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Environmental Sciences
France
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
101
Citations
41089
World Ranking
354
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to two-dimensional L-band microwave interferometer design

Overview

Yann Kerr is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing notably to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses extensively on topics related to Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, with additional work on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Yann Kerr has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors (2022, Earth System Science Data)

The research has often appeared in established publication venues including:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Yann Kerr frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among them:

  • Arnaud Mialon
  • Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández
  • Philippe Richaume
  • Jeffrey P. Walker
  • Thierry Pellarin

The scientist has received recognition through awards including the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017 and becoming an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to two-dimensional L-band microwave interferometer design.

Best Publications

  • A Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

    J. Qi;A. Chehbouni;A.R. Huete;Y.H. Kerr

  • The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements ofthe Global Water Cycle

    Yann H Kerr;Philippe Waldteufel;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Steven Delwart

  • Soil moisture retrieval from space: the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission

    Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;J.-P. Wigneron;J. Martinuzzi

  • 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

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications

    Wolfgang Wagner;Günter Blöschl;Paolo Pampaloni;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • State of the Art in Large‐Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

    Tyson E. Ochsner;Michael Harold Cosh;Richard H. Cuenca;Wouter Dorigo

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    Clement Albergel;Patricia de Rosnay;Claire Gruhier;Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater

  • 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 of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S.

    T. J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;M. H. Cosh;Tianjie Zhao

  • Downscaling SMOS-Derived Soil Moisture Using MODIS Visible/Infrared Data

    M. Piles;A. Camps;M. Vall-llossera;I. Corbella

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • SMOS: The Challenging Sea Surface Salinity Measurement From Space

    Jordi Font;Adriano Camps;Andrés Borges;Manuel Martín-Neira

  • Accurate land surface temperature retrieval from AVHRR data with use of an improved split window algorithm

    Yann H. Kerr;Jean Pierre Lagouarde;Jacques Imbernon

  • HAPEX-Sahel: A large-scale study of land-atmosphere interactions in the semi-arid tropics

    J.P. Goutorbe;Thierry Lebel;A. Tinga;P. Bessemoulin

  • A simple parameterization of the L-band microwave emission from rough agricultural soils

    J.-P. Wigneron;L. Laguerre;Y.H. Kerr

  • A semiempirical model for interpreting microwave emission from semiarid land surfaces as seen from space

    Y.H. Kerr;E.G. Njoku

  • 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

  • Soil moisture from space: Where are we?

    Yann H. Kerr

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

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

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;J. Munoz-Sabater

Frequent Co-Authors

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
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Amen Al-Yaari
Amen Al-Yaari Sorbonne University
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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