OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping Matters	32
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	29
GIS Tips & Tricks	27
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	26
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	22
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	18
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	17
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	17
Revealing Feature Contribution Mechanisms for Remote Sensing Scene Understanding	16
Novel Spatiotemporal ConvLSTM-Based Cellular Automata Model for Simulating Urban Expansion	15
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	15
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	14
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	14
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	14
Beyond Global Navigation Satellite Systems– Based Georeferencing: Recent Trends in Positioning and Navigation	13
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	12
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	12
A Lightweight Universal Reranking-based Optimizer for Robust Lidar Place Recognition	12
Hierarchical Integration of Multi-Source Lidar for Forest Volume Estimation across Individual Trees and Plot Scales	11
3D Gaussian Splatting in Reality Capture Workflows	10
Deep Learning–based LOD-2 Building Modeling and Its Application to Solar Energy Estimation Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	10
Reserve Identification Model for Oil Tank Based	10
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	9
CGMSANet: Hyperspectral Image Classification through Channel-Grouped Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and Attention Mechanisms	9
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	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
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	9
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	8
RSIDetNet: An Efficient Oriented Small Object Detection Model for Remote Sensing Images Based on Cross-Scale Feature Fusion and Large Kernel Decomposition	8
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	8
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	8
Three-dimensional Building Reconstruction from Airborne Lidar and Optical Imagery with Optimized Energy Weighting	7
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	7
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	7
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	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
Validation of the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Version 2.0 Surface Reflectance Product Using RadCalNet	7
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	7
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	7
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	7
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	7
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	7
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
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	6
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	6
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	6
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	6
An Improved Manifold Learning Algorithm for Dimension Reduction of Fusion Data for Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Images	6
Quantile Regression-Based Change Detection using Landsat Analysis-Ready Data	6
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	6
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	6
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	6
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	6
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	5
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	5
Accuracy Evaluation of Airborne and Terrestrial Point Cloud Registration	5
Three-dimensional Drainage Infrastructure Modeling for Flood Vulnerability in Southeast Texas	5
Joint Detection and Parameters Regression of Detailed Windows based on Facade Textures via an Adaptive Soft Teacher	5
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	5
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	5
A Producer’s Guide to Reference Data (Training and Validation Data) in Leading Geographic Information System Applications	5
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	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
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	5
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	5
Building Extraction Model and Application from Multi-Scene Remote Sensing Data	5
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	4
Remote Sensing’s Role in Assessing the Risks of Climate Extremes	4
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	4
A Probabilistic Risk Field Model for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles under State Uncertainty	4
Reconstructing Heritage Interiors from Point Clouds via Architectural Element Segmentation	4
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	4
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	4
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	4

Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	4
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	4
Lidar-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Connecting Traverse Constraints for Underground Mine Mapping	4
Three-Dimensional Characteristics Identification of Drought in the Yellow River Basin Based on the Standardized Precipitation Index	4
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	4
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	4
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	4
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	4