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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
96
Citations
44567
World Ranking
450
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Frédéric Baret is affiliated with INRAE: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily engages with environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on subfields including plant science, ecology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and analytical chemistry.

Their work extensively covers topics related to remote sensing in agriculture, smart agriculture and artificial intelligence, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, leaf properties and growth measurement, land use and ecosystem services, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and spectroscopy and chemometric analyses.

Frequent coauthors of Frédéric Baret include:

  • Marie Weiss
  • Shouyang Liu
  • Benoît de Solan
  • Simon Madec
  • Wei Guo

The scientist has published in several key venues, notably:

  • Plant Phenomics
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Frédéric Baret include:

  • "Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) Dataset: A Large and Diverse Dataset of High-Resolution RGB-Labelled Images to Develop and Benchmark Wheat Head Detection Methods" (2020, Plant Phenomics)
  • "Quality Assessment of PROBA-V LAI, fAPAR and fCOVER Collection 300 m Products of Copernicus Global Land Service" (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • "Lidar sheds new light on plant phenomics for plant breeding and management: Recent advances and future prospects" (2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
  • "Global Wheat Head Detection 2021: An Improved Dataset for Benchmarking Wheat Head Detection Methods" (2021, Plant Phenomics)
  • "Estimates of maize plant density from UAV RGB images using Faster-RCNN detection model: impact of the spatial resolution" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))

Best Publications

  • Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices

    Geneviève Rondeaux;Michael Steven;Frédéric Baret

  • PROSPECT: A model of leaf optical properties spectra

    S. Jacquemoud;F. Baret

  • Potentials and limits of vegetation indices for LAI and APAR assessment

    Frédéric Baret;G. Guyot

  • Review of methods for in situ leaf area index determination Part I. Theories, sensors and hemispherical photography

    Inge Jonckheere;Stefan Fleck;Kris Nackaerts;Bart Muys

  • PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization

    Stéphane Jacquemoud;Wout Verhoef;Frédéric Baret;Cédric Bacour

  • Review of methods for in situ leaf area index (LAI) determination: Part II. Estimation of LAI, errors and sampling

    M Weiss;F Baret;GJ Smith;Inge Jonckheere

  • LAI, fAPAR and fCover CYCLOPES global products derived from VEGETATION: Part 1: Principles of the algorithm

    Frédéric Baret;Olivier Hagolle;Bernhard Geiger;Patrice Bicheron

  • An Overview of Global Leaf Area Index (LAI): Methods, Products, Validation, and Applications

    Hongliang Fang;Frédéric Baret;Stephen Plummer;Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

  • Retrieval of canopy biophysical variables from bidirectional reflectance Using prior information to solve the ill-posed inverse problem

    B Combal;F Baret;M Weiss;A Trubuil

  • Semi-empirical indices to assess carotenoids/chlorophyll alpha ratio from leaf spectral reflectance

    J. Penuelas;F. Baret;I. Filella

  • TSAVI: A Vegetation Index Which Minimizes Soil Brightness Effects On LAI And APAR Estimation

    F. Baret;G. Guyot;D.J. Major

  • GEOV1: LAI and FAPAR essential climate variables and FCOVER global time series capitalizing over existing products. Part1: Principles of development and production

    Frédéric Baret;M Weiss;R Lacaze;F Camacho

  • Validation and intercomparison of global Leaf Area Index products derived from remote sensing data

    S. Garrigues;R. Lacaze;F. Baret;J. T. Morisette

  • Relating soil surface moisture to reflectance

    Liu Weidong;Liu Weidong;F. Baret;Gu Xingfa;Tong Qingxi

  • Extraction of vegetation biophysical parameters by inversion of the PROSPECT + SAIL models on sugar beet canopy reflectance data. Application to TM and AVIRIS sensors

    S. Jacquemoud;F. Baret;B. Andrieu;F.M. Danson

  • Validation of global moderate-resolution LAI products: a framework proposed within the CEOS land product validation subgroup

    J.T. Morisette;F. Baret;J.L. Privette;R.B. Myneni

  • Investigation of a model inversion technique to estimate canopy biophysical variables from spectral and directional reflectance data

    Marie Weiss;Frédéric Baret;Ranga B. Myneni;Agnès Pragnère

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content.

    Yuri Knyazikhin;Mitchell A. Schull;Pauline Stenberg;Matti Mõttus

  • Leaf optical properties with explicit description of its biochemical composition: Direct and inverse problems

    Th. Fourty;F. Baret;S. Jacquemoud;G. Schmuck

  • Assessment of unmanned aerial vehicles imagery for quantitative monitoring of wheat crop in small plots

    Camille C. D. Lelong;Philippe Burger;Guillaume Jubelin;Bruno Roux

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie Weiss
Marie Weiss INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Aleixandre Verger
Aleixandre Verger Spanish National Research Council
Stéphane Jacquemoud
Stéphane Jacquemoud Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Pierre Defourny
Pierre Defourny Université Catholique de Louvain
Bruno Andrieu
Bruno Andrieu INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Hagolle
Olivier Hagolle Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales

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