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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 443 48 73 11
Computer Science 511 61 59 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 169
Documents by Best Scientists*: 181
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 68
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.386
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Applied Remote Sensing?

The objective of Journal of Applied Remote Sensing is to combine knowledge in the areas of Remote sensing, Artificial intelligence, Contextual image classification, Pattern recognition and Synthetic aperture radar. The work on Remote sensing tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Image resolution, Land cover, Satellite and Vegetation. The study on Satellite presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Meteorology.

While work presented in it provided substantial information on Vegetation, it also covered topics in Hydrology, Canopy, Satellite imagery and Physical geography. The Artificial intelligence study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Computer vision. Issues in Contextual image classification were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Data mining and Support vector machine.

Topics in Pattern recognition explored in Journal of Applied Remote Sensing were investigated in conjunction with research in Data modeling, Pixel, Image fusion and Cluster analysis. Image fusion research presented in Journal of Applied Remote Sensing encompasses a variety of subjects, including Multispectral image and Sensor fusion. Synthetic aperture radar research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Radar, Inverse synthetic aperture radar, Radar imaging and Algorithm.

  • Remote sensing (45.55%)
  • Artificial intelligence (28.26%)
  • Contextual image classification (15.42%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Carnegie Airborne Observatory: in-flight fusion of hyperspectral imaging and waveform light detection and ranging for three-dimensional studies of ecosystems (282 citations)
  • Comprehensive survey of deep learning in remote sensing: theories, tools, and challenges for the community (272 citations)
  • Automated mapping of tropical deforestation and forest degradation: CLASlite (221 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Applied Remote Sensing:

The published papers are organized to reinforce research efforts on Remote sensing, Vegetation, Artificial intelligence, Contextual image classification and Hyperspectral imaging. The journal articles explore issues in Remote sensing which can be linked to other research areas like Image resolution, Satellite and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. In addition to Artificial intelligence research, the journal articles aim to explore topics under Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Optics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing investigates studies in Artificial intelligence, Remote sensing, Pattern recognition, Hyperspectral imaging and Contextual image classification. While the journal focused on Remote sensing, it was also able to explore topics like Data modeling, Image resolution, Image fusion and Vegetation. The journal addresses concerns in Vegetation which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Land cover, Climate change, Wetland and Ecosystem services.

In addition to Pattern recognition research, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing aims to explore topics under Synthetic aperture radar and Associative array. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing facilitates discussions on Hyperspectral imaging that incorporate concepts from other fields like Signal-to-noise ratio, Algorithm and Spatial analysis. The Contextual image classification works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Classifier (linguistics), Random forest, Support vector machine, Transfer of learning and Machine learning.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Machine learning inversion approach for soil parameters estimation over vegetated agricultural areas using a combination of water cloud model and calibrated integral equation model (3 citations)
  • Synthetic aperture radar target recognition based on joint classification of selected monogenic components by nonlinear correlation information entropy (2 citations)
  • Using improved DeepLabv3+ network integrated with normalized difference water index to extract water bodies in Sentinel-2A urban remote sensing images (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Xiaoxiong Xiong (36 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Huadong Guo (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Onisimo Mutanga (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Xingzhao Liu (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Amit Angal (15 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (273 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 15 less than at the previous edition,
  • Wuhan University (89 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (71 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • National University of Defense Technology (67 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Xidian University (48 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 9.45% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.74% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.40% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.13% of all publications and 63.74% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing in lithological mapping, mineral exploration, and environmental geology: an updated review

    Sima Peyghambari;Yun Zhang

    (2021)
    319 Citations
  • Self-supervised embedding for generalized zero-shot learning in remote sensing scene classification

    (2023)
    43 Citations
  • Floodwater detection in urban areas using Sentinel-1 and WorldDEM data

    David C. Mason;Sarah L. Dance;Hannah L. Cloke;Hannah L. Cloke

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • How much benthic information can be retrieved with hyperspectral sensor from the optically complex coastal waters

    Ele Vahtmäe;Birgot Paavel;Tiit Kutser

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Applied method for water-body segmentation based on mask R-CNN

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Leaf and wood separation of poplar seedlings combining locally convex connected patches and K-means++ clustering from terrestrial laser scanning data

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Impact of geometric misregistration in GlobeLand30 on land-cover change analysis, a case study in China

    (2022)
    21 Citations
  • Manipulation and generation of synthetic satellite images using deep learning models

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • AI-ForestWatch: semantic segmentation based end-to-end framework for forest estimation and change detection using multi-spectral remote sensing imagery

    Annus Zulfiqar;Muhammad M. Ghaffar;Muhammad Shahzad;Christian Weis

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Remote sensing of regional-scale maize lodging using multitemporal GF-1 images

    Longfei Zhou;Shu Cheng;Qian Sun;Xiaohe Gu

    (2020)
    18 Citations

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