OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Digital Earth is 32. 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
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-8	128
Monitoring vegetation dynamics in Qinling–Daba mountains during 2001–2023 using an improved two-leaf model and remote-sensing datasets	92
Block-PSPGOF: high-quality mesh reconstruction of large scenes based on progressive self-planarized Gaussian opacity fields	87
The impact of super typhoon on varying vegetation types in eastern coastal China: implications for coastal ecosystem and disaster risk management	84
Object based Markov random field model for hierarchical semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery	70
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	65
Kinematic precise point positioning heights enhancement using static measurements and Voronoi’s corrector surface	65
Evolutionary dynamics of island shoreline in the context of climate change: insights from extensive empirical evidence	53
Unveiling the pulse of urban metro stations: a TOD-driven approach to measuring vibrancy using geographically weighted random forest	53
FRIC: a framework for few-shot remote sensing image captioning	50
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet	50
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants	49
Change detection of multisource remote sensing images: a review	49
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images	48
Using remote sensing data to evaluate the ecological restoration in Taiyuan from the SDGs perspective	47
Deep reinforcement learning–driven multi-satellite collaborative observation planning for emergency and disaster monitoring	46
GNSS Ground deformation observation network optimization assisted using prior InSAR-derived ground surface deformation and multiscale iteration estimation	44
An evaluation of TLS-based glacier change assessment in the central Tibetan plateau	43
Fine-grained flood disaster information extraction incorporating multiple semantic features	42
Mapping above-ground biomass and canopy mean height in high mountainous forest areas with Sentinel-2 multi-spectral image based on machine learning algorithms	42
RepDDNet: a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image	41
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on residents’ activities using baidu heat map data: from the lockdown era to the post-pandemic era	41
Analysis of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) suitability in Yemen: an integrated evaluation based on MaxEnt and space–time cube approaches	41
AugGKG: a grid-augmented geographic knowledge graph representation and spatio-temporal query model	40

TR2RM: an urban road network generation model based on multisource big data	39
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	38
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention	36
Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–2030	34
Individual tree segmentation from UAS Lidar data based on hierarchical filtering and clustering	34
Encoding and operation scheme for the rhombic triacontahedron aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system	33
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework	33