OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 79. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	500
Study on automated detection methods of shallow surface soil water content based on GPR signal level	450
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions	449
Editorial Board	330
Corrigendum to “Evaluation of historic and new detection algorithms for different types of plastics over land and water from hyperspectral data and imagery” [Remote Sensing of Environemnt 298 (2023) 1	313
Editorial Board	291
Corrigendum to “Evaluating and mitigating the impact of systematic geolocation error on canopy height measurement performance of GEDI” [Remote Sensing of Environment, volume 291 (2023) 113571]	280
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	274
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	219
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	216
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	210
Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach	208
Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations	201
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	199
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	194
Identifying and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions with the AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer	185
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	185
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	183
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	165
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	164
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	156
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	144
Estimation of intensity, footprint, and capacity of surface urban heat islands using a direction-enhanced adaptive synchronous extraction (DEASE) method	141
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	136
Remote sensing applications for monitoring restoration outcomes in boreal forestry-drained peatlands - Reviewed applications and future potential	135

In-season crop progress in unsurveyed regions using networks trained on synthetic data	134
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	128
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities	122
Learning spectral-indices-fused deep models for time-series land use and land cover mapping in cloud-prone areas: The case of Pearl River Delta	121
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	118
Multi-decadal analysis of high-resolution albedo changes induced by urbanization over contrasted Chinese cities based on Landsat data	117
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	114
RSPECT: A PROSPECT-based model incorporating the real structure of rice leaves	112
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	112
Satellite observations of water transparency from VIIRS in global aquatic ecosystems	112
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	111
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	111
Prediction and interpretation of high-temperature heat damage risk zones in the Eastern Tibetan Transport Corridor based on a location-information-fusion convolution neural network	110
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	109
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	108
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	107
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	106
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	105
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	104
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	103
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	101
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	101
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	98
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	98
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	98
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	97
Comprehensive reassessment of Australia's land-surface phenology trends (1982–2022) using circular statistics and a harmonised NDVI dataset	96
An interpretable attention-based deep learning method for landslide prediction based on multi-temporal InSAR time series: A case study of Xinpu landslide in the TGRA	96
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	95
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock	95
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	95
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	94
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	94
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	94
Visualizing the pre-visual: Rice blast infection signals revealed	93
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America	92
Corrigendum to “Characterizing satellite-derived freeze/thaw regimes through spatial and temporal clustering for the identification of growing season constraints on vegetation productivity” [Remote Se	90
Machine learning-based generation of high-resolution 3D full-coverage aerosol distribution data over China using multisource data	88
Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	88
Net primary production in the Labrador Sea between 2014 and 2022 derived from ocean colour remote sensing based on ecological regimes	88
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	87
Geodetic glacier mass balance in the Karakoram (2011–2019) from TanDEM-X: An InSAR DEM differencing framework	87
An adaptive spatiotemporal tensor reconstruction method for GIMMS-3g+ NDVI	85
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land	84
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS	84
Geo-pedological controls on soil erosion vulnerability: A multi-parameter spatial analysis in diverse landscapes of Tamil Nadu, South India	84
A machine learning-based accuracy enhancement on EUMETSAT H-SAF H35 effective snow-covered area product	82
Editorial Board	82
NRT-GSF: A novel near-real-time ground-satellite fusion algorithm to retrieve daily green area index at field scale	81
Methodological considerations for studying spectral-plant diversity relationships	81

On the ambiguity removal of wind direction derived from space-borne SAR imagery using deep learning	80
Editorial Board	80
Towards an easy-to-use algorithm to estimate longwave cloud radiative forcing: algorithm development and preliminary evaluation	80
A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data	79