OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Remote Sensing Letters is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Tree extraction from multi-scale UAV images using Mask R-CNN with FPN	61
Validation of sentinel-2 leaf area index (LAI) product derived from SNAP toolbox and its comparison with global LAI products in an African semi-arid agricultural landscape	50
Combined use of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 to monitor water surface area dynamics using Google Earth Engine	38
Remote Sensing Letters contribution to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals - UN 2030 agenda	31
SSS-YOLO: towards more accurate detection for small ships in SAR image	27
Deep CNN-based hyperspectral image classification using discriminative multiple spatial-spectral feature fusion	24
An improved unsupervised representation learning generative adversarial network for remote sensing image scene classification	21
Simple weakly supervised deep learning pipeline for detecting individual red-attacked trees in VHR remote sensing images	20
Sentinel-2 based prediction of spruce budworm defoliation using red-edge spectral vegetation indices	20
Snow covered with dust after Chamoli rockslide: inference based on high-resolution satellite data	19
A non-local capsule neural network for hyperspectral remote sensing image classification	18
Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the oceans	18
Prediction of sea surface temperature using a multiscale deep combination neural network	17
Improved quantum evolutionary particle swarm optimization for band selection of hyperspectral image	17
Hydroponic farming hotspot analysis using the Getis–Ord Gi* statistic and high-resolution satellite data of Majuli Island, India	17
Multi-temporal mapping of flood damage to crops using sentinel-1 imagery: a case study of the Sesia River (October 2020)	15
Snow depth and snow water equivalent retrieval using X-band PolInSAR data	15
An early exploration of the use of the Microsoft Azure Kinect for estimation of urban tree Diameter at Breast Height	15
Using Siamese capsule networks for remote sensing scene classification	14
Quantifying chlorophyll-a and b content in tea leaves using hyperspectral reflectance and deep learning	14
A novel truncated nonconvex nonsmooth variational method for SAR image despeckling	13
Sea surface temperature prediction using a cubic B-spline interpolation and spatiotemporal attention mechanism	13
Classification of landslides on the southeastern Tibet Plateau based on transfer learning and limited labelled datasets	13
Mapping urban villages using fully convolutional neural networks	12
Meta-learning based on parameter transfer for few-shot classification of remote sensing scenes	11

Sugarcane crop classification using time series analysis of optical and SAR sentinel images: a deep learning approach	11
Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) pollution monitoring with sentinel-5P satellite imagery over during the coronavirus pandemic (case study: Tehran)	11
A new method of nowcasting extreme cosmic ray events	11
Spatial resolution enhancement method for Landsat imagery using a Generative Adversarial Network	10
Automatic building detection from very high-resolution images using multiscale morphological attribute profiles	10
Salient object detection in hyperspectral images using deep background reconstruction based anomaly detection	10
Forest growing stock volume estimation using optical remote sensing over snow-covered ground: a case study for Sentinel-2 data and the Russian Southern Taiga region	10
Analysis of Greenland mass changes based on GRACE four-dimensional wavelet decomposition	10
A fully convolutional network with channel and spatial attention for hyperspectral image classification	10
K-nearest neighbour-based feature selection using hyperspectral data	10
Using high-resolution satellite imagery to assess the impact of Sargassum inundation on coastal areas	9
Editorial Sir John Houghton	9
ACLNet: an attention and clustering-based cloud segmentation network	9
A probabilistic neighbourhood pooling-based attention network for hyperspectral image classification	9
Extracting terrestrial water storage signals from GRACE solutions in the Amazon Basin using an iterative filtering approach	9
Deforestation and land use and land cover changes in protected areas of the Brazilian Cerrado: impacts on the fire-driven emissions of fine particulate aerosols pollutants	9
Evaluation of simulated soil moisture from China Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) land surface models	9
BS-Net: Using Joint-Learning Boundary and Segmentation Network for Coastline Extraction from Remote Sensing Images	8
A basin-scale inventory and hydrodynamics of floodplain wetlands based on time-series of remote sensing data	8
A comparison of temperature and relative humidity measurements derived from COSMIC-2 radio occultations with radiosonde observations made over the Asian summer monsoon region	8
A dense spatial–spectral attention network for hyperspectral image band selection	8
Evaluating phenological trends of different vegetation types in response to climate change over the Rajmahal Hills in India during 2001-2019	8
Calibrating GPM IMERG Late-Run product using ground-based CPC daily precipitation data: a case study in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration	8
Accuracy validation and bias assessment for various multi-sensor open-source DEMs in part of the Karakoram region	8
MODIS aerosol optical depth retrieval based on random forest approach	8
Improvement of VV-polarization tilt MTF for Gaofen-3 SAR data of a tropical cyclone	8
SAR image change detection based on sparse representation and a capsule network	8
Impacts of the spatial configuration of built-up areas and urban vegetation on land surface temperature using spectral and local spatial autocorrelation indices	7
Estimating tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) using an iPad Pro LiDAR sensor	7
Cloud detection in Landsat-8 imagery in Google Earth Engine based on a deep convolutional neural network	7
Soil salinization monitoring in the Werigan-Kuqa Oasis, China, based on a Three-Dimensional Feature Space Model with Machine Learning Algorithm.	7
Effect of surface emissivity and retrieval algorithms on the accuracy of Land Surface Temperature retrieved from Landsat data	7
Mission to Mars: effective tools for searching and diagnosing water resources	7
Aircraft detection in remote sensing images using centre-based proposal regions and invariant features	7
Classifying open water features using optical satellite imagery and an object-oriented convolutional neural network	7
A deep image prior-based interpretable network for hyperspectral image fusion	7
Variations in vegetation CUE with climate change and human activity during growing seasons in the Western Sichuan Plateau, China	7
Rain-induced characteristics in C- and X-band synthetic aperture radar observations of tropical cyclones	7
An adaptive-trimming-depth based CFAR detector of heterogeneous environment in SAR imagery	7
Integration of the k-nearest neighbours and patch-based features for PolSAR image classification by using a two-branch residual network	6
Open surface water index: a novel approach for surface water mapping and extraction using multispectral and multisensory data	6
Combining multi-mode representations and ResNet for SAR target recognition	6
Evaluation of radiometric calibration of drone-based imagery for improving shallow bathymetry retrieval	6
The use of KPCA over subspaces for cross-scale superpixel based hyperspectral image classification	6
Oil spill extraction from X-band marine radar images by power fitting of radar echoes	6
The effects of radiometric terrain flattening on SAR-based forest mapping and classification	6
Small sample classification for hyperspectral imagery using temporal convolution and attention mechanism	6
Dense capsule network for SAR automatic target recognition with limited data	6
A regional attention-based detector for SAR ship detection	6
A New Index for Assessing Tree Vigour Decline Based on Sentinel-2 Multitemporal Data. Application to Tree Failure Risk Management	6

Deriving bathymetry and water properties from hyperspectral imagery by spectral matching using a full radiative transfer model	6
A multi-level feature fusion method based on pooling and similarity for HRRS image retrieval	6
An automatic cloud detection model for Sentinel-2 imagery based on Google Earth Engine	6
A Remote Sensing Image Registration Algorithm Based on Multiple Constraints and a Variational Bayesian Framework	6
Multispectral image fusion based on map estimation with improved detail	6
Using sentinel-2 observations to assess the consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on winter cropping in Bothaville and Harrismith, South Africa	6
Target recognition of synthetic aperture radar images using multi-criteria SRC	5
Fast observation simulation method based on XGBoost for visible bands over the ocean surface under clear-sky conditions	5
Identification of minerals in hyperspectral imagery based on the attenuation spectral absorption index vector using a multilayer perceptron	5
Can satellite precipitation estimates capture the magnitude of extreme rainfall Events?	5
UAV aerial image target detection based on BLUR-YOLO	5
Detection of internal waves in the Persian Gulf	5
Update two-dimensional SAR offset tracking deformation time series with complex sequential least squares estimation	5
Application of CFAR detection to multiple pulses for gamma distributed clutter	5
Statistical analysis of diurnal variations in land surface temperature and the UHI effect using aqua and terra MODIS data	5
Ship detection in SAR images by saliency analysis of multiscale superpixels	5
EUNetMTL: multitask joint learning for road extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images	5
Ship detection based on medium-low resolution remote sensing data and super-resolved feature representation	5
Enhancement of vital signals based on low-rank, sparse representation for UWB through-wall radar	5
Evaluation of different approaches to the fusion of Sentinel -1 SAR data and Resourcesat 2 LISS III optical data for use in crop classification	5
Scene parsing for very high resolution remote sensing images using on attention-residual block-embedded adversarial networks	5
Large-gradient deformation monitoring and parameter inversion in a mining area using a method combining a dynamic prediction model and InSAR	5
Mapping winter wheat in Kaifeng, China using Sentinel-1A time-series images	5
Damaged building extraction from post-earthquake PolSAR data based on the Fourier transform	5
Heartbeat monitoring with an mm-wave radar based on deep learning: a novel approach for training and classifying heterogeneous signals	5
The need for the spectral characterization of dominant salts and recommended methods of soil sampling and analysis for the proper spectral evaluation of salt affected soils using hyper -spectral remot	5
Representation of BVMD features via multitask compressive sensing for SAR target classification	5
Calibration of the span of Himawari-8 AOD products in eastern China	4
Target discrimination method for SAR images via convolutional neural network with semi-supervised learning and minimum feature divergence constraint	4
Discrimination of heavy metal crop contamination using measurements of leaf spectra	4
GPR clutter suppression by online stochastic tensor decomposition	4
A new registration method with improved phase congruency for application to GPR images	4
A deep feature manifold embedding method for hyperspectral image classification	4
Slow feature extraction for hyperspectral image classification	4
A feature sequence-based 3D convolutional method for wetland classification from multispectral images	4
Using satellite data and deep learning to estimate educational outcomes in data-sparse environments	4
Mapping tree species in natural and planted forests using Sentinel-2 images	4
A method for the extraction of shorelines from airborne lidar data in muddy areas and areas with shoals	4
Using dictionary learning for clutter reduction in GPR B-scan images	4
Generating a highly detailed DSM from a single high-resolution satellite image and an SRTM elevation model	4
Development and evaluation of regional SST regression algorithms for FY-3C/VIRR data in the western north pacific	4
A time-domain approach to the total ozone time series and a test of its predictability within a univariate framework	4
Leveraging Aqua and Terra satellite data for improved diurnal land surface temperature prediction: a comparative LSTM-based approach	4
Obtaining high-resolution synthetic soil imagery for topsoil mapping	4
A new approach for roof segmentation from airborne LiDAR point clouds	4
Validation of preliminary geometric positioning accuracy for China’s civil high-resolution surveying and mapping satellites: Ziyuan-3 01 and Gaofen-7 panchromatic imagery	4
Ocean surface wind speed retrieval from C-band quad-polarized SAR measurements at optimal spatial resolution	4
Estimation of chlorophyll, macronutrients and water content in maize from hyperspectral data using machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence techniques	4
A multi-view SAR target recognition method using feature fusion and joint classification	4
Reconstruction of arctic SST data and generation of multi-source satellite fusion products with high temporal and spatial resolutions	4
An improved fully convolution network model for change detection in mining areas using sentinel-2 images	4
Estimating the vertical distribution of chlorophyll in winter wheat based on multi-angle hyperspectral data	4
Infrared small-target detection via tensor construction and decomposition	4
A simulation-based approach for removing the effect of water contamination on SMAP soil moisture retrieval over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	4
A new method that combines spectral indexes and Naive Bayes to distinguish heavy metal pollution in crops	4
A clustering method for inter-annual NDVI time series	4
A Siamese convolutional neural network with high–low level feature fusion for change detection in remotely sensed images	4
Parametric translational motion compensation of spaceborne ISAR imagery for earth-orbit targets based on parabola detection and entropy minimization	4
Selection of multi-view SAR images via nonlinear correlation information entropy with application to target classification	4
Continuous pulse repetition interval variation for highly squint high-resolution spotlight SAR imaging	4