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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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62
Citations
10983
World Ranking
1491
National Ranking
14

Environmental Sciences

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69
Citations
13744
World Ranking
1819
National Ranking
58

Overview

Nicolas Baghdadi is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has a significant body of research primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

Their research topics focus on diverse areas related to remote sensing and environmental monitoring. Key themes include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Nicolas Baghdadi has contributed to several recent papers, with notable works including:

  • "Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review," 2020, published in Remote Sensing
  • "Temporal mosaicking approaches of Sentinel-2 images for extending topsoil organic carbon content mapping in croplands," 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • "Evaluation of the Performances of Radar and Lidar Altimetry Missions for Water Level Retrievals in Mountainous Environment: The Case of the Swiss Lakes," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Terrain Slope Effect on Forest Height and Wood Volume Estimation from GEDI Data," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Hy-TeC: a hybrid vision transformer model for high-resolution and large-scale mapping of canopy height," 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment

Their frequent co-authors include Mehrez Zribi, Ibrahim Fayad, Hassan Bazzi, Frédéric Frappart, and Jean-Pierre Wigneron, indicating collaboration across a range of experts within environmental remote sensing and related disciplines.

In terms of publication venues, Nicolas Baghdadi's work often appears in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

This spread across well-regarded journals and conferences highlights Baghdadi's engagement with both the scientific community and applied research environments related to geosciences and earth observation technologies.

Best Publications

  • Synergic Use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Images for Operational Soil Moisture Mapping at High Spatial Resolution over Agricultural Areas

    Mohammad El Hajj;Nicolas Baghdadi;Mehrez Zribi;Hassan Bazzi

  • Synergetic Use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Soil Moisture Mapping at 100 m Resolution

    Qi Gao;Mehrez Zribi;Maria José Escorihuela;Nicolas N. Baghdadi

  • Deep Recurrent Neural Network for Agricultural Classification using multitemporal SAR Sentinel-1 for Camargue, France

    Emile Ndikumana;Dinh Ho Tong Minh;Nicolas N. Baghdadi;Dominique Courault

  • Evaluation of C-band SAR data for wetlands mapping

    N. Baghdadi;M. Bernier;R. Gauthier;I. Neeson

  • Potential of SAR sensors TerraSAR-X, ASAR/ENVISAT and PALSAR/ALOS for monitoring sugarcane crops on Reunion Island

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Nathalie Boyer;Pierre Todoroff;Mahmoud El Hajj

  • Soil moisture estimation using multi‐incidence and multi‐polarization ASAR data

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Noha Holah;Mehrez Zribi

  • Semi-empirical calibration of the IEM backscattering model using radar images and moisture and roughness field measurements

    Nicolas Baghdadi;I. Gherboudj;Mehrez Zribi;M. Sahebi

  • New methodology for soil surface moisture estimation and its application to ENVISAT-ASAR multi-incidence data inversion.

    Mehrez Zribi;Nicolas Baghdadi;Noha Holah;O. Fafin

  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review

    Frédéric Frappart;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Xiangzhuo Liu

  • Soil moisture retrieval over irrigated grassland using X-band SAR data

    Mohammad El Hajj;Nicolas Baghdadi;Mehrez Zribi;Gilles Belaud

  • Potential of ASAR/ENVISAT for the characterization of soil surface parameters over bare agricultural fields

    Noha Holah;Nicolas Baghdadi;M. Zribi;Ary Bruand

  • Operational performance of current synthetic aperture radar sensors in mapping soil surface characteristics in agricultural environments: application to hydrological and erosion modelling

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Olivier Cerdan;Mehrez Zribi;Véronique Auzet

  • Calibration of the Water Cloud Model at C-Band for Winter Crop Fields and Grasslands

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Mohammad El Hajj;Mehrez Zribi;Safa Bousbih

  • Calibration of the Integral Equation Model for SAR data in C‐band and HH and VV polarizations

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Noha Holah;Mehrez Zribi

  • Analysis of TerraSAR-X data and their sensitivity to soil surface parameters over bare agricultural fields

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Mehrez Zribi;Cécile Loumagne;Patrick Ansart

  • Potential of Sentinel-1 Radar Data for the Assessment of Soil and Cereal Cover Parameters.

    Safa Bousbih;Safa Bousbih;Mehrez Zribi;Zohra Lili-Chabaane;Nicolas Baghdadi

  • Soil surface moisture estimation over a semi-arid region using ENVISAT ASAR radar data for soil evaporation evaluation

    Mehrez Zribi;A. Chahbi;M. Shabou;Z. Lili-Chabaane

  • Mapping Paddy Rice Using Sentinel-1 SAR Time Series in Camargue, France

    Hassan Bazzi;Nicolas Baghdadi;Mohammad El Hajj;Mehrez Zribi

  • Evaluation of radar backscatter models IEM, OH and Dubois using experimental observations

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Mehrez Zribi

  • Penetration Analysis of SAR Signals in the C and L Bands for Wheat, Maize, and Grasslands

    Mohammad El Hajj;Nicolas Baghdadi;Hassan Bazzi;Mehrez Zribi

  • Potential of ERS and Radarsat data for surface roughness monitoring over bare agricultural fields: Application to catchments in Northern France

    N. Baghdadi;C. King;A. Bourguignon;A. Remond

  • Irrigation Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Time Series at Field Scale

    Qi Gao;Mehrez Zribi;Maria Jose Escorihuela;Nicolas Baghdadi

Frequent Co-Authors

Mehrez Zribi
Mehrez Zribi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gilles Grandjean
Gilles Grandjean French Geological Survey
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University
Simonetta Paloscia
Simonetta Paloscia National Research Council (CNR)
Nicolas Barbier
Nicolas Barbier University of Montpellier
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
André Chanzy
André Chanzy University of Avignon
Olivier Cerdan
Olivier Cerdan Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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