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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the Sensitivity of Pixel-Based and Sub-Watershed-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process to Weighting Criteria for Flood Hazard Estimation	82
America View and its Landsat Connection	25
Mapping Matters	24
Mapping Matters Your Questions Answered The Layman's Perspective on Technical Theory and Practical Applications of Mapping and GIS	24
Grids and Datums — This month we look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo	15
A Robust Star Identification Algorithm for Resident Space Object Surveillance	14
GIS Tips & Tricks	14
CFAR Edge Detection Using Hysteresis Thresholding for Polarimetric SAR Imagery	13
Top Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022	13
Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System	12
A Pixel Texture Index Algorithm and Its Application	11
Different Urbanization Levels Lead to Divergent Responses of Spring Phenology	11
Novel Spatiotemporal ConvLSTM-Based Cellular Automata Model for Simulating Urban Expansion	11
One-Dimensional-Mixed Convolution Neural Network and Covariance Pooling Model for Mineral Mapping of Porphyry Copper Deposit Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Data	11
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
Novel Residual Attitude Estimation Approach Using Georeferenced Satellite Imagery	10
Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan	10
Transformer for the Building Segmentation of Urban Remote Sensing	10
Automated 3D Reconstruction of LoD2 and LoD1 Models for All 10 Million Buildings of the Netherlands	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
Effectiveness of Deep Learning Trained on SynthCity Data for Urban Point-Cloud Classification	8
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Ukraine	8
Improving Land Cover Classification Over a Large Coastal City Through Stacked Generalization with Filtered Training Samples	8
GIS Tips & Tricks—You May Not Be The Only One Confused About Python Formatting	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
A Boundary-Based Ground-Point Filtering Method for Photogrammetric Point-Cloud Data	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
An Improved YOLO Network for Insulator and Insulator Defect Detection in UAV Images	7
Mapping Winter Wheat Using Ensemble‐Based Positive Unlabeled Learning Approach	7
Exploring Spatiotemporal Variations and Driving Factors of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration	7
Validation of Island 3D-mapping Based on UAV Spatial Point Cloud Optimization: a Case Study in Dongluo Island of China	7
Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality of Lake Burdur, Türkiye	7
Lightweight and Accurate Video Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Detection Network	7
Book Review – Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests by Gianfranco D. Grandi and Elsa Carla De Grandi	7
Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: An Overview and Meta-Analysis	6
Start Strong: Top 10 Tips for a Thriving Geospatial and Remote Sensing Career	6
Monitoring Environment Transformation Along the BTIC Railway Based on Remote Sensing by Utilizing the R_RSEI	6
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry by Mathias Lemmens	6
Monitoring Based on InSAR for the Xinmo Village Landslide in Western Sichuan, China	6
Grids and Datums: This month we look at Independent State Of Papua New Guinea	6
Development of an Automatic Feature Point Classification Method for Three-Dimensional Mapping Around Slewing and Derricking Cranes	6
ReLAP-Net: Residual Learning and Attention Based Parallel Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion	5
Enhancing Residential Building Identification in a Coastal Texas City: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing, GIS, and Transfer Learning Techniques	5
A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification	5
Identifying the Driving Factors of Urban Land Surface Temperature	5
TPPI: A Novel Network Framework and Model for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification	5
Cost-Effective High-Definition Building Mapping: Box-Supervised Rooftop Delineation Using High- Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery	5
Automatic Satellite Images Orthorectification Using K–Means Based Cascaded Meta-Heuristic Algorithm	4
Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping	4
Towards Automated/Semiautomated Extraction of Faults from Lidar Data	4
Comparative Analysis of Different CNN Models for Building Segmentation from Satellite and UAV Images	4
Floating Solar Park Impacts Urban Land Surface Temperature Distribution Pattern	4
Accuracy Evaluation of Airborne and Terrestrial Point Cloud Registration	4
Combination of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry for Heritage Building Information Modeling: A Case Study of Tarsus St. Paul Church	4
A Variable-Iterative Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Sparse Unmixing	4
Mapping Matters: The layman's perspective on technical theory and practical applications of mapping and GIS	4
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	4
GIS Tips & Tricks — When is Sharing not Sharing?	4
Sat2building: Lod-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery Using Spatial Embeddings	4
The Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Associated Driving Factors of Modeling in Mining Areas	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
GIS Tips & Tricks ‐ What to Do with All Those Numbers?	3
GIS Tips & Tricks - When Paper Maps Just Aren't Enough	3
Lightweight Ship Object Detection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Multi-scale Perception and Feature Enhancement	3
Research Progress of Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Asphalt Pavement Aging	3
Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data	3
Comparison of Intertidal Terrain Extraction Methods Based on ICESat-2 and Tidal Data	3
A Novel Object Detection Method for Solid Waste Incorporating a Weighted Deformable Convolution	3
Robust Guardrail Instantiation and Trajectory Optimization of Complex Highways Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds	3
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)–Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Predicting Wheat Leaf Nitrogen	3
Debris Flow Susceptibility Evaluation Based on Multi-level Feature Extraction CNN Model: A Case Study of Nujiang Prefecture, China	3
Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disasters	3
Automatic Registration Method of Multi-Source Point Clouds Based on Building Facades Matching in Urban Scenes	3

How to Gain Clearer Visibility into Dynamic Coastal Environments	3
Use of Artificial Intelligence Toward Climate-neutral Cultural Heritage	3
Potential of Open Source Remote Sensing Data for Improved Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Inland Water Quality in India: Case Study of Gujarat	3
Global Multi-Scale Fusion Self-Calibration Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection	3
Wave Period and Direction Inversion from Marine X-band Radar Images using Spatiotemporal Feature Joint Learning	3
Grids and Datums: Burkina FASO	3
Dynamic Monitoring of Ecological Quality in Eastern Ukraine Amidst the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	3
Joint Detection and Parameters Regression of Detailed Windows based on Facade Textures via an Adaptive Soft Teacher	3
Grids and Datums Update: This month we look at the Republic of Vanuatu	3
Alternative Procedure to Improve the Positioning Accuracy of Orthomosaic Images Acquired with Agisoft Metashape and DJI P4 Multispectral for Crop Growth Observation	3
Spatiotemporal Behavior of Active Forest Fires Using Time-Series MODIS C6 Data	3
Book Review ‐ Remote Sensing of Soils	3
New Generation Hyperspectral Data for Quantum Leap in Remote Sensing Science for Agriculture	3