OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geo-Spatial Information Science is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data	129
Advances in spaceborne hyperspectral remote sensing in China	52
China’s high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites and their mapping applications	49
Big spatial data for urban and environmental sustainability	47
Land cover classification from remote sensing images based on multi-scale fully convolutional network	46
Mapping of cropland, cropping patterns and crop types by combining optical remote sensing images with decision tree classifier and random forest	45
Deep learning for change detection in remote sensing: a review	45
Feature detection and description for image matching: from hand-crafted design to deep learning	45
Modified aquila optimizer for forecasting oil production	41
Understanding the pattern and mechanism of spatial concentration of urban land use, population and economic activities: a case study in Wuhan, China	41
LEO Enhanced Global Navigation Satellite System (LeGNSS): progress, opportunities, and challenges	39
Remote sensing-based estimation of rice yields using various models: A critical review	38
Spatio-temporal-spectral observation model for urban remote sensing	37
Crop type mapping using LiDAR, Sentinel-2 and aerial imagery with machine learning algorithms	34
Social media as passive geo-participation in transportation planning – how effective are topic modeling & sentiment analysis in comparison with citizen surveys?	32
Collaborative validation of GlobeLand30: Methodology and practices	32
An investigation of the visual features of urban street vitality using a convolutional neural network	26
A review of multi-class change detection for satellite remote sensing imagery	24
Mapping and analyzing the local climate zones in China’s 32 major cities using Landsat imagery based on a novel convolutional neural network	24
Evaluation of wave retrieval for Chinese Gaofen-3 synthetic aperture radar	22
Spatial-temporal modeling of initial COVID-19 diffusion: The cases of the Chinese Mainland and Conterminous United States	20
VNLSTM-PoseNet: A novel deep ConvNet for real-time 6-DOF camera relocalization in urban streets	18
Luojia-HSSR: A high spatial-spectral resolution remote sensing dataset for land-cover classification with a new 3D-HRNet	18
Waveform LiDAR concepts and applications for potential vegetation phenology monitoring and modeling: a comprehensive review	18
Local color and morphological image feature based vegetation identification and its application to human environment street view vegetation mapping, or how green is our county?	18

Geospatial big data for urban planning and urban management	17
LEO satellite clock analysis and prediction for positioning applications	17
Trajectory analysis at intersections for traffic rule identification	16
Integration of maximum crop response with machine learning regression model to timely estimate crop yield	16
Estimation of global karst carbon sink from 1950s to 2050s using response surface methodology	16
Characterizing the spatial and temporal variation of the land surface temperature hotspots in Wuhan from a local scale	16
Deep learning-based local climate zone classification using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery	15
Integration of cadastral survey data into building information models	15
Support vector machine regression (SVR)-based nonlinear modeling of radiometric transforming relation for the coarse-resolution data-referenced relative radiometric normalization (RRN)	15
A remote sensing assessment index for urban ecological livability and its application	14
Evaluation of Landsat 8 image pansharpening in estimating soil organic matter using multiple linear regression and artificial neural networks	14
Value of incorporating geospatial information into the prediction of on-street parking occupancy – A case study	13
ActivityNET: Neural networks to predict public transport trip purposes from individual smart card data and POIs	13
Isolating the direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity in a large oasis city: evidence from Urumqi, China	13
Coarse-to-fine waterlogging probability assessment based on remote sensing image and social media data	12
Exploring metro vibrancy and its relationship with built environment: a cross-city comparison using multi-source urban data	12
Homogeneous tree height derivation from tree crown delineation using Seeded Region Growing (SRG) segmentation	12
Cluster and characteristic analysis of Shanghai metro stations based on metro card and land-use data	12
Spatio-temporal-spectral-angular observation model that integrates observations from UAV and mobile mapping vehicle for better urban mapping	12
Analysis of the land suitability for paddy fields in Tanzania using a GIS-based analytical hierarchy process	12
Area, lake-level and volume variations of typical lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their response to climate change, 1972–2019	12
Simulating multiple urban land use changes by integrating transportation accessibility and a vector-based cellular automata: a case study on city of Toronto	12
Integrating urban morphology and land surface temperature characteristics for urban functional area classification	11
Layout graph model for semantic façade reconstruction using laser point clouds	11
Geographically varying relationships between population flows from Wuhan and COVID-19 cases in Chinese cities	11
Technical progress of China’s national remote sensing mapping: from mapping western China to national dynamic mapping	11
Measuring accessibility of bus system based on multi-source traffic data	11
A power-law-based approach to mapping COVID-19 cases in the United States	10
Quantification of the openness of urban external space through urban section	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
SAR image water extraction using the attention U-net and multi-scale level set method: flood monitoring in South China in 2020 as a test case	10
Evaluating the accuracy of two satellite-based Quantitative Precipitation Estimation products and their application for meteorological drought monitoring over the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa	9
High-performance solutions of geographically weighted regression in R	9
Signal acquisition of Luojia-1A low earth orbit navigation augmentation system with software defined receiver	9
The Evolution of urban agglomerations in China and how it deviates from Zipf’s law	9
Impact of different sampling rates on precise point positioning performance using online processing service	9
Assessing the visualization of space and traffic volume using GIS-based processing and visibility parameters of space syntax	9
Exploring the applications of 3D proximity analysis in a 3D digital cadastre	9
A novel unsupervised deep learning method for the generalization of urban form	9
Population spatialization with pixel-level attribute grading by considering scale mismatch issue in regression modeling	9
Importance of community containment measures in combating the COVID-19 epidemic: From the perspective of urban planning	8
Urban Geospatial Information Acquisition Mobile Mapping System based on close-range photogrammetry and IGS site calibration	8
Wave retrieval from quad-polarized Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR image using an improved tilt modulation transfer function	8
An optimal design of the broadcast ephemeris for LEO navigation augmentation systems	8
Phenology-based delineation of irrigated and rain-fed paddy fields with Sentinel-2 imagery in Google Earth Engine	8
Modelling impacts of high-speed rail on urban interaction with social media in China’s mainland	8
Progress and perspectives of point cloud intelligence	8
Volunteered geographic information use in crisis, emergency and disaster management: a scoping review and a web atlas	7
STCD: efficient Siamese transformers-based change detection method for remote sensing images	7
Measuring positive public transit accessibility using big transit data	7

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