OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geo-Spatial Information Science is 5. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Entity-oriented spatial coding scheme and its application for spatial topology	92
Automated extraction and validation of Stone Pine ( Pinus pinea L.) trees from UAV-based digital surface models	87
Spatial-temporal analysis of the international trade network	80
Integrating a multi-dimensional deep convolutional neural network with optimized sample selection for landslide susceptibility assessment	62
ADMNet: adaptive deformable convolution large model combining multi-level progressive fusion for Building Change Detection	55
Mid-Term achievements in the Dragon 5 Cooperation between MOST and ESA	52
“Hot street” of crime detection in London borough and lockdown impacts	49
LuoJiaAI: A cloud-based artificial intelligence platform for remote sensing image interpretation	49
Challenges and implications of predicting the spatiotemporal distribution of dengue fever outbreak in Chinese Taiwan using remote sensing data and deep learning	43
Satellite mapping of air temperature under polar night conditions	36
Layout graph model for semantic façade reconstruction using laser point clouds	33
Lockdown lifted: measuring spatial resilience from London’s public transport demand recovery	27
Investigating the effect of spatial patterns of artificial impervious surface on PM _2.5 at the intra-urban scale	26
Evaluation of strategies for the ultra-rapid orbit prediction of BDS GEO satellites	26
A robust and accurate feature matching method for multi-modal geographic images spatial registration	25
Optimization model for urban ecological network connectivity considering geospatial constraints	23
Integrating 3D city data through knowledge graphs	22
The impact of drought time scales and characteristics on gross primary productivity in China from 2001 to 2020	21
An optimized BP neural network for modeling zenith tropospheric delay in the Chinese mainland using coupled particle swarm and genetic algorithm	20
Evaluation of the physical-functional resilience of Isfahan City center using spatial statistics methods and ELECTRE ^*	19
ForestSemantic: a dataset for semantic learning of forest from close-range sensing	19
SemanticMesh: parameterized fusion of semantic components for photogrammetric meshes	18
Impacts of vegetation greening and climate change on trend and interannual variability in vegetation productivity in the Wuyi Mountain region	18
Enhancing outlying growth simulation in urban cellular automata via intelligent extraction-fusion of land suitability and neighborhood effects: a case study of Wuhan, China	18
A large scale training sample database system for intelligent interpretation of remote sensing imagery	17

Spatialization of electricity consumption by combining high-resolution nighttime light remote sensing and urban functional zoning information	17
Integrating street view imagery and taxi trajectory for identifying urban function of street space	17
Mixed-use urban land parcels identification integrating geospatial data and machine learning	17
Spatiotemporal variability at seasonal and interannual scales of terrestrial water variation over Tibetan Plateau from geodetic observations	17
Estimating pedestrian traffic with Bluetooth sensor technology	16
Spatial diffusion processes of Gelugpa monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibetan areas of China utilizing the multi-level diffusion model	16
Evaluation of wave retrieval for Chinese Gaofen-3 synthetic aperture radar	15
The effects of factor generalization scales on the reproduction of dynamic urban growth	15
Fritz Ackermann: a true and unequalled friend	14
Value of incorporating geospatial information into the prediction of on-street parking occupancy – A case study	14
Integration of 3DGIS and BIM and its application in visual detection of concealed facilities	13
Transport pathway identification and meteorological driving force spatial-temporal analysis of an extreme dust storm event on South Mongolian Plateau	13
An investigation of the temporality of OpenStreetMap data contribution activities	13
Assessment of underlying topography and forest height inversion based on TomoSAR methods	13
Population spatialization with pixel-level attribute grading by considering scale mismatch issue in regression modeling	12
Signal acquisition of Luojia-1A low earth orbit navigation augmentation system with software defined receiver	12
LEO satellite clock analysis and prediction for positioning applications	12
Satellite-based mapping of canopy fuels at the pan-European scale	12
Characterizing the channel dependence of vegetation effects on microwave emissions from soils	12
Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia	11
Monitoring firn and wet snow on mountain glaciers: polarization and orbit effects	11
Data-driven machine learning approaches for precise lithofacies identification in complex geological environments	10
Comparison of Layer-stacking and Dempster-Shafer Theory-based Methods Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data Fusion in Urban Land Cover Mapping	10
Untangling the association between urban mobility and urban elements	10
Evaluating current ethical values of OpenStreetMap using value sensitive design	10
Inter-comparison study of wind measurement between the three-lidar-based virtual tower and four lidars using VAD techniques	10
Understanding the pattern and mechanism of spatial concentration of urban land use, population and economic activities: a case study in Wuhan, China	10
How do greenspace landscapes affect PM2.5 exposure in Wuhan? Linking spatial-nonstationary, annual varying, and multiscale perspectives	10
Area, lake-level and volume variations of typical lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their response to climate change, 1972–2019	9
Exploring metro vibrancy and its relationship with built environment: a cross-city comparison using multi-source urban data	9
Modeling information flow from multispectral remote sensing images to land use and land cover maps for understanding classification mechanism	9
Remote sensing image super-resolution via cross-scale hierarchical transformer	8
Displacements of Fushun west opencast coal mine revealed by multi-temporal InSAR technology	8
Ground penetrating radar applied to subsurface culverts	8
Exploiting satellite SAR for archaeological prospection and heritage site protection	8
A user-based approach for assessing spatial equity of attractiveness and accessibility to alternative urban parks	8
Global vegetation productivity increased in response to COVID-19 restrictions	8
An approach for measuring spatial similarity among COVID-19 epicenters	8
Multi-source deep-learning approach for automatic geomorphological mapping: the case of glacial moraines	8
Development of a brownfield inventory for prioritizing funding outreach in Tucson, Arizona	7
Forest age estimation using UAV-LiDAR and Sentinel-2 data with machine learning algorithms- a case study of Masson pine ( Pinus massoniana )	7
Geometric positioning integrating optical satellite stereo imagery and a global database of ICESat-2 laser control points: A framework and key technologies	7
Analysing the use of OpenAerialMap images for OpenStreetMap edits	7
An approach for urban agglomerations integration evaluation based on multivariate big data: case of the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration	7
Analysis of land-atmosphere interactions and their influence on the energy and water cycle over the Tibetan Plateau	7
Review, framework, and future perspectives of Geographic Knowledge Graph (GeoKG) quality assessment	7
Visual effects of a forward-curled 3D map of the Forbidden City with eye-tracking	6
i4sea: a big data platform for sea area monitoring and analysis of fishing vessels activity	6
Special issue on “multi-scale and multimodal human mobility: pre, peri and post COVID-19 pandemic”	6
The great calving in 2017 did not have a significant impact on the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the short term	6

Sensing the global CRUST1.0 Moho by gravitational curvatures of crustal mass anomalies	6
EFFC-Net: lightweight fully convolutional neural networks in remote sensing disaster images	6
Urban comprehensive carrying capacity analysis in Zhejiang Province of China from the perspective of production, living, and ecological spaces	6
Estimation of annual harvested wood products based on remote sensing and TPO survey data	6
Towards automating the nautical chart generalization workflow	6
Defining and designing spatial queries: the role of spatial relationships	6
Ground-based remote sensing of nitrous oxide (N ₂ O) over Hefei, eastern China from high-resolution solar spectra	6
Low frequency error analysis and calibration for multiple star sensors system of GaoFen7 satellite	6
Crop classification in Google Earth Engine: leveraging Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, European CAP data, and object-based machine-learning approaches	6
An urban building use identification framework based on integrated remote sensing and social sensing data with spatial constraints	6
Land transformation across agroecological zones reveals expanding cropland and settlement at the expense of tree-cover and wetland areas in Nigeria	6
Dual-environment feature fusion-based method for estimating building-scale population distributions	6
Individual tree detection and counting based on high-resolution imagery and the canopy height model data	6
Automated noise modelling using a triangulated terrain model	6
An intelligent partial charging navigation strategy for electric vehicles	6
Epidemiological-survey-based multidimensional modeling for understanding daily mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic across urban-rural gradient in the Chinese mainland	6
Evaluating the spatiotemporal patterns of GPP and tree growth for their response to CO ₂ fertilization effects in mid-latitude forests of China	5
Crowdsourcing geographic information for terrorism-related disaster awareness and mitigation: perspectives and challenges	5
Progress and perspectives of point cloud intelligence	5
Glacier melt detection at different sites of Greenland ice sheet using dual-polarized Sentinel-1 images	5
Luojia-HSSR: A high spatial-spectral resolution remote sensing dataset for land-cover classification with a new 3D-HRNet	5
A power-law-based approach to mapping COVID-19 cases in the United States	5
A framework for upscaling aboveground biomass from an individual tree to landscape level and qualifying the multiscale spatial uncertainties for secondary forests	5
Cross-modal feature interaction network for heterogeneous change detection	5
Quantitative spatiotemporal impact of dynamic population density changes on the COVID-19 pandemic in China’s mainland	5
Predicting soil nutrients with PRISMA hyperspectral data at the field scale: the Handan (south of Hebei Province) test cases	5
STCD: efficient Siamese transformers-based change detection method for remote sensing images	5
An enhanced tropospheric fusion model based on China’s National continuously operating reference stations	5
Influence of ground control point reliability and distribution on UAV photogrammetric 3D mapping accuracy	5
Design and performance evaluation of a novel ranging signal based on an LEO satellite communication constellation	5
Extracting iceberg freeboard using shadow length in high-resolution optical images	5
Unravel the spatio-temporal patterns and their nonlinear relationship with correlates of dockless shared bikes near metro stations	5
Determination of Helmert transformation parameters for continuous GNSS networks: a case study of the Géoazur GNSS network	5