Minghan Cheng

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 825 citations indexed

About

Minghan Cheng is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Minghan Cheng has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 825 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Minghan Cheng's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (24 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (9 papers). Minghan Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (24 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (9 papers). Minghan Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Spain and Saudi Arabia. Minghan Cheng's co-authors include Xiuliang Jin, Xiyun Jiao, Chenwei Nie, Xun Yu, Mingchao Shao, Yi Bai, Shuaibing Liu, Lei Shi, Zixu Wang and Siyu Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Frontiers in Plant Science and International Journal of Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Minghan Cheng

34 papers receiving 806 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.

Estimation of soil moisture content under high maize canopy coverage from UAV multimodal data and machine learning

2022 129 citations Minghan Cheng, Xiyun Jiao et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Minghan Cheng China	14	477	366	294	239	112	34	825
Jie Dong China	15	479 1.0×	234 0.6×	138 0.5×	271 1.1×	197 1.8×	33	780
Qingling Wu China	6	425 0.9×	297 0.8×	164 0.6×	282 1.2×	125 1.1×	8	705
Jichong Han China	13	617 1.3×	507 1.4×	171 0.6×	259 1.1×	180 1.6×	29	990
K. R. Manjunath India	19	560 1.2×	250 0.7×	222 0.8×	267 1.1×	235 2.1×	46	966
Jihua Meng China	18	736 1.5×	324 0.9×	329 1.1×	463 1.9×	226 2.0×	47	1.1k
Yanghui Kang United States	12	519 1.1×	395 1.1×	200 0.7×	281 1.2×	95 0.8×	14	810
Jingfeng Huang China	9	470 1.0×	291 0.8×	210 0.7×	186 0.8×	174 1.6×	18	833
Rangaswamy Madugundu Saudi Arabia	14	269 0.6×	241 0.7×	198 0.7×	210 0.9×	44 0.4×	48	636
Abdelraouf M. Ali Egypt	13	274 0.6×	214 0.6×	235 0.8×	152 0.6×	66 0.6×	38	634

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheng, Minghan, Xiuliang Jin, Chenwei Nie, et al.. (2025). Remote sensing-based maize growth process parameters revel the maize yield: a comparison of field- and regional-scale. BMC Plant Biology. 25(1). 154–154. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yadong, Chenwei Nie, Liang Li, et al.. (2025). Maize tasseling date forecast from canopy height time series estimated by UAV LiDAR data. The Crop Journal. 13(3). 975–990. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Minghan, Josep Peñuelas, Matthew F. McCabe, et al.. (2025). A framework of crop water productivity estimation from UAV observations: A case study of summer maize. Agricultural Water Management. 317. 109621–109621. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Hang, et al.. (2025). A Comparative Analysis of Different Algorithms for Estimating Evapotranspiration with Limited Observation Variables: A Case Study in Beijing, China. Remote Sensing. 17(4). 636–636. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Minghan, et al.. (2024). Combination of Multiple Variables and Machine Learning for Regional Cropland Water and Carbon Fluxes Estimation: A Case Study in the Haihe River Basin. Remote Sensing. 16(17). 3280–3280. 5 indexed citations

Zain, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Estimation of Rice Protein Content Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Hyperspectral Imaging. Agronomy. 14(11). 2479–2479. 2 indexed citations

Fan, Kuang–Chao, Lin Meng, Chenwei Nie, et al.. (2024). Synergistic use of stay-green traits and UAV multispectral information in improving maize yield estimation with the random forest regression algorithm. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 229. 109724–109724. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Zhangxin, Haoran Ju, Qiyun Ma, et al.. (2024). Rice Yield Estimation Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning: A Case Study of Jiangsu, China. Agriculture. 14(4). 638–638. 11 indexed citations

Shao, Mingchao, Chenwei Nie, Aijun Zhang, et al.. (2023). Quantifying effect of maize tassels on LAI estimation based on multispectral imagery and machine learning methods. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 211. 108029–108029. 16 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiao, Dameng Yin, Xun Yu, et al.. (2023). Monitoring Maize Leaf Spot Disease Using Multi-Source UAV Imagery. Drones. 7(11). 650–650. 4 indexed citations

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Meng, Lin, Dameng Yin, Minghan Cheng, et al.. (2023). Improved Crop Biomass Algorithm with Piecewise Function (iCBA-PF) for Maize Using Multi-Source UAV Data. Drones. 7(4). 254–254. 11 indexed citations

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Bai, Yi, Liangsheng Shi, Yuanyuan Zha, et al.. (2023). Estimating leaf age of maize seedlings using UAV-based RGB and multispectral images. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 215. 108349–108349. 11 indexed citations

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Zain, Muhammad, Zhuanyun Si, Haijiao Ma, et al.. (2023). Developing a tactical irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer management strategy for winter wheat through drip irrigation. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1231294–1231294. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Tianao, Wei Zhang, Shuyu Wu, et al.. (2023). Retrieving rice (Oryza sativa L.) net photosynthetic rate from UAV multispectral images based on machine learning methods. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 1088499–1088499. 11 indexed citations

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Cheng, Minghan, Dameng Yin, Wenbin Wu, et al.. (2023). A review of remote sensing estimation of crop water productivity: definition, methodology, scale, and evaluation. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 44(16). 5033–5068. 9 indexed citations

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Yu, Xun, Dameng Yin, Chenwei Nie, et al.. (2022). Maize tassel area dynamic monitoring based on near-ground and UAV RGB images by U-Net model. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 203. 107477–107477. 32 indexed citations

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Cheng, Minghan, Xiyun Jiao, Lei Shi, et al.. (2022). High-resolution crop yield and water productivity dataset generated using random forest and remote sensing. Scientific Data. 9(1). 641–641. 42 indexed citations

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Cheng, Minghan, Xiyun Jiao, Yadong Liu, et al.. (2022). Estimation of soil moisture content under high maize canopy coverage from UAV multimodal data and machine learning. Agricultural Water Management. 264. 107530–107530. 129 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Minghan, Xiyun Jiao, Binbin Li, et al.. (2021). Long time series of daily evapotranspiration in China based on the SEBAL model and multisource images and validation. Earth system science data. 13(8). 3995–4017. 53 indexed citations

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Cheng, Minghan, et al.. (2020). Temporal and spatial distribution characteristics of irrigation water requirement for main crops in the plain area of Hebei Province*. Irrigation and Drainage. 69(5). 1051–1062. 13 indexed citations

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