Remote Sensing of Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Remote Sensing of Environment is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets434
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation412
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images399
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension333
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020301
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes279
Gravity recovery from SWOT altimetry using geoid height and geoid gradient265
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory264
Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations248
Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data213
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations189
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt185
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics183
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data180
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data178
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images178
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models174
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities171
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance169
Learning spectral-indices-fused deep models for time-series land use and land cover mapping in cloud-prone areas: The case of Pearl River Delta168
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART166
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects164
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions159
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping159
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau155
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application151
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine150
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal148
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin140
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations138
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) 1136
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2134
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras133
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example129
A new fog and low stratus retrieval for tropical South America reveals widespread fog in lowland forests129
Editorial Board129
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels128
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content127
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands126
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
Multi-decadal analysis of high-resolution albedo changes induced by urbanization over contrasted Chinese cities based on Landsat data121
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data118
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States114
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)112
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities112
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 TGRA111
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content109
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model108
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations107
Air pollution scenario over Pakistan: Characterization and ranking of extremely polluted cities using long-term concentrations of aerosols and trace gases106
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis105
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock105
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy103
Spatio-Temporal reconstruction to fill spatial gaps in global satellite vegetation optical depth products102
A new Multivariate Drought Severity Index to identify short-term hydrological signals: case study of the Amazon River basin101
Net primary production in the Labrador Sea between 2014 and 2022 derived from ocean colour remote sensing based on ecological regimes101
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 artifacts100
A generalized framework for drought monitoring across Central European grassland gradients with Sentinel-2 time series98
Estimating river discharge across scales with a novel regional gauging method driven by Sentinel satellite data98
An adaptive spatiotemporal tensor reconstruction method for GIMMS-3g+ NDVI98
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 imagery97
Visualizing the pre-visual: Rice blast infection signals revealed96
Corrigendum to “Characterizing satellite-derived freeze/thaw regimes through spatial and temporal clustering for the identification of growing season constraints on vegetation productivity” [Remote Se96
Methodological considerations for studying spectral-plant diversity relationships96
On the ambiguity removal of wind direction derived from space-borne SAR imagery using deep learning95
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America95
Evaluating the performance of airborne and spaceborne lidar for mapping biomass in the United States' largest dry woodland ecosystem94
Unoccupied aerial system (UAS) Structure-from-Motion canopy fuel parameters: Multisite area-based modelling across forests in California, USA94
Deep learning solver unites SDGSAT-1 observations and Navier–Stokes theory for oceanic vortex streets93
STARS: A novel gap-filling method for SDGSAT-1 nighttime light imagery using spatiotemporal and spectral synergy92
This is MATE: A Multiple scAttering correcTion rEtrieval algorithm for accurate lidar profiling of seawater optical properties91
Leveraging Landsat-8/-9 underfly observations to evaluate consistency in reflectance products over aquatic environments90
A novel global snow depth retrieval method considering snow metamorphism and forest influence89
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 data89
Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry88
Distinguishing forest types in restored tropical landscapes with UAV-borne LIDAR87
Towards accurate mapping of forest in tropical landscapes: A comparison of datasets on how forest transition matters87
A machine learning-based accuracy enhancement on EUMETSAT H-SAF H35 effective snow-covered area product87
Novel algorithms for pair and pixel selection and atmospheric error correction in multitemporal InSAR86
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 Sea85
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land84
Extrapolation of electromagnetic pointing error corrections for Sentinel-1 Doppler currents from land areas to the open ocean84
Robust retrieval of soil moisture at field scale across wide-ranging SAR incidence angles for soybean, wheat, forage, oat and grass83
Reappraisal of SMAP inversion algorithms for soil moisture and vegetation optical depth82
Millimeter to centimeter scale precision water-level monitoring using GNSS reflectometry: Application to the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, China82
Detection and characterization of coastal tidal wetland change in the northeastern US using Landsat time series81
Spectral-temporal traits in Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral remote sensing time series for 61 tree species in Central Europe81
The influence of surface canopy water on the relationship between L-band backscatter and biophysical variables in agricultural monitoring81
Mapping inundated bathymetry for estimating lake water storage changes from SRTM DEM: A global investigation80
A moisture-based triangle approach for estimating surface evaporative fraction with time-series of remotely sensed data79
Assessing a soil-removed semi-empirical model for estimating leaf chlorophyll content78
Spatio-temporal variability of water use efficiency and its drivers in major forest formations in India78
Transfer learning in environmental remote sensing78
SDGSAT-1 nighttime light data improve village-scale built-up delineation77
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS77
A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data77
CloudS2Mask: A novel deep learning approach for improved cloud and cloud shadow masking in Sentinel-2 imagery76
Ozone profiles without blind area retrieved from MAX-DOAS measurements and comprehensive validation with multi-platform observations76
Machine learning-based generation of high-resolution 3D full-coverage aerosol distribution data over China using multisource data76
From parcel to continental scale – A first European crop type map based on Sentinel-1 and LUCAS Copernicus in-situ observations75
Reconstruction of long-term high-resolution lake variability: Algorithm improvement and applications in China75
Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau75
Tracking states and transitions in semiarid rangelands: A spatiotemporal archetypal analysis of productivity dynamics using wavelets74
A unified deep learning framework for urban functional zone extraction based on multi-source heterogeneous data74
Phytoplankton composition from sPACE: Requirements, opportunities, and challenges74
Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning74
The urban morphology on our planet – Global perspectives from space74
Modeling diurnal gross primary production in East Asia using Himawari-8/9 geostationary satellite data72
Identification and evaluation of nighttime light pollution in residential gathering area of megacities based on SDGSAT-1 glimmer imagery72
Changes in GEDI-based measures of forest structure after large California wildfires relative to pre-fire conditions72
An optimal sequential physical retrieval system for retrieving high-accuracy diurnal atmospheric gases from FY-4B/GIIRS: Theory, algorithm and evaluation71
Deriving anisotropic correction for upwelling radiance from PACE's multi-angle polarimetry70
Hedgerow mapping with high resolution satellite imagery to support policy initiatives at national level70
Mapping large-scale pantropical forest canopy height by integrating GEDI lidar and TanDEM-X InSAR data70
Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps reveals fundamental differences and limitations of upscaling approaches70
ESTIMET: Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration algorithm for all sky conditions in tropical biomes70
Fractional cover mapping of wildland-urban interface fuels using Landsat, Sentinel 1 and PALSAR imagery69
First lunar-light mapping of nighttime dust season oceanic aerosol optical depth over North Atlantic from space69
Quantifying uncertainty in high resolution biophysical variable retrieval with machine learning68
Accurate mean wave period from SWIM instrument on-board CFOSAT68
Addressing critical influences on L-band radar backscatter for improved estimates of basal area and change68
Bridging the gap between airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy for mountain glacier surface property retrievals68
First TanSat CO2 retrieval over land and ocean using both nadir and glint spectroscopy67
Refined InSAR tropospheric delay correction for wide-area landslide identification and monitoring66
Editorial Board66
Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests66
Practical recommendations and limitations for pushbroom hyperspectral imaging of tree stems66
Mapping Annual Urban Evolution Process (2001–2018) at 250 m: A normalized multi-objective deep learning regression66
Retrieving bbp and POC from CALIOP: A deep neural network approach66
Tropical cyclone signatures in SAR ocean radial Doppler Velocity65
An atmospheric influence correction method for longwave radiation-based in-situ land surface temperature65
Improve topographic LiDAR point cloud interpolation accuracy with geodesic distance65
Impact of vegetation phenology on anisotropy of artificial light at night - Evidence from multi-angle satellite observations64
The QAA-RGB: A universal three-band absorption and backscattering retrieval algorithm for high resolution satellite sensors. Development and implementation in ACOLITE64
Satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and near-infrared reflectance capture complementary aspects of dryland vegetation productivity dynamics63
Remotely sensed habitat diversity predicts species diversity on coral reefs63
Long-term ice mass changes in Greenland and Antarctica derived from satellite laser ranging62
A hyperspectral view of the nearshore Mississippi River Delta: Characterizing suspended particles in coastal wetlands using imaging spectroscopy62
The 21 July 2020 Shaziba landslide in China: Results from multi-source satellite remote sensing62
Monthly mapping of forest harvesting using dense time series Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and deep learning62
Lighting characteristics of public space in urban functional areas based on SDGSAT-1 glimmer imagery:A case study in Beijing, China61
Generating 5 km resolution 1981–2018 daily global land surface longwave radiation products from AVHRR shortwave and longwave observations using densely connected convolutional neural networks61
An integrated method for angular and temporal reconstruction of land surface temperatures61
Examining CNN terrain model for TanDEM-X DEMs using ICESat-2 data in Southeastern United States60
Cross-city matters: A multimodal remote sensing benchmark dataset for cross-city semantic segmentation using high-resolution domain adaptation networks60
Coupling ecological concepts with an ocean-colour model: Phytoplankton size structure60
Solar photovoltaic module detection using laboratory and airborne imaging spectroscopy data60
Co-registration accuracy between Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 orthorectified products60
Arctic and Antarctic Surface Temperatures from AVHRR thermal Infrared satellite sensors 1982–202359
Integrating InSAR and non-rigid optical pixel offsets to explore the kinematic behaviors of the Lanuza complex landslide59
Multimodal aircraft flight altitude inversion from SDGSAT-1 thermal infrared data59
An advanced soil organic carbon content prediction model via fused temporal-spatial-spectral (TSS) information based on machine learning and deep learning algorithms59
Characterization of Tajogaite volcanic plumes detected over the Iberian Peninsula from a set of satellite and ground-based remote sensing instrumentation59
Accurate reconstruction of satellite-derived SST under cloud and cloud-free areas using a physically-informed machine learning approach59
Establishing the global isoscape of leaf carbon in C3 plants through the integrations of remote sensing, carbon, geographic, and physiological information58
Editorial Board58
A global-scale intercomparison of Triple Collocation Analysis- and ground-based soil moisture time-variant errors derived from different rescaling techniques58
A river runs through it: Robust automated mapping of riparian woodlands and land surface phenology across dryland regions58
The many shades of red tides: Sentinel-2 optical types of highly-concentrated harmful algal blooms58
Validation of the hot-spot model with terrestrial laser scanning58
Editorial Board58
Low-amplitude brittle deformations revealed by UAV surveys in alluvial fans along the northwest coast of Lake Baikal: Neotectonic significance and geological hazards58
Understanding temperature variations in mountainous regions: The relationship between satellite-derived land surface temperature and in situ near-surface air temperature57
Spatial-temporal evolution of landslides spanning the impoundment of Baihetan mega hydropower project revealed by satellite radar interferometry57
Editorial Board57
A deep learning method for generating gap-free FAPAR time series from Landsat data57
Phase unwrapping of SAR interferogram from modified U-net via training data simulation and network structure optimization56
Machine learning forecast of surface solar irradiance from meteo satellite data56
Uncertainty quantification for forest attribute maps with conformal prediction and k56
Impact of microwave observations on the estimation of Arctic sea surface temperatures56
Mapping urban construction sites in China through geospatial data fusion: Methods and applications55
Urbanization-induced spatial and temporal patterns of local drought revealed by high-resolution fused remotely sensed datasets55
Characterizing dynamics of built-up height in China from 2005 to 2020 based on GEDI, Landsat, and PALSAR data55
Hidden becomes clear: Optical remote sensing of vegetation reveals water table dynamics in northern peatlands55
3D radiative transfer modeling of structurally complex forest canopies through a lightweight boundary-based description of leaf clusters55
Exploring the potential of Aeolus lidar mission for ocean color applications55
Quantify and account for field reference errors in forest remote sensing studies55
Burned area detection and mapping using time series Sentinel-2 multispectral images54
Bushfire recovery at a long-term tall eucalypt flux site through the lens of a satellite: Combining multi-scale data for structural-functional insight54
Rainfall-caused water film on canopy surface biases remotely-sensed vegetation greenness54
Quantifying the sensitivity of L-Band SAR to a decade of vegetation structure changes in savannas54
Remote sensing of dissolved CO2 concentrations in meso-eutrophic lakes using Sentinel-3 imagery54
How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?54
Inter-comparison of melt pond products from optical satellite imagery54
Pakistan's 2022 floods: Spatial distribution, causes and future trends from Sentinel-1 SAR observations53
Croplands intensify regional and global warming according to satellite observations53
Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning53
Soil moisture as an essential component for delineating and forecasting agricultural rather than meteorological drought53
A full-level fused cross-task transfer learning method for building change detection using noise-robust pretrained networks on crowdsourced labels53
Canopy height estimation from PlanetScope time series with spatio-temporal deep learning53
CascadeDumpNet: Enhancing open dumpsite detection through deep learning and AutoML integrated dual-stage approach using high-resolution satellite imagery53
Satellite canopy water content from Sentinel-2, Landsat-8 and MODIS: Principle, algorithm and assessment53
Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products52
High-frequency time series comparison of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites for mapping open and vegetated water across the United States (2017–2021)52
Mapping fine-scale building heights in urban agglomeration with spaceborne lidar52
Daily estimation of gross primary production under all sky using a light use efficiency model coupled with satellite passive microwave measurements52
Nonlinear effects of surface soil moisture changes on vegetation greenness over the Tibetan plateau52
Kilometer-level glyoxal retrieval via satellite for anthropogenic volatile organic compound emission source and secondary organic aerosol formation identification52
Statistical uncertainty analysis-based precipitation merging (SUPER): A new framework for improved global precipitation estimation52
Mapping center pivot irrigation systems in global arid regions using instance segmentation and analyzing their spatial relationship with freshwater resources51
Remote sensing of diverse urban environments: From the single city to multiple cities50
A dual-branch network for crop-type mapping of scattered small agricultural fields in time series remote sensing images50
Very high resolution canopy height maps from RGB imagery using self-supervised vision transformer and convolutional decoder trained on aerial lidar50
The retrieval of aerosol optical properties based on a random forest machine learning approach: Exploration of geostationary satellite images50
Editorial Board50
Improving retrieval of leaf chlorophyll content from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-7/8 imagery by correcting for canopy structural effects50
A global analysis of the temporal availability of PlanetScope high spatial resolution multi-spectral imagery50
Improved generality of wheat green LAI models through mitigation of the effect of leaf chlorophyll content variation with red edge vegetation indices50
Estimate of daytime single-layer cloud base height from advanced baseline imager measurements50
NeRF-LAI: A hybrid method combining neural radiance field and gap-fraction theory for deriving effective leaf area index of corn and soybean using multi-angle UAV images49
Seasonal patterns of spectral diversity at leaf and canopy scales in the Cedar Creek prairie biodiversity experiment49
Trends of ambient O3 levels associated with O3 precursor gases and meteorology in California: Synergies from ground and satellite observations49
Continuous Sargassum monitoring across the Caribbean Sea and Central Atlantic using multi-sensor satellite observations49
Climate change and shallow aquifers - Unravelling local hydrogeological impacts and groundwater decline-induced subsidence49
Mitigating the directional retrieval error of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in the red band49
Uncertainty estimates in the NISAR high-resolution soil moisture retrievals from multi-scale algorithm49
Evaluation of runoff variability in transboundary basins over High Mountain Asia: Multi-dataset merging based on satellite gravimetry constraint49
Extended aerosol and surface characterization from S5P/TROPOMI with GRASP algorithm. Part II: Global validation and Intercomparison49
Training sensor-agnostic deep learning models for remote sensing: Achieving state-of-the-art cloud and cloud shadow identification with OmniCloudMask49
Revolutionizing crop phenotyping: Enhanced UAV LiDAR flight parameter optimization for wide-narrow row cultivation49
A robust and flexible satellite aerosol retrieval algorithm for multi-angle polarimetric measurements with physics-informed deep learning method48
An advanced change detection method for time-series soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-148
How to consider the effects of time of day, beam strength, and snow cover in ICESat-2 based estimation of boreal forest biomass?48
Topographic controls on active microwave behavior of mountain snowpacks48
Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to photosynthesis with hemispherical than nadir measurements: Evidence from field observations and model simulations48
Detection of wet snow in the Arctic tundra from time-series fully-polarimetric RADARSAT-2 images47
Conjugating remotely sensed data assimilation and model-assisted estimation for efficient multivariate forest inventory47
Tracking the source direction of surface mass loads using vertical and horizontal displacements from satellite geodesy: A case study of the inter-annual fluctuations in the water level in the Great La47
Editorial Board47
Multi-grain habitat models that combine satellite sensors with different resolutions explain bird species richness patterns best47
Improved tropical deep convective cloud detection using MODIS observations with an active sensor trained machine learning algorithm47
Editorial Board46
Improved assessment of post-fire recovery trajectory of forests in Amazon's protected areas46
Arctic shrub expansion revealed by Landsat-derived multitemporal vegetation cover fractions in the Western Canadian Arctic46
Regional-scale cotton yield forecast via data-driven spatio-temporal prediction (STP) of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF)46
Two-stage downscaling and correction cascade learning framework for generating long-time series seamless soil moisture46
A remote sensing model for coral recruitment habitat46
Unveiling coastal change across the Arctic with full Landsat collections and data fusion46
Changes in glacier surface temperature across the Third Pole from 2000 to 202146
Mapping forest canopy fuel parameters at European scale using spaceborne LiDAR and satellite data46
Temporal expansion of the nighttime light images of SDGSAT-1 satellite in illuminating ground object extraction by joint observation of NPP-VIIRS and sentinel-2A images46
Improving the capability of D-InSAR combined with offset-tracking for monitoring glacier velocity46
Sensitivity of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and hyperspectral reflectance to drought response in soybean genotypes with contrasting affinities for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi45
Polygon-Informed Cross-Track Altimetry (PICTA): Estimating river water level profiles with the Sentinel-6 altimeter45
GLOSTFM: A global spatiotemporal fusion model integrating multi-source satellite observations to enhance land surface temperature resolution45
3D Monte Carlo differentiable radiative transfer with DART45
Multitemporal airborne imaging spectrometry and fluorometry reveal contrasting photoprotective responses of trees45
Estimating leaf mass per area with leaf radiative transfer model45
Aquarius sea surface salinity retrieval in coastal regions based on deep neural networks45
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