Remote Sensing, Volume 13, Issue 20

The three-river headwater region (TRHR) supplies the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lantsang rivers, and its ecological environment is fragile, hence it is important to study the surface vegetation cover status of the TRHR to facilitate its ecological conserva...

Typhoons strongly impact the structure and functioning of the forests, especially in the coastal areas in which typhoon-induced flooding imposes additional stress on the ecosystem via physical destruction and rising soil salinity. The impact of typho...

The ocean and atmosphere exert stresses on sea ice that create elongated cracks and leads which dominate the vertical exchange of energy, especially in cold seasons, despite covering only a small fraction of the surface. Motivated by the need of a sp...

Learning videos can be concise learning packages that offer a wide range of possibilities when it comes to present topics in an up-to-date way and disseminating them in a variety of learning environments. Videos are already a primary source of inform...

Aboard the polar-orbiting SNPP satellite, the VIIRS instrument has been in operation since launch in October 2011. It is a visible and infrared radiometer with a unique panchromatic channel capability designated as a day-night band (DNB). This channe...

Hyperspectral Image (HSI) can continuously cover tens or even hundreds of spectral segments for each spatial pixel. Limited by the cost and commercialization requirements of remote sensing satellites, HSIs often lose a lot of information due to insuf...

This paper presents an algorithm for large-scale automatic detection of burial mounds, one of the most common types of archaeological sites globally, using LiDAR and multispectral satellite data. Although previous attempts were able to detect a good...

According to the latest United Nations estimates in September 2021, the world’s population is now 7 [...]

The technique of carrier phase (CP), based on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), has proven to be a highly effective spatial tool in the field of time and frequency transfer with sub-nanosecond accuracy. The rapid development of real-time...

Object detection has made great progress. However, due to the unique imaging method of optical satellite remote sensing, the detection of slender targets is still insufficient. Specifically, the perspective of optical satellites is small, and the cha...

Altimetric performance of Global Navigation Satellite System - Reflectometry (GNSS-R) instruments depends on receiver’s bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The altimetric delay is usually computed from the time difference between the peak of t...

Here we test the capability of the Broadcast Ephemeris Message, in both its GPS-like (Keplerian ellipse with secular and periodic perturbations) and Glonass-like (numerical integration of a 9D state vector) formats, to reproduce a corresponding preci...

Urban impervious surfaces area (ISA) and green space (GS), two primary components of urban environment, are pivotal in detecting urban environmental quality and addressing global environmental change issues. However, the current global mapping of ISA...

Forest canopies exert significant controls over the spatial distribution of snow cover. Canopy snow interception efficiency is controlled by intrinsic processes (e.g., canopy structure), extrinsic processes (e.g., meteorological conditions), and the...

How to accurately detect small targets from the complex maritime environment has been a bottleneck problem. The strong wind-wave backlight conditions (SWWBC) is the most common situation in the process of distress target detection. In order to solve...

Vegetation dynamics on mid-channel bars (MCBs) is essential for supporting ecosystem functions and associated services in river systems, especially in dammed large rivers. Generally, there are two possible changing patterns that vegetation of MCBs do...

Energetic electron precipitation (EEP) via atmospheric ion production rates is a natural force acting on the atmosphere and climate systems. The correct estimation of EEP ion production and spectra for the computation of ionization rates is an import...

Fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possibilistic c-means (PCM) are two commonly used fuzzy clustering algorithms for extracting land use land cover (LULC) information from satellite images. However, these algorithms use only spectral or grey-level information o...

Surface water storage (SWS), the amount of freshwater stored in rivers/wetlands/floodplains/lakes, and its variations are key components of the water cycle and land surface hydrology, with strong feedback and linkages with climate variability. They a...

Satellite-based observations of sea wind are useful for forecasting marine weather and performing marine disaster management. Meteorological Operational Satellite-B (MetOp-B) is one of the satellites that provide wind products through a scatterometer...

Soil salt content (SSC) is normally featured with obvious spatiotemporal variations in arid and semi-arid regions. Space factors such as elevation, temperature, and spatial locations are usually used as input variables for a model to estimate the SSC...

This paper documents the retrieval of significant ocean surface wave heights in the Arctic Ocean from CryoSat-2 data. We use a semi-analytical model for an idealised synthetic aperture satellite radar or pulse-limited radar altimeter echo power. We d...

This study presents a new method for correcting the six degrees of freedom motion-induced error in ZephIR 300 floating Doppler Wind-LiDAR-derived data, based on a Robust Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter. The filter takes advantage of the known floati...

Monitoring wildland fire burn severity is important for assessing ecological outcomes of fire and their spatial patterning as well as guiding efforts to mitigate or restore areas where ecological outcomes are negative. Burn severity mapping products...

Wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems due to their critical services to both humans and the environment. Therefore, wetland mapping and monitoring are essential for their conservation. In this regard, remote sensing offers efficient solut...

Ocean surface net radiation (R_n) is significant in research on the Earth’s heat balance systems, air–sea interactions, and other applications. However, there have been few studies on R_n until now. Based on radiative and meteorological measurements co...

Building change detection has always been an important research focus in production and urbanization. In recent years, deep learning methods have demonstrated a powerful ability in the field of detecting remote sensing changes. However, due to the he...

River systems face negative impacts from development and removal of riparian vegetation that provide critical shading in the face of climate change. This study used supervised deep learning to accurately classify the land cover, including shading, of...

To monitor ocean and seafloor properties in detail, sensors are generally installed on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). An AUV cannot accurately determine its absolute position and needs to communicate with a sea-surface vehicle. However, sea-s...

Hyperspectral remote sensing reveals detailed information about the optical response of a scene. Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) can partition a hyperspectral dataset into clusters, both to enable more analysis on-board the imaging platform and to reduce...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can perform observations at all times and has been widely used in the military field. Deep neural network (DNN)-based SAR target recognition models have achieved great success in recent years. Yet, the adversarial robus...

In recent years, high-resolution remote sensing semantic segmentation based on data fusion has gradually become a research focus in the field of land classification, which is an indispensable task of a smart city. However, the existing feature fusion...

Airborne (or satellite) gravity measurement is a commonly used remote sensing method to obtain the underground density distribution. Airborne gravity gradiometry data have a higher horizontal resolution to shallower causative sources than airborne gr...

Aircraft emit harmful substances, such as carbon dioxide (CO₂), water vapour (H₂O), nitrogen oxides (NO_x), sulphur oxides (SO_x), particulates, and other trace compounds. These emissions degrade air quality and can deteriorate human health and negativ...

Crop rotations, the farming practice of growing crops in sequential seasons, occupy a core position in agriculture management, showing a key influence on food security and agro-ecosystem sustainability. Despite the improvement in accuracy of identify...

Currently, the world is facing high competition and market risks in improving yield, crop illness, and crop water stress. This could potentially be addressed by technological advancements in the form of precision systems, improvements in production,...

Invasive species are increasingly present in our ecosystems and pose a threat to the health of forest ecosystems. Practitioners are tasked with locating these invasive species and finding ways to mitigate their spread and impacts, often through costl...

Remote sensing scene classification remains challenging due to the complexity and variety of scenes. With the development of attention-based methods, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved competitive performance in remote sensing scene c...

Global estimates of burned areas, enabled by the wide-open access to the standard data products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), are heavily relied on by scientists and managers studying issues related to wildfire occur...

In this study, we examine leaf reflectance as the main optical property used in remote sensing of vegetation. The total leaf reflectance consists of two main components: a diffuse component, originating from the leaf interior, and a component reflect...

Effectively monitoring Pantana phyllostachysae Chao (PPC) is essential for the sustainable development of the bamboo industry. However, the morphological similarity between damaged and off-year bamboo imposes challenges in the monitoring. The knowled...

In this study, we aimed to investigate the hydrological performance of three gridded precipitation products—CHIRPS, RFE, and TRMM3B42V7—in monthly streamflow forecasting. After statistical evaluation, two monthly streamflow forecasting models—support...

The recent proliferation of the Internet of Things has led to the pervasion of networked IoT devices such as sensors, video cameras, mobile phones, and industrial machines. This has fueled the growth of Time-Sensitive IoT (TS-IoT) applications that m...

The feasibility of rapid and non-destructive classification of six different Amaranthus species was investigated using visible-near-infrared (Vis-NIR) spectra coupled with chemometric approaches. The focus of this research would be to use a handheld...

Object detection is an essential task in computer vision. Many methods have made significant progress in ordinary object detection. Due to the particularity of remote sensing images, the detection target is tiny, the background is messy, dense, and h...

Accurate yield estimation and optimized agricultural management is a key goal in precision agriculture, while depending on many different production attributes, such as soil properties, fertilizer and irrigation management, the weather, and topograph...

Variations in surface physicochemical properties and spatial structures can prominently transform surface albedo which conversely influence surface energy balances and global climate, making it crucial to continuously monitor and quantify surface dyn...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the applicability of medium and long-term satellite rainfall estimation (SRE) precipitation products for drought monitoring over mainland China. Four medium and long-term (19 a) SREs, i.e., the Tropical Rainf...

Movement ecologists have witnessed a rapid increase in the amount of animal position data collected over the past few decades, as well as a concomitant increase in the availability of ecologically relevant remotely sensed data. Many researchers, howe...

Vegetation indices are widely used to derive land surface phenology (LSP). However, due to inconsistent illumination geometries, reflectance varies with solar zenith angles (SZA), which in turn affects the vegetation indices, and thus the derived LSP...