International Journal of Digital Earth

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Digital Earth is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mapping high-resolution surface shortwave radiation over East Asia with the new generation geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari-8128
Monitoring vegetation dynamics in Qinling–Daba mountains during 2001–2023 using an improved two-leaf model and remote-sensing datasets92
Block-PSPGOF: high-quality mesh reconstruction of large scenes based on progressive self-planarized Gaussian opacity fields87
The impact of super typhoon on varying vegetation types in eastern coastal China: implications for coastal ecosystem and disaster risk management84
Object based Markov random field model for hierarchical semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery70
An unsupervised semantic segmentation method that combines the ImSE-Net model with SLICm superpixel optimization68
A new remote sensing index of mildew for winter wheat disaster area extraction65
Kinematic precise point positioning heights enhancement using static measurements and Voronoi’s corrector surface65
Unveiling the pulse of urban metro stations: a TOD-driven approach to measuring vibrancy using geographically weighted random forest53
Evolutionary dynamics of island shoreline in the context of climate change: insights from extensive empirical evidence53
A new multi-source remote sensing image sample dataset with high resolution for flood area extraction: GF-FloodNet50
FRIC: a framework for few-shot remote sensing image captioning50
Red list assessments of Chinese higher plants49
Change detection of multisource remote sensing images: a review49
A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images48
Using remote sensing data to evaluate the ecological restoration in Taiyuan from the SDGs perspective47
Deep reinforcement learning–driven multi-satellite collaborative observation planning for emergency and disaster monitoring46
GNSS Ground deformation observation network optimization assisted using prior InSAR-derived ground surface deformation and multiscale iteration estimation44
An evaluation of TLS-based glacier change assessment in the central Tibetan plateau43
Mapping above-ground biomass and canopy mean height in high mountainous forest areas with Sentinel-2 multi-spectral image based on machine learning algorithms42
Fine-grained flood disaster information extraction incorporating multiple semantic features42
Analysis of desert locust ( Schistocerca gregaria ) suitability in Yemen: an integrated evaluation based on MaxEnt and space–time cube approaches41
RepDDNet: a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image41
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on residents’ activities using baidu heat map data: from the lockdown era to the post-pandemic era41
AugGKG: a grid-augmented geographic knowledge graph representation and spatio-temporal query model40
TR2RM: an urban road network generation model based on multisource big data39
Mapping Local Climate Zones in Lausanne (Switzerland) with Sentinel-2 and PRISMA imagery: comparison of classification performance using different band combinations and building height data38
HyperRefiner: a refined hyperspectral pansharpening network based on the autoencoder and self-attention36
Individual tree segmentation from UAS Lidar data based on hierarchical filtering and clustering34
Carbon balance dynamic evolution and simulation coupling economic development and ecological protection: a case study of Jiangxi Province at county scale from 2000–203034
Multi-scale hydrological system-of-systems realized through WHOS: the brokering framework33
Encoding and operation scheme for the rhombic triacontahedron aperture 4 hexagonal discrete global grid system33
Cloud-based storage and computing for remote sensing big data: a technical review31
Correction30
Advances on the Global Human Settlement Layer by joint assessment of Earth Observation and population survey data30
Mapping tidal flat topography by combining ICESat-2 laser altimetry and multi-source satellite imagery29
Viral invasion, incubation, and outbreak under the normalized operation of urban systems: a spatial cognition-driven transmission model of infectious diseases29
MAL-YOLO: a lightweight algorithm for target detection in side-scan sonar images based on multi-scale feature fusion and attention mechanism29
Robust and accurate visual geo-localization using prior map constructed by handheld LiDAR SLAM with camera image and terrestrial LiDAR point cloud29
Social media use in disaster response: empowering community resilience28
Integrating unsupervised domain adaptation and SAM technologies for image semantic segmentation: a case study on building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images28
Land surface temperature retrieval from SDGSAT-1: assessment of different retrieval algorithms with different atmospheric reanalysis data28
A hierarchical-modular ecosystem mapping framework for high-intensity human activity zones28
Exploring the potential of time series InSAR for coastal wetland fine mapping using auto-weighted ensemble machine learning28
PMinrKG: polymetallic mineral resources knowledge graph construction and its applications integrated with multimodal data28
A labor-free index-guided semantic segmentation approach for urban vegetation mapping from high-resolution true color imagery27
Using time-series imagery and 3DLSTM model to classify individual tree species27
Assimilation of NDVI data in a land surface – Vegetation model for leaf area index predictions in a tree-grass ecosystem27
Spatial heterogeneity and driving mechanism of the response of lake area to drought for lakes in China26
High-precision earth rotation parameter forecasting: multiscale computational models and multivariate data fusion26
Vegetation ecological benefits index (VEBI): a 3D spatial model for evaluating the ecological benefits of vegetation26
Virtual earth cloud: a multi-cloud framework for enabling geosciences digital ecosystems25
Estimating carbon storage of desert ecosystems in China25
Identification of illumination source types using nighttime light images from SDGSAT-125
Rapid mass losses of Urumqi River Basin glaciers, eastern Tianshan Mountains revealed from multi-temporal DEMs, 1964–202124
Derivation of tasseled cap transformation coefficients for SDGSAT-1 Multispectral Imager at-sensor reflectance data24
Light from space illuminating the polar silk road24
SDG- and GMAG-oriented analysis of multi scenarios spatiotemporal changes and evaluation of the effectiveness and potential of mangrove forests24
A real-time geological sections generation method for geological 3D models based on per-pixel linked lists24
Virtual geographical scene twin modeling: a combined data-driven and knowledge-driven method with bridge construction as a case study24
Optimizing context-based location extraction by tuning open-source LLMs with RAG24
WMO: an ontology for the semantic enrichment of wetland monitoring data23
Evaluating the performance of snow depth reanalysis products in the arid region of Central Asia23
Deep learning for land use and land cover classification from the Ecuadorian Paramo.23
Chain-of-programming (CoP): empowering large language models for geospatial code generation task23
Predicting trajectory destinations based on diffusion model integrating spatiotemporal features and urban contexts23
Marine aquaculture mapping using GF-1 WFV satellite images and full resolution cascade convolutional neural network23
Global degradation trends of grassland and their driving factors since 200022
Using deep learning in an embedded system for real-time target detection based on images from an unmanned aerial vehicle: vehicle detection as a case study22
Ship behavior prediction and anomaly detection using LSTM-DCross model based on AIS and remote sensing data22
Cropland segmentation leveraging a synergistic edge enhancement and temporal difference-aware network with Sentinel-2 time-series imagery22
Multi-source DEM accuracy evaluation based on ICESat-2 in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China21
Quantifying regional differentiation of yardang groups using terrain texture indices20
Simulating land use change for sustainability: a case study of the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains20
Parcel-scale crop planting structure extraction combining time-series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data based on a semantic edge-aware multi-task neural network20
Toward a comprehensive understanding of eye-level urban greenness: a systematic review20
Streamflow changes and warming climate-induced flood risks for 1960–2016 in the Nenjiang River Basin, northeastern China20
Performance analysis of global HYCOM flow field using Argo profiles20
A novel drought index integrating GNSS and precipitation data for drought monitoring in Brazil20
Quantifying the contributions of climate change and human activities to grassland dynamics in southwest of China using a spatiotemporally varying residual method20
NRWI: a novel spectral index optimized for waterbody extraction from high-resolution GF-2 satellite imagery20
Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally19
Digital mapping of soil phosphorous sorption parameters (PSPs) using environmental variables and machine learning algorithms19
A novel remote sensing method to estimate pixel-wise lake water depth using dynamic water-land boundary and lakebed topography19
Unveiling urban area growth dynamics: insights from a comprehensive study of urban area growth curves19
Prioritization of soil erosion-prone sub-watersheds using geomorphometric and statistical-based weighted sum priority approach in the middle Omo-Gibe River basin, Southern Ethiopia19
Reopen schools safely: simulating COVID-19 transmission on campus with a contact network agent-based model19
MLFA-Net: multi-level feature-aggregated network for semantic change detection in remote sensing images19
Measuring the accessibility of emergency shelters based on an improved two-step floating catchment area model19
NGST-Net: A N-Gram based Swin Transformer Network for improving multispectral and hyperspectral image fusion19
Leveraging machine learning and open-source spatial datasets to enhance flood susceptibility mapping in transboundary river basin18
Evaluation of several recently developed sampling strategies within the coarse pixel scale for validation of coarse-resolution satellite albedo products18
A new computationally efficient algorithm to generate global fractional vegetation cover from Sentinel-2 imagery at 10 m resolution18
Spatiotemporal dynamics and forecasting of ecological security pattern under the consideration of protecting habitat: a case study of the Poyang Lake ecoregion18
Future soil erosion assessment based on changing land cover and different climate change scenarios in a transboundary river basin18
Reviewer Summary for International Journal of Digital Earth18
Evaluating the influence of COVID-19 pandemic on socioeconomic development in Wumeng Mountain area based on multi-source remote sensing data17
A high-precision image classification network model based on a voting mechanism17
Satellite-derived bathymetry based on iterative fusion of active lidar photons and passive pseudo-photons17
Evolutionary PSO-based emergency monitoring geospatial edge service chain in the emergency communication network17
Cook's distance-guided neural network interpolation: enhancing spaceborne LiDAR data for forest canopy height mapping17
Dynamic spatiotemporal quantification of avalanches in the Central Tianshan Mountains by integrating air–space–ground collaborative sensing and snow field–terrain filters17
Data-driven structural damage monitoring and assessment based on unmanned aerial vehicle images: a survey17
A segment anything model-based geological remote sensing interpretation method with a distributed data-parallel deep learning framework17
Who are on the road? A study on vehicle usage characteristics based on one-week vehicle trajectory data17
A gamified map application utilising crowdsourcing engaged citizens to refine the quality and accuracy of cadastral index map border markers17
Maps as a double-edged trustworthiness elevator for climate (mis)information on social media17
Multi-source remote sensing data for monitoring natural reserves: a case study on the Shaanxi Hanzhong crested ibis National Nature Reserve, China17
When a tree model meets texture baking: an approach for quality-preserving lightweight visualization in virtual 3D scene construction16
Tensor nested ring embedding used for domain adaptation of cross-source heterogeneous remote sensing feature tensors16
Utilizing serverless framework for dynamic visualization and operations in geospatial applications16
Combined subspace low rank learning and nonlocal low rank estimation for spectral super-resolution of multispectral remote sensing images16
Digital soil mapping based on the similarity of geographic environment over spatial neighborhoods16
A simplification method for large-scale urban point clouds considering diversity of terrain object features16
MATNet: multiattention Transformer network for cropland semantic segmentation in remote sensing images16
Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube15
Implementing a growth pattern of climax community as post-processing filters core to improve tree species classification accuracy15
Machine learning-based prediction of sand and dust storm sources in arid Central Asia15
A topological framework for real-time 3D weather radar data processing15
Analysis of continuous calving front retreat and the associated influencing factors of the Thwaites Glacier using high-resolution remote sensing data from 2015 to 202315
Global structure graph mapping for multimodal change detection15
Impact of urbanization on terrestrial carbon storage loss in the Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos region, China: evaluating people-space interactions15
Enhancing flood-prone area mapping: fine-tuning the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm for spatial modelling15
Characterizing temporally fragmented human activity networks in cyber space using uniform resource locator (URL) data15
Mitigation of tropospheric delay induced errors in TS-InSAR ground deformation monitoring15
Super-resolution GANs for upscaling unplanned urban settlements from remote sensing satellite imagery – the case of Chinese urban village detection15
Variation of XCO2 anomaly patterns in the Middle East from OCO-2 satellite data15
STGATN: a wind speed forecasting method based on geospatial dependency15
Visualization analysis of rainfall-induced landslides hazards based on remote sensing and geographic information system-an overview15
A novel red-edge vegetable index for paddy rice mapping based on Sentinel-1/2 and GF-6 images15
Precision silviculture: use of UAVs and comparison of deep learning models for the identification and segmentation of tree crowns in pine crops14
An effective global learning framework for hyperspectral image classification based on encoder-decoder architecture14
Monitoring of ecological security patterns based on long-term land use changes in Langsa Bay, Indonesia14
Observation and evaluation of surface and underground space changes in well salt mining based on InSAR: a case study of Qingjiang salt mine, Zhangshu, China14
A situational ethics and harmonization challenges in the case of EU biodiversity data governance14
Correction14
Daily multi-time monitoring of SLST jointly using FY-3 dawn-dusk and afternoon orbit satellite data with 250 m resolution14
Fractional crop-planting area projection by integrating geographic grid data and agricultural statistics based on random forest regression14
Evaluating the efficiency of NDVI and climatic data in maize harvest prediction using machine learning14
Fine-resolution mapping and assessment of artificial surfaces in the northern hemisphere permafrost environments14
An approach for exploring spatial associations in multi-layer networks based on convergent and divergent flow structures14
Investigation of the spatio-temporal transferability of large-scale random forest crop classification models and potential influencing factors14
Long-term satellite records of water clarity suggest increasing human activity influence in an inland lake14
Performances of six reanalysis profile products in the atmospheric correction of passive microwave data for estimating land surface temperature under cloudy-sky conditions14
Assessing urban sustainability in the Belt and Road region: a city-level analysis of SDG 11 indicators using earth observations14
Evaluation of remote sensing soil moisture data products with a new approach to analyse footprint mismatch with in-situ measurements14
Modeling land cover changes using an enhanced Markov-future land use simulation model with spatial distribution considerations: a case study in the Yellow River Basin13
Monitoring water color anomaly of lakes based on an integrated method using Landsat-8 OLI images13
Quantifying the vegetation restoration mechanism of ecological projects on the Qingzang Plateau13
Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters13
Forward simulation of thin ice backscatter mechanism in the Bohai Sea region based on the MSIB and SMRT coupling model13
GEOSS Platform data content and use13
Prediction of network public opinion features in urban planning based on geographical case-based reasoning13
Scale effects-aware bottom-up population estimation using weakly supervised learning13
Construction of a refined population analysis unit based on urban forms and population aggregation patterns13
Integrated representation of geospatial data, model, and knowledge for digital twin railway13
A construction method of a multidimensional and multilingual association network for earth surface system science data13
Large-scale ecological engineering increases forest canopy height in Loess Plateau from 1985 to 202013
Developing an annual building volume dataset at 1-km resolution from 2001 to 2019 in China13
Identifying where and when urban renewal occurs: a continuous change detection-based framework using two decades’ worth of Landsat data13
Historical trends of degradation, loss, and recovery in the tropical forest reserves of Ghana13
List of reviewers for International Journal of Digital Earth13
An attention-based deep learning model for citywide traffic flow forecasting13
Examining the joint effect of air pollution and green spaces on stress levels in South Korea: using machine learning techniques12
Routeview: an intelligent route planning system for ships sailing through Arctic ice zones based on big Earth data12
A multimetric evaluation method for comprehensively assessing the influence of the icosahedral diamond grid quality on SCNN performance12
MC-Net: multi-scale contextual information aggregation network for image captioning on remote sensing images12
Exploring multi-pollution variability in the urban environment: geospatial AI-driven modeling of air and noise12
Assessment of the urban habitat quality service functions and their drivers based on the fusion module of graph attention network and residual network12
Boundaries extraction and features recognition of metro station catchment area: the perspective of cognition and perception12
Leaf area index estimation from the time-series SAR data using the AIEM-MWCM model12
Sentinel-1 vegetation optical depth retrievals over the international soil moisture network12
Global assessment of vegetation patterns along topographic gradients12
Modeling the spatial distribution of Spartina alterniflora ecological response to the interaction of flooding and soil salinity base on UAV data in Coastal Wetland12
Comprehensive validation of seven root zone soil moisture products at 1153 ground sites across China12
Context-aware and boundary-optimized model for road marking instance segmentation using MLS point cloud intensity images12
Graph attention network-based multi-source data fusion for atmospheric CO 2 concentrations estimation12
Landform classification based on landform geospatial structure – a case study on Loess Plateau of China12
Significant discrepancies of land surface daily net radiation among ten remotely sensed and reanalysis products12
Global DEMs vary from one to another: an evaluation of newly released Copernicus, NASA and AW3D30 DEM on selected terrains of China using ICESat-2 altimetry data12
A robust correspondence-based registration method for large-scale outdoor point cloud12
Semantic segmentation for remote sensing images based on an AD-HRNet model12
An improvement of snow/cloud discrimination from machine learning using geostationary satellite data12
Snow depth estimation in Northeast China based on space-borne scatterometer data and ML model with optimal features12
Denoising and classification of urban ICESat-2 photon data fused with Sentinel-2 spectral images12
Decomposing and mapping different scales of land subsidence over Shanghai with X- and C-Band SAR data stacks11
Multimodal data visualization method for digital twin campus construction11
High-resolution urban heat island analysis using SDGSAT-1 thermal infrared and glimmer data: the case of mainland Shanghai11
A fine-grained evaluation of social vulnerability to COVID-19, healthcare access and built environmental disparities in Tokyo, Japan11
Enhancing explainability of deep learning models for point cloud analysis: a focus on semantic segmentation11
A full-attention network with an open dataset for large-scale building semantic segmentation along long-span high-speed rail lines11
Investigating pupil dilation during real-world wayfinding: effects of user, environment, and visual attention factors11
Reconstructed NDVI and EVI datasets in China (ReVIChina) generated by a spatial-interannual reconstruction method11
Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data11
Modelling future urban scenarios of land suitability: a case study of Jihlava city11
Quality-preserving multilevel mesh generation for building models11
Remote sensing monitoring of mountain sustainable development goals (SDG15.4): a systematic review11
Modeling pan-Arctic seasonal and interannual landfast sea ice thickness and snow depth between 1979 and 202111
Integrating optimal terrain representations from public DEMs using spaceborne LiDAR11
CFP-SwinT: building damage classification during floods using cross fusion pyramid Swin-T11
Chat-RSC: interactive remote sensing image classification via large language models11
Spatial and temporal assessment of sustainable development indicators for the China-Pakistan transportation corridor11
A multi-criteria optimization approach for the geometric integration of vector-based land cover datasets11
An improved coverage-oriented retrieval algorithm for large-area remote sensing data11
Scene classification for remote sensing image of land use and land cover using dual-model architecture with multilevel feature fusion11
Capturing the crack process of the Antarctic A74 iceberg with Sentinel-1 based offset tracking and radar interferometry techniques11
SDGSAT-1 pendulum mirror coupling control technology11
List of reviewers for International Journal of Digital Earth11
AI-generated buildings in OpenStreetMap: frequency of use and differences from non-AI-generated buildings10
Surface urban heat island distribution and socioeconomic inequalities in a major Latin American agglomeration10
Soil moisture estimation with microwave remote sensing: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
Interactive visualization of ocean unsteady flow data based on dynamic adaptive pathline10
DBSF: dual-branch boundary-supplemented framework for photovoltaic power station extraction10
GEE-Based monitoring method of key management nodes in cotton production10
Robust ground control point localization from multi-aspect stereo SAR observations using Chinese commercial satellite SVN-210
Point cloud semantic segmentation of grotto scenes using the knowledge-guided deep learning method10
BATSCCD: a new change detection method for mapping building age in rapidly changing urban areas using Landsat time series data10
Long-term dynamics of peak photosynthesis timing and environmental controls in the Tibetan Plateau monitored by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence10
Within-season crop monitoring at continental scale utilizing new gap-filled Landsat temporal series10
Modeling inter-city population flows: a Deep Radiation model with multisource geographic features10
Precise hexagonal pixel modeling and an easy-sharing storage scheme for remote sensing images based on discrete global grid system10
Convergence in key month of phenology-based mangrove species classification using sentinel-2 imagery data: insights from structural and physiological indices10
Contour detection with bicubic spline surfaces10
Height estimation from single aerial imagery using contrastive learning based multi-scale refinement network10
Aesthetic style transferring method based on deep neural network between Chinese landscape painting and classical private garden’s virtual scenario10
Spatial data trusts: an emerging governance framework for sharing spatial data10
Time series changes and influencing factors of fractional vegetation coverage under weed competition in wheat field ecosystems through remote sensing10
A novel fine-resolution snow depth retrieval model to reveal detailed spatiotemporal patterns of snow cover in Northeast China10
Monitoring tropical forest change using tree canopy cover time series obtained from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data10
Reduction of rain effect on wave height estimation from marine X-band radar images using unsupervised generative adversarial networks10
Brazil Data Cube Workflow Engine: a tool for big Earth observation data processing10
A multi-source data fusion method for land cover production: a case study of the East European Plain9
Optimizing the long-range consistent extraction of vehicle trajectory using low-channel roadside LiDAR data9
Fast semantic segmentation for remote sensing images with an improved Short-Term Dense-Connection (STDC) network9
PNTM-CNN: an approach for saddle-point extraction integrating positive–negative terrain method and multiscale fusion CNN model9
Revealing the fireworks-set-off pattern of spatial multi-function expansion across cities leveraging big geodata – a case of the Greater Bay Area, China9
Processes and events in the centre: a dynamic data model for representing spatial change9
Correction9
Correction9
Evaluating large language models on geospatial tasks: a multiple geospatial task benchmarking study9
City-level total and sub-category energy intensity estimation using machine learning9
An improved extreme learning machine algorithm for prospectivity mapping of copper deposits using multi-source remote sensing data: a case study in the North Altyn Tagh, Xinjiang, China9
Enhancing mountainous permafrost mapping by leveraging a rock glacier inventory in northeastern Tibetan Plateau9
Monitoring of Carbon Monoxide (CO) changes in the atmosphere and urban environmental indices extracted from remote sensing images for 932 Iran cities from 2019 to 20219
An ethics assessment list for geoinformation ecosystems: revisiting the integrated geospatial information framework of the United Nations9
MDC-Net: a multi-directional constrained and prior assisted neural network for wood and leaf separation from terrestrial laser scanning9
Moderate-resolution snow depth product retrieval from passive microwave brightness data over Xinjiang using machine learning approach9
Towards vertical urban geometry extraction: occlusion-reduced estimation from street view images using diffusion models9
Unlocking coastal wetland dynamics: a 40-year evolutionary analysis using HASX-Net and time series insights from Yancheng, China9
A study of the temporal and spatial variations in the suitability of the environment in Chinese cities for tourism and in strategies for optimizing the environment9
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