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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	73
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	24
America View and its Landsat Connection	24
Mapping Matters	24
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	22
GIS Tips & Tricks	14
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	13
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	13
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	12
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	11
Top Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022	11
Novel Spatiotemporal ConvLSTM-Based Cellular Automata Model for Simulating Urban Expansion	10
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
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	10
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	10
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	10
Building a Comprehensive Digital Toolkit for Aerial Acquisition	10
Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan	10
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	9
Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope	9
Landslide Evolution Assessment Based on Sequential InSAR Methods in the Kunming Transmission Line Corridor	9
A Method of Extracting High-Accuracy Elevation Control Points from ICESat-2 Altimetry Data	9
Automated 3D Reconstruction of LoD2 and LoD1 Models for All 10 Million Buildings of the Netherlands	8
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	7
Effectiveness of Deep Learning Trained on SynthCity Data for Urban Point-Cloud Classification	7

GIS Tips & Tricks—You May Not Be The Only One Confused About Python Formatting	7
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	7
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	7
The Simulation and Prediction of Land Surface Temperature Based on SCP and CA-ANN Models Using Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of Lahore	7
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	7
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	7
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	7
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Ukraine	7
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	7
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	6
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	6
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	6
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	6
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	6
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	6
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	5
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	5
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	5
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	5
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	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
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	5
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	4
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	4
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	4
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	4
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	4
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	4
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	4
UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth	4
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	4
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	4
Identifying the Driving Factors of Urban Land Surface Temperature	4
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	4
Urban Land Cover/Use Mapping and Change Detection Analysis Using Multi-Temporal Landsat OLI with Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI	4
Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes on Net Primary Productivity in Wuhan, China	4
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	3
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	3
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	3
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	3
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	3
The Analysis on the Annual Change of Digital Aerial Camera's IMUs Boresight Misalignment	3
SectorInsights.com—Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Earth Observation—An Invitation to Participate	3
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	3
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	3
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	3
Improving Remote Sensing Multiple Classification by Data and Ensemble Selection	3
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	3
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	3

New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	3
A Novel Object Detection Method for Solid Waste Incorporating a Weighted Deformable Convolution	3
Alternative Procedure to Improve the Positioning Accuracy of Orthomosaic Images Acquired with Agisoft Metashape and DJI P4 Multispectral for Crop Growth Observation	3
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	3
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	3
Floating Solar Park Impacts Urban Land Surface Temperature Distribution Pattern	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
Joint Detection and Parameters Regression of Detailed Windows based on Facade Textures via an Adaptive Soft Teacher	3
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	3
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Vanuatu	3
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	3