OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine is 6. 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
Feature Extraction for Hyperspectral Imagery: The Evolution From Shallow to Deep: Overview and Toolbox	387
Linking Points With Labels in 3D: A Review of Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation	220
A New Benchmark Based on Recent Advances in Multispectral Pansharpening: Revisiting Pansharpening With Classical and Emerging Pansharpening Methods	181
Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing Data Analysis: A review of challenges and opportunities	172
Interpretable Hyperspectral Artificial Intelligence: When nonconvex modeling meets hyperspectral remote sensing	162
Deep Learning Meets SAR: Concepts, models, pitfalls, and perspectives	156
High-Throughput Estimation of Crop Traits: A Review of Ground and Aerial Phenotyping Platforms	144
Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection: A survey	115
Low-Rank and Sparse Representation for Hyperspectral Image Processing: A review	112
Deep Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Object Detection and Tracking: A survey	108
Spectral Variability in Hyperspectral Data Unmixing: A comprehensive review	102
A Large-Scale Benchmark Data Set for Evaluating Pansharpening Performance: Overview and Implementation	100
Land Cover Change Detection Techniques: Very-high-resolution optical images: A review	98
Change Detection From Very-High-Spatial-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images: Methods, applications, and future directions	92
Motion Compensation/Autofocus in Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Review	88
Sparse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging From Compressed Sensing and Machine Learning: Theories, applications, and trends	78
So2Sat LCZ42: A Benchmark Data Set for the Classification of Global Local Climate Zones [Software and Data Sets]	77
BigEarthNet-MM: A Large-Scale, Multimodal, Multilabel Benchmark Archive for Remote Sensing Image Classification and Retrieval [Software and Data Sets]	76
Single-Frame Infrared Small-Target Detection: A survey	72
Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A review	71
OpenStreetMap: Challenges and Opportunities in Machine Learning and Remote Sensing	70
Spatially Continuous and High-Resolution Land Surface Temperature Product Generation: A review of reconstruction and spatiotemporal fusion techniques	68
Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A benchmark, from shallow to deep networks	66
Lidar Boosts 3D Ecological Observations and Modelings: A Review and Perspective	65
InSAR Phase Denoising: A Review of Current Technologies and Future Directions	64

Artificial Intelligence In Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Phase Unwrapping: A Review	52
Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and toolbox	51
Deep Learning and Earth Observation to Support the Sustainable Development Goals: Current approaches, open challenges, and future opportunities	50
Hyperspectral Image Clustering: Current achievements and future lines	49
Advances and Opportunities in Remote Sensing Image Geometric Registration: A systematic review of state-of-the-art approaches and future research directions	49
Correlation Filters for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Aerial Tracking: A Review and Experimental Evaluation	49
Forest SAR Tomography: Principles and Applications	47
From Interferometric to Tomographic SAR: A Review of Synthetic Aperture Radar Tomography-Processing Techniques for Scatterer Unmixing in Urban Areas	41
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Statistical Modeling: Part One-Single-Pixel Statistical Models	38
Deep Learning Methods For Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Despeckling: An Overview Of Trends And Perspectives	38
Toward a Collective Agenda on AI for Earth Science Data Analysis	36
Methods for Small, Weak Object Detection in Optical High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: A survey of advances and challenges	34
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Algorithms: An overview	34
Contactless Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging: State of the art, challenges, and microwave tomography-based data processing	33
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges	29
Full-Resolution Quality Assessment of Pansharpening: Theoretical and hands-on approaches	28
A Review of Unsupervised Band Selection Techniques: Land Cover Classification for Hyperspectral Earth Observation Data	27
Remote Sensing Data Fusion With Generative Adversarial Networks: State-of-the-art methods and future research directions	26
Optical Remote Sensing Image Understanding With Weak Supervision: Concepts, methods, and perspectives	25
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar Systems: A review	24
Crowdsourcing in Remote Sensing: A Review of Applications and Future Directions	23
ERA: A Data Set and Deep Learning Benchmark for Event Recognition in Aerial Videos [Software and Data Sets]	22
A Review of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Applications in Permafrost Regions: Current status, challenges, and trends	22
Tensor Decompositions for Hyperspectral Data Processing in Remote Sensing: A comprehensive review	22
Along-Track Interferometric SAR Systems for Ground-Moving Target Indication: Achievements, Potentials, and Outlook	21
Toward Fine Surveillance: A review of multitemporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar for infrastructure health monitoring	21
Close-Range Remote Sensing of Forests: The state of the art, challenges, and opportunities for systems and data acquisitions	20
Gas Flaring: A Review Focused On Its Analysis From Space	20
Active Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification: A comparative review	19
Explainable, Physics-Aware, Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: A paradigm shift for synthetic aperture radar	18
Deep Learning for Downscaling Remote Sensing Images: Fusion and super-resolution	18
The CCSDS 123.0-B-2 “Low-Complexity Lossless and Near-Lossless Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Compression” Standard: A comprehensive review	18
Deep Learning-Based Object Tracking in Satellite Videos: A comprehensive survey with a new dataset	17
Coupling Model- and Data-Driven Methods for Remote Sensing Image Restoration and Fusion: Improving physical interpretability	16
Forward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar: Subsurface target imaging and detection: A review	15
Digital Beamforming for Spaceborne Reflector-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar, Part 1: Basic imaging modes	15
The Legacy of Scatterometers: Review of applications and perspective	14
Oil and Gas Mining Deformation Monitoring and Assessments of Disaster: Using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology	13
AI Security for Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Challenges and future trends	13
The Potential of Spaceborne GNSS Reflectometry for Soil Moisture, Biomass, and Freeze–Thaw Monitoring: Summary of a European Space Agency-funded study	13
Onboard Information Fusion for Multisatellite Collaborative Observation: Summary, challenges, and perspectives	12
Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: A Tutorial for Analyzing System Parameters	12
Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence: Understanding emerging ethical issues and opportunities	12
Classification of Remote Sensing Data With Morphological Attribute Profiles: A decade of advances	12
2021 Data Fusion Contest: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Social Good [Technical Committees]	12
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Statistical Modeling: Part Two-Spatial Correlation Models and Simulation	11
The 2022 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Semisupervised Learning [Technical Committees]	11
Taking Artificial Intelligence Into Space Through Objective Selection of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Applications: To bring the “brain” close to the “eyes” of satellite missions	10
Satellite Remote Sensing Data for Decision Support in Emerging Agricultural Economies: How Satellite Data Can Transform Agricultural Decision Making [Perspectives]	10
2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification for Semantic Urban Reconstruction [Technical Committees]	10

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing for Antarctic Research: A review of progress, current applications, and future use cases	9
The Earth-Observing Satellite Constellation: A review from a meteorological perspective of a complex, interconnected global system with extensive applications	9
Wireless Sensor Networks Applied to Precision Agriculture: A worldwide literature review with emphasis on Latin America	8
Target Classification and Recognition for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: Using the Parallel Cross-Model Neural Cognitive Computing Algorithm	8
Keypoint-Based Local Descriptors for Target Recognition in SAR Images: A Comparative Analysis	8
SSL4EO-S12: A large-scale multimodal, multitemporal dataset for self-supervised learning in Earth observation [Software and Data Sets]	7
Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach	7
Integrating Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Regional-Scale Habitat Mapping: Advances and future challenges for desert locust monitoring	6
Remote Sensing for Subsurface and Deeper Oceans: An overview and a future outlook	6
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry: Utilizing Radar Principles	6
Phase Synchronization Techniques for Bistatic and Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar: Accounting for frequency offset	6
High-Resolution Surveying With Small-Loop Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Systems: Efficient Survey Design and Adaptive Processing	6
Report on the 2020 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest-Global Land Cover Mapping With Weak Supervision [Technical Committees]	6
The China ZY3-03 Mission: Surveying and Mapping Technology for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Satellites	6