OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine is 5. 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
Feature Extraction for Hyperspectral Imagery: The Evolution From Shallow to Deep: Overview and Toolbox	415
Linking Points With Labels in 3D: A Review of Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation	258
Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing Data Analysis: A review of challenges and opportunities	241
A New Benchmark Based on Recent Advances in Multispectral Pansharpening: Revisiting Pansharpening With Classical and Emerging Pansharpening Methods	202
Deep Learning Meets SAR: Concepts, models, pitfalls, and perspectives	186
Interpretable Hyperspectral Artificial Intelligence: When nonconvex modeling meets hyperspectral remote sensing	182
High-Throughput Estimation of Crop Traits: A Review of Ground and Aerial Phenotyping Platforms	165
Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection: A survey	155
Deep Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Object Detection and Tracking: A survey	145
Spectral Variability in Hyperspectral Data Unmixing: A comprehensive review	132
Low-Rank and Sparse Representation for Hyperspectral Image Processing: A review	131
Change Detection From Very-High-Spatial-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images: Methods, applications, and future directions	118
Land Cover Change Detection Techniques: Very-high-resolution optical images: A review	110
A Large-Scale Benchmark Data Set for Evaluating Pansharpening Performance: Overview and Implementation	106
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	104
Single-Frame Infrared Small-Target Detection: A survey	102
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	94
BigEarthNet-MM: A Large-Scale, Multimodal, Multilabel Benchmark Archive for Remote Sensing Image Classification and Retrieval [Software and Data Sets]	91
Motion Compensation/Autofocus in Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Review	90
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	85
Spatially Continuous and High-Resolution Land Surface Temperature Product Generation: A review of reconstruction and spatiotemporal fusion techniques	80
Lidar Boosts 3D Ecological Observations and Modelings: A Review and Perspective	79
OpenStreetMap: Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning and Remote Sensing	78
Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and toolbox	69
Deep Learning and Earth Observation to Support the Sustainable Development Goals: Current approaches, open challenges, and future opportunities	68

Artificial Intelligence In Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Phase Unwrapping: A Review	63
Hyperspectral Image Clustering: Current achievements and future lines	60
Advances and Opportunities in Remote Sensing Image Geometric Registration: A systematic review of state-of-the-art approaches and future research directions	57
Correlation Filters for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Aerial Tracking: A Review and Experimental Evaluation	56
Methods for Small, Weak Object Detection in Optical High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: A survey of advances and challenges	49
Deep Learning Methods For Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Despeckling: An Overview Of Trends And Perspectives	46
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Statistical Modeling: Part One-Single-Pixel Statistical Models	45
Toward a Collective Agenda on AI for Earth Science Data Analysis	43
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Algorithms: An overview	40
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	39
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	39
Contactless Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging: State of the art, challenges, and microwave tomography-based data processing	38
Close-Range Remote Sensing of Forests: The state of the art, challenges, and opportunities for systems and data acquisitions	36
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	36
Tensor Decompositions for Hyperspectral Data Processing in Remote Sensing: A comprehensive review	36
Optical Remote Sensing Image Understanding With Weak Supervision: Concepts, methods, and perspectives	31
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	31
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar Systems: A review	31
Crowdsourcing in Remote Sensing: A Review of Applications and Future Directions	29
AI Security for Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Challenges and future trends	29
Active Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification: A comparative review	29
A Review of Unsupervised Band Selection Techniques: Land Cover Classification for Hyperspectral Earth Observation Data	29
Explainable, Physics-Aware, Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: A paradigm shift for synthetic aperture radar	28
Deep Learning for Downscaling Remote Sensing Images: Fusion and super-resolution	27
Toward Fine Surveillance: A review of multitemporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar for infrastructure health monitoring	26
Deep Learning-Based Object Tracking in Satellite Videos: A comprehensive survey with a new dataset	26
ERA: A Data Set and Deep Learning Benchmark for Event Recognition in Aerial Videos [Software and Data Sets]	26
Coupling Model- and Data-Driven Methods for Remote Sensing Image Restoration and Fusion: Improving physical interpretability	25
Gas Flaring: A Review Focused On Its Analysis From Space	23
The Potential of Spaceborne GNSS Reflectometry for Soil Moisture, Biomass, and Freeze–Thaw Monitoring: Summary of a European Space Agency-funded study	22
SSL4EO-S12: A large-scale multimodal, multitemporal dataset for self-supervised learning in Earth observation [Software and Data Sets]	21
The CCSDS 123.0-B-2 “Low-Complexity Lossless and Near-Lossless Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Compression” Standard: A comprehensive review	21
Digital Beamforming for Spaceborne Reflector-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar, Part 1: Basic imaging modes	20
Forward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar: Subsurface target imaging and detection: A review	19
Taking Artificial Intelligence Into Space Through Objective Selection of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Applications: To bring the “brain” close to the “eyes” of satellite missions	19
Onboard Information Fusion for Multisatellite Collaborative Observation: Summary, challenges, and perspectives	18
The Legacy of Scatterometers: Review of applications and perspective	17
2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification for Semantic Urban Reconstruction [Technical Committees]	16
Classification of Remote Sensing Data With Morphological Attribute Profiles: A decade of advances	15
Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence: Understanding emerging ethical issues and opportunities	14
DeepBlue: Advanced convolutional neural network applications for ocean remote sensing	13
The 2022 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Semisupervised Learning [Technical Committees]	12
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing for Antarctic Research: A review of progress, current applications, and future use cases	12
Satellite Remote Sensing Data for Decision Support in Emerging Agricultural Economies: How Satellite Data Can Transform Agricultural Decision Making [Perspectives]	12
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Statistical Modeling: Part Two-Spatial Correlation Models and Simulation	12
Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A metareview of challenges and advances	12
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Statistical Inference in Deformation Measurement and Geophysical Inversion: A review	12
FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems ³Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle [Instruments and Missions]	12
2021 Data Fusion Contest: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Social Good [Technical Committees]	12
Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach	11

Remote Sensing for Subsurface and Deeper Oceans: An overview and a future outlook	10
The Earth-Observing Satellite Constellation: A review from a meteorological perspective of a complex, interconnected global system with extensive applications	10
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	9
Wireless Sensor Networks Applied to Precision Agriculture: A worldwide literature review with emphasis on Latin America	9
Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Target Detection: A review	9
Integrating Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Regional-Scale Habitat Mapping: Advances and future challenges for desert locust monitoring	9
Keypoint-Based Local Descriptors for Target Recognition in SAR Images: A Comparative Analysis	9
Phase Synchronization Techniques for Bistatic and Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Accounting for frequency offset	7
There Are No Data Like More Data: Datasets for deep learning in Earth observation	6
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry: Utilizing Radar Principles	6
Report on the 2020 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest-Global Land Cover Mapping With Weak Supervision [Technical Committees]	6
High-Resolution Surveying With Small-Loop Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Systems: Efficient Survey Design and Adaptive Processing	6
High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: HDCRS—A new Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical Committees]	5
Polarimetric Roll-Invariant Features and Applications for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: A comprehensive summary and investigation	5
Digital Beamforming for Spaceborne Reflector-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar, Part 2: Ultrawide-swath imaging mode	5
Image Registration for Meteorological Applications: Development of a Generalized Software for Sensor Data Registration at ISRO	5
Gaussianizing the Earth: Multidimensional information measures for Earth data analysis	5