OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of GIScience & Remote Sensing is 14. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A large-scale change monitoring of wetlands using time series Landsat imagery on Google Earth Engine: a case study in Newfoundland	99
Google Earth Engine for large-scale land use and land cover mapping: an object-based classification approach using spectral, textural and topographical factors	75
A review of building detection from very high resolution optical remote sensing images	68
A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures	64
Generating annual high resolution land cover products for 28 metropolises in China based on a deep super-resolution mapping network using Landsat imagery	59
Improvement of Mangrove Soil Carbon Stocks Estimation in North Vietnam Using Sentinel-2 Data and Machine Learning Approach	58
Interpretation and sensitivity analysis of the InSAR line of sight displacements in landslide measurements	57
Urban tree species classification using UAV-based multi-sensor data fusion and machine learning	51
Use of Local Climate Zones to investigate surface urban heat islands in Texas	49
FROM-GLC Plus: toward near real-time and multi-resolution land cover mapping	48
Quantifying diurnal and seasonal variation of surface urban heat island intensity and its associated determinants across different climatic zones over Indian cities	47
A deep learning model using geostationary satellite data for forest fire detection with reduced detection latency	44
Factors affecting relative height and ground elevation estimations of GEDI among forest types across the conterminous USA	43
A stacking ensemble algorithm for improving the biases of forest aboveground biomass estimations from multiple remotely sensed datasets	43
RoadVecNet: a new approach for simultaneous road network segmentation and vectorization from aerial and google earth imagery in a complex urban set-up	39
A workflow based on Sentinel-1 SAR data and open-source algorithms for unsupervised burned area detection in Mediterranean ecosystems	38
Quantitatively distinguishing the impact of climate change and human activities on vegetation in mainland China with the improved residual method	37
Recent land deformation detected by Sentinel-1A InSAR data (2016–2020) over Hanoi, Vietnam, and the relationship with groundwater level change	36
Aboveground biomass mapping by integrating ICESat-2, SENTINEL-1, SENTINEL-2, ALOS2/PALSAR2, and topographic information in Mediterranean forests	35
Simulating mixed land-use change under multi-label concept by integrating a convolutional neural network and cellular automata: a case study of Huizhou, China	35
Offshore Island Connection Line: A new perspective of coastal urban development boundary simulation and multi-scenario prediction	35
Oil spill detection from Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth observations: a meta-analysis and comprehensive review	34
Improving wetland cover classification using artificial neural networks with ensemble techniques	33
Exploring the advantages of the maximum entropy model in calibrating cellular automata for urban growth simulation: a comparative study of four methods	32
A comparison of the integrated fuzzy object-based deep learning approach and three machine learning techniques for land use/cover change monitoring and environmental impacts assessment	32

Seasonal and diurnal surface urban heat islands in China: an investigation of driving factors with three-dimensional urban morphological parameters	32
A new type of dual-scale neighborhood based on vectorization for cellular automata models	32
Coastline extraction using remote sensing: a review	32
Improvement of SMAP sea surface salinity in river-dominated oceans using machine learning approaches	32
Effect of landscape pattern and spatial configuration of vegetation patches on urban warming and cooling in Harare metropolitan city, Zimbabwe	30
Improving remote sensing estimation of Secchi disk depth for global lakes and reservoirs using machine learning methods	29
Multiple agricultural cropland products of South Asia developed using Landsat-8 30 m and MODIS 250 m data using machine learning on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud and spectral matching techniques	29
Automatic mapping of urban green spaces using a geospatial neural network	29
For-backward LSTM-based missing data reconstruction for time-series Landsat images	28
Microwave-based vegetation descriptors in the parameterization of water cloud model at L-band for soil moisture retrieval over croplands	28
Ecological quality assessment and monitoring using a time-series remote sensing-based ecological index (ts-RSEI)	27
Multi-sensor and multi-platform consistency and interoperability between UAV, Planet CubeSat, Sentinel-2, and Landsat reflectance data	27
The effects of urban land cover dynamics on urban heat Island intensity and temporal trends	27
Satellite-derived bathymetry using machine learning and optimal Sentinel-2 imagery in South-West Florida coastal waters	26
A deep learning approach for automatic mapping of poplar plantations using Sentinel-2 imagery	26
Recent advances in the remote sensing of alpine snow: a review	26
Surface deformation extraction from small baseline subset synthetic aperture radar interferometry (SBAS-InSAR) using coherence-optimized baseline combinations	26
Spatio-temporal characterization of landscape fire in relation to anthropogenic activity and climatic variability over the Western Himalaya, India	26
Integrating InSAR and deep-learning for modeling and predicting subsidence over the adjacent area of Lake Urmia, Iran	24
Assessing spatiotemporal variations and predicting changes in ecosystem service values in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	24
Deep Forest classifier for wetland mapping using the combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data	24
Tracking vegetation degradation and recovery in multiple mining areas in Beijing, China, based on time-series Landsat imagery	23
Drone-borne sensing of major and accessory pigments in algae using deep learning modeling	23
Tree species classification in a typical natural secondary forest using UAV-borne LiDAR and hyperspectral data	23
Predicting land cover changes using a CA Markov model under different shared socioeconomic pathways in Greece	23
Exploring the potential of multi-source unsupervised domain adaptation in crop mapping using Sentinel-2 images	23
Mapping and evaluating global urban entities (2000–2020): A novel perspective to delineate urban entities based on consistent nighttime light data	21
Eutrophication monitoring of lakes in Wuhan based on Sentinel-2 data	21
Mapping high-resolution forest aboveground biomass of China using multisource remote sensing data	21
Modeling dynamic land use changes in the eastern portion of the hexi corridor, China by cnn-gru hybrid model	21
Multi-spatiotemporal heterogeneous legacy effects of climate on terrestrial vegetation dynamics in China	20
Modeling of spatial stratified heterogeneity	20
Modeling the geographic spread and proliferation of invasive alien plants (IAPs) into new ecosystems using multi-source data and multiple predictive models in the Heuningnes catchment, South Africa	20
Comparison of high-resolution NAIP and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery for natural vegetation communities classification using machine learning approaches	20
Solar park detection from publicly available satellite imagery	20
Aboveground biomass estimates over Brazilian savannas using hyperspectral metrics and machine learning models: experiences with Hyperion/EO-1	20
Mapping hourly population dynamics using remotely sensed and geospatial data: a case study in Beijing, China	20
MSNet: multispectral semantic segmentation network for remote sensing images	20
Detection of paddy rice cropping systems in southern China with time series Landsat images and phenology-based algorithms	19
Early mapping of winter wheat in Henan province of China using time series of Sentinel-2 data	19
A systematic review on the use of remote sensing technologies in quantifying grasslands ecosystem services	19
Thematic accuracy assessment of the NLCD 2019 land cover for the conterminous United States	19
Spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation net ecosystem productivity and its response to drought in Northwest China	19
Multi-scale three-dimensional detection of urban buildings using aerial LiDAR data	18
A hybrid integrated deep learning model for predicting various air pollutants	18
Mapping rice area and yield in northeastern asia by incorporating a crop model with dense vegetation index profiles from a geostationary satellite	18
Classification of polarimetric SAR images using compact convolutional neural networks	18
Spatial disparities in trade-offs: economic and environmental impacts of road infrastructure on continental level	17
Object-based change detection for vegetation disturbance and recovery using Landsat time series	17
Exploring the effects of partitioned transition rules upon urban growth simulation in a megacity region: a comparative study of cellular automata-based models in the Greater Wuhan Area	17

Use of local climate zones to assess the spatiotemporal variations of urban vegetation phenology in Austin, Texas, USA	17
Urban building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale recurrent conditional generative adversarial network	17
Simulation of urban land expansion in China at 30 m resolution through 2050 under shared socioeconomic pathways	16
Estimation of cyanobacteria pigments in the main rivers of South Korea using spatial attention convolutional neural network with hyperspectral imagery	16
Three-dimensional deformation monitoring and simulations for the preventive conservation of architectural heritage: a case study of the Angkor Wat Temple, Cambodia	16
Wetland mapping with multi-temporal sentinel-1 & -2 imagery (2017 – 2020) and LiDAR data in the grassland natural region of alberta	16
Gap-filling MODIS daily aerosol optical depth products by developing a spatiotemporal fitting algorithm	16
Pre-trained feature aggregated deep learning-based monitoring of overshooting tops using multi-spectral channels of GeoKompsat-2A advanced meteorological imagery	16
Customizable process design for collaborative geographic analysis	16
Spatially continuous mapping of hourly ground ozone levels assisted by Himawari-8 short wave radiation products	15
An evaluation of PlanetScope images for 3D reconstruction and change detection – experimental validations with case studies	15
Assessment of plant species distribution and diversity along a climatic gradient from Mediterranean woodlands to semi-arid shrublands	15
Upscaling aboveground biomass of larch (Larix olgensis Henry) plantations from field to satellite measurements: a comparison of individual tree-based and area-based approaches	15
How does the ambient environment respond to the industrial heat island effects? An innovative and comprehensive methodological paradigm for quantifying the varied cooling effects of different landscap	15
Inter-calibration of DMSP-OLS and SNPP-VIIRS-DNB annual nighttime light composites using machine learning	15
Mapping rapeseed in China during 2017-2021 using Sentinel data: an automated approach integrating rule-based sample generation and a one-class classifier (RSG-OC)	14
Model-driven estimation of closed and open shrublands live fuel moisture content	14
Comparison of spectral indices extracted from Sentinel-2 images to map plastic covered greenhouses through an object-based approach	14
Assessing Combinations of Landsat, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 Time series for Detecting Bark Beetle Infestations	14
Leveraging uncertainty estimation and spatial pyramid pooling for extracting hydrological features from scanned historical topographic maps	14
Detection of grassland mowing frequency using time series of vegetation indices from Sentinel-2 imagery	14
Investigating different versions of PROSPECT and PROSAIL for estimating spectral and biophysical properties of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation in mixed grasslands	14
Impacts of the world’s largest afforestation program (Three-North Afforestation Program) on desertification control in sandy land of China	14
Activity-based process construction for participatory geo-analysis	14