Ulrich Thoennessen

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ulrich Thoennessen is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulrich Thoennessen has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 25 papers in Ocean Engineering and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ulrich Thoennessen's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (34 papers), Automated Road and Building Extraction (16 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (15 papers). Ulrich Thoennessen is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (34 papers), Automated Road and Building Extraction (16 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (15 papers). Ulrich Thoennessen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Norway and United Kingdom. Ulrich Thoennessen's co-authors include Uwe Soergel, Christoph Strecha, Luc Van Gool, Pascal Fua, Uwe Stilla, Antje Thiele, Erich Cadario, Eckart Michaelsen, Karsten Schulz and Andreas Brenner and has published in prestigious journals such as ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition Letters and Information Fusion.

In The Last Decade

Ulrich Thoennessen

42 papers receiving 985 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.

On benchmarking camera calibration and multi-view stereo for high resolution imagery

2008 533 citations Christoph Strecha, Luc Van Gool et al. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulrich Thoennessen Germany	12	618	503	325	234	215	50	1.1k
Caroline Baillard France	10	191 0.3×	486 1.0×	394 1.2×	193 0.8×	193 0.9×	23	888
San Jiang China	18	463 0.7×	461 0.9×	442 1.4×	136 0.6×	54 0.3×	47	973
Jaewook Jung Canada	10	102 0.2×	369 0.7×	582 1.8×	317 1.4×	326 1.5×	16	1.0k
Charles B. Theurer United States	6	170 0.3×	341 0.7×	118 0.4×	97 0.4×	102 0.5×	14	682
Marc Jäger Germany	15	769 1.2×	252 0.5×	238 0.7×	114 0.5×	180 0.8×	61	1.2k
Enric Meinhardt-Llopis France	11	118 0.2×	498 1.0×	121 0.4×	171 0.7×	93 0.4×	24	725
Shaobo Xia China	15	108 0.2×	198 0.4×	485 1.5×	55 0.2×	263 1.2×	36	917
U. Breitkopf Germany	5	73 0.1×	274 0.5×	424 1.3×	207 0.9×	224 1.0×	9	725
Zhen Ye China	14	222 0.4×	323 0.6×	171 0.5×	91 0.4×	139 0.6×	50	682
Jiann-Yeou Rau Taiwan	15	181 0.3×	146 0.3×	287 0.9×	128 0.5×	91 0.4×	42	667

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thoennessen, Ulrich, et al.. (2022). 3D-Modeling of urban structures. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 2 indexed citations

Jutzi, Boris, et al.. (2022). Segmentation of tree regions using data of a full-waveform laser. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 36. 57. 1 indexed citations

Jutzi, Boris, et al.. (2022). Classification of Elevation Data based on analytical versus trained Feature Values to determine Object Boundaries. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 315.

Essen, Helmut, et al.. (2011). Shunting yard management using millimeter wave radar. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–3. 1 indexed citations

Schulz, Karsten, Antje Thiele, Ulrich Thoennessen, Thomas Ritter, & Andreas Brenner. (2008). A New Concept for SAR Image Quality Assessment Realizing Bar Patterns in SAR Images. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–4. 5 indexed citations

Strecha, Christoph, et al.. (2008). On benchmarking camera calibration and multi-view stereo for high resolution imagery. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–8. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

Soergel, Uwe, Erich Cadario, Antje Thiele, & Ulrich Thoennessen. (2008). Feature Extraction and Visualization of Bridges Over Water From High-Resolution InSAR Data and One Orthophoto. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 1(2). 147–153. 41 indexed citations

Strecha, Christoph, et al.. (2007). Multi-View Stereo and LIDAR for Outdoor Scene Modelling. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 5 indexed citations

Soergel, Uwe, Ulrich Thoennessen, Andreas Brenner, & Uwe Stilla. (2006). High-resolution SAR data: new opportunities and challenges for the analysis of urban areas. IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar and Navigation. 153(3). 294–300. 58 indexed citations

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Soergel, Uwe, Eckart Michaelsen, Antje Thiele, & Ulrich Thoennessen. (2006). Radargrammetric Extraction of Building Features from High Resolution Multi-aspect SAR Data. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 3635–3638. 4 indexed citations

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Thiele, Antje, Ulrich Thoennessen, Erich Cadario, Karsten Schulz, & Uwe Soergel. (2006). Building recognition from multi-aspect high-resolution interferometric SAR data in urban areas. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6237. 623703–623703. 8 indexed citations

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Soergel, Uwe, Eckart Michaelsen, Ulrich Thoennessen, & Uwe Stilla. (2005). OPPORTUNITIES OF URBAN ANALYSIS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR DATA. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology. 29(4). 329–337. 1 indexed citations

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Stilla, Uwe, Uwe Soergel, Ulrich Thoennessen, & Andreas Brenner. (2005). POTENTIAL AND LIMITS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR DATA OF URBAN AREAS. 3 indexed citations

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Michaelsen, Eckart, Uwe Soergel, & Ulrich Thoennessen. (2005). Perceptual grouping for automatic detection of man-made structures in high-resolution SAR data. Pattern Recognition Letters. 27(4). 218–225. 39 indexed citations

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Schulz, Karsten, Uwe Soergel, Ulrich Thoennessen, & Uwe Stilla. (2004). Elimination of across-track phase components in airborne along-track interferometry data to improve object velocity measurements. 7. 4377–4379. 2 indexed citations

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Soergel, Uwe, Ulrich Thoennessen, & Uwe Stilla. (2003). Visibility analysis of man-made objects in SAR images. 120–124. 33 indexed citations

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Middelmann, Wolfgang & Ulrich Thoennessen. (2003). <title>Classification in high-resolution SAR data</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5095. 325–335.

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Schulz, Karsten, Uwe Soergel, & Ulrich Thoennessen. (2001). <title>Segmentation of moving objects in SAR-MTI data</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4382. 174–181. 5 indexed citations

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Soergel, Uwe, Ulrich Thoennessen, Hermann Groß, & Uwe Stilla. (2000). SEGMENTATION OF INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA FOR BUILDING DETECTION. 10 indexed citations

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Soergel, Uwe & Ulrich Thoennessen. (1999). <title>Automatic geocoding of high-value targets using structural image analysis and GIS data</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3871. 10–18. 1 indexed citations

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