OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of GIScience & Remote Sensing is 32. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
FROM-GLC Plus: toward near real-time and multi-resolution land cover mapping	96
Evaluating expressway stability using interferometric synthetic aperture radar and measuring its impact on the occurrence of geohazards: a case study of Shanxi Province, China	88
Using object-based image analysis to detect laughing gull nests	80
Monitoring the Amazon River plume from satellite observations	73
Seamless monitoring of marine heatwaves: capability of gap-filled, geostationary satellite sea surface temperature data	69
Identifying critical road sections using the weighted periodicity mined from trajectory data for efficient urban transportation	68
Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach	57
Dynamic flood mapping by a normalized probabilistic classification method using satellite radar amplitude time series	57
Modeling pine forest growing stock volume in subtropical regions of China using airborne Lidar data	54
Improving the accuracy of extant gridded population maps using multisource map fusion	53
A deep learning approach for automatic mapping of poplar plantations using Sentinel-2 imagery	51
Cell-level coupling of a mechanistic model to cellular automata for improving land simulation	50
An evaluation of PlanetScope images for 3D reconstruction and change detection – experimental validations with case studies	45
Correction	44
Cross attention is all you need: relational remote sensing change detection with transformer	43
Novel model for predicting individuals’ movements in dynamic regions of interest	41
An automatic rice mapping method based on an integrated time-series gradient boosting tree using GF-6 and sentinel-2 images	41
A deep relearning method based on the recurrent neural network for land cover classification	41
Surface deformation extraction from small baseline subset synthetic aperture radar interferometry (SBAS-InSAR) using coherence-optimized baseline combinations	41
Trade-offs among productive-living-ecological lands for facilitating low-carbon and efficient cities: evidences in 30 major Chinese cities from 2015 to 2020	40
Reconstruction of a large-scale realistic three-dimensional (3-D) mountain forest scene for radiative transfer simulations	40
Diagnosing urban traffic anomalies by integrating geographic knowledge and tensor theory	40
Seven-year variation in glacier surface velocity at Narsap Sermia in Southwest Greenland	40
Inferring the heterogeneous effect of urban land use on building height with causal machine learning	40
Can Gross Primary Productivity Products be effectively evaluated in regions with few observation data?	39

Landsat-observed changes in forest cover and attribution analysis over Northern China from 1996‒2020	39
A machine learning-based dynamic ensemble selection algorithm for microwave retrieval of surface soil freeze/thaw: A case study across China	39
Aboveground biomass estimates over Brazilian savannas using hyperspectral metrics and machine learning models: experiences with Hyperion/EO-1	38
Multi-year mapping of flood autumn irrigation extent and timing in harvested croplands of arid irrigation district	37
Leveraging uncertainty estimation and spatial pyramid pooling for extracting hydrological features from scanned historical topographic maps	36
Mapping invasive alien plant species with very high spatial resolution and multi-date satellite imagery using object-based and machine learning techniques: A comparative study	35
A novel spaceborne photon-counting laser altimeter denoising method based on parameter-adaptive density clustering	33
Cloud restoration of optical satellite imagery using time-series spectral similarity group	32