T. Letoan

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 880 citations indexed

About

T. Letoan is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, T. Letoan has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 880 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 6 papers in Environmental Engineering and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in T. Letoan's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (7 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers). T. Letoan is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (7 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (3 papers). T. Letoan collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. T. Letoan's co-authors include Jean-Michel Martínez, M.C. Dobson, André Beaudoin, Eric S. Kasischke, F.T. Ulaby, Norman L. Christensen, S. Quegan, Lars M. H. Ulander, Jérôme Chave and Mathew Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

T. Letoan

12 papers receiving 813 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Dependence of radar backscatter on coniferous forest biomass

1992 535 citations M.C. Dobson, F.T. Ulaby et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
T. Letoan France	6	593	368	300	253	155	13	880
Dan Johan Weydahl Norway	15	505 0.9×	362 1.0×	190 0.6×	103 0.4×	231 1.5×	46	836
F.J. Ahern Canada	13	453 0.8×	168 0.5×	524 1.7×	388 1.5×	143 0.9×	48	881
D. S. Simonett United States	14	610 1.0×	413 1.1×	248 0.8×	267 1.1×	283 1.8×	64	1.0k
J.J. van der Sanden Canada	19	579 1.0×	213 0.6×	564 1.9×	453 1.8×	430 2.8×	50	1.3k
K. Kovacs United States	7	389 0.7×	66 0.2×	292 1.0×	181 0.7×	157 1.0×	14	618
Zhanmang Liao China	14	344 0.6×	103 0.3×	417 1.4×	454 1.8×	119 0.8×	31	796
Chandra D. Holifield Collins United States	14	315 0.5×	127 0.3×	163 0.5×	181 0.7×	227 1.5×	22	619
Francisco Grings Argentina	14	299 0.5×	112 0.3×	249 0.8×	382 1.5×	209 1.3×	72	717
Anthea L. Mitchell Australia	11	428 0.7×	100 0.3×	585 1.9×	336 1.3×	79 0.5×	27	830
Amy Woodget United Kingdom	10	440 0.7×	70 0.2×	432 1.4×	191 0.8×	67 0.4×	17	783

Countries citing papers authored by T. Letoan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of T. Letoan

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Tran, Cuong Q., et al.. (2016). Measuring ground subsidence in Hanoi city by radar interferometry. Science and Technology Development Journal. 19(2). 122–129.

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Saatchi, Sassan, Lars M. H. Ulander, Mathew Williams, et al.. (2012). Forest biomass and the science of inventory from space. Nature Climate Change. 2(12). 826–827. 15 indexed citations

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Scipal, Klaus, Jérôme Chave, Jørgen Dall, et al.. (2010). The BIOMASS mission — An ESA Earth Explorer candidate to measure the BIOMASS of the earth's forests. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 52–55. 24 indexed citations

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Martínez, Jean-Michel & T. Letoan. (2007). Mapping of flood dynamics and spatial distribution of vegetation in the Amazon floodplain using multitemporal SAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 108(3). 209–223. 277 indexed citations

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Apan, Armando, et al.. (2007). Rice monitoring using ENVISAT-ASAR data: preliminary results of a case study in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland). 12 indexed citations

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Skriver, Henning, et al.. (2004). Application of Synthetic Aperture Radar Polarimetry, Final Report (POLSAR/FR). Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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Mognard, N. M., et al.. (2004). Comparison of AMSR-E and SSM/I snow parameter retrievals over the Ob river basin. 6. 3713–3713. 1 indexed citations

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Ulander, Lars M. H. & T. Letoan. (2003). Bragg-scattering resonance in VHF-SAR forestry data. 4. 1886–1888. 3 indexed citations

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Quegan, S., Jian Yu, Heiko Balzter, & T. Letoan. (2002). Combining unsupervised and knowledge-based methods in large-scale forest classification. 1. 426–428. 3 indexed citations

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Quegan, S., Jiong Yu, & T. Letoan. (2002). Iterated multi-channel filtering of SAR images. 2. 657–659. 6 indexed citations

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Souyris, Jean‐Claude, T. Letoan, Nicolas Floury, et al.. (1996). Microwave Remote Sensing of Natural Targets: Theory and Experiment. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 112(10). 1536–1537. 2 indexed citations

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Dobson, M.C., F.T. Ulaby, T. Letoan, et al.. (1992). Dependence of radar backscatter on coniferous forest biomass. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 30(2). 412–415. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zagolski, F., Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry, É. Mougin, et al.. (1992). RETRIEVAL OF BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS WITH AVIRIS AND ISM - THE LANDES FOREST, SOUTH WEST FRANCE -. 1 indexed citations

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