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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of multisource spatial data for determining the proliferation of stingless bees in Kenya	101
A deep learning approach for automatic mapping of poplar plantations using Sentinel-2 imagery	84
Regression-based surface water fraction mapping using a synthetic spectral library for monitoring small water bodies	82
Trade-offs among productive-living-ecological lands for facilitating low-carbon and efficient cities: evidences in 30 major Chinese cities from 2015 to 2020	77
Trends, turning points, and driving forces of desertification in global arid land based on the segmental trend method and SHAP model	70
Forest carbon sink in North China increased in recent two decades, but decreased in extreme drought years	68
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	61
Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach	60
Mapping the tidal marshes of coastal Virginia: a hierarchical transfer learning approach	57
AFSNet: attention-guided full-scale feature aggregation network for high-resolution remote sensing image change detection	55
A hybrid integrated deep learning model for predicting various air pollutants	53
Urban building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale recurrent conditional generative adversarial network	53
Land cover change detection in the Aralkum with multi-source satellite datasets	52
Global de-trending significantly improves the accuracy of XGBoost-based county-level maize and soybean yield prediction in the Midwestern United States	49
A new strategy for improving the accuracy of forest aboveground biomass estimates in an alpine region based on multi-source remote sensing	48
Remote sensing of terrestrial gross primary productivity: a review of advances in theoretical foundation, key parameters and methods	46
Evaluating the contribution of Sentinel-2 view and illumination geometry to the accuracy of retrieving essential crop parameters	46
Embedded physical constraints in machine learning to enhance vegetation phenology prediction	46
MSFTrans: a multi-task frequency-spatial learning transformer for building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images	45
Monitoring active fires in Borneo from Sentinel-2 MSI images	44
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	44
Development of earth observational diagnostic drought prediction model for regional error calibration: A case study on agricultural drought in Kyrgyzstan	44
Error budget analysis of geocoding and geometric correction for KOMPSAT-5 SAR imagery	44
Dual generative adversarial networks for merging ocean transparency from satellite observations	43
Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical vegetation ecosystems and their responses to multifaceted droughts in Mainland Southeast Asia using satellite-based time series	43

An improved optical trapezoid model to identify wetlands and irrigation water ponds in the arid irrigation district using Google Earth Engine	41
Contribution of topographic features and categorization uncertainty for a tree species classification in the boreal biome of Northern Ontario	41
Spatial disparity of urban performance from a scaling perspective: a study of industrial features associated with economy, infrastructure, and innovation	41
The use of maximum entropy and ecological niche factor analysis to decrease uncertainties in samples for urban gain models	40
An optimal multivariate-stratification geographical detector model for revealing the impact of multi-factor combinations on the dependent variable	37
Strength-weighted flow cluster method considering spatiotemporal contiguity to reveal interregional association patterns	37
Ship detection and classification based on cascaded detection of hull and wake from optical satellite remote sensing imagery	36
Cross-comparison of Landsat-8 and Landsat-9 data: a three-level approach based on underfly images	36
Leaf area index and aboveground biomass estimation of an alpine peatland with a UAV multi-sensor approach	35
MSNet: multispectral semantic segmentation network for remote sensing images	35