International Journal of Digital Earth

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Digital Earth is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Human mobility data in the COVID-19 pandemic: characteristics, applications, and challenges110
Taking the pulse of COVID-19: a spatiotemporal perspective84
Incorporating DeepLabv3+ and object-based image analysis for semantic segmentation of very high resolution remote sensing images61
The characteristics of multi-source mobility datasets and how they reveal the luxury nature of social distancing in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic60
Immersive virtual reality for extending the potential of building information modeling in architecture, engineering, and construction sector: systematic review55
Discontinuous rock slope stability analysis by limit equilibrium approaches – a review52
ClimateCharts.net – an interactive climate analysis web platform50
Sensitivity analysis of parameters and contrasting performance of ground filtering algorithms with UAV photogrammetry-based and LiDAR point clouds46
The construction of personalized virtual landslide disaster environments based on knowledge graphs and deep neural networks29
Global DEMs vary from one to another: an evaluation of newly released Copernicus, NASA and AW3D30 DEM on selected terrains of China using ICESat-2 altimetry data28
Machine learning methods’ performance in radiative transfer model inversion to retrieve plant traits from Sentinel-2 data of a mixed mountain forest28
Ensemble machine learning models based on Reduced Error Pruning Tree for prediction of rainfall-induced landslides28
Validation of Landsat land surface temperature product in the conterminous United States using in situ measurements from SURFRAD, ARM, and NDBC sites27
Impact of spatiotemporal land-use and land-cover changes on surface urban heat islands in a semiarid region using Landsat data26
Multiplex network reconstruction for the coupled spatial diffusion of infodemic and pandemic of COVID-1924
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data24
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images22
A landslide extraction method of channel attention mechanism U-Net network based on Sentinel-2A remote sensing images21
Implementation of serverless cloud GIS platform for land valuation21
Assessing the ecological vulnerability of protected areas by using Big Earth Data20
Investigate the relationships between the Aral Sea shrinkage and the expansion of cropland and reservoir in its drainage basins between 2000 and 202020
Driving forces and prediction of urban land use change based on the geodetector and CA-Markov model: a case study of Zhengzhou, China20
FWENet: a deep convolutional neural network for flood water body extraction based on SAR images20
An IFC-based database schema for mapping BIM data into a 3D spatially enabled land administration database20
Tunnel vision optimization method for VR flood scenes based on Gaussian blur20
Spatial–temporal variations of NDVI and its response to climate in China from 2001 to 202019
Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally18
Nyström-based spectral clustering using airborne LiDAR point cloud data for individual tree segmentation18
Country-scale spatio-temporal monitoring of soil erosion in Iran using the G2 model18
Forecasting NDVI in multiple complex areas using neural network techniques combined feature engineering18
Gap analysis in decision support systems for real-estate in the era of the digital earth17
Bathymetric mapping and estimation of water storage in a shallow lake using a remote sensing inversion method based on machine learning17
Impervious surface extraction based on different methods from multiple spatial resolution images: a comprehensive comparison16
Deep learning for land use and land cover classification from the Ecuadorian Paramo.16
Deep neural network ensembles for remote sensing land cover and land use classification16
A virtual geographic environment for dynamic simulation and analysis of tailings dam failure16
Evaluation of neural network models for landslide susceptibility assessment16
An object detection method for bayberry trees based on an improved YOLO algorithm16
Chlorophyll-a concentrations in 82 large alpine lakes on the Tibetan Plateau during 2003–2017: temporal–spatial variations and influencing factors15
Integrating Sentinel-1 and 2 with LiDAR data to estimate aboveground biomass of subtropical forests in northeast Guangdong, China15
A Scale Sequence Object-based Convolutional Neural Network (SS-OCNN) for crop classification from fine spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery15
Sea ice conditions and navigability through the Northeast Passage in the past 40 years based on remote-sensing data15
Assessing 40 years of spatial dynamics and patterns in megacities along the Belt and Road region using satellite imagery14
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review14
Historical trends of degradation, loss, and recovery in the tropical forest reserves of Ghana14
Separating the impacts of climate variability, land-use change and large reservoir operations on streamflow in the Yangtze River basin, China, using a hydrological modeling approach13
Measuring user preferences and behaviour in a topographic immersive virtual environment (TopoIVE) of 2D and 3D urban topographic data13
Using geospatial social media data for infectious disease studies: a systematic review13
Unsupervised GRNN flood mapping approach combined with uncertainty analysis using bi-temporal Sentinel-2 MSI imageries13
A unified 3D space-based navigation model for seamless navigation in indoor and outdoor13
Mapping China’s offshore mariculture based on dense time-series optical and radar data13
Disaggregating population data for assessing progress of SDGs: methods and applications13
Variation of XCO2 anomaly patterns in the Middle East from OCO-2 satellite data13
Mapping summer soybean and corn with remote sensing on Google Earth Engine cloud computing in Parana state – Brazil12
Improving the estimation of canopy cover from UAV-LiDAR data using a pit-free CHM-based method12
Anomalous behaviour detection using one-class support vector machine and remote sensing images: a case study of algal bloom occurrence in inland waters12
Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data12
Social distance integrated gravity model for evacuation destination choice12
Simultaneous retrieval of land surface temperature and emissivity from the FengYun-4A advanced geosynchronous radiation imager12
Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow12
Assessing remotely sensed and reanalysis products in characterizing surface soil moisture in the Mongolian Plateau12
Drones, virtual reality, and modeling: communicating catastrophic dam failure11
Research agenda for the Russian Far East and utilization of multi-platform comprehensive environmental observations11
Mapping mountain glaciers using an improved U-Net model with cSE11
Modeling landslide susceptibility based on convolutional neural network coupling with metaheuristic optimization algorithms11
A method for reconstructing NDVI time-series based on envelope detection and the Savitzky-Golay filter11
Integrated monitoring of lakes’ turbidity in Wuhan, China during the COVID-19 epidemic using multi-sensor satellite observations11
Assessment of drought risk for winter wheat on the Huanghuaihai Plain under climate change using an EPIC model-based approach11
DAPR-tree: a distributed spatial data indexing scheme with data access patterns to support Digital Earth initiatives10
Literary placemaking and narrative immersion in extended reality virtual geographic environments10
Fast registration of forest terrestrial laser scans using key points detected from crowns and stems10
Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE model using remote sensing and GIS in an arid zone10
Revealing the linguistic and geographical disparities of public awareness to Covid-19 outbreak through social media10
A user perspective on future cloud-based services for Big Earth data10
An improved social force model (ISFM)-based crowd evacuation simulation method in virtual reality with a subway fire as a case study10
A novel method of determining the optimal polyhedral orientation for discrete global grid systems applicable to regional-scale areas of interest10
Quantitative prediction and evaluation of geothermal resource areas in the southwest section of the Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China10
Remote sensing-based deformation monitoring of pagodas at the Bagan cultural heritage site, Myanmar9
Recognizing mixed urban functions from human activities using representation learning methods9
Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters9
Evapotranspiration estimation using SEBAL algorithm integrated with remote sensing and experimental methods9
Analyzing Antarctic ice sheet snowmelt with dynamic Big Earth Data9
Lessons from a Marine Spatial Planning data management process for Ireland9
Estimation of 30 m land surface temperatures over the entire Tibetan Plateau based on Landsat-7 ETM+ data and machine learning methods9
An efficient built-up land expansion model using a modified U-Net9
Inferring decelerated land subsidence and groundwater storage dynamics in Tianjin–Langfang using Sentinel-1 InSAR9
Versioned geoscientific workflow for the collaborative geo-simulation of human-nature interactions – a case study of global change and human activities9
Combining post-disturbance land cover and tree canopy cover from Landsat time series data for mapping deforestation, forest degradation, and recovery across Cambodia9
Exploring spatiotemporal patterns of geosocial media data for urban functional zone identification8
A volumetric change detection framework using UAV oblique photogrammetry – a case study of ultra-high-resolution monitoring of progressive building collapse8
Assessing the active-passive approach at variant incidence angles for microwave brightness temperature downscaling8
Differentiated effects of morphological and functional polycentric urban spatial structure on carbon emissions in China: an empirical analysis from remotely sensed nighttime light approach8
A dynamic holographic modelling method of digital twin scenes for bridge construction8
Geographic context-aware text mining: enhance social media message classification for situational awareness by integrating spatial and temporal features8
A rule-based semi-automatic method to map burned areas in Mediterranean using Landsat images – revisited and improved8
Interactive data styling and multifocal visualization for a multigrid web-based Digital Earth8
A container-based approach for sharing environmental models as web services8
Spatial prediction of sparse events using a discrete global grid system; a case study of hate crimes in the USA8
Volunteered remote sensing data generation with air passengers as sensors7
Understanding temporal stability: a long-term analysis of USDA ARS watersheds7
Geoscience model service integrated workflow for rainstorm waterlogging analysis7
A robust discretization method of factor screening for landslide susceptibility mapping using convolution neural network, random forest, and logistic regression models7
A study of the temporal and spatial variations in the suitability of the environment in Chinese cities for tourism and in strategies for optimizing the environment7
The role of machine intelligence in photogrammetric 3D modeling – an overview and perspectives7
How to derive a geovisualization from an application data model: an approach based on Semantic Web technologies7
Assessment of VIIRS 375 m active fire using tropical peatland combustion algorithm applied to Landsat-8 over Indonesia’s peatlands7
Greenhouse area detection in Guanzhong Plain, Shaanxi, China: spatio-temporal change and suitability classification7
Monitoring travel patterns in German city regions with the help of mobile phone network data7
Bridge detection method for HSRRSIs based on YOLOv5 with a decoupled head7
Hyperspectral anomaly detection: a performance comparison of existing techniques7
A real 3D scene rendering optimization method based on region of interest and viewing frustum prediction in virtual reality7
Fine scale optical remote sensing experiment of mixed stand over complex terrain (FOREST) in the Genhe Reserve Area: objective, observation and a case study7
Evaluation of satellite land surface albedo products over China using ground-measurements7
Landform classification based on landform geospatial structure – a case study on Loess Plateau of China7
An autoencoder-based model for forest disturbance detection using Landsat time series data7
GMTS: GNN-based multi-scale transformer siamese network for remote sensing building change detection7
Crop classification based on the spectrotemporal signature derived from vegetation indices and accumulated temperature7
To move or stay? A cellular automata model to predict urban growth in coastal regions amidst rising sea levels7
A data fusion-based framework to integrate multi-source VGI in an authoritative land use database7
Evaluation and spatio-temporal analysis of surface energy flux in permafrost regions over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Arctic using CMIP6 models7
Synthesis of the ICESat/ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 observations to reconstruct time series of lake level7
An optimized hexagonal quadtree encoding and operation scheme for icosahedral hexagonal discrete global grid systems6
Drainage pattern recognition method considering local basin shape based on graph neural network6
Mapping the spatio-temporal visibility of global navigation satellites in the urban road areas based on panoramic imagery6
i4Ocean: transfer function-based interactive visualization of ocean temperature and salinity volume data6
Integrated representation of geospatial data, model, and knowledge for digital twin railway6
A framework on task configuration and execution for distributed geographical simulation6
Using deep learning in an embedded system for real-time target detection based on images from an unmanned aerial vehicle: vehicle detection as a case study6
Input database related uncertainty of Biome-BGCMuSo agro-environmental model outputs6
Mapping of lakes in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2016 to 2021: trend and potential regularity6
A novel fine-resolution snow depth retrieval model to reveal detailed spatiotemporal patterns of snow cover in Northeast China6
Monitoring nonlinear and fast deformation caused by underground mining exploitation using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 radar interferometry and corner reflectors: application, validation and processing o6
Change detection, risk assessment and mass balance of mobile dune fields near Dunhuang Oasis with optical imagery and global terrain datasets6
Precision silviculture: use of UAVs and comparison of deep learning models for the identification and segmentation of tree crowns in pine crops6
From unstructured texts to semantic story maps6
Monitoring water color anomaly of lakes based on an integrated method using Landsat-8 OLI images6
Combining PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 images with environmental data for improved wheat yield estimation6
Distinguishing different subclasses of water bodies for long-term and large-scale statistics of lakes: a case study of the Yangtze River basin from 2008 to 20186
Analysis of geo-spatiotemporal data using machine learning algorithms and reliability enhancement for urbanization decision support6
Open data in spatial data infrastructure: the practices and experiences of Poland6
Identifying urban land use social functional units: a case study using OSM data6
Three-dimensional virtual representation for the whole process of dam-break floods from a geospatial storytelling perspective6
Routeview: an intelligent route planning system for ships sailing through Arctic ice zones based on big Earth data6
An attention-based deep learning model for citywide traffic flow forecasting6
Reliability and consistency assessment of land cover products at macro and local scales in typical cities6
Improvement of microwave emissivity parameterization of frozen Arctic soils using roughness measurements derived from photogrammetry6
A fully automatic and high-accuracy surface water mapping framework on Google Earth Engine using Landsat time-series6
An investigation on microwave transmissivity at frequencies of 18.7 and 36.5 GHz for diverse forest types during snow season6
Winter wheat leaf area index inversion by the genetic algorithms neural network model based on SAR data6
Understanding root-zone soil moisture in agricultural regions of Central Mexico using the ensemble Kalman filter, satellite-derived information, and the THEXMEX-18 dataset6
Decomposing and mapping different scales of land subsidence over Shanghai with X- and C-Band SAR data stacks6
Evaluation and intercomparison of multiple satellite-derived and reanalysis downward shortwave radiation products in China5
Evaluation of GOFP over four forest plots using RAMI and UAV measurements5
Evaluation of machine learning methods and multi-source remote sensing data combinations to construct forest above-ground biomass models5
Processes and events in the center: a taxi trajectory-based approach to detecting traffic congestion and analyzing its causes5
Reopen schools safely: simulating COVID-19 transmission on campus with a contact network agent-based model5
Enhanced urban functional land use map with free and open-source data5
Governance interactions of spatial data infrastructures: an agent-based modelling approach5
Optimizing segmented trajectory data storage with HBase for improved spatio-temporal query efficiency5
Segmentation of the communication tower and its accessory equipment based on geometrical shape context from 3D point cloud5
Dense 3D surface reconstruction of large-scale streetscape from vehicle-borne imagery and LiDAR5
Urban restaurants and online food delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatial and socio-demographic analysis5
Evaluation of MODIS-Landsat and AVHRR-Landsat NDVI data fusion using a single pair base reference image: a case study in a tropical upstream catchment on Java, Indonesia5
An unsupervised heterogeneous change detection method based on image translation network and post-processing algorithm5
Processes and events in the centre: a dynamic data model for representing spatial change5
A review and comparison of surface incident shortwave radiation from multiple data sources: satellite retrievals, reanalysis data and GCM simulations5
Mapping the spatial and temporal patterns of fallow land in mountainous regions of China5
Antarctic-wide annual ice flow maps from Landsat 8 imagery between 2013 and 20195
Estimation of total water storage changes in India5
Building health monitoring in the old town of Madrid: applicability of SAR Imagery to the monitoring of underground works through classification indexes5
Urban growth dynamics and expansion forms in 11 Tanzanian cities from 1990 to 20205
Estimating high-spatial resolution surface daily longwave radiation from the instantaneous Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) longwave radiation product5
Identifying urban functional zones by capturing multi-spatial distribution patterns of points of interest5
Integration of Landsat time-series vegetation indices improves consistency of change detection5
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework5
Semantic segmentation for remote sensing images based on an AD-HRNet model4
Towards understanding the environmental and climatic changes and its contribution to the spread of wildfires in Ghana using remote sensing tools and machine learning (Google Earth Engine)4
Performances of six reanalysis profile products in the atmospheric correction of passive microwave data for estimating land surface temperature under cloudy-sky conditions4
Construction of a refined population analysis unit based on urban forms and population aggregation patterns4
The methodology of determining optimum access routes to remote areas for the purposes of crisis management4
A scalable software package for time series reconstruction of remote sensing datasets on the Google Earth Engine platform4
Power outage and environmental justice in Winter Storm Uri: an analytical workflow based on nighttime light remote sensing4
Light from space illuminating the polar silk road4
The future of global land change monitoring4
Impacts of heterogeneous CO2 on water and carbon fluxes across the global land surface4
Normalization of VIIRS DNB images for improved estimation of socioeconomic indicators4
A new denoising method for photon-counting LiDAR data with different surface types and observation conditions4
Estimating PM 2.5 concentrations in a central region of China using a three-stage model4
Combination of super-resolution reconstruction and SGA-Net for marsh vegetation mapping using multi-resolution multispectral and hyperspectral images4
Monitoring forest dynamics in Africa during 2000–2020 using a remotely sensed fractional tree cover dataset4
Global degradation trends of grassland and their driving factors since 20004
Remote sensing experiments for earth system science4
An improved coverage-oriented retrieval algorithm for large-area remote sensing data4
Ground infrastructure monitoring in coastal areas using time-series inSAR technology: the case study of Pudong International Airport, Shanghai4
Evaluation of stereology for snow microstructure measurement and microwave emission modeling: a case study4
Construction of rhombic triacontahedron discrete global grid systems4
An integrated neural network method for landslide susceptibility assessment based on time-series InSAR deformation dynamic features4
Time-lagged and cumulative effects of drought and anthropogenic activities on China's vegetation greening from 1990 to 20184
Retrieval and validation of long-term aerosol optical depth from AVHRR data over China4
Generation of a 16 m/10-day fractional vegetation cover product over China based on Chinese GaoFen-1 observations: method and validation4
Variation of water body in Dongting Lake from in situ measurements and MODIS observations in recent decades4
Strategies in training deep learning models to extract building from multisource images with small training sample sizes4
Debris flow susceptibility mapping in mountainous area based on multi-source data fusion and CNN model – taking Nujiang Prefecture, China as an example3
Expert perspectives on GIS use in Spanish geographic education3
iTourSPOT: a context-aware framework for next POI recommendation in location-based social networks3
A graph autoencoder network to measure the geometric similarity of drainage networks in scaling transformation3
Personalized tourist route recommendation model with a trajectory understanding via neural networks3
Machine learning-based prediction of sand and dust storm sources in arid Central Asia3
The influence of tree transmissivity variations in winter on satellite snow parameter observations3
Digital mapping of soil phosphorous sorption parameters (PSPs) using environmental variables and machine learning algorithms3
Spatiotemporal patterns of precipitation based on the Bayesian maximum entropy method in a typical catchment of the Heihe River watershed, northwest China3
Multi-temporal urban semantic understanding based on GF-2 remote sensing imagery: from tri-temporal datasets to multi-task mapping3
Analysis of the future trends of typical mountain glacier movements along the Sichuan-Tibet Railway based on ConvGRU network3
Generation of global 1-km daily top-of-atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation product from 2000 to 2021 using machine learning3
Automated location correction and spot height generation for named summits in the coterminous United States3
Automatic extraction and reconstruction of a 3D wireframe of an indoor scene from semantic point clouds3
DSFA: cross-scene domain style and feature adaptation for landslide detection from high spatial resolution images3
Injecting spectral indices to transferable convolutional neural network under imbalanced and noisy labels for Landsat image classification3
Mining hourly population dynamics by activity type based on decomposition of sequential snapshot data3
Space-associated domain adaptation for three-dimensional mineral prospectivity modeling3
A high-precision image classification network model based on a voting mechanism3
Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube3
Automatic selection of permanent scatterers-based GCPs for refinement and reflattening in InSAR DEM generation3
Advances in spatiotemporal graph neural network prediction research3
Street network patterns for mitigating urban heat islands in arid climates3
The decrease of salinity in lakes on the Tibetan Plateau between 2000 and 2019 based on remote sensing model inversions3
Multi-class change detection of remote sensing images based on class rebalancing3
One decade (2011–2020) of European agricultural water stress monitoring by MSG-SEVIRI: workflow implementation on the Virtual Earth Laboratory (VLab) platform3
Absolute radiometric calibration evaluation of the thermal infrared spectrometer onboard SDGSAT-13
Book review for ‘Manual of Digital Earth’3
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention3
A raster-based typification method for multiscale visualization of building features considering distribution patterns3
An automatic procedure for generating burn severity maps from the satellite images-derived spectral indices3
A lightweight distillation CNN-transformer architecture for remote sensing image super-resolution3
Investigation of the impact of hydrodynamic conditions on sediment resuspension in shallow lakes3
Spatiotemporal dynamics of population density in China using nighttime light and geographic weighted regression method*3
Evaluation of nine machine learning methods for estimating daily land surface radiation budget from MODIS satellite data3
ROI-constrained visualization of flood scenes to improve perception efficiency3
GeoGlue: feature matching with self-supervised geometric priors for high-resolution UAV images3
MDvT: introducing mobile three-dimensional convolution to a vision transformer for hyperspectral image classification3
A new vegetation index combination for leaf carotenoid-to-chlorophyll ratio: minimizing the effect of their correlation3
The geometry of mesoscale eddies in the South China Sea: characteristics and implications3
High-resolution spatio-temporal analysis of snowmelt over Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves from 2015 to 2021 using SAR images3
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet3
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants2
Capturing the crack process of the Antarctic A74 iceberg with Sentinel-1 based offset tracking and radar interferometry techniques2
Aesthetic style transferring method based on deep neural network between Chinese landscape painting and classical private garden’s virtual scenario2
A methodological framework for analyzing PPGIS data collected in 3D2
Spatial data trusts: an emerging governance framework for sharing spatial data2
High-resolution global mature and young oil palm plantation subclass maps for 20202
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