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Remote Sensing, Volume 11, Issue 5

March-1 2019 - 129 articles

Cover Story: The snow-fed basins of the Near East are experiencing a decline in terrestrial water storage. The full observational record of the GRACE satellite gravimetry shows a clear, declining trend over the higher elevations of four river basins. We used several remote sensors (MODIS, AMSR-E, AMSR2) and the outputs of ERA5 reanalysis to understand the relationship between water storage anomalies and snowpack. MODIS products point toward a significant, declining trend in montane snowpack in this region. The reduction in snow cover duration positively correlated with the GRACE water storage decline and peak snow water equivalent from ERA5. The reanalysis data provided several hints as to the possible drivers of snowpack depletion. We propose that pressure on the water towers of the Near East may increase with continued snowpack depletion in this semi-arid region. View this paper.
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Articles (129)

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
9,903 Views
11 Pages

Deriving High Spatial-Resolution Coastal Topography From Sub-meter Satellite Stereo Imagery

  • Luís Pedro Almeida,
  • Rafael Almar,
  • Erwin W. J. Bergsma,
  • Etienne Berthier,
  • Paulo Baptista,
  • Erwan Garel,
  • Olusegun A. Dada and
  • Bruna Alves

12 March 2019

High spatial resolution coastal Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are crucial to assess coastal vulnerability and hazards such as beach erosion, sedimentation, or inundation due to storm surges and sea level rise. This paper explores the possibility to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,976 Views
21 Pages

12 March 2019

Taijiang National Park (TNP) of Taiwan is the northernmost geographical position of mangrove habitats in the Northern Hemisphere. Instead of occupying a vast region with a single species, the mangroves in TNP are usually mingled with other plants in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
12,036 Views
25 Pages

Automatic Detection of Open and Vegetated Water Bodies Using Sentinel 1 to Map African Malaria Vector Mosquito Breeding Habitats

  • Andy Hardy,
  • Georgina Ettritch,
  • Dónall E. Cross,
  • Pete Bunting,
  • Francis Liywalii,
  • Jacob Sakala,
  • Andrew Silumesii,
  • Douglas Singini,
  • Mark Smith and
  • Tom Willis
  • + 1 author

12 March 2019

Providing timely and accurate maps of surface water is valuable for mapping malaria risk and targeting disease control interventions. Radar satellite remote sensing has the potential to provide this information but current approaches are not suitable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,991 Views
22 Pages

Estimating Rangeland Forage Production Using Remote Sensing Data from a Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) and PlanetScope Satellite

  • Han Liu,
  • Randy A. Dahlgren,
  • Royce E. Larsen,
  • Scott M. Devine,
  • Leslie M. Roche,
  • Anthony T. O’ Geen,
  • Andy J.Y. Wong,
  • Sarah Covello and
  • Yufang Jin

12 March 2019

Rangelands cover ~23 million hectares and support a $3.4 billion annual cattle industry in California. Large variations in forage production from year to year and across the landscape make grazing management difficult. We here developed optimized met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,222 Views
18 Pages

12 March 2019

Fully bistatic radar scattering from rough surfaces is of vital importance in terrain remote sensing, but results in bulky data volume. The scattering is dependent on physical parameters of the media and is controlled by the radar observation geometr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
6,935 Views
17 Pages

Fully Convolutional Networks and Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis for the Classification of VHR Imagery

  • Nicholus Mboga,
  • Stefanos Georganos,
  • Tais Grippa,
  • Moritz Lennert,
  • Sabine Vanhuysse and
  • Eléonore Wolff

12 March 2019

Land cover Classified maps obtained from deep learning methods such as Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and fully convolutional networks (FCNs) usually have high classification accuracy but with the detailed structures of objects lost or smoothed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,825 Views
20 Pages

A Single Shot Framework with Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Geospatial Object Detection

  • Shuo Zhuang,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Boran Jiang,
  • Gang Wang and
  • Cong Wang

12 March 2019

With the rapid advances in remote-sensing technologies and the larger number of satellite images, fast and effective object detection plays an important role in understanding and analyzing image information, which could be further applied to civilian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,598 Views
26 Pages

On the Potential of RST-FLOOD on Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Data for Flooded Areas Detection

  • Teodosio Lacava,
  • Emanuele Ciancia,
  • Mariapia Faruolo,
  • Nicola Pergola,
  • Valeria Satriano and
  • Valerio Tramutoli

12 March 2019

Timely and continuous information about flood spatiotemporal evolution are fundamental to ensure an effective implementation of the relief and rescue operations in case of inundation events. In this framework, satellite remote sensing may provide a v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,066 Views
16 Pages

Long-Term Land Cover Dynamics (1986–2016) of Northeast China Derived from a Multi-Temporal Landsat Archive

  • Yuanyuan Zhao,
  • Duole Feng,
  • Le Yu,
  • Yuqi Cheng,
  • Meinan Zhang,
  • Xiaoxuan Liu,
  • Yidi Xu,
  • Lei Fang,
  • Zhiliang Zhu and
  • Peng Gong

12 March 2019

Northeast China is a major grain production area, an ecological important forest area, and the largest old industrial base which is now suffering from economic growth slowdown and brain drain. Accurate and long-term dynamic land cover maps are highly...

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