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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Membership	549
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	297
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	292
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	221
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	187
Table of Contents	151
IEEE Proceedings	135
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Type Mapping With Remote Sensing: A review	132
IEEE App	128
Table of Contents	118
IEEE Access	117
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	106
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	103
IEEE Feedback	93
IEEE App	92
IEEE Tech Rxiv	78
Front Cover	77
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	71
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	71
IEEE Proceedings	69
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	68
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Community eXperiment (ROCX) 2025	68
IEEE App	59
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	59
IEEE Proceedings	59

2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	59
Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	58
From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	56
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	54
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	52
IEEE Proceedings	52
IEEE GRSS Schools: Advancing Career Development and Promoting Impactful Educational Initiatives	50
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	49
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	49
Table of Contents	48
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	45
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	45
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	44
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	44
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	43
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	42
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	41
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	40
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	40
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	38
Staff List	37
Front Cover	37
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	36
Decennial Geomorphic Transport From Archived Time Series Digital Elevation Models: A cookbook for tropical and alpine environments	36
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	36
IEEE Feedback	34
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	34
SBG Systems	32
IEEE Tech Rxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	32
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	30
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	29
Front Cover	29
IEEE App	29
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	27
Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	26
IEEE Dataport	25
Front Cover	24
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	23
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	23
Expanding the Magazine to Six Issues With More Special Issues [Editor’s Corner]	23
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	22
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	22
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	20
IEEE Collabratec	20
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	20
Front Cover	20
Staff List	19
Table of Contents	19
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	19
The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	19

Letter From the President [President’s Message]	18
Beyond Borders: Why Africa Matters for a Geospatially Connected Planet	18
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	18
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	17
“Spatial Thinking” in Curriculum [Education in Remote Sensing]	17
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	17
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	17
The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	16
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	16
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	16
Front Cover	15
Table of Contents	13
Front Cover	12
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	12
IEEE Feedback	12
IEEE App	12
IEEE App	11
Table of Contents	11
IEEE Access	11
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	11
IEEE Proceedings	11
From Panda Land to Global GRSS: The 2025 Multidimensional Growth of the IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at UESTC [Chapters]	11
A Review of the Past Half Century of Geostationary Satellite Thermal Observations for Global Precipitation Estimation: Developments, achievements, and future prospects	10
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	9
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	9
Masthead	9
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
Table of Contents	8
Table of Contents	8
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
IEEE Access	8
High Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: The Third Edition of the School Organized by the HDCRS Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical C	7
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	6
Front Cover	6
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	6
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	6
[Editor’s Corner]	5
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	5
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	5
Table of Contents	5
IEEE Proceedings	5
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	5
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	5
IEEE MGA	5