OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of GIScience & Remote Sensing is 33. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade-offs among productive-living-ecological lands for facilitating low-carbon and efficient cities: evidences in 30 major Chinese cities from 2015 to 2020	99
Forest carbon sink in North China increased in recent two decades, but decreased in extreme drought years	91
A deep learning approach for automatic mapping of poplar plantations using Sentinel-2 imagery	83
Mapping invasive alien plant species with very high spatial resolution and multi-date satellite imagery using object-based and machine learning techniques: A comparative study	76
Mapping the tidal marshes of coastal Virginia: a hierarchical transfer learning approach	74
Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach	69
The use of multisource spatial data for determining the proliferation of stingless bees in Kenya	60
Trends, turning points, and driving forces of desertification in global arid land based on the segmental trend method and SHAP model	59
Regression-based surface water fraction mapping using a synthetic spectral library for monitoring small water bodies	56
MSFTrans: a multi-task frequency-spatial learning transformer for building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images	55
Urban building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale recurrent conditional generative adversarial network	52
Evaluating the contribution of Sentinel-2 view and illumination geometry to the accuracy of retrieving essential crop parameters	52
A new strategy for improving the accuracy of forest aboveground biomass estimates in an alpine region based on multi-source remote sensing	47
AFSNet: attention-guided full-scale feature aggregation network for high-resolution remote sensing image change detection	44
A hybrid integrated deep learning model for predicting various air pollutants	43
Embedded physical constraints in machine learning to enhance vegetation phenology prediction	43
Global de-trending significantly improves the accuracy of XGBoost-based county-level maize and soybean yield prediction in the Midwestern United States	43
Land cover change detection in the Aralkum with multi-source satellite datasets	43
Remote sensing of terrestrial gross primary productivity: a review of advances in theoretical foundation, key parameters and methods	42
Impacts of the world’s largest afforestation program (Three-North Afforestation Program) on desertification control in sandy land of China	41
A review of building detection from very high resolution optical remote sensing images	41
Leaf area index and aboveground biomass estimation of an alpine peatland with a UAV multi-sensor approach	40
Development of earth observational diagnostic drought prediction model for regional error calibration: A case study on agricultural drought in Kyrgyzstan	40
The use of maximum entropy and ecological niche factor analysis to decrease uncertainties in samples for urban gain models	40
An optimal multivariate-stratification geographical detector model for revealing the impact of multi-factor combinations on the dependent variable	39

An improved change detection method for high-resolution soil moisture mapping in permafrost regions	39
Spatial disparity of urban performance from a scaling perspective: a study of industrial features associated with economy, infrastructure, and innovation	39
Application of deep learning in cloud cover prediction using geostationary satellite images	38
Error budget analysis of geocoding and geometric correction for KOMPSAT-5 SAR imagery	37
Characterization of spatio-temporal patterns of grassland utilization intensity in the Selinco watershed of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau from 2001 to 2019 based on multisource remote sensing and artifi	37
Ship detection and classification based on cascaded detection of hull and wake from optical satellite remote sensing imagery	36
Strength-weighted flow cluster method considering spatiotemporal contiguity to reveal interregional association patterns	34
Cross-comparison of Landsat-8 and Landsat-9 data: a three-level approach based on underfly images	33