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Jean-Louis Roujean is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, where their research primarily focuses on environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including environmental engineering, global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to urban heat island mitigation, remote sensing in agriculture, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing and land use, land use and ecosystem services, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and building energy and comfort optimization.

Jean-Louis Roujean's recent publications include the following:

  • "A general framework of kernel-driven modeling in the thermal infrared domain," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A Kernel-Driven BRDF Approach to Correct Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery over Forested Areas with Rugged Topography," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "An angular normalization method for temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI) in monitoring agricultural drought," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Effect of small-scale snow surface roughness on snow albedo and reflectance," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Modeling the directional anisotropy of fine-scale TIR emissions over tree and crop canopies based on UAV measurements," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Biao Cao
  • Yongming Du
  • Qing Xiao
  • Zunjian Bian
  • Qinhuo Liu

Their work is commonly published in journals such as:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Estimating PAR absorbed by vegetation from bidirectional reflectance measurements

    Jean-Louis Roujean;François-Marie Breon

  • A bidirectional reflectance model of the Earth's surface for the correction of remote sensing data

    Jean-Louis Roujean;Marc Leroy;Pierre-Yves Deschamps

  • 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 interactive vegetation SVAT model tested against data from six contrasting sites

    Jean-Christophe Calvet;Joël Noilhan;Jean-Louis Roujean;Pierre Bessemoulin

  • Multi-angular optical remote sensing for assessing vegetation structure and carbon absorption

    Jing M. Chen;Jane Liu;Sylvain G. Leblanc;Roselyne Lacaze

  • Retrieval of atmospheric properties and surface bidirectional reflectances over land from POLDER/ADEOS

    M. Leroy;J. L. Deuzé;F. M. Bréon;O. Hautecoeur

  • ECOCLIMAP-II/Europe: a twofold database of ecosystems and surface parameters at 1 km resolution based on satellite information for use in land surface, meteorological and climate models

    S. Faroux;A. T. Kaptué Tchuenté;A. T. Kaptué Tchuenté;J.-L. Roujean;V. Masson

  • The Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis

    Isabel F. Trigo;Carlos C. Dacamara;Pedro Viterbo;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Comparison and relative quality assessment of the GLC2000, GLOBCOVER, MODIS and ECOCLIMAP land cover data sets at the African continental scale

    Armel Thibaut Kaptué Tchuenté;Jean-Louis Roujean;Steven M. De Jong

  • Considerations in the parametric modeling of BRDF and albedo from multiangular satellite sensor observations

    W. Lucht;J.‐L. Roujean

  • Ability of the land surface model ISBA‐A‐gs to simulate leaf area index at the global scale: Comparison with satellites products

    Anne-Laure Gibelin;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Jean-Louis Roujean;Lionel Jarlan

  • A review of earth surface thermal radiation directionality observing and modeling: Historical development, current status and perspectives

    Biao Cao;Qinhuo Liu;Yongming Du;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Global mapping of vegetation parameters from POLDER multiangular measurements for studies of surface-atmosphere interactions: A pragmatic method and its validation

    Jean-Louis Roujean;Roselyne Lacaze

  • Transmission of solar radiation in boreal conifer forests : Measurements and models

    Wenge Ni;Xiaowen Li;Curtis E. Woodcock;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Land Surface Albedo Derived on a Daily Basis From Meteosat Second Generation Observations

    B. Geiger;D. Carrer;L. Franchisteguy;J.-L. Roujean

  • Sun and view angle corrections on reflectances derived from NOAA/AVHRR data

    M. Leroy;J.-L. Roujean

  • Analysis of the POLDER (POLarization and directionality of earth's reflectances) airborne instrument observations over land surfaces

    J.L Deuzé;F.M Bréon;P.Y Deschamps;C Devaux

  • Near real-time provision of downwelling shortwave radiation estimates derived from satellite observations

    Bernhard Geiger;Catherine Meurey;Dulce Lajas;Dulce Lajas;Laurent Franchistéguy

  • A land cover classification product over France at 1 km resolution using SPOT4/VEGETATION data

    Kyung-Soo Han;Jean-Louis Champeaux;Jean-Louis Roujean

  • Remote sensing in BOREAS: Lessons learned

    José Alfonso Gamón;K. F. Huemmrich;D. R. Peddle;J. Chen

  • Operational Derivation of Surface Albedo and Down-Welling Short-Wave Radiation in the Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis

    B. Geiger;D. Carrer;C. Meurey;J. L. Roujean

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-François Mahfouf
Jean-François Mahfouf Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Isabel F. Trigo
Isabel F. Trigo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Anna Kontu
Anna Kontu Finnish Meteorological Institute
François-Marie Bréon
François-Marie Bréon French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Oleg S. Pokrovsky National Research Tomsk State University

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