OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Using very‐high‐resolution satellite imagery and deep learning to detect and count African elephants in heterogeneous landscapes	77
Real‐time insect tracking and monitoring with computer vision and deep learning	64
Automated detection of Hainan gibbon calls for passive acoustic monitoring	47
Extending deep learning approaches for forest disturbance segmentation on very high‐resolution satellite images	45
Monitoring spring phenology of individual tree crowns using drone‐acquired NDVI data	44
Spatial resolution, spectral metrics and biomass are key aspects in estimating plant species richness from spectral diversity in species‐rich grasslands	43
Characterizing spatial variability in coastal wetland biomass across multiple scales using UAV and satellite imagery	38
Machine learning to detect marine animals in UAV imagery: effect of morphology, spacing, behaviour and habitat	38
Regional matters: On the usefulness of regional land‐cover datasets in times of global change	34
21 000 birds in 4.5 h: efficient large‐scale seabird detection with machine learning	30
Random encounter model is a reliable method for estimating population density of multiple species using camera traps	25
Dual visible‐thermal camera approach facilitates drone surveys of colonial marshbirds	25
HydroMoth: Testing a prototype low‐cost acoustic recorder for aquatic environments	25
Deep learning detects invasive plant species across complex landscapes using Worldview‐2 and Planetscope satellite imagery	25
Automatic flower detection and phenology monitoring using time‐lapse cameras and deep learning	24
Let your maps be fuzzy!—Class probabilities and floristic gradients as alternatives to crisp mapping for remote sensing of vegetation	24
Using drones to reduce human disturbance while monitoring breeding status of an endangered raptor	23
Regional‐scale forest restoration effects on ecosystem resiliency to drought: a synthesis of vegetation and moisture trends on Google Earth Engine	22
Multispecies detection and identification of African mammals in aerial imagery using convolutional neural networks	21
Monitoring ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) in British forests using hyperspectral remote sensing	21
Drone‐based thermal remote sensing provides an effective new tool for monitoring the abundance of roosting fruit bats	20
Passive acoustic monitoring reveals the role of habitat affinity in sensitivity of sub‐tropical East Asian bats to fragmentation	19
Modelling species distribution from camera trap by‐catch using a scale‐optimized occupancy approach	18
Simultaneous monitoring of vegetation dynamics and wildlife activity with camera traps to assess habitat change	18
Mainstreaming remotely sensed ecosystem functioning in ecological niche models	17

Spy in the sky: a method to identify pregnant small cetaceans	17
Deep learning algorithm outperforms experienced human observer at detection of blue whale D‐calls: a double‐observer analysis	17
Optimizing tropical forest bird surveys using passive acoustic monitoring and high temporal resolution sampling	17
Wildfire severity and vegetation recovery drive post‐fire evapotranspiration in a southwestern pine‐oak forest, Arizona, USA	17
Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems	16
Wildlife trail or systematic? Camera trap placement has little effect on estimates of mammal diversity in a tropical forest in Gabon	16
Cloud‐native seascape mapping of Mozambique’s Quirimbas National Park with Sentinel‐2	16
Mapping mangrove leaf area index (LAI) by combining remote sensing images with PROSAIL‐D and XGBoost methods	15
Seismic savanna: machine learning for classifying wildlife and behaviours using ground‐based vibration field recordings	15
Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN	15
The real potential of current passive satellite data to map aboveground biomass in tropical forests	15
How can Sentinel‐2 contribute to seagrass mapping in shallow, turbid Baltic Sea waters?	15
Remote sensing of wildlife connectivity networks and priority locations for conservation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT) in Tanzania	14
SmallSats: a new technological frontier in ecology and conservation?	14
Arboreal camera trapping: a reliable tool to monitor plant‐frugivore interactions in the trees on large scales	14
Earth observation for ecosystem accounting: spatially explicit national seagrass extent and carbon stock in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar	13
Improved fire severity mapping in the North American boreal forest using a hybrid composite method	13
Tracking canopy gaps in mangroves remotely using deep learning	12
Remotely sensed variables explain microhabitat selection and reveal buffering behaviours against warming in a climate‐sensitive bird species	12
Radar and multispectral remote sensing data accurately estimate vegetation vertical structure diversity as a fire resilience indicator	12
Spaceborne LiDAR for characterizing forest structure across scales in the European Alps	11
Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from aUKcase study	11
Radar and optical remote sensing for near real‐time assessments of cyclone impacts on coastal ecosystems	11
Remote sensing‐supported mapping of the activity of a subterranean landscape engineer across an afro‐alpine ecosystem	10
Three‐dimensional mapping reveals scale‐dependent dynamics in biogenic reef habitat structure	10
Impact of pile‐driving and offshore windfarm operational noise on fish chorusing	10
Capturing hedgerow structure and flowering abundance with UAV remote sensing	10
Opening a new era of investigating unreachable cliff flora using smart UAVs	10
Predicting defoliator abundance and defoliation measurements using Landsat‐based condition scores	10
Echolocation repetition rate as a proxy to monitor population structure and dynamics of sperm whales	9
Improving the efficiency and accuracy of evaluating aridland riparian habitat restoration using unmanned aerial vehicles	9
Canopy palm cover across the Brazilian Amazon forests mapped with airborneLiDARdata and deep learning	9
The development of a convolutional neural network for the automatic detection of Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus covey calls	9
Exploring the link between spectral variance and upper canopy taxonomic diversity in a tropical forest: influence of spectral processing and feature selection	9
Land cover classification of treeline ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal transect using spectral‐ and three‐dimensional information from UAV‐based aerial imagery	9
StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring	8
Underwater robots provide similar fish biodiversity assessments as divers on coral reefs	8
Detecting overmature forests with airborne laser scanning (ALS)	8
Commercial drones can provide accurate and effective monitoring of the world's rarest primate	8
Beyond tree cover: Characterizing southern China's forests using deep learning	8
Mapping terrestrial groundwater‐dependent ecosystems in arid Australia using Landsat‐8 time‐series data and singular value decomposition	8
Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses	8
Remote sensing in seagrass ecology: coupled dynamics between migratory herbivorous birds and intertidal meadows observed by satellite during four decades	7
Prospects for monitoring bird migration along the East Asian‐Australasian Flyway using weather radar	7
Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles to estimate availability and group size error for aerial surveys of coastal dolphins	7
Best practices to account for capture probability and viewable area in camera‐based abundance estimation	7
Detecting gold mining impacts on insect biodiversity in a tropical mining frontier with SmallSat imagery	7
Long‐duration remote underwater videos reveal that grazing by fishes is highly variable through time and dominated by non‐indigenous species	7
Bidirectional drought‐related canopy dynamics across pantropical forests: a satellite‐based statistical analysis	7
Interannual variation of gross primary production detected from optimal convolutional neural network at multi‐timescale water stress	7

Automated visitor and wildlife monitoring with camera traps and machine learning	7
Riparian ecosystems mapping at fine scale: a density approach based on multi‐temporal UAV photogrammetric point clouds	6
Landsat time series reveal forest loss and woody encroachment in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania	6
Remotely piloted aircraft systems remote sensing can effectively retrieve ecosystem traits of alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau at a landscape scale	6
Resource pulses and human–wildlife conflicts: linking satellite indicators and ground data on forest productivity to predict brown bear damages	6
A convolutional neural network architecture designed for the automated survey of seabird colonies	6
Seabird surveillance: combining CCTV and artificial intelligence for monitoring and research	6
Gray whale detection in satellite imagery using deep learning	6
Mapping the spatial distribution of stand age and aboveground biomass from Landsat time series analyses of forest cover loss in tropical dry forests	6
Interpolating missing land cover data using stochastic spatial random forests for improved change detection	6
UAV thermal image detects genetic trait differences among populations and genotypes of Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii, Salicaceae)	6
Comparison of bird migration in a radar wind profiler and a dedicated bird radar	6
Regional evaluation of satellite‐based methods for identifying end of vegetation growing season	6
Camera traps with white flash are a minimally invasive method for long‐term bat monitoring	6
Imperfect detection and wildlife density estimation using aerial surveys with infrared and visible sensors	5
Comparison of 3D structural metrics on oyster reefs using unoccupied aircraft photogrammetry and terrestrial LiDAR across a tidal elevation gradient	5
Combining unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite imagery to quantify areal extent of intertidal brown canopy‐forming macroalgae	5
Widespread drought‐induced leaf shedding and legacy effects on productivity in European deciduous forests	5
Treeline remote sensing: from tracking treeline shifts to multi‐dimensional monitoring of ecotonal change	5
Using camera traps to monitor cyclic vole populations	5
Camera trapping with photos and videos: implications for ecology and citizen science	5
Airborne laser scanning reveals increased growth and complexity of boreal forest canopies across a network of ungulate exclosures in Norway	5
The development of an unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis of dual‐polarization weather surveillance radar observations to assess nocturnal insect abundance and diversity	5
Combining environmental DNA with remote sensing variables to map fish species distributions along a large river	5
Using unoccupied aerial vehicles to map and monitor changes in emergent kelp canopy after an ecological regime shift	5
Reindeer control over shrubification in subarctic wetlands: spatial analysis based on unoccupied aerial vehicle imagery	5
Stronger conservation promotes mangrove biomass accumulation: Insights from spatially explicit assessments using UAV and Landsat data	5
Countrywide classification of permanent grassland habitats at high spatial resolution	5
Remote sensing and the UN Ocean Decade: high expectations, big opportunities	4
Using camera traps to estimate ungulate abundance: a comparison of mark–resight methods	4
What shapes fire size and spread in African savannahs?	4
Trialling camera traps to determine occupancy and breeding in burrowing seabirds	4
A systematic framework for continuous monitoring of land use and vegetation dynamics in multiple heterogeneous mine sites	4
BatNet: a deep learning‐based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images	4
Mapping water content in drying Antarctic moss communities using UAS‐borne SWIR imaging spectroscopy	4
Quantifying the causes and consequences of variation in satellite‐derived population indices: a case study of emperor penguins	4
Predicting resilience and stability of early second‐growth forests	4
Grassland‐use intensity maps for Switzerland based on satellite time series: Challenges and opportunities for ecological applications	4
A satellite perspective on the movement decisions of African elephants in relation to nomadic pastoralists	4
Structure‐from‐motion photogrammetry demonstrates that fine‐scale seascape heterogeneity is essential in shaping mesophotic fish assemblages	4
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Quantifying wetness variability in aapa mires with Sentinel‐2: towards improved monitoring of an EU priority habitat	4
Aggregated time‐series features boost species‐specific differentiation of true and false positives in passive acoustic monitoring of bird assemblages	4
Capturing long‐tailed individual tree diversity using an airborne imaging and a multi‐temporal hierarchical model	4
Using airborne lidar to characterize North European terrestrial high‐dark‐diversity habitats	4
LiDAR and multispectral imagery predict the occurrence of tree cavities suitable for a cavity‐nesting duck	4
Monitoring shallow coral reef exposure to environmental stressors using satellite earth observation: the reef environmental stress exposure toolbox (RESET)	4
Selection in the third dimension: Using LiDAR derived canopy metrics to assess individual and population‐level habitat partitioning of ocelots, bobcats, and coyotes	3
Modeling approach for coastal dune habitat detection on coastal ecosystems combining very high‐resolution UAV imagery and field survey	3
Shallow coastal water turbidity monitoring using Planet Dove satellites	3
Efficacy of machine learning image classification for automated occupancy‐based monitoring	3
A hierarchical, multi‐sensor framework for peatland sub‐class and vegetation mapping throughout the Canadian boreal forest	3
A semi‐automated camera trap distance sampling approach for population density estimation	3
Land cover mapping with ultra‐high‐resolution aerial imagery	3
Regional estimates of a range‐extending ecosystem engineer using stereo‐imagery from ROV transects collected with an efficient, spatially balanced design	3
Mapping the long‐term influence of river discharge on coastal ocean chlorophyll‐a	3
The vulnerability and resilience of seagrass ecosystems to marine heatwaves in New Zealand: a remote sensing analysis of seascape metrics usingPlanetScopeimagery	3
Mexican agricultural frontier communities differ in forest dynamics with consequences for conservation and restoration	3
Drone‐mounted audio‐visual deterrence of bats: implications for reducing aerial wildlife mortality by wind turbines	3
Using satellite data to assess spatial drivers of bird diversity	3