study over Sodankylä, Finland. Remote Sensing of Environment. 306. 114143–114143. 5 indexed citations
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Schwank, Mike, Yiwen Zhou, Arnaud Mialon, et al.. (2024). Temperature dependence of L-band vegetation optical depth over the boreal forest from 2011 to 2022. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114470–114470. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yiwen, Mike Schwank, Mehmet Kurum, et al.. (2024). Microwave Emission Model for Layered Vegetation (MEMLV): An Exemplary Study for Coniferous Forests From P- to Ka-Band. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–20. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Donghai, Xin Li, Tianjie Zhao, et al.. (2020). Impact of Soil Permittivity and Temperature Profile on L-Band Microwave Emission of Frozen Soil. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(5). 4080–4093. 19 indexed citations
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Su, Zhongbo, Jun Wen, Yijian Zeng, et al.. (2020). Multiyear in-situ L-band microwave radiometry of land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Data. 7(1). 317–317. 24 indexed citations
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Houtz, Derek, Reza Naderpour, Mike Schwank, & Konrad Steffen. (2019). Snow wetness and density retrieved from L-band satellite radiometer observations over a site in the West Greenland ablation zone. Remote Sensing of Environment. 235. 111361–111361. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaojun, Amen Al‐Yaari, Mike Schwank, et al.. (2019). Compared performances of SMOS-IC soil moisture and vegetation optical depth retrievals based on Tau-Omega and Two-Stream microwave emission models. Remote Sensing of Environment. 236. 111502–111502. 73 indexed citations
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Schwank, Mike & Reza Naderpour. (2018). Snow Density and Ground Permittivity Retrieved from L-Band Radiometry: Melting Effects. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 10. 1245–1248. 1 indexed citations
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Zheng, Donghai, Xin Wang, R. van der Velde, et al.. (2018). Impact of surface roughness, vegetation opacity and soil permittivity on L-band microwave emission and soil moisture retrieval in the third pole environment. Remote Sensing of Environment. 209. 633–647. 46 indexed citations
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Proksch, Martin, C. Mätzler, Andreas Wiesmann, et al.. (2015). MEMLS3&a: Microwave Emission Model of Layered Snowpacks adapted to include backscattering. Geoscientific model development. 8(8). 2611–2626. 49 indexed citations
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Völksch, Ingo, Mike Schwank, Manfred Stähli, & Christian Mätzler. (2015). Relief Effects on the L-Band Emission of a Bare Soil. Remote Sensing. 7(11). 14327–14359. 6 indexed citations
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Jonard, François, Lutz Weihermüller, Mike Schwank, et al.. (2015). Estimation of Hydraulic Properties of a Sandy Soil Using Ground-Based Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 53(6). 3095–3109. 34 indexed citations
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Dimitrov, Marin, François Jonard, Khan Zaib Jadoon, et al.. (2012). New improved algorithm for sky calibration of L-band radiometers JÜLBARA and ELBARA II. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1–4. 3 indexed citations
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Völksch, Ingo, Mike Schwank, & Christian Mätzler. (2011). L-Band Reflectivity of a Furrowed Soil Surface. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 49(6). 1957–1966. 6 indexed citations
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Schwank, Mike, et al.. (2005). Laboratory Characterization of Capacitance Sensors for Measuring Soil Water Content. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations
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Schwank, Mike, et al.. (2004). Air-to-Soil Transition Model. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2004. 2 indexed citations

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