OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Remote Sensing of Environment is 65. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Vegetation water content mapping using Landsat data derived normalized difference water index for corn and soybeans	530
Dual-season mapping of wetland inundation and vegetation for the central Amazon basin	444
Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications	426
Mapping paddy rice planting area in northeastern Asia with Landsat 8 images, phenology-based algorithm and Google Earth Engine	419
Deep learning based multi-temporal crop classification	416
Satellite-measured growth of the urban heat island of Houston, Texas	375
Fire radiative energy for quantitative study of biomass burning: derivation from the BIRD experimental satellite and comparison to MODIS fire products	335
Estimating tree height and tree crown properties using airborne scanning laser in a boreal nature reserve	306
Hierarchical mapping of annual global land cover 2001 to present: The MODIS Collection 6 Land Cover product	293
Detection and analysis of individual leaf-off tree crowns in small footprint, high sampling density lidar data from the eastern deciduous forest in North America	283
Land-cover classification with high-resolution remote sensing images using transferable deep models	274
Mapping nonnative plants using hyperspectral imagery	260
Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress	259
Using satellite remote sensing data to estimate the high-resolution distribution of ground-level PM2.5	257
Estimating 1-km-resolution PM2.5 concentrations across China using the space-time random forest approach	255
Retrieval of leaf area index in different vegetation types using high resolution satellite data	250
Validation of daily MODIS snow cover maps of the Upper Rio Grande River Basin for the 2000–2001 snow year	248
Estimates of plant density of wheat crops at emergence from very low altitude UAV imagery	247
Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002–2017	235
Intra-annual reflectance composites from Sentinel-2 and Landsat for national-scale crop and land cover mapping	227
A review of vegetation phenological metrics extraction using time-series, multispectral satellite data	226
Joint Deep Learning for land cover and land use classification	222
Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy	221
Land cover mapping at sub-pixel scales using linear optimization techniques	211
Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products	204
Decomposition of vegetation cover into woody and herbaceous components using AVHRR NDVI time series	202
What is global photosynthesis? History, uncertainties and opportunities	199
Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation	198
Adaptation of the dark spectrum fitting atmospheric correction for aquatic applications of the Landsat and Sentinel-2 archives	196
Development of a Sentinel-2 burned area algorithm: Generation of a small fire database for sub-Saharan Africa	193
Modeling airborne laser scanning data for the spatial generation of critical forest parameters in fire behavior modeling	192
Super-resolution land cover pattern prediction using a Hopfield neural network	191
Linear mixture model applied to Amazonian vegetation classification	186
Automatic extraction of shorelines from Landsat TM and ETM+ multi-temporal images with subpixel precision	186
Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes	186
The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite – 2 mission: A global geolocated photon product derived from the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System	186
Fmask 4.0: Improved cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsats 4–8 and Sentinel-2 imagery	185
Lake water quality classification with airborne hyperspectral spectrometer and simulated MERIS data	181
Validation of Collection 6 MODIS land surface temperature product using in situ measurements	171
Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing	170
Smallholder maize area and yield mapping at national scales with Google Earth Engine	169
Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities	167
Deriving scaling factors using a global hydrological model to restore GRACE total water storage changes for China's Yangtze River Basin	166
Near real-time agriculture monitoring at national scale at parcel resolution: Performance assessment of the Sen2-Agri automated system in various cropping systems around the world	166
Mapping forest degradation in the Eastern Amazon from SPOT 4 through spectral mixture models	165
Global mapping of soil salinity change	165
Retrieving leaf area index using a genetic algorithm with a canopy radiative transfer model	163
The ATL08 land and vegetation product for the ICESat-2 Mission	163
Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years	163
Crop type mapping without field-level labels: Random forest transfer and unsupervised clustering techniques	159
Measuring freshwater aquatic ecosystems: The need for a hyperspectral global mapping satellite mission	158
A cloud detection algorithm for satellite imagery based on deep learning	156
Chlorophyll algorithms for ocean color sensors - OC4, OC5 & OC6	155
A review of remote sensing for mangrove forests: 1956–2018	151
Consistency between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production of vegetation in North America	151
Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity	149
A practical approach for estimating the escape ratio of near-infrared solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence	149
Vegetation optical depth and scattering albedo retrieval using time series of dual-polarized L-band radiometer observations	148
Performance of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance products for river remote sensing retrievals of chlorophyll-a and turbidity	148
Stand delineation and composition estimation using semi-automated individual tree crown analysis	146
Assessment of atmospheric correction algorithms for the Sentinel-2A MultiSpectral Imager over coastal and inland waters	146
Classifying successional forests using Landsat spectral properties and ecological characteristics in eastern Amazônia	141
Satellite-based ground PM2.5 estimation using timely structure adaptive modeling	136
Satellite surface soil moisture from SMAP, SMOS, AMSR2 and ESA CCI: A comprehensive assessment using global ground-based observations	135
Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities	135
Advanced radiometry measurements and Earth science applications with the Airborne Prism Experiment (APEX)	134
Airborne P-band SAR applied to the aboveground biomass studies in the Brazilian tropical rainforest	133
Evaluating methods to detect bark beetle-caused tree mortality using single-date and multi-date Landsat imagery	132
Sentinel-2/Landsat-8 product consistency and implications for monitoring aquatic systems	132
Assessment of red-edge vegetation indices for crop leaf area index estimation	129
Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon	128
The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space	128
The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product	127
The ECOSTRESS spectral library version 1.0	125
Multi-temporal trajectory of the urban heat island centroid in Beijing, China based on a Gaussian volume model	125
Deep learning-based fusion of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 images for a harmonized surface reflectance product	123
Airborne and spaceborne remote sensing for archaeological and cultural heritage applications: A review of the century (1907–2017)	123
National Park vegetation mapping using multitemporal Landsat 7 data and a decision tree classifier	121
A simple retrieval method for land surface temperature and fraction of water surface determination from satellite microwave brightness temperatures in sub-arctic areas	120
Sentinel-2 image capacities to predict common topsoil properties of temperate and Mediterranean agroecosystems	119
Agricultural land-use change in Brazilian Amazônia between 1980 and 1995: Evidence from integrated satellite and census data	117
Evaluation of four atmospheric correction algorithms for MODIS-Aqua images over contrasted coastal waters	117
Assessment of vegetation regeneration after fire through multitemporal analysis of AVIRIS images in the Santa Monica Mountains	115
Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping - A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach	115
Relationships between net photosynthesis and steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence retrieved from airborne hyperspectral imagery	114
Assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite soil moisture products using ISMN ground-based measurements	113
Design and analysis of numerical experiments to compare four canopy reflectance models	111
Short and mid-term sea surface temperature prediction using time-series satellite data and LSTM-AdaBoost combination approach	108
Temporal-spatial differences in lake water storage changes and their links to climate change throughout the Tibetan Plateau	105
Remote sensing monitoring of multi-scale watersheds impermeability for urban hydrological evaluation	105
A global approach for chlorophyll-a retrieval across optically complex inland waters based on optical water types	104
Cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery based on deep convolutional neural networks	103
Comparison and evaluation of MODIS Multi-angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) aerosol product over South Asia	103
UAV data as alternative to field sampling to map woody invasive species based on combined Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data	102
Estimating deforestation in tropical humid and dry forests in Madagascar from 2000 to 2010 using multi-date Landsat satellite images and the random forests classifier	101
Half a century of satellite remote sensing of sea-surface temperature	101
Detecting vegetation structure using a kernel-based BRDF model	100
Canopy shadow in IKONOS satellite observations of tropical forests and savannas	100
Mapping pan-European land cover using Landsat spectral-temporal metrics and the European LUCAS survey	100
SMOS disaggregated soil moisture product at 1 km resolution: Processor overview and first validation results	99
Probabilistic assessment of remote sensing-based terrestrial vegetation vulnerability to drought stress of the Loess Plateau in China	99
Waterline mapping in flooded vegetation from airborne SAR imagery	98
Retrieval of vegetation clumping index using hot spot signatures measured by POLDER instrument	97
Seasonal stability of chlorophyll fluorescence quantified from airborne hyperspectral imagery as an indicator of net photosynthesis in the context of precision agriculture	97
The impact of deforestation on cloud cover over the Amazon arc of deforestation	96
Quantification of irrigation water using remote sensing of soil moisture in a semi-arid region	94
Comparison of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 imagery for forest variable prediction in boreal region	93
High resolution wheat yield mapping using Sentinel-2	93
Evaluation of Sentinel-2 time-series for mapping floodplain grassland plant communities	93
Global validation of the collection 6 MODIS burned area product	93
Calibration of remotely sensed, coarse resolution NDVI to CO2 fluxes in a sagebrush–steppe ecosystem	92
Validation of MERIS ocean-color products in the Bohai Sea: A case study for turbid coastal waters	92
A regional phenology model for detecting onset of greenness in temperate mixed forests, Korea: an application of MODIS leaf area index	91
Multi-sensor cloud and cloud shadow segmentation with a convolutional neural network	91
Non-destructive tree volume estimation through quantitative structure modelling: Comparing UAV laser scanning with terrestrial LIDAR	89
Improved remote sensing of leaf nitrogen concentration in winter wheat using multi-angular hyperspectral data	89
Mapping macroalgal blooms in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea using HJ-1 and Landsat data: Application of a virtual baseline reflectance height technique	89
Diverse relationships between forest growth and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at a global scale	89
Estimation of forest structural parameters using 5 and 10 meter SPOT-5 satellite data	89
Anisotropic characteristic of artificial light at night – Systematic investigation with VIIRS DNB multi-temporal observations	88
Downscaling of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from canopy level to photosystem level using a random forest model	88
Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)	88
Improved understanding of snowmelt runoff from the headwaters of China's Yangtze River using remotely sensed snow products and hydrological modeling	87
High-throughput field phenotyping using hyperspectral reflectance and partial least squares regression (PLSR) reveals genetic modifications to photosynthetic capacity	86
Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest	86
Monitoring vegetation changes in Pasvik (Norway) and Pechenga in Kola Peninsula (Russia) using multitemporal Landsat MSS/TM data	84
Bidirectional sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence emission is influenced by leaf structure and light scattering properties — A bottom-up approach	84
Individual mangrove tree measurement using UAV-based LiDAR data: Possibilities and challenges	84
Monitoring and understanding the water transparency changes of fifty large lakes on the Yangtze Plain based on long-term MODIS observations	84
An Improved Flexible Spatiotemporal DAta Fusion (IFSDAF) method for producing high spatiotemporal resolution normalized difference vegetation index time series	84
Large-area assessment of impervious surface based on integrated analysis of single-date Landsat-7 images and geospatial vector data	83
Empirical cross sensor comparison of Sentinel-2A and 2B MSI, Landsat-8 OLI, and Landsat-7 ETM+ top of atmosphere spectral characteristics over the conterminous United States	83
Estimating crop primary productivity with Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 using machine learning methods trained with radiative transfer simulations	83
Integrating LiDAR data and multi-temporal aerial imagery to map wetland inundation dynamics using Google Earth Engine	82
Downscaling SMAP soil moisture estimation with gradient boosting decision tree regression over the Tibetan Plateau	82
Ground surface response to continuous compaction of aquifer system in Tehran, Iran: Results from a long-term multi-sensor InSAR analysis	81
Assessment of daily MODIS snow cover products to monitor snow cover dynamics over the Moroccan Atlas mountain range	81
Mapping three decades of annual irrigation across the US High Plains Aquifer using Landsat and Google Earth Engine	81
Generation of spatially complete and daily continuous surface soil moisture of high spatial resolution	81
Detecting change-point, trend, and seasonality in satellite time series data to track abrupt changes and nonlinear dynamics: A Bayesian ensemble algorithm	81
Land ice height-retrieval algorithm for NASA's ICESat-2 photon-counting laser altimeter	80
Exploiting the centimeter resolution of UAV multispectral imagery to improve remote-sensing estimates of canopy structure and biochemistry in sugar beet crops	80
Mapping foliar functional traits and their uncertainties across three years in a grassland experiment	78
Landslide mapping from multi-sensor data through improved change detection-based Markov random field	78
How optically diverse is the coastal ocean?	77
Chlorophyll content estimation in an open-canopy conifer forest with Sentinel-2A and hyperspectral imagery in the context of forest decline	77
Variability of suspended particulate matter concentration in coastal waters under the Mekong's influence from ocean color (MERIS) remote sensing over the last decade	77
A raster version of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM)	77
Constructing long-term high-frequency time series of global lake and reservoir areas using Landsat imagery	76
An integrated model for generating hourly Landsat-like land surface temperatures over heterogeneous landscapes	75
Assessing spring phenology of a temperate woodland: A multiscale comparison of ground, unmanned aerial vehicle and Landsat satellite observations	75
Evaluating the feasibility of using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 satellites for high-resolution evapotranspiration estimations	74
Uncertainty analysis of gross primary production upscaling using Random Forests, remote sensing and eddy covariance data	74
Near-real-time non-obstructed flood inundation mapping using synthetic aperture radar	73
Estimating surface solar irradiance from satellites: Past, present, and future perspectives	73
Wavelet analysis of hyperspectral reflectance data for detecting pitted morningglory (Ipomoea lacunosa) in soybean (Glycine max)	72
A snow-free vegetation index for improved monitoring of vegetation spring green-up date in deciduous ecosystems	72
A convolutional neural network regression for quantifying cyanobacteria using hyperspectral imagery	70
Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2	70
Estimating fractional cover of tundra vegetation at multiple scales using unmanned aerial systems and optical satellite data	70
Estimating aboveground biomass and forest canopy cover with simulated ICESat-2 data	70
Estimating time since forest harvest using segmented Landsat ETM+ imagery	69
Environmental cooling provided by urban trees under extreme heat and cold waves in U.S. cities	69
Inter-comparison of satellite-retrieved and Global Land Data Assimilation System-simulated soil moisture datasets for global drought analysis	69
Estimating leaf mass per area and equivalent water thickness based on leaf optical properties: Potential and limitations of physical modeling and machine learning	68
Assessing spatial-temporal dynamics of urban expansion, vegetation greenness and photosynthesis in megacity Shanghai, China during 2000–2016	67
A comprehensive validation of the SMAP Enhanced Level-3 Soil Moisture product using ground measurements over varied climates and landscapes	66
Retrieving leaf chlorophyll content using a matrix-based vegetation index combination approach	66
Annual continuous fields of woody vegetation structure in the Lower Mekong region from 2000‐2017 Landsat time-series	65
A practical method for reducing terrain effect on land surface temperature using random forest regression	65
Atmospheric correction of optical imagery from MODIS and Reanalysis atmospheric products	65
A new ranking of the world's largest cities—Do administrative units obscure morphological realities?	65
Comparison between Differential SAR interferometry and ground measurements data in the displacement monitoring of the earth-dam of Conza della Campania (Italy)	65
Burned area detection and mapping using Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficient and thermal anomalies	65
Field-level crop yield mapping with Landsat using a hierarchical data assimilation approach	65
Assessing the pasturelands and livestock dynamics in Brazil, from 1985 to 2017: A novel approach based on high spatial resolution imagery and Google Earth Engine cloud computing	65
A harmonized image processing workflow using Sentinel-2/MSI and Landsat-8/OLI for mapping water clarity in optically variable lake systems	65