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Papers

(The median citation count of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Membership	502
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	274
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	256
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	250
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	237
Table of Contents	223
IEEE Proceedings	193
IEEE App	171
Table of Contents	170
IEEE Access	142
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	128
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	123
IEEE Feedback	100
IEEE App	94
IEEE Tech Rxiv	94
Front Cover	92
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	91
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	91
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	80
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	79
2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	76
IEEE Proceedings	67
IEEE App	66
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	65
Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	65

From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	61
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	59
IEEE Proceedings	58
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	55
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	51
2021 IEEE GRSS Turkey Chapter Activities [Chapters]	49
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	48
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	48
Table of Contents	48
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	47
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	47
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	46
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	46
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	41
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	41
Contactless Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging: State of the art, challenges, and microwave tomography-based data processing	39
Low-Rank and Sparse Representation for Hyperspectral Image Processing: A review	38
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	36
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	36
Staff List	35
Front Cover	35
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	33
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	33
Land Cover Change Detection Techniques: Very-high-resolution optical images: A review	33
Decennial Geomorphic Transport From Archived Time Series Digital Elevation Models: A cookbook for tropical and alpine environments	32
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	31
SBG Systems	31
IEEE App	30
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	30
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	29
Front Cover	29
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	28
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	26
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	25
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	25
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	23
Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	23
Front Cover	22
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	22
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	21
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	21
Staff List	20
The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	19
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	19
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	18
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	18
Table of Contents	18
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	17
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	17
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	16

The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	16
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	16
Front Cover	16
Front cover	15
IEEE App	14
Table of Contents	14
IEEE App	13
IEEE Feedback	13
IEEE Proceedings	13
Front Cover	13
IEEE Access	13
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	12
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	12
Masthead	11
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	10
Table of Contents	10
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	10
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	10
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	9
Table of Contents	9
IEEE Access	9
High Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: The Third Edition of the School Organized by the HDCRS Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical C	9
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	8
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	8
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	8
Front Cover	8
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	7
Table of Contents	7
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	7
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	7
IEEE Proceedings	7
Vision-Language Modeling Meets Remote Sensing: Models, datasets, and perspectives	6
Table of Contents	6
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems to Identify Pests and Diseases in Forest Species: The global state of the art and future challenges	6
IEEE MGA	6
Coupling Model- and Data-Driven Methods for Remote Sensing Image Restoration and Fusion: Improving physical interpretability	6
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	6
Trustworthy Target Recognition in Space-Based Remote Sensing: Concepts, challenges, and a unified framework	5
IEEE Tech Rxiv:Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	5
[Editor’s Corner]	5
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	5
CaBuAr: California burned areas dataset for delineation [Software and Data Sets]	5
2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification for Semantic Urban Reconstruction [Technical Committees]	5
Machine Learning for Methane Detection and Quantification From Space: A survey	4
Evolutionary Developments of Today’s Remote Sensing Radar Technology—Right From the Telemobiloscope: A review	4
Spatiotemporal Big Data Empower Community Modeling, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Optimization for Sustainable Community Development: A review of challenges and opportunities	4
GRSS Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2024 Banquet [Conference Reports]	4
IEEE Connect	4
RSHub: A remote sensing hub for geophysical microwave scattering modeling	4
The Second International Soil Moisture School [Conference Reports]	4
Airborne Lidar Data Artifacts: What we know thus far	4
IEEE Access	3
Why Does GRSM Require the Submission of White Papers? [From the Editor]	3
IEEE Feedback	3
The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society “Open PocketQube Kit”: An affordable open source approach to Earth observation missions [Education in Remote Sensing]	3
SSL4EO-S12: A large-scale multimodal, multitemporal dataset for self-supervised learning in Earth observation [Software and Data Sets]	3
A Survey of Sample-Efficient Deep Learning for Change Detection in Remote Sensing: Tasks, strategies, and challenges	3
Successes to Date and Plans for the Future [President’s Message]	2
Airborne Sounding Radar for Desert Subsurface Exploration of Aquifers: Desert-SEA: Mission concept study [Space Agencies]	2
Staff list	2
The Instrumentation and Future Technology Technical Committee’s Second “Summer School”: Auckland, New Zealand [Technical Committees]	2
IEEE Foundation	2
An Overview of Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: From traditional methods to artificial intelligence	2
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - Call for Papers	2
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society European Chapter Chairs Meetup 2024 in Conjunction With EuroGEO Workshop [Chapters]	2
FedRSCLIP: Federated learning for remote sensing scene classification using vision-language models	2
International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing 2023: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	2
Remote Sensing Spatiotemporal Vision–Language Models: A comprehensive survey	2
Distributed Spaceborne SAR: A review of systems, applications, and the road ahead	1
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	1
IEEE App	1
Vision Foundation Models in Remote Sensing: A survey	1
Activities of Indian Institute of Technology Indore IEEE GRSS Student Chapter (2023–2024): Recipient of the 2024 GRSS Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	1
Deep Learning for Downscaling Remote Sensing Images: Fusion and super-resolution	1
The Orbital X-Band Real-Aperture Side-Looking Radar of Cosmos-1500: A Ukrainian IEEE Milestone candidate	1
IEEE Collabratec	1
Toward Advancing Research Availability and Reproducibility: The GRSS’s ongoing efforts in open science [Software and Data Sets]	1
Highlighting IGARSS 2024 [From The Editor]	1
A Review of Technical Aspects and Challenges in Opportunistic Rainfall Estimation Using Satellite and Terrestrial Microwave Links: How wireless infrastructure can be used for rainfall monitoring	1
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Algorithms: An overview	1

Computer Vision for Earth Observation: The Third IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion School	1
Phase Synchronization Techniques for Bistatic and Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Accounting for frequency offset	1
A Glimpse at the Women Mentoring Women Program From a Mentor/Mentee Perspective [Conference Reports]	1
PANGAEA: Assessing Geospatial Foundation Models Capabilities through a Global and Inclusive Benchmark	1
The 2024 IEEE GRSS China Student Chapter Meeting [Chapters]	1
Masthead	1
Taking Artificial Intelligence Into Space Through Objective Selection of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Applications: To bring the “brain” close to the “eyes” of satellite missions	1
Welcome to the March Issue [From the Editor]	1
P4005 Standards and Protocols for Soil Spectroscopy in Laboratory and Field Conditions [Technical Committees]	1
IEEE Feedback	1
The Birth of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society in Cameroon: The Quest for a Chapter [Chapters]	1
Wind and Sea State Signatures in Wind Scatterometry: An analysis	0
Ionospheric Error Correction Methods for InSAR Measurements: A systematic review	0
Regression in Earth Observation: Are vision–language models up to the challenge?	0
The 2024 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Wuhan University Student Branch Chapter Activities [Chapters]	0
Facilitating the Golden Age of Synthetic Aperture Radar: New tools, services, and training to make synthetic aperture radar data more accessible	0
High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing: HDCRS—A new Working Group of the GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee [Technical Committees]	0
Computer Vision for Earth Observation—The First IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion School [Technical Committees]	0
Staff list	0
State of the Art: High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data	0
Table of Contents	0
Advances in Methodology and Generation of All-Weather Land Surface Temperature Products From Polar-Orbiting and Geostationary Satellites: A comprehensive review	0
Report on the IEEE GRSS Workshop on Remote Sensing Data Management Technologies in Geoscience 2022 [Technical Committees]	0
Staff List	0
IEEE Connecting	0
IEEE Connect	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Multitemporal Deformation Monitoring: A review of machine learning techniques	0
Staff List	0
IEEE App	0
The AIDE Toolbox: Artificial intelligence for disentangling extreme events [Software and Data Sets]	0
IGARSS 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Preserving Our Heritage, Enabling Our Future Through Remote Sensing [Conference Reports]	0
Application of Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST) in ECOWAS Electoral Observation Missions: Examining GIST’s potential	0
Lossy Neural Compression for Geospatial Analytics: A review	0
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation: A brief survey and comparative study in remote sensing	0
Remote Sensing of Tropical Cyclones by Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar: Past, present, and future	0
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	0
Introducing the December Issue [From the Editor]	0
IEEE Moving	0
The Third China International Synthetic Aperture Radar Symposium [Conference Reports]	0
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Statistical Inference in Deformation Measurement and Geophysical Inversion: A review	0
Lightweight and Compact Radiometers for Soil Moisture Measurement: A review	0
IEEE App	0
IEEE Foundation	0
Public Building Geometric Models From Point Clouds: A multidimensional quality evaluation framework	0
Polarimetric Roll-Invariant Features and Applications for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Detection: A comprehensive summary and investigation	0
Invertible Physics-Based Hyperspectral Signature Models: A review	0
Why Does the GRSS Need a Magazine? [From the Editor]	0
GRSS Community Engagement [President’s Message]	0
InGARSS 2023 in Bangalore: Striking a Balance [Conference Reports]	0
IEEE Access	0
The 2024 IEEE GRSS China Chapter Chairs Meeting and Lectures [Chapters]	0
Preparation for Success in 2022 [President’s Message]	0
IEEE Access	0
Report on the 2025 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: All-Weather Land Cover and Building Damage Mapping [Technical Committees]	0
Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach	0
IEEE App	0
Strengthening Connections Within GRSS [President’s Message]	0
Front cover	0
Toward Fine Surveillance: A review of multitemporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar for infrastructure health monitoring	0
Microwave Photonic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Systems, experiments, and imaging processing [Technical Committees]	0
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	0
Masthead	0
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	0
Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Modeling in High Mountain Asia	0
Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A metareview of challenges and advances	0
December 2024 Issue [President’s Message]	0
Staff List	0
Deep Learning Meets Object-Based Image Analysis: Tasks, challenges, strategies, and perspectives	0
Front Cover	0
Front Cover	0
IEEE Proceedings	0
Evaluating Language Biases in Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering: The role of spatial attributes, language diversity, and the need for clearer evaluation	0
Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	0
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing: A perspective on the past and the future [Perspectives]	0
Activities of the GRSS Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas Colombia Student Chapter [Chapters]	0
Deep Learning for Satellite Image Time-Series Analysis: A review	0
Monitoring Forest Damage Caused by Pine Wilt Disease with Remote Sensing Technologies: A review	0
Analysis-Ready Data and FAIR-AI—Standardization of Research Collaboration and Transparency Across Earth-Observation Communities [Technical Committees]	0
A Review of Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation From Optical Remote Sensing Images: Current progress and future	0
Michael R. Inggs (1951–2025) [In Memoriam]	0
Introducing the June Issue [From the Editor]	0
An IEEE Standard for Radio Frequency Interference Degradation in Microwave Remote Sensing Measurements: Technical implications and ongoing efforts [Technical Committees]	0
IEEE GRSS Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) Student Branch Chapter: 2020 Activities [Chapters]	0
Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Target Detection: A review	0
Call for Papers: IEEE Geoscience and remote sensing magazine	0
Beyond Grid Data: Exploring graph neural networks for Earth observation	0
DeepBlue: Advanced convolutional neural network applications for ocean remote sensing	0
IEEE Access	0
Estimation of Surface-Level NO2 Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Machine Learning: A review	0
Geology-1 : The First Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Microsatellite in China for Geological Resource and Environmental Survey and Monitoring [Space-Agencies]	0
IEEE Access	0
Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence: Understanding emerging ethical issues and opportunities	0
Ground Validation of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Imagery [Technical Committees]	0
Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and toolbox	0
The High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar System and Signal Processing Techniques: Current progress and future prospects [Review Papers]	0