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Remote Sensing, Volume 11, Issue 4

February-2 2019 - 102 articles

Cover Story: As the cost of satellite missions grows, government agencies are working to increase the relevance and usefulness of the Earth science data they produce. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Early Adopter Program seeks to formalize partnerships with data users early within the satellite planning and development process to maximize the value of the mission. NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) delivers a suite of Earth observation datasets, where the multiple-use nature of all its investments is pivotal, and observations are designed to serve curiosity-based and applications-oriented science, and simultaneously deliver societal benefits. View this paper.
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Articles (102)

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,808 Views
28 Pages

A New Remote Sensing Dryness Index Based on the Near-Infrared and Red Spectral Space

  • Jieyun Zhang,
  • Qingling Zhang,
  • Anming Bao and
  • Yujuan Wang

22 February 2019

Soil moisture, as a crucial indicator of dryness, is an important research topic for dryness monitoring. In this study, we propose a new remote sensing dryness index for measuring soil moisture from spectral space. We first established a spectral spa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,515 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2019

The importance of atmospheric correction is pronounced for retrieving physical parameters in aquatic systems. To improve the retrieval accuracy of trophic level index (TLI), we built eight models with 43 samples in Wuhan and proposed an improved meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,778 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Approach for the Detection of Developing Thunderstorm Cells

  • Richard Müller,
  • Stéphane Haussler,
  • Matthias Jerg and
  • Dirk Heizenreder

21 February 2019

This study presents a novel approach for the early detection of developing thunderstorms. To date, methods for the detection of developing thunderstorms have usually relied on accurate Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) for the estimation of the cooli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
17,429 Views
17 Pages

Shrinkage of Nepal’s Second Largest Lake (Phewa Tal) Due to Watershed Degradation and Increased Sediment Influx

  • C. Scott Watson,
  • Jeffrey S. Kargel,
  • Dhananjay Regmi,
  • Summer Rupper,
  • Joshua M. Maurer and
  • Alina Karki

21 February 2019

Phewa Lake is an environmental and socio-economic asset to Nepal and the city of Pokhara. However, the lake area has decreased in recent decades due to sediment influx. The rate of this decline and the areal evolution of Phewa Lake due to artificial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,039 Views
27 Pages

21 February 2019

The world’s largest macroalgal blooms, Ulva prolifera, have appeared in the Yellow Sea every summer on different scales since 2007, causing great harm to the regional marine economy. In this study, the Normalized Difference of Vegetation Index...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,963 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2019

Single sensor systems and standard optical—usually RGB CCTV video cameras—fail to provide adequate observations, or the amount of spectral information required to build rich, expressive, discriminative features for object detection and tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,594 Views
21 Pages

21 February 2019

The space information networks (SIN) have a series of characteristics, such as strong heterogeneity, multiple types of resources, and difficulty in management. Aiming at the problem of resource allocation in SIN, this paper firstly establishes a hier...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
8,096 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2019

Crop planting area mapping and phenology monitoring are of great importance to analyzing the impacts of climate change on agricultural production. In this study, crop planting area and phenology were identified based on Sentinel-1 backscatter time se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,458 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2019

The Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) are designed to make the U.S. Landsat archive straightforward to use. In this paper, the availability of the Landsat 4 and 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) ARD over the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
6,913 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2019

In constructing models for predicting soil organic matter (SOM) by using visible and near-infrared (vis–NIR) spectroscopy, the selection of representative calibration samples is decisive. Few researchers have studied the inclusion of spectral p...

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