OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Remote Sensing of Environment is 75. 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
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	594
Multi-source data analysis to assess the past and present kinematics of the Pisciotta Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (southern Italy)	499
Exploring spectral and phylogenetic diversity links with functional structure of aquatic plant communities	349
Examining partial-column density retrieval of lower-tropospheric CO2 from GOSAT target observations over global megacities	268
Field-scale dynamics of planting dates in the US Corn Belt from 2000 to 2020	255
Study on automated detection methods of shallow surface soil water content based on GPR signal level	255
Arctic Sea ice leads detected using sentinel-1B SAR image and their responses to atmosphere circulation and sea ice dynamics	235
Editorial Board	225
Editorial Board	206
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]	185
In-season crop progress in unsurveyed regions using networks trained on synthetic data	185
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	173
Joint mapping of melt pond bathymetry and water volume on sea ice using optical remote sensing images and physical reflectance models	164
Comprehensive reassessment of Australia's land-surface phenology trends (1982–2022) using circular statistics and a harmonised NDVI dataset	158
Difference in seasonal peak timing of soybean far-red SIF and GPP explained by canopy structure and chlorophyll content	153
A parametric approach for global estimation of forest above-ground biomass with SMOS and SMAP L-band radiometer data	137
Identifying and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions with the AVIRIS-3 airborne imaging spectrometer	135
Thermal infrared reflectance characteristics of natural leaves in 8–14 μm region: Mechanistic modeling and relationships with leaf water content	135
A model based on spectral invariant theory for correcting topographic effects on vegetation canopy reflectance	135
A novel identification method for unrevealed mesoscale eddies with transient and weak features-Capricorn Eddies as an example	126
Seasonality of vegetation greenness in Southeast Asia unveiled by geostationary satellite observations	119
RSPECT: A PROSPECT-based model incorporating the real structure of rice leaves	115
3D Monte Carlo surface-atmosphere radiative transfer modelling with DART	112
Deriving leaf-scale chlorophyll index (CIleaf) from canopy reflectance by correcting for the canopy multiple scattering based on spectral invariant theory	111
Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets	111

A PSI targets characterization approach to interpreting surface displacement signals: A case study of the Shanghai metro tunnels	109
Downscaling canopy photochemical reflectance index to leaf level by correcting for the soil effects	109
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	106
Automated detection and tracking of medium-large icebergs from Sentinel-1 imagery using Google Earth Engine	105
Estimation of intensity, footprint, and capacity of surface urban heat islands using a direction-enhanced adaptive synchronous extraction (DEASE) method	105
Entity-based image analysis: A new strategy to map rural settlements from Landsat images	105
Generating high-resolution total canopy SIF emission from TROPOMI data: Algorithm and application	105
Satellite observations of water transparency from VIIRS in global aquatic ecosystems	104
Indices enhance biological soil crust mapping in sandy and desert lands	100
True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis	99
Spectral reflectance time series of four soils while drying from over-saturated to air-dry	99
UrbanWatch: A 1-meter resolution land cover and land use database for 22 major cities in the United States	99
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images	97
Correcting for the clumping effect in leaf area index calculations using one-dimensional fractal dimension	97
Mapping the first dataset of global urban land uses with Sentinel-2 imagery and POI prompt	97
Characterization and prediction of InSAR-derived ground motion with ICA-assisted LSTM model	95
BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes	93
Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation	92
Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach	90
Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis from top-of-atmosphere reflectance to plant functional type distributions	89
Mapping smallholder cashew plantations to inform sustainable tree crop expansion in Benin	88
Modeling the start of frozen dates with leaf senescence over Tibetan Plateau	87
Eutrophication state in the Eastern China based on Landsat 35-year observations	87
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	86
Remote sensing applications for monitoring restoration outcomes in boreal forestry-drained peatlands - Reviewed applications and future potential	85
Unsupervised object-based spectral unmixing for subpixel mapping	85
Towards global mapping of dynamic surface water extents using Sentinel-1 SAR data	85
Mechanism and algorithm for addressing the impact of multiple scattering on surface elevation extraction in photon-counting LiDAR data	85
Recent change in ecosystem water use efficiency in China mainly dominated by vegetation greening and increased CO2	84
How have Florida's red tides changed from the 1970s to the 2000s? Assessment using CZCS and MODIS observations	84
Estimation of summer pan-Arctic ice draft from satellite passive microwave observations	83
Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras	83
Filling gaps in cloudy Landsat LST product by spatial-temporal fusion of multi-scale data	82
A deep learning model for incorporating temporal information in haze removal	82
Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America	80
Leveraging Landsat-8/-9 underfly observations to evaluate consistency in reflectance products over aquatic environments	79
Methodological considerations for studying spectral-plant diversity relationships	79
Leaf fall witnessed by night-time light: A first attempt to detect urban leaf fall dates using satellite nighttime light data	79
Editorial Board	79
Highest quality remote sensing reflectance database compiled from 20+ years of MODIS-aqua measurements	79
Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning	78
Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau	78
Edge effects on forest dynamics in China from 2000 to 2020: Evidence from satellite remote sensing	77
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	76
Machine learning-based generation of high-resolution 3D full-coverage aerosol distribution data over China using multisource data	76
Mountain snow depth retrievals from customized processing of ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry	76
Improving the combined use of reflectance and thermal channels for ocean and coastal cloud detection for the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR)	76
Benefits of fully focused SAR altimetry to coastal wave height estimates: A case study in the North Sea	75
Monitoring volcanic CO2 flux by the remote sensing of vegetation on Mt. Etna, Italy	75
Editorial Board	75