Most cited papers in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
What are the most cited papers in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques?
The most cited paper in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques is "The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission" (T. G. Farr, P. A. Rosen, E.R. Caro et al., 2007), with 8,992 citations. Next come "Permanent scatterers in SAR interferometry" (5,555) and "A new algorithm for surface deformation monitoring based on small baseline differential SAR interferograms" (5,287).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 626 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission T. G. Farr, P. A. Rosen, E.R. Caro et al. · Reviews of Geophysics | 19 May 2007 | 8,992 |
| 2 | Permanent scatterers in SAR interferometry A. Ferretti, C. Prati, F. Rocca · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2001 | 5,555 |
| 3 | A new algorithm for surface deformation monitoring based on small baseline differential SAR interferograms P. Berardino, G. Fornaro, Riccardo Lanari et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Nov 2002 | 5,287 |
| 4 | The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Dara Entekhabi et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE | May 2010 | 3,855 |
| 5 | A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar Alberto Moreira, Pau Prats, Marwan Younis et al. · IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | Mar 2013 | 2,832 |
| 6 | Synthetic aperture radar interferometry P. A. Rosen, S. Hensley, Ian R. Joughin et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE | Mar 2000 | 2,693 |
| 7 | A review of target decomposition theorems in radar polarimetry S.R. Cloude, Éric Pottier · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Mar 1996 | 2,547 |
| 8 | Nonlinear subsidence rate estimation using permanent scatterers in differential SAR interferometry A. Ferretti, C. Prati, F. Rocca · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2000 | 2,486 |
| 9 | An entropy based classification scheme for land applications of polarimetric SAR S.R. Cloude, Éric Pottier · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1997 | 2,475 |
| 10 | A three-component scattering model for polarimetric SAR data A. Freeman, Stephen L. Durden · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | May 1998 | 2,400 |
| 11 | Radar interferogram filtering for geophysical applications R. M. Goldstein, Charles Werner · Geophysical Research Letters | Nov 1998 | 2,236 |
| 12 | GMES Sentinel-1 mission Ramón Torres et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 18 Feb 2012 | 2,233 |
| 13 | The displacement field of the Landers earthquake mapped by radar interferometry D. Massonnet, Marc Rossi, César Carmona et al. · Nature | Jul 1993 | 2,219 |
| 14 | Synthetic aperture radar interferometry Richard Bamler, Philipp Hartl · Inverse Problems | Aug 1998 | 2,095 |
| 15 | Uniqueness of ab initio shape determination in small-angle scattering В. В. Волков, Dmitri I. Svergun · Journal of Applied Crystallography | 16 Apr 2003 | 1,975 |
| 16 | A New Algorithm for Processing Interferometric Data-Stacks: SqueeSAR A. Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, F. Novali et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 13 May 2011 | 1,895 |
| 17 | The shuttle radar topography mission—a new class of digital elevation models acquired by spaceborne radar Bernhard Rabus, Michael Eineder, Achim Roth et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Feb 2003 | 1,845 |
| 18 | A new method for measuring deformation on volcanoes and other natural terrains using InSAR persistent scatterers Andrew J. Hooper, Howard A. Zebker, Paul E. Segall et al. · Geophysical Research Letters | 9 Dec 2004 | 1,841 |
| 19 | Soil moisture retrieval from space: the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission Yann H. Kerr, Philippe Waldteufel, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2001 | 1,767 |
| 20 | TanDEM-X: A Satellite Formation for High-Resolution SAR Interferometry Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira, Hauke Fiedler et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Nov 2007 | 1,705 |
| 21 | Mapping small elevation changes over large areas: Differential radar interferometry Andrew K. Gabriel, R. M. Goldstein, Howard A. Zebker · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 Jul 1989 | 1,613 |
| 22 | A novel phase unwrapping method based on network programming E. Costantini · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | May 1998 | 1,558 |
| 23 | Polarimetric Radar Imaging : From basics to applications. J.S. Lee, Éric Pottier · Thammasat University Digital Collections | 2009 | 1,538 |
| 24 | Shuttle radar topography mission produces a wealth of data T. G. Farr, Mike Kobrick · Eos | 28 Nov 2000 | 1,467 |
| 25 | Four-component scattering model for polarimetric SAR image decomposition Yoshio Yamaguchi, Takahiro Moriyama, Motoi Ishido et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 27 Jul 2005 | 1,365 |
| 26 | An empirical model and an inversion technique for radar scattering from bare soil surfaces Yisok Oh, Kamal Sarabandi, Fawwaz T. Ulaby · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Mar 1992 | 1,365 |
| 27 | A multi‐temporal InSAR method incorporating both persistent scatterer and small baseline approaches Andrew J. Hooper · Geophysical Research Letters | Aug 2008 | 1,270 |
| 28 | Backscattering from a randomly rough dielectric surface A.K. Fung, Z. Li, K.S. Chen · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Mar 1992 | 1,255 |
| 29 | Phase gradient autofocus-a robust tool for high resolution SAR phase correction Daniel E. Wahl, Paul H. Eichel, Dennis C. Ghiglia et al. · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems | Jul 1994 | 1,196 |
| 30 | Polarimetric SAR interferometry S.R. Cloude, Konstantinos Panagiotis Papathanassiou · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1998 | 1,193 |
| 31 | Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to Measure Earth’s Surface Topography and Its Deformation Roland Bürgmann, P. A. Rosen, Eric Jameson Fielding · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | May 2000 | 1,190 |
| 32 | Measuring soil moisture with imaging radars P. Dubois, J. van Zyl, Ted Engman · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Jul 1995 | 1,171 |
| 33 | Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: A review Michele Crosetto, Oriol Monserrat, María Cuevas-González et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 19 Nov 2015 | 1,162 |
| 34 | Persistent scatterer interferometric synthetic aperture radar for crustal deformation analysis, with application to Volcán Alcedo, Galápagos Andrew J. Hooper, Paul E. Segall, Howard A. Zebker · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | Jul 2007 | 1,141 |
| 35 | Convolutional Neural Networks for Large-Scale Remote-Sensing Image Classification Emmanuel Maggiori, Yuliya Tarabalka, Guillaume Charpiat et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 19 Oct 2016 | 1,131 |
| 36 | Topographic mapping from interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations Howard A. Zebker, R. M. Goldstein · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 Apr 1986 | 1,101 |
| 37 | First demonstration of airborne SAR tomography using multibaseline L-band data Andreas Reigber, Alberto Moreira · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2000 | 1,064 |
| 38 | Co-registration and bias corrections of satellite elevation data sets for quantifying glacier thickness change Christopher Nuth, Andreas Kääb · The cryosphere | 29 Mar 2011 | 1,049 |
| 39 | A small-baseline approach for investigating deformations on full-resolution differential SAR interferograms Riccardo Lanari, Oscar Mora, Michele Manunta et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Jul 2004 | 1,023 |
| 40 | Automatic and Precise Orthorectification, Coregistration, and Subpixel Correlation of Satellite Images, Application to Ground Deformation Measurements Sbastien Leprince, Sylvain Barbot, Franois Ayoub et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Jun 2007 | 1,014 |
| 41 | Electromagnetic scattering by magnetic spheres Milton Kerker, D.-S. Wang, C. Lee Giles · Journal of the Optical Society of America | Jun 1983 | 1,010 |
| 42 | Precision SAR processing using chirp scaling R. K. Raney, Hartmut Runge, Richard Bamler et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Jul 1994 | 962 |
| 43 | Review: Regional land subsidence accompanying groundwater extraction Devin L. Galloway, Thomas J. Burbey · Hydrogeology Journal | 25 Aug 2011 | 953 |
| 44 | Recent advances in SAR interferometry time series analysis for measuring crustal deformation Andrew J. Hooper, David Bekaert, Karsten Spaans et al. · Tectonophysics | 27 Oct 2011 | 930 |
| 45 | Adaptive speckle filters and scene heterogeneity ALZENEIDE DA SILVA LOPES, R. Touzi, Edmond Nezry · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1990 | 918 |
| 46 | HRSID: A High-Resolution SAR Images Dataset for Ship Detection and Instance Segmentation Shunjun Wei, Xiangfeng Zeng, Qizhe Qu et al. · IEEE Access | 2020 | 912 |
| 47 | Unsupervised classification using polarimetric decomposition and the complex Wishart classifier Jong-Sen Lee, M.R. Grunes, Thomas L. Ainsworth et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1999 | 885 |
| 48 | Single-baseline polarimetric SAR interferometry Konstantinos Panagiotis Papathanassiou, S.R. Cloude · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2001 | 876 |
| 49 | Speckle analysis and smoothing of synthetic aperture radar images Jong-Sen Lee · Computer Graphics and Image Processing | Sep 1981 | 874 |
| 50 | Approximation of boundary element matrices Mario Bebendorf · Numerische Mathematik | Oct 2000 | 871 |
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