Bibliometric Analysis of Remote Sensing of Inland Waters Publications from 1985 to 2020

Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in number of studies about use remote sensing techniques for monitoring inland waters. Since these aquatic environments have multiple uses mankind, them is essential environment, society, and economy. The Earth Observations data waters important water quantity quality management. Because this, goal present study to systematically analyze visualize evolution publications this field. This will not focus on algorithm comparisons or descriptions; instead, it co-citation analysis map relationship among publications. Using Web Science database, related terms, “remote sensing” + “inland waters”, were analyzed using entire database. bibliometric showed how research topics evolved from measuring optical properties understanding their signal development algorithms applications satellite imagery. provides historical scientific field points out what could be direction future research.