OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing is 3. 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
America View and its Landsat Connection	27
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	26
Mapping Matters	25
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	25
GIS Tips & Tricks	19
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	16
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	16
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	16
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	15
PROSAIL Modeling Coupled with Environmental Stress: Remote Sensing Retrieval of Multiple Dry Matters in the Canopy of Moso Bamboo Forests under the Stress of Pantana phyllostachysae Chao	15
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	14
Novel Spatiotemporal ConvLSTM-Based Cellular Automata Model for Simulating Urban Expansion	14
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	13
Revealing Feature Contribution Mechanisms for Remote Sensing Scene Understanding	13
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	12
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	11
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	11
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	11
Beyond Global Navigation Satellite Systems–Based Georeferencing: Recent Trends in Positioning and Navigation	11
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	10
3D Gaussian Splatting in Reality Capture Workflows	10
Reserve Identification Model for Oil Tank Based on Satellite Image Analysis under Complex Observation Angles	9
The Simulation and Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Based on SCP and CA-ANN Models Using Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Lahore	9
CGMSANet: Hyperspectral Image Classification through Channel-Grouped Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and Attention Mechanisms	9
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	8

Deep Learning–based LOD-2 Building Modeling and Its Application to Solar Energy Estimation Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	8
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	8
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	7
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	7
Three-dimensional Building Reconstruction from Airborne Lidar and Optical Imagery with Optimized Energy Weighting	7
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	7
MRTD-Based Effective Range Analysis of Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems for Ship Detection: Optimization of the Calculation for Operational Range Through an Improved MRTD Model	7
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	7
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	7
RSIDetNet: An Efficient Oriented Small Object Detection Model for Remote Sensing Images Based on Cross-Scale Feature Fusion and Large Kernel Decomposition	7
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	7
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	6
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	6
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	6
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	6
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	6
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	6
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	6
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	6
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	6
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	6
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	6
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	5
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	5
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	5
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	5
Accuracy Evaluation of Airborne and Terrestrial Point Cloud Registration	5
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	5
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	5
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	5
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	5
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	5
An Improved Manifold Learning Algorithm for Dimension Reduction of Fusion Data for Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Images	5
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	5
Quantile Regression-Based Change Detection using Landsat Analysis-Ready Data	5
Identification of Critical Urban Clusters for Placating Urban Heat Island Effects over Fast-Growing Tropical City Regions: Estimating the Contribution of Different City Sizes in Escalating UHI Intensi	5
Three-dimensional Drainage Infrastructure Modeling for Flood Vulnerability in Southeast Texas	4
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	4
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	4
Remote Sensing’s Role in Assessing the Risks of Climate Extremes	4
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	4
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	4
Building Extraction Model and Application from Multi-Scene Remote Sensing Data	4
Joint Detection and Parameters Regression of Detailed Windows based on Facade Textures via an Adaptive Soft Teacher	4
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	4
Three-Dimensional Characteristics Identification of Drought in the Yellow River Basin Based on the Standardized Precipitation Index	4
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	4
A Probabilistic Risk Field Model for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles under State Uncertainty	4
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	4
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	4

Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	4
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	4
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	4
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	4
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	4
How to Gain Clearer Visibility into Dynamic Coastal Environments	3
Development of Soil-Suppressed Impervious Surface Area Index for Automatic Urban Mapping	3
Comparison of Intertidal Terrain Extraction Methods Based on ICESat‐2 and Tidal Data	3
Lidar-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Connecting Traverse Constraints for Underground Mine Mapping	3
GIS Tips & Tricks — Designing Color Style Sheets for Your Mobile App — Easier Than You Think	3
The Gis Management Handbook— Concepts, Practices, and Tools for Planning, Implementing, and Managing Geographic Information System Programs and Projects, 3^rd Edition.	3
Monitoring and Analysis of Urban Sprawl Based on Road Network Data and High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery: A Case Study of China's Provincial Capitals	3
Individual Tree Segmentation Using Deep Learning and Climbing Algorithm: A Method for Achieving High-precision Single-tree Segmentation in High-density Forests under Complex Environments	3
Morphology-Based Feature Extraction Network for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Vehicle Detection	3
Investigation of Underwater Photogrammetry Method with Cost-Effective Action Cameras and Comparative Analysis between Reconstructed 3D Point Clouds	3
Book Review ‐ Remote Sensing of Soils	3
3D Imaging of the Environment: Mapping and Monitoring. John Meneely, Editor.	3
Terrain Variation Aware Surface Height Estimation Network for High-Precision Multi-view Satellite Stereo	3
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	3
Reconstructing Heritage Interiors from Point Clouds via Architectural Element Segmentation	3
Graph Neural Network-Based Land Cover-Classification of Remote Sensing Images Using Multi-Scale and Depth Features	3
Artificial Neural Network Multi-layer Perceptron Models to Classify California's Crops using Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) Data	3
Integration of Near-Proximal and Proximal Lidar Sensing for Fine-Resolution Forest Inventory	3
Rice Identification Under Complex Surface Conditions with CNN and Integrated Remote Sensing Spectral-Temporal-Spatial Features	3
Global Multi-Scale Fusion Self-Calibration Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection	3
A Novel Object Detection Method for Solid Waste Incorporating a Weighted Deformable Convolution	3
Remote Sensing Image Denoising Network Based on Locally Enhanced Window Transformer	3
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	3
Use of Artificial Intelligence Toward Climate-neutral Cultural Heritage	3
GIS Tips & Tricks – Simple Customizations Can Have a Large Impact	3
Momentum-Based Perturbation Decomposition for Transferable Three-Dimensional Point-Cloud Attacks	3
UAS-Based Multi-Temporal Rice Plant Height Change Prediction	3
Spatiotemporal Behavior of Active Forest Fires Using Time-Series MODIS C6 Data	3
Identification of Drought Events in Major Basins of Africa from GRACE Total Water Storage and Modeled Products	3