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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Human mobility data in the COVID-19 pandemic: characteristics, applications, and challenges131
Discontinuous rock slope stability analysis by limit equilibrium approaches – a review80
Immersive virtual reality for extending the potential of building information modeling in architecture, engineering, and construction sector: systematic review78
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 pandemic67
A landslide extraction method of channel attention mechanism U-Net network based on Sentinel-2A remote sensing images43
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 data42
An object detection method for bayberry trees based on an improved YOLO algorithm39
Validation of Landsat land surface temperature product in the conterminous United States using in situ measurements from SURFRAD, ARM, and NDBC sites37
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images37
Ensemble machine learning models based on Reduced Error Pruning Tree for prediction of rainfall-induced landslides36
Driving forces and prediction of urban land use change based on the geodetector and CA-Markov model: a case study of Zhengzhou, China34
Spatial–temporal variations of NDVI and its response to climate in China from 2001 to 202034
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data30
FWENet: a deep convolutional neural network for flood water body extraction based on SAR images29
Evaluation of neural network models for landslide susceptibility assessment28
Implementation of serverless cloud GIS platform for land valuation27
Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally26
Multiplex network reconstruction for the coupled spatial diffusion of infodemic and pandemic of COVID-1925
A dynamic holographic modelling method of digital twin scenes for bridge construction25
Nyström-based spectral clustering using airborne LiDAR point cloud data for individual tree segmentation24
Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow24
Tunnel vision optimization method for VR flood scenes based on Gaussian blur24
An improved social force model (ISFM)-based crowd evacuation simulation method in virtual reality with a subway fire as a case study24
Disaggregating population data for assessing progress of SDGs: methods and applications23
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review23
Deep neural network ensembles for remote sensing land cover and land use classification23
Assessing the ecological vulnerability of protected areas by using Big Earth Data23
An IFC-based database schema for mapping BIM data into a 3D spatially enabled land administration database22
Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE model using remote sensing and GIS in an arid zone22
Country-scale spatio-temporal monitoring of soil erosion in Iran using the G2 model21
Investigate the relationships between the Aral Sea shrinkage and the expansion of cropland and reservoir in its drainage basins between 2000 and 202021
Impervious surface extraction based on different methods from multiple spatial resolution images: a comprehensive comparison21
Autonomous GIS: the next-generation AI-powered GIS21
A unified 3D space-based navigation model for seamless navigation in indoor and outdoor21
Integrating Sentinel-1 and 2 with LiDAR data to estimate aboveground biomass of subtropical forests in northeast Guangdong, China21
Deep learning for land use and land cover classification from the Ecuadorian Paramo.20
A method for reconstructing NDVI time-series based on envelope detection and the Savitzky-Golay filter20
Mapping China’s offshore mariculture based on dense time-series optical and radar data20
Variation of XCO2 anomaly patterns in the Middle East from OCO-2 satellite data19
Bathymetric mapping and estimation of water storage in a shallow lake using a remote sensing inversion method based on machine learning19
Mitigation of tropospheric delay induced errors in TS-InSAR ground deformation monitoring19
Simultaneous retrieval of land surface temperature and emissivity from the FengYun-4A advanced geosynchronous radiation imager19
Historical trends of degradation, loss, and recovery in the tropical forest reserves of Ghana18
Chlorophyll-a concentrations in 82 large alpine lakes on the Tibetan Plateau during 2003–2017: temporal–spatial variations and influencing factors18
Using geospatial social media data for infectious disease studies: a systematic review17
Social distance integrated gravity model for evacuation destination choice17
A virtual geographic environment for dynamic simulation and analysis of tailings dam failure16
Improving the estimation of canopy cover from UAV-LiDAR data using a pit-free CHM-based method16
Modeling landslide susceptibility based on convolutional neural network coupling with metaheuristic optimization algorithms16
Evaluation of machine learning methods and multi-source remote sensing data combinations to construct forest above-ground biomass models16
Unsupervised GRNN flood mapping approach combined with uncertainty analysis using bi-temporal Sentinel-2 MSI imageries15
Mapping mountain glaciers using an improved U-Net model with cSE15
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
Evaluation and intercomparison of multiple satellite-derived and reanalysis downward shortwave radiation products in China15
Recognizing mixed urban functions from human activities using representation learning methods15
Assessment of drought risk for winter wheat on the Huanghuaihai Plain under climate change using an EPIC model-based approach15
Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data15
Integrated monitoring of lakes’ turbidity in Wuhan, China during the COVID-19 epidemic using multi-sensor satellite observations15
A scalable software package for time series reconstruction of remote sensing datasets on the Google Earth Engine platform14
Inferring decelerated land subsidence and groundwater storage dynamics in Tianjin–Langfang using Sentinel-1 InSAR14
Estimation of 30 m land surface temperatures over the entire Tibetan Plateau based on Landsat-7 ETM+ data and machine learning methods14
A fully automatic and high-accuracy surface water mapping framework on Google Earth Engine using Landsat time-series14
Anomalous behaviour detection using one-class support vector machine and remote sensing images: a case study of algal bloom occurrence in inland waters14
Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters13
Exploring spatiotemporal patterns of geosocial media data for urban functional zone identification13
Hyperspectral anomaly detection: a performance comparison of existing techniques13
Drones, virtual reality, and modeling: communicating catastrophic dam failure13
Measuring user preferences and behaviour in a topographic immersive virtual environment (TopoIVE) of 2D and 3D urban topographic data13
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 study13
Differentiated effects of morphological and functional polycentric urban spatial structure on carbon emissions in China: an empirical analysis from remotely sensed nighttime light approach13
An integrated neural network method for landslide susceptibility assessment based on time-series InSAR deformation dynamic features13
Spatiotemporal dynamics and forecasting of ecological security pattern under the consideration of protecting habitat: a case study of the Poyang Lake ecoregion13
Sponet: solve spatial optimization problem using deep reinforcement learning for urban spatial decision analysis12
Geographic context-aware text mining: enhance social media message classification for situational awareness by integrating spatial and temporal features12
Literary placemaking and narrative immersion in extended reality virtual geographic environments12
Versioned geoscientific workflow for the collaborative geo-simulation of human-nature interactions – a case study of global change and human activities12
An efficient built-up land expansion model using a modified U-Net12
Revealing the linguistic and geographical disparities of public awareness to Covid-19 outbreak through social media11
A user perspective on future cloud-based services for Big Earth data11
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)11
From unstructured texts to semantic story maps11
A container-based approach for sharing environmental models as web services11
Mapping of lakes in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2016 to 2021: trend and potential regularity11
Spatial prediction of sparse events using a discrete global grid system; a case study of hate crimes in the USA11
Ground infrastructure monitoring in coastal areas using time-series inSAR technology: the case study of Pudong International Airport, Shanghai11
Combining PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 images with environmental data for improved wheat yield estimation11
Remote sensing-based deformation monitoring of pagodas at the Bagan cultural heritage site, Myanmar11
Strategies in training deep learning models to extract building from multisource images with small training sample sizes11
Synthesis of the ICESat/ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 observations to reconstruct time series of lake level11
Integrated representation of geospatial data, model, and knowledge for digital twin railway11
Time-lagged and cumulative effects of drought and anthropogenic activities on China's vegetation greening from 1990 to 201811
Power outage and environmental justice in Winter Storm Uri: an analytical workflow based on nighttime light remote sensing10
A volumetric change detection framework using UAV oblique photogrammetry – a case study of ultra-high-resolution monitoring of progressive building collapse10
A data fusion-based framework to integrate multi-source VGI in an authoritative land use database10
Evaluation and spatio-temporal analysis of surface energy flux in permafrost regions over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Arctic using CMIP6 models10
Exploring tourist spatiotemporal behavior differences and tourism infrastructure supply–demand pattern fusing social media and nighttime light remote sensing data10
Reliability and consistency assessment of land cover products at macro and local scales in typical cities10
Bridge detection method for HSRRSIs based on YOLOv5 with a decoupled head10
Evapotranspiration estimation using SEBAL algorithm integrated with remote sensing and experimental methods10
A novel fine-resolution snow depth retrieval model to reveal detailed spatiotemporal patterns of snow cover in Northeast China10
A rule-based semi-automatic method to map burned areas in Mediterranean using Landsat images – revisited and improved10
Evaluation of satellite land surface albedo products over China using ground-measurements10
Personalized tourist route recommendation model with a trajectory understanding via neural networks10
Street network patterns for mitigating urban heat islands in arid climates10
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 environment10
Quantitative prediction and evaluation of geothermal resource areas in the southwest section of the Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China10
Drainage pattern recognition method considering local basin shape based on graph neural network10
Monitoring nonlinear and fast deformation caused by underground mining exploitation using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 radar interferometry and corner reflectors: application, validation and processing o9
Construction of a refined population analysis unit based on urban forms and population aggregation patterns9
Digital mapping of soil phosphorous sorption parameters (PSPs) using environmental variables and machine learning algorithms9
Crop classification based on the spectrotemporal signature derived from vegetation indices and accumulated temperature9
Identifying urban functional zones by capturing multi-spatial distribution patterns of points of interest9
Segmentation of the communication tower and its accessory equipment based on geometrical shape context from 3D point cloud9
Spatiotemporal dynamics of population density in China using nighttime light and geographic weighted regression method*9
An unsupervised heterogeneous change detection method based on image translation network and post-processing algorithm9
Global degradation trends of grassland and their driving factors since 20009
A robust discretization method of factor screening for landslide susceptibility mapping using convolution neural network, random forest, and logistic regression models9
Evaluating the impact of urban morphology on urban vitality: an exploratory study using big geo-data9
Combination of super-resolution reconstruction and SGA-Net for marsh vegetation mapping using multi-resolution multispectral and hyperspectral images9
GMTS: GNN-based multi-scale transformer siamese network for remote sensing building change detection9
Geoscience model service integrated workflow for rainstorm waterlogging analysis9
Decomposing and mapping different scales of land subsidence over Shanghai with X- and C-Band SAR data stacks9
Antarctic-wide annual ice flow maps from Landsat 8 imagery between 2013 and 20198
Urban restaurants and online food delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatial and socio-demographic analysis8
A review and comparison of surface incident shortwave radiation from multiple data sources: satellite retrievals, reanalysis data and GCM simulations8
Identifying urban land use social functional units: a case study using OSM data8
Landform classification based on landform geospatial structure – a case study on Loess Plateau of China8
Greenhouse area detection in Guanzhong Plain, Shaanxi, China: spatio-temporal change and suitability classification8
Understanding temporal stability: a long-term analysis of USDA ARS watersheds8
Open data in spatial data infrastructure: the practices and experiences of Poland8
The future of global land change monitoring8
Mapping soil organic matter content using Sentinel-2 synthetic images at different time intervals in Northeast China8
An optimized hexagonal quadtree encoding and operation scheme for icosahedral hexagonal discrete global grid systems8
An attention-based deep learning model for citywide traffic flow forecasting8
Estimation of total water storage changes in India8
Processes and events in the centre: a dynamic data model for representing spatial change8
Assessing the active-passive approach at variant incidence angles for microwave brightness temperature downscaling8
Fine scale optical remote sensing experiment of mixed stand over complex terrain (FOREST) in the Genhe Reserve Area: objective, observation and a case study8
Routeview: an intelligent route planning system for ships sailing through Arctic ice zones based on big Earth data8
Three-dimensional virtual representation for the whole process of dam-break floods from a geospatial storytelling perspective8
Estimating PM 2.5 concentrations in a central region of China using a three-stage model7
A comparison of three surface roughness characterization techniques: photogrammetry, pin profiler, and smartphone-based LiDAR7
Machine learning-based prediction of sand and dust storm sources in arid Central Asia7
Marine aquaculture mapping using GF-1 WFV satellite images and full resolution cascade convolutional neural network7
Vegetation ecological benefits index (VEBI): a 3D spatial model for evaluating the ecological benefits of vegetation7
Integration of Landsat time-series vegetation indices improves consistency of change detection7
A real 3D scene rendering optimization method based on region of interest and viewing frustum prediction in virtual reality7
Governance interactions of spatial data infrastructures: an agent-based modelling approach7
A point cloud segmentation method for power lines and towers based on a combination of multiscale density features and point-based deep learning7
How to derive a geovisualization from an application data model: an approach based on Semantic Web technologies7
The decrease of salinity in lakes on the Tibetan Plateau between 2000 and 2019 based on remote sensing model inversions7
A lightweight distillation CNN-transformer architecture for remote sensing image super-resolution7
DSFA: cross-scene domain style and feature adaptation for landslide detection from high spatial resolution images7
Processes and events in the center: a taxi trajectory-based approach to detecting traffic congestion and analyzing its causes7
A framework on task configuration and execution for distributed geographical simulation7
Advances in spatiotemporal graph neural network prediction research7
Variation of water body in Dongting Lake from in situ measurements and MODIS observations in recent decades7
MDvT: introducing mobile three-dimensional convolution to a vision transformer for hyperspectral image classification7
To move or stay? A cellular automata model to predict urban growth in coastal regions amidst rising sea levels7
Understanding root-zone soil moisture in agricultural regions of Central Mexico using the ensemble Kalman filter, satellite-derived information, and the THEXMEX-18 dataset7
Semantic segmentation for remote sensing images based on an AD-HRNet model7
Long-term dynamics of peak photosynthesis timing and environmental controls in the Tibetan Plateau monitored by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence7
Monitoring water color anomaly of lakes based on an integrated method using Landsat-8 OLI images7
An autoencoder-based model for forest disturbance detection using Landsat time series data7
Evaluation of GOFP over four forest plots using RAMI and UAV measurements7
Automatic selection of permanent scatterers-based GCPs for refinement and reflattening in InSAR DEM generation7
Vertical accuracy assessment of freely available global DEMs (FABDEM, Copernicus DEM, NASADEM, AW3D30 and SRTM) in flood-prone environments7
Optimizing segmented trajectory data storage with HBase for improved spatio-temporal query efficiency7
Input database related uncertainty of Biome-BGCMuSo agro-environmental model outputs7
Winter wheat leaf area index inversion by the genetic algorithms neural network model based on SAR data7
The impact of gradient expansion of urban–rural construction land on landscape fragmentation in typical mountain cities, China7
A multi-layer modelling approach for mining versatile ports of a global maritime transportation network7
High-resolution spatio-temporal analysis of snowmelt over Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves from 2015 to 2021 using SAR images7
Mapping the spatio-temporal visibility of global navigation satellites in the urban road areas based on panoramic imagery7
Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube6
Spatiotemporal variations in surface albedo during the ablation season and linkages with the annual mass balance on Muz Taw Glacier, Altai Mountains6
Leveraging machine learning and open-source spatial datasets to enhance flood susceptibility mapping in transboundary river basin6
Remote sensing experiments for earth system science6
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-86
Mapping the spatial and temporal patterns of fallow land in mountainous regions of China6
A new vegetation index combination for leaf carotenoid-to-chlorophyll ratio: minimizing the effect of their correlation6
A review of remote sensing image segmentation by deep learning methods6
Dense 3D surface reconstruction of large-scale streetscape from vehicle-borne imagery and LiDAR6
i4Ocean: transfer function-based interactive visualization of ocean temperature and salinity volume data6
An investigation on microwave transmissivity at frequencies of 18.7 and 36.5 GHz for diverse forest types during snow season6
Estimating high-spatial resolution surface daily longwave radiation from the instantaneous Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) longwave radiation product6
Urban growth dynamics and expansion forms in 11 Tanzanian cities from 1990 to 20206
Light from space illuminating the polar silk road6
A new method for the extraction of tailing ponds from very high-resolution remotely sensed images: PSVED6
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet6
Analysis of the future trends of typical mountain glacier movements along the Sichuan-Tibet Railway based on ConvGRU network6
Assessing and predicting changes of ecosystem service values in response to land use/land cover dynamics in Ibb City, Yemen: a three-decade analysis and future outlook6
Precision silviculture: use of UAVs and comparison of deep learning models for the identification and segmentation of tree crowns in pine crops6
Construction of rhombic triacontahedron discrete global grid systems6
Space-associated domain adaptation for three-dimensional mineral prospectivity modeling6
Monitoring forest dynamics in Africa during 2000–2020 using a remotely sensed fractional tree cover dataset6
Absolute radiometric calibration evaluation of the thermal infrared spectrometer onboard SDGSAT-16
Enhanced urban functional land use map with free and open-source data6
Expert perspectives on GIS use in Spanish geographic education6
Normalization of VIIRS DNB images for improved estimation of socioeconomic indicators6
Aesthetic style transferring method based on deep neural network between Chinese landscape painting and classical private garden’s virtual scenario6
iTourSPOT: a context-aware framework for next POI recommendation in location-based social networks6
A hybrid model for high spatial and temporal resolution population distribution prediction6
Mining hourly population dynamics by activity type based on decomposition of sequential snapshot data5
A high-precision image classification network model based on a voting mechanism5
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
Generation of a 16 m/10-day fractional vegetation cover product over China based on Chinese GaoFen-1 observations: method and validation5
Reopen schools safely: simulating COVID-19 transmission on campus with a contact network agent-based model5
Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies5
GPT, large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models in geospatial science: a systematic review5
Significant discrepancies of land surface daily net radiation among ten remotely sensed and reanalysis products5
Deep reinforcement learning and 3D physical environments applied to crowd evacuation in congested scenarios5
A generalized framework for agricultural field delineation from high-resolution satellite imageries5
A graph autoencoder network to measure the geometric similarity of drainage networks in scaling transformation5
Retrieval and validation of long-term aerosol optical depth from AVHRR data over China5
MSCANet: multiscale context information aggregation network for Tibetan Plateau lake extraction from remote sensing images5
Spatiotemporal patterns of precipitation based on the Bayesian maximum entropy method in a typical catchment of the Heihe River watershed, northwest China5
MDC-Net: a multi-directional constrained and prior assisted neural network for wood and leaf separation from terrestrial laser scanning5
Automatic extraction and reconstruction of a 3D wireframe of an indoor scene from semantic point clouds5
Investigating the seasonal dynamics of surface water over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau using Sentinel-1 imagery and a novel gated multiscale ConvNet5
Impacts of heterogeneous CO2 on water and carbon fluxes across the global land surface5
A knowledge-based approach for estimating the distribution of urban mixed land use5
A new denoising method for photon-counting LiDAR data with different surface types and observation conditions5
Capacitating local governments for the digital earth vision: lessons learnt from the role of municipalities in the South African spatial data infrastructure5
The methodology of determining optimum access routes to remote areas for the purposes of crisis management5
Spatiotemporal variation of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in China based on literature and media information5
Toward a comprehensive understanding of eye-level urban greenness: a systematic review5
Correlation and interaction between temperature and freeze-thaw in representative regions of Antarctica5
An improved coverage-oriented retrieval algorithm for large-area remote sensing data5
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework5
Enhancing building pattern recognition through multi-scale data and knowledge graph: a case study of C-shaped patterns5
Debris flow susceptibility mapping in mountainous area based on multi-source data fusion and CNN model – taking Nujiang Prefecture, China as an example5
Performances of six reanalysis profile products in the atmospheric correction of passive microwave data for estimating land surface temperature under cloudy-sky conditions5
Integrated data-model-knowledge representation for natural resource entities4
Rapid mass losses of Urumqi River Basin glaciers, eastern Tianshan Mountains revealed from multi-temporal DEMs, 1964–20214
Spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of urban landscape forms on PM 2.5 in China from 2001 to 20204
Integrating remote sensing temporal trajectory and survey statistics to update land use/land cover maps4
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention4
Evaluation of temporal compositing algorithms for annual land cover classification using Landsat time series data4
Virtual earth cloud: a multi-cloud framework for enabling geosciences digital ecosystems4
GACP: graph neural networks with ARMA filters and a parallel CNN for hyperspectral image classification4
An automatic procedure for generating burn severity maps from the satellite images-derived spectral indices4
A locally explained heterogeneity model for examining wetland disparity4
High-resolution global mature and young oil palm plantation subclass maps for 20204
Generation of global 1-km daily top-of-atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation product from 2000 to 2021 using machine learning4
Multi-class change detection of remote sensing images based on class rebalancing4
A novel spectral index for mapping blue colour-coated steel roofs (BCCSRs) in urban areas using Sentinel-2 data4
Spatial data trusts: an emerging governance framework for sharing spatial data4
Evaluation of stereology for snow microstructure measurement and microwave emission modeling: a case study4
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