OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of GIScience & Remote Sensing is 35. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade-offs among productive-living-ecological lands for facilitating low-carbon and efficient cities: evidences in 30 major Chinese cities from 2015 to 2020	104
Forest carbon sink in North China increased in recent two decades, but decreased in extreme drought years	87
Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach	82
The hidden economic costs of air pollution in China: evidence from remotely sensed nighttime light data	79
The use of multisource spatial data for determining the proliferation of stingless bees in Kenya	70
A deep learning approach for automatic mapping of poplar plantations using Sentinel-2 imagery	70
Trends, turning points, and driving forces of desertification in global arid land based on the segmental trend method and SHAP model	64
Mapping the tidal marshes of coastal Virginia: a hierarchical transfer learning approach	63
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	58
Regression-based surface water fraction mapping using a synthetic spectral library for monitoring small water bodies	58
AFSNet: attention-guided full-scale feature aggregation network for high-resolution remote sensing image change detection	57
MSFTrans: a multi-task frequency-spatial learning transformer for building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images	54
Embedded physical constraints in machine learning to enhance vegetation phenology prediction	54
A new strategy for improving the accuracy of forest aboveground biomass estimates in an alpine region based on multi-source remote sensing	52
Global de-trending significantly improves the accuracy of XGBoost-based county-level maize and soybean yield prediction in the Midwestern United States	50
A hybrid integrated deep learning model for predicting various air pollutants	50
Evaluating the contribution of Sentinel-2 view and illumination geometry to the accuracy of retrieving essential crop parameters	46
Remote sensing of terrestrial gross primary productivity: a review of advances in theoretical foundation, key parameters and methods	46
Land cover change detection in the Aralkum with multi-source satellite datasets	46
Urban building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale recurrent conditional generative adversarial network	46
Development of earth observational diagnostic drought prediction model for regional error calibration: A case study on agricultural drought in Kyrgyzstan	45
Dual generative adversarial networks for merging ocean transparency from satellite observations	44
An improved optical trapezoid model to identify wetlands and irrigation water ponds in the arid irrigation district using Google Earth Engine	44
Spatial disparity of urban performance from a scaling perspective: a study of industrial features associated with economy, infrastructure, and innovation	43
An optimal multivariate-stratification geographical detector model for revealing the impact of multi-factor combinations on the dependent variable	43

The use of maximum entropy and ecological niche factor analysis to decrease uncertainties in samples for urban gain models	43
Contribution of topographic features and categorization uncertainty for a tree species classification in the boreal biome of Northern Ontario	42
An improved change detection method for high-resolution soil moisture mapping in permafrost regions	40
Characterization of spatio-temporal patterns of grassland utilization intensity in the Selinco watershed of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau from 2001 to 2019 based on multisource remote sensing and artifi	38
Error budget analysis of geocoding and geometric correction for KOMPSAT-5 SAR imagery	38
Impacts of the world’s largest afforestation program (Three-North Afforestation Program) on desertification control in sandy land of China	37
Leaf area index and aboveground biomass estimation of an alpine peatland with a UAV multi-sensor approach	36
Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical vegetation ecosystems and their responses to multifaceted droughts in Mainland Southeast Asia using satellite-based time series	36
A review of building detection from very high resolution optical remote sensing images	35
MSNet: multispectral semantic segmentation network for remote sensing images	35