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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	391
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	381
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]	368
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	300
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	280
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	260
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	250
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	243
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	231
Persistent upwelling in the Mid-Atlantic Bight detected using gap-filled, high-resolution satellite SST	224
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	177
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	173
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	172
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	172
Multi-decadal analysis of high-resolution albedo changes induced by urbanization over contrasted Chinese cities based on Landsat data	166
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	165
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	160
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	159
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	158
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	158
A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	158
A new fog and low stratus retrieval for tropical South America reveals widespread fog in lowland forests	153
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	152
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	152
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	148

Deep-learning-based burned area mapping using the synergy of Sentinel-1&2 data	142
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	139
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	132
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	132
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	131
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	127
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	124
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	124
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	123
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	121
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities	120
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	120
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	117
World Settlement Footprint 3D - A first three-dimensional survey of the global building stock	116
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	116
Geographically and temporally weighted neural network for winter wheat yield prediction	112
Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations	112
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	111
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	110
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	107
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	106
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	106
Gravity recovery from SWOT altimetry using geoid height and geoid gradient	104
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	103
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	101
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	100
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	100
Air pollution scenario over Pakistan: Characterization and ranking of extremely polluted cities using long-term concentrations of aerosols and trace gases	100
Spatio-Temporal reconstruction to fill spatial gaps in global satellite vegetation optical depth products	98
Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	98
Net primary production in the Labrador Sea between 2014 and 2022 derived from ocean colour remote sensing based on ecological regimes	95
Detection and characterization of coastal tidal wetland change in the northeastern US using Landsat time series	95
Towards accurate mapping of forest in tropical landscapes: A comparison of datasets on how forest transition matters	94
A machine learning-based accuracy enhancement on EUMETSAT H-SAF H35 effective snow-covered area product	94
Consistent metropolitan boundaries for the remote sensing of urban land	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	93
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	91
A new Multivariate Drought Severity Index to identify short-term hydrological signals: case study of the Amazon River basin	90
Spatial homogeneity from temporal stability: Exploiting the combined hyper-frequent revisit of Terra and Aqua to guide Earth System Science	90
Unoccupied aerial system (UAS) Structure-from-Motion canopy fuel parameters: Multisite area-based modelling across forests in California, USA	90
Radar altimeter waveform simulations in Antarctica with the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer Model (SMRT)	89
A novel global snow depth retrieval method considering snow metamorphism and forest influence	89
Analyzing GOES-R ABI BRDF-adjusted EVI2 time series by comparing with VIIRS observations over the CONUS	88
Estimating river discharge across scales with a novel regional gauging method driven by Sentinel satellite data	88
Ozone profiles without blind area retrieved from MAX-DOAS measurements and comprehensive validation with multi-platform observations	87
A moisture-based triangle approach for estimating surface evaporative fraction with time-series of remotely sensed data	87
A unified deep learning framework for urban functional zone extraction based on multi-source heterogeneous data	87
Millimeter to centimeter scale precision water-level monitoring using GNSS reflectometry: Application to the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, China	87
CloudS2Mask: A novel deep learning approach for improved cloud and cloud shadow masking in Sentinel-2 imagery	86

Distinguishing forest types in restored tropical landscapes with UAV-borne LIDAR	86
The influence of surface canopy water on the relationship between L-band backscatter and biophysical variables in agricultural monitoring	85
Spectral-temporal traits in Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral remote sensing time series for 61 tree species in Central Europe	85
Robust retrieval of soil moisture at field scale across wide-ranging SAR incidence angles for soybean, wheat, forage, oat and grass	83
Assessing a soil-removed semi-empirical model for estimating leaf chlorophyll content	82
A new approach for 2-D and 3-D precise measurements of ground deformation from optimized registration and correlation of optical images and ICA-based filtering of image geometry artifacts	80
Reconstruction of long-term high-resolution lake variability: Algorithm improvement and applications in China	80
Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau	80
A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data	80
Phenology-based classification of invasive annual grasses to the species level	80
Spatio-temporal variability of water use efficiency and its drivers in major forest formations in India	80
Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry	80