Yu Morishita

1.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
46 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yu Morishita is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Geophysics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Morishita has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 27 papers in Geophysics and 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Yu Morishita's work include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (26 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (25 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (10 papers). Yu Morishita is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (26 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (25 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (10 papers). Yu Morishita collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and Germany. Yu Morishita's co-authors include Tomokazu Kobayashi, Andrew Hooper, Hiroshi Yarai, John R. Elliott, Milan Lazecký, Tim Wright, Jonathan Weiss, Ramon F. Hanssen, Satoshi Fujiwara and Pablo J. González and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Yu Morishita

42 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor

2020 246 citations Yu Morishita, Milan Lazecký et al. Remote Sensing profile →
LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity

2020 176 citations Milan Lazecký, Karsten Spaans et al. Remote Sensing profile →
High‐Resolution Surface Velocities and Strain for Anatolia From Sentinel‐1 InSAR and GNSS Data

2020 160 citations Jonathan Weiss, R. J. Walters et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Morishita Japan	15	662	656	320	219	166	46	1.2k
Giuseppe Solaro Italy	21	855 1.3×	549 0.8×	334 1.0×	258 1.2×	122 0.7×	56	1.3k
F. Albino United Kingdom	19	762 1.2×	562 0.9×	325 1.0×	305 1.4×	107 0.6×	45	1.3k
Heresh Fattahi United States	17	598 0.9×	917 1.4×	346 1.1×	405 1.8×	297 1.8×	39	1.5k
Olivier Cavalié France	14	711 1.1×	468 0.7×	177 0.6×	255 1.2×	171 1.0×	26	1.1k
R. B. Lohman United States	23	1.3k 1.9×	527 0.8×	245 0.8×	252 1.2×	195 1.2×	56	1.8k
Rémi Michel France	14	672 1.0×	504 0.8×	226 0.7×	389 1.8×	122 0.7×	21	1.3k
Ivana Zinno Italy	17	416 0.6×	901 1.4×	421 1.3×	391 1.8×	266 1.6×	72	1.4k
Karsten Spaans United Kingdom	12	519 0.8×	905 1.4×	474 1.5×	412 1.9×	206 1.2×	23	1.4k
Raffaele Castaldo Italy	16	595 0.9×	379 0.6×	307 1.0×	197 0.9×	61 0.4×	45	1000
Pietro Tizzani Italy	22	1.0k 1.5×	775 1.2×	504 1.6×	378 1.7×	164 1.0×	72	1.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Takada, Youichiro, et al.. (2025). Improved application of the split-spectrum method to L-band interferograms for ionospheric phase mitigation: a practical recipe. Earth Planets and Space. 77(1).

Morishita, Yu, et al.. (2024). Characterization of Systematic Bias in ALOS-2 Multilooked Interferograms. 10703–10706.

Morishita, Yu, et al.. (2023). Nationwide urban ground deformation in Japan for 15 years detected by ALOS and Sentinel-1. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 10(1). 8 indexed citations

Misra, Prakhar, et al.. (2023). Detecting Precursor Onset of Acceleration Based on Temporal Saliency and Non-Parametric Spatial Clustering of Ipta Displacements. 3034–3037.

Ebmeier, S. K., et al.. (2022). Nearly Three Centuries of Lava Flow Subsidence at Timanfaya, Lanzarote. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(10). 8 indexed citations

Rigby, Richard, Milan Lazecký, S. K. Ebmeier, et al.. (2021). COMET_VolcDB: COMET Volcanic and Magmatic Deformation Portal (2021 beta release). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Lazecký, Milan, C. Scott Watson, Yu Morishita, et al.. (2021). Sentinel-1 InSAR data by LiCSAR system. 4 indexed citations

Grandin, Raphaël, et al.. (2021). What Triggers Caldera Ring‐Fault Subsidence at Ambrym Volcano? Insights From the 2015 Dike Intrusion and Eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(6). 14 indexed citations

Lazecký, Milan, Karsten Spaans, Pablo J. González, et al.. (2020). LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2430–2430. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morishita, Yu, Milan Lazecký, Tim Wright, et al.. (2020). LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor. Remote Sensing. 12(3). 424–424. 246 indexed citations breakdown →

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Riva, Riccardo, Wim Simons, Julie D. Pietrzak, et al.. (2018). Tsunami potential of the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake from GNSS constrained source mechanism. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 2 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Tomokazu, Yu Morishita, & Hiroshi Munekane. (2018). First detection of precursory ground inflation of a small phreatic eruption by InSAR. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 491. 244–254. 45 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Tomokazu, Yu Morishita, & Hiroshi Yarai. (2017). SAR-revealed slip partitioning on a bending fault plane for the 2014 Northern Nagano earthquake at the northern Itoigawa–Shizuoka tectonic line. Tectonophysics. 733. 85–99. 18 indexed citations

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Morishita, Yu. (2016). Reduction of Spatially Long Wavelength Noises in SAR Interferograms Using GNSS Data. 62(2). 100. 3 indexed citations

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Yarai, Hiroshi, Tomokazu Kobayashi, Yu Morishita, Mikio Tobita, & S. Yamada. (2016). Coseismic and postseismic deformation and a fault model of the 2014 Northern Nagano Prefecture Earthquake. Japan Geoscience Union. 1 indexed citations

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Yarai, Hiroshi, Tomokazu Kobayashi, Yu Morishita, et al.. (2016). Crustal deformation of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake. Japan Geoscience Union. 2016. 3. 2 indexed citations

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Yarai, Hiroshi, Tomokazu Kobayashi, Yu Morishita, S. Yamada, & Mikio Tobita. (2015). Crustal deformation derived from the northern Nagano prefecture earthquake detected by InSAR analysis using ALOS-2 data. Japan Geoscience Union. 2 indexed citations

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Morishita, Yu & Ramon F. Hanssen. (2014). Temporal Decorrelation in L-, C-, and X-band Satellite Radar Interferometry for Pasture on Drained Peat Soils. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 53(2). 1096–1104. 85 indexed citations

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Shinohara, Hisaaki, Genji Saito, & Yu Morishita. (2009). Degassing of CO2-H2O from Miyakejima Volcano: Insights from Melt Inclusion Compositions and Volcanic Gas Emissions. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Kita, N. T., et al.. (2005). Source Magma Compositions for Basalt Clasts of Lunar Meteorite EET 87521 in Connection to KREEP. Meteoritics and Planetary Science Supplement. 40. 5196. 1 indexed citations

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