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Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
10502
World Ranking
4707
National Ranking
205

Overview

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a notable specialization in subfields such as ecology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, plant science, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including remote sensing in agriculture, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, urban heat island mitigation, land use and ecosystem services, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry has contributed papers to several frequently appearing academic venues. These include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

The scientist's recent publications highlight a range of remote sensing and vegetation analysis studies. These include:

  • Using the Negative Soil Adjustment Factor of Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) to Resist Saturation Effects and Estimate Leaf Area Index (LAI) in Dense Vegetation Areas, 2021, Sensors
  • An assessment study of three indirect methods for estimating leaf area density and leaf area index of individual trees, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • DART-Lux: An unbiased and rapid Monte Carlo radiative transfer method for simulating remote sensing images, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Globally quantitative analysis of the impact of atmosphere and spectral response function on 2-band enhanced vegetation index (EVI2) over Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8, 2023, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Modeling the angular effect of MODIS LST in urban areas: A case study of Toulouse, France, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Nicolas Lauret
  • Tiangang Yin
  • Yingjie Wang
  • Zhijun Zhen
  • Eric Chavanon

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress.

    Gina H. Mohammed;Roberto Colombo;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Uwe Rascher

  • Modeling radiative transfer in heterogeneous 3-D vegetation canopies

    Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry;Valérie Demarez;V. Pinel;F. Zagolski

  • Quantifying Vegetation Biophysical Variables from Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Review on Retrieval Methods

    Jochem Verrelst;Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Christiaan van der Tol;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • DART: a 3D model for simulating satellite images and studying surface radiation budget

    J. P. Gastellu-Etchegorry;E. Martin;F. Gascon

  • Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART 5) for modeling airborne and satellite spectroradiometer and LIDAR acquisitions of natural and urban landscapes

    J.P. Gastellu Etchegorry;T. Yin;N. Lauret;T. Cajgfinger

  • Third Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Documenting progress in canopy reflectance models

    Jean-Luc Widlowski;Malcolm Taberner;Bernard Pinty;Véronique Bruniquel-Pinel

  • LESS: LargE-Scale remote sensing data and image simulation framework over heterogeneous 3D scenes

    Jianbo Qi;Donghui Xie;Tiangang Yin;Tiangang Yin;Guangjian Yan

  • The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

    Jean Luc Widlowski;Corrado Mio;Mathias Disney;Jennifer Adams

  • DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence

    Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry;Nicolas Lauret;Tiangang Yin;Lucas Landier

  • Retrieval of spruce leaf chlorophyll content from airborne image data using continuum removal and radiative transfer

    Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Lucie Homolova;Lucie Homolova;Raul Zurita-Milla;Petr Lukes

  • Downscaling of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from canopy level to photosystem level using a random forest model

    Xinjie Liu;Luis Guanter;Liangyun Liu;Alexander Damm;Alexander Damm

  • 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

  • Estimating leaf mass per area and equivalent water thickness based on leaf optical properties: Potential and limitations of physical modeling and machine learning

    Jean-Baptiste Féret;G. Le Maire;G. Le Maire;S. Jay;D. Berveiller

  • Simulating imaging spectrometer data: 3D forest modeling based on LiDAR and in situ data

    Fabian D. Schneider;Reik Leiterer;Felix Morsdorf;Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

  • Influence of woody elements of a Norway spruce canopy on nadir reflectance simulated by the DART model at very high spatial resolution

    Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Emmanuel Martin;Lucie Homolova;Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry

  • Relating the Global Vegetation Index to net primary productivity and actual evapotranspiration over Africa

    D. Lo Seen Chong;E. Mougin;J. P. Gastellu-Etchegorry

  • The fourth radiation transfer model intercomparison (RAMI-IV): Proficiency testing of canopy reflectance models with ISO-13528

    J. L. Widlowski;B. Pinty;M. Lopatka;C. Atzberger

  • The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests

    Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Christophe C. Proisy;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Quantifying vegetation biophysical variables from imaging spectroscopy data: a review on retrieval methods

    Jochem Verrelst;Zbyněk Malenovský;Christiaan Van der Tol;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Sensitivity of Texture of High Resolution Images of Forest to Biophysical and Acquisition Parameters

    V. Bruniquel-Pinel;J.P. Gastellu-Etchegorry

  • Modeling radiative transfer in heterogeneous 3D vegetation canopies

    J. P. Gastellu-Etchegorry;V. Demarez;Veronique Pinel;Francis Zagolski

Frequent Co-Authors

Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Nektarios Chrysoulakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Ahmad Al Bitar
Ahmad Al Bitar Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Fredrik Lindberg
Fredrik Lindberg University of Gothenburg
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Fabio Del Frate
Fabio Del Frate University of Rome Tor Vergata
Bruce D. Cook
Bruce D. Cook Goddard Space Flight Center
Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Zbyněk Malenovský
Zbyněk Malenovský University of Bonn
Felix Morsdorf
Felix Morsdorf University of Zurich

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