OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Open Geosciences 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The significance of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis on the microstructure of improved clay: An overview	58
Retrieval of digital elevation models from Sentinel-1 radar data – open applications, techniques, and limitations	54
Individual tree detection using UAV-lidar and UAV-SfM data: A tutorial for beginners	32
Satellite-based evaluation of temporal change in cultivated land in Southern Punjab (Multan region) through dynamics of vegetation and land surface temperature	30
Multifractal analysis of temporal and spatial characteristics of earthquakes in Eurasian seismic belt	29
Apriori association rule and K-means clustering algorithms for interpretation of pre-event landslide areas and landslide inventory mapping	26
Detection and modeling of soil salinity variations in arid lands using remote sensing data	21
Multihazard susceptibility assessment: A case study – Municipality of Štrpce (Southern Serbia)	17
Extraction of fractional vegetation cover in arid desert area based on Chinese GF-6 satellite	16
Comparing LiDAR and SfM digital surface models for three land cover types	15
Delineation of structural lineaments of Southeast Nigeria using high resolution aeromagnetic data	15
Comparison of statistical and analytical hierarchy process methods on flood susceptibility mapping: In a case study of the Lake Tana sub-basin in northwestern Ethiopia	14
Assessment of Chlorophyll-a concentration from Sentinel-3 satellite images at the Mediterranean Sea using CMEMS open source in situ data	14
Analysis on vegetation cover changes and the driving factors in the mid-lower reaches of Hanjiang River Basin between 2001 and 2015	13
Risk assessment of geological disasters in Nyingchi, Tibet	13
A PLSR model to predict soil salinity using Sentinel-2 MSI data	13
A review of some nonexplosive alternative methods to conventional rock blasting	12
Research on the improvement of single tree segmentation algorithm based on airborne LiDAR point cloud	11
Assessment of the SWAT model in simulating watersheds in arid regions: Case study of the Yarmouk River Basin (Jordan)	10
Improved gas sand facies classification and enhanced reservoir description based on calibrated rock physics modelling: A case study	10
Comparison of hydrological model ensemble forecasting based on multiple members and ensemble methods	9
An era of Sentinels in flood management: Potential of Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 satellites for effective flood management	9
Spatiotemporal evolution of ecological environment quality in arid areas based on the remote sensing ecological distance index: A case study of Yuyang district in Yulin city, China	9
Earthflow reactivation assessment by multichannel analysis of surface waves and electrical resistivity tomography: A case study	9
Effect of groundwater fluctuation, construction, and retaining system on slope stability of Avas Hill in Hungary	8

Geochemical characterization of the source rock intervals, Beni-Suef Basin, West Nile Valley, Egypt	8
Forest cover assessment using remote-sensing techniques in Crete Island, Greece	8
The spatial prediction and optimization of production-living-ecological space based on Markov–PLUS model: A case study of Yunnan Province	8
Seasonal color matching method of ornamental plants in urban landscape construction	8
Constructing 3D geological models based on large-scale geological maps	8
Is there an equality in the spatial distribution of urban vitality: A case study of Wuhan in China	8
Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water body of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir using Landsat-5/7/8 imagery and Google Earth Engine	7
Application of multivariate regression on magnetic data to determine further drilling site for iron exploration	7
Age of the lower Cambrian Vanadium deposit, East Guizhou, South China: Evidences from age of tuff and carbon isotope analysis along the Bagong section	7
Study on the viscoelastic–viscoplastic model of layered siltstone using creep test and RBF neural network	7
Comparative application of photogrammetry, handmapping and android smartphone for geotechnical mapping and slope stability analysis	7
LCBRG: A lane-level road cluster mining algorithm with bidirectional region growing	6
Mapping paddy rice and rice phenology with Sentinel-1 SAR time series using a unified dynamic programming framework	6
Impact of wall movements on the location of passive Earth thrust	6
Research on the current situation of rural tourism in southern Fujian in China after the COVID-19 epidemic	6
Research on the traditional zoning, evolution, and integrated conservation of village cultural landscapes based on “production-living-ecology spaces” – A case study of villages in Meicheng, Guangdong,	6
Crops planting structure and karst rocky desertification analysis by Sentinel-1 data	6
Characteristics and evaluation of the Upper Paleozoic source rocks in the Southern North China Basin	6
An OGC web service geospatial data semantic similarity model for improving geospatial service discovery	6
Influence of diagenetic features on petrophysical properties of fine-grained rocks of Oligocene strata in the Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan	5
Water quality assessment and spatial–temporal variation analysis in Erhai lake, southwest China	5
Identifying the density of grassland fire points with kernel density estimation based on spatial distribution characteristics	5
Pore throat characteristics of tight reservoirs by a combined mercury method: A case study of the member 2 of Xujiahe Formation in Yingshan gasfield, North Sichuan Basin	5
Geotechnical profiling of a surface mine waste dump using 2D Wenner–Schlumberger configuration	5
Numerical simulation of impact and entrainment behaviors of debris flow by using SPH–DEM–FEM coupling method	5
Spatiotemporal variation in groundwater level within the Manas River Basin, Northwest China: Relative impacts of natural and human factors	5
Research on the conservation and sustainable development strategies of modern historical heritage in the Dabie Mountains based on GIS	5
Identification and logging evaluation of poor reservoirs in X Oilfield	5
Research on comprehensive benefits and reasonable selection of marine resources development types	5
Compressive strength and thermal properties of sand–bentonite mixture	5
Stability of an abandoned siderite mine: A case study in northern Spain	5
Geospatial assessment of wetland soils for rice production in Ajibode using geospatial techniques	5
Utilization of dolerite waste powder for improving geotechnical parameters of compacted clay soil	5
Geomorphological and hydrological heritage of Mt. Stara Planina in SE Serbia: From river protection initiative to potential geotouristic destination	5
Spatial distribution analysis of seismic activity based on GMI, LMI, and LISA in China	5
Enhancing the success of new dams implantation under semi-arid climate, based on a multicriteria analysis approach: Case of Marrakech region (Central Morocco)	5
Evaluation of fractures using conventional and FMI logs, and 3D seismic interpretation in continental tight sandstone reservoir	4
Effect of brackish water irrigation on the movement of water and salt in salinized soil	4
Coupling theK-nearest neighbors and locally weighted linear regression with ensemble Kalman filter for data-driven data assimilation	4
Geological earthquake simulations generated by kinematic heterogeneous energy-based method: Self-arrested ruptures and asperity criterion	4
Origin of the low-medium temperature hot springs around Nanjing, China	4
Effect of microbial combination with organic fertilizer on Elymus dahuricus	4
Production of a homogeneous seismic catalog based on machine learning for northeast Egypt	4
Water deep mapping from HJ-1B satellite data by a deep network model in the sea area of Pearl River Estuary, China	4
Extraction of mineralized indicator minerals using ensemble learning model optimized by SSA based on hyperspectral image	4
Study on the changes in vegetation structural coverage and its response mechanism to hydrology	4
Geochemistry of the black rock series of lower Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation, SW Yangtze Block, China: Reconstruction of sedimentary and tectonic environments	4
Study on spatio-temporal characteristics of earthquakes in southwest China based on z-value	4
Spatiotemporal change of land use for deceased in Beijing since the mid-twentieth century	4
Assessment of climatic conditions for tourism in Xinjiang, China	4

Assessing the tourist potential of cultural–historical spatial units of Serbia using comparative application of AHP and mathematical method	4
Triaxial creep tests of glacitectonically disturbed stiff clay – structural, strength, and slope stability aspects	4
GIS and geographical analysis of the main harbors in the world	4
Fractal expression of soil particle-size distribution at the basin scale	4
Influence of Three Gorges Dam on earthquakes based on GRACE gravity field	4
Subsurface structure investigation of the United Arab Emirates using gravity data	4
Curve number estimation using rainfall and runoff data from five catchments in Sudan	4
Hydrochemical characteristics and D–O–Sr isotopes of groundwater and surface water in the northern Longzi county of southern Tibet (southwestern China)	4
Leaf color attributes of urban colored-leaf plants	3
Analysis of transport path and source distribution of winter air pollution in Shenyang	3
Lithology classification of volcanic rocks based on conventional logging data of machine learning: A case study of the eastern depression of Liaohe oil field	3
Geothermal resource potential assessment of Erdaobaihe, Changbaishan volcanic field: Constraints from geophysics	3
Analyzing the characteristics of land use distribution in typical village transects at Chinese Loess Plateau based on topographical factors	3
Measuring spatiotemporal accessibility to healthcare with multimodal transport modes in the dynamic traffic environment	3
Planting in ecologically solidified soil and its use	3
Three-dimensional modeling of loose layers based on stratum development law	3
Spatial accessibility between commercial and ecological spaces: A case study in Beijing, China	3
High-precision remote sensing mapping of aeolian sand landforms based on deep learning algorithms	3
Extraction of road boundary from MLS data using laser scanner ground trajectory	3
Analysis of land use change on urban landscape patterns in Northwest China: A case study of Xi’an city	3
Experimental study on the behavior of MSE wall having full-height rigid facing and segmental panel-type wall facing	3
Concentrations of heavy metals in PM_2.5 and health risk assessment around Chinese New Year in Dalian, China	3
Sedimentary facies, stratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Ecca Group, Karoo Supergroup in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa	3
Input/output inconsistencies of daily evapotranspiration conducted empirically using remote sensing data in arid environments	3
A prediction method for water enrichment in aquifer based on GIS and coupled AHP–entropy model	3
Overview of eco-environmental impact of Xiaolangdi Water Conservancy Hub on the Yellow River	3
Predicting the gas resource potential in reservoir C-sand interval of Lower Goru Formation, Middle Indus Basin, Pakistan	3
Geotourism and geoethics as support for rural development in the Knjaževac municipality, Serbia	3
Assessment of geosites as a basis for geotourism development: A case study of the Toplica District, Serbia	3
Elemental geochemistry of the Middle Jurassic shales in the northern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China: Constraints for tectonics and paleoclimate	3
Quantitative discrimination of the influences of climate change and human activity on rocky desertification based on a novel feature space model	3
Sequence stratigraphic filling model of the Cretaceous in the western Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin, NW China	3
Geochemical and petrographic characteristics of sediments along the transboundary (Kenya–Tanzania) Umba River as indicators of provenance and weathering	3
A review of genetic classification and characteristics of soil cracks	3
Quantitatively determine the dominant driving factors of the spatial-temporal changes of vegetation-impacts of global change and human activity	3
Geologic structures associated with gold mineralization in the Kirk Range area in Southern Malawi	3
Application of statistical and machine learning techniques for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Himalayan road corridors	3
A novel travel route planning method based on an ant colony optimization algorithm	3
Changes in landscape pattern and ecological service value as land use evolves in the Manas River Basin	3