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Remote Sensing, Volume 13, Issue 1

January-1 2021 - 158 articles

Cover Story: The use of a common geophysical retrieval algorithm (radiative models, ancillary datasets, inversion methodology) is a necessary starting point for achieving climate data record continuity across multiple sensors. Providing cloud product continuity across MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS observations is inherently challenging due to instrument differences, most notably the lack of common spectral coverage. To help mitigate these differences, a common cloud algorithm (CLDPROP) was developed by NASA for both MODIS and VIIRS observations by utilizing only a subset of spectral channels available on both imagers. These CLDPROP VIIRS and MODIS products were publicly released in 2019 covering the 2012-present time period. An evaluation of these products has identified remaining dataset discontinuities that will inform future algorithm development. View this paper
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Articles (158)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,276 Views
17 Pages

Prediction of Maize Yield at the City Level in China Using Multi-Source Data

  • Xinxin Chen,
  • Lan Feng,
  • Rui Yao,
  • Xiaojun Wu,
  • Jia Sun and
  • Wei Gong

5 January 2021

Maize is a widely grown crop in China, and the relationships between agroclimatic parameters and maize yield are complicated, hence, accurate and timely yield prediction is challenging. Here, climate, satellite data, and meteorological indices were i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,367 Views
17 Pages

Mapping Frozen Ground in the Qilian Mountains in 2004–2019 Using Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing

  • Yuan Qi,
  • Shiwei Li,
  • Youhua Ran,
  • Hongwei Wang,
  • Jichun Wu,
  • Xihong Lian and
  • Dongliang Luo

5 January 2021

The permafrost in the Qilian Mountains (QLMs), the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, changed dramatically in the context of climate warming and increasing anthropogenic activities, which poses significant influences on the stabi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
10,427 Views
24 Pages

Applying RGB- and Thermal-Based Vegetation Indices from UAVs for High-Throughput Field Phenotyping of Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses

  • Tom De Swaef,
  • Wouter H. Maes,
  • Jonas Aper,
  • Joost Baert,
  • Mathias Cougnon,
  • Dirk Reheul,
  • Kathy Steppe,
  • Isabel Roldán-Ruiz and
  • Peter Lootens

5 January 2021

The persistence and productivity of forage grasses, important sources for feed production, are threatened by climate change-induced drought. Breeding programs are in search of new drought tolerant forage grass varieties, but those programs still rely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,758 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2021

Space-based augmentation system (SBAS) provides correction information for improving the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning accuracy in real-time, which includes satellite orbit/clock and ionospheric delay corrections. At SBAS serv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,382 Views
17 Pages

Type III Radio Bursts Observations on 20th August 2017 and 9th September 2017 with LOFAR Bałdy Telescope

  • Bartosz Dabrowski,
  • Paweł Flisek,
  • Katarzyna Mikuła,
  • Adam Froń,
  • Christian Vocks,
  • Jasmina Magdalenić,
  • Andrzej Krankowski,
  • PeiJin Zhang,
  • Pietro Zucca and
  • Gottfried Mann

5 January 2021

We present the observations of two type III solar radio events performed with LOFAR (LOw-Frequency ARray) station in Bałdy (PL612), Poland in single mode. The first event occurred on 20th August 2017 and the second one on 9th September 2017. Solar dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,217 Views
15 Pages

A Fast Retrieval of Cloud Parameters Using a Triplet of Wavelengths of Oxygen Dimer Band around 477 nm

  • Haklim Choi,
  • Xiong Liu,
  • Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad,
  • Jongjin Seo,
  • Kwang-Mog Lee and
  • Jhoon Kim

5 January 2021

Clouds act as a major reflector that changes the amount of sunlight reflected to space. Change in radiance intensity due to the presence of clouds interrupts the retrieval of trace gas or aerosol properties from satellite data. In this paper, we deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,501 Views
20 Pages

The Influence of Camera Calibration on Nearshore Bathymetry Estimation from UAV Videos

  • Gonzalo Simarro,
  • Daniel Calvete,
  • Theocharis A. Plomaritis,
  • Francesc Moreno-Noguer,
  • Ifigeneia Giannoukakou-Leontsini,
  • Juan Montes and
  • Ruth Durán

5 January 2021

Measuring the nearshore bathymetry is critical in coastal management and morphodynamic studies. The recent advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in combination with coastal video monitoring techniques, allows for an alternative and low cost eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,362 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2021

The key factors, namely, the radar data quality, raindrop size distribution (RSD) variability, and the data integration method, which significantly affect radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) are investigated using the RCWF (S-band...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,438 Views
28 Pages

5 January 2021

Soil degradation processes are widespread on agricultural land. Ground-based methods for detecting degradation require a lot of labor and time. Remote methods based on the analysis of vegetation indices can significantly reduce the volume of ground s...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,948 Views
8 Pages

Assessing the Behavioural Responses of Small Cetaceans to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Joana Castro,
  • Francisco O. Borges,
  • André Cid,
  • Marina I. Laborde,
  • Rui Rosa and
  • Heidi C. Pearson

5 January 2021

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have recently emerged as a relatively affordable and accessible method for studying wildlife. Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) UAVs are appropriate for morphometric, behavioural, abundance and demograph...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292