OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Remote Sensing Letters is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Tree extraction from multi-scale UAV images using Mask R-CNN with FPN	62
Validation of sentinel-2 leaf area index (LAI) product derived from SNAP toolbox and its comparison with global LAI products in an African semi-arid agricultural landscape	51
Combined use of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 to monitor water surface area dynamics using Google Earth Engine	39
Remote Sensing Letters contribution to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals - UN 2030 agenda	31
SSS-YOLO: towards more accurate detection for small ships in SAR image	28
Deep CNN-based hyperspectral image classification using discriminative multiple spatial-spectral feature fusion	24
A non-local capsule neural network for hyperspectral remote sensing image classification	20
Simple weakly supervised deep learning pipeline for detecting individual red-attacked trees in VHR remote sensing images	20
Sentinel-2 based prediction of spruce budworm defoliation using red-edge spectral vegetation indices	20
Snow covered with dust after Chamoli rockslide: inference based on high-resolution satellite data	19
Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the oceans	18
Hydroponic farming hotspot analysis using the Getis–Ord Gi* statistic and high-resolution satellite data of Majuli Island, India	17
Prediction of sea surface temperature using a multiscale deep combination neural network	17
Improved quantum evolutionary particle swarm optimization for band selection of hyperspectral image	17
Snow depth and snow water equivalent retrieval using X-band PolInSAR data	16
An early exploration of the use of the Microsoft Azure Kinect for estimation of urban tree Diameter at Breast Height	16
Multi-temporal mapping of flood damage to crops using sentinel-1 imagery: a case study of the Sesia River (October 2020)	15
Quantifying chlorophyll-a and b content in tea leaves using hyperspectral reflectance and deep learning	14
Using Siamese capsule networks for remote sensing scene classification	14
Classification of landslides on the southeastern Tibet Plateau based on transfer learning and limited labelled datasets	13
A novel truncated nonconvex nonsmooth variational method for SAR image despeckling	13
Mapping urban villages using fully convolutional neural networks	13
Sea surface temperature prediction using a cubic B-spline interpolation and spatiotemporal attention mechanism	13
Sugarcane crop classification using time series analysis of optical and SAR sentinel images: a deep learning approach	12
A new method of nowcasting extreme cosmic ray events	11

Meta-learning based on parameter transfer for few-shot classification of remote sensing scenes	11
Forest growing stock volume estimation using optical remote sensing over snow-covered ground: a case study for Sentinel-2 data and the Russian Southern Taiga region	11
Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) pollution monitoring with sentinel-5P satellite imagery over during the coronavirus pandemic (case study: Tehran)	11
Automatic building detection from very high-resolution images using multiscale morphological attribute profiles	10
K-nearest neighbour-based feature selection using hyperspectral data	10
A fully convolutional network with channel and spatial attention for hyperspectral image classification	10
Salient object detection in hyperspectral images using deep background reconstruction based anomaly detection	10
Spatial resolution enhancement method for Landsat imagery using a Generative Adversarial Network	10
Analysis of Greenland mass changes based on GRACE four-dimensional wavelet decomposition	10
Using high-resolution satellite imagery to assess the impact of Sargassum inundation on coastal areas	9
ACLNet: an attention and clustering-based cloud segmentation network	9
Evaluation of simulated soil moisture from China Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) land surface models	9
SAR image change detection based on sparse representation and a capsule network	9
Editorial Sir John Houghton	9
Extracting terrestrial water storage signals from GRACE solutions in the Amazon Basin using an iterative filtering approach	9
Deforestation and land use and land cover changes in protected areas of the Brazilian Cerrado: impacts on the fire-driven emissions of fine particulate aerosols pollutants	9
A probabilistic neighbourhood pooling-based attention network for hyperspectral image classification	9
Impacts of the spatial configuration of built-up areas and urban vegetation on land surface temperature using spectral and local spatial autocorrelation indices	8
MODIS aerosol optical depth retrieval based on random forest approach	8
Evaluating phenological trends of different vegetation types in response to climate change over the Rajmahal Hills in India during 2001-2019	8
A basin-scale inventory and hydrodynamics of floodplain wetlands based on time-series of remote sensing data	8
Accuracy validation and bias assessment for various multi-sensor open-source DEMs in part of the Karakoram region	8
BS-Net: Using Joint-Learning Boundary and Segmentation Network for Coastline Extraction from Remote Sensing Images	8
Cloud detection in Landsat-8 imagery in Google Earth Engine based on a deep convolutional neural network	8
Calibrating GPM IMERG Late-Run product using ground-based CPC daily precipitation data: a case study in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration	8
A comparison of temperature and relative humidity measurements derived from COSMIC-2 radio occultations with radiosonde observations made over the Asian summer monsoon region	8
A dense spatial–spectral attention network for hyperspectral image band selection	8
Aircraft detection in remote sensing images using centre-based proposal regions and invariant features	8
Improvement of VV-polarization tilt MTF for Gaofen-3 SAR data of a tropical cyclone	8
A multi-level feature fusion method based on pooling and similarity for HRRS image retrieval	7
A deep image prior-based interpretable network for hyperspectral image fusion	7
Variations in vegetation CUE with climate change and human activity during growing seasons in the Western Sichuan Plateau, China	7
Classifying open water features using optical satellite imagery and an object-oriented convolutional neural network	7
Effect of surface emissivity and retrieval algorithms on the accuracy of Land Surface Temperature retrieved from Landsat data	7
Mission to Mars: effective tools for searching and diagnosing water resources	7
Rain-induced characteristics in C- and X-band synthetic aperture radar observations of tropical cyclones	7
An adaptive-trimming-depth based CFAR detector of heterogeneous environment in SAR imagery	7
The effects of radiometric terrain flattening on SAR-based forest mapping and classification	7
Estimating tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) using an iPad Pro LiDAR sensor	7
An automatic cloud detection model for Sentinel-2 imagery based on Google Earth Engine	7
Soil salinization monitoring in the Werigan-Kuqa Oasis, China, based on a Three-Dimensional Feature Space Model with Machine Learning Algorithm.	7
Open surface water index: a novel approach for surface water mapping and extraction using multispectral and multisensory data	6
Deriving bathymetry and water properties from hyperspectral imagery by spectral matching using a full radiative transfer model	6
A Remote Sensing Image Registration Algorithm Based on Multiple Constraints and a Variational Bayesian Framework	6
A regional attention-based detector for SAR ship detection	6
Generating a highly detailed DSM from a single high-resolution satellite image and an SRTM elevation model	6
A New Index for Assessing Tree Vigour Decline Based on Sentinel-2 Multitemporal Data. Application to Tree Failure Risk Management	6
Oil spill extraction from X-band marine radar images by power fitting of radar echoes	6
Integration of the k-nearest neighbours and patch-based features for PolSAR image classification by using a two-branch residual network	6
Evaluation of radiometric calibration of drone-based imagery for improving shallow bathymetry retrieval	6

Multispectral image fusion based on map estimation with improved detail	6
Using sentinel-2 observations to assess the consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on winter cropping in Bothaville and Harrismith, South Africa	6
Small sample classification for hyperspectral imagery using temporal convolution and attention mechanism	6
Combining multi-mode representations and ResNet for SAR target recognition	6
Dense capsule network for SAR automatic target recognition with limited data	6
UAV aerial image target detection based on BLUR-YOLO	6
The use of KPCA over subspaces for cross-scale superpixel based hyperspectral image classification	6
Ship detection based on medium-low resolution remote sensing data and super-resolved feature representation	5
A time-domain approach to the total ozone time series and a test of its predictability within a univariate framework	5
Application of CFAR detection to multiple pulses for gamma distributed clutter	5
Update two-dimensional SAR offset tracking deformation time series with complex sequential least squares estimation	5
Large-gradient deformation monitoring and parameter inversion in a mining area using a method combining a dynamic prediction model and InSAR	5
Ship detection in SAR images by saliency analysis of multiscale superpixels	5
Damaged building extraction from post-earthquake PolSAR data based on the Fourier transform	5
Detection of internal waves in the Persian Gulf	5
The need for the spectral characterization of dominant salts and recommended methods of soil sampling and analysis for the proper spectral evaluation of salt affected soils using hyper -spectral remot	5
Target recognition of synthetic aperture radar images using multi-criteria SRC	5
Evaluation of different approaches to the fusion of Sentinel -1 SAR data and Resourcesat 2 LISS III optical data for use in crop classification	5
Enhancement of vital signals based on low-rank, sparse representation for UWB through-wall radar	5
Statistical analysis of diurnal variations in land surface temperature and the UHI effect using aqua and terra MODIS data	5
Parametric translational motion compensation of spaceborne ISAR imagery for earth-orbit targets based on parabola detection and entropy minimization	5
Can satellite precipitation estimates capture the magnitude of extreme rainfall Events?	5
Scene parsing for very high resolution remote sensing images using on attention-residual block-embedded adversarial networks	5
EUNetMTL: multitask joint learning for road extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images	5
Fast observation simulation method based on XGBoost for visible bands over the ocean surface under clear-sky conditions	5
Representation of BVMD features via multitask compressive sensing for SAR target classification	5
Identification of minerals in hyperspectral imagery based on the attenuation spectral absorption index vector using a multilayer perceptron	5
Mapping winter wheat in Kaifeng, China using Sentinel-1A time-series images	5
Heartbeat monitoring with an mm-wave radar based on deep learning: a novel approach for training and classifying heterogeneous signals	5
Continuous pulse repetition interval variation for highly squint high-resolution spotlight SAR imaging	4
Reconstruction of arctic SST data and generation of multi-source satellite fusion products with high temporal and spatial resolutions	4
An improved fully convolution network model for change detection in mining areas using sentinel-2 images	4
Infrared small-target detection via tensor construction and decomposition	4
Discrimination of heavy metal crop contamination using measurements of leaf spectra	4
A clustering method for inter-annual NDVI time series	4
Obtaining high-resolution synthetic soil imagery for topsoil mapping	4
A new approach for roof segmentation from airborne LiDAR point clouds	4
Validation of preliminary geometric positioning accuracy for China’s civil high-resolution surveying and mapping satellites: Ziyuan-3 01 and Gaofen-7 panchromatic imagery	4
Ocean surface wind speed retrieval from C-band quad-polarized SAR measurements at optimal spatial resolution	4
Mapping tree species in natural and planted forests using Sentinel-2 images	4
Estimation of chlorophyll, macronutrients and water content in maize from hyperspectral data using machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence techniques	4
Calibration of the span of Himawari-8 AOD products in eastern China	4
An improved YOLO model for detecting trees suffering from pine wilt disease at different stages of infection	4
Target discrimination method for SAR images via convolutional neural network with semi-supervised learning and minimum feature divergence constraint	4
GPR clutter suppression by online stochastic tensor decomposition	4
Estimating the vertical distribution of chlorophyll in winter wheat based on multi-angle hyperspectral data	4
A new registration method with improved phase congruency for application to GPR images	4
A new method that combines spectral indexes and Naive Bayes to distinguish heavy metal pollution in crops	4
Slow feature extraction for hyperspectral image classification	4
A Siamese convolutional neural network with high–low level feature fusion for change detection in remotely sensed images	4
Using satellite data and deep learning to estimate educational outcomes in data-sparse environments	4
A multi-view SAR target recognition method using feature fusion and joint classification	4
A method for the extraction of shorelines from airborne lidar data in muddy areas and areas with shoals	4
Using dictionary learning for clutter reduction in GPR B-scan images	4
Leveraging Aqua and Terra satellite data for improved diurnal land surface temperature prediction: a comparative LSTM-based approach	4
An efficient SIFT-based matching algorithm for optical remote sensing images	4
Development and evaluation of regional SST regression algorithms for FY-3C/VIRR data in the western north pacific	4
A simulation-based approach for removing the effect of water contamination on SMAP soil moisture retrieval over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	4
A deep feature manifold embedding method for hyperspectral image classification	4
Perceptually-motivated adversarial training for deep ensemble denoising of hyperspectral images	4
A feature sequence-based 3D convolutional method for wetland classification from multispectral images	4
Seasonal snow cover classification based on SAR imagery and topographic data	4
Selection of multi-view SAR images via nonlinear correlation information entropy with application to target classification	4