OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Digital Earth is 37. 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
AugGKG: a grid-augmented geographic knowledge graph representation and spatio-temporal query model	159
Analysis of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) suitability in Yemen: an integrated evaluation based on MaxEnt and space–time cube approaches	140
Monitoring vegetation dynamics in Qinling–Daba mountains during 2001–2023 using an improved two-leaf model and remote-sensing datasets	123
GNSS Ground deformation observation network optimization assisted using prior InSAR-derived ground surface deformation and multiscale iteration estimation	108
RepDDNet: a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image	98
ECHO: an integrated model fusing remote sensing and AI for dynamic water resource assessment	89
Open and reproducible knowledge on accessibility to urban green spaces – supporting cities to adapt to climate change in the frame of the SDGs	87
FRIC: a framework for few-shot remote sensing image captioning	76
Object based Markov random field model for hierarchical semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery	73
Measuring alignment with the grid: evaluating the earth mover's distance as a metric of alignment between orientations	66
The impact of super typhoon on varying vegetation types in eastern coastal China: implications for coastal ecosystem and disaster risk management	64
A new remote sensing index of mildew for winter wheat disaster area extraction	63
Using remote sensing data to evaluate the ecological restoration in Taiyuan from the SDGs perspective	61
Unveiling the pulse of urban metro stations: a TOD-driven approach to measuring vibrancy using geographically weighted random forest	61
Representative population distribution layer for Czechia: from methodology to automated solutions	60
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet	59
Kinematic precise point positioning heights enhancement using static measurements and Voronoi’s corrector surface	59
Fine-grained flood disaster information extraction incorporating multiple semantic features	59
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants	59
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-8	54
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework	53
A multi-scale risk assessment of grassland degradation based on vegetation dynamics: a case study in the Hulunbuir Grassland, China	53
Deep reinforcement learning–driven multi-satellite collaborative observation planning for emergency and disaster monitoring	52
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on residents’ activities using baidu heat map data: from the lockdown era to the post-pandemic era	51
Encoding and operation scheme for the rhombic triacontahedron aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system	48

Evolutionary dynamics of island shoreline in the context of climate change: insights from extensive empirical evidence	48
Mapping above-ground biomass and canopy mean height in high mountainous forest areas with Sentinel-2 multi-spectral image based on machine learning algorithms	47
An evaluation of TLS-based glacier change assessment in the central Tibetan plateau	47
Individual tree segmentation from UAS Lidar data based on hierarchical filtering and clustering	45
Block-PSPGOF: high-quality mesh reconstruction of large scenes based on progressive self-planarized Gaussian opacity fields	43
Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–2030	42
Change detection of multisource remote sensing images: a review	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	41
TR2RM: an urban road network generation model based on multisource big data	41
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review	40
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention	39
An unsupervised semantic segmentation method that combines the ImSE-Net model with SLICm superpixel optimization	38
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images	37