OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 76. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Satellite detection of canopy-scale tree mortality and survival from California wildfires with spatio-temporal deep learning	632
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	260
Global coastal geomorphology – integrating earth observation and geospatial data	255
Far-field bistatic scattering simulation for rice crop biophysical parameters retrieval using modified radiative transfer model at X- and C-band	217
A knowledge-based, validated classifier for the identification of aliphatic and aromatic plastics by WorldView-3 satellite data	198
Assessment of Sentinel-6 SAR mode and reprocessed Jason-3 sea level measurements over global coastal oceans	193
Generation of country-scale canopy height maps over Gabon using deep learning and TanDEM-X InSAR data	193
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	189
Estimates of the global ocean surface dissolved oxygen and macronutrients from satellite data	182
Detecting heat-inducing urban built-up surface material with multi remote sensing datasets using reflectance and emission spectroscopy	181
Estimating effects of wind and waves on the Doppler centroid frequency shift for the SAR retrieval of ocean currents	179
A machine learning scheme for estimating fine-resolution grassland aboveground biomass over China with Sentinel-1/2 satellite images	175
Detection of petroleum hydrocarbons in continental areas using airborne hyperspectral thermal infrared data (SEBASS)	172
Toward consistent change detection across irregular remote sensing time series observations	168
Estimating runoff from pan-Arctic drainage basins for 2002–2019 using an improved runoff-storage relationship	167
Harnessing data assimilation and spatial autocorrelation for forest inventory	161
Cloud identification and property retrieval from Himawari-8 infrared measurements via a deep neural network	160
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock	155
Utilizing unsupervised learning, multi-view imaging, and CNN-based attention facilitates cost-effective wetland mapping	153
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	141
Evaluation of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture in croplands of Jiangsu Province, China	137
Analyzing surface deformation throughout China's territory using multi-temporal InSAR processing of Sentinel-1 radar data	135
Simulation of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by modeling radiative coupling between vegetation and atmosphere with WPS	132
Editorial Board	129
Discriminative feature constraints via supervised contrastive learning for few-shot forest tree species classification using airborne hyperspectral images	126

First mapping of polarization-dependent vegetation optical depth and soil moisture from SMAP L-band radiometry	124
Quantifying Surface Melt and Liquid Water on the Greenland Ice Sheet using L-band Radiometry	122
Multi-season unmixing of vegetation class fractions across diverse Californian ecoregions using simulated spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data	122
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	122
Monitoring erosion in tropical savannas from C-band radar coherence	122
Improving surface soil moisture retrievals through a novel assimilation algorithm to estimate both model and observation errors	115
Evaluating the role of solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) and plant physiological traits for leaf nitrogen assessment in almond using airborne hyperspectral imagery	109
Temporal decorrelation of C-band radar data over wheat in a semi-arid area using sub-daily tower-based observations	108
Phenological corrections to a field-scale, ET-based crop stress indicator: An application to yield forecasting across the U.S. Corn Belt	106
Benchmarking algorithm changes to the Snow CCI+ snow water equivalent product	105
Global modeling diurnal gross primary production from OCO-3 solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence	105
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	102
Response times of remote sensing measured sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, surface temperature and vegetation indices to evolving soil water limitation in a crop canopy	102
Detection of Xylella fastidiosa in almond orchards by synergic use of an epidemic spread model and remotely sensed plant traits	100
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	99
Transitioning from remote sensing archaeology to space archaeology: Towards a paradigm shift	97
An improved triple collocation-based integration of multiple gravity anomaly grids from satellite altimetry: Contribution of ICESat-2	95
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	95
Predicting air quality via multimodal AI and satellite imagery	94
Temperature effects on L-band vegetation optical depth of a boreal forest	93
Assessing the detectability of European spruce bark beetle green attack in multispectral drone images with high spatial- and temporal resolutions	92
Editorial Board	92
Detection of signals linked to climate change, land-cover change and climate oscillators in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests	91
Towards uninterrupted canopy-trait time-series: A Bayesian radiative transfer model inversion using multi-sourced satellite observations	88
Instrumentation sensitivities for tower-based solar-induced fluorescence measurements	88
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	88
Characterization of ice shelf fracture features using ICESat-2 – A case study over the Amery Ice Shelf	87
Improved tropical cyclone wind speed estimation for microwave altimeter using machine learning	87
Editorial Board	87
A novel inequality-constrained weighted linear mixture model for endmember variability	86
Seasonally-decomposed Sentinel-1 backscatter time-series are useful indicators of peatland wildfire vulnerability	86
Contextual uncertainty assessments for InSAR-based deformation retrieval using an ensemble approach	85
Predicting the liveability of Dutch cities with aerial images and semantic intermediate concepts	85
Identifying the effects of chronic saltwater intrusion in coastal floodplain swamps using remote sensing	85
Transpiration – Soil evaporation partitioning determines inter-model differences in soil moisture and evapotranspiration coupling	84
Derivation of PM10 mass concentration from advanced satellite retrieval products based on a semi-empirical physical approach	84
Satellite-derived quantification of the diurnal and annual dynamics of land surface temperature	84
Monitoring global cement plants from space	83
Leaf properties estimation enhancement over heterogeneous vegetation by correcting for terrestrial laser scanning beam divergence effect	83
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	83
Time series retrieval of Multi-wavelength Aerosol optical depth by adapting Transformer (TMAT) using Himawari-8 AHI data	82
Detecting tree mortality using waveform features of airborne LiDAR	82
Editorial Board	81
Monitoring of chlorophyll content in local saltwort species Suaeda salsa under water and salt stress based on the PROSAIL-D model in coastal wetland	80
A neural network-based method for satellite-based mapping of sediment-laden sea ice in the Arctic	80
Automatic mapping of 500 m daily open water body fraction in the American continent using GOES-16 ABI imagery	80
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	80
Simultaneous estimation of leaf directional-hemispherical reflectance and transmittance from multi-angular canopy reflectance	80
Synergic use of altimeter and model sea level data in inner and coastal seas	78
Unsupervised machine learning detection of iceberg populations within sea ice from dual-polarisation SAR imagery	77

CRYSTAL: A novel and effective method to remove clouds in daily nighttime light images by synergizing spatiotemporal information	77
Editorial Board	76
Genetic constraints on temporal variation of airborne reflectance spectra and their uncertainties over a temperate forest	76
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	76