Remote Sensing, Volume 14, Issue 15

The use of 3D point cloud-based technology for quantifying standing wood and stand parameters can play a key role in forestry ecological benefit assessment and standing tree cultivation and utilization. With the advance of 3D information acquisition...

The civilian airplane is a common transportation mode for the local people in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). Due to the profound dynamic and thermal effects, the QTP can trigger strong windstorms during the warm season, during which downbursts can...

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) has become an important method of predicting extreme weather events, but orography is one of the key factors affecting the performance of NWPs. In this paper, based on Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflec...

Changes in lake water temperature, observed with the greatest intensity during the last two decades, may significantly affect the functioning of these unique ecosystems. Currently, in situ studies in Poland are conducted only for 38 lakes using the s...

Change detection between images of pre-flood and flooding periods is a critical process for flood mapping using satellite images. Flood mapping from SAR images is based on backscattering coefficient differences. The change rules of the backscattering...

Typhoon Rammasun landed on the southern coastal region of Guangdong and Hainan Provinces on 18 July 2014, and is the strongest recorded typhoon since the 1970s in China. It caused enormous losses in human lives, property, and crop yields in two provi...

Canopy clumping index (CI) is a key structural parameter related to vegetation phenology and the absorption of radiation, and it is usually retrieved from remote sensing data based on an empirical relationship with the Normalized Difference between H...

A new algorithm is developed to accurately compute the electromagnetic (EM) fields in the layered biaxial anisotropic media. We enclose the computational region in an infinitely long rectangular region by four vertical truncation planes and establish...

Obtaining accurate near-real-time precipitation data and merging multiple precipitation estimates require sufficient in-situ rain gauge networks. The triple collocation (TC) approach is a novel error assessment method that does not require rain gauge...

The Nyainrong microcontinent carries key information about the ongoing evolution of the central Tibetan Plateau. The 2021 Mw 5.7 Nagqu earthquake is the largest instrumentally recorded event inside this microcontinent, which provides an ideal opportu...

Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is an important indicator of ecosystem changes. Both satellite remote sensing and ground measurements are common methods for estimating FVC. However, desert vegetation grows sparsely and scantly and spreads widely in...

In recent years, increasing available synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data and gradually developing interferometric SAR (InSAR) technology have provided the possibility for wide-scale ground-deformation monitoring using InSAR. Traditionally,...

Cities in the northern Gulf of Mexico, such as Houston, have experienced one of the fastest rates of subsidence, with groundwater/hydrocarbon withdrawal being considered the primary cause. This work reports substantial ground subsidence in a few part...

Numerous species of pathogenic wood decay fungi, including members of the genera Heterobasidion and Armillaria, exist in forests in the northern hemisphere. Detection of these fungi through field surveys is often difficult due to a lack of visual sym...

Thanks to the excellent feature representation capabilities of neural networks, target detection methods based on deep learning are now widely applied in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection. However, the multi-scale variation, small targets...

A problem with synthetic aperture radars (SARs) is that due to the poor penetrating action of electromagnetic waves within solid bodies, the ability to see through distributed targets is precluded. In this context, indeed, imaging is only possible fo...

Dried lake beds are some of the largest sources of dust in the world and have caused environmental problems in the surrounding areas in recent decades. In the present work, we studied the monthly and annual occurrence of dust storms at selected weath...

Semantic segmentation in LiDAR point clouds has become an important research topic for autonomous driving systems. This paper proposes a dynamic graph convolution neural network for LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation using a polar bird’s-e...

Mobile robots lack a driver or a pilot and, thus, should be able to detect obstacles autonomously. This paper reviews various image-based obstacle detection techniques employed by unmanned vehicles such as Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), Unmanned A...

This paper presents the development and applications of a new, open-source toolbox that aims to provide automatic identification and classification of hydroclimatic patterns by their spatial features, i.e., location, size, orientation, and shape, as...

Increased reclamation activity has adversely affected the conservation of coastal environments. The interactions between reclamation activities and their interference with the natural and functional properties of coastal zones increase the difficulty...

The increasing availability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images facilitates the generation of rich Differential Interferometric SAR (DInSAR) data. Temporal analysis of DInSAR products, and in particular deformation Time Series (TS), enables adva...

The interfaces between small river plumes and ambient seawater have extremely sharp horizontal and vertical salinity gradients, often accompanied by velocity shear. It results in formation of instabilities at the lateral borders of small plumes. In t...

Soil texture is key information in agriculture for improving soil knowledge and crop performance, so the accurate mapping of this crucial feature is imperative for rationally planning cultivations and for targeting interventions. We studied the relat...

An accurate classification of the precipitation type is important for forecasters, particularly in the winter season. We explored the capability of three supervised machine learning (ML) methods (decision tree, random forest, and support vector machi...

For many years, the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments have been widely used to monitor the condition of surface vegetation. Since the polar-orbiting satellite provid...

Ambiguity resolution at Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network sites is the key step in the whole processing chain of Network Real Time Kinematic (NRTK). An appropriate ambiguity-resolution speed is important, and single-epoch ambigu...

Reliable and efficient avian monitoring tools are required to identify population change and then guide conservation initiatives. Autonomous recording units (ARUs) could increase both the amount and quality of monitoring data, though manual analysis...

The uncertainty verification of satellite ocean color products and the bias analysis of multiple data are both indispensable in the evaluation of ocean color products. Incidentally, ocean color products often have missing information that causes the...

Deforestation and forest degradation from human land use, including primary forest loss, are of growing concern. The conservation of old-growth and other forests with important environmental values is central to many international initiatives aimed a...

Although crop-growth monitoring is important for agricultural managers, it has always been a difficult research topic. However, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with RGB and hyperspectral cameras can now acquire high-resolution remote-sensing...

Rapid urbanization has produced a huge amount of construction waste. The operations and consequences of construction and demolition can lead to windblown dust problems, profoundly affecting the living environment of residents. Fortunately, dust-proof...

A capability for mapping meter-level resolution soil moisture with frequent temporal sampling over large regions is essential for quantifying local-scale environmental heterogeneity and eco-hydrologic behavior. However, available surface soil moistur...

The subsurface velocity model is crucial for high-resolution seismic imaging. Although full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-accuracy velocity inversion method, it inevitably suffers from challenging problems, including human interference, strong n...

To investigate forest resources, it is necessary to identify the tree species. However, it is a challenge to identify tree species using 3D point clouds of trees collected by light detection and ranging (LiDAR). PointNet++, a point cloud deep learnin...

The use of Transformer-based networks has been proposed for the processing of general point clouds. However, there has been little research related to multispectral LiDAR point clouds that contain both spatial coordinate information and multi-wavelen...

Abandoned cropland may lead to a series of issues regarding the environment, ecology, and food security. In hilly areas, cropland is prone to be abandoned due to scattered planting, relatively fewer sunlight hours, and a lower agricultural input&ndas...

It is widely accepted that the signature of anticyclonic (cyclonic) eddies on the sea surface temperature corresponds to a warm (cold) core anomaly. Nevertheless, this statement has been put to question by recent regional studies showing the existenc...

Drought events cause ecological problems, including reduced water resources and degraded vegetation. Quantifying vegetation responses to drought is essential for ecological management. However, in existing research, the response relationships (correl...

Recently, 3D mapping has begun to play an increasingly important role in photogrammetric applications [...]

The expansion of bare sand surfaces indicates a tendency towards desertfication in certain periods as a result of the improper agricultural use of sand soils and of the significant changes in the climate in the past 30 years. The Normalised Sand Inde...

Soil texture data are the basic input parameters for many Earth System Models. As the largest middle–low altitude permafrost regions on the planet, the land surface processes on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau can affect regional and even globa...

Remote sensing tools have been extensively used for large-scale soil moisture (SM) mapping in recent years, using Landsat satellite images. Rainfall, soil clay percentage, and the standardized precipitation index play key roles in determining the moi...

Due to the shortage of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) training samples, space−time adaptive processing (STAP) often suffers remarkable performance degradation in the heterogeneous clutter environment. Sparse recovery (SR) tech...

Plasma sheath poses a serious challenge to inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging of hypersonic targets. This paper investigated the distribution characteristics of the electron density and velocity field in the plasma sheath surrounding the...

Secchi disk depth (Z_SD) is used to quantify water clarity as an important water-quality parameter, and one of the most used mechanistic models for Z_SD is the quasi-analytical algorithm (QAA), of which the latest version is QAA_v6. There are two model...

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification has attracted widespread concern in recent years. However, due to the complexity of the HSI gathering environment, it is difficult to obtain a great number of HSI labeled samples. Therefore, how to effectively...

In this study, we investigate the most severe East Asian dust storm in the past decade that occurred on 14–16 March 2021 based on the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem) and a variety of site measurements an...

Autonomous navigation and positioning are key to the successful performance of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) in environmental monitoring, oceanographic mapping, and critical marine infrastructure inspections in the sea. Cameras have been at the...

Digital photogrammetry is a widespread surveying technique in different fields of application due to its flexibility, versatility and cost-effectiveness. Despite its increasing automation and simplicity, a proper image block design is crucial to ensu...