OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 83. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	415
Corrigendum to “Evaluation of historic and new detection algorithms for different types of plastics over land and water from hyperspectral data and imagery” [Remote Sensing of Environemnt 298 (2023) 1	397
Corrigendum to “Evaluating and mitigating the impact of systematic geolocation error on canopy height measurement performance of GEDI” [Remote Sensing of Environment, volume 291 (2023) 113571]	383
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	316
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	290
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	272
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	257
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	252
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	244
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	229
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	190
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	185
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	177
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	176
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	173
Persistent upwelling in the Mid-Atlantic Bight detected using gap-filled, high-resolution satellite SST	171
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	169
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	166
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	164
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	163
Gravity recovery from SWOT altimetry using geoid height and geoid gradient	162
Learning spectral-indices-fused deep models for time-series land use and land cover mapping in cloud-prone areas: The case of Pearl River Delta	161
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	161
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	157
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	155

A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	147
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	145
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	136
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	135
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	134
A new fog and low stratus retrieval for tropical South America reveals widespread fog in lowland forests	132
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	132
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	128
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	127
An interpretable attention-based deep learning method for landslide prediction based on multi-temporal InSAR time series: A case study of Xinpu landslide in the TGRA	126
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities	126
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	123
Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations	123
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	121
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock	121
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	120
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	118
Multi-decadal analysis of high-resolution albedo changes induced by urbanization over contrasted Chinese cities based on Landsat data	114
Air pollution scenario over Pakistan: Characterization and ranking of extremely polluted cities using long-term concentrations of aerosols and trace gases	113
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	110
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	109
Geographically and temporally weighted neural network for winter wheat yield prediction	107
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	107
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	105
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	104
Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data	102
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	102
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	101
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	100
Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	100
Spatio-Temporal reconstruction to fill spatial gaps in global satellite vegetation optical depth products	99
Radar altimeter waveform simulations in Antarctica with the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer Model (SMRT)	98
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land	98
Evaluating the performance of airborne and spaceborne lidar for mapping biomass in the United States' largest dry woodland ecosystem	97
A machine learning-based accuracy enhancement on EUMETSAT H-SAF H35 effective snow-covered area product	96
Spatio-temporal variability of water use efficiency and its drivers in major forest formations in India	96
Reappraisal of SMAP inversion algorithms for soil moisture and vegetation optical depth	95
Leveraging Landsat-8/-9 underfly observations to evaluate consistency in reflectance products over aquatic environments	95
Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau	93
A novel global snow depth retrieval method considering snow metamorphism and forest influence	93
SDGSAT-1 nighttime light data improve village-scale built-up delineation	93
A new Multivariate Drought Severity Index to identify short-term hydrological signals: case study of the Amazon River basin	93
Deep learning solver unites SDGSAT-1 observations and Navier–Stokes theory for oceanic vortex streets	93
CloudS2Mask: A novel deep learning approach for improved cloud and cloud shadow masking in Sentinel-2 imagery	93
Corrigendum to “Characterizing satellite-derived freeze/thaw regimes through spatial and temporal clustering for the identification of growing season constraints on vegetation productivity” [Remote Se	91
Towards accurate mapping of forest in tropical landscapes: A comparison of datasets on how forest transition matters	91
A generalized framework for drought monitoring across Central European grassland gradients with Sentinel-2 time series	91
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS	90
Estimating river discharge across scales with a novel regional gauging method driven by Sentinel satellite data	89
Robust retrieval of soil moisture at field scale across wide-ranging SAR incidence angles for soybean, wheat, forage, oat and grass	88

Extrapolation of electromagnetic pointing error corrections for Sentinel-1 Doppler currents from land areas to the open ocean	87
On the ambiguity removal of wind direction derived from space-borne SAR imagery using deep learning	87
Millimeter to centimeter scale precision water-level monitoring using GNSS reflectometry: Application to the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, China	86
STARS: A novel gap-filling method for SDGSAT-1 nighttime light imagery using spatiotemporal and spectral synergy	85
A moisture-based triangle approach for estimating surface evaporative fraction with time-series of remotely sensed data	84
Unoccupied aerial system (UAS) Structure-from-Motion canopy fuel parameters: Multisite area-based modelling across forests in California, USA	84
This is MATE: A Multiple scAttering correcTion rEtrieval algorithm for accurate lidar profiling of seawater optical properties	84
Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry	83