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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	434
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	412
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	399
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	333
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	301
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	279
Gravity recovery from SWOT altimetry using geoid height and geoid gradient	265
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	264
Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations	248
Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data	213
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	189
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	185
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	183
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	180
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	178
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	178
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	174
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	171
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	169
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	168
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	166
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	164
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	159
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions	159
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	155

Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	151
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	150
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	148
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	140
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	138
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	136
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	134
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	133
A new fog and low stratus retrieval for tropical South America reveals widespread fog in lowland forests	129
Editorial Board	129
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	129
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	128
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	127
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]	126
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	126
Multi-decadal analysis of high-resolution albedo changes induced by urbanization over contrasted Chinese cities based on Landsat data	121
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	118
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	114
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities	112
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	112
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	111
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	109
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	108
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	107
Air pollution scenario over Pakistan: Characterization and ranking of extremely polluted cities using long-term concentrations of aerosols and trace gases	106
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	105
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock	105
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	103
Spatio-Temporal reconstruction to fill spatial gaps in global satellite vegetation optical depth products	102
Net primary production in the Labrador Sea between 2014 and 2022 derived from ocean colour remote sensing based on ecological regimes	101
A new Multivariate Drought Severity Index to identify short-term hydrological signals: case study of the Amazon River basin	101
A new approach for 2-D and 3-D precise measurements of ground deformation from optimized registration and correlation of optical images and ICA-based filtering of image geometry artifacts	100
An adaptive spatiotemporal tensor reconstruction method for GIMMS-3g+ NDVI	98
A generalized framework for drought monitoring across Central European grassland gradients with Sentinel-2 time series	98
Estimating river discharge across scales with a novel regional gauging method driven by Sentinel satellite data	98
Distinct contribution of the blue spectral region and far-red solar-induced fluorescence to needle nitrogen and phosphorus assessment in coniferous nutrient trials with hyperspectral imagery	97
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	96
Methodological considerations for studying spectral-plant diversity relationships	96
Visualizing the pre-visual: Rice blast infection signals revealed	96
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America	95
On the ambiguity removal of wind direction derived from space-borne SAR imagery using deep learning	95
Evaluating the performance of airborne and spaceborne lidar for mapping biomass in the United States' largest dry woodland ecosystem	94
Unoccupied aerial system (UAS) Structure-from-Motion canopy fuel parameters: Multisite area-based modelling across forests in California, USA	94
Deep learning solver unites SDGSAT-1 observations and Navier–Stokes theory for oceanic vortex streets	93
STARS: A novel gap-filling method for SDGSAT-1 nighttime light imagery using spatiotemporal and spectral synergy	92
This is MATE: A Multiple scAttering correcTion rEtrieval algorithm for accurate lidar profiling of seawater optical properties	91
Leveraging Landsat-8/-9 underfly observations to evaluate consistency in reflectance products over aquatic environments	90
Evolution of geodetic mass balance over the largest lake-terminating glacier in the Tibetan Plateau with a revised radar penetration depth based on multi-source high-resolution satellite data	89
A novel global snow depth retrieval method considering snow metamorphism and forest influence	89
Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry	88

A machine learning-based accuracy enhancement on EUMETSAT H-SAF H35 effective snow-covered area product	87
Distinguishing forest types in restored tropical landscapes with UAV-borne LIDAR	87
Towards accurate mapping of forest in tropical landscapes: A comparison of datasets on how forest transition matters	87
Novel algorithms for pair and pixel selection and atmospheric error correction in multitemporal InSAR	86
Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	85
Benefits of fully focused SAR altimetry to coastal wave height estimates: A case study in the North Sea	85
Extrapolation of electromagnetic pointing error corrections for Sentinel-1 Doppler currents from land areas to the open ocean	84
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land	84
Robust retrieval of soil moisture at field scale across wide-ranging SAR incidence angles for soybean, wheat, forage, oat and grass	83