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Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine is 7. 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 Tech Rxiv	94
IEEE App	94
Front Cover	92
IEEE Tech RXIV : Share Your Preprint Research with the World!	91
Better, Not Just More: Data-centric machine learning for Earth observation	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
Driving Innovation and Empowering Communities to Sustain Our Living Earth [President’s Message]	65
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

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
The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee: Championing Diversity in Adversity [Women in GRSS]	48
Table of Contents	48
Open Source Data Programs From Low-Earth Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar Companies: Questions and answers [Industry Profiles and Activities]	48
Big Changes Ahead [Editor’s Corner]	47
IGARSS 2024 Tutorial Program: Educational and Social Impacts [Education in Remote Sensing]	47
Building Bridges in the GRSS: IDEA Events at IGARSS 2025 [Conference Reports]	46
Opening the Black Box: A systematic review on explainable artificial intelligence in remote sensing	46
2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Rapid Flood Mapping [Technical Committees]	41
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	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
To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]	36
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	36
Front Cover	35
Staff List	35
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
Interferometric Phase Linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective	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 Tech RXIV: Share Your Preprint Research with the world!	30
IEEE App	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
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Monitoring Crop Disease: Applications, challenges, and perspectives	25
“What Now/What Next/What If” Or NASA Earth System Digital Twins	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
ODinMJ: A red, green, blue-thermal dataset for mountain jungle object detection	22
Front Cover	22
Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review	21
Satellite Image Synthesis From Street View With Fine-Grained Spatial Textual Guidance: A novel framework	21
Staff List	20
Letter From the President [President’s Message]	19
The Microwave Monitoring of Water With Applications (MAMI WATA) MIRS Workshop: A Brief Report [Conference Reports]	19
Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Internal Solitary Waves: A comprehensive review and prospects	18
Table of Contents	18
Progress and Perspectives of Crop Yield Forecasting With Remote Sensing: A review	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
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	16

Front Cover	16
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
Front cover	15
Table of Contents	14
IEEE App	14
IEEE Feedback	13
IEEE Proceedings	13
Front Cover	13
IEEE Access	13
IEEE App	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