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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
80 Citations
14,901 Views
17 Pages

Assessment of Coastal Aquaculture for India from Sentinel-1 SAR Time Series

  • Kumar Arun Prasad,
  • Marco Ottinger,
  • Chunzhu Wei and
  • Patrick Leinenkugel

11 February 2019

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing primary food production sectors in India and ranks second behind China. Due to its growing economic value and global demand, India’s aquaculture industry experienced exponential growth for more than one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,911 Views
28 Pages

11 February 2019

Ecological restoration programs are expected to control environmental deterioration and enhance ecosystem functions under a scenario of increasing human disturbance. The largest ecological restoration program ever implemented in China, the first roun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
7,078 Views
17 Pages

11 February 2019

The drawback of pixel-based change detection is that it neglects the spatial correlation with neighboring pixels and has a high commission ratio. In contrast, object-based change detection (OBCD) depends on the accuracy of the segmentation scale, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,996 Views
22 Pages

Temporal Variability of Precipitation and Biomass of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

  • Meng Li,
  • Jianshuang Wu,
  • Chunqiao Song,
  • Yongtao He,
  • Ben Niu,
  • Gang Fu,
  • Paolo Tarolli,
  • Britta Tietjen and
  • Xianzhou Zhang

11 February 2019

The timing regimes of precipitation can exert profound impacts on grassland ecosystems. However, it is still unclear how the peak aboveground biomass (AGBpeak) of alpine grasslands responds to the temporal variability of growing season precipitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,098 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Growth Stage Development on Paddy Rice Leaf Area Index Prediction Models

  • Li Wang,
  • Qingrui Chang,
  • Fenling Li,
  • Lin Yan,
  • Yong Huang,
  • Qi Wang and
  • Lili Luo

11 February 2019

A in situ hyperspectral dataset containing multiple growth stages over multiple growing seasons was used to build paddy rice leaf area index (LAI) estimation models with a special focus on the effects of paddy rice growth stage development. The univa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
10,145 Views
22 Pages

11 February 2019

Agricultural drought can have long-lasting and harmful impacts on both the ecosystem and economy. Therefore, it is important to monitor and predict agricultural drought accurately. Soil moisture is the key variable to define the agricultural drought...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,842 Views
28 Pages

11 February 2019

In this work, the statistical fundaments of the recently proposed enhanced, multi-temporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) noise-filtering (E-MTInSAR) technique is addressed. The adopted noise-filtering algorithm is incorporated into...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,465 Views
3 Pages

Ten Years of TerraSAR-X—Scientific Results

  • Michael Eineder,
  • Alberto Moreira and
  • Achim Roth

11 February 2019

This special issue is a collection of papers addressing the scientific utilization of data acquired in the course of the TerraSAR-X mission. The articles deal with the mission itself, the accuracy of the products, with differential interferometry, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Citations
22,380 Views
24 Pages

Separating Built-Up Areas from Bare Land in Mediterranean Cities Using Sentinel-2A Imagery

  • Paria Ettehadi Osgouei,
  • Sinasi Kaya,
  • Elif Sertel and
  • Ugur Alganci

10 February 2019

In this research work, a multi-index-based support vector machine (SVM) classification approach has been proposed to determine the complex and morphologically heterogeneous land cover/use (LCU) patterns of cities, with a special focus on separating b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,067 Views
18 Pages

10 February 2019

The spaceborne transmitter/missile-borne receiver (ST/MR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) could provide several unique advantages, such as wide coverage, unrestricted geography, a small detection probability of the missile, and forward-looking imaging...

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