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Remote Sensing, Volume 15, Issue 21

2023 November-1 - 188 articles

Cover Story: This paper presents a study on applying satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology for the remote monitoring of road bridges and interpreting the results from a structural standpoint. The study focuses on the multi-span prestressed concrete A22 Po River Bridge in Italy. It utilises X-Band COSMO-SkyMed SAR images acquired over eight years. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of InSAR-based SHM in detecting temperature-induced displacements and identifying different bridge spans simply by studying the sign of the correlation between displacements and temperature variation. They also highlighted an unexpected behaviour in a bridge portion previously retrofitted to prevent scour. These results are significant with a view to using satellite InSAR-based bridge health monitoring on a large scale. View this paper
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Articles (188)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,209 Views
26 Pages

A Hybrid Algorithm with Swin Transformer and Convolution for Cloud Detection

  • Chengjuan Gong,
  • Tengfei Long,
  • Ranyu Yin,
  • Weili Jiao and
  • Guizhou Wang

6 November 2023

Cloud detection is critical in remote sensing image processing, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced this field. However, traditional CNNs primarily focus on extracting local features, which can be challenging for clou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,349 Views
21 Pages

Assessment of Leica CityMapper-2 LiDAR Data within Milan’s Digital Twin Project

  • Marica Franzini,
  • Vittorio Marco Casella and
  • Bruno Monti

6 November 2023

The digital twin is one of the most promising technologies for realizing smart cities in terms of planning and management. For this purpose, Milan, Italy, has started a project to acquire aerial nadir and oblique images and LiDAR and terrestrial mobi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,934 Views
24 Pages

6 November 2023

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has become one of the mainstream techniques for active landslide identification over a large area. However, the method for interpreting anomalous deformation areas derived from InSAR data is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,585 Views
21 Pages

Combination of UAV Photogrammetry and Field Inventories Enables Description of Height–Diameter Relationship within Semi-Arid Silvopastoral Systems

  • Arvin Fakhri,
  • Hooman Latifi,
  • Kyumars Mohammadi Samani,
  • Zahed Shakeri,
  • Hamed Naghavi and
  • Fabian Ewald Fassnacht

6 November 2023

Pollarding oak trees is a traditional silvopastoral technique practiced across wide areas of the northern Zagros mountains, a unique and vast semi-arid forest area with a strong cultural and ecological significance. So far, the effects of pollarding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,094 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2023

During gravity field modeling, the conventional acceleration approach rarely incorporates KBR inter-satellite range rate data from the GRACE mission. To propose an improved acceleration method, this study introduces initial orbital position and veloc...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,602 Views
14 Pages

Shadow-Based False Target Identification for SAR Images

  • Haoyu Zhang,
  • Sinong Quan,
  • Shiqi Xing,
  • Junpeng Wang,
  • Yongzhen Li and
  • Ping Wang

6 November 2023

In radar electronic countermeasures, as the difference between jamming and targets continues to decrease, traditional methods that are implemented based on classical features are currently unable to meet the requirements of jamming detection. Compare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,776 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2023

A multi-hypothesis marginal multi-target Bayes filter for heavy-tailed observation noise is proposed to track multiple targets in the presence of clutter, missed detection, and target appearing and disappearing. The proposed filter propagates the exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,140 Views
31 Pages

Data-Driven Landslide Spatial Prediction and Deformation Monitoring: A Case Study of Shiyan City, China

  • Yifan Sheng,
  • Guangli Xu,
  • Bijing Jin,
  • Chao Zhou,
  • Yuanyao Li and
  • Weitao Chen

6 November 2023

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is significant for landslide risk assessment. However, there remains no consensus on which method is optimal for LSM. This study implements a dynamic approach to landslide hazard mapping by integrating spatio-te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,793 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2023

Open-pit mining activities inevitably affect the surrounding ecological environment. Therefore, it is crucial to clarify the disturbance characteristics of open-pit mining activities on the surrounding vegetation and scientifically implement ecologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,744 Views
25 Pages

6 November 2023

Precipitation products play an important role in monitoring rainstorm processes. This study takes a rare historical event of extreme, heavy precipitation that occurred in Henan Province, China, in July 2021 as a research case. By analyzing the distri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,337 Views
20 Pages

6 November 2023

Soil salinization seriously affects the sustainable development of agricultural production; thus, the timely, efficient, and accurate estimation of soil salt content (SSC) has important research significance. In this study, the feasibility of soil sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,652 Views
19 Pages

An Improved Carrier-Smoothing Code Algorithm for BDS Satellites with SICB

  • Qichao Zhang,
  • Xiaping Ma,
  • Yuting Gao,
  • Gongwen Huang and
  • Qingzhi Zhao

6 November 2023

Carrier Smoothing Code (CSC), as a low-pass filter, has been widely used in GNSS positioning processing to reduce pseudorange noise via carrier phases. However, current CSC methods do not consider the systematic bias between the code and carrier phas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,154 Views
24 Pages

6 November 2023

The assessment of ecosystem quality and the maintenance of optimal ecosystem function require understanding vegetation area dynamics and their relationship with climate variables. This study aims to detect vegetation area changes downstream of the Ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,328 Views
24 Pages

6 November 2023

With the development of the Chinese Fengyun satellite series, Fengyun-2G (FY-2G) quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) can provide real-time and high-quality precipitation data over East Asia. However, FY-2G QPE cannot offer precipitation inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,954 Views
23 Pages

5 November 2023

This work presents a framework for assessing the socio-physical disruption of critical infrastructure accessibility using the example of Greater Jakarta, a metropolitan area of the Indonesian city. The first pillar of the framework is damage quantifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,716 Views
36 Pages

Study of Recent Deformations in the Bogotá Savanna and the City of Bogotá (Colombia) Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Radar Interferometry

  • Juan S. Tamayo Duque,
  • Antonio Miguel Ruiz-Armenteros,
  • Guillermo E. Ávila Álvarez,
  • Gustavo Matiz and
  • Joaquim J. Sousa

5 November 2023

Bogotá, the largest urban center and capital city of Colombia, is located within the Bogotá savanna, which originated as a lake in the central part of the Colombian Eastern Cordillera. Over time, the lake transformed into a gently undul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,036 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2023

Semantic segmentation of point clouds provided by airborne LiDAR survey in urban scenes is a great challenge. This is due to the fact that point clouds at boundaries of different types of objects are easy to be mixed and have geometric spatial simila...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,358 Views
17 Pages

5 November 2023

An extensive number of farmlands in the Poyang Lake region of China have been submerged due to the impact of flood disasters, resulting in significant agricultural economic losses. Therefore, it is of great importance to conduct the long-term tempora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,644 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2023

The water conservation function (WCF), as one of the most critical ecosystem services, has an important impact on the ecological sustainability of a region. Accurately characterizing the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of WCF and further exploring its d...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,869 Views
15 Pages

GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Simulation for a Single-Photon Underwater Lidar

  • Yupeng Liao,
  • Mingjia Shangguan,
  • Zhifeng Yang,
  • Zaifa Lin,
  • Yuanlun Wang and
  • Sihui Li

5 November 2023

The Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, due to its ability to accurately simulate the backscattered signal of lidar, plays a crucial role in the design, optimization, and interpretation of the backscattered signal in lidar systems. Despite the development o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,444 Views
27 Pages

A New Strategy for Extracting 3D Deformation of Mining Areas from a Single-Geometry Synthetic Aperture Radar Dataset

  • Ruonan Zhao,
  • Zhabko Andrey Viktorovich,
  • Junfeng Li,
  • Chuang Chen and
  • Meinan Zheng

4 November 2023

This paper presents a strategy for extracting three-dimensional (3D) mining deformation from a single-geometry synthetic aperture radar (SAR) dataset. In light of the directionality of horizontal displacement caused by underground mining, we first re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,088 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2023

With the rapid development and promotion of deep learning technology in the field of remote sensing, building change detection (BCD) has made great progress. Some recent approaches have improved detailed information about buildings by introducing hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,196 Views
24 Pages

Interpretation of Bridge Health Monitoring Data from Satellite InSAR Technology

  • Daniel Tonelli,
  • Valeria F. Caspani,
  • Andrea Valentini,
  • Alfredo Rocca,
  • Riccardo Torboli,
  • Alfonso Vitti,
  • Daniele Perissin and
  • Daniele Zonta

4 November 2023

This paper presents a study on applying satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology for the remote monitoring of road bridges and interpreting the results from a structural standpoint. The motivation behind this study arises...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2,872 Views
14 Pages

Early Detection and Analysis of an Unpredicted Convective Storm over the Negev Desert

  • Shilo Shiff,
  • Amir Givati,
  • Steve Brenner and
  • Itamar M. Lensky

4 November 2023

On 15 September 2015, a convective storm yielded heavy rainfalls that caused the strongest flash flood in the last 50 years in the South Negev Desert (Israel). None of the operational forecast models predicted the event, and thus, no warning was prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,650 Views
23 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Water Use Efficiency and Ecosystem Photosynthetic Efficiency in Central Asia

  • Heran Yahefujiang,
  • Jie Zou,
  • Jianli Ding,
  • Wensong Zou,
  • Wulala Tangjialeke and
  • Miao Yang

4 November 2023

Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) and ecosystem photosynthetic efficiency (EPE) are key indicators in studies of the carbon–water cycle in terrestrial ecosystems. Analyses of WUE and EPE can enhance our understanding of the relationship betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,270 Views
23 Pages

Spatiotemporal Vegetation Variability and Linkage with Snow-Hydroclimatic Factors in Western Himalaya Using Remote Sensing and Google Earth Engine (GEE)

  • Dhiraj Kumar Singh,
  • Kamal Kant Singh,
  • George P. Petropoulos,
  • Priestly Shan Boaz,
  • Prince Jain,
  • Sartajvir Singh,
  • Dileep Kumar Gupta and
  • Vishakha Sood

4 November 2023

The mountain systems of the Himalayan regions are changing rapidly due to climatic change at a local and global scale. The Indian Western Himalaya ecosystem (between the tree line and the snow line) is an underappreciated component. Yet, knowledge of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,766 Views
27 Pages

3 November 2023

Remote sensing data has been widely used for various Earth Observation (EO) missions such as land use and cover classification, weather forecasting, agricultural management, and environmental monitoring. Most existing remote-sensing-data-based models...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,355 Views
37 Pages

3 November 2023

In general, optimal motion planning can be performed both locally and globally. In such a planning, the choice in favor of either local or global planning technique mainly depends on whether the environmental conditions are dynamic or static. Hence,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,059 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2023

The study reported in this paper concerns the temporal variation in the b-value of the Gutenberg–Richter frequency–magnitude law, applied to the earthquakes that struck Italy from 2009 to 2016 in the geographical areas of L’Aquila,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,674 Views
27 Pages

A New Approach for Feeding Multispectral Imagery into Convolutional Neural Networks Improved Classification of Seedlings

  • Mohammad Imangholiloo,
  • Ville Luoma,
  • Markus Holopainen,
  • Mikko Vastaranta,
  • Antti Mäkeläinen,
  • Niko Koivumäki,
  • Eija Honkavaara and
  • Ehsan Khoramshahi

3 November 2023

Tree species information is important for forest management, especially in seedling stands. To mitigate the spectral admixture of understory reflectance with small and lesser foliaged seedling canopies, we proposed an image pre-processing step based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,663 Views
17 Pages

Chaotic Properties of Gravity Waves during Typhoons Observed by HFSWR

  • Xuekun Chen,
  • Hongjuan Yang,
  • Zhe Lyu and
  • Changjun Yu

3 November 2023

The gravity wave produced by typhoons has been an essential subject of study that concerns numerous researchers. The damage to human beings and infrastructure in coastal regions caused by typhoon disasters annually is very severe, and analyzing gravi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,699 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2023

Velocity aliasing is unavoidable for millimeter-wave cloud radar (MMCR) due to its short wavelength. In the vertically pointing MMCR, a special aliasing state called half-folding will cause the traditional postprocessing dealiasing methods used for w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,041 Views
18 Pages

3 November 2023

A good water budget involving four variables, including precipitation (P), evapotranspiration (ET), streamflow (R), and terrestrial water storage change (TWSC), is reflected in two aspects: a high accuracy against observations for each budget compone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,008 Views
21 Pages

Rooftop PV Segmenter: A Size-Aware Network for Segmenting Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems from High-Resolution Imagery

  • Jianxun Wang,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Weiyue Shi,
  • Weicheng Jiang,
  • Xiaopu Zhang,
  • Li Hua,
  • Junyi Liu and
  • Haigang Sui

3 November 2023

The photovoltaic (PV) industry boom has accelerated the need for accurately understanding the spatial distribution of PV energy systems. The synergy of remote sensing and artificial intelligence presents significant prospects for PV energy monitoring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,039 Views
25 Pages

3 November 2023

Realization and enhancement of detection techniques for multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems require polyphase code sequences with excellent orthogonality characteristics. Therefore, orthogonal waveform design is the key to reali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,841 Views
20 Pages

Improving Cloud Detection in WFV Images Onboard Chinese GF-1/6 Satellite

  • Hao Chang,
  • Xin Fan,
  • Lianzhi Huo and
  • Changmiao Hu

3 November 2023

We have developed an algorithm for cloud detection in Chinese GF-1/6 satellite multispectral images, allowing us to generate cloud masks at the pixel level. Due to the lack of shortwave infrared and thermal infrared bands in the Chinese GF-1/6 satell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,844 Views
19 Pages

Improving 3D Digital Soil Mapping Based on Spatialized Lab Soil Spectral Information

  • Zheng Sun,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Decai Wang,
  • Huayong Wu and
  • Ganlin Zhang

3 November 2023

Readily available environmental covariates in current digital soil mapping usually do not indicate the spatial differences between deep soil attributes. This, to a large extent, leads to a decrease in the accuracy of 3D soil mapping with depth, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,170 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2023

Sand and dust storm (SDS) weather has caused several severe hazards in many regions worldwide, e.g., environmental pollution, traffic disruptions, and human casualties. Widespread surveillance cameras show great potential for high spatiotemporal reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,655 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2023

Meteorological hazards, such as floods, can develop rapidly and are usually a local phenomenon. On the other hand, drought is a phenomenon arising over longer periods. Moreover, it occurs in areas that are remarkably diverse in terms of surface area....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,532 Views
21 Pages

3 November 2023

Historically, the Vega Alta of the Guadalquivir River (southern Spain) has been an anthropized space. Over time, the dominance of latifundia agriculture has evolved towards more intensive citrus-based agriculture. In this study, wavelet algorithms ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,283 Views
20 Pages

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Speckle Filter Based on Joint Similarity Measurement Criterion

  • Fanyi Tang,
  • Zhenfang Li,
  • Qingjun Zhang,
  • Zhiyong Suo,
  • Zexi Zhang,
  • Chao Xing and
  • Huancheng Guo

3 November 2023

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data is inherently characterized by speckle noise, which significantly deteriorates certain aspects of the quality of the PolSAR data processing, including the polarimetric decomposition and target inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,842 Views
20 Pages

Near Real-Time Mapping of Tropical Forest Disturbance Using SAR and Semantic Segmentation in Google Earth Engine

  • John Burns Kilbride,
  • Ate Poortinga,
  • Biplov Bhandari,
  • Nyein Soe Thwal,
  • Nguyen Hanh Quyen,
  • Jeff Silverman,
  • Karis Tenneson,
  • David Bell,
  • Matthew Gregory and
  • David Saah
  • + 1 author

3 November 2023

Satellite-based forest alert systems are an important tool for ecosystem monitoring, planning conservation, and increasing public awareness of forest cover change. Continuous monitoring in tropical regions, such as those experiencing pronounced monso...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,300 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2023

Hyperspectral remote sensing images, with their continuous, narrow, and rich spectra, hold distinct significance in the precise classification of land cover. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their variants are increasingly utilized for h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,919 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2023

The extensive existence of high-brightness ice and snow underlying surfaces in polar regions presents notable complexities for cloud detection in remote sensing imagery. To elevate the accuracy of cloud detection in polar regions, a novel polar cloud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,085 Views
18 Pages

3 November 2023

For more than 50 years, marine and remote sensing researchers have investigated the methods of bathymetry extraction by means of active (altimetry) and passive (optics) satellite sensors. These methods, in general, are referred to as satellite-derive...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,391 Views
15 Pages

3 November 2023

Volcano eruption identification and watching is crucial to better understanding volcano dynamics, namely the near real-time identification of the eruption start, end, and duration. Eruption watching allows hazard assessment, eruption forecasting and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,477 Views
21 Pages

2 November 2023

Camellia oleifera is a vital economic crop of southern China. Accurate mapping and monitoring of Camellia oleifera plantations are essential for promoting sustainable operations within the Camellia oleifera industry. However, traditional remote sensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,500 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2023

Initial orbit determination (IOD), as a basis for initial orbit association and accurate orbit determination (OD), has a crucial role in the process of obtaining space debris orbit information. Among the traditional methods, the Gooding method has be...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,125 Views
16 Pages

Underwater Single-Photon Lidar Equipped with High-Sampling-Rate Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System

  • Zaifa Lin,
  • Mingjia Shangguan,
  • Fuqing Cao,
  • Zhifeng Yang,
  • Ying Qiu and
  • Zhenwu Weng

2 November 2023

Lidar has emerged as an important technology for the high-precision three-dimensional remote sensing of the ocean. While oceanic lidar has been widely deployed on various platforms, its underwater deployment is relatively limited, despite its signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,118 Views
17 Pages

Coastal Flood Mapping with Two Approaches Based on Observations at Furadouro, Northern Portugal

  • Jose E. Carneiro-Barros,
  • Theocharis A. Plomaritis,
  • Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa,
  • Paulo Rosa-Santos and
  • Francisco Taveira-Pinto

2 November 2023

This study assesses coastal flooding extension mapping based on two innovative approaches. The first is based on the coupling of two robust numerical models (SWASH and LISFLOOD); in this case, discharges were extracted from the wave overtopping resul...

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