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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	320
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	247
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	200
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	165
Table of Contents	158
IEEE Proceedings	138
IEEE App	128
Table of Contents	124
IEEE Access	117
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	102
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	100
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	92
IEEE Feedback	84
IEEE App	75
IEEE Tech Rxiv	73
Front Cover	72
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Community eXperiment (ROCX) 2025	70
IEEE Proceedings	66
Deep Learning for Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition in Complex Environmental Interference: A review	65
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	65
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Type Mapping With Remote Sensing: A review	64
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	64
2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	63
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	63
IEEE Proceedings	61

Remote Sensing for Understanding the Vertical Dimension of Urban Landscapes: A review on data, products, methods, and prospects	56
IEEE App	56
Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	53
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	53
IEEE Proceedings	51
From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	49
IEEE GRSS Schools: Advancing Career Development and Promoting Impactful Educational Initiatives	49
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	48
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	48
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	47
Table of Contents	46
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	45
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	43
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	41
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	40
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	40
Artificial Intelligence for Wildfire Monitoring in North Africa: A decade of remote sensing research (2015–2025)	39
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	38
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	34
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	34
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	34
Staff List	33
Front Cover	33
IEEE Feedback	31
IEEE Tech Rxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	31
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	30
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar for 3D Subsurface Imaging: Electromagnetic modeling, tomographic processing, and open challenges	29
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	29
Evaluating Machine Learning Emulators for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer: The Atmospheric Machine Learning Emulation Challenge	29
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	29
SBG Systems	28
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	27
IEEE App	27
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	26
Front Cover	26
Front Cover	24
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	24
IEEE Collabratec	24
Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	23
Expanding the Magazine to Six Issues With More Special Issues [Editor’s Corner]	23
Front Cover	23
IEEE Dataport	23
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	22
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	21
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	21
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	20
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	20
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	20
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	20
Staff List	20

The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	19
Table of Contents	18
Beyond Borders: Why Africa Matters for a Geospatially Connected Planet	17
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	17
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	16
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	15
“Spatial Thinking” in Curriculum [Education in Remote Sensing]	15
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	14
Remote Sensing Image Intelligent Interpretation From a Language-Centered Perspective: Principles, methods, and challenges	14
IEEE App filler	14
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	13
The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	13
Front Cover	12
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	12
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	12
IEEE Feedback	11
Front Cover	11
Table of Contents	11
IEEE App	11
IEEE Proceedings	9
Table of Contents	9
IEEE Access	9
IEEE App	9
A Review of the Past Half Century of Geostationary Satellite Thermal Observations for Global Precipitation Estimation: Developments, achievements, and future prospects	8
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	8
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	8
From Panda Land to Global GRSS: The 2025 Multidimensional Growth of the IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at UESTC [Chapters]	8
Masthead	8
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	7
Table of Contents	7
IEEE Standards filler	7
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	7
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	7
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	6
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	6
IEEE Access	6
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	6
IEEE Collabratec filler	6
Table of Contents	6
Front Cover	6
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	5
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	5
Table of Contents	5
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	5
IEEE Proceedings	5
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	5