OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing is 3. 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
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	27
America View and its Landsat Connection	26
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	24
Mapping Matters	23
GIS Tips & Tricks	16
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	16
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	15
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	15
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	14
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	14
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	14
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	14
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	14
Novel Spatiotemporal ConvLSTM-Based Cellular Automata Model for Simulating Urban Expansion	13
Revealing Feature Contribution Mechanisms for Remote Sensing Scene Understanding	12
Beyond Global Navigation Satellite Systems–Based Georeferencing: Recent Trends in Positioning and Navigation	11
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	11
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	11
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	11
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	11
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	10
3D Gaussian Splatting in Reality Capture Workflows	9
Deep Learning–based LOD-2 Building Modeling and Its Application to Solar Energy Estimation Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	9
CGMSANet: Hyperspectral Image Classification through Channel-Grouped Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and Attention Mechanisms	8
The Simulation and Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Based on SCP and CA-ANN Models Using Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Lahore	8

Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	8
Reserve Identification Model for Oil Tank Based on Satellite Image Analysis under Complex Observation Angles	8
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	8
MRTD-Based Effective Range Analysis of Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems for Ship Detection: Optimization of the Calculation for Operational Range Through an Improved MRTD Model	7
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	7
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	7
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	7
RSIDetNet: An Efficient Oriented Small Object Detection Model for Remote Sensing Images Based on Cross-Scale Feature Fusion and Large Kernel Decomposition	7
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	7
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	7
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	6
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	6
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	6
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	6
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	6
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	6
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	6
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	6
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	6
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	6
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	6
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	5
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	5
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	5
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	5
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	5
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	5
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	5
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	5
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	5
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	5
An Improved Manifold Learning Algorithm for Dimension Reduction of Fusion Data for Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Images	5
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	5
Quantile Regression-Based Change Detection using Landsat Analysis-Ready Data	5
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	5
Three-dimensional Drainage Infrastructure Modeling for Flood Vulnerability in Southeast Texas	4
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	4
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	4
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	4
Joint Detection and Parameters Regression of Detailed Windows based on Facade Textures via an Adaptive Soft Teacher	4
Accuracy Evaluation of Airborne and Terrestrial Point Cloud Registration	4
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	4
Remote Sensing’s Role in Assessing the Risks of Climate Extremes	4
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	4
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	4
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	4
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	4
Three-Dimensional Characteristics Identification of Drought in the Yellow River Basin Based on the Standardized Precipitation Index	4
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	4
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	4

GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	4
A Novel Object Detection Method for Solid Waste Incorporating a Weighted Deformable Convolution	3
How to Gain Clearer Visibility into Dynamic Coastal Environments	3
Remote Sensing Image Denoising Network Based on Locally Enhanced Window Transformer	3
Rice Identification Under Complex Surface Conditions with CNN and Integrated Remote Sensing Spectral-Temporal-Spatial Features	3
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	3
Morphology-Based Feature Extraction Network for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Vehicle Detection	3
Alternative Procedure to Improve the Positioning Accuracy of Orthomosaic Images Acquired with Agisoft Metashape and DJI P4 Multispectral for Crop Growth Observation	3
Development of Soil-Suppressed Impervious Surface Area Index for Automatic Urban Mapping	3
Use of Artificial Intelligence Toward Climate-neutral Cultural Heritage	3
Comparison of Intertidal Terrain Extraction Methods Based on ICESat‐2 and Tidal Data	3
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	3
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	3
Artificial Neural Network Multi-layer Perceptron Models to Classify California's Crops using Harmonized Landsat Sentinel (HLS) Data	3
Terrain Variation Aware Surface Height Estimation Network for High-Precision Multi-view Satellite Stereo	3
GIS Tips & Tricks — Designing Color Style Sheets for Your Mobile App — Easier Than You Think	3
The Gis Management Handbook— Concepts, Practices, and Tools for Planning, Implementing, and Managing Geographic Information System Programs and Projects, 3^rd Edition.	3
Book Review ‐ Remote Sensing of Soils	3
Global Multi-Scale Fusion Self-Calibration Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection	3
Lidar-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Connecting Traverse Constraints for Underground Mine Mapping	3
Integration of Near-Proximal and Proximal Lidar Sensing for Fine-Resolution Forest Inventory	3
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	3
GIS Tips & Tricks – Simple Customizations Can Have a Large Impact	3
Reconstructing Heritage Interiors from Point Clouds via Architectural Element Segmentation	3
3D Imaging of the Environment: Mapping and Monitoring. John Meneely, Editor.	3