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D-Index
65
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16103
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2190
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77

Thuy Le Toan 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 Thuy Le Toan sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 227 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Thuy Le Toan 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 Thuy Le Toan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thuy Le Toan is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France and works primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their research focuses on several intersecting areas, notably within Environmental Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. Key subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their scholarly output spans various topics related to remote sensing techniques and environmental monitoring. Main topics of their work include:

  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Thuy Le Toan has contributed to multiple high-impact publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action" (2020), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Increasing and widespread vulnerability of intact tropical rainforests to repeated droughts" (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "SAR data for tropical forest disturbance alerts in French Guiana: Benefit over optical imagery" (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Understanding Dense Time Series of Sentinel-1 Backscatter from Rice Fields: Case Study in a Province of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam" (2021), Remote Sensing
  • "Improving Heterogeneous Forest Height Maps by Integrating GEDI-Based Forest Height Information in a Multi-Sensor Mapping Process" (2022), Remote Sensing

Their frequent co-authors include Stéphane Mermoz, Alexandre Bouvet, Thierry Koleck, Ludovic Villard, and Jérôme Chave.

Thuy Le Toan's works have been published consistently in established venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Relating forest biomass to SAR data

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  • Dependence of radar backscatter on coniferous forest biomass

    M.C. Dobson;F.T. Ulaby;T. LeToan;A. Beaudoin

  • The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

    T. Le Toan;S. Quegan;M.W.J. Davidson;Heiko Balzter

  • Understanding the temporal behavior of crops using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2-like data for agricultural applications

    Amanda Veloso;Stéphane Mermoz;Alexandre Bouvet;Thuy Le Toan

  • Rice crop mapping and monitoring using ERS-1 data based on experiment and modeling results

    T. Le Toan;F. Ribbes;Li-Fang Wang;N. Floury

  • Mapping of flood dynamics and spatial distribution of vegetation in the Amazon floodplain using multitemporal SAR data

    Jean-Michel Martinez;Thuy Le Toan

  • Determination of phenological dates in boreal regions using normalized difference water index

    Nicolas Delbart;Laurent Kergoat;Thuy Le Toan;Julien Lhermitte

  • Remote sensing of spring phenology in boreal regions: A free of snow-effect method using NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VGT data (1982-2004)

    Nicolas Delbart;Nicolas Delbart;Thuy Le Toan;Laurent Kergoat;Violetta Fedotova

  • Multitemporal ERS SAR analysis applied to forest mapping

    S. Quegan;T. Le Toan;J.J. Yu;F. Ribbes

  • On the characterization of agricultural soil roughness for radar remote sensing studies

    M.W.J. Davidson;Thuy Le Toan;F. Mattia;G. Satalino

  • The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space

    Shaun Quegan;Thuy Le Toan;Jerome Chave;Jorgen Dall

  • The effect of surface roughness on multifrequency polarimetric SAR data

    F. Mattia;T. Le Toan;J.-C. Souyris;C. De Carolis

  • An above-ground biomass map of African savannahs and woodlands at 25 m resolution derived from ALOS PALSAR

    Alexandre Bouvet;Stéphane Mermoz;Thuy Le Toan;Ludovic Villard

  • Multitemporal and dual-polarization observations of agricultural vegetation covers by X-band SAR images

    T. Le Toan;H. Laur;E. Mougin;A. Lopes

  • Multitemporal C-band radar measurements on wheat fields

    F. Mattia;T. Le Toan;G. Picard;F.I. Posa

  • Monitoring of the Rice Cropping System in the Mekong Delta Using ENVISAT/ASAR Dual Polarization Data

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  • Retrieval of forest biomass from SAR data

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  • L- and P-band backscatter intensity for biomass retrieval in hemiboreal forest

    Gustaf Sandberg;Lars M. H. Ulander;Lars M. H. Ulander;J. E. S. Fransson;J. Holmgren

  • Relating P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Tomography to Tropical Forest Biomass

    Dinh Ho Tong Minh;Thuy Le Toan;Fabio Rocca;Stefano Tebaldini

  • Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action

    C Soto-Navarro;C Ravilious;A Arnell;X de Lamo

  • Seasonal variations of leaf area index of agricultural fields retrieved from Landsat data

    M.C. González-Sanpedro;M.C. González-Sanpedro;T. Le Toan;J. Moreno;L. Kergoat

  • WATER VOLUME CHANGE IN THE LOWER MEKONG FROM SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND IMAGERY DATA

    F. Frappart;K. Do Minh;J. L'Hermitte;A. Cazenave

  • Use of ENVISAT/ASAR wide-swath data for timely rice fields mapping in the Mekong River Delta

    Alexandre Bouvet;Thuy Le Toan

  • Large-scale mapping of boreal forest in SIBERIA using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data

    Wolfgang Wagner;Adrian Luckman;Jan Vietmeier;Kevin Tansey

  • RELATING RADAR REMOTE SENSING OF BIOMASS TO MODELLING OF FOREST CARBON BUDGETS

    Thuy Le Toan;Shaun Quegan;Ian Woodward;Mark Lomas

  • Spring phenology in boreal Eurasia over a nearly century time scale

    Nicolas Delbart;Ghislain Picard;Ghislain Picard;Thuy Le Toan;Laurent Kergoat

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Tebaldini
Stefano Tebaldini Polytechnic University of Milan
Shaun Quegan
Shaun Quegan University of Sheffield
Fabio Rocca
Fabio Rocca Polytechnic University of Milan
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Lars M. H. Ulander
Lars M. H. Ulander Chalmers University of Technology
Ghislain Picard
Ghislain Picard Grenoble Alpes University
Klaus Scipal
Klaus Scipal European Space Agency
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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