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Calibration and Measurement Techniques

Calibration and Measurement Techniques is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the radiometric calibration and performance monitoring of satellite sensors, particularly in relation to reflective solar bands and emissivity measurements. It also covers topics such as on-orbit performance, thermometry, and absolute radiometric calibration for climate monitoring purposes.

  • Radiometric Calibration
  • On-Orbit Performance
  • Satellite Sensors
  • Reflective Solar Bands
  • Calibration Stability
  • Emissivity Measurements
  • Thermometry
  • Absolute Radiometric Calibration
  • Spectral Irradiance
  • Climate Monitoring
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Calibration and Measurement Techniques

Which countries lead Calibration and Measurement Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (766 and 497 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 766 works
  2. 2 United States 497 works
  3. 3 Russia 188 works
  4. 4 France 146 works
  5. 5 Germany 131 works
  6. 6 Italy 92 works
  7. 7 Japan 74 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 70 works
  9. 9 India 67 works
  10. 10 Spain 50 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 36.8%United States: 23.9%Russia: 9.0%France: 7.0%6 others listed: 23.3%37%largest
China766 · 36.8%United States497 · 23.9%Russia188 · 9.0%France146 · 7.0%6 others listed484 · 23.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Calibration and Measurement Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Calibration and Measurement Techniques research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 141 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 64 works
  3. 3 National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States 51 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 47 works
  5. 5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works
  6. 6 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 21 works
  8. 8 Science Systems and Applications (United States)United States 21 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 18 works
  10. 10 Physikalisch-Technische BundesanstaltGermany 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Calibration and Measurement Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Calibration and Measurement Techniques include M. Weber, Kenji Watanabe and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Douglas Scott Canada 172k citations
  5. 5 Duncan A. Brown United States 163k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Calibration and Measurement Techniques?

The most cited paper in Calibration and Measurement Techniques is "Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices" (ALFREDO R. HUETE, Kamel Didan, Tomoaki Miura et al., 2002), with 9,991 citations. Next come "SGTE data for pure elements" (5,020) and "Optical Constants of Water in the 200-nm to 200-μm Wavelength Region" (4,513).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices ALFREDO R. HUETE, Kamel Didan, Tomoaki Miura et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Nov 2002 9,991
2 SGTE data for pure elements Alan Thomas Dinsdale · Calphad Oct 1991 5,020
3 Optical Constants of Water in the 200-nm to 200-μm Wavelength Region George M. Hale, Marvin R. Querry · Applied Optics Mar 1973 4,513
4 Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction E. L. Fitzpatrick · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access 1999 3,292
5 Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors Gyanesh Chander, Brian L. Markham, Dennis L. Helder · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 27 Feb 2009 3,131
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Where is Calibration and Measurement Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Calibration and Measurement Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lanham, Greenbelt and Pasadena.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 253 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 73 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 51 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 50 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 50 works
  6. 6 HefeiChina 41 works
  7. 7 GreenbeltUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 37 works
  9. 9 ChangchunChina 33 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LanhamUS · 20.8 works776×
  2. GreenbeltUS · 39.7 works165×
  3. PasadenaUS · 26.6 works24×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Calibration and Measurement Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Calibration and Measurement Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Electr…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Beihang UniversityUniversity of Chines…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 66.832.7%4.4×11 +119.9%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 65.031.3%3.0×12 +29.4%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64.111.5%8.7×32 +73.1%
4Beihang UniversityChina 56.220.6%6.5×16 +29.8%
5California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 53.28.5%29.2×23 -21.2%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 53.216.9%5.0×18 -2.4%
7University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 48.86.1%12.2×12 +4.4%
8University of ArizonaUnited States 47.35.0%11.0×16 +26.3%
9Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 42.113.8%10.2×9 +26.1%
10Beijing Normal UniversityChina 41.218.2%4.8×8 -0.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Calibration and Measurement Techniques, country by country

Is Calibration and Measurement Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Calibration and Measurement Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Calibration and Measurement Techniques0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Calibration and Measurement Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Calibration and Measurement Techniques10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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