OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 79. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	663
Editorial Board	527
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	388
Study on automated detection methods of shallow surface soil water content based on GPR signal level	338
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]	282
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	256
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	223
How have Florida's red tides changed from the 1970s to the 2000s? Assessment using CZCS and MODIS observations	208
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	200
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	190
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions	180
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	179
Spectral reflectance time series of four soils while drying from over-saturated to air-dry	175
Identifying and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions with the AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer	155
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	150
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	146
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	135
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	133
Satellite observations of water transparency from VIIRS in global aquatic ecosystems	133
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	132
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	130
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	126
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	122
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	120
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	118

Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	118
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	116
Prediction and interpretation of high-temperature heat damage risk zones in the Eastern Tibetan Transport Corridor based on a location-information-fusion convolution neural network	115
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	115
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	114
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	113
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	111
Remote sensing applications for monitoring restoration outcomes in boreal forestry-drained peatlands - Reviewed applications and future potential	110
Towards global mapping of dynamic surface water extents using Sentinel-1 SAR data	108
In-season crop progress in unsurveyed regions using networks trained on synthetic data	107
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	106
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	104
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	103
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	102
A UAV-based framework for field-scale extraction of leaf inclination angles in soybean canopies	101
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	99
Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach	98
Estimation of intensity, footprint, and capacity of surface urban heat islands using a direction-enhanced adaptive synchronous extraction (DEASE) method	98
Comprehensive reassessment of Australia's land-surface phenology trends (1982–2022) using circular statistics and a harmonised NDVI dataset	97
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	97
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	97
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	97
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	95
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	94
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	92
RSPECT: A PROSPECT-based model incorporating the real structure of rice leaves	91
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	90
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	89
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	89
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	88
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	88
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	87
PAGrid: A probabilistic area-weighted gridding method for seamless mapping of sentinel-3 swath data	86
Editorial Board	86
Predicting surface soil moisture of northern peatlands from hyper- and multispectral satellite data	86
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land	85
Towards an easy-to-use algorithm to estimate longwave cloud radiative forcing: algorithm development and preliminary evaluation	85
Editorial Board	85
Leveraging additional VIIRS information to improve wildfire tracking in the western US	85
Editorial Board	84
NRT-GSF: A novel near-real-time ground-satellite fusion algorithm to retrieve daily green area index at field scale	84
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	83
Highest quality remote sensing reflectance database compiled from 20+ years of MODIS-aqua measurements	83
Leaf fall witnessed by night-time light: A first attempt to detect urban leaf fall dates using satellite nighttime light data	83
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	82
Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning	81
On the ambiguity removal of wind direction derived from space-borne SAR imagery using deep learning	81
Extrapolation of electromagnetic pointing error corrections for Sentinel-1 Doppler currents from land areas to the open ocean	81
Geo-pedological controls on soil erosion vulnerability: A multi-parameter spatial analysis in diverse landscapes of Tamil Nadu, South India	81
Evaluating the performance of airborne and spaceborne lidar for mapping biomass in the United States' largest dry woodland ecosystem	81

Geodetic glacier mass balance in the Karakoram (2011–2019) from TanDEM-X: An InSAR DEM differencing framework	80
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS	80
Unoccupied aerial system (UAS) Structure-from-Motion canopy fuel parameters: Multisite area-based modelling across forests in California, USA	80
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America	79
Space-based assessment of NOx emissions from global oil and gas fields: Bridging the gap in current emission inventories	79