| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1979 | 7,833 |
| 2 | Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2017 | 6,916 |
| 3 | Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 6,617 |
| 4 | AERONET—A Federated Instrument Network and Data Archive for Aerosol Characterization | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1998 | 6,370 |
| 5 | A review of assessing the accuracy of classifications of remotely sensed data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1991 | 5,676 |
| 6 | A soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1988 | 4,943 |
| 7 | NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1996 | 4,213 |
| 8 | Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 3,271 |
| 9 | MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2010 | 2,752 |
| 10 | Sentinel-2: ESA's Optical High-Resolution Mission for GMES Operational Services | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2012 | 2,496 |
| 11 | The spectral image processing system (SIPS)—interactive visualization and analysis of imaging spectrometer data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1993 | 2,474 |
| 12 | Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 2,462 |
| 13 | Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 2,256 |
| 14 | Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2009 | 2,224 |
| 15 | On the relation between NDVI, fractional vegetation cover, and leaf area index | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1997 | 2,221 |
| 16 | A modified soil adjusted vegetation index | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1994 | 2,134 |
| 17 | Thermal remote sensing of urban climates | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2003 | 2,113 |
| 18 | Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2011 | 2,025 |
| 19 | First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 2,022 |
| 20 | Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2003 | 1,948 |
| 21 | Use of a green channel in remote sensing of global vegetation from EOS-MODIS | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1996 | 1,926 |
| 22 | PROSPECT: A model of leaf optical properties spectra | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1990 | 1,841 |
| 23 | Hyperspectral vegetation indices and novel algorithms for predicting green LAI of crop canopies: Modeling and validation in the context of precision agriculture | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 1,819 |
| 24 | Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1996 | 1,801 |
| 25 | Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2014 | 1,793 |
| 26 | Estimation of land surface temperature–vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 1,760 |
| 27 | A narrow-waveband spectral index that tracks diurnal changes in photosynthetic efficiency | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1992 | 1,700 |
| 28 | Estimating Corn Leaf Chlorophyll Concentration from Leaf and Canopy Reflectance | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2000 | 1,700 |
| 29 | A simple method for reconstructing a high-quality NDVI time-series data set based on the Savitzky–Golay filter | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 1,679 |
| 30 | Light scattering by leaf layers with application to canopy reflectance modeling: The SAIL model | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1984 | 1,663 |
| 31 | Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 1,647 |
| 32 | Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2014 | 1,599 |
| 33 | Satellite-derived land surface temperature: Current status and perspectives | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2013 | 1,545 |
| 34 | Land surface temperature retrieval from LANDSAT TM 5 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2004 | 1,539 |
| 35 | Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2012 | 1,532 |
| 36 | Potentials and limits of vegetation indices for LAI and APAR assessment | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1991 | 1,514 |
| 37 | Recent advances in techniques for hyperspectral image processing | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2009 | 1,452 |
| 38 | Imaging Spectroscopy and the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1998 | 1,445 |
| 39 | An Enhanced Contextual Fire Detection Algorithm for MODIS | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2003 | 1,433 |
| 40 | An improved dark-object subtraction technique for atmospheric scattering correction of multispectral data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1988 | 1,386 |
| 41 | Classification and Change Detection Using Landsat TM Data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2001 | 1,386 |
| 42 | Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2005 | 1,382 |
| 43 | Integrated narrow-band vegetation indices for prediction of crop chlorophyll content for application to precision agriculture | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 1,379 |
| 44 | Novel algorithms for remote estimation of vegetation fraction | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 1,371 |
| 45 | A comparison of vegetation indices over a global set of TM images for EOS-MODIS | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1997 | 1,364 |
| 46 | Development of a global evapotranspiration algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2007 | 1,349 |
| 47 | A simple interpretation of the surface temperature/vegetation index space for assessment of surface moisture status | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 1,331 |
| 48 | Development of a two-band enhanced vegetation index without a blue band | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2008 | 1,310 |
| 49 | GMES Sentinel-1 mission | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2012 | 1,304 |
| 50 | Cloud-Screening and Quality Control Algorithms for the AERONET Database | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2000 | 1,285 |
