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Remote Sensing, Volume 11, Issue 24

December-2 2019 - 173 articles

Cover Story: This work investigates the sensitivity to the aerosol optical depth (AOD) of the current and future geostationary weather satellites. The sensitivity to AOD is quantified as the difference between the albedo of the surface and the corresponding critical surface albedo (CSA). CSA refers to the value of surface reflectivity for which the reflectance measured by the satellite at the top of the atmosphere becomes insensitive to AOD. The figure shows the yearly-averaged departure from CSA for several channels of the imagers aboard the European Meteosat satellites. Warm colors highlight the regions that are far away from CSA, thus corresponding to favorable conditions for AOD retrieval. By contrast, cool colors highlight challenging conditions. Departure from CSA strongly depends on the spectral fingerprints of surface albedo and aerosol extinction properties.View this paper.
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Articles (173)

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
7,082 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2019

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) can be influenced by both climate change and anthropogenic activities. While the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites have provided a global view on long-term trends in TWS, our ability to disenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,566 Views
14 Pages

Badland Erosion and Its Morphometric Features in the Tropical Monsoon Area

  • Ci-Jian Yang,
  • Li-Wei Yeh,
  • Yeuan-Chang Cheng,
  • Chia-Hung Jen and
  • Jiun-Chuan Lin

17 December 2019

Climatically driven processes are important controls on the Earth’s surface and on interactions between the hydrological cycle and erosion in drainage basins. As a result, landscape forms such as hillslope topography can be used as an archive t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,078 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2019

Indoor navigation and localization has gained a key attention of the researchers in the recent decades. Various technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband (UWB), and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) have been used for indoor navigation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,261 Views
27 Pages

17 December 2019

Technological progress in Earth surface observation provides a vast range of information on the land and methods of its use. This enables property owners, users and administrators to monitor the state of the boundaries of the land they own/administer...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,394 Views
19 Pages

Methane Mapping with Future Satellite Imaging Spectrometers

  • Alana K. Ayasse,
  • Philip E. Dennison,
  • Markus Foote,
  • Andrew K. Thorpe,
  • Sarang Joshi,
  • Robert O. Green,
  • Riley M. Duren,
  • David R. Thompson and
  • Dar A. Roberts

17 December 2019

This study evaluates a new generation of satellite imaging spectrometers to measure point source methane emissions from anthropogenic sources. We used the Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Next Generation(AVIRIS-NG) images with known...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,764 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2019

NOAA platforms provide the longest period of terrestrial observation since the 1980s. The progress in calibration, atmospheric corrections and physically based land retrieval offers the opportunity to reprocess these data for extending terrestrial pr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,569 Views
19 Pages

Remote Sensing Big Data Classification with High Performance Distributed Deep Learning

  • Rocco Sedona,
  • Gabriele Cavallaro,
  • Jenia Jitsev,
  • Alexandre Strube,
  • Morris Riedel and
  • Jón Atli Benediktsson

17 December 2019

High-Performance Computing (HPC) has recently been attracting more attention in remote sensing applications due to the challenges posed by the increased amount of open data that are produced daily by Earth Observation (EO) programs. The unique parall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,200 Views
21 Pages

Quantifying Coral Reef Composition of Recreational Diving Sites: A Structure from Motion Approach at Seascape Scale

  • Marco Palma,
  • Chiara Magliozzi,
  • Monica Rivas Casado,
  • Ubaldo Pantaleo,
  • João Fernandes,
  • Gianpaolo Coro,
  • Carlo Cerrano and
  • Paul Leinster

16 December 2019

Recreational diving is known to have both direct and indirect impacts on coral habitats. Direct impacts include increasing sedimentation, breaks and diseases that lead to a decrease in the richness and abundances of hard corals. Indirect impacts incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,832 Views
18 Pages

Remote-Sensing Monitoring of Grassland Degradation Based on the GDI in Shangri-La, China

  • Yanlin Yang,
  • Jinliang Wang,
  • Yun Chen,
  • Feng Cheng,
  • Guangjie Liu and
  • Zenghong He

16 December 2019

Grassland resources are important land resources. However, grassland degradation has become evident in recent years, which has reduced the function of soil and water conservation and restricted the development of animal husbandry. Timely and accurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,238 Views
20 Pages

Crustal Deformation of Northeastern China Following the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake Estimated from GPS Observations: Strain Heterogeneity and Seismicity

  • Guojie Meng,
  • Xiaoning Su,
  • Weiwei Wu,
  • Shestakov Nikolay,
  • Hiroaki Takahashi,
  • Mako Ohzono and
  • Mikhail Gerasimenko

16 December 2019

Using global positioning system (GPS) observations of northeastern China and the southeast of the Russian Far East over the period 2012–2017, we derived an ITRF2014-referenced velocity field by fitting GPS time series with a functional model in...

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