OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of GIScience & Remote Sensing is 15. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of multisource spatial data for determining the proliferation of stingless bees in Kenya	113
Regression-based surface water fraction mapping using a synthetic spectral library for monitoring small water bodies	91
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	85
Trade-offs among productive-living-ecological lands for facilitating low-carbon and efficient cities: evidences in 30 major Chinese cities from 2015 to 2020	77
Forest carbon sink in North China increased in recent two decades, but decreased in extreme drought years	73
The hidden economic costs of air pollution in China: evidence from remotely sensed nighttime light data	72
Mapping the tidal marshes of coastal Virginia: a hierarchical transfer learning approach	67
Trends, turning points, and driving forces of desertification in global arid land based on the segmental trend method and SHAP model	63
Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach	63
A new strategy for improving the accuracy of forest aboveground biomass estimates in an alpine region based on multi-source remote sensing	62
AFSNet: attention-guided full-scale feature aggregation network for high-resolution remote sensing image change detection	60
Land cover change detection in the Aralkum with multi-source satellite datasets	59
Evaluating the contribution of Sentinel-2 view and illumination geometry to the accuracy of retrieving essential crop parameters	58
Embedded physical constraints in machine learning to enhance vegetation phenology prediction	56
Global de-trending significantly improves the accuracy of XGBoost-based county-level maize and soybean yield prediction in the Midwestern United States	52
MSFTrans: a multi-task frequency-spatial learning transformer for building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images	51
Remote sensing of terrestrial gross primary productivity: a review of advances in theoretical foundation, key parameters and methods	48
Urban building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale recurrent conditional generative adversarial network	48
Monitoring active fires in Borneo from Sentinel-2 MSI images	47
Development of earth observational diagnostic drought prediction model for regional error calibration: A case study on agricultural drought in Kyrgyzstan	47
The use of maximum entropy and ecological niche factor analysis to decrease uncertainties in samples for urban gain models	47
Application of deep learning in cloud cover prediction using geostationary satellite images	46
Error budget analysis of geocoding and geometric correction for KOMPSAT-5 SAR imagery	45
Ship detection and classification based on cascaded detection of hull and wake from optical satellite remote sensing imagery	45
An improved optical trapezoid model to identify wetlands and irrigation water ponds in the arid irrigation district using Google Earth Engine	45

Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical vegetation ecosystems and their responses to multifaceted droughts in Mainland Southeast Asia using satellite-based time series	42
Leaf area index and aboveground biomass estimation of an alpine peatland with a UAV multi-sensor approach	41
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	40
Cross-comparison of Landsat-8 and Landsat-9 data: a three-level approach based on underfly images	39
MSNet: multispectral semantic segmentation network for remote sensing images	39
Dual generative adversarial networks for merging ocean transparency from satellite observations	38
Contribution of topographic features and categorization uncertainty for a tree species classification in the boreal biome of Northern Ontario	37
Strength-weighted flow cluster method considering spatiotemporal contiguity to reveal interregional association patterns	37
Spatial disparity of urban performance from a scaling perspective: a study of industrial features associated with economy, infrastructure, and innovation	36
An optimal multivariate-stratification geographical detector model for revealing the impact of multi-factor combinations on the dependent variable	35
An improved change detection method for high-resolution soil moisture mapping in permafrost regions	34
A review of building detection from very high resolution optical remote sensing images	33
Impacts of the world’s largest afforestation program (Three-North Afforestation Program) on desertification control in sandy land of China	32
In situ hyperspectral characteristics and the discriminative ability of remote sensing to coral species in the South China Sea	32
Satellite A-DInSAR pattern recognition for seismic vulnerability mapping at city scale: insights from the L’Aquila (Italy) case study	31
Tree regrowth duration map from LCMAP collection 1.0 land cover products in the conterminous United States, 1985–2017	31
Decadal analysis of sea surface temperature patterns, climatology, and anomalies in temperate coastal waters with Landsat-8 TIRS observations	31
Iterative spatial leave-one-out cross-validation and gap-filling based data augmentation for supervised learning applications in marine remote sensing	30
Spatio-temporal variability of surface temperatures in High Arctic periglacial environment using UAV thermal imagery and in-situ measurements	29
Spatiotemporal wave propagation of the shale oil and gas development in the Marcellus Shale in the past one century and a half	29
Dynamic variations in thermal regime and surface deformation along the drainage channel for an expanding lake on the Tibetan Plateau	28
Mapping the first global long time series wetland multitype sample dataset via the Google Earth Engine: a hybrid method of automated generation—index thresholding—spectral matching	28
Exploring the advantages of the maximum entropy model in calibrating cellular automata for urban growth simulation: a comparative study of four methods	27
Monitoring ecological and environmental stress patterns over the past two decades in the Mekong River basin	27
Synthesizing Landsat images using time series model-fitting methods for China’s coastal areas against sparse and irregular observations	27
An improved deep learning network for AOD retrieving from remote sensing imagery focusing on sub-pixel cloud	27
Coupled effects of solar illumination and phenology on vegetation index determination: an analysis over the Amazonian forests using the SuperDove satellite constellation	26
On the use of adversarial validation for quantifying dissimilarity in geospatial machine learning prediction	26
Geometric feature-enhanced reconstruction and refinement of photogrammetric mesh models in man-made environments	26
MDA-RSM: multi-directional adaptive remote sensing mamba for building extraction	25
Beyond the jam: field theory modeling of congestion’s ripple effects on traffic dynamics	25
Localized deformation detection and prediction in wide-range urban environments	25
SAR remote sensing for monitoring harmful algal blooms using deep learning models	25
A spatiotemporal knowledge graph for driving factor analysis and growth prediction of regional economy in China	25
Enhancing the predictive performance of remote sensing for ecological variables of tidal flats using encoded features from a deep learning model	25
Global crop calendars of maize and wheat in the framework of the WorldCereal project	24
Phenology-based cropland retirement remote sensing model: a case study in Yan’an, Loess Plateau, China	23
A novel landslide susceptibility prediction framework based on contrastive loss	23
Simulation of urban land expansion in China at 30 m resolution through 2050 under shared socioeconomic pathways	23
Using remote sensing for exposure and seismic vulnerability evaluation: is it reliable?	23
Coastline extraction using remote sensing: a review	22
Toward unsupervised building extraction from very high-resolution remote sensing images using SAM and CLIP	22
Assessing the relative contribution of climate change and human activity factors to spatiotemporal distributions of sand fixation service in the Loess Plateau	22
An advanced coverage estimation method to quantify biological soil crust coverage using Sentinel-2 imagery in desert and sandy land of China	21
Tracking vegetation degradation and recovery in multiple mining areas in Beijing, China, based on time-series Landsat imagery	21
Spatiotemporal variation in bamboo Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in China based on the global Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) carbon satellite and study on the response to climate	21
Ecological and climatic transferability of airborne lidar-driven aboveground biomass models in Piñon-Juniper woodlands	21
Detection of grassland mowing frequency using time series of vegetation indices from Sentinel-2 imagery	20
Mapping irrigated cropland at 30 m spatial resolution in northern China over the past three decades	20
A multi-source data approach to carbon stock prediction using Bayesian hierarchical geostatistical models in plantation forest ecosystems	20

Decreasing trend of kuroshio intrusion and its effect on the chlorophyll-a concentration in the Luzon Strait, South China Sea	20
Mapping winter fallow arable lands in Southern China by using a multi-temporal overlapped area minimization threshold method	20
A novel big data mining framework for reconstructing large-scale daily MAIAC AOD data across China from 2000 to 2020	20
Quantitative assessment of the scale conversion from instantaneous to daily GPP under various sky conditions based on MODIS local overpassing time	20
Spatiotemporal patterns of remotely sensed phenology and their response to climate change and topography in subtropical bamboo forests during 2001-2017: a case study in Zhejiang Province, China	19
Assessment of time-series-derived no-flood references for sar-based Bayesian flood mapping	19
A hydrogeomorphology-informed method for mapping continuous river networks from satellite imagery	19
Beyond flat cities: dramatic 2D/3D differences in urban gray–green space configurations and the nonlinear thermal regulation mechanisms	19
An interpretable physics-informed deep learning model for estimating multiple air pollutants	19
Seven-year variation in glacier surface velocity at Narsap Sermia in Southwest Greenland	18
Exact Voronoi diagram for topographic spatial analysis	18
A novel soil moisture evaluation framework incorporating brightness temperature and a high-resolution 1 km summer brightness temperature dataset	18
Solution for crop classification in regions with limited labeled samples: deep learning and transfer learning	18
Enhancing urban resilience through Tomo-PSInSAR-based structural health monitoring	18
A phenomenology-based algorithm for extracting submerged aquatic vegetation in lakes using Sentinel-2 time seriesImagery: a case study of Potamogeton crispus	18
Developing remote sensing methods for monitoring water quality of alpine rivers on the Tibetan Plateau	18
Correction	18
Addressing spatial imprecision in deep learning for satellite imagery-based socioeconomic predictions	17
Land surface temperature retrieval from FY-3E/MERSI using an optimized water vapor scaling method	17
MapSAM: adapting segment anything model for automated feature detection in historical maps	17
Mapping lava flow from the Kilauea eruption of 2018 in the east rift zone using space-based synthetic aperture radar	17
Retrieval of thin-ice thickness in arctic marginal seas through a combination of thermal and optical observations from polar orbiting satellites	17
Agricultural drought dynamics in China during 1982–2020: a depiction with satellite remotely sensed soil moisture	17
Monitoring and understanding chlorophyll-a concentration changes in lakes in northeastern China using MERIS and OLCI satellite data	17
Spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation net ecosystem productivity and its response to drought in Northwest China	17
An investigation of inversion method to measure the radial velocity of Kuroshio from Sentinel-1 SAR data	16
Detecting annual anthropogenic encroachment on intertidal vegetation using full Landsat time-series in Fujian, China	16
Multi-source point cloud registration for urban areas using a coarse-to-fine approach	16
Contribution of anthropogenic consolidation processes to subsidence phenomena from multi-temporal DInSAR: a GIS-based approach	16
Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban sprawl in China from 2000 to 2020	16
Offshore Island Connection Line: A new perspective of coastal urban development boundary simulation and multi-scenario prediction	16
KERF: a knowledge-enhanced relearning framework for tailings pond detection from high-resolution remote sensing images	16
LSL-SS-Net: level set loss-guided semantic segmentation networks for landslide extraction	15
Improving GOCI ocean color data under high solar-zenith angle over open oceans using neural networks	15
Rapid retrieval of soil moisture using a novel portable L-band radiometer in the Hulunbeier Prairie, China	15
Use of local climate zones to assess the spatiotemporal variations of urban vegetation phenology in Austin, Texas, USA	15
A novel spatiotemporal fractal dimension (STFD) for assessing ecological environment of the large-scale Yangtze River Basin China from 2012 to 2021 remote sensing data	15
Collaborative multiple change detection methods for monitoring the spatio-temporal dynamics of mangroves in Beibu Gulf, China	15
Two-tier classification framework for mapping grassland types using multisource earth observation data	15
A 3-dimension urban growth analysis using local climate zone mapping	15
Fine classification of crops based on an inductive transfer learning method with compact polarimetric SAR images	15