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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach	129
The hidden economic costs of air pollution in China: evidence from remotely sensed nighttime light data	98
Forest carbon sink in North China increased in recent two decades, but decreased in extreme drought years	96
Trade-offs among productive-living-ecological lands for facilitating low-carbon and efficient cities: evidences in 30 major Chinese cities from 2015 to 2020	91
An integrated evaluation for SWOT KaRIn Level-2 significant wave height product	89
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
Assessing spatiotemporal consistency of vegetation productivity indicators (SIF, GPP, NPP) in northwest China: climate and vegetation perspectives	82
Regression-based surface water fraction mapping using a synthetic spectral library for monitoring small water bodies	80
Mapping the tidal marshes of coastal Virginia: a hierarchical transfer learning approach	77
QeRSIF: a quality-enhanced red solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence dataset for TROPOMI satellite	77
Trends, turning points, and driving forces of desertification in global arid land based on the segmental trend method and SHAP model	77
Machine learning estimation of off-trail pedestrian travel rates using LiDAR-derived slope, vegetation, and surface roughness	76
MSFTrans: a multi-task frequency-spatial learning transformer for building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images	66
Development of a global 1 km phenology dataset (1982–2018) utilizing the spatiotemporal fusion of MODIS and AVHRR data	63
A new strategy for improving the accuracy of forest aboveground biomass estimates in an alpine region based on multi-source remote sensing	60
All-sky hourly estimation over East Asia using Himawari-8 AHI and multi-source data: investigating the main climatic drivers of afternoon depression and intraday variability in gross primary productiv	56
Remote sensing of terrestrial gross primary productivity: a review of advances in theoretical foundation, key parameters and methods	56
Evaluating the contribution of Sentinel-2 view and illumination geometry to the accuracy of retrieving essential crop parameters	55
AFSNet: attention-guided full-scale feature aggregation network for high-resolution remote sensing image change detection	55
Embedded physical constraints in machine learning to enhance vegetation phenology prediction	55
Urban building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale recurrent conditional generative adversarial network	53
Global de-trending significantly improves the accuracy of XGBoost-based county-level maize and soybean yield prediction in the Midwestern United States	51
Dual generative adversarial networks for merging ocean transparency from satellite observations	51
The use of maximum entropy and ecological niche factor analysis to decrease uncertainties in samples for urban gain models	51
An improved change detection method for high-resolution soil moisture mapping in permafrost regions	48

Strength-weighted flow cluster method considering spatiotemporal contiguity to reveal interregional association patterns	45
An improved optical trapezoid model to identify wetlands and irrigation water ponds in the arid irrigation district using Google Earth Engine	44
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	42
Leaf area index and aboveground biomass estimation of an alpine peatland with a UAV multi-sensor approach	42
Application of deep learning in cloud cover prediction using geostationary satellite images	38
Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical vegetation ecosystems and their responses to multifaceted droughts in Mainland Southeast Asia using satellite-based time series	38
Cross-comparison of Landsat-8 and Landsat-9 data: a three-level approach based on underfly images	38
Ship detection and classification based on cascaded detection of hull and wake from optical satellite remote sensing imagery	38
Error budget analysis of geocoding and geometric correction for KOMPSAT-5 SAR imagery	34
Monitoring active fires in Borneo from Sentinel-2 MSI images	34
Spatial disparity of urban performance from a scaling perspective: a study of industrial features associated with economy, infrastructure, and innovation	33
MSNet: multispectral semantic segmentation network for remote sensing images	33
A review of building detection from very high resolution optical remote sensing images	33
Contribution of topographic features and categorization uncertainty for a tree species classification in the boreal biome of Northern Ontario	32
Impacts of the world’s largest afforestation program (Three-North Afforestation Program) on desertification control in sandy land of China	32
Tree regrowth duration map from LCMAP collection 1.0 land cover products in the conterminous United States, 1985–2017	31
An improved deep learning network for AOD retrieving from remote sensing imagery focusing on sub-pixel cloud	31
An optimal multivariate-stratification geographical detector model for revealing the impact of multi-factor combinations on the dependent variable	31
Satellite A-DInSAR pattern recognition for seismic vulnerability mapping at city scale: insights from the L’Aquila (Italy) case study	31
Monitoring ecological and environmental stress patterns over the past two decades in the Mekong River basin	31
Iterative spatial leave-one-out cross-validation and gap-filling based data augmentation for supervised learning applications in marine remote sensing	31
SDNet: a multi-scale SWOT framework for denoising and quality-control optimization in inland water body extraction	30
Multiscale dynamics-informed deep learning reconstruction of global ocean offshore near-surface current	29
Comparative analysis of long-term trends and climate sensitivity of spring phenology across forests, shrublands, and grasslands in the middle–high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere	29
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	29
Decadal analysis of sea surface temperature patterns, climatology, and anomalies in temperate coastal waters with Landsat-8 TIRS observations	29
Scale effects of the spatiotemporal relationship between nighttime light and population activity intensity: a case study in Shanghai, China	29
Spatio-temporal variability of surface temperatures in High Arctic periglacial environment using UAV thermal imagery and in-situ measurements	28
Dynamic variations in thermal regime and surface deformation along the drainage channel for an expanding lake on the Tibetan Plateau	28
Coupled effects of solar illumination and phenology on vegetation index determination: an analysis over the Amazonian forests using the SuperDove satellite constellation	27
Integrating time-series analysis and deep learning methods to reconstruct the long-term retrogressive thaw slumps dynamics in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	27
Explaining spatially heterogeneous drivers of urban expansion with an XGBoost–SHAP–UGM framework	27
Beyond the jam: field theory modeling of congestion’s ripple effects on traffic dynamics	26
A new framework for mapping rubber plantations through the combination of semiautomatic sample migration, dynamic phenology, and change detection variables based on time series Landsat images	26
Geometric feature-enhanced reconstruction and refinement of photogrammetric mesh models in man-made environments	26
Phenology-based cropland retirement remote sensing model: a case study in Yan’an, Loess Plateau, China	25
Simulation of urban land expansion in China at 30 m resolution through 2050 under shared socioeconomic pathways	25
Localized deformation detection and prediction in wide-range urban environments	25
A spatiotemporal knowledge graph for driving factor analysis and growth prediction of regional economy in China	25
Using remote sensing for exposure and seismic vulnerability evaluation: is it reliable?	25
SAR remote sensing for monitoring harmful algal blooms using deep learning models	25
MDA-RSM: multi-directional adaptive remote sensing mamba for building extraction	24
A novel landslide susceptibility prediction framework based on contrastive loss	23
On the use of adversarial validation for quantifying dissimilarity in geospatial machine learning prediction	23
Global crop calendars of maize and wheat in the framework of the WorldCereal project	23
Synthesizing Landsat images using time series model-fitting methods for China’s coastal areas against sparse and irregular observations	22
Global hourly seamless AOD through measurement-adjusted machine learning fusion of multi-satellite and reanalysis data	21
Toward unsupervised building extraction from very high-resolution remote sensing images using SAM and CLIP	21
Enhancing the predictive performance of remote sensing for ecological variables of tidal flats using encoded features from a deep learning model	21
Assessing the relative contribution of climate change and human activity factors to spatiotemporal distributions of sand fixation service in the Loess Plateau	21

Assessment of time-series-derived no-flood references for sar-based Bayesian flood mapping	21
Quantitative assessment of the scale conversion from instantaneous to daily GPP under various sky conditions based on MODIS local overpassing time	21
Mapping irrigated cropland at 30 m spatial resolution in northern China over the past three decades	20
Mapping winter fallow arable lands in Southern China by using a multi-temporal overlapped area minimization threshold method	20
Mapping China’s photovoltaic distribution and decarbonization capacity using a customized genetic algorithm-enhanced machine learning approach	20
An advanced coverage estimation method to quantify biological soil crust coverage using Sentinel-2 imagery in desert and sandy land of China	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	20
Beyond flat cities: dramatic 2D/3D differences in urban gray–green space configurations and the nonlinear thermal regulation mechanisms	20
Correction	20
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	20
A multi-source data approach to carbon stock prediction using Bayesian hierarchical geostatistical models in plantation forest ecosystems	20
Coastline extraction using remote sensing: a review	20
Ecological and climatic transferability of airborne lidar-driven aboveground biomass models in Piñon-Juniper woodlands	20
Re-evaluating the role of plant traits in cross-scale vegetation simulations: evidence from coastal dwarf forests	19
Agricultural drought dynamics in China during 1982–2020: a depiction with satellite remotely sensed soil moisture	19
A phenomenology-based algorithm for extracting submerged aquatic vegetation in lakes using Sentinel-2 time seriesImagery: a case study of Potamogeton crispus	19
Solution for crop classification in regions with limited labeled samples: deep learning and transfer learning	19
Remotely sensed monitoring of coastal geomorphology: coupling satellite-derived vegetation edges with other proxy metrics	19
Ecologically critical thresholds of marine heatwaves control spatiotemporal patterns of Japanese flying squid	19
Enhancing urban resilience through Tomo-PSInSAR-based structural health monitoring	18
Mapping Coastal Redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ) across their natural range: an updateable and field-validated distribution map using Sentinel satellite	18
Seven-year variation in glacier surface velocity at Narsap Sermia in Southwest Greenland	18
Exact Voronoi diagram for topographic spatial analysis	18
A hydrogeomorphology-informed method for mapping continuous river networks from satellite imagery	18
Mapping Chinese urban carbon emissions with a graph-based multi-branch deep learning framework	18
Addressing spatial imprecision in deep learning for satellite imagery-based socioeconomic predictions	17
A novel soil moisture evaluation framework incorporating brightness temperature and a high-resolution 1 km summer brightness temperature dataset	17
Monitoring and understanding chlorophyll-a concentration changes in lakes in northeastern China using MERIS and OLCI satellite data	17
Developing remote sensing methods for monitoring water quality of alpine rivers on the Tibetan Plateau	17
LMSeg: an end-to-end geometric message-passing network on barycentric dualgraphs for large-scale landscape mesh segmentation	17
Spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation net ecosystem productivity and its response to drought in Northwest China	17
An interpretable physics-informed deep learning model for estimating multiple air pollutants	17
Performance and generalizability impacts of incorporating location encoders into deep learning for dynamic PM _2.5 estimation	16
Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban sprawl in China from 2000 to 2020	16
Improving GOCI ocean color data under high solar-zenith angle over open oceans using neural networks	16
Mapping lava flow from the Kilauea eruption of 2018 in the east rift zone using space-based synthetic aperture radar	16
Land surface temperature retrieval from FY-3E/MERSI using an optimized water vapor scaling method	16
MapSAM: adapting segment anything model for automated feature detection in historical maps	16
Subhourly ice surface temperature retrieval over the Larsen C Ice Shelf using geostationary satellite data and machine learning	16
Retrieval of thin-ice thickness in arctic marginal seas through a combination of thermal and optical observations from polar orbiting satellites	16
Two-tier classification framework for mapping grassland types using multisource earth observation data	16
Contribution of anthropogenic consolidation processes to subsidence phenomena from multi-temporal DInSAR: a GIS-based approach	15
Detecting annual anthropogenic encroachment on intertidal vegetation using full Landsat time-series in Fujian, China	15
LSL-SS-Net: level set loss-guided semantic segmentation networks for landslide extraction	15
Identifying composite spatial patterns of China’s shrinking cities from nighttime light remote sensing	15
Rapid retrieval of soil moisture using a novel portable L-band radiometer in the Hulunbeier Prairie, China	15
Collaborative multiple change detection methods for monitoring the spatio-temporal dynamics of mangroves in Beibu Gulf, China	15
Model-based analysis of the relationship between endmember variability and temporal unmixing performance	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
Spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of ecological quality in inner Mongolia: insights from an integrated LGBM-SHAP and GOZH model	15
Exploring the potential of multi-source unsupervised domain adaptation in crop mapping using Sentinel-2 images	14
GTGRI: a Gaussian time-weighted growth rate index for multi-season paddy rice mapping in diverse climates with dense SAR time series	14
Spatial heterogeneity and nonlinear climatic responses of net ecosystem productivity across China	14
Generating annual high resolution land cover products for 28 metropolises in China based on a deep super-resolution mapping network using Landsat imagery	14
KERF: a knowledge-enhanced relearning framework for tailings pond detection from high-resolution remote sensing images	14
Multi-source point cloud registration for urban areas using a coarse-to-fine approach	14
An investigation of inversion method to measure the radial velocity of Kuroshio from Sentinel-1 SAR data	14
Polyline simplification using a region proposal network integrating raster and vector features	14
Offshore Island Connection Line: A new perspective of coastal urban development boundary simulation and multi-scenario prediction	14
Fine classification of crops based on an inductive transfer learning method with compact polarimetric SAR images	14
Integrated framework for identifying shrinking cities using nighttime light and socioeconomic data: a case study of China	14