Wouter Dorigo

26.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
202 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Wouter Dorigo is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Dorigo has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Environmental Engineering, 117 papers in Atmospheric Science and 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Wouter Dorigo's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (120 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (80 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (42 papers). Wouter Dorigo is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (120 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (80 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (42 papers). Wouter Dorigo collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Wouter Dorigo's co-authors include Wolfgang Wagner, Richard de Jeu, Alexander Gruber, Robert Parinussa, Robin van der Schalie, Diego G. Miralles, Niko E. C. Verhoest, Diego Fernández‐Prieto, Hylke E. Beck and Brecht Martens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Dorigo

189 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

2017 1.8k citations Diego G. Miralles, Robin van der Schalie et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

2011 878 citations Wouter Dorigo, Angelika Xaver et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

2012 594 citations Wouter Dorigo, Richard de Jeu et al. profile →
Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals

2011 543 citations Wouter Dorigo, Richard de Jeu et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
A review on reflective remote sensing and data assimilation techniques for enhanced agroecosystem modeling

2006 502 citations Wouter Dorigo et al. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation profile →
Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

2012 495 citations Richard de Jeu, Wouter Dorigo et al. profile →
Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: An intercomparison and validation study across Europe

2011 492 citations Luca Brocca, Wouter Dorigo et al. profile →
Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations

2014 473 citations Wouter Dorigo, Alexander Gruber et al. profile →
Global Automated Quality Control of In Situ Soil Moisture Data from the International Soil Moisture Network

2013 435 citations Wouter Dorigo, Angelika Xaver et al. profile →
Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

2019 424 citations Alexander Gruber, Tracy Scanlon et al. profile →
State of the Art in Large-Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

2013 380 citations Wouter Dorigo, Yann H. Kerr et al. profile →
Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

2021 235 citations Diego G. Miralles, Wouter Dorigo et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
GLEAM4: global land evaporation and soil moisture dataset at 0.1° resolution from 1980 to near present

2025 39 citations Diego G. Miralles, Wouter Dorigo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Dorigo Austria	59	8.7k	8.4k	6.8k	2.8k	2.1k	202	15.1k
Richard de Jeu Netherlands	55	9.2k 1.1×	9.4k 1.1×	8.6k 1.3×	3.9k 1.4×	2.1k 1.0×	162	17.3k
Zhongbo Su Netherlands	60	5.9k 0.7×	5.6k 0.7×	8.1k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	428	13.7k
Dara Entekhabi United States	76	9.9k 1.1×	12.3k 1.5×	10.3k 1.5×	4.3k 1.5×	1.2k 0.6×	406	19.9k
Jean‐Pierre Wigneron France	66	13.6k 1.6×	11.5k 1.4×	3.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	311	17.2k
Niko E. C. Verhoest Belgium	57	4.8k 0.6×	4.2k 0.5×	5.3k 0.8×	3.8k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	213	11.1k
Adriaan J. Teuling Netherlands	49	4.2k 0.5×	5.7k 0.7×	9.8k 1.4×	4.1k 1.4×	989 0.5×	190	13.8k
Yann H. Kerr France	75	17.9k 2.1×	14.7k 1.7×	5.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	4.1k 1.9×	389	23.1k
Thomas J. Jackson United States	75	15.7k 1.8×	12.2k 1.4×	3.5k 0.5×	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	350	19.2k
Luca Brocca Italy	64	7.5k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	5.1k 0.7×	4.8k 1.7×	764 0.4×	260	12.9k
Paul R. Houser United States	50	6.0k 0.7×	8.2k 1.0×	8.8k 1.3×	5.1k 1.8×	897 0.4×	171	16.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Dorigo

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

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Bathiany, Sebastian, Robbin Bastiaansen, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Resilience Monitoring and Early Warning Using Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Outlook. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 265–301. 11 indexed citations

Zappa, Luca, Jacopo Dari, Sara Modanesi, et al.. (2024). Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture. Agricultural Water Management. 295. 108773–108773. 12 indexed citations

Mialon, Arnaud, Philippe Richaume, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, et al.. (2024). Estimating the uncertainties of satellite derived soil moisture at global scale. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100147–100147. 4 indexed citations

Gruber, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Uncertainty estimation for a new exponential-filter-based long-term root-zone soil moisture dataset from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) surface observations. Geoscientific model development. 16(17). 4957–4976. 7 indexed citations

Forkel, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Effect of Socioeconomic Variables in Predicting Global Fire Ignition Occurrence. Fire. 6(5). 197–197. 7 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Fernández, Nemesio, Hassan Bazzi, Nicolas Baghdadi, et al.. (2023). Soil moisture estimates at 1 km resolution making a synergistic use of Sentinel data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(6). 1221–1242. 8 indexed citations

Forkel, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Estimating leaf moisture content at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(1). 39–68. 25 indexed citations

Schlaffer, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Inundation–Desiccation State Prediction for Salt Pans in the Western Pannonian Basin Using Remote Sensing, Groundwater, and Meteorological Data. Remote Sensing. 15(19). 4659–4659. 3 indexed citations

Forkel, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Assessing the sensitivity of multi-frequency passive microwave vegetation optical depth to vegetation properties. Biogeosciences. 20(5). 1027–1046. 17 indexed citations

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Gonsamo, Alemu, Philippe Ciais, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2021). Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect. Global Change Biology. 27(14). 3336–3349. 86 indexed citations

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Zappa, Luca, et al.. (2021). Detection and Quantification of Irrigation Water Amounts at 500 m Using Sentinel-1 Surface Soil Moisture. Remote Sensing. 13(9). 1727–1727. 36 indexed citations

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Jeu, Richard de, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Tracy Scanlon, et al.. (2021). The development and relevance of a consistent flagging strategy for multi-sensor satellite soil moisture climate records. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

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Xaver, Angelika, Luca Zappa, Isabella Pfeil, et al.. (2020). Evaluating the suitability of the consumer low-cost Parrot Flower Power soil moisture sensor for scientific environmental applications. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 9(1). 117–139. 16 indexed citations

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Schalie, Robin van der, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Andreas Colliander, et al.. (2020). Reconciling Flagging Strategies for Multi-Sensor Satellite Soil Moisture Climate Data Records. Remote Sensing. 12(20). 3439–3439. 11 indexed citations

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Brocca, Luca, Angelica Tarpanelli, Paolo Filippucci, et al.. (2018). How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 73. 752–766. 163 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, et al.. (2018). Emergent relationships on burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 5 indexed citations

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Brocca, Luca, Angelica Tarpanelli, Paolo Filippucci, et al.. (2018). How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting satellite soil moisture observations. Lirias (KU Leuven). 4558. 2 indexed citations

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Xaver, Angelika, et al.. (2017). Enhancement of the Automated Quality Control Procedures for the International Soil Moisture Network. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17021.

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Papagiannopoulou, Christina, Diego G. Miralles, Mathieu Depoorter, et al.. (2016). Discovering relationships in climate-vegetation dynamics using satellite data. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations

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Schneider, Thomas, et al.. (2004). Lakes, Eyes of the Landscape. A Long Term Concept for Landscape Monitoring on Lake Catchment Area Base. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations

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