Xavier Blaes

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Xavier Blaes is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Blaes has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Environmental Engineering and 6 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xavier Blaes's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (6 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (6 papers). Xavier Blaes is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (6 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (6 papers). Xavier Blaes collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and Mali. Xavier Blaes's co-authors include Pierre Defourny, P. Defourny, Pierre Traoré, Pierre Defourny, Philippe V. Baret, Thomas Kemper, Daniele Ehrlich, Pierre Soille, A.G.T. Schut and Huadong Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and International Journal of Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Blaes

22 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

A Global Human Settlement Layer From Optical HR/VHR RS Data: Concept and First Results

2013 344 citations Martino Pesaresi, Huadong Guo et al. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xavier Blaes Belgium	11	518	436	434	309	242	22	1.1k
W. Bijker Netherlands	23	629 1.2×	495 1.1×	507 1.2×	282 0.9×	401 1.7×	67	1.4k
Andreas Schmitt Germany	19	421 0.8×	541 1.2×	427 1.0×	333 1.1×	334 1.4×	76	1.5k
Jiantao Liu China	13	519 1.0×	542 1.2×	484 1.1×	249 0.8×	262 1.1×	30	1.2k
Tobias Ullmann Germany	18	408 0.8×	310 0.7×	301 0.7×	294 1.0×	151 0.6×	65	1.1k
Raphaël d’Andrimont Italy	15	683 1.3×	414 0.9×	340 0.8×	222 0.7×	224 0.9×	38	1.2k
Monica Pepe Italy	20	489 0.9×	263 0.6×	328 0.8×	375 1.2×	211 0.9×	66	1.5k
Qiong Hu China	19	743 1.4×	577 1.3×	290 0.7×	383 1.2×	194 0.8×	50	1.3k
Julian Zeidler Germany	15	348 0.7×	632 1.4×	440 1.0×	218 0.7×	180 0.7×	39	1.2k
Ali Akbar Matkan Iran	20	457 0.9×	385 0.9×	436 1.0×	224 0.7×	75 0.3×	67	1.3k
Cristina Gómez Spain	16	1.1k 2.0×	788 1.8×	489 1.1×	368 1.2×	329 1.4×	46	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xavier Blaes

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Schut, A.G.T., Pierre Traoré, Xavier Blaes, & R.A. de By. (2018). Assessing yield and fertilizer response in heterogeneous smallholder fields with UAVs and satellites. Field Crops Research. 221. 98–107. 85 indexed citations

Traoré, Pierre, et al.. (2018). Estimating smallholder crops production at village level from Sentinel-2 time series in Mali's cotton belt. Remote Sensing of Environment. 216. 647–657. 171 indexed citations

Sannier, Christophe, Baudouin Desclée, Heinz Gallaun, et al.. (2017). Sentinel-based Evolution of Copernicus Land Services on Continental and Global Scale. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations

Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2017). Estimate yield at parcel level from S2 time serie in sub-Saharan smallholder farming systems. 7. 1–7. 12 indexed citations

Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2016). Quantifying Fertilizer Application Response Variability with VHR Satellite NDVI Time Series in a Rainfed Smallholder Cropping System of Mali. Remote Sensing. 8(6). 531–531. 24 indexed citations

Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2016). Yield Mapping for Different Crops in Sudano-Sahelian Smallholder Farming Systems: Results Based on Metric Worldview and Decametric SPOT-5 Take5 Time Series. University of Twente Research Information. 740. 18. 1 indexed citations

Kemper, Thomas, et al.. (2013). On the feasibility to map the settlements of Brazil with the CBERS-2B satellite. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 56. 78–82. 2 indexed citations

Pesaresi, Martino, Huadong Guo, Xavier Blaes, et al.. (2013). A Global Human Settlement Layer From Optical HR/VHR RS Data: Concept and First Results. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 6(5). 2102–2131. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

Ehrlich, Daniele, Thomas Kemper, Xavier Blaes, & Pierre Soille. (2012). Extracting building stock information from optical satellite imagery for mapping earthquake exposure and its vulnerability. Natural Hazards. 68(1). 79–95. 28 indexed citations

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Martino, Pesaresi, Xavier Blaes, Daniele Ehrlich, et al.. (2012). A Global Human Settlement Layer from optical high resolution imagery - Concept and first results. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 5 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier & Pierre Defourny. (2008). Characterizing Bidimensional Roughness of Agricultural Soil Surfaces for SAR Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 46(12). 4050–4061. 39 indexed citations

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Defourny, Pierre, Xavier Blaes, & Patrick Bogaert. (2007). Respective contribution of yield and area estimates to the error in crop production forecasting. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 2 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2007). Regional crop monitoring and discrimination based on simulated ENVISAT ASAR wide swath mode images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28(2). 371–393. 6 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2006). C-band polarimetric indexes for maize monitoring based on a validated radiative transfer model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 44(4). 791–800. 82 indexed citations

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Ferrazzoli, P., Leila Guerriero, Xavier Blaes, et al.. (2006). Influence of geometrical factors on crop backscattering at C-band. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 44(4). 778–790. 46 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2005). Efficiency of crop identification based on optical and SAR image time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 96(3-4). 352–365. 216 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2004). Bi-dimensional soil roughness measurement by photogrammetry for SAR modeling of agricultural surfaces. 6. 4038–4041. 5 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier & Pierre Defourny. (2003). Retrieving crop parameters based on tandem ERS 1/2 interferometric coherence images. Remote Sensing of Environment. 88(4). 374–385. 57 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (2002). Operational control with remote sensing of area-based subsidies in the framework of the common agricultural policy : what role for the SAR sensors ?. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 475. 87–92. 6 indexed citations

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Blaes, Xavier, et al.. (1999). InSAR Coherence for Crop Parameter Monitoring. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations

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