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Philippe Lagacherie

Philippe Lagacherie

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
8850
World Ranking
5761
National Ranking
254

Overview

Philippe Lagacherie is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant focus in fields such as Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, Ecology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work concentrates on a range of topics related to soil and environmental studies. Key areas include:

  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil and Land Suitability Analysis

Philippe Lagacherie has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review, 2021, Geoderma
  • 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
  • Ten challenges for the future of pedometrics, 2021, Geoderma
  • Analysing the impact of soil spatial sampling on the performances of Digital Soil Mapping models and their evaluation: A numerical experiment on Quantile Random Forest using clay contents obtained from Vis-NIR-SWIR hyperspectral imagery, 2020, Geoderma
  • Digital soil mapping of soil organic carbon stocks in Western Ghats, South India, 2021, Geoderma Regional

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues. The most recurrent journals and publication platforms include:

  • Geoderma
  • Geoderma Regional
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Collaboration is a notable part of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Dominique Arrouays
  • Anne C Richer-De-Forges
  • S. Dharumarajan
  • Vera Leatitia Mulder
  • Budiman Minasny

Best Publications

  • Digital Soil Map of the World

    Pedro A. Sanchez;Sonya Ahamed;Florence Carré;Alfred E. Hartemink

  • Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

    Songchao Chen;Dominique Arrouays;Vera Leatitia Mulder;Laura Poggio

  • GlobalSoilMap: Toward a Fine-Resolution Global Grid of Soil Properties

    Dominique Arrouays;Michael G. Grundy;Alfred E. Hartemink;Jonathan W. Hempel

  • Estimation of soil clay and calcium carbonate using laboratory, field and airborne hyperspectral measurements

    Philippe Lagacherie;Frédéric Baret;Jean-Baptiste Feret;José Madeira Netto;José Madeira Netto

  • Continuum removal versus PLSR method for clay and calcium carbonate content estimation from laboratory and airborne hyperspectral measurements

    Cécile Gomez;Philippe Lagacherie;Guillaume Coulouma

  • Using quantile regression forest to estimate uncertainty of digital soil mapping products

    Kévin Vaysse;Philippe Lagacherie

  • Digital soil mapping : an introductory perspective

    P Lagacherie;A. B. McBratney;M Voltz

  • Chapter 1 Spatial Soil Information Systems and Spatial Soil Inference Systems: Perspectives for Digital Soil Mapping

    P. Lagacherie;A.B. McBratney

  • Evaluating Digital Soil Mapping approaches for mapping GlobalSoilMap soil properties from legacy data in Languedoc-Roussillon (France)

    K. Vaysse;P. Lagacherie

  • Digital Soil Mapping: A State of the Art

    Philippe Lagacherie

  • Sentinel-2 image capacities to predict common topsoil properties of temperate and Mediterranean agroecosystems

    E. Vaudour;C. Gomez;Y. Fouad;P. Lagacherie

  • Regional predictions of eight common soil properties and their spatial structures from hyperspectral Vis–NIR data

    Cécile Gomez;Philippe Lagacherie;Guillaume Coulouma

  • Soil legacy data rescue via GlobalSoilMap and other international and national initiatives

    Dominique Arrouays;Johan G. B. Leenaars;Anne C. Richer-de-Forges;Kabindra Adhikari

  • Managing ditches for agroecological engineering of landscape. A review

    Jeanne Dollinger;Cécile Dagès;Jean Stéphane Bailly;Philippe Lagacherie

  • A soil survey procedure using the knowledge of soil pattern established on a previously mapped reference area

    P. Lagacherie;J.P. Legros;P.A. Burfough

  • Addressing geographical data errors in a classification tree for soil unit prediction

    Philippe Lagacherie;Susan P. Holmes

  • Mapping of reference area representativity using a mathematical soilscape distance

    P. Lagacherie;J.M. Robbez-Masson;N. Nguyen-The;J.P. Barthès

  • Digital soil mapping across the globe

    Dominique Arrouays;Philippe Lagacherie;Alfred E. Hartemink

  • Satellite data integration for soil clay content modelling at a national scale

    T. Loiseau;S. Chen;S. Chen;V.L. Mulder;M. Román Dobarco

  • Comparison of two temperature differencing methods to estimate daily evapotranspiration over a Mediterranean vineyard watershed from ASTER data

    Mauricio Galleguillos;Frédéric Jacob;Laurent Prévot;Andrew French

  • Predicting soil properties over a region using sample information from a mapped reference area and digital elevation data: a conditional probability approach

    P Lagacherie;M Voltz

Frequent Co-Authors

Cécile Gomez
Cécile Gomez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Marc Voltz
Marc Voltz University of Montpellier
Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alex B. McBratney
Alex B. McBratney University of Sydney
Alfred E. Hartemink
Alfred E. Hartemink University of Wisconsin–Madison
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Budiman Minasny
Budiman Minasny University of Sydney
Nicolas P.A. Saby
Nicolas P.A. Saby INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Gilles Grandjean
Gilles Grandjean French Geological Survey
Guy Richard
Guy Richard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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