OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 80. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	452
Gravity recovery from SWOT altimetry using geoid height and geoid gradient	427
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	413
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	345
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	306
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	290
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	273
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	261
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	230
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	196
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	192
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	192
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	189
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	186
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	184
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	177
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	175
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	175
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	171
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	170
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities	169
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	165
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions	160
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	158
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	151

Editorial Board	148
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	137
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]	135
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	134
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	133
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	132
Comprehensive reassessment of Australia's land-surface phenology trends (1982–2022) using circular statistics and a harmonised NDVI dataset	131
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	128
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	124
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	118
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	113
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	113
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	112
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	110
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	109
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	109
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	107
Multi-decadal analysis of high-resolution albedo changes induced by urbanization over contrasted Chinese cities based on Landsat data	106
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	104
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	103
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	103
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	103
Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations	102
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	101
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock	100
Spatio-Temporal reconstruction to fill spatial gaps in global satellite vegetation optical depth products	99
Benefits of fully focused SAR altimetry to coastal wave height estimates: A case study in the North Sea	97
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America	97
Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	97
Visualizing the pre-visual: Rice blast infection signals revealed	97
This is MATE: A Multiple scAttering correcTion rEtrieval algorithm for accurate lidar profiling of seawater optical properties	97
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land	95
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	94
Net primary production in the Labrador Sea between 2014 and 2022 derived from ocean colour remote sensing based on ecological regimes	94
Machine learning-based generation of high-resolution 3D full-coverage aerosol distribution data over China using multisource data	93
Evaluating the performance of airborne and spaceborne lidar for mapping biomass in the United States' largest dry woodland ecosystem	92
CloudS2Mask: A novel deep learning approach for improved cloud and cloud shadow masking in Sentinel-2 imagery	91
Robust retrieval of soil moisture at field scale across wide-ranging SAR incidence angles for soybean, wheat, forage, oat and grass	90
The influence of surface canopy water on the relationship between L-band backscatter and biophysical variables in agricultural monitoring	90
A moisture-based triangle approach for estimating surface evaporative fraction with time-series of remotely sensed data	90
Leveraging Landsat-8/-9 underfly observations to evaluate consistency in reflectance products over aquatic environments	90
An adaptive spatiotemporal tensor reconstruction method for GIMMS-3g+ NDVI	90
Spatio-temporal variability of water use efficiency and its drivers in major forest formations in India	89
On the ambiguity removal of wind direction derived from space-borne SAR imagery using deep learning	86
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS	85
Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau	84
Estimating river discharge across scales with a novel regional gauging method driven by Sentinel satellite data	84
Detection and characterization of coastal tidal wetland change in the northeastern US using Landsat time series	84
Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry	83
Evolution of geodetic mass balance over the largest lake-terminating glacier in the Tibetan Plateau with a revised radar penetration depth based on multi-source high-resolution satellite data	82

Novel algorithms for pair and pixel selection and atmospheric error correction in multitemporal InSAR	82
Extrapolation of electromagnetic pointing error corrections for Sentinel-1 Doppler currents from land areas to the open ocean	82
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	80
A new Multivariate Drought Severity Index to identify short-term hydrological signals: case study of the Amazon River basin	80
Spectral-temporal traits in Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral remote sensing time series for 61 tree species in Central Europe	80
Deep learning solver unites SDGSAT-1 observations and Navier–Stokes theory for oceanic vortex streets	80
A novel global snow depth retrieval method considering snow metamorphism and forest influence	80