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Remote Sensing, Volume 11, Issue 3

February-1 2019 - 158 articles

Cover Story: The Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) is an important scientific instrument for assessing the intensity of tropical cyclones. NOAA and U.S. Air Force Reserve airplanes are deployed with SFMRs into tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins and report ocean-surface wind-speed and column-integrated rain-rate retrievals from the instrument to the National Hurricane Center. SFMR measurements are some of the only high-wind measurements available to the research community for validation of other sensors, so ensuring their high quality is of significant importance for the scientific community and emergency management officials. This paper presents the development of an improved wind-speed retrieval algorithm in the tropical cyclone environment while minimizing changes to rain-rate retrievals. View this paper.
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Articles (158)

  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
13,570 Views
27 Pages

An Application Oriented Scan-to-BIM Framework

  • Qian Wang,
  • Jingjing Guo and
  • Min-Koo Kim

12 February 2019

Building information modelling (BIM) has been adopted in the construction industry. The success of BIM implementation relies on the accurate building information stored in BIM models. However, building information in BIM models can be inaccurate, out...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,791 Views
17 Pages

Soil Moisture Retrieval Model for Remote Sensing Using Reflected Hyperspectral Information

  • Jing Yuan,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Chang-xiang Yan,
  • Shu-rong Wang,
  • Xue-ping Ju and
  • Yi Li

12 February 2019

The variation and the spatial–temporal distribution of soil water content have significant effects on heat balance, agricultural moisture, etc. A soil moisture (SM) retrieval model can provide a theoretical basis for realizing a rapid test and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,754 Views
17 Pages

Mapping the Mangrove Forest Canopy Using Spectral Unmixing of Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images

  • Florent Taureau,
  • Marc Robin,
  • Christophe Proisy,
  • François Fromard,
  • Daniel Imbert and
  • Françoise Debaine

12 February 2019

Despite the low tree diversity and scarcity of the understory vegetation, the high morphological plasticity of mangrove trees induces, at the stand level, a very large variability of forest structures that need to be mapped for assessing the function...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,518 Views
21 Pages

Use of SMAP Soil Moisture and Fitting Methods in Improving GPM Estimation in Near Real Time

  • Zhi Zhang,
  • Dagang Wang,
  • Guiling Wang,
  • Jianxiu Qiu and
  • Weilin Liao

12 February 2019

Satellite-based precipitation products have been widely used in a variety of fields. However, near real time products still contain substantial biases compared with the ground data. Recent studies showed that surface soil moisture can be utilized in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,767 Views
13 Pages

Long-Term Satellite Monitoring of the Slumgullion Landslide Using Space-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Sub-Pixel Offset Tracking

  • Donato Amitrano,
  • Raffaella Guida,
  • Domenico Dell’Aglio,
  • Gerardo Di Martino,
  • Diego Di Martire,
  • Antonio Iodice,
  • Mario Costantini,
  • Fabio Malvarosa and
  • Federico Minati

12 February 2019

Kinematic characterization of a landslide at large, small, and detailed scale is today still rare and challenging, especially for long periods, due to the difficulty in implementing demanding ground surveys with adequate spatiotemporal coverage. In t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,102 Views
16 Pages

12 February 2019

High-resolution mapping of irrigated fields is needed to better estimate water and nutrient fluxes in the landscape, food production, and local to regional climate. However, this remains a challenge in humid to subhumid regions, where irrigation has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,502 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2019

Integration of methods based on satellite remote sensing into current maritime monitoring strategies could help tackle the problem of global overfishing. Operational software is now available to perform vessel detection on satellite imagery, but rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,166 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2019

Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has been proven to be an efficient indicator of vegetation photosynthesis. To investigate the relationship between SIF and Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), tower-based continuous spectral observations coo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,960 Views
15 Pages

Improving Ecotope Segmentation by Combining Topographic and Spectral Data

  • Julien Radoux,
  • Axel Bourdouxhe,
  • William Coos,
  • Marc Dufrêne and
  • Pierre Defourny

11 February 2019

Ecotopes are the smallest ecologically distinct landscape features in a landscape mapping and classification system. Mapping ecotopes therefore enables the measurement of ecological patterns, process and change. In this study, a multi-source GEOBIA w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,493 Views
19 Pages

New Approaches for Robust and Efficient Detection of Persistent Scatterers in SAR Tomography

  • Xiaoxiang Zhu,
  • Zhen Dong,
  • Anxi Yu,
  • Manqing Wu,
  • Dexin Li and
  • Yongsheng Zhang

11 February 2019

Persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) has the ability to acquire submeter-scale digital elevation model (DEM) and millimeter-scale deformation. A limitation to the application of PSI is that only single persistent scatterers (SPSs) are detected,...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292