OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Open Geosciences 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
The significance of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis on the microstructure of improved clay: An overview	76
Retrieval of digital elevation models from Sentinel-1 radar data – open applications, techniques, and limitations	59
Individual tree detection using UAV-lidar and UAV-SfM data: A tutorial for beginners	39
Satellite-based evaluation of temporal change in cultivated land in Southern Punjab (Multan region) through dynamics of vegetation and land surface temperature	34
Apriori association rule and K-means clustering algorithms for interpretation of pre-event landslide areas and landslide inventory mapping	30
Multifractal analysis of temporal and spatial characteristics of earthquakes in Eurasian seismic belt	29
Detection and modeling of soil salinity variations in arid lands using remote sensing data	26
Multihazard susceptibility assessment: A case study – Municipality of Štrpce (Southern Serbia)	25
Extraction of fractional vegetation cover in arid desert area based on Chinese GF-6 satellite	19
A review of some nonexplosive alternative methods to conventional rock blasting	18
Comparing LiDAR and SfM digital surface models for three land cover types	18
Delineation of structural lineaments of Southeast Nigeria using high resolution aeromagnetic data	18
Comparison of statistical and analytical hierarchy process methods on flood susceptibility mapping: In a case study of the Lake Tana sub-basin in northwestern Ethiopia	17
Risk assessment of geological disasters in Nyingchi, Tibet	17
Assessment of Chlorophyll-a concentration from Sentinel-3 satellite images at the Mediterranean Sea using CMEMS open source in situ data	16
A PLSR model to predict soil salinity using Sentinel-2 MSI data	14
Analysis on vegetation cover changes and the driving factors in the mid-lower reaches of Hanjiang River Basin between 2001 and 2015	13
Seasonal color matching method of ornamental plants in urban landscape construction	13
The spatial prediction and optimization of production-living-ecological space based on Markov–PLUS model: A case study of Yunnan Province	13
Improved gas sand facies classification and enhanced reservoir description based on calibrated rock physics modelling: A case study	12
Effect of groundwater fluctuation, construction, and retaining system on slope stability of Avas Hill in Hungary	12
Constructing 3D geological models based on large-scale geological maps	12
Comparison of hydrological model ensemble forecasting based on multiple members and ensemble methods	11
Research on the improvement of single tree segmentation algorithm based on airborne LiDAR point cloud	11
An era of Sentinels in flood management: Potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 satellites for effective flood management	11

Geochemical characterization of the source rock intervals, Beni-Suef Basin, West Nile Valley, Egypt	11
Assessment of the SWAT model in simulating watersheds in arid regions: Case study of the Yarmouk River Basin (Jordan)	11
Geomorphological and hydrological heritage of Mt. Stara Planina in SE Serbia: From river protection initiative to potential geotouristic destination	10
Impact of wall movements on the location of passive Earth thrust	10
Is there an equality in the spatial distribution of urban vitality: A case study of Wuhan in China	10
Forest cover assessment using remote-sensing techniques in Crete Island, Greece	10
Earthflow reactivation assessment by multichannel analysis of surface waves and electrical resistivity tomography: A case study	10
Spatiotemporal evolution of ecological environment quality in arid areas based on the remote sensing ecological distance index: A case study of Yuyang district in Yulin city, China	9
Mapping paddy rice and rice phenology with Sentinel-1 SAR time series using a unified dynamic programming framework	9
Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water body of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir using Landsat-5/7/8 imagery and Google Earth Engine	9
Age of the lower Cambrian Vanadium deposit, East Guizhou, South China: Evidences from age of tuff and carbon isotope analysis along the Bagong section	9
Study on the viscoelastic–viscoplastic model of layered siltstone using creep test and RBF neural network	8
Numerical simulation of impact and entrainment behaviors of debris flow by using SPH–DEM–FEM coupling method	8
Assessment of geosites as a basis for geotourism development: A case study of the Toplica District, Serbia	8
Comparative application of photogrammetry, handmapping and android smartphone for geotechnical mapping and slope stability analysis	8
Extraction of mineralized indicator minerals using ensemble learning model optimized by SSA based on hyperspectral image	8
Research on the traditional zoning, evolution, and integrated conservation of village cultural landscapes based on “production-living-ecology spaces” – A case study of villages in Meicheng, Guangdong,	8
Research on the current situation of rural tourism in southern Fujian in China after the COVID-19 epidemic	7
Water quality assessment and spatial–temporal variation analysis in Erhai lake, southwest China	7
Geotechnical profiling of a surface mine waste dump using 2D Wenner–Schlumberger configuration	7
LCBRG: A lane-level road cluster mining algorithm with bidirectional region growing	7
Application of multivariate regression on magnetic data to determine further drilling site for iron exploration	7
Crops planting structure and karst rocky desertification analysis by Sentinel-1 data	7
Production of a homogeneous seismic catalog based on machine learning for northeast Egypt	6
Characteristics and evaluation of the Upper Paleozoic source rocks in the Southern North China Basin	6
Lithology classification of volcanic rocks based on conventional logging data of machine learning: A case study of the eastern depression of Liaohe oil field	6
Compressive strength and thermal properties of sand–bentonite mixture	6
An OGC web service geospatial data semantic similarity model for improving geospatial service discovery	6
Effect of brackish water irrigation on the movement of water and salt in salinized soil	6
Research on comprehensive benefits and reasonable selection of marine resources development types	6
Stability of an abandoned siderite mine: A case study in northern Spain	6
Measuring spatiotemporal accessibility to healthcare with multimodal transport modes in the dynamic traffic environment	6
Assessment of climatic conditions for tourism in Xinjiang, China	6
Identifying the density of grassland fire points with kernel density estimation based on spatial distribution characteristics	6
Pore throat characteristics of tight reservoirs by a combined mercury method: A case study of the member 2 of Xujiahe Formation in Yingshan gasfield, North Sichuan Basin	6
Accuracy assessment and improvement of SRTM, ASTER, FABDEM, and MERIT DEMs by polynomial and optimization algorithm: A case study (Khuzestan Province, Iran)	6
Hydrochemical characteristics and D–O–Sr isotopes of groundwater and surface water in the northern Longzi county of southern Tibet (southwestern China)	5
Geospatial assessment of wetland soils for rice production in Ajibode using geospatial techniques	5
Utilization of dolerite waste powder for improving geotechnical parameters of compacted clay soil	5
Identification and logging evaluation of poor reservoirs in X Oilfield	5
Geochemistry of the black rock series of lower Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation, SW Yangtze Block, China: Reconstruction of sedimentary and tectonic environments	5
Enhancing the success of new dams implantation under semi-arid climate, based on a multicriteria analysis approach: Case of Marrakech region (Central Morocco)	5
Spatiotemporal variation in groundwater level within the Manas River Basin, Northwest China: Relative impacts of natural and human factors	5
Application of statistical and machine learning techniques for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Himalayan road corridors	5
Geotourism and geoethics as support for rural development in the Knjaževac municipality, Serbia	5
Evaluation of fractures using conventional and FMI logs, and 3D seismic interpretation in continental tight sandstone reservoir	5
Spatial modeling of ground subsidence susceptibility along Al-Shamal train pathway in Saudi Arabia	5
Investigating the limestone quarries as geoheritage sites: Case of Mardin ancient quarry	5
Origin of the low-medium temperature hot springs around Nanjing, China	5
Distribution, pollution levels, and health risk assessment of heavy metals in groundwater in the main pepper production area of China	5

Overview of eco-environmental impact of Xiaolangdi Water Conservancy Hub on the Yellow River	5
Research on the conservation and sustainable development strategies of modern historical heritage in the Dabie Mountains based on GIS	5
Fractal expression of soil particle-size distribution at the basin scale	5
Leaf color attributes of urban colored-leaf plants	5
Spatial distribution analysis of seismic activity based on GMI, LMI, and LISA in China	5
Influence of diagenetic features on petrophysical properties of fine-grained rocks of Oligocene strata in the Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan	5
Curve number estimation using rainfall and runoff data from five catchments in Sudan	4
Comparative study of estimating the Curie point depth and heat flow using potential magnetic data	4
A landslide susceptibility assessment method based on auto-encoder improved deep belief network	4
Coupling theK-nearest neighbors and locally weighted linear regression with ensemble Kalman filter for data-driven data assimilation	4
Quantitative discrimination of the influences of climate change and human activity on rocky desertification based on a novel feature space model	4
Geothermal resource potential assessment of Erdaobaihe, Changbaishan volcanic field: Constraints from geophysics	4
Influence of Three Gorges Dam on earthquakes based on GRACE gravity field	4
Geochemical and petrographic characteristics of sediments along the transboundary (Kenya–Tanzania) Umba River as indicators of provenance and weathering	4
Analyzing the characteristics of land use distribution in typical village transects at Chinese Loess Plateau based on topographical factors	4
Effect of microbial combination with organic fertilizer on Elymus dahuricus	4
Assessing the tourist potential of cultural–historical spatial units of Serbia using comparative application of AHP and mathematical method	4
Water deep mapping from HJ-1B satellite data by a deep network model in the sea area of Pearl River Estuary, China	4
Study on the changes in vegetation structural coverage and its response mechanism to hydrology	4
Risk assessment of rain-induced debris flow in the lower reaches of Yajiang River based on GIS and CF coupling models	4
Geological earthquake simulations generated by kinematic heterogeneous energy-based method: Self-arrested ruptures and asperity criterion	4
Input/output inconsistencies of daily evapotranspiration conducted empirically using remote sensing data in arid environments	4
Subsurface structure investigation of the United Arab Emirates using gravity data	4
Study on spatio-temporal characteristics of earthquakes in southwest China based on z-value	4
Triaxial creep tests of glacitectonically disturbed stiff clay – structural, strength, and slope stability aspects	4
Extraction of road boundary from MLS data using laser scanner ground trajectory	4
A review of genetic classification and characteristics of soil cracks	4
Three-dimensional modeling of loose layers based on stratum development law	4
Modified non-local means: A novel denoising approach to process gravity field data	4
Spatiotemporal change of land use for deceased in Beijing since the mid-twentieth century	4
Evaluation studies of the new mining projects	3
Predicting the gas resource potential in reservoir C-sand interval of Lower Goru Formation, Middle Indus Basin, Pakistan	3
A novel travel route planning method based on an ant colony optimization algorithm	3
Activation of Ad Damm shear zone, western Saudi Arabian margin, and its relation to the Red Sea rift system	3
Elemental geochemistry of the Middle Jurassic shales in the northern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China: Constraints for tectonics and paleoclimate	3
Analysis of transport path and source distribution of winter air pollution in Shenyang	3
Spatiotemporal evolution of single sandbodies controlled by allocyclicity and autocyclicity in the shallow-water braided river delta front of an open lacustrine basin	3
A prediction method for water enrichment in aquifer based on GIS and coupled AHP–entropy model	3
Soil wind erosion resistance analysis for soft rock and sand compound soil: A case study for the Mu Us Sandy Land, China	3
Using modified inverse distance weight and principal component analysis for spatial interpolation of foundation settlement based on geodetic observations	3
Sedimentary facies characterization of forced regression in the Pearl River Mouth basin	3
Rock mass structural surface trace extraction based on transfer learning	3
Spatial accessibility between commercial and ecological spaces: A case study in Beijing, China	3
High-precision remote sensing mapping of aeolian sand landforms based on deep learning algorithms	3
Shale types and sedimentary environments of the Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation-Member 1 of the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in western Hubei Province, China	3
Experimental study on the behavior of MSE wall having full-height rigid facing and segmental panel-type wall facing	3
Influence of heterogeneity on fluid property variations in carbonate reservoirs with multistage hydrocarbon accumulation: A case study of the Khasib formation, Cretaceous, AB oilfield, southern Iraq	3
Sequence stratigraphic filling model of the Cretaceous in the western Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin, NW China	3
Can cultural tourism resources become a development feature helping rural areas to revitalize the local economy under the epidemic? An exploration of the perspective of attractiveness, satisfaction, a	3
Effect of time-variant NDVI on landside susceptibility: A case study in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam	3
Assessments of recent Global Geopotential Models based on GPS/levelling and gravity data along coastal zones of Egypt	3
Using interpretative structure model and analytical network process for optimum site selection of airport locations in Delta Egypt	3
Dynamic analysis of particulate pollution in haze in Harbin city, Northeast China	3
Distribution of large- and medium-scale loess landslides induced by the Haiyuan Earthquake in 1920 based on field investigation and interpretation of satellite images	3
Planting in ecologically solidified soil and its use	3
Changes in landscape pattern and ecological service value as land use evolves in the Manas River Basin	3
GIS and geographical analysis of the main harbors in the world	3
Analysis of land use change on urban landscape patterns in Northwest China: A case study of Xi’an city	3
Sedimentary facies, stratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Ecca Group, Karoo Supergroup in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa	3
Concentrations of heavy metals in PM_2.5 and health risk assessment around Chinese New Year in Dalian, China	3
Geologic structures associated with gold mineralization in the Kirk Range area in Southern Malawi	3
A new method to explore the abnormal space of urban hidden dangers under epidemic outbreak and its prevention and control: A case study of Jinan City	3
Quantitatively determine the dominant driving factors of the spatial-temporal changes of vegetation-impacts of global change and human activity	3