OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Digital Earth 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-8	135
Monitoring vegetation dynamics in Qinling–Daba mountains during 2001–2023 using an improved two-leaf model and remote-sensing datasets	97
Block-PSPGOF: high-quality mesh reconstruction of large scenes based on progressive self-planarized Gaussian opacity fields	95
The impact of super typhoon on varying vegetation types in eastern coastal China: implications for coastal ecosystem and disaster risk management	87
Object based Markov random field model for hierarchical semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery	80
Kinematic precise point positioning heights enhancement using static measurements and Voronoi’s corrector surface	73
An unsupervised semantic segmentation method that combines the ImSE-Net model with SLICm superpixel optimization	68
A new remote sensing index of mildew for winter wheat disaster area extraction	67
Evolutionary dynamics of island shoreline in the context of climate change: insights from extensive empirical evidence	54
FRIC: a framework for few-shot remote sensing image captioning	54
Individual tree segmentation from UAS Lidar data based on hierarchical filtering and clustering	53
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants	53
Unveiling the pulse of urban metro stations: a TOD-driven approach to measuring vibrancy using geographically weighted random forest	52
Deep reinforcement learning–driven multi-satellite collaborative observation planning for emergency and disaster monitoring	50
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on residents’ activities using baidu heat map data: from the lockdown era to the post-pandemic era	50
An evaluation of TLS-based glacier change assessment in the central Tibetan plateau	50
Mapping above-ground biomass and canopy mean height in high mountainous forest areas with Sentinel-2 multi-spectral image based on machine learning algorithms	48
AugGKG: a grid-augmented geographic knowledge graph representation and spatio-temporal query model	46
Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–2030	46
TR2RM: an urban road network generation model based on multisource big data	46
Using remote sensing data to evaluate the ecological restoration in Taiyuan from the SDGs perspective	45
Fine-grained flood disaster information extraction incorporating multiple semantic features	44
Encoding and operation scheme for the rhombic triacontahedron aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system	44
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review	43
GNSS Ground deformation observation network optimization assisted using prior InSAR-derived ground surface deformation and multiscale iteration estimation	43

HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention	42
Mapping Local Climate Zones in Lausanne (Switzerland) with Sentinel-2 and PRISMA imagery: comparison of classification performance using different band combinations and building height data	42
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework	37
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images	35
Advances on the Global Human Settlement Layer by joint assessment of Earth Observation and population survey data	35
RepDDNet: a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image	35
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet	34
Change detection of multisource remote sensing images: a review	34
Analysis of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) suitability in Yemen: an integrated evaluation based on MaxEnt and space–time cube approaches	33