OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation is 8. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from aUKcase study	84
A satellite perspective on the movement decisions of African elephants in relation to nomadic pastoralists	57
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Fine‐scale landscape phenology revealed through time‐lapse imagery: implications for conservation and management of an endangered migratory herbivore	37
Camera traps with white flash are a minimally invasive method for long‐term bat monitoring	32
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Long‐term analysis of persistence and size of swallow and martin roosts in the US Great Lakes	29
Structure‐from‐motion photogrammetry demonstrates that fine‐scale seascape heterogeneity is essential in shaping mesophotic fish assemblages	27
High‐intensity bird migration along Alpine valleys calls for protective measures against anthropogenically induced avian mortality	26
Passive acoustic surveys reveal interactions between frugivorous birds and fruiting trees on a large forest dynamics plot	25
Assessing the accuracy of georeferenced landcover data derived from oblique imagery using machine learning	25
Coherence of recurring fires and land use change in South America	23
Time‐series remote sensing of rice paddy expansion in the Yellow River Delta: Towards sustainable ecological conservation in the context of water scarcity	22
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Using satellite data to assess spatial drivers of bird diversity	21
Earth observation for ecosystem accounting: spatially explicit national seagrass extent and carbon stock in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar	20
Using water‐landing, fixed‐wing UAVs and computer vision to assess seabird nutrient subsidy effects on sharks and rays	20
Approaching a population‐level assessment of body size in pinnipeds using drones, an early warning of environmental degradation	20
Mapping tree cover expansion in Montana, U.S.A. rangelands using high‐resolution historical aerial imagery	19
Deep learning‐based training data augmentation combined with post‐classification improves the classification accuracy for dominant and scattered invasive forest tree species	19
Automated extraction of right whale morphometric data from drone aerial photographs	18

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Treegraph: tree architecture from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds	16
Effects of different management measures on soil conservation and the influence of environmental conditions: a case study involving UAV remote sensing on the Loess Plateau	16
Interpolating missing land cover data using stochastic spatial random forests for improved change detection	15
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Using multiplatform LiDAR to identify relationships between vegetation structure and the abundance and diversity of woodland reptiles and amphibians	15
Early spectral dynamics are indicative of distinct growth patterns in post‐wildfire forests	14
Monitoring shallow coral reef exposure to environmental stressors using satellite earth observation: the reef environmental stress exposure toolbox (RESET)	14
Assessing experimental silvicultural treatments enhancing structural complexity in a central European forest – BEAST time‐series analysis based on Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2	14
Mapping the long‐term influence of river discharge on coastal ocean chlorophyll‐a	14
Invasion in the Niger Delta: remote sensing of mangrove conversion to invasive Nypa fruticans from 2015 to 2020	13
Wildfire severity and vegetation recovery drive post‐fire evapotranspiration in a southwestern pine‐oak forest, Arizona, USA	13
Countrywide classification of permanent grassland habitats at high spatial resolution	13
The development of an unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis of dual‐polarization weather surveillance radar observations to assess nocturnal insect abundance and diversity	13
Illuminating the Arctic: Unveiling seabird responses to artificial light during polar darkness through citizen science and remote sensing	13
Detecting overmature forests with airborne laser scanning (ALS)	13
Camera traps enable the estimation of herbaceous aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in an African savanna at high temporal resolution	12
Capturing hedgerow structure and flowering abundance with UAV remote sensing	12
How can Sentinel‐2 contribute to seagrass mapping in shallow, turbid Baltic Sea waters?	11
Real‐time insect tracking and monitoring with computer vision and deep learning	11
Woody cover and geology as regional‐scale determinants of semi‐arid savanna stability	11
LiDAR and multispectral imagery predict the occurrence of tree cavities suitable for a cavity‐nesting duck	11
Using drones to reduce human disturbance while monitoring breeding status of an endangered raptor	11
Automated visitor and wildlife monitoring with camera traps and machine learning	10
Efficacy of machine learning image classification for automated occupancy‐based monitoring	10
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BatNet: a deep learning‐based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images	10
Combining satellite and field data reveals Congo's forest types structure, functioning and composition	9
Improving the efficiency and accuracy of evaluating aridland riparian habitat restoration using unmanned aerial vehicles	9
Recurring bleaching events disrupt the spatial properties of coral reef benthic communities across scales	9
The secret acoustic world of leopards: A paired camera trap and bioacoustics survey facilitates the individual identification of leopards via their roars	9
Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea	9
Estimating beluga whale abundance from space: using drones to ground‐validate VHR satellite imagery	9
Remote monitoring of short‐term body mass variation in savanna ungulates	9
Bridging the gap in deep seafloor management: Ultra fine‐scale ecological habitat characterization of large seascapes	9
The development of a convolutional neural network for the automatic detection of Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus covey calls	9
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Widespread drought‐induced leaf shedding and legacy effects on productivity in European deciduous forests	8
Walruses from space: walrus counts in simultaneous remotely piloted aircraft system versus very high‐resolution satellite imagery	8
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Using multiscale lidar to determine variation in canopy structure from African forest elephant trails	8
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Examining wildfire dynamics using ECOSTRESS data with machine learning approaches: the case of South‐Eastern Australia's black summer	8
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Global monitoring of soil multifunctionality in drylands using satellite imagery and field data	8
Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles to estimate availability and group size error for aerial surveys of coastal dolphins	8
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