OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	62
America View and its Landsat Connection	25
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	23
Mapping Matters	20
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	16
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	12
Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan	12
Top Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022	10
GIS Tips & Tricks	10
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	10
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	10
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	9
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	9
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	9
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	8
Spinor-Based Attitude Determination with Star Sensor Considering Depth	7
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	7
Building a Comprehensive Digital Toolkit for Aerial Acquisition	7
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Zimbabwe	7
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	6
A Method of Extracting High-Accuracy Elevation Control Points from ICESat-2 Altimetry Data	6
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	6
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	6
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	5
Effectiveness of Deep Learning Trained on SynthCity Data for Urban Point-Cloud Classification	5

Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	5
Scene-Change Detection Based on Multi-Feature-Fusion Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model for High-Spatial-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	5
GIS Tips & Tricks—You May Not Be The Only One Confused About Python Formatting	5
Unsupervised Representation High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification via Contrastive Learning Convolutional Neural Network	5
An Incremental Isomap Method for Hyperspectral Dimensionality Reduction and Classification	5
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	5
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	5
Automated 3D Reconstruction of LoD2 and LoD1 Models for All 10 Million Buildings of the Netherlands	5
The Simulation and Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Based on SCP and CA-ANN Models Using Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Lahore	5
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Ukraine	5
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	5
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	5
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	4
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	4
Early Classification Method for US Corn and Soybean by Incorporating MODIS-Estimated Phenological Data and Historical Classification Maps in Random-Forest Regression Algorithm	4
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	4
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	4
Book Review	4
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	4
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	3
Identifying the Driving Factors of Urban Land Surface Temperature	3
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	3
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	3
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	3
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	3
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	3
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	3
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	3
GIS Tips & Tricks—Another Trick with "Hot-Keys"	3
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	3
Photogrammetry and Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Investigation of the Clandestine Graves in Colombia	3
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	3
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	3
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	3
UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth	3
SectorInsights.com—Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Earth Observation—An Invitation to Participate	2
GIS Tips & Tricks—Have you ever used the PLSS in your GIS	2
A Unified Framework of Bundle Adjustment and Feature Matching for High-Resolution Satellite Images	2
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	2
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	2
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	2
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	2
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	2
Urban Land Cover/Use Mapping and Change Detection Analysis Using Multi-Temporal Landsat OLI with Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI	2
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	2
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	2
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	2
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	2
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	2
Mapping Matters	2

The Analysis on the Annual Change of Digital Aerial Camera's IMUs Boresight Misalignment	2
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	2
Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes on Net Primary Productivity in Wuhan, China	2
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	2
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	2
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Vanuatu	2
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	2
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	2
Focus on Geodatabases in ArcGIS Pro	2
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	2
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	2
Floating Solar Park Impacts Urban Land Surface Temperature Distribution Pattern	2
Improving Remote Sensing Multiple Classification by Data and Ensemble Selection	2
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	2
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	2
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	2
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	2