2023 October-1 - 252 articles
Demand for food and water are increasing while the extent of arable land and accessible fresh water are decreasing. This poses global challenges as economies continue to develop and the population grows. With agriculture as the leading consumer of wa...
The inversion of acoustic field data to estimate geoacoustic parameters has been a prominent research focus in the field of underwater acoustics for several decades. Modal-dispersion curves have been used to inverse seabed sound speed and density pro...
In a space-based infrared system, the enhancement of targets plays a crucial role in improving target detection capabilities. However, the existing methods of target enhancement face challenges when dealing with multi-target scenarios and a low signa...
A short-term rapid subsidence event occurred in the Bi Guiyuan community in Balitai Town, Tianjin City, leading to the tilting of high-rise buildings and the emergency evacuation of over 3000 residents. In response to this incident, InSAR (Interferom...
Chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlFa) parameters provide insight into the physiological and biochemical processes of plants and have been widely applied to monitor and evaluate the photochemical process and photosynthetic capacity of plants in a variety...
The Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator (ARTS) has been widely used in the radiation transfer simulation from microwave to terahertz. Due to the same physical principles, ARTS can also be used for simulations of thermal infrared (TIR). However,...
The Doppler characteristics of sea surface echoes reflect the time-varying characteristics of the sea surface and can be used to retrieve ocean dynamic parameters and detect targets. On airborne, spaceborne and shipborne radar platforms, radar moves...
Object detection based on RGB and infrared images has emerged as a crucial research area in computer vision, and the synergy of RGB-Infrared ensures the robustness of object-detection algorithms under varying lighting conditions. However, the RGB-IR...
The chlorophyll-a (Chla) concentration is a key parameter to evaluate the eutrophication conditions of water, which is very important for monitoring algal blooms. Although Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) has been widely used in Chla inversion...
The main core of InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) data processing is phase unwrapping, and the output has a direct impact on the quality of the data processing products. Noise introduced from the SAR system and interferometric process...
Landscape ecological risk is considered the basis for regional ecosystem management decisions. Thus, it is essential to understand the spatial and temporal evolutionary patterns and drivers of landscape ecological risk. However, existing studies lack...
Soil liquefaction often occurs as a secondary hazard during earthquakes and can lead to significant structural and infrastructure damage. Liquefaction is most often documented through field reconnaissance and recorded as point locations. Complete liq...
The Arctic stratospheric ozone depletion event in spring 2020 was the most severe compared with previous years. We retrieved the critical indicator ozone vertical column density (VCD) using zenith scattered light differential optical absorption spect...
The Mars Atmospheric Wind Imaging Interferometer offers several advantages, notably its high throughput, enabling the acquisition of precise and high vertical resolution data on the temperature and wind fields in the Martian atmosphere. Considering t...
The roughness of rock joints exerts a substantial influence on the mechanical behavior of rock masses. In order to identify potential failure mechanisms and to design effective protection measures, the accurate measurement of joint roughness is essen...
In this paper, GNSS stations’ observational data, global ionospheric maps (GIM) and the electron density of FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 occultation are used to study ionospheric anomalies before the submarine volcanic eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hung...
As a key object on the ocean, regulating civilian and military ship targets more effectively is a very important part of maintaining maritime security. One of the ways to obtain high-resolution images of ship targets is the inverse synthetic aperture...
A physically-based image processing approach, based on a single-source surface energy balance framework, is developed here to model the land surface temperature (LST) over complex/rugged geologic terrains at medium to high spatial resolution (<102...
Climate change is undeniably one of the most pressing and critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. In this context, monitoring the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is fundamental in conjunction with greenhouse gases (GHGs) in orde...
This study introduces a novel approach to the critical task of submarine pipeline or cable (POC) detection by employing GoogleNet for the automatic recognition of side-scan sonar (SSS) images. The traditional interpretation methods, heavily reliant o...
The Frinco Castle (AT-Italy) was the focus of a critical requalification and restoration project and historical knowledge. The initial medieval nucleus was modified and enriched by other architectural parts giving the current shape over the centuries...
Quick and automatic detection of the distribution and connectivity of urban rivers and their changes from satellite imagery is of great importance for urban flood control, river management, and ecological conservation. By improving the E-UNet model,...
With the development of vehicular communication technology, the electromagnetic compatibility requirements of vehicular communication systems are becoming more demanding. The traditional four-level electromagnetic compatibility evaluation model is wi...
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Forests are one of the most important natural resources for humans, and understanding the regeneration probability of undergrowth in forests is very important for future forest spatial structure and forest management. In addition, the regeneration of...
Understanding the kinematic characteristics of the Longitudinal Valley Fault Zone (LVFZ) can help us to better understand the evolution of orogens. The 2022 Mw7.0 Taitung earthquake that occurred in Taiwan provides us with a good opportunity to under...
Spherical radial basis function (SRBF) is an effective method for calculating regional gravity field models. Calculating gravity field models with high accuracy and resolution requires dense basis functions, resulting in complex models. This study in...
Alxa League of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is a concentrated desert distribution area in China, and the latest desertification process and its driving mechanism under the comprehensive influence of the extreme dry climate and intense human activ...
The timely and accurate quantification of grassland biomass is a prerequisite for sustainable grazing management. With advances in artificial intelligence, the launch of new satellites, and perceived efficiency gains in the time and cost of the quant...
The coastal zone represents a unique interface between land and sea, and addressing the ecological crisis it faces is of global significance. One of the most fundamental and effective measures is to extract the coastline’s location on a large s...
The eastern coastline of the Gulf of Trieste (north-eastern Adriatic Sea, Italy) is characterized by the occurrence of coastal and submarine freshwater springs of karstic origin. In one of these areas, we performed a survey with a drone with a therma...
Mosaicking is a crucial step in the application of remote sensing images. The amount of remote sensing image data has grown rapidly, along with the expansion of observed areas and increased image resolution. As a result, traditional serial mosaicking...
The traditional leveling, total station, and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and the new differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) and terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) systems have their own advantages and limitations i...
Xinjiang is located in arid northwest China, which is a key area for promoting the high-quality development of the regional ecological environment. In recent years, against a background of increasing human activities and rapid natural changes, Xinjia...
This work describes a procedure for building a high-quality 3D model of a rocky pinnacle in the Dolomites, Italy, using Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques. The pinnacle, known as “Campanile di Val Montanaia”, is challenging to survey...
The integrity of remote-sensing image data is susceptible to corruption during storage and transmission. Perceptual hashing is a non-destructive data integrity-protection technique suitable for high-accuracy requirements of remote-sensing image data....
The Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) onboard the Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) satellite is the first independently developed satellite-borne lightning imager in China. It enables continuous lightning detection in China and surrounding areas, regardless of weathe...
In an effort to improve the efficiency of soil classification, traditional methods are being combined with analytical and computational techniques. This integration has strengthened the connection between conventional classification and the applicati...
The vegetation cover of forests and grasslands in mountain regions plays a crucial role in regulating climate at both regional and global scales. Thus, it is necessary to develop accurate methods for estimating and monitoring fractional vegetation co...
CubeSats have extensive applications in the realm of remote sensing. However, due to size constraints, attitude determination and control systems (ADCS) often adopt an integrated and densely packed structure. This leads to simple interference in the...
The exacerbation of wildfires, attributed to the effects of climate change, presents substantial risks to ecological systems, infrastructure, and human well-being. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those related...
The space surveillance network collects significant quantities of space object monitoring data on a daily basis, which varies in duration and contain observation errors. Cataloguing space objects based on these data may result in a large number of ve...
As global warming intensifies, the damage caused by drought cannot be disregarded. Traditional drought monitoring is often carried out with monthly resolution, which fails to monitor the sub-monthly climatic event. The GRACE-based drought severity in...
Cloud and cloud shadow segmentation is one of the most critical challenges in remote sensing image processing. Because of susceptibility to factors such as disturbance from terrain features and noise, as well as a poor capacity to generalize, convent...
The Bangongco–Nujiang metallogenic belt of Tibet is a main suture zone in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, which is known as an important porphyry–epithermal–skarn Cu-polymetallic mineralization zone in China. The western part of th...
Autonomuous transportation systems require navigation performance with a high level of integrity. As Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) real-time kinematic (RTK) solutions are needed to ensure lane level accuracy of the whole system, these sol...
The air temperature changes in the Palu MW7.5 earthquake in Indonesia on 28 September 2018 were analyzed, based on the additive tectonic stress caused by celestial tidal-generating forces (ATSCTF) and air temperature data from the National Center for...
Hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution is a vital technique that generates high spatial-resolution HSI (HR-HSI) by integrating information from low spatial-resolution HSI with high spatial-resolution multispectral image (MSI). However, existing s...
Contactless and non-destructive measuring tools can facilitate the moisture monitoring of bagged or bulk grain during transportation and storage. However, accurate target recognition and size prediction always impede the effectiveness of contactless...
A long-wavelength geoidal geometry characterizes the most pronounced features of the Indian Ocean geoid low and the West Pacific and North Atlantic geoid highs. These large geoid undulations (globally roughly within ±100 m) are mainly attribut...
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