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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	70
America View and its Landsat Connection	24
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	22
Mapping Matters	21
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	18
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	14
Top Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022	12
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	12
GIS Tips & Tricks	12
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	11
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	10
Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan	10
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	10
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	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
Building a Comprehensive Digital Toolkit for Aerial Acquisition	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
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	8
A Method of Extracting High-Accuracy Elevation Control Points from ICESat-2 Altimetry Data	8
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	8
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	7
Automated 3D Reconstruction of LoD2 and LoD1 Models for All 10 Million Buildings of the Netherlands	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
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Ukraine	7

Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	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	6
Scene-Change Detection Based on Multi-Feature-Fusion Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model for High-Spatial-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	6
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	6
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	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
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	6
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	6
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	5
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	5
Identifying the Driving Factors of Urban Land Surface Temperature	5
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	5
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	5
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	5
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	5
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	5
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	4
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	4
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	4
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	4
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	4
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	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
Photogrammetry and Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Investigation of the Clandestine Graves in Colombia	4
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	3
The Analysis on the Annual Change of Digital Aerial Camera's IMUs Boresight Misalignment	3
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	3
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	3
Floating Solar Park Impacts Urban Land Surface Temperature Distribution Pattern	3
Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes on Net Primary Productivity in Wuhan, China	3
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	3
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	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
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	3
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	3
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	3
GIS Tips & Tricks—Another Trick with "Hot-Keys"	3
UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth	3
Urban Land Cover/Use Mapping and Change Detection Analysis Using Multi-Temporal Landsat OLI with Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI	3
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	3
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	3
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	3
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	3
Improving Remote Sensing Multiple Classification by Data and Ensemble Selection	3
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	3

Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	3
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	3
A Novel Object Detection Method for Solid Waste Incorporating a Weighted Deformable Convolution	2
Potential of Open Source Remote Sensing Data for Improved Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Inland Water Quality in India: Case Study of Gujarat	2
3D Imaging of the Environment: Mapping and Monitoring. John Meneely, Editor.	2
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	2
Identification of Drought Events in Major Basins of Africa from GRACE Total Water Storage and Modeled Products	2
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	2
Morphology-Based Feature Extraction Network for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Vehicle Detection	2
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	2
The Gis Management Handbook— Concepts, Practices, and Tools for Planning, Implementing, and Managing Geographic Information System Programs and Projects, 3^rd Edition.	2
Development of Soil-Suppressed Impervious Surface Area Index for Automatic Urban Mapping	2
Rice Identification Under Complex Surface Conditions with CNN and Integrated Remote Sensing Spectral-Temporal-Spatial Features	2
IMU and Bluetooth Data Fusion to Achieve Submeter Position Accuracy in Indoor Positioning	2
Spatiotemporal Behavior of Active Forest Fires Using Time-Series MODIS C6 Data	2
Use of Artificial Intelligence Toward Climate-neutral Cultural Heritage	2
Book Review ‐ Remote Sensing of Soils	2
Global Multi-Scale Fusion Self-Calibration Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection	2
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	2
UAS-Based Multi-Temporal Rice Plant Height Change Prediction	2
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	2
Dense Bathymetry in Turbid Coastal Zones Using Airborne Hyperspectral Images	2
How to Gain Clearer Visibility into Dynamic Coastal Environments	2
GIS Tips & Tricks — Designing Color Style Sheets for Your Mobile App — Easier Than You Think	2
GIS Tips & Tricks – Simple Customizations Can Have a Large Impact	2
System Calibration Including Time Delay Estimation for GNSS/INS-Assisted Pushbroom Scanners Onboard UAV Platforms	2
Artificial Neural Network Multi-layer Perceptron Models to Classify California's Crops using Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) Data	2
Alternative Procedure to Improve the Positioning Accuracy of Orthomosaic Images Acquired with Agisoft Metashape and DJI P4 Multispectral for Crop Growth Observation	2
Least Squares Adjustment with a Rank-Deficient Weight Matrix and Its Applicability to Image/Lidar Data Processing	2
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Vanuatu	2
Integration of Near-Proximal and Proximal Lidar Sensing for Fine-Resolution Forest Inventory	2
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	2
Spatiotemporal Temperature Fusion Based on a Deep Convolutional Network	2
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	2
Cloud Detection in ZY-3 Multi-Angle Remote Sensing Images	2
SectorInsights.com—Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Earth Observation—An Invitation to Participate	2
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	2
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	2
Effect of Latitude As a Significant Element on the Results of Direct UTM Coordinates Transformation Method	2
Investigation of Underwater Photogrammetry Method with Cost-Effective Action Cameras and Comparative Analysis between Reconstructed 3D Point Clouds	2