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Researcher · Institute of Navigation · United States

Klaus Legat

Klaus Legat publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Historical Geography and Cartography and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage.

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World rank
#3,151,735
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#897,825
of 1,627,098
Works
61
Citations
509
Citations per work
8.3
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 38% in Aerospace Engineering
Klaus Legat

What does Klaus Legat research?

Klaus Legat's work is mostly in Engineering (42%), Environmental Science (10%), Social Sciences (10%).

Physical Sciences: 37 works · 60.9% of their workEngineering: 25 works · 41.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 17 works · 27.5% of their workOcean Engineering: 7 works · 11.7% of their workBuilding and Construction: 2 works · 2.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 10.0% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 works · 10.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 9.2% of their workGeology: 6 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 29.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 10.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 10.0% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 6 works · 10.0% of their workTHEIR WORKKlaus Legat61works
Physical Sciences61%Social Sciences10%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2541.7%
    2. Environmental Science610.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences69.2%
  2. Everything else1829.1%
    1. Social Sciences610.0%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering28% of their works
  2. 2Ocean Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development10% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Geology9% of their works
  6. 6Building and Construction2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Klaus Legat's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Remote Sensing, Forest Carbon Stocks, Geodesy, Lidar Remote Sensing, Map Projections, Photogrammetry and UAV.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Terrestrial Laser Scanning232 topics
  2. Remote Sensing202 topics
  3. Forest Carbon Stocks121 topic
  4. Geodesy121 topic
  5. Lidar Remote Sensing121 topic
  6. Map Projections121 topic
  7. Photogrammetry111 topic
  8. UAV111 topic
  9. Inertial Navigation Systems101 topic
  10. Sensor Fusion101 topic
  11. Geometric Processing91 topic
  12. Satellite Imagery91 topic
  13. GNSS81 topic
  14. Global Navigation Satellite Systems81 topic
  15. Radar Propagation41 topic
  16. Refractivity Estimation41 topic
  17. BIM-GIS Integration31 topic
  18. CityGML31 topic

Where does Klaus Legat work?

Klaus Legat's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Navigation, United States.

How many publications and citations does Klaus Legat have?

OpenAlex counts 61 works and 509 citations for Klaus Legat, an h-index of 8, ranking #3,151,735 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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