Yang Lan

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1000 citations indexed

About

Yang Lan is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Lan has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1000 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yang Lan's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (22 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (16 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (7 papers). Yang Lan is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (22 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (16 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (7 papers). Yang Lan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Slovenia. Yang Lan's co-authors include Hanwen Yu, Lifan Zhou, Hyongki Lee, Mengdao Xing, Junyi Xu, Zhihui Yuan, Ning Cao, Yan Shen, Anton Kos and Jiguo Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Sensors and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Yang Lan

27 papers receiving 988 citations

Hit Papers

Phase Unwrapping in InSAR : A Review 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Phase Unwrapping in InSAR : A Review
    2019 251 citations Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yang Lan China 15 709 295 267 189 111 28 1000
Zhihui Yuan China 21 575 0.8× 250 0.8× 203 0.8× 176 0.9× 132 1.2× 55 1.2k
Lifan Zhou China 12 416 0.6× 240 0.8× 121 0.5× 98 0.5× 94 0.8× 47 641
Marc Jäger Germany 15 769 1.1× 252 0.9× 238 0.9× 157 0.8× 114 1.0× 61 1.2k
Yunkai Deng China 20 976 1.4× 118 0.4× 218 0.8× 189 1.0× 164 1.5× 126 1.2k
Claudio Maria Prati Italy 16 905 1.3× 103 0.3× 216 0.8× 192 1.0× 161 1.5× 44 1.1k
J. Moreira Germany 17 681 1.0× 64 0.2× 311 1.2× 183 1.0× 94 0.8× 56 912
Jiming Guo China 20 937 1.3× 62 0.2× 115 0.4× 176 0.9× 120 1.1× 86 1.2k
Sina Montazeri Germany 10 408 0.6× 71 0.2× 145 0.5× 99 0.5× 120 1.1× 37 634
Gabriel Vasile France 15 672 0.9× 120 0.4× 228 0.9× 195 1.0× 94 0.8× 62 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Lan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Lan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yang Lan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yang Lan. The network helps show where Yang Lan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Lan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Hanwen, et al.. (2023). Weak NP-Hardness for the 2-D L 0 -Norm InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 20. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Lan, Yang, Hanwen Yu, Zhihui Yuan, & Mengdao Xing. (2022). Comparative Study of DEM Reconstruction Accuracy Between Single- and Multibaseline InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–11. 15 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yong Wang, Yang Lan, & Mengdao Xing. (2022). PG-BCNet : A Neural Network Combined with the PGNet and BCNet for 2-D InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 2470–2473. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan, Shengrong Gong, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). CANet: An Unsupervised Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Efficient Cluster-Analysis-Based Multibaseline InSAR Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 42 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). Deep Learning-Based Branch-Cut Method for InSAR Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 70 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, Yang Lan, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). Artificial Intelligence In Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Phase Unwrapping: A Review. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 9(2). 10–28. 67 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tingting, et al.. (2021). A study on historical location and evolution of Lop Nor in China with maps and DEM. Journal of Arid Land. 13(6). 639–652. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Hanwen, Ning Cao, Yang Lan, & Mengdao Xing. (2021). Multisystem Interferometric Data Fusion Framework: A Three-Step Sensing Approach. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(10). 8501–8509. 21 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lifan, Hanwen Yu, & Yang Lan. (2020). Deep Convolutional Neural Network-Based Robust Phase Gradient Estimation for Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping Using SAR Interferograms. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(7). 4653–4665. 99 indexed citations
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Lan, Yang, Junqi Guo, Rongfang Bie, Anton Umek, & Anton Kos. (2020). Machine Learning based Accuracy Prediction Model for Augmented Biofeedback in Precision Shooting. Procedia Computer Science. 174. 358–363. 1 indexed citations
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Lan, Yang, et al.. (2019). High-Resolution Elevation Model of Lop Nur Playa Derived from TanDEM-X. Journal of Sensors. 2019. 1–12. 4 indexed citations
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Qiao, Chen, et al.. (2019). Identifying Brain Abnormalities with Schizophrenia Based on a Hybrid Feature Selection Technology. Applied Sciences. 9(10). 2148–2148. 7 indexed citations
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Guo, Junqi, Yang Lan, Rongfang Bie, et al.. (2019). An XGBoost-based physical fitness evaluation model using advanced feature selection and Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization for wearable running monitoring. Computer Networks. 151. 166–180. 109 indexed citations
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Lan, Yang, Hanwen Yu, & Mengdao Xing. (2019). A Convex Hull and Cluster-Analysis Based Fast Large-Scale Phase Unwrapping Method for Multibaseline Sar Interferograms. 1765–1768. 6 indexed citations
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Yu, Hanwen, et al.. (2019). Large-Scale Multibaseline Phase Unwrapping: Interferogram Segmentation Based on Multibaseline Envelope-Sparsity Theorem. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(11). 9308–9322. 33 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianlai, Mengdao Xing, Guang‐Cai Sun, et al.. (2018). Focusing of Medium-Earth-Orbit SAR Using an ASE-Velocity Model Based on MOCO Principle. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(7). 3963–3975. 21 indexed citations
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Yu, Hanwen, Yang Lan, Hyongki Lee, & Ning Cao. (2018). 2-D Phase Unwrapping Using Minimum Infinity-Norm. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 15(12). 1887–1891. 33 indexed citations

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