OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Membership	563
“The Year of SAR” Special Issue Overview [From the Guest Editor]	309
A Summer School Session on Mastering Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: From Data Production to Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development and Downstream Applications [Technical Committees]	301
Sustainable Transformation Through Digital Sciences: The 10th year of the Digital Belt and Road program [Conference Reports]	229
GeoPix: A multimodal large language model for pixel-level image understanding in remote sensing	189
Table of Contents	160
IEEE Proceedings	145
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	142
IEEE App	134
Table of Contents	129
IEEE Access	120
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	112
Welcome to the September 2022 Issue of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine! [From the Guest Editors]	108
Issues and Special Issues [From the Editor]	99
IEEE Feedback	96
IEEE Tech Rxiv	83
IEEE App	83
Front Cover	79
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Community eXperiment (ROCX) 2025	74
Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification: A review	73
IEEE Proceedings	71
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Type Mapping With Remote Sensing: A review	71
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	65
2022 Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals Contest Winners [Technical Committees]	62
IEEE Proceedings	61

Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	61
IEEE App	61
From Insight to Impact: Empowering Our Community, Expanding Our Horizon [President’s Message]	59
Activities of the University of Southern California IEEE GRSS–AP-S–SSCS Joint Student Chapter: Winner of the 2023 Student Chapter Excellence Award [Chapters]	58
IEEE Proceedings	56
IEEE GRSS Schools: Advancing Career Development and Promoting Impactful Educational Initiatives	54
From Orbit to Ground: A comprehensive review of multimodal self-supervised learning for remote sensing	54
Remote Sensing for Understanding the Vertical Dimension of Urban Landscapes: A review on data, products, methods, and prospects	52
Deep Learning in Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Methods, protocols, data, and future perspectives	51
Table of Contents	50
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	50
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	49
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	47
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	46
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	46
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	45
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	43
Artificial Intelligence for Wildfire Monitoring in North Africa: A decade of remote sensing research (2015–2025)	42
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	41
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	41
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	40
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	40
Front Cover	38
Staff List	37
MapInWild: A remote sensing dataset to address the question of what makes nature wild [Software and Data Sets]	36
Radio-Frequency Interference to Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Overview and Approaches to Its Management [Technical Committees]	36
IEEE Tech Rxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	35
IEEE Feedback	33
Decennial Geomorphic Transport From Archived Time Series Digital Elevation Models: A cookbook for tropical and alpine environments	32
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	31
SBG Systems	31
IEEE Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	30
IEEE App	30
Front Cover	27
Awards Presented at the IGARSS 2022 Banquet [Conference Reports]	26
Radar Imaging With India’s Earth Observation Satellite-04: Earth resource monitoring using C-band synthetic aperture radar system	26
A Special Issue on Data Fusion Techniques for Oceanic Target Interpretation [From the Guest Editors]	26
Front Cover	26
IEEE Dataport	25
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	25
Expanding the Magazine to Six Issues With More Special Issues [Editor’s Corner]	24
IEEE Collabratec	24
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	23
Front Cover	23
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	22
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	22
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	21
Staff List	20
Table of Contents	20
UNet-Like Remote Sensing Change Detection: A review of current models and research directions	20

The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	20
Monitoring Results of the SAOCOM-1 Constellation: A mission overview and summary of results	20
TanDEM-X: The 4D Mission Phase for Earth Surface Dynamics: Science activities highlights and new data products after 15 years of bistatic operations	19
Optimizing Collaborative Space–Air–Ground Earth Observation: A decision-making perspective	19
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	19
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	19
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	18
The Synergy Between Remote Sensing and Social Sensing in Urban Studies: Review and perspectives	18
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	17
“Spatial Thinking” in Curriculum [Education in Remote Sensing]	16
Beyond Borders: Why Africa Matters for a Geospatially Connected Planet	16
A Review and a Perspective of Deep Active Learning for Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Enhanced adaptation to user conjecture	16
Front Cover	14
Front Cover	13
IEEE Access	13
IEEE App	13
IEEE Feedback	13
Table of Contents	13
IEEE App	12
IEEE Proceedings	12
From Panda Land to Global GRSS: The 2025 Multidimensional Growth of the IEEE GRSS Student Branch Chapter at UESTC [Chapters]	11
Table of Contents	11
A Review of the Past Half Century of Geostationary Satellite Thermal Observations for Global Precipitation Estimation: Developments, achievements, and future prospects	11
The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary	10
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Fusion for Ship Detection and Recognition: Current state, challenges, and future prospects	10
Masthead	10
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	9
Reinforcing Our Commitment: Why DEI Matters for the IEEE GRSS [Technical Committees]	9
Table of Contents	8
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
IEEE Access	8
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	8
Table of Contents	7
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	7
An Integration of Natural Language and Hyperspectral Imaging: A review	6
Front Cover	6
How Big Data Can Help to Monitor the Environment and to Mitigate Risks due to Climate Change: A review	6
More Than Just a Journal [Editor’s Corner]	6
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	6
Claude Does Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: A tutorial for the use of large language models in replication studies	6
Table of Contents	5
In Metadata We Trust: On the central role of metadata in Earth observation datasets [Software and Data Sets]	5
IEEE Proceedings	5
Foundation Models for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A survey	5
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	5
IEEE MGA	5
CaBuAr: California burned areas dataset for delineation [Software and Data Sets]	5