2026 Urs Wegmüller: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	58	3294	3150	88	84	251	11278

Urs Wegmüller 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 Urs Wegmüller sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 251 publications — 78th percentile

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

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

Urs Wegmüller 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 Urs Wegmüller sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Urs Wegmüller is affiliated with Gamma Remote Sensing in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. The scientist's work integrates specialized subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Soil Science.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within remote sensing and environmental monitoring, such as:

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
Cryospheric Studies and Observations
Landslides and Related Hazards
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques

Wegmüller has published papers in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Remote Sensing of Environment
Procedia Computer Science
Scientific Data
Lirias (KU Leuven)
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Some recent publications by Urs Wegmüller include:

"A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements" (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
"Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study" (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
"Global seasonal Sentinel-1 interferometric coherence and backscatter data set" (2022) in Scientific Data
"Global estimation of above-ground biomass from spaceborne C-band scatterometer observations aided by LiDAR metrics of vegetation structure" (2022) in Remote Sensing of Environment
"Soil Moisture Product Validation Good Practices Protocol" (2020) in Lirias (KU Leuven)

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Christophe Magnard, Oliver Cartus, Tazio Strozzi, Charles Werner, and Michael H. Cosh. Collaboration counts with these co-authors range from three to seven joint works.

Best Publications

Interferometric point target analysis for deformation mapping

C. Werner;U. Wegmuller;T. Strozzi;A. Wiesmann

857
Citations
Glacier motion estimation using SAR offset-tracking procedures

T. Strozzi;A. Luckman;T. Murray;U. Wegmuller

773
Citations
Dielectric properties of freshwater ice at microwave frequencies

Christian Mätzler;Urs Wegmüller

393
Citations
A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

337
Citations
Survey and monitoring of landslide displacements by means of L-band satellite SAR interferometry

Tazio Strozzi;Paolo Farina;Alessandro Corsini;Christian Ambrosi

312
Citations
Gamma SAR processor and interferometry software

U. Wegmüller;Ch. Werner

308
Citations
Retrieval of vegetation parameters with SAR interferometry

U. Wegmuller;C. Werner

307
Citations
Sentinel-1 Support in the GAMMA Software

Urs Wegnüller;Charles Werner;Tazio Strozzi;Andreas Wiesmann

302
Citations
Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

Maurizio Santoro;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus;Christiane Schmullius

277
Citations
Rough bare soil reflectivity model

U. Wegmuller;C. Matzler

246
Citations
SAR interferometric signatures of forest

U. Wegmuller;C.L. Werner

246
Citations
Subsidence induced by urbanisation in the city of Rome detected by advanced InSar technique and geotechnical investigations

S. Stramondo;F. Bozzano;F. Marra;U. Wegmuller

242
Citations
An advanced system for the automatic classification of multitemporal SAR images

L. Bruzzone;M. Marconcini;U. Wegmuller;A. Wiesmann

233
Citations
Mapping regional land displacements in the Venice coastland by an integrated monitoring system

Pietro Teatini;Luigi Tosi;Tazio Strozzi;Laura Carbognin

195
Citations
Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

Maurizio Santoro;André Beaudoin;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus

188
Citations
Estimation of Arctic glacier motion with satellite L-band SAR data

Tazio Strozzi;Alexei Kouraev;Andreas Wiesmann;Urs Wegmüller

186
Citations
Nonuniform Ground Motion Monitoring With TerraSAR-X Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

U. Wegmuller;D. Walter;V. Spreckels;C.L. Werner

182
Citations
Combined observations of rock mass movements using satellite SAR interferometry, differential GPS, airborne digital photogrammetry, and airborne photography interpretation

Tazio Strozzi;Reynald Delaloye;Andreas Kääb;Christian Ambrosi

169
Citations
The effect of freezing and thawing on the microwave signatures of bare soil.

Urs Wegmüller

154
Citations
Landuse mapping with ERS SAR interferometry

T. Strozzi;P.B.G. Dammert;U. Wegmuller;J.-M. Martinez

148
Citations
JERS SAR interferometry for land subsidence monitoring

T. Strozzi;U. Wegmuller;C.L. Werner;A. Wiesmann

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tazio Strozzi Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)

Charles Werner University of Zurich

Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern

Maurizio Santoro Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)

Christian Mätzler University of Bern

Luigi Tosi National Research Council (CNR)

Pietro Teatini University of Padua

Irena Hajnsek German Aerospace Center

Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Paolo Ferrazzoli University of Rome Tor Vergata

External Links

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