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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Second Generation Canadian Wetland Inventory Map at 10 Meters Resolution Using Google Earth Engine	46
Autumn Crop Yield Prediction using Data-Driven Approaches:- Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, and Deep Neural Network Methods	34
Integration of Multi-Source Geospatial Data from GNSS Receivers, Terrestrial Laser Scanners, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	23
Estimation of Phytoplankton Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in the Western Basin of Lake Erie Using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 Data	20
Wheat Head Detection using Deep, Semi-Supervised and Ensemble Learning	19
Impacts of Topography on the Land Cover Classification in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China	18
RADARSAT Constellation Mission’s Operational Polarimetric Modes: A User-Driven Radar Architecture	17
Wetland Mapping Using Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: A Case Study in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada	17
Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging and Damage Conditions from Low-Altitude UAV Imagery Based on a CNN Approach	17
Spatially-Explicit Prediction of Wildfire Burn Probability Using Remotely-Sensed and Ancillary Data	16
A Rule-Based Classification Method for Mapping Saltmarsh Land-Cover in South-Eastern Bangladesh from Landsat-8 OLI	16
UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imaging Technique to Estimate Canola (Brassica napus L.) Seedpods Maturity	15
A Comprehensive Survey of Optical Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Methods	14
Efficacy of Remote Sensing in Early Forest Fire Detection: A Thermal Sensor Comparison	14
UAV and High Resolution Satellite Mapping of Forage Lichen (Cladonia spp.) in a Rocky Canadian Shield Landscape	14
Forest Inventory and Aboveground Biomass Estimation with Terrestrial LiDAR in the Tropical Forest of Malaysia	14
A Multi-Feature Fusion Using Deep Transfer Learning for Earthquake Building Damage Detection	13
Potato Late Blight Detection at the Leaf and Canopy Level Using Hyperspectral Data	13
Intra-Field Canopy Nitrogen Retrieval from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery for Wheat and Corn Fields	13
RADARSAT-2 Derived Glacier Velocities and Dynamic Discharge Estimates for the Canadian High Arctic: 2015–2020	13
Multi-Sensor Aboveground Biomass Estimation in the Broadleaved Hyrcanian Forest of Iran	12
Comparison of Machine and Deep Learning Methods to Estimate Shrub Willow Biomass from UAS Imagery	11
Observations from C-Band SAR Fully Polarimetric Parameters of Mobile Sea Ice Based on Radar Scattering Mechanisms to Support Operational Sea Ice Monitoring	11
A Comparison between Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 OLI Satellite Images for Soil Salinity Distribution Mapping Using a Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network	11
Object-Based Wetland Classification Using Multi-Feature Combination of Ultra-High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Images	10

Benchmarked RADARSAT-2, SENTINEL-1 and RADARSAT Constellation Mission Change-Detection Monitoring at North Slide, Thompson River Valley, British Columbia: ensuring a Landslide-Resilient National Railw	10
Object-Oriented and Deep-Learning-Based High-Resolution Mapping from Large Remote Sensing Imagery	9
Deep Learning Approaches to Spatial Downscaling of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Products Using EALCO Model Over Canada	9
Deep Learning-Based Spatiotemporal Fusion Approach for Producing High-Resolution NDVI Time-Series Datasets	9
Digital Terrestrial Photogrammetry to Enhance Field-Based Forest Inventory across Stand Conditions	9
A Remote Sensing Land Cover Classification Algorithm Based on Attention Mechanism	9
Fusing Landsat and SAR Data for Mapping Tropical Deforestation through Machine Learning Classification and the PVts-β Non-Seasonal Detection Approach	9
Learning-Based Methods for Detection and Monitoring of Shallow Flood-Affected Areas: Impact of Shallow-Flood Spreading on Vegetation Density	9
Transferability of ALS-Derived Forest Resource Inventory Attributes Between an Eastern and Western Canadian Boreal Forest Mixedwood Site	8
A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Approaches to Rooftop Detection in Aerial Images	8
Detecting Individual-Tree Crown Regions from Terrestrial Laser Scans with an Anchor-Free Deep Learning Model	8
Calibrating PhenoCam Data with Phenological Observations of a Black Spruce Stand	8
U-Net Based Road Area Guidance for Crosswalks Detection from Remote Sensing Images	8
Pix2Pix Network to Estimate Agricultural Near Infrared Images from RGB Data	7
Detection of Lesions in Lettuce Caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum Subsp. carotovorum by Supervised Classification Using Multispectral Images	7
Comparison of LiDAR Building Point Cloud with Reference Model for Deep Comprehension of Cloud Structure	7
Regional Crop Characterization Using Multi-Temporal Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Observations Data	6
An Efficient Change Detection for Large SAR Images Based on Modified U-Net Framework	6
Measurement of Tunnel Clearance Convergence Using Mobile Laser Detection Technology	6
Multiple Spatial Features Extraction and Fusion for Hyperspectral Images Classification	6
Improving Spatial-Spectral Classification of Hyperspectral Imagery by Using Extended Minimum Spanning Forest Algorithm	6
Characterizing the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands with InSAR Observations from X-, C-, and L-Band Sensors	6
Predictions of Biomass Change in a Hemi-Boreal Forest Based on Multi-Polarization L- and P-Band SAR Backscatter	5
Using Landsat Time-Series to Monitor and Inform Seagrass Dynamics: A Case Study in the Tabusintac Estuary, New Brunswick, Canada	5
Refinements in Eelgrass Mapping at Tabusintac Bay (New Brunswick, Canada): A Comparison between Random Forest and the Maximum Likelihood Classifier	5
Evaluation of Features Derived from High-Resolution Multispectral Imagery and LiDAR Data for Object-Based Support Vector Machine Classification of Tree Species	5
Delineation of Bare Soil Field Areas from Unmanned Aircraft System Imagery with the Mean Shift Unsupervised Clustering and the Random Forest Supervised Classification	5
Road Extraction from UAV Images Using a Deep ResDCLnet Architecture	5
Educating the Next Generation of Remote Sensing Specialists: Skills and Industry Needs in a Changing World	5
Quantifying Woody Plant Encroachment in Grasslands: A Review on Remote Sensing Approaches	5
Potential of Pléiades and Radarsat-2 Data for Mapping Plastic-Mulched Farmland Using Object-Based Image Analysis	5
Data Assimilation of Growing Stock Volume Using a Sequence of Remote Sensing Data from Different Sensors	5
Multilevel Extraction of Vegetation Type Based on Airborne LiDAR Data	5
Modeling Watershed-Scale Historic Change in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone Using Random Forest	5
Extending Estimates of Tree and Tree Species Presence-Absence through Space and Time Using Landsat Composites	4
A New Tie Plane-Based Method for Fine Registration of Imagery and Point Cloud Dataset	4
Complex Surface Deformation of the Coalfield in the Northwest Suburbs of Xuzhou from 2015 to 2020 Revealed by Time Series InSAR	4
Super-Resolution Surface Water Mapping on the Canadian Shield Using Planet CubeSat Images and a Generative Adversarial Network	4
Quantitative Inversion Modeling Method for Grading Deerni Copper Deposits Based on Visible and Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Data	4
A Method to Derive Tidal Flat Topography in Nantong, China Using MODIS Data and Tidal Levels	4
Monitoring Crops Using Compact Polarimetry and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission	4
An Improved Bald Eagle Search Algorithm with Deep Learning Model for Forest Fire Detection Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images	4
Clay Mineral Alteration in Oil and Gas Fields: Integrated Analyses of Surface Expression, Soil Spectra, and X-Ray Diffraction Data	4
Combined Improved Dirichlet Models and Deep Learning Models for Road Extraction from Remote Sensing Images	4
Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Multilayer Perceptron Trained with Eigenvalue Decay	4
Hotspots, Heat Vulnerability and Urban Heat Islands: An Interdisciplinary Review of Research Methodologies	4
Performance Improvement of Encoder/Decoder-Based CNN Architectures for Change Detection from Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery	4
Detection of Management Practices and Cropping Phases in Wild Lowbush Blueberry Fields Using Multispectral UAV Data	3
Machine Learning Based Imputation of Mountain Snowpack Depth within an Operational LiDAR Sampling Framework in Southwest Alberta	3
CJRS’ Special Issue on Deep Learning for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing Data	3

Comparative Analysis of Empirical and Machine Learning Models for Chl a Extraction Using Sentinel-2 and Landsat OLI Data: Opportunities, Limitations, and Challenges	3
Temporal Variation in Surface Bidirectional Reflectance of the Railroad Valley Vicarious Calibration Test Site in Nevada	3
Characterizing Tree Species in Northern Boreal Forests Using Multiple-Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis and Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery	3
Landfast Ice Mapping Using MODIS Clear-Sky Composites: Application for the Banks Island Coastline in Beaufort Sea and Comparison with Canadian Ice Service Data	3
Beluga whale detection in the Cumberland Sound Bay using convolutional neural networks	3
CS-CapsFPN: A Context-Augmentation and Self-Attention Capsule Feature Pyramid Network for Road Network Extraction from Remote Sensing Imagery	3
Land Subsidence in Beijing’s Sub-Administrative Center and Its Relationship with Urban Expansion Inferred from Sentinel-1/2 Observations	3
A Multiscale Joint Deep Neural Network for Glacier Contour Extraction	3
Detecting White Pine Needle Damage through Satellite Remote Sensing	3
OA-CapsNet: A One-Stage Anchor-Free Capsule Network for Geospatial Object Detection from Remote Sensing Imagery	3
Shallow Water Bathymetry Retrieval by Optical Remote Sensing Based on Depth-Invariant Index and Location Features	3
Deep Learning-Based Classification of Large-Scale Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud	3
Intelligent Rider Optimization Algorithm with Deep Learning Enabled Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imaging Classification	3
A New U-Net Based Convolutional Neural Network for Estimating Caribou Lichen Ground Cover from Field-Level RGB Images	3
Tackling SAR Imagery Ship Classification Imbalance via Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network	3
A High Spatial Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis of Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut (2004–2018)	3
Greenhouses Detection in Guanzhong Plain, Shaanxi, China: Evaluation of Four Classification Methods in Google Earth Engine	2
HSI Classification Based on Multimodal CNN and Shadow Enhance by DSR Spatial-Spectral Fusion	2
Passive Microwave Sea Ice Edge Displacement Error over the Eastern Canadian Arctic for the period 2013-2021	2
Temporal Filters for Mapping Phragmites with C-HH SAR Data	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
Toward Targeted Change Detection with Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images for Forest Mortality Mapping	2
A Sea-Surface Temperature Homogenization Blend for the Northwest Atlantic	2
Evaluation of the Performance of the Integration of Remote Sensing and Noah Hydrologic Model for Soil Moisture Estimation in Hetao Irrigation Region of Inner Mongolia	2
Forest Variable Estimations Using TanDEM-X Data in Hyrcanian Forests	2
Nearshore Bathymetry Estimation Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery	2
A New Endmember Extraction Method Based on Least Squares	2
Monitoring Water Turbidity in a Temperate Floodplain Using UAV: Potential and Challenges	2
Road Boundary, Curb and Surface Extraction from 3D Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds in Urban Environment	2
Testing ASTER and Sentinel-2 MSI Images to Discriminate Igneous and Metamorphic Rock Units in the Chadormalu Paleocrater, Central Iran	2
DInSAR Monitoring of Surface Subsidence by Fusing Sentinel-1A and -1B Data to Improve Time Resolution in a Mining Area	2
Object-Oriented Automatic Identification of Forest Gaps Using Digital Orthophoto Maps and LiDAR Data	2
Intelligent Sine Cosine Optimization with Deep Transfer Learning Based Crops Type Classification Using Hyperspectral Images	2