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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	72
America View and its Landsat Connection	24
Mapping Matters	22
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	22
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	21
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	14
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	13
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	12
Top Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022	12
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	11
Building a Comprehensive Digital Toolkit for Aerial Acquisition	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	10
Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan	10
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	10
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	10
GIS Tips & Tricks	10
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	9
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	9
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	9
Automated 3D Reconstruction of LoD2 and LoD1 Models for All 10 Million Buildings of the Netherlands	9
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	9
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Zimbabwe	9
A Method of Extracting High-Accuracy Elevation Control Points from ICESat-2 Altimetry Data	9
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Ukraine	7
Effectiveness of Deep Learning Trained on SynthCity Data for Urban Point-Cloud Classification	7

GIS Tips & Tricks—You May Not Be The Only One Confused About Python Formatting	7
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	7
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	7
The Simulation and Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Based on SCP and CA-ANN Models Using Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Lahore	7
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	6
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	6
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	6
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	6
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	6
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	6
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	6
Early Classification Method for US Corn and Soybean by Incorporating MODIS-Estimated Phenological Data and Historical Classification Maps in Random-Forest Regression Algorithm	6
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	5
Identifying the Driving Factors of Urban Land Surface Temperature	5
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	5
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	5
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	5
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	5
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	5
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	5
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	4
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	4
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	4
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	4
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	4
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	4
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	4
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	4
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	3
Improving Remote Sensing Multiple Classification by Data and Ensemble Selection	3
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	3
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	3
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	3
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	3
Least Squares Adjustment with a Rank-Deficient Weight Matrix and Its Applicability to Image/Lidar Data Processing	3
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	3
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	3
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	3
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	3
UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth	3
Floating Solar Park Impacts Urban Land Surface Temperature Distribution Pattern	3
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	3
Urban Land Cover/Use Mapping and Change Detection Analysis Using Multi-Temporal Landsat OLI with Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI	3
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	3
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Vanuatu	3
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	3
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	3
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	3

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	3
The Analysis on the Annual Change of Digital Aerial Camera's IMUs Boresight Misalignment	3
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	3
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	3
Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes on Net Primary Productivity in Wuhan, China	3
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	3
SectorInsights.com—Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Earth Observation—An Invitation to Participate	3
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	3
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	3