OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of GIScience & Remote Sensing is 13. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
An optimal parameters-based geographical detector model enhances geographic characteristics of explanatory variables for spatial heterogeneity analysis: cases with different types of spatial data	329
A large-scale change monitoring of wetlands using time series Landsat imagery on Google Earth Engine: a case study in Newfoundland	88
Application of machine learning techniques in groundwater potential mapping along the west coast of India	68
Google Earth Engine for large-scale land use and land cover mapping: an object-based classification approach using spectral, textural and topographical factors	58
Improvement of Mangrove Soil Carbon Stocks Estimation in North Vietnam Using Sentinel-2 Data and Machine Learning Approach	48
A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures	48
Use of Local Climate Zones to investigate surface urban heat islands in Texas	45
Generating annual high resolution land cover products for 28 metropolises in China based on a deep super-resolution mapping network using Landsat imagery	45
Improvement of spatial interpolation accuracy of daily maximum air temperature in urban areas using a stacking ensemble technique	43
A review of building detection from very high resolution optical remote sensing images	41
Interpretation and sensitivity analysis of the InSAR line of sight displacements in landslide measurements	40
Urban tree species classification using UAV-based multi-sensor data fusion and machine learning	37
Quantifying diurnal and seasonal variation of surface urban heat island intensity and its associated determinants across different climatic zones over Indian cities	35
Quantitatively distinguishing the impact of climate change and human activities on vegetation in mainland China with the improved residual method	34
RoadVecNet: a new approach for simultaneous road network segmentation and vectorization from aerial and google earth imagery in a complex urban set-up	34
FROM-GLC Plus: toward near real-time and multi-resolution land cover mapping	31
Recent land deformation detected by Sentinel-1A InSAR data (2016–2020) over Hanoi, Vietnam, and the relationship with groundwater level change	31
Improving wetland cover classification using artificial neural networks with ensemble techniques	29
Driving forces of grassland vegetation changes in Chen Barag Banner, Inner Mongolia	29
A deep learning model using geostationary satellite data for forest fire detection with reduced detection latency	29
Factors affecting relative height and ground elevation estimations of GEDI among forest types across the conterminous USA	28
A workflow based on Sentinel-1 SAR data and open-source algorithms for unsupervised burned area detection in Mediterranean ecosystems	28
A stacking ensemble algorithm for improving the biases of forest aboveground biomass estimations from multiple remotely sensed datasets	28
Aboveground biomass mapping by integrating ICESat-2, SENTINEL-1, SENTINEL-2, ALOS2/PALSAR2, and topographic information in Mediterranean forests	27
A comparison of the integrated fuzzy object-based deep learning approach and three machine learning techniques for land use/cover change monitoring and environmental impacts assessment	27

Oil spill detection from Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth observations: a meta-analysis and comprehensive review	27
A new type of dual-scale neighborhood based on vectorization for cellular automata models	26
Offshore Island Connection Line: A new perspective of coastal urban development boundary simulation and multi-scenario prediction	26
Multi-sensor and multi-platform consistency and interoperability between UAV, Planet CubeSat, Sentinel-2, and Landsat reflectance data	26
Improvement of SMAP sea surface salinity in river-dominated oceans using machine learning approaches	26
Local-scale agricultural drought monitoring with satellite-based multi-sensor time-series	25
Seasonal and diurnal surface urban heat islands in China: an investigation of driving factors with three-dimensional urban morphological parameters	24
Effect of landscape pattern and spatial configuration of vegetation patches on urban warming and cooling in Harare metropolitan city, Zimbabwe	24
Exploring the advantages of the maximum entropy model in calibrating cellular automata for urban growth simulation: a comparative study of four methods	24
Simulating mixed land-use change under multi-label concept by integrating a convolutional neural network and cellular automata: a case study of Huizhou, China	23
Multi-scale remote sensing to support insurance policies in agriculture: from mid-term to instantaneous deductions	23
Microwave-based vegetation descriptors in the parameterization of water cloud model at L-band for soil moisture retrieval over croplands	23
The effects of urban land cover dynamics on urban heat Island intensity and temporal trends	23
For-backward LSTM-based missing data reconstruction for time-series Landsat images	23
Spatio-temporal characterization of landscape fire in relation to anthropogenic activity and climatic variability over the Western Himalaya, India	22
Satellite-derived bathymetry using machine learning and optimal Sentinel-2 imagery in South-West Florida coastal waters	22
Mapping 3D visibility in an urban street environment from mobile LiDAR point clouds	22
Automatic mapping of urban green spaces using a geospatial neural network	22
Peatland leaf-area index and biomass estimation with ultra-high resolution remote sensing	22
A deep learning approach for automatic mapping of poplar plantations using Sentinel-2 imagery	21
How does co-registration affect geomorphic change estimates in multi-temporal surveys?	21
Assessing spatiotemporal variations and predicting changes in ecosystem service values in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	21
Improving remote sensing estimation of Secchi disk depth for global lakes and reservoirs using machine learning methods	20
Deep Forest classifier for wetland mapping using the combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data	20
Integrating InSAR and deep-learning for modeling and predicting subsidence over the adjacent area of Lake Urmia, Iran	20
Surface deformation extraction from small baseline subset synthetic aperture radar interferometry (SBAS-InSAR) using coherence-optimized baseline combinations	19
Tracking vegetation degradation and recovery in multiple mining areas in Beijing, China, based on time-series Landsat imagery	19
Multiple agricultural cropland products of South Asia developed using Landsat-8 30 m and MODIS 250 m data using machine learning on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud and spectral matching techniques	18
Recent advances in the remote sensing of alpine snow: a review	18
Detection of paddy rice cropping systems in southern China with time series Landsat images and phenology-based algorithms	17
Exploring the effects of partitioned transition rules upon urban growth simulation in a megacity region: a comparative study of cellular automata-based models in the Greater Wuhan Area	17
Solar park detection from publicly available satellite imagery	17
Modeling dynamic land use changes in the eastern portion of the hexi corridor, China by cnn-gru hybrid model	17
Predicting land cover changes using a CA Markov model under different shared socioeconomic pathways in Greece	17
Dynamics of savanna clearing and land degradation in the newest agricultural frontier in Brazil	17
Drone-borne sensing of major and accessory pigments in algae using deep learning modeling	16
Use of local climate zones to assess the spatiotemporal variations of urban vegetation phenology in Austin, Texas, USA	16
Classification of polarimetric SAR images using compact convolutional neural networks	16
Ecological quality assessment and monitoring using a time-series remote sensing-based ecological index (ts-RSEI)	16
Evaluation of machine learning models for rice dry biomass estimation and mapping using quad-source optical imagery	15
A systematic review on the use of remote sensing technologies in quantifying grasslands ecosystem services	15
Modeling the geographic spread and proliferation of invasive alien plants (IAPs) into new ecosystems using multi-source data and multiple predictive models in the Heuningnes catchment, South Africa	15
Mapping and evaluating global urban entities (2000–2020): A novel perspective to delineate urban entities based on consistent nighttime light data	15
Eutrophication monitoring of lakes in Wuhan based on Sentinel-2 data	15
Wetland mapping with multi-temporal sentinel-1 & -2 imagery (2017 – 2020) and LiDAR data in the grassland natural region of alberta	15
Mapping rice area and yield in northeastern asia by incorporating a crop model with dense vegetation index profiles from a geostationary satellite	15
Multi-spatiotemporal heterogeneous legacy effects of climate on terrestrial vegetation dynamics in China	15
Mapping spatiotemporal variability of the urban heat island across an urban gradient in Worcester, Massachusetts using in-situ Thermochrons and Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data	15
Multi-scale three-dimensional detection of urban buildings using aerial LiDAR data	14
Temporal and spatial relationships between soil erosion and ecological restoration in semi-arid regions: a case study in northern Shaanxi, China	14

Inter-calibration of DMSP-OLS and SNPP-VIIRS-DNB annual nighttime light composites using machine learning	14
Object-based change detection for vegetation disturbance and recovery using Landsat time series	14
Earth observations and geographic information science for sustainable development goals	14
A cellular automata approach of urban sprawl simulation with Bayesian spatially-varying transformation rules	14
How does the ambient environment respond to the industrial heat island effects? An innovative and comprehensive methodological paradigm for quantifying the varied cooling effects of different landscap	14
Three-dimensional deformation monitoring and simulations for the preventive conservation of architectural heritage: a case study of the Angkor Wat Temple, Cambodia	14
Aboveground biomass estimates over Brazilian savannas using hyperspectral metrics and machine learning models: experiences with Hyperion/EO-1	14
Coastline extraction using remote sensing: a review	13
Pre-trained feature aggregated deep learning-based monitoring of overshooting tops using multi-spectral channels of GeoKompsat-2A advanced meteorological imagery	13
Upscaling aboveground biomass of larch (Larix olgensis Henry) plantations from field to satellite measurements: a comparison of individual tree-based and area-based approaches	13
Detection of seismic façade damages with multi-temporal oblique aerial imagery	13
Tree species classification in a typical natural secondary forest using UAV-borne LiDAR and hyperspectral data	13
A hybrid integrated deep learning model for predicting various air pollutants	13
Cropland data fusion and correction using spatial analysis techniques and the Google Earth Engine	13
Exploring the potential of multi-source unsupervised domain adaptation in crop mapping using Sentinel-2 images	13
On the accuracy of low-cost dual-frequency GNSS network receivers and reference data	13