Remote Sensing of Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Remote Sensing of Environment is 11. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data604
Reconstructing 1-km-resolution high-quality PM2.5 data records from 2000 to 2018 in China: spatiotemporal variations and policy implications527
lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data461
WHU-Hi: UAV-borne hyperspectral with high spatial resolution (H2) benchmark datasets and classifier for precise crop identification based on deep convolutional neural network with CRF270
Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon267
Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts235
Full-coverage mapping and spatiotemporal variations of ground-level ozone (O3) pollution from 2013 to 2020 across China226
Cross-city matters: A multimodal remote sensing benchmark dataset for cross-city semantic segmentation using high-resolution domain adaptation networks193
Satellite-derived bathymetry using the ICESat-2 lidar and Sentinel-2 imagery datasets181
NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms179
Building damage assessment for rapid disaster response with a deep object-based semantic change detection framework: From natural disasters to man-made disasters179
Performance evaluation of GEDI and ICESat-2 laser altimeter data for terrain and canopy height retrievals172
ACIX-Aqua: A global assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 over lakes, rivers, and coastal waters172
A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications – confronting product characteristics with user requirements172
Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission171
Modelling lidar-derived estimates of forest attributes over space and time: A review of approaches and future trends167
A review of machine learning in processing remote sensing data for mineral exploration164
Thematic accuracy assessment of the NLCD 2016 land cover for the conterminous United States163
The PRISMA imaging spectroscopy mission: overview and first performance analysis159
Review of GPM IMERG performance: A global perspective157
A practical reanalysis data and thermal infrared remote sensing data merging (RTM) method for reconstruction of a 1-km all-weather land surface temperature156
Accurate cloud detection in high-resolution remote sensing imagery by weakly supervised deep learning154
Rapid, robust, and automated mapping of tidal flats in China using time series Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine152
SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives148
How to quantify the cooling effect of urban parks? Linking maximum and accumulation perspectives142
Mapping of crop types and crop sequences with combined time series of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 data for Germany141
Multi-sensor remote sensing for drought characterization: current status, opportunities and a roadmap for the future139
Tree species classification from airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data using 3D convolutional neural networks137
Validation of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights in boreal forests136
PROSPECT-PRO for estimating content of nitrogen-containing leaf proteins and other carbon-based constituents135
Fusing simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR data for regional aboveground biomass mapping130
Generating surface soil moisture at 30 m spatial resolution using both data fusion and machine learning toward better water resources management at the field scale129
Present-day land subsidence rates, surface faulting hazard and risk in Mexico City with 2014–2020 Sentinel-1 IW InSAR128
Deep building footprint update network: A semi-supervised method for updating existing building footprint from bi-temporal remote sensing images126
Improving land cover classification in an urbanized coastal area by random forests: The role of variable selection125
Corn yield prediction and uncertainty analysis based on remotely sensed variables using a Bayesian neural network approach124
Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles124
Evaluation of machine learning algorithms for forest stand species mapping using Sentinel-2 imagery and environmental data in the Polish Carpathians124
Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements122
National-scale mapping of building height using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series122
A global analysis of the temporal availability of PlanetScope high spatial resolution multi-spectral imagery112
InSAR-based detection method for mapping and monitoring slow-moving landslides in remote regions with steep and mountainous terrain: An application to Nepal112
Atmospheric correction of Sentinel-3/OLCI data for mapping of suspended particulate matter and chlorophyll-a concentration in Belgian turbid coastal waters110
Neural network guided interpolation for mapping canopy height of China's forests by integrating GEDI and ICESat-2 data108
Continental drought monitoring using satellite soil moisture, data assimilation and an integrated drought index108
Development of the GLASS 250-m leaf area index product (version 6) from MODIS data using the bidirectional LSTM deep learning model106
OCO-3 early mission operations and initial (vEarly) XCO2 and SIF retrievals103
Mapping Australia's dynamic coastline at mean sea level using three decades of Landsat imagery103
Transfer-learning-based approach for leaf chlorophyll content estimation of winter wheat from hyperspectral data102
Towards interpreting multi-temporal deep learning models in crop mapping99
Early detection of forest stress from European spruce bark beetle attack, and a new vegetation index: Normalized distance red & SWIR (NDRS)99
Cloud Mask Intercomparison eXercise (CMIX): An evaluation of cloud masking algorithms for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-298
From parcel to continental scale – A first European crop type map based on Sentinel-1 and LUCAS Copernicus in-situ observations97
Using soil library hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning to predict soil organic carbon: Assessing potential of airborne and spaceborne optical soil sensing96
NIRVP: A robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales95
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock94
In-situ and triple-collocation based evaluations of eight global root zone soil moisture products94
Individual tree crown segmentation from airborne LiDAR data using a novel Gaussian filter and energy function minimization-based approach93
Sensitivity of six typical spatiotemporal fusion methods to different influential factors: A comparative study for a normalized difference vegetation index time series reconstruction91
Production of global daily seamless data cubes and quantification of global land cover change from 1985 to 2020 - iMap World 1.091
A deep learning method for building height estimation using high-resolution multi-view imagery over urban areas: A case study of 42 Chinese cities91
Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales90
Air pollution scenario over Pakistan: Characterization and ranking of extremely polluted cities using long-term concentrations of aerosols and trace gases90
Land cover classification in an era of big and open data: Optimizing localized implementation and training data selection to improve mapping outcomes88
Simultaneous retrieval of selected optical water quality indicators from Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-388
Comparing land surface phenology of major European crops as derived from SAR and multispectral data of Sentinel-1 and -287
Individual tree segmentation and tree species classification in subtropical broadleaf forests using UAV-based LiDAR, hyperspectral, and ultrahigh-resolution RGB data87
Multi-sensor spectral synergies for crop stress detection and monitoring in the optical domain: A review87
Virtual image pair-based spatio-temporal fusion86
Estimating PM2.5 concentrations in Northeastern China with full spatiotemporal coverage, 2005–201686
Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm86
The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission: Enhanced continuity of satellite sea level measurements from space86
Mapping grassland mowing events across Germany based on combined Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 time series86
Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire behaviour85
Crop mapping from image time series: Deep learning with multi-scale label hierarchies85
Change detection using deep learning approach with object-based image analysis84
Mapping temperate forest tree species using dense Sentinel-2 time series84
A new land surface temperature fusion strategy based on cumulative distribution function matching and multiresolution Kalman filtering84
Automated detection of rock glaciers using deep learning and object-based image analysis83
The urban morphology on our planet – Global perspectives from space83
An automated rice mapping method based on flooding signals in synthetic aperture radar time series82
Mapping methane point emissions with the PRISMA spaceborne imaging spectrometer80
Estimation of root zone soil moisture from ground and remotely sensed soil information with multisensor data fusion and automated machine learning80
Long time-series NDVI reconstruction in cloud-prone regions via spatio-temporal tensor completion79
Remote sensing of natural hazard-related disasters with small drones: Global trends, biases, and research opportunities79
Evaluating global and regional land warming trends in the past decades with both MODIS and ERA5-Land land surface temperature data78
Multiscale assessment of land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, PlanetScope, and PhenoCam imagery77
Soil variability and quantification based on Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 bare soil images: A comparison77
Spectroscopic detection of rice leaf blast infection from asymptomatic to mild stages with integrated machine learning and feature selection76
Monitoring temperate forest degradation on Google Earth Engine using Landsat time series analysis76
Pre- and within-season crop type classification trained with archival land cover information76
Monitoring restored tropical forest diversity and structure through UAV-borne hyperspectral and lidar fusion75
A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau75
Calibrating vegetation phenology from Sentinel-2 using eddy covariance, PhenoCam, and PEP725 networks across Europe74
Structural and photosynthetic dynamics mediate the response of SIF to water stress in a potato crop74
Quantifying plant-soil-nutrient dynamics in rangelands: Fusion of UAV hyperspectral-LiDAR, UAV multispectral-photogrammetry, and ground-based LiDAR-digital photography in a shrub-encroached desert gra74
A High-Precision Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm (HiPARA) for Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) data: Development and verification73
Evolution of NDVI secular trends and responses to climate change: A perspective from nonlinearity and nonstationarity characteristics73
Mapping large-scale and fine-grained urban functional zones from VHR images using a multi-scale semantic segmentation network and object based approach72
Lake outburst accelerated permafrost degradation on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau71
Aerosol characteristics from earth observation systems: A comprehensive investigation over South Asia (2000–2019)71
A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data71
Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated/dryland agriculture regions71
Multi-layer high-resolution soil moisture estimation using machine learning over the United States70
Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products70
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is non-linearly related to canopy photosynthesis in a temperate evergreen needleleaf forest during the fall transition70
Satellite remote sensing of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae: The power of high resolution and deep learning70
High-resolution wall-to-wall land-cover mapping and land change assessment for Australia from 1985 to 201569
Magnitudes and patterns of large-scale permafrost ground deformation revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau69
Satellite InSAR survey of structurally-controlled land subsidence due to groundwater exploitation in the Aguascalientes Valley, Mexico69
A near-real-time approach for monitoring forest disturbance using Landsat time series: stochastic continuous change detection68
A million kernels of truth: Insights into scalable satellite maize yield mapping and yield gap analysis from an extensive ground dataset in the US Corn Belt68
Exploring diurnal thermal variations in urban local climate zones with ECOSTRESS land surface temperature data68
InSAR monitoring of creeping landslides in mountainous regions: A case study in Eldorado National Forest, California68
Spatial and temporal deep learning methods for deriving land-use following deforestation: A pan-tropical case study using Landsat time series66
Hyperspectral retrievals of phytoplankton absorption and chlorophyll-a in inland and nearshore coastal waters66
Field spectroscopy of canopy nitrogen concentration in temperate grasslands using a convolutional neural network66
Hyperspectral imagery to monitor crop nutrient status within and across growing seasons65
Plant species classification in salt marshes using phenological parameters derived from Sentinel-2 pixel-differential time-series65
Automatic water detection from multidimensional hierarchical clustering for Sentinel-2 images and a comparison with Level 2A processors65
A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison65
Knowledge-guided land pattern depiction for urban land use mapping: A case study of Chinese cities64
Rapid glacier mass loss in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the year 2000 from satellite observations64
A first Chinese building height estimate at 10 m resolution (CNBH-10 m) using multi-source earth observations and machine learning63
Mapping horizontal and vertical urban densification in Denmark with Landsat time-series from 1985 to 2018: A semantic segmentation solution63
OC-SMART: A machine learning based data analysis platform for satellite ocean color sensors63
Predicting subsurface thermohaline structure from remote sensing data based on long short-term memory neural networks63
Improved Gaussian mixture model to map the flooded crops of VV and VH polarization data63
Sub-continental-scale mapping of tidal wetland composition for East Asia: A novel algorithm integrating satellite tide-level and phenological features63
Remote sensing of land change: A multifaceted perspective62
Monthly mapping of forest harvesting using dense time series Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and deep learning62
Spatiotemporal assessment of land use/land cover change and associated carbon emissions and uptake in the Mekong River Basin62
Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study62
TROPOMI observations allow for robust exploration of the relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and terrestrial gross primary production62
Urban-focused satellite CO2 observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3: A first look at the Los Angeles megacity61
A unified deep learning framework for urban functional zone extraction based on multi-source heterogeneous data61
Remote sensing annual dynamics of rapid permafrost thaw disturbances with LandTrendr61
Improving satellite retrieval of oceanic particulate organic carbon concentrations using machine learning methods61
Quantifying uncertainties in nighttime light retrievals from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band data61
Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification61
Sentinel-2 remote sensing of Zostera noltei-dominated intertidal seagrass meadows61
Completing the machine learning saga in fractional snow cover estimation from MODIS Terra reflectance data: Random forests versus support vector regression60
Mapping multi-layered mangroves from multispectral, hyperspectral, and LiDAR data60
Remote detection of marine debris using satellite observations in the visible and near infrared spectral range: Challenges and potentials60
Early- and in-season crop type mapping without current-year ground truth: Generating labels from historical information via a topology-based approach59
Deep machine learning with Sentinel satellite data to map paddy rice production stages across West Java, Indonesia59
Sea ice extents continue to set new records: Arctic, Antarctic, and global results59
Assessment of 24 soil moisture datasets using a new in situ network in the Shandian River Basin of China59
Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning59
Remotely estimating total suspended solids concentration in clear to extremely turbid waters using a novel semi-analytical method58
CNN-based burned area mapping using radar and optical data58
Satellite prediction of forest flowering phenology58
An automated, generalized, deep-learning-based method for delineating the calving fronts of Greenland glaciers from multi-sensor remote sensing imagery58
Cloudy-sky land surface temperature from VIIRS and MODIS satellite data using a surface energy balance-based method58
Monitoring of wheat crops using the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 in semi-arid areas58
Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests57
A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps57
Cross-sensor domain adaptation for high spatial resolution urban land-cover mapping: From airborne to spaceborne imagery57
Comparison of total emitted solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and top-of-canopy (TOC) SIF in estimating photosynthesis57
Satellites for long-term monitoring of inland U.S. lakes: The MERIS time series and application for chlorophyll-a57
Thick cloud removal in Landsat images based on autoregression of Landsat time-series data56
Towards operational validation of annual global land cover maps56
Air pollution trends measured from Terra: CO and AOD over industrial, fire-prone, and background regions56
Comparison and transferability of thermal, temporal and phenological-based in-season predictions of above-ground biomass in wheat crops from proximal crop reflectance data55
Virtual laser scanning with HELIOS++: A novel take on ray tracing-based simulation of topographic full-waveform 3D laser scanning55
Geographically and temporally weighted neural network for winter wheat yield prediction55
Advances in quantifying power plant CO2 emissions with OCO-255
Continuous monitoring of forest change dynamics with satellite time series54
Advances in hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation traits and functions54
Monitoring time-varying terrestrial water storage changes using daily GNSS measurements in Yunnan, southwest China54
A photon-counting LiDAR bathymetric method based on adaptive variable ellipse filtering54
Assessing the agreement of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy height with airborne lidar over US ecozones54
On the land emissivity assumption and Landsat-derived surface urban heat islands: A global analysis54
Joint retrieval of the aerosol fine mode fraction and optical depth using MODIS spectral reflectance over northern and eastern China: Artificial neural network method54
Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data54
Digital terrain model elevation corrections using space-based imagery and ICESat-2 laser altimetry53
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images53
Mapping crops within the growing season across the United States53
Analysis of coastal wind speed retrieval from CYGNSS mission using artificial neural network52
A new framework to map fine resolution cropping intensity across the globe: Algorithm, validation, and implication52
Attention mechanism-based generative adversarial networks for cloud removal in Landsat images52
Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest51
Unravelling a large methane emission discrepancy in Mexico using satellite observations51
Not all DEMs are equal: An evaluation of six globally available 30 m resolution DEMs with geodetic benchmarks and LiDAR in Mexico51
The superiority of the normalized difference phenology index (NDPI) for estimating grassland aboveground fresh biomass51
Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery51
Assessing the impact of illumination on UAV pushbroom hyperspectral imagery collected under various cloud cover conditions51
Decoupling of greenness and gross primary productivity as aridity decreases51
Combining transfer learning and hyperspectral reflectance analysis to assess leaf nitrogen concentration across different plant species datasets51
A systematic method for spatio-temporal phenology estimation of paddy rice using time series Sentinel-1 images51
A comprehensive characterization of MODIS daily burned area mapping accuracy across fire sizes in tropical savannas51
A novel index for robust and large-scale mapping of plastic greenhouse from Sentinel-2 images51
A reliable and adaptive spatiotemporal data fusion method for blending multi-spatiotemporal-resolution satellite images50
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations50
Mapping annual irrigation from Landsat imagery and environmental variables across the conterminous United States50
Learning U-Net without forgetting for near real-time wildfire monitoring by the fusion of SAR and optical time series50
Satellite image texture captures vegetation heterogeneity and explains patterns of bird richness49
50 years of lake ice research from active microwave remote sensing: Progress and prospects49
The NASA AfriSAR campaign: Airborne SAR and lidar measurements of tropical forest structure and biomass in support of current and future space missions49
A review of geostatistical simulation models applied to satellite remote sensing: Methods and applications49
Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review49
Mapping, validating, and interpreting spatio-temporal trends in post-disturbance forest recovery48
Mapping land subsidence and aquifer system properties of the Willcox Basin, Arizona, from InSAR observations and independent component analysis48
Uncertainty analysis of eleven multisource soil moisture products in the third pole environment based on the three-corned hat method48
Evaluation of consistency among three NDVI products applied to High Mountain Asia in 2000–201548
Assimilation of SMAP and ASCAT soil moisture retrievals into the JULES land surface model using the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter48
Multimodal deep learning from satellite and street-level imagery for measuring income, overcrowding, and environmental deprivation in urban areas47
Spatio-temporal spectral unmixing of time-series images47
SMART-SDB: Sample-specific multiple band ratio technique for satellite-derived bathymetry47
Interannual changes of coastal aquaculture ponds in China at 10-m spatial resolution during 2016–202147
Investigation of land surface phenology detections in shrublands using multiple scale satellite data46
Assessment of machine learning classifiers for global lake ice cover mapping from MODIS TOA reflectance data46
Coastline detection in satellite imagery: A deep learning approach on new benchmark data46
Detection and characterization of coastal tidal wetland change in the northeastern US using Landsat time series46
Combining near-infrared radiance of vegetation and fluorescence spectroscopy to detect effects of abiotic changes and stresses46
A robust index to extract paddy fields in cloudy regions from SAR time series46
Quality control and crop characterization framework for multi-temporal UAV LiDAR data over mechanized agricultural fields46
Soil moisture as an essential component for delineating and forecasting agricultural rather than meteorological drought45
Quantifying vegetation biophysical variables from the Sentinel-3/FLEX tandem mission: Evaluation of the synergy of OLCI and FLORIS data sources45
Integrating topographic knowledge into deep learning for the void-filling of digital elevation models45
A model for estimating transpiration from remotely sensed solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence45
Triggered afterslip on the southern Hikurangi subduction interface following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake from InSAR time series with atmospheric corrections45
A data-driven approach to estimate leaf area index for Landsat images over the contiguous US44
Aboveground biomass of salt-marsh vegetation in coastal wetlands: Sample expansion of in situ hyperspectral and Sentinel-2 data using a generative adversarial network44
Validation of the U.S. Geological Survey's Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP) Collection 1.0 annual land cover products 1985–201744
Soil moisture-based index for agricultural drought assessment: SMADI application in Pernambuco State-Brazil44
A novel framework to assess all-round performances of spatiotemporal fusion models44
GNSS reflectometry global ocean wind speed using deep learning: Development and assessment of CyGNSSnet44
Performance of Ocean Colour Chlorophyll a algorithms for Sentinel-3 OLCI, MODIS-Aqua and Suomi-VIIRS in open-ocean waters of the Atlantic44
Recurrent-based regression of Sentinel time series for continuous vegetation monitoring44
Using SMAP Level-4 soil moisture to constrain MOD16 evapotranspiration over the contiguous USA44
A decadal (2008–2017) daily evapotranspiration data set of 1 km spatial resolution and spatial completeness across the North China Plain using TSEB and data fusion43
Reconstructing daily 30 m NDVI over complex agricultural landscapes using a crop reference curve approach43
A method for land surface temperature retrieval based on model-data-knowledge-driven and deep learning43
Performance of OLCI Sentinel-3A satellite in the Northeast Pacific coastal waters43
Geographical and temporal encoding for improving the estimation of PM2.5 concentrations in China using end-to-end gradient boosting43
Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data43
Transfer learning in environmental remote sensing43
Joint exploitation of space-borne and ground-based multitemporal InSAR measurements for volcano monitoring: The Stromboli volcano case study43
Accounting for canopy structure improves hyperspectral radiative transfer and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence representations in a new generation Earth System model43
Gaussian processes retrieval of crop traits in Google Earth Engine based on Sentinel-2 top-of-atmosphere data43
Spatiotemporal estimation of satellite-borne and ground-level NO2 using full residual deep networks43
Unpacking the drivers of diurnal dynamics of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF): Canopy structure, plant physiology, instrument configuration and retrieval methods42
Croplands intensify regional and global warming according to satellite observations42
Complementary water quality observations from high and medium resolution Sentinel sensors by aligning chlorophyll-a and turbidity algorithms42
Evaluation of six satellite- and model-based surface soil temperature datasets using global ground-based observations42
Mapping above-ground biomass in tropical forests with ground-cancelled P-band SAR and limited reference data42
Prototyping Sentinel-2 green LAI and brown LAI products for cropland monitoring41
How to automate timely large-scale mangrove mapping with remote sensing41
Time-series snowmelt detection over the Antarctic using Sentinel-1 SAR images on Google Earth Engine41
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