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Matthias Drusch

Matthias Drusch

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
15192
World Ranking
3787
National Ranking
147

Matthias Drusch publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matthias Drusch sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Matthias Drusch D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matthias Drusch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Matthias Drusch is affiliated with the European Space Agency in France. Their research spans key areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular engagement in global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The scientist's publication record includes diverse topics such as soil moisture and remote sensing, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and remote sensing applications in agriculture. Other notable research themes cover climate change and permafrost, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, atmospheric ozone and climate, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Matthias Drusch include Mike Schwank, Wouter Dorigo, Zhongbo Su, Mariëtte Vreugdenhil, and Jun Wen. These collaborations have contributed to work published in several high-impact venues.

Some of the more prominent publication venues where Matthias Drusch's work appears are:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Meteorological Applications
  • Scientific Data

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Matthias Drusch include:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Using machine learning to predict fire-ignition occurrences from lightning forecasts, 2021, Meteorological Applications
  • Multiyear in-situ L-band microwave radiometry of land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Towards consistent assessments of in situ radiometric measurements for the validation of fluorescence satellite missions, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Impact of SMOS Soil Moisture Data Assimilation within the Operational Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), 2020, Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Sentinel-2: ESA's Optical High-Resolution Mission for GMES Operational Services

    M. Drusch;U. Del Bello;S. Carlier;O. Colin

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

    W. A. Dorigo;W. Wagner;R. Hohensinn;S. Hahn

  • Global Automated Quality Control of In Situ Soil Moisture Data from the International Soil Moisture Network

    W.A. Dorigo;A. Xaver;M. Vreugdenhil;A. Gruber

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • The FLuorescence EXplorer Mission Concept—ESA’s Earth Explorer 8

    Matthias Drusch;Jose Moreno;Umberto Del Bello;Raffaella Franco

  • A simplified Extended Kalman Filter for the global operational soil moisture analysis at ECMWF

    Patricia de Rosnay;Matthias Drusch;Drasko Vasiljevic;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Sun-induced fluorescence - a new probe of photosynthesis: First maps from the imaging spectrometer HyPlant.

    Uwe Rascher;L Alonso;Andreas Burkart;C Cilia;C Cilia

  • Sea ice thickness retrieval from SMOS brightness temperatures during the Arctic freeze‐up period

    L. Kaleschke;X. Tian-Kunze;Nina Maaß;M. Makynen

  • Observation operators for the direct assimilation of TRMM microwave imager retrieved soil moisture

    M. Drusch;Eric F. Wood;H. Gao

  • ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission: Mission Performance and Operations

    S. Mecklenburg;M. Drusch;Y. H. Kerr;J. Font

  • SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved hydrologic simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia

    H. Lievens;S.K. Tomer;A. Al Bitar;G.J.M. De Lannoy

  • SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: algorithm baseline, product specifications and initial verification

    Xiangshan Tian-Kunze;Lars Kaleschke;Nina Maaß;Marko Mäkynen

  • Initializing numerical weather prediction models with satellite‐derived surface soil moisture: Data assimilation experiments with ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System and the TMI soil moisture data set

    M. Drusch

  • Red and far red Sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence as a measure of plant photosynthesis

    M. Rossini;L. Nedbal;L. Guanter;A. Ač

  • Assimilation of a ERS scatterometer derived soil moisture index in the ECMWF numerical weather prediction system

    Klaus Scipal;Matthias Drusch;Wolfgang Wagner

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • SMOS prototype algorithm for detecting autumn soil freezing

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Tiina Parkkinen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank

  • Retrieval of sun-induced fluorescence using advanced spectral fitting methods

    S. Cogliati;W. Verhoef;S. Kraft;S. Kraft;N. Sabater

  • Detection of soil freezing from L-band passive microwave observations

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank;Anna Kontu

  • Using TRMM/TMI to Retrieve Surface Soil Moisture over the Southern United States from 1998 to 2002

    H. Gao;E. F. Wood;T. J. Jackson;M. Drusch

Frequent Co-Authors

Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Uwe Rascher
Uwe Rascher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels Monash University
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca

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