OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Digital Earth is 39. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
GNSS Ground deformation observation network optimization assisted using prior InSAR-derived ground surface deformation and multiscale iteration estimation	230
RepDDNet: a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image	167
A new remote sensing index of mildew for winter wheat disaster area extraction	139
Using remote sensing data to evaluate the ecological restoration in Taiyuan from the SDGs perspective	128
Block-PSPGOF: high-quality mesh reconstruction of large scenes based on progressive self-planarized Gaussian opacity fields	104
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	101
Kinematic precise point positioning heights enhancement using static measurements and Voronoi’s corrector surface	96
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on residents’ activities using baidu heat map data: from the lockdown era to the post-pandemic era	78
Mapping above-ground biomass and canopy mean height in high mountainous forest areas with Sentinel-2 multi-spectral image based on machine learning algorithms	77
Encoding and operation scheme for the rhombic triacontahedron aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system	75
The impact of super typhoon on varying vegetation types in eastern coastal China: implications for coastal ecosystem and disaster risk management	74
Object based Markov random field model for hierarchical semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery	73
AugGKG: a grid-augmented geographic knowledge graph representation and spatio-temporal query model	72
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention	70
An evaluation of TLS-based glacier change assessment in the central Tibetan plateau	67
Deep reinforcement learning–driven multi-satellite collaborative observation planning for emergency and disaster monitoring	66
TR2RM: an urban road network generation model based on multisource big data	65
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants	65
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-8	64
Individual tree segmentation from UAS Lidar data based on hierarchical filtering and clustering	64
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review	63
Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–2030	62
Monitoring vegetation dynamics in Qinling–Daba mountains during 2001–2023 using an improved two-leaf model and remote-sensing datasets	59
FRIC: a framework for few-shot remote sensing image captioning	58
Measuring alignment with the grid: evaluating the earth mover's distance as a metric of alignment between orientations	55

ECHO: an integrated model fusing remote sensing and AI for dynamic water resource assessment	55
Representative population distribution layer for Czechia: from methodology to automated solutions	52
A multi-scale risk assessment of grassland degradation based on vegetation dynamics: a case study in the Hulunbuir Grassland, China	52
Open and reproducible knowledge on accessibility to urban green spaces – supporting cities to adapt to climate change in the frame of the SDGs	52
Unveiling the pulse of urban metro stations: a TOD-driven approach to measuring vibrancy using geographically weighted random forest	48
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images	48
An unsupervised semantic segmentation method that combines the ImSE-Net model with SLICm superpixel optimization	45
Analysis of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) suitability in Yemen: an integrated evaluation based on MaxEnt and space–time cube approaches	45
Fine-grained flood disaster information extraction incorporating multiple semantic features	44
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet	43
Evolutionary dynamics of island shoreline in the context of climate change: insights from extensive empirical evidence	42
Change detection of multisource remote sensing images: a review	42
High-precision earth rotation parameter forecasting: multiscale computational models and multivariate data fusion	40
Advances on the Global Human Settlement Layer by joint assessment of Earth Observation and population survey data	40
A labor-free index-guided semantic segmentation approach for urban vegetation mapping from high-resolution true color imagery	39
Evaluating the performance of snow depth reanalysis products in the arid region of Central Asia	39
Rapid mass losses of Urumqi River Basin glaciers, eastern Tianshan Mountains revealed from multi-temporal DEMs, 1964–2021	39