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Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
2023 Index IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Vol. 48	233
Table of Contents	156
Editorial Farewell From Your Outgoing EiC	107
Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem–Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar Motion Estimation	95
JOE Call for Papers - Special Issue on Maritime Informatics and Robotics: Advances from the IEEE Symposium on Maritime Informatics & Robotics	82
Method for Remote Sensing Oil Spill Applications Over Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery	55
Evaluation of UKF-Based Fusion Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Multisensor Navigation	51
ADRC-Based Underwater Navigation Control and Parameter Tuning of an Amphibious Multirotor Vehicle	50
A New Region Ocean Sound Velocity Field Model Considering Variation Mechanisms of Temperature and Salt	47
Reinforcement Learning-Based Virtual Time Compressed Mirror for Underwater Acoustical Channel Equalization Based on Main Path to Side Path Ratio Criterion	47
A Dynamic Ensemble Deep Randomized Neural Network Using Deep Autoregressive Features for Wave Height Forecasting With Missing Values	45
On the Exploitation of Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe the C33 Iceberg in Antarctica	44
Autonomous Underwater Environment Perceiving and Modeling: An Experimental Campaign With FeelHippo AUV for Forward Looking Sonar-Based Automatic Target Recognition and Data Association	43
Multifrequency Phased-Arrays With Dynamic Range Ratio Control for Coastal Monitoring	39
DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	39
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers-Based Techniques for Underwater Marine Debris Classification: A Comparative Study	37
Laser Doppler Velocimetry for 3-D Seawater Velocity Measurement Using a Single Wavelength	36
ROV Localization Using Ballasted Umbilical Equipped With IMUs	34
A Shared Control Framework With Constrained Optimization and Guiding Force Feedback for Teleoperation of Underwater Electric Manipulator	34
Editorial Presenting Abstracts of Accepted/Published JOE Papers at MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conferences	32
Interference Cancellation for UWA Random Access Data Packet Transmission	32
A Physics-Based Inversion of Multibeam Sonar Data for Seafloor Characterization	31
Multitask Cooperative Formation Control of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Interception of Moving Objects	31
MISU: Multi-Input Swin-UNet	31
Path Selection in Parallel Multihop UVLC Systems Over Turbulence Channels	31

A Deep Learning Model for Marine Mammal Call Classification	30
HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy	29
Object Modeling From Underwater Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery With Sea-Surface Multipath	28
Vector Quantized Underwater Image Enhancement With Transformers	28
An Efficient and Robust Underwater Image Compression Scheme Based on Autoencoder	25
Autonomous Ship Collision Avoidance in Restricted Waterways Considering Maritime Navigation Rules	24
Super Permutation Frequency-Shift-Keyed Underwater Acoustic Communication	24
Table of Contents	23
Modal Analysis of Acoustic Energy Periodic Fluctuations Due to Internal Tides in the Yellow Sea	23
Cross Evaluation of Waveform Modulation Schemes Using Postexperimental Field Data	22
Structural Imaging of Acoustic Survey Using a Deep-Towed Sub-Bottom Profiler and Hydrophone Cable	22
Improved Adaptive High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	21
Experimental Evaluation of a Real-Time FPGA Platform for Multichannel Coherent Acoustic Communication	21
Parameter Estimation by Alternating Reconstruction and Sensation for Sonar System	21
Current Trends and Advances in Quantum Navigation for Maritime Applications: A Comprehensive Review	20
Unsupervised Multiple Representation Disentanglement Framework for Improved Underwater Visual Perception	20
Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning	20
Hybrid AC Shipboard Microgrid Time Delayed LFC and AVR Controllers Tuning Through Gazelle Optimization Algorithm and Real-Time HIL Implementation	20
Signals-of-Opportunity-Based Hydrophone Array Shape and Orientation Estimation	20
A Ship Tracking Method in Inland Waters Based on Fusion of Video and AIS Data	20
Editorial Hello From Your New EiC	19
Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Contra-Rotating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbines	19
Texture-Based Seafloor Characterization Using Gaussian Process Classification	19
Estimation of Frequency-Wavenumber Diagrams Using a Physics-Based Grid-Free Compressed Sensing Method	19
Finding and Tracking a Phytoplankton Patch by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	19
A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes	18
Modeling and Analyzing Water Column Forward Scattering Effect on Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry	18
Self-Adversarial Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	18
Single Receiver Underwater Localization of an Unsynchronized Periodic Acoustic Beacon Using Synthetic Baseline	18
A High-Responsivity Subsurface Buoy System With a Fiber-Optic Acoustic Vector Sensor for Continuous Low-Frequency Acoustic Monitoring in the Deep Ocean: Development and Sea Trials	17
A Lightweight Real-Time Sidescan Sonar Image Detection Model Based on a Multiscale Fusion Module	17
Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-Grained Photometric Stereo Transformer	17
PLLS-360°: A 360-Degree Underwater LiDAR Imaging System	17
Table of Contents	16
Table of Contents	16
Safe Maneuvering Near Offshore Installations: A New Algorithmic Tool	16
Temporal Temperature Profile Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Inverted Echosounder Measurements	16
Marine Hydrokinetic Farm Optimization for Coaxial Dual-Rotor Turbines	16
Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks	15
Large-Scale Dense 3-D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars	15
Enhancing Underwater Imagery via Latent Low-Rank Decomposition and Image Fusion	15
Improved Calculation of the Second-Order Ocean Doppler Spectrum for Sea State Inversion	14
Testing High Directional Resolution Sea-Spectrum Estimation Methods in View of the Needs of a National Monitoring System	14
The Impact of the Spatial Variability of the Seafloor on Midfrequency Sound Propagation During the Target and Reverberation Experiment 2013	14
An Improved YOLOv8-Based Shallow Sea Creatures Object Detection Method	14
Laser-Acoustic Cross-Medium Communication (LACMC) System: Theoretical Channel Model and Experiments	14
Joint CFO, Gridless Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems	14
Potential-Game-Driven Formation Control of AUVs: An Inverse-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Solution	14
Effects of Water Surface Waves on a Sound-Millimeter Wave-Based Cross-Medium Wireless Communication System	14
Free Surface Elevation Estimator as a Sensor for Wave-Powered Data Buoys	14

Transfer Learning and Few-Shot Learning Based Deep Neural Network Models for Underwater Sonar Image Classification With a Few Samples	13
Contrastive Learning in NMPC Behavior Cloning for Generalized Trajectory Tracking of Marine Vehicles	13
Tracking Multiple Surface Vessels With an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Field Results	13
Spherical Harmonic Expansion Model for GNSS/Acoustic Precise Seafloor Positioning	13
Coherence-Induced Bias Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Along-Track Micronavigation	13
Optimization Design Method of the Umbilical Cable Global Configuration Based on Representative Fatigue Conditions	12
NWSP: A Novel Indicator for Ocean–Land Interface Extraction Using Bathymetric LiDAR	12
Low Computational Complexity RLS-Based Decision-Feedback Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communications	12
In Situ Suction Filtration Sampler With Hundreds of Membranes for Deep-Sea Suspensions	12
Call for papers: Special Issue on IEEE MetroSea 2023	12
Applying an Uncrewed Surface Vessel to Measure Under-Pier Bathymetry	12
Robust Wideband Beamspace Adaptive Beamforming for Mainlobe Jamming in Underwater Environment	12
Joint Equalization and Self-Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic In-Band Full-Duplex Communication	12
Semantic Segmentation in Underwater Ship Inspections: Benchmark and Data Set	12
A Dense Subframe-Based SLAM Framework With Side-Scan Sonar	12
In Situ Performance Prediction of a Coherent Acoustic Modem in a Reverberant Environment	12
Estimating Scattering Patch Area for a Direction Finding HF Radar	12
Secondary Beam Attention Estimation Algorithm	12
Binocular Underwater Measurement With Multicolor Structured Light	12
Experimental Demonstration of an Autonomous Distributed-Consensus Network for Underwater Passive-Acoustic Detection	12
Fast Detection of Small Targets in High-Resolution Maritime Radars by Feature Normalization and Fusion	12
The Effects of Vertical Correlation Characteristics on Vertical Array Gain Performance in Deep Water	12
Occlusion Modeling for Coherent Echo Data Simulation: A Comparison Between Ray-Tracing and Convex-Hull Occlusion Methods	12
Modeling of the Electroacoustic Process of Incomplete Spark Discharge in Saline Water-Sparker Source	11
A Hyperheuristic Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Strategy for Complex Mission Planning of AUVs in Marine Environment	11
Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications	11
A Greedy Depth-Seeking Behavior for Energy-Efficient Transits by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	11
Full-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Lift Operation of a DP Crane Vessel	11
Monitoring Tidal Currents and Macroturbulence in a High-Flow Tidal Channel Using a Kilometer-Scale Acoustic Travel-Time Instrument	11
Prior-Based Underwater Enhanced Image Quality Assessment Network	11
Demonstration of Underwater Channel State Information Acquisition in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia	11
Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	11
Underwater 3D-Feature-Enhanced Acoustic Imaging	11
Adaptive Formation Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	11
Inversion for Parameters of Mud as a Porous Medium	10
Real-Time Sonar Image Simulation for Adaptive Template Matching in Automatic Target Recognition	10
2022 List of Reviewers	10
Combined Texture Continuity and Correlation for Sidescan Sonar Heading Distortion	10
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Underwater Communications and Networking 2021 (UComms21)	10
Analysis and Compensation of Acoustic Rolling Shutter Effect of Acoustic-Lens-Based Forward-Looking Sonar	10
Simulating Marine Snow Images: Pipeline, Data Set, and Benchmark	9
Long-Term Evolution of Wave Loads Against Offshore Fixed Monopile Structures on the Irish Atlantic Coast (1900–2010)	9
Parameterized Dynamic Modeling and Spiral Motion Pattern Analysis for Underwater Gliders	9
Coordinate-Rotation-Decoupled 3-D Near-Field Localization for Underwater Electric Dipole Sources	9
Multi-USV System Antidisturbance Cooperative Searching Based on the Reinforcement Learning Method	9
Neural Shape-From-Shading for Survey-Scale Self-Consistent Bathymetry From Sidescan	9
Ocean Sound Speed Profile Measurement Using a Pulse–Echo Technique	9
Model-Guided Deep Learning for Line Segment Detection in Time–Frequency Spectrograms of an Ocean Waveguide	9
Fairness-Driven Optimization for NOMA-UWOC Systems With Energy Harvesting Requirements	9
Seismo-Acoustic Sensing on the Beaufort Sea in the 2021 Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx)	9
Underwater Image Enhancement via Modeling White Degradation	8
Real Signal DHT-OFDM With Index Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communication	8
Multilabel Classification of Heterogeneous Underwater Soundscapes With Bayesian Deep Learning	8
A Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Method Applicable to Incomplete Training Data Sets	8
A Novel Frequency-Based Global-Scope Adaptive Mixer for Sea State Estimation	8
Autonomous Tracking of Salinity-Intrusion Fronts by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	8
HG2former: HSV-Gamma Guided Transformers for Efficient Underwater Image Enhancement	8
Hydrodynamic Analysis of Payload Bay Berthing for Underwater Vehicles	8
Passive Vacuum Regeneration for Suction-Based Marine Adhesion Devices	8
Cyclostationarity of Communication Signals in Underwater Acoustic Channels	8
Table of Contents	8
Adaptive Zigzag Mapping of a Patchy Field by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	8
Tightly Coupled, Graph-Based DVL/IMU Fusion and Decoupled Mapping for SLAM-Centric Maritime Infrastructure Inspection	8
A Novel Adaptive Initial State Estimation Method for Underwater Bearings-Only Target Tracking	8