OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 75. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	611
Editorial Board	507
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	361
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	287
In-season crop progress in unsurveyed regions using networks trained on synthetic data	263
Study on automated detection methods of shallow surface soil water content based on GPR signal level	242
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	234
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	210
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	194
Comprehensive reassessment of Australia's land-surface phenology trends (1982–2022) using circular statistics and a harmonised NDVI dataset	189
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]	180
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	168
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	167
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	163
Estimation of intensity, footprint, and capacity of surface urban heat islands using a direction-enhanced adaptive synchronous extraction (DEASE) method	141
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	138
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	138
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	136
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	128
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	124
Spectral reflectance time series of four soils while drying from over-saturated to air-dry	118
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	116
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	115
Identifying and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions with the AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer	114
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	113

True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	112
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	110
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	108
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	108
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	107
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	107
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	105
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	104
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	102
Towards global mapping of dynamic surface water extents using Sentinel-1 SAR data	101
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	101
Remote sensing applications for monitoring restoration outcomes in boreal forestry-drained peatlands - Reviewed applications and future potential	101
How have Florida's red tides changed from the 1970s to the 2000s? Assessment using CZCS and MODIS observations	99
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	96
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	95
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	93
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	92
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	91
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	91
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions	90
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	90
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	89
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	88
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	87
RSPECT: A PROSPECT-based model incorporating the real structure of rice leaves	87
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	87
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	86
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	86
Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach	84
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	84
Satellite observations of water transparency from VIIRS in global aquatic ecosystems	84
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	83
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	82
A novel global snow depth retrieval method considering snow metamorphism and forest influence	81
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America	81
STARS: A novel gap-filling method for SDGSAT-1 nighttime light imagery using spatiotemporal and spectral synergy	80
Assessing a soil-removed semi-empirical model for estimating leaf chlorophyll content	80
Predicting surface soil moisture of northern peatlands from hyper- and multispectral satellite data	80
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	79
Visualizing the pre-visual: Rice blast infection signals revealed	79
Net primary production in the Labrador Sea between 2014 and 2022 derived from ocean colour remote sensing based on ecological regimes	78
Edge effects on forest dynamics in China from 2000 to 2020: Evidence from satellite remote sensing	78
Machine learning-based generation of high-resolution 3D full-coverage aerosol distribution data over China using multisource data	78
Geodetic glacier mass balance in the Karakoram (2011–2019) from TanDEM-X: An InSAR DEM differencing framework	77
Editorial Board	77
Methodological considerations for studying spectral-plant diversity relationships	76
This is MATE: A Multiple scAttering correcTion rEtrieval algorithm for accurate lidar profiling of seawater optical properties	76
Leveraging Landsat-8/-9 underfly observations to evaluate consistency in reflectance products over aquatic environments	76
PAGrid: A probabilistic area-weighted gridding method for seamless mapping of sentinel-3 swath data	75
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS	75

Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	75
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	75
SDGSAT-1 nighttime light data improve village-scale built-up delineation	75
Towards accurate mapping of forest in tropical landscapes: A comparison of datasets on how forest transition matters	75
Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning	75
Editorial Board	75