OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing is 2. 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
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	68
America View and its Landsat Connection	23
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	21
Mapping Matters	20
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	16
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	14
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	12
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	12
PROSAIL Modeling Coupled with Environmental Stress: Remote Sensing Retrieval of Multiple Dry Matters in the Canopy of Moso Bamboo Forests under the Stress of Pantana phyllostachysae Chao	10
GIS Tips & Tricks	10
Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan	10
Top Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022	10
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	10
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	10
Building a Comprehensive Digital Toolkit for Aerial Acquisition	9
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	9
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	8
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	8
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Zimbabwe	8
A Method of Extracting High-Accuracy Elevation Control Points from ICESat-2 Altimetry Data	8
Spinor-Based Attitude Determination with Star Sensor Considering Depth	8
GIS Tips & Tricks—You May Not Be The Only One Confused About Python Formatting	7
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	7
Automated 3D Reconstruction of LoD2 and LoD1 Models for All 10 Million Buildings of the Netherlands	7
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Ukraine	7

Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	7
Unsupervised Representation High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification via Contrastive Learning Convolutional Neural Network	6
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	6
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	6
Effectiveness of Deep Learning Trained on SynthCity Data for Urban Point-Cloud Classification	6
The Simulation and Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Based on SCP and CA-ANN Models Using Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Lahore	6
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	6
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	5
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	5
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	5
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	5
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	5
Early Classification Method for US Corn and Soybean by Incorporating MODIS-Estimated Phenological Data and Historical Classification Maps in Random-Forest Regression Algorithm	5
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	5
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	5
Scene-Change Detection Based on Multi-Feature-Fusion Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model for High-Spatial-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	5
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	5
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	5
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	5
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	4
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	4
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	4
Identifying the Driving Factors of Urban Land Surface Temperature	4
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	4
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	3
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	3
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	3
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	3
GIS Tips & Tricks—Another Trick with "Hot-Keys"	3
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	3
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	3
UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth	3
Floating Solar Park Impacts Urban Land Surface Temperature Distribution Pattern	3
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	3
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	3
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	3
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	3
Urban Land Cover/Use Mapping and Change Detection Analysis Using Multi-Temporal Landsat OLI with Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI	3
Improving Remote Sensing Multiple Classification by Data and Ensemble Selection	3
Identification of Critical Urban Clusters for Placating Urban Heat Island Effects over Fast-Growing Tropical City Regions: Estimating the Contribution of Different City Sizes in Escalating UHI Intensi	3
Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes on Net Primary Productivity in Wuhan, China	3
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	3
Photogrammetry and Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Investigation of the Clandestine Graves in Colombia	3
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	3
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	3
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	2
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	2
Cloud Detection in ZY-3 Multi-Angle Remote Sensing Images	2
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Vanuatu	2

GIS Tips & Tricks – Simple Customizations Can Have a Large Impact	2
Monitoring and Analysis of Urban Sprawl Based on Road Network Data and High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery: A Case Study of China's Provincial Capitals	2
How to Gain Clearer Visibility into Dynamic Coastal Environments	2
Potential of Open Source Remote Sensing Data for Improved Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Inland Water Quality in India: Case Study of Gujarat	2
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	2
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	2
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	2
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	2
Alternative Procedure to Improve the Positioning Accuracy of Orthomosaic Images Acquired with Agisoft Metashape and DJI P4 Multispectral for Crop Growth Observation	2
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	2
The Gis Management Handbook— Concepts, Practices, and Tools for Planning, Implementing, and Managing Geographic Information System Programs and Projects, 3^rd Edition.	2
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Yemen	2
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	2
Spatiotemporal Behavior of Active Forest Fires Using Time-Series MODIS C6 Data	2
3D Imaging of the Environment: Mapping and Monitoring. John Meneely, Editor.	2
Use of Artificial Intelligence Toward Climate-neutral Cultural Heritage	2
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	2
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	2
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	2
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	2
A Novel Object Detection Method for Solid Waste Incorporating a Weighted Deformable Convolution	2
The Analysis on the Annual Change of Digital Aerial Camera's IMUs Boresight Misalignment	2
Book Review ‐ Remote Sensing of Soils	2
Individual Tree Segmentation Using Deep Learning and Climbing Algorithm: A Method for Achieving High-precision Single-tree Segmentation in High-density Forests under Complex Environments	2
Least Squares Adjustment with a Rank-Deficient Weight Matrix and Its Applicability to Image/Lidar Data Processing	2
GIS Tips & Tricks — Designing Color Style Sheets for Your Mobile App — Easier Than You Think	2
Global Multi-Scale Fusion Self-Calibration Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection	2
Development of Soil-Suppressed Impervious Surface Area Index for Automatic Urban Mapping	2
SectorInsights.com—Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Earth Observation—An Invitation to Participate	2
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	2
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	2