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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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	77
Flooded area detection and mapping from Sentinel-1 imagery. Complementary approaches and comparative performance evaluation	71
Real-time identification of collapsed buildings triggered by natural disasters using a modified object-detection network with quasi-panchromatic images	55
Geo Spatial Based Real Time Monitoring on Eutrophic Evaluation of Porunai River Basin for Pollution Risk Assessment	44
GreyWolfLSM: an accurate oil spill detection method based on level set method from synthetic aperture radar imagery	38
Automated urban tree survey using remote sensing data, Google street view images, and plant species recognition apps	34
Satellite thermographies as an essential tool for the identification of cold air pools: an example from SE Spain	32
Fractal and multifractal spatiotemporal patterns of land surface temperatures in a coastal city	26
Mapping spatial distribution of crop residues using PRISMA satellite imaging spectroscopy	25
Study on coal-rock interface characteristics change law and recognition based on active thermal excitation	25
Machine learning-based segmentation of aerial LiDAR point cloud data on building roof	24
Enhanced large-scale building extraction evaluation: developing a two-level framework using proxy data and building matching	22
YOLOSeaShip: a lightweight model for real-time ship detection	20
Assessment of maize nitrogen uptake from PRISMA hyperspectral data through hybrid modelling	20
Towards sustainable agriculture in Iran using a machine learning-driven crop mapping framework	18
Modeling of winter wheat yield prediction based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by machine learning methods	18
Multiple-input multiple-output radar, ground-based MIMO SAR for ground deformation monitoring	16
Reconstructing palaeogeography and landscapes around the ancient Greek colony of Abdera (Thrace, NE gr.): an integrated remote sensing approach	16
Retrieval of land surface temperature from FY3D MERSI-II based on re-fitting Split Window Algorithm	16
Solar Induced Fluorescence Retrieved from Avocado ( Persea americana Mill.) Canopies Along the Season Correlates with Sugar Levels in the Developing Fruit	14
Applicability of pre-trained CNNs in temperate deforestation detection	14
Shrub height estimation for habitat conservation in NW Iberian Peninsula (Spain) using UAV LiDAR point clouds	14
Study on characteristics of tight oil reservoir in Ansai Area of Ordos Basin– take the Chang 6 section of Ordos Basin as an example	13
Performance evaluation of multiple satellite rainfall data sets in central highlands of Abbay Basin, Ethiopia	13
Let the loss impartial: a hierarchical unbiased loss for small object segmentation in high-resolution remote sensing images	13

Land cover change across 45 years in the world’s largest mangrove forest (Sundarbans): the contribution of remote sensing in forest monitoring	13
TrmGLU-Net: transformer-augmented global-local U-Net for hyperspectral image classification with limited training samples	13
Assessing the impact of climate change on the water-energy-food nexus in southeastern Morocco: a case study of the Wadi Guir watershed	13
Fanet: A deep learning framework for black and odorous water extraction	12
Advanced prediction of radar reflectivity using U-Net with visual and infrared data from Himawari-8	12
A novel NDSM fusion approach to improve UAV-Based LCC accuracy in sloping urban areas	12
Digital mapping of soil organic carbon stocks in the forest lands of Dominican Republic	12
Preliminary analysis of wind and wave retrieval from Chinese 1mC-SAR image	11
Near-real time deforestation detection in the Brazilian Amazon with Sentinel-1 and neural networks	11
Rainfall prediction based on CNN-LSTM model under sliding window	11
A hybrid method for delineating homogeneous forest segments from LiDAR data in Catalonia (Spain)	11
Urban change detection with airborne LiDAR for hostilities’ impact estimation: a case study of Kharkiv	10
Discussion and analysis on the improvement of the widening technology of cement concrete pavement of rural highway	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
Object-oriented polarimetric SAR image classification via the combination of a pixel-based classifier and a region growing technique	10
Detecting diseases in apple tree leaves using FPN–ISResNet–Faster RCNN	10
Deep Transfer Learning based Fusion Model for Environmental Remote Sensing Image Classification Model	10
Combining multiple UAV-Based indicators for wheat yield estimation, a case study from Germany	10
Improving spatial resolution of Aqua MODIS and GCOM-C chlorophyll-a data for Cyprus coastal waters monitoring	9
GuidedBox: a segmentation-guided box teacher-student approach for weakly supervised road segmentation	9
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	9
Canopy temperatures of selected tree species growing in the forest and outside the forest using aerial thermal infrared (3.6–4.9 µm) data	8
Manifold mesh reconstruction from dense matching points of oblique images	8
A site-specific survey for EO-based phenological monitoring in regenerative agriculture within LULUCF framework	8
Investigating the spatio-temporal risk of in-ground fungal wood decay over Europe using the 5th European reanalysis (ERA5-Land)	8
Citizen science supporting agricultural monitoring with hundreds of low-cost sensors in comparison to remote sensing data	8
Fuzzy neighbourhood neural network for high-resolution remote sensing image segmentation	8
Future of urban remote sensing and new sensors	8
Statement of Retraction	8
A method for automatically extracting long-term and large-scale land use and land cover information	8
How a basement fault has controlled Pb- Zn ore deposition within the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt? a focus on remote sensing approaches	8
Copernicus for monitoring European forests: strengths, challenges and potential	8
Using bi-temporal ALS and NFI-based time-series data to account for large-scale aboveground carbon dynamics: the showcase of mediterranean forests	7
Use of Sentinel-2 optical imagery for the reconstruction of coastal bathymetry: a case study in Mozambique	7
Multi-feature fusion and multi-attention deep network for enhancing road extraction in remote sensing images	7
Regional estimates of gross primary production applying the Process-Based Model 3D-CMCC-FEM vs. Remote-Sensing multiple datasets	7
A novel hybrid sand and dust storm detection method using MODIS data on GEE platform	7
Accuracy assessment of LAI, PAI and FCOVER from Sentinel-2 and GEDI for monitoring forests and their disturbance in Central Germany	7
Optical remote sensing cloud detection based on random forest only using the visible light and near-infrared image bands	7
Detecting semi-arid forest decline using time series of Landsat data	7
Comparison of forest canopy gap fraction measurements from drone-based video frames, below-canopy hemispherical photography, and airborne laser scanning	7
Sensitivity of surface soil moisture retrieval to satellite-derived vegetation descriptors over wheat fields in the Kairouan plain	7
Cloud climatology of northwestern Mexico based on MODIS data	6
Large multimodal model for open vocabulary semantic segmentation of remote sensing images	6
Winter remote sensing images are more suitable for forest mapping in Jiangxi Province	6
Automatic wildfire monitoring system based on deep learning	6
Advances in vegetation mapping through remote sensing and machine learning techniques: a scientometric review	6
Microwave satellite remote sensing for a sustainable sea	6
Comparative Evaluation of LiDAR systems for transport infrastructure: case studies and performance analysis	6
Ensemble of features for efficient classification of high-resolution remote sensing image	6

Detection and counting of meadow cuts by copernicus sentinel-2 imagery in the framework of the common agricultural policy (CAP)	6
Usable observations over Europe: evaluation of compositing windows for Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series	5
Naturalness indicators of forests in Southern Sweden derived from the canopy height model	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
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	5
Mapping the forests and their spatiotemporal changes in the Yellow River Basin (Gansu section) in China from 2008 to 2018	5
A new method for surface water extraction using multi-temporal Landsat 8 images based on maximum entropy model	5
Assessing the effectiveness of UAV data for accurate coastal dune habitat mapping	5
Deep convolutional transformer network for hyperspectral unmixing	5
Training data in satellite image classification for land cover mapping: a review	5
Machine learning-based multimodal data fusion for the Swiss land use statistics	5
Overlap influence in images obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle on a digital terrain model of altimetric precision	5
Spatial and temporal evolution of air pollution and verification of the environmental Kuznets curve in the Yangtze River Basin during 1980—2019	5
Monitoring and analysis of crop irrigation dynamics in Central Italy through the use of MODIS NDVI data	5
Assessment of the effects of winter wheat scattering on SAR backscatter for soil moisture estimation based on a radiative transfer model	5
A study of high-resolution remote sensing image landslide detection with optimized anchor boxes and edge enhancement	4
Applying object-based approach to monitor urban expansion in Ha Long city, Vietnam, during 2000-2023 from multi-date Landsat satellite imagery	4
Individual tree detection from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) derived point cloud data in a mixed broadleaf forest using hierarchical graph approach	4
GNSS-R-Based wildfire detection: a novel and accurate method	4
Leveraging involution and convolution in an explainable building damage detection framework	4
Combining machine learning with UAV derived multispectral aerial images for wheat yield prediction, in southern Brazil	4
Monitoring biological degradation of historical stone using hyperspectral imaging	4
A hybrid convolution transformer for hyperspectral image classification	3
Web of science-based literature review of peri-urban areas: a comparison between Europe and China	3
Classification of tree species based on hyperspectral reflectance images of stem bark	3
Estimation of the occurrence, severity, and volume of heartwood rot using airborne laser scanning and optical satellite data	3
A combination of Sentinel-1 RADAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral data improves classification of morphologically similar savanna woody plants	3
Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images	3
Modelling in-ground wood decay using time-series retrievals from the 5 ^th European climate reanalysis (ERA5-Land)	3
SDNet: a lightweight ship detection network in remote sensing images by super-resolution enhancement and detail completion	3
Development of an algorithm for identification of sown biodiverse pastures in Portugal	3
Comparative analysis of image mosaicing techniques for aerial agriculture field imaging	3
Tillage and biomass detection for estimating winter-time cropland management practices with satellite remote sensing	2
Analysing the spatial context of the altimetric error pattern of a digital elevation model using multiscale geographically weighted regression	2
Semantically aware tree height estimator for infrastructure monitoring using multimodal satellite images	2
On-orbit geometric calibration and preliminary accuracy verification of GaoFen-14 (GF-14) optical two linear-array stereo camera	2
Remotely piloted aircraft system and machine learning for detection of coffee plants subjected to foliar application of chitosan	2
FMPNet: a fuzzy-embedded multi-scale prototype network for sea-land segmentation of remote sensing images	2
Integrating Landsat, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 time series for mapping intermediate crops	2
Uncertainty assessment of Sentinel-2-retrieved vegetation spectral indices over Europe	2
Self-supervised change detection of heterogeneous images based on difference algorithms	2
Incorporating convolutional and transformer architectures to enhance semantic segmentation of fine-resolution urban images	2
Correction	2
Integrated Evaluation and error decomposition of four gridded precipitation products using dense rain gauge observations over the Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau, China	2
YOLOv8-SC: an improved seafood target-detection model	2
Spectral-based regression model for destriping of abnormal pixel values in PRISMA hyperspectral image	2
Monitoring water reservoirs extent with Segment Anything Model applied to Sentinel imagery	2
Spatial-spectral hierarchical vision permutator for hyperspectral image classification	2
Using SAR-based products to calculate potato carbon uptake in a tropical Andean region	2
UAV image matching from handcrafted to deep local features	2
Validation of photosynthetically active radiation by OLCI on Sentinel-3 against ground-based measurements in the central Mediterranean and possible aerosol effects	2
Neighbourhood oriented TDMA scheme for the internet of things-enabled remote sensing	2
Spectral-spatial multi-layer perceptron network for hyperspectral image land cover classification	2
Geochemical analysis of SAR backscattering (Sentinel-1) on global ocean oil spill cases	2
Predictions of Spartina alterniflora leaf functional traits based on hyperspectral data and machine learning models	2
Building extraction from remote sensing images using deep residual U-Net	2
Remote sensing techniques for water management and climate change monitoring in drought areas: case studies in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Spectral image data aggregation for multisource data augmentation	2
Efficient 3D convolutional neural networks for Sentinel-2 land cover classification with limited ground truth data	2