OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Remote Sensing is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Automated urban tree survey using remote sensing data, Google street view images, and plant species recognition apps	72
Geo Spatial Based Real Time Monitoring on Eutrophic Evaluation of Porunai River Basin for Pollution Risk Assessment	63
Analysis of spatial-temporal evolution of landscape patterns in ancient large city-sites based on multi-temporal Landsat imagery: a case study of the Zhouyuan site region in China	49
Flooded area detection and mapping from Sentinel-1 imagery. Complementary approaches and comparative performance evaluation	43
GreyWolfLSM: an accurate oil spill detection method based on level set method from synthetic aperture radar imagery	28
Fractal and multifractal spatiotemporal patterns of land surface temperatures in a coastal city	25
Satellite thermographies as an essential tool for the identification of cold air pools: an example from SE Spain	25
Real-time identification of collapsed buildings triggered by natural disasters using a modified object-detection network with quasi-panchromatic images	25
Machine learning-based segmentation of aerial LiDAR point cloud data on building roof	20
Towards sustainable agriculture in Iran using a machine learning-driven crop mapping framework	19
Assessment of maize nitrogen uptake from PRISMA hyperspectral data through hybrid modelling	19
Enhanced large-scale building extraction evaluation: developing a two-level framework using proxy data and building matching	19
Study on coal-rock interface characteristics change law and recognition based on active thermal excitation	17
Mapping spatial distribution of crop residues using PRISMA satellite imaging spectroscopy	14
Modeling of winter wheat yield prediction based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by machine learning methods	14
Retrieval of land surface temperature from FY3D MERSI-II based on re-fitting Split Window Algorithm	13
Shrub height estimation for habitat conservation in NW Iberian Peninsula (Spain) using UAV LiDAR point clouds	13
YOLOSeaShip: a lightweight model for real-time ship detection	13
Solar Induced Fluorescence Retrieved from Avocado ( Persea americana Mill.) Canopies Along the Season Correlates with Sugar Levels in the Developing Fruit	13
Applicability of pre-trained CNNs in temperate deforestation detection	12
Multiple-input multiple-output radar, ground-based MIMO SAR for ground deformation monitoring	12
Reconstructing palaeogeography and landscapes around the ancient Greek colony of Abdera (Thrace, NE gr.): an integrated remote sensing approach	12
TrmGLU-Net: transformer-augmented global-local U-Net for hyperspectral image classification with limited training samples	11
Let the loss impartial: a hierarchical unbiased loss for small object segmentation in high-resolution remote sensing images	11
Study on characteristics of tight oil reservoir in Ansai Area of Ordos Basin– take the Chang 6 section of Ordos Basin as an example	11

Land cover change across 45 years in the world’s largest mangrove forest (Sundarbans): the contribution of remote sensing in forest monitoring	11
Advanced prediction of radar reflectivity using U-Net with visual and infrared data from Himawari-8	10
Fanet: A deep learning framework for black and odorous water extraction	10
Digital mapping of soil organic carbon stocks in the forest lands of Dominican Republic	10
Performance evaluation of multiple satellite rainfall data sets in central highlands of Abbay Basin, Ethiopia	10
A novel method for predicting the geochemical composition of tailings with laboratory field and hyperspectral airborne data using a regression and classification-based approach	10
A novel NDSM fusion approach to improve UAV-Based LCC accuracy in sloping urban areas	10
Near-real time deforestation detection in the Brazilian Amazon with Sentinel-1 and neural networks	9
A hybrid method for delineating homogeneous forest segments from LiDAR data in Catalonia (Spain)	9
Preliminary analysis of wind and wave retrieval from Chinese 1mC-SAR image	9
Combining multiple UAV-Based indicators for wheat yield estimation, a case study from Germany	8
Deep Transfer Learning based Fusion Model for Environmental Remote Sensing Image Classification Model	8
Discussion and analysis on the improvement of the widening technology of cement concrete pavement of rural highway	8
Prediction of land use and land cover change in two watersheds in the Senegal River basin (West Africa) using the Multilayer Perceptron and Markov chain model	8
Detecting diseases in apple tree leaves using FPN–ISResNet–Faster RCNN	8
Statement of Retraction	7
How a basement fault has controlled Pb- Zn ore deposition within the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt? a focus on remote sensing approaches	7
Optical remote sensing cloud detection based on random forest only using the visible light and near-infrared image bands	7
Investigating the spatio-temporal risk of in-ground fungal wood decay over Europe using the 5th European reanalysis (ERA5-Land)	7
Object-oriented polarimetric SAR image classification via the combination of a pixel-based classifier and a region growing technique	7
Future of urban remote sensing and new sensors	7
Detecting semi-arid forest decline using time series of Landsat data	7
A novel hybrid sand and dust storm detection method using MODIS data on GEE platform	7
Urban change detection with airborne LiDAR for hostilities’ impact estimation: a case study of Kharkiv	7
Canopy temperatures of selected tree species growing in the forest and outside the forest using aerial thermal infrared (3.6–4.9 µm) data	7
Using bi-temporal ALS and NFI-based time-series data to account for large-scale aboveground carbon dynamics: the showcase of mediterranean forests	7
Accuracy assessment of LAI, PAI and FCOVER from Sentinel-2 and GEDI for monitoring forests and their disturbance in Central Germany	7
Fuzzy neighbourhood neural network for high-resolution remote sensing image segmentation	7
Citizen science supporting agricultural monitoring with hundreds of low-cost sensors in comparison to remote sensing data	7
Regional estimates of gross primary production applying the Process-Based Model 3D-CMCC-FEM vs. Remote-Sensing multiple datasets	6
Sensitivity of surface soil moisture retrieval to satellite-derived vegetation descriptors over wheat fields in the Kairouan plain	6
Ensemble of features for efficient classification of high-resolution remote sensing image	6
Multi-feature fusion and multi-attention deep network for enhancing road extraction in remote sensing images	6
Large multimodal model for open vocabulary semantic segmentation of remote sensing images	6
Advances in vegetation mapping through remote sensing and machine learning techniques: a scientometric review	6
Comparative Evaluation of LiDAR systems for transport infrastructure: case studies and performance analysis	6
Comparison of forest canopy gap fraction measurements from drone-based video frames, below-canopy hemispherical photography, and airborne laser scanning	6
Automatic wildfire monitoring system based on deep learning	6
Cloud climatology of northwestern Mexico based on MODIS data	6
Microwave satellite remote sensing for a sustainable sea	5
Forecasting monthly soil moisture at broad spatial scales in sub-Saharan Africa using three time-series models: evidence from four decades of remotely sensed data	5
Training data in satellite image classification for land cover mapping: a review	5
Mapping the forests and their spatiotemporal changes in the Yellow River Basin (Gansu section) in China from 2008 to 2018	5
Winter remote sensing images are more suitable for forest mapping in Jiangxi Province	5
Assessment of the effects of winter wheat scattering on SAR backscatter for soil moisture estimation based on a radiative transfer model	5
Detection and counting of meadow cuts by copernicus sentinel-2 imagery in the framework of the common agricultural policy (CAP)	5
Deep convolutional transformer network for hyperspectral unmixing	5
Usable observations over Europe: evaluation of compositing windows for Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series	4
Naturalness indicators of forests in Southern Sweden derived from the canopy height model	4
Combining machine learning with UAV derived multispectral aerial images for wheat yield prediction, in southern Brazil	4

Assessing the effect of volcano-tectonic activity on the spatial distribution of surface temperature in the Main Ethiopian Rift, using integrated approach of remote sensing data	4
A study of high-resolution remote sensing image landslide detection with optimized anchor boxes and edge enhancement	4
A new method for surface water extraction using multi-temporal Landsat 8 images based on maximum entropy model	4
Monitoring biological degradation of historical stone using hyperspectral imaging	4
Leveraging involution and convolution in an explainable building damage detection framework	4
Assessing the effectiveness of UAV data for accurate coastal dune habitat mapping	4
Overlap influence in images obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle on a digital terrain model of altimetric precision	4
Spatial and temporal evolution of air pollution and verification of the environmental Kuznets curve in the Yangtze River Basin during 1980—2019	4
Estimation of the occurrence, severity, and volume of heartwood rot using airborne laser scanning and optical satellite data	4
Monitoring and analysis of crop irrigation dynamics in Central Italy through the use of MODIS NDVI data	4
Individual tree detection from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) derived point cloud data in a mixed broadleaf forest using hierarchical graph approach	3
A hybrid convolution transformer for hyperspectral image classification	3
Applying object-based approach to monitor urban expansion in Ha Long city, Vietnam, during 2000-2023 from multi-date Landsat satellite imagery	3
SDNet: a lightweight ship detection network in remote sensing images by super-resolution enhancement and detail completion	3
Modelling in-ground wood decay using time-series retrievals from the 5 ^th European climate reanalysis (ERA5-Land)	3
GNSS-R-Based wildfire detection: a novel and accurate method	3
A combination of Sentinel-1 RADAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral data improves classification of morphologically similar savanna woody plants	3
Semantically aware tree height estimator for infrastructure monitoring using multimodal satellite images	3
Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images	2
Classification of tree species based on hyperspectral reflectance images of stem bark	2
Validation of photosynthetically active radiation by OLCI on Sentinel-3 against ground-based measurements in the central Mediterranean and possible aerosol effects	2
Analysing the spatial context of the altimetric error pattern of a digital elevation model using multiscale geographically weighted regression	2
Using SAR-based products to calculate potato carbon uptake in a tropical Andean region	2
Building extraction from remote sensing images using deep residual U-Net	2
Neighbourhood oriented TDMA scheme for the internet of things-enabled remote sensing	2
Development of an algorithm for identification of sown biodiverse pastures in Portugal	2
On-orbit geometric calibration and preliminary accuracy verification of GaoFen-14 (GF-14) optical two linear-array stereo camera	2
Incorporating convolutional and transformer architectures to enhance semantic segmentation of fine-resolution urban images	2
Predictions of Spartina alterniflora leaf functional traits based on hyperspectral data and machine learning models	2
Spatial-spectral hierarchical vision permutator for hyperspectral image classification	2
UAV image matching from handcrafted to deep local features	2
Integrated Evaluation and error decomposition of four gridded precipitation products using dense rain gauge observations over the Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau, China	2
Web of science-based literature review of peri-urban areas: a comparison between Europe and China	2
Remotely piloted aircraft system and machine learning for detection of coffee plants subjected to foliar application of chitosan	2
Geochemical analysis of SAR backscattering (Sentinel-1) on global ocean oil spill cases	2
Remote sensing techniques for water management and climate change monitoring in drought areas: case studies in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Self-supervised change detection of heterogeneous images based on difference algorithms	2
Spectral image data aggregation for multisource data augmentation	2
Spectral-based regression model for destriping of abnormal pixel values in PRISMA hyperspectral image	2
Spectral-spatial multi-layer perceptron network for hyperspectral image land cover classification	2