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Philippe Richaume 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 Philippe Richaume sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 151 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Philippe Richaume 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 Philippe Richaume sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Philippe Richaume is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of environmental engineering, atmospheric science, ecology, civil and structural engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Their work encompasses several main topics including soil moisture and remote sensing, climate change and permafrost, remote sensing in agriculture, cryospheric studies and observations, precipitation measurement and analysis, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Richaume has authored multiple papers published in reputable venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Temperature effects on L-band vegetation optical depth of a boreal forest (2021), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Performance of SMOS Soil Moisture Products Over Core Validation Sites (2023), IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Use of a new Tibetan Plateau network for permafrost to characterize satellite-based products errors: An application to soil moisture and freeze/thaw (2023), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SMOS Third Mission Reprocessing after 10 Years in Orbit (2020), Remote Sensing
  • Above-Ground Biomass Estimation Based on Multi-Angular L-Band Measurements of Brightness Temperatures (2023), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Frequent coauthors in their research include Arnaud Mialon, Yann H. Kerr, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Alexandre Bouvet, and Mike Schwank.

Richaume's publications are often found in prominent journals and conferences such as Remote Sensing of Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • The SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm

    Y. H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;P. Richaume;J. P. Wigneron

  • L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

    J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;K. Saleh

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation

    Yann H. Kerr;A. Al-Yaari;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez;M. Parrens

  • SMOS Radio Frequency Interference Scenario: Status and Actions Taken to Improve the RFI Environment in the 1400–1427-MHz Passive Band

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  • Evaluation of SMOS Soil Moisture Products Over Continental U.S. Using the SCAN/SNOTEL Network

    Ahmad Al Bitar;D. Leroux;Y. H. Kerr;O. Merlin

  • Disaggregation of SMOS Soil Moisture in Southeastern Australia

    O. Merlin;C. Rudiger;Ahmad Al Bitar;P. Richaume

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps

    Ahmad Al Bitar;Arnaud Mialon;Yann H. Kerr;Yann H. Kerr;François Cabot;François Cabot

  • Assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite soil moisture products using ISMN ground-based measurements

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;W. Dorigo;A. Colliander

  • Global-Scale Comparison of Passive (SMOS) and Active (ASCAT) Satellite Based Microwave Soil Moisture Retrievals with Soil Moisture Simulations (MERRA-Land)

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y.H. Kerr

  • An evaluation of SMOS L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) data sets: high sensitivity of L-VOD to above-ground biomass in Africa

    Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández;Arnaud Mialon;Stephane Mermoz;Alexandre Bouvet

  • Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Neural Networks: Application to SMOS

    Nemesio J. Rodriguez-Fernandez;Filipe Aires;Philippe Richaume;Yann H. Kerr

  • Status of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in the 1400-1427MHz passive band based on six years of SMOS mission

    R. Oliva;E. Daganzo;P. Richaume;Y. Kerr

  • Evaluating soil moisture retrievals from ESA's SMOS and NASA's SMAP brightness temperature datasets.

    A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;Y. Kerr;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez

  • Evaluation of AMSR‐E soil moisture product based on ground measurements over temperate and semi‐arid regions

    C. Gruhier;P. de Rosnay;Y. Kerr;E. Mougin

  • Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices

    J.P. Grant;J.-P. Wigneron;R.A.M. De Jeu;H. Lawrence

  • Global-scale surface roughness effects at L-band as estimated from SMOS observations.

    Marie Parrens;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Richaume;Arnaud Mialon

  • SMOS Radiometer in the 1400–1427-MHz Passive Band: Impact of the RFI Environment and Approach to Its Mitigation and Cancellation

    Elena Daganzo-Eusebio;Roger Oliva;Yann H. Kerr;Sara Nieto

  • Spatial distribution and possible sources of SMOS errors at the global scale

    Delphine J. Leroux;Yann H. Kerr;Philippe Richaume;Remy Fieuzal

Frequent Co-Authors

Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ahmad Al Bitar
Ahmad Al Bitar Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Amen Al-Yaari
Amen Al-Yaari Sorbonne University
Paolo Ferrazzoli
Paolo Ferrazzoli University of Rome Tor Vergata
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Filipe Aires
Filipe Aires Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University

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