OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Canadian Journal of 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Characterizing Tree Species in Northern Boreal Forests Using Multiple-Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis and Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery	23
FMCNet: A Fuzzy Multiscale Convolution Network for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation	18
Comparison of Deep and Machine Learning Approaches for Quebec Tree Species Classification Using a Combination of Multispectral and LiDAR Data	18
See as a Bee: UV Sensor for Aerial Strawberry Crop Monitoring	15
Rice Phenology Classification Model Based on Sentinel-1 Using Machine Learning Method on Google Earth Engine	15
Observations of Thin First Year Sea Ice Using a Suite of Surface Radar, LiDAR, and Drone Sensors	14
Learning-Based Methods for Detection and Monitoring of Shallow Flood-Affected Areas: Impact of Shallow-Flood Spreading on Vegetation Density	12
3D Modeling of Façade Elements Using Multi-View Images from Mobile Scanning Systems	11
Multi-Source Remote Sensing Based Modeling of Vegetation Productivity in the Boreal: Issues & Opportunities	10
Estimating GDP by Fusing Nighttime Light and Land Cover Data	10
Regional Crop Characterization Using Multi-Temporal Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Observations Data	10
The WIPI Model Based on Multi-Scale Local Contrast Post-Processing for Infrared Small Target Detection	9
Leveraging Google Earth Engine and Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Networks to Assess Initial Burn Severity in Forest	9
Mapping Dominant Boreal Tree Species Groups by Combining Area-Based and Individual Tree Crown LiDAR Metrics with Sentinel-2 Data	8
From Stationary to Mobile: Unleashing the Full Potential of Terrestrial LiDAR through Sensor Integration	8
Multi-Resolution-Based Deep Learning Approach for Rice Field Monitoring	8
RADARSAT-2 DInSAR and GNSS-Derived Finite Fault Model of the 2012 Mw 7.8 Haida Gwaii Earthquake	8
The Integration of Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Data with Hierarchically Based Classification Approaches in Support of the Classification of Wetlands	8
Retrieval of Lake Ice Characteristics from SAR Imagery	7
Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Models for Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies	7
Hyperspectral Imagery Denoising Using Minimum Noise Fraction and Video Non-Local Bayes Algorithms	7
Radarsat Constellation Mission Derived Winter Glacier Velocities for the St. Elias Icefield, Yukon/Alaska: 2022 and 2023	7
Synthetic Images for Georeferencing Camera Images in Mobile Mapping Point-clouds	6
Mapping land cover in the low Arctic using multiple sources of earth observation data	6
Comparative Analysis of Empirical and Machine Learning Models for Chl a Extraction Using Sentinel-2 and Landsat OLI Data: Opportunities, Limitations, and Challenges	6

Projected Future Changes in Burn Probability in Canada’s Forests and Communities Under Different Climate Change Scenarios	6
Terrestrial Snowmelt as a Precursor to Landfast Sea Ice Break-up in Hudson Bay and James Bay	6
Monitoring Water Turbidity in a Temperate Floodplain Using UAV: Potential and Challenges	6
Separating Shrub Cover From Green Vegetation in Grasslands Using Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices	6
Building Detection and Outlining in Multi-Modal Remote Sensor Data: A Stratified Approach	6
Self-Supervised Deep Learning for Urban Land Cover Classification from Very High Resolution Imagery	5
A Bi-Temporal Airborne Lidar Shrub-to-Tree Aboveground Biomass Model for the Taiga of Western Canada	5
Changes in Water and Carbon Fluxes in the USA Southern Great Plains Grassland Due to Evergreen Forest Encroachment	5
Road Boundary, Curb and Surface Extraction from 3D Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds in Urban Environment	5
Attributing a Causal Agent and Assessing the Severity of Non-Stand Replacing Disturbances in a Northern Hardwood Forest using Landsat-Derived Vegetation Indices	5
Spectral Spatial Neighborhood Attention Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification	5
Correction	5
Assessing the Parameterization of RADARSAT-2 Dual-polarized ScanSAR Scenes on the Accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network for Sea Ice Classification: Case Study over Coronation Gulf, Canada	5
Large-Scale LoD2 Building Modeling using Deep Multimodal Feature Fusion	5
Testing ASTER and Sentinel-2 MSI Images to Discriminate Igneous and Metamorphic Rock Units in the Chadormalu Paleocrater, Central Iran	5
Active Reinforcement Learning for the Semantic Segmentation of Urban Images	5
Comparing Mountain Snowpack Depth Model Results from Different Airborne Laser Scanning Flight Path Samples	5
Crop Classification Using Multi-Temporal RADARSAT Constellation Mission Compact Polarimetry SAR Data	5
Quantitative Inversion Modeling Method for Grading Deerni Copper Deposits Based on Visible and Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Data	5
Predicting fodder crop yield in semi-arid Mongolia using Landsat data: a multivariate analysis approach	5
Advances in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Earth Monitoring and Mapping	5
Passive Microwave Sea Ice Edge Displacement Error over the Eastern Canadian Arctic for the period 2013-2021	5
Accuracy of Surface Water Maps Derived from Radar Satellite Imagery Compared to Multispectral Satellite Imagery	4
Correction	4
Estimating Tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) Using iPad Pro LiDAR Sensor in Boreal Forests	4
A Multiscale Joint Deep Neural Network for Glacier Contour Extraction	4
Oil Spill Candidate Detection Using a Conditional Random Field Model on Simulated Compact Polarimetric Imagery	4
Deformation Retrievals for North America and Eurasia from Sentinel-1 DInSAR: Big Data Approach, Processing Methodology and Challenges	4
Correction	4
Automated Forest Harvest Detection With a Normalized PlanetScope Imagery Time Series	4
An Exploration of False Positives Following Multispectral Analysis of Mine Tailings Extent	4
Inland Water Body Fraction Map for Canada and Adjacent Regions at 250-m Spatial Resolution	4
Comparison of Machine Learning Inversion Methods for Salinity in the Central Indian Ocean Based on SMOS Satellite Data	4
Enhanced Wheat Head Detection in Images Using Fourier Domain Adaptation and Random Guided Filter	4
Soil Moisture and Soil Depth Retrieval Using the Coupled Phase-Amplitude Behavior of C-Band Radar Backscatter in the Presence of Sub-Surface Scattering	3
Using Landsat time-series to investigate nearly 50 years of tree canopy cover change across an urban-rural landscape in southern Ontario	3
A Study of Selected Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) Detectors for Vessels with Compact and Dual Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)	3
A New U-Net Based Convolutional Neural Network for Estimating Caribou Lichen Ground Cover from Field-Level RGB Images	3
Multispectral and LiDAR-Derived Vegetation Indicators of Water Table Dynamics in Forested Wetlands	3
Use of GEDI Signal and Environmental Parameters to Improve Canopy Height Estimation over Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Mayotte Island	3
Harmonizing GEDI and LVIS Data for Accurate and Large-Scale Mapping of Foliage Height Diversity	3
An Algorithmic Approach towards Remote Sensing Imagery Data Restoration Using Guided Filters in Real-Time Applications	3
Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on the Gabor Feature with Correlation Information	2
Toward Targeted Change Detection with Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images for Forest Mortality Mapping	2
Spatially Explicit Abundance Modeling of a Highly Specialized Wetland Bird Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Modélisation spatialement explicite de l’abondance d’un oiseau très spécifique aux zones humi	2
Multi-Source Mapping of Forest Susceptibility to Spruce Budworm Defoliation Based on Stand Age and Composition across a Complex Landscape in Maine, USA	2
Optimal and Fully Connected Deep Neural Networks Based Classification Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images	2
Upgrading the Salinity Index Estimation and Mapping Quality of Soil Salinity Using Artificial Neural Networks in the Lower-Cheliff Plain of Algeria in North Africa	2
Predicting Forest Age up to 250 Years in Old-Growth Boreal Mixedwoods of Western Quebec, Canada, Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data and Modelled Tree Species Composition	2
Observations from C-Band SAR Fully Polarimetric Parameters of Mobile Sea Ice Based on Radar Scattering Mechanisms to Support Operational Sea Ice Monitoring	2

Detecting White Pine Needle Damage through Satellite Remote Sensing	2
An attention-based multiscale few-shot network for water body extraction from GF-2 satellite imagery	2
Melt Season Arctic Sea Ice Type Separability Using Fully and Compact Polarimetric C- and L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar	2
Urban green space extraction from BJ-2 remote sensing image based SegFormer semantic segmentation model	2
Automated Rooftop Solar Panel Detection Through Convolutional Neural Networks	2
A Method for Fully Automatic Building Footprint Extraction From Remote Sensing Images	2
Estimating Biophysical Parameters of Native Grasslands Using Spectral Data Derived from Close Range Hyperspectral and Satellite Data	2
Estimation of Forest Structure and Fuel Change Across Mountain Pine Beetle – Attacked Forests Using Mobile and RPAS – Based LiDAR	2
Application of Sentinel-1 SAR Data for Detecting a Nuclear Test Location in North Korea	2
The Evolution of Remote Sensing Education in Canada’s Universities and Colleges: Decades of Innovation and Expansion	2