OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Remote Sensing Letters is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Semi-automated extraction of surface water based on ZhuHai-1 hyperspectral satellite images	42
An investigation of the reasons behind the biases in the tropical and extratropical atmospheric motion vectors derived from EUMETSAT Low Earth Orbit satellite data	22
A basin-scale inventory and hydrodynamics of floodplain wetlands based on time-series of remote sensing data	19
Multiscale superpixel segmentation-based band expansion for change detection	16
Estimation of full-coverage surface ozone using sentinel-5P data and a GAN-LGBM model in the YRDUA, China	15
A coarse-to-fine image registration method based on autocorrelation structural difference information	15
Using sentinel-2 observations to assess the consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on winter cropping in Bothaville and Harrismith, South Africa	14
Closed-form expressions of P _FA of mean level CFAR detectors for multiple-pulse gamma-distributed radar clutter	13
Utilizing Gaofen-3 InSAR time series to reveal land subsidence in Beijing (China)	13
OBITUARY Professor Vladimir Fedorovich Krapivin 1936 - 2021	12
Spectral-spatial hyperspectral image classification with dual spatial ensemble learning	12
Short-term sediment plume event in the coral reef area of a small island captured by the Planet Dove satellite constellation	12
Comparison of ground-based lightning detection network data with WRF-Elec forecasting estimates over India – Initial results	11
Estimating wind slab thickness in a Tundra snowpack using Ku-band scatterometer observations	11
A decoupled search deep network framework for high-resolution remote sensing image classification	11
Paradigm of surface wind fields generated using Scatsat-1 and low-level adjusted INSAT-3D winds during tropical cyclone Amphan	11
Extraction of tobacco planting area by using time-series of remote sensing data and the random forest algorithm	11
Landscape-level analysis of disturbance regimes in Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected area of Western Ghats, India	10
A depth-invariant index to map floating algae: a conceptual design	10
Optimization based manifold embedding for hyperspectral image classification and visualization	10
Detection of excavated areas in high-resolution remote sensing imagery using combined hierarchical spatial pyramid pooling and VGGNet	10
Orbiting Carbon Observatory approach for estimating the atmospheric water vapour feedback in tropical India	10
Tracking of the huge Antarctic iceberg A-76	10
High-resolution sea clutter modelling using compound inverted exponentiated Rayleigh distribution	9
Snapshots of sea surface temperature and salinity in the Dotson-Getz Trough, West Antarctica	9

Satellite true digital orthophoto map generation without elevation data: a New NeRF-based method	9
A two-steps close-form positioning estimator based on AOA/TOA measurements	9
Limitations and the value of land surface models and their role in remote sensing	8
Salient object detection in hyperspectral images using deep background reconstruction based anomaly detection	8
Enhancement of vital signals based on low-rank, sparse representation for UWB through-wall radar	8
A novel dual-radar fusion method for improving the cross-range resolution of ISAR imagery	8
An improved fully convolution network model for change detection in mining areas using sentinel-2 images	8
A refocusing iterative optimization method based on the quad-beam mode for accurate estimation of the azimuth velocity of slow-moving targets using SAR	8
Distributed scatterer interferometry for forested and hilly areas using a topographical homogeneous filtering	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
An evaluation of the performance of IMERG hourly precipitation estimates in a geographical sub-region with complex terrain and climate conditions: a case study in the upper Red River Basin	8
Cloud detection for satellite cloud images based on fused FCN features	8
An evaluation of the use of IMERG products for representing drought in a typical rocky karst region experiencing rocky desertification in Guangxi, China	7
FAWNet: two-phase attention based street view image classification for urban land use analysis	7
A novel super-resolution ISAR imaging method based on the EM-turbo technique	7
Fast and robust infrared small target detection based on a combination of hand-designed features and machine-designed features	7
Reducing patch-like Errors in SAR offset tracking displacements using logarithmic transformation and a weighted NCC algorithm	7
Continuously sensing of water temperature in a lake using acoustic tomography method	7
Using dictionary learning for clutter reduction in GPR B-scan images	7
A reweighted alternating direction method of multipliers for joint phase adjustment and ISAR imaging	7
Diversity in global urban sprawl patterns revealed by Zipfian dynamics	7
Bayesian fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images using a multi-mode and multiorder gradient tensor-based l1/2 sparse model	6
Improvement of VV-polarization tilt MTF for Gaofen-3 SAR data of a tropical cyclone	6
A solution to the problem of height overcompensation in GNSS-IR corn height measurements: a canopy reflectance calibration model	6
A novel quality assessment index for evaluating the spatial uniformity of remote sensing image classification	6
A robust underwater object detection method using forward-looking sonar images	6
Clustering information-constrained 3D U-Net subspace clustering for hyperspectral image	6
PRO-YOLOv4-tiny: towards more balance between accuracy and speed in the detection of small targets in remotely sensed images	6
Generative adversarial network augmentation for solving the training data imbalance problem in crop classification	6
Motion error parameter estimation based on vortex echo data	6
Double non-local adaptive structural priors for pan-sharpening	6
TWC-AWT-Net: a transformer-based method for detecting ships in noisy SAR images	6
PAU ² -Net: local and global interaction for infrared small target detection	5
A method for detecting the number of wheat ears based on the improved YOLOX model	5
Learning by counterexamples in remote sensing image classification: a case study for road extraction	5
A moving-target imaging method for azimuth multi-channel HRWS SAR system based on spectrum energy distribution	5
Hierarchical channel-spatial interaction network for partial-to-partial point cloud registration	5
A lightweight, efficient, adaptive design of YOLOv5 for enhanced SAR ship detection	5
Integration of LSA SAF ET products and MODIS thermal infrared images for improved prediction of forest evapotranspiration	5
Enterprise version 8 total column ozone algorithm (EV8TOz) development and applications on multiple sensors	5
Evaluation of January-to-April-2016 strong El Niño event impacts on the land surface radiation absorption along the west coast of Peru	5
A 3-D scattering centre model-based SAR target recognition method using multi-level region matching	5
Road extraction from remote sensing images based on a multi-scale asymmetric dual attention mechanism	5
Change detection over the Aral Sea using relative radiometric normalization based on deep learning	5
Surface area to volume scaling of alpha shapes and convex hulls fit to lidar derived mangrove island point clouds	5
Assessment of post-pandemic economic recovery in Beijing, China, using night-time light data	5
Tracking forest dynamic trends in Belize: the role of protected areas, agriculture, and fire in the South Eastern Selva Maya	5
Assessment of SMAP and AMSR2 freeze/thaw products over Russia using in situ measurements	5
TOA based mobile source localization with unknown start transmission time and sensor position uncertainty in asynchronous networks	5
Recognition of multi-season rice in a complex tropical agronomy zone using time-series SAR data: a case study of Hainan, China	5

A novel spatio-temporal fusion approach combining deep learning downscaling and FSDAF method	5
A self-supervised building extraction method based on multi-modal remote sensing data	5
An efficient SIFT-based matching algorithm for optical remote sensing images	5
EF-TSR:edge feature transformer-based DEM super-resolution network	5
ISAR imaging of space objects using encoded apertures	5
Marine debris detection using a multi-feature pyramid network	5
MSTGI: a multi-scale spatio-temporal grid index model for remote-sensing big data retrieval	4
Robust principal component analysis combined with top-hat transform for clutter suppression in GPR images	4
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	4
Impact of COVID-19 policy changes on tropospheric NO₂ in the Yangtze River Basin: insights from GF-5 02 EMI-II observations	4
DME-YOLO: a real-time high-precision detector of vessel targets in infrared remote sensing images	4
Comparative assessment of land use land cover at different temporal scales in Imphal-Iril river catchment, Manipur, India	4
Calibration of the span of Himawari-8 AOD products in eastern China	4
Wavelet analysis for quantifying NavIC-IR multipath signal frequency with the aim of determining soil moisture in agricultural fields	4
Dense stereo matching in depth discontinuity areas based on edge detection and nearest valid point search	4
Combining pixel- and object-level information for land-cover mapping using time-series of Sentinel-2 satellite data	4
Professor Arthur Philip Cracknell FRSE 1940 - 2021	4
UAV aerial image target detection based on BLUR-YOLO	4
A graph multi-head self-attention neural network for the multi-point long-term prediction of sea surface temperature	4
Inversion of ocean sound speed profiles from travel time measurements using a ray-gradient-enhanced surrogate model	4
Deriving high-accuracy lake water-level changes from multi-source satellite datasets	4
Subaperture decomposition analysis for accurate ship detection and velocity estimation in synthetic aperture radar imagery	4
Ocean responses to Hurricane Ian from daily gap-free satellite observations	4
Vertical structure of tropical cyclone precipitation over the North Indian Ocean: a spaceborne precipitation radar perspective	4
An improved fusion method for detecting upwelling off the coast of northwest Africa from chlorophyll-a and sea surface temperature satellite images	4
Multi-task contrastive learning for change detection in remote sensing images	4
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nearshore red tides and their carbon sink potential in the East China Sea, 2012–2021	4
An airborne radar forward-looking imaging algorithm based on multi-scale U-shaped networks	3
A method for the extraction of shorelines from airborne lidar data in muddy areas and areas with shoals	3
Wide swath range sweep SAR: gapless imaging of wide scenes that are not parallel to the satellite orbit	3
An enhanced global context-aware network for road extraction from high-resolution imagery	3
DEST: Difference enhanced-Swin Transformer for remote sensing change detection	3
Ship detection based on medium-low resolution remote sensing data and super-resolved feature representation	3
A novel multimodal remote-sensing image registration algorithm using phase symmetry and rank-based local self-similarity	3
Predicting Larch Casebearer damage with confidence using Yolo network models and conformal prediction	3
Damaged building extraction from post-earthquake PolSAR data based on the Fourier transform	3
A global patch similarity-based graph for unsupervised SAR image change detection	3
Assessing intertidal sediment photopigment content from spectral reflectance with an UAV-mounted 10-band multispectral sensor	3
Validation of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence products derived from OCO-2/3 observations using tower-based in situ measurements	3
Extraction of offshore aquaculture areas from Gaofen-2 remote sensing imagery based on deep learning	3
A GPR 2D Teager-Kaiser energy operator based on the multivariate variational mode decomposition	3
Influence of mesoscale eddies on wind retrieval from C-band synthetic aperture radar images	3
Prediction of the F2 layer peak height of ionospheric dynamical parameters using a dual-element improved neural network	3
A probabilistic neighbourhood pooling-based attention network for hyperspectral image classification	3
Hyperspectral differences between sunlit and shaded leaves in a Manchurian ash canopy in Northeast China	3
AFDet: alignment and focusing for aerial object detection	3
An adaptive multilayer feature fusion strategy for remote sensing scene classification	3
First experience of 3D georeferencing accuracy assessment of SPOT 6 stereo panchromatic primary images by sensor-dependent orientation model	3
Fast machine learning-based extraction of the peak number from ICESat full-waveform data	3
Reconstruction of arctic SST data and generation of multi-source satellite fusion products with high temporal and spatial resolutions	3
Subpixel water area mapping based on spatial information processing at superpixel scale for multispectral imagery	3
Hyperspectral image classification using a double-branch hierarchical partial convolution network	3
Eastward propagating surface salinity anomalies in the tropical North Atlantic	3
CVGAN: A Cross-View SAR Image Generation Method for Enhancing the View Diversity	3
Improvement of quad-polarized velocity bunching modulation transfer function by C-band Gaofen-3 SAR	3
Assessing the vertical accuracy of digital elevation models by quality level and land cover	3
A fast two-step algorithm for large-area thick cloud removal in high-resolution images	3
Untangling the effect of urban vegetation type and structure on spectrally unmixed greenness	3
R-ProjNet: an optimal rotated-projection neural network for wood segmentation from point clouds	3
Cross-view SAR target recognition based on multi-view correlation and multi-task architecture	3
A dual-scale siamese densely connected network with MRF for SAR image classification	3
A large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation neural network based on long-range contextual dependencies enhancement	3
A gridless sparse ISAR imaging method using atomic norm minimization based on multiple measurement vectors	3
A hybrid CNN–vision transformer structure for remote sensing scene classification	3
Detection of nearshore topographic eddies and wakes over a macrotidal coastal region. The influence of tidal currents on its generation	3
Hyperspectral image classification using a deep relation network with random replacement data augmentation	3
An approach to protected designation of origin (PDO) for bee honey utilizing the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)	3
A dielectric model for frozen mineral soils at a frequency of 435 MHz	3
A novel motion estimation strategy based on symmetric triangular wave modulation for FMCW UAV SAR	3
Fusion of monocular height maps for 3D urban scene reconstruction from uncalibrated satellite images	3
Sparse array radar forward-looking imaging based on fast atomic norm minimization	3
Ship target detection method based on improved YOLOv8 for SAR images	3
Can satellite precipitation estimates capture the magnitude of extreme rainfall Events?	3