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Remote Sensing, Volume 11, Issue 1

January-1 2019 - 102 articles

Cover Story: Mineral dust is a key player in the Earth’s climate system. However, climate and weather prediction models still have difficulty predicting the amount and distribution of mineral dust in the atmosphere. One reason for this is the limited understanding of the spatiotemporal activity of dust sources. Here, an approach is presented to determine the location of potential dust sources in a study area in the central Sahara. For this, high-resolution optical data of the Sentinel-2 satellite together with HydroSHEDS flow accumulation data is used to create a sediment supply map, which is then implemented in a dust emission model. A comparison of the simulated dust flux to the observed dust source activation frequency reveals the extent to which the model benefits from having more accurate information on the distribution of dust sources. View this paper.
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Articles (102)

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,521 Views
25 Pages

Time Series Analysis of Land Surface Temperatures in 20 Earthquake Cases Worldwide

  • Efthymia Pavlidou,
  • Mark Van der Meijde,
  • Harald Van der Werff and
  • Christoph Hecker

30 December 2018

Earthquakes are reported to be preceded by anomalous increases in satellite-recorded thermal emissions, but published results are often contradicting and/or limited to short periods and areas around the earthquake. We apply a methodology that allows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
157 Citations
10,755 Views
31 Pages

A Hybrid GIS Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method for Flood Susceptibility Mapping at Shangyou, China

  • Yi Wang,
  • Haoyuan Hong,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Shaojun Li,
  • Dragan Pamučar,
  • Ljubomir Gigović,
  • Siniša Drobnjak,
  • Dieu Tien Bui and
  • Hexiang Duan

30 December 2018

Floods are considered one of the most disastrous hazards all over the world and cause serious casualties and property damage. Therefore, the assessment and regionalization of flood disasters are becoming increasingly important and urgent. To predict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,029 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2018

The predicted parts of ultra-rapid orbits are important for (near) real-time Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) precise applications; and there is little research on GPS/GLONASS/BDS/Galileo/QZSS five-system ultra-rapid precise orbit determinat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,338 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2018

Automatic ship detection technology in optical remote sensing images has a wide range of applications in civilian and military fields. Among most important challenges encountered in ship detection, we focus on the following three selected ones: (a) s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
810 Citations
62,572 Views
36 Pages

Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

  • Decheng Zhou,
  • Jingfeng Xiao,
  • Stefania Bonafoni,
  • Christian Berger,
  • Kaveh Deilami,
  • Yuyu Zhou,
  • Steve Frolking,
  • Rui Yao,
  • Zhi Qiao and
  • José A. Sobrino

29 December 2018

The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface temperature (LST) in urban relativity to neighboring non-urban surfaces, is usually measured using satellite LST data. Over the last few decades, advancements of re...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,101 Views
8 Pages

Earth Observation Actionable Information Supporting Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts in a Sustainable Development Framework

  • Alberto Lorenzo-Alonso,
  • Ángel Utanda,
  • María E. Aulló-Maestro and
  • Marino Palacios

29 December 2018

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a high priority on the agenda of main stakeholders involved in sustainable development, and earth observation (EO) can provide useful, timely, and economical information in this context. This short communication outli...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,917 Views
12 Pages

29 December 2018

Sea ice surface roughness affects ice-atmosphere interactions, serves as an indicator of ice age, shows patterns of ice convergence and divergence, affects the spatial extent of summer meltponds, and affects ice albedo. We have developed a method for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
11,089 Views
18 Pages

29 December 2018

With the increasing temporal resolution of space-borne SAR, large amounts of intensity data are now available for continues land observations. Previous researches proved the effectiveness of multitemporal SAR in land classification, but the character...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
11,862 Views
21 Pages

Making Landsat Time Series Consistent: Evaluating and Improving Landsat Analysis Ready Data

  • Shi Qiu,
  • Yukun Lin,
  • Rong Shang,
  • Junxue Zhang,
  • Lei Ma and
  • Zhe Zhu

29 December 2018

Recently, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released a new dataset, called Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD), which is designed specifically for facilitating time series analysis. In this study, we evaluated the temporal consistency of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,214 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2018

High spatial resolution Earth observation imagery is considered desirable for many scientific and commercial applications. Given repeat multi-angle imagery, an imaging instrument with a specified spatial resolution, we can use image processing and de...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292