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Sensors, Volume 19, Issue 5

March-1 2019 - 281 articles

Cover Story: The study presents a novel approach in the application of UAV imaging for the conjoint assessment of the snow depth and winter leaf area index (LAI). LAI assessment, crucial for the correct interpretation of the snow depth distribution in forested areas, was based on downward-looking UAV images taken in the forest regime. To identify the canopy characteristics from downward-looking UAV images, the snow background was used instead of the sky fraction. Field surveying of snow depth and LAI were conducted as a reference to UAV imaging. The study covered sites with a varying structure and the state of the Norway spruce forest cover, ranging from healthy and disturbed forest to a meadow area, over a winter season. Since the snow depth and the LAI parameters are essential for snowpack studies, this combined method will be of great value to simplifying snow depth and the LAI assessment of snow dynamics. View this paper.
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Articles (281)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,546 Views
15 Pages

12 March 2019

Seismic imaging is the most effective geophysical method and has been extensively implemented to detect potential geological hazards in tunnels during construction. The coupling of geophones and the design of geometry in tunnels are the two major cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,234 Views
17 Pages

Robust Normal Estimation for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds in Urban Environments

  • Ruibin Zhao,
  • Mingyong Pang,
  • Caixia Liu and
  • Yanling Zhang

12 March 2019

Normal estimation is a crucial first step for numerous light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data-processing algorithms, from building reconstruction, road extraction, and ground-cover classification to scene rendering. For LiDAR point clouds in urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,028 Views
17 Pages

A Multi-Agent Gamification System for Managing Smart Homes

  • Alicja Winnicka,
  • Karolina Kęsik,
  • Dawid Połap,
  • Marcin Woźniak and
  • Zbigniew Marszałek

12 March 2019

Rapid development and conducted experiments in the field of the introduction the fifth generation of the mobile network standard allow for the flourishing of the Internet of Things. This is one of the most important reasons to design and test systems...

  • Review
  • Open Access
85 Citations
11,795 Views
27 Pages

Structure-Property Relationships in Graphene-Based Strain and Pressure Sensors for Potential Artificial Intelligence Applications

  • Zewei Luo,
  • Xiaotong Hu,
  • Xiyue Tian,
  • Chen Luo,
  • Hejun Xu,
  • Quanling Li,
  • Qianhao Li,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Fei Qiao and
  • Xing Wu
  • + 2 authors

12 March 2019

Wearable electronic sensing devices are deemed to be a crucial technology of smart personal electronics. Strain and pressure sensors, one of the most popular research directions in recent years, are the key components of smart and flexible electronic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,126 Views
20 Pages

12 March 2019

Observing sea ice by very high-resolution (VHR) images not only improves the quality of lower-resolution remote sensing products (e.g., sea ice concentration, distribution of melt ponds and pressure ridges, sea ice surface roughness, etc.) by providi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,488 Views
20 Pages

12 March 2019

The parabolic equation is an efficient numerical solution for electromagnetic wave propagation. In order to address the difficulties in predicting electromagnetic wave propagation in the maritime environment caused by atmospheric dust and rough sea s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,788 Views
11 Pages

12 March 2019

Lateral field excitation quartz crystal microbalance (LFE-QCM) can detect both the electrical properties (conductivity and permittivity) and mechanical properties (viscosity and density) of the liquid. In practical applications for detecting electric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,644 Views
31 Pages

12 March 2019

Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) cause losses to world fruit growing. For a fast and effective control of the pest, it is necessary to identify the species and their populations. Thus, we developed an infrared optoelectronic sensor using phototrans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,950 Views
20 Pages

A Seabed Real-Time Sensing System for In-Situ Long-Term Multi-Parameter Observation Applications

  • Lanjun Liu,
  • Zhibo Liao,
  • Caiyi Chen,
  • Jialin Chen,
  • Jiong Niu,
  • Yonggang Jia,
  • Xiujun Guo,
  • Zhaowei Chen,
  • Li Deng and
  • Haibo Xu
  • + 1 author

12 March 2019

Aiming at the real-time observation requirements in marine science and ocean engineering, based on underwater acoustic communication and satellite communication technology, a seabed real-time sensing system for in-situ long-term multi-parameter obser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,712 Views
17 Pages

12 March 2019

Recently, several red-green-blue near-infrared (RGB-NIR) multispectral filter arrays (MFAs), which include near infrared (NIR) pixels, have been proposed. For extremely low light scenes, the RGB-NIR MFA sensor has been extended to receive NIR light,...

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