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Remote Sensing, Volume 12, Issue 20

October-2 2020 - 196 articles

Cover Story: The CloudSat 94 GHz radar provides the most complete snowfall climatology over polar regions, but accurate quantitative snowfall estimates derived from radar reflectivity (front cover) remain challenging. This work explores the value of the CloudSat 94 GHz Brightness Temperature, a novel product developed from the processing of the radar noise floor level, combined with path-integrated attenuation, a standard product derived from the reduction in the radar surface return. Results demonstrate that over ice-free ocean, where surface emissivity and backscattering are well predictable, the synergistic use of these two observables provides crucial information on the presence/amount of supercooled layers and on snow density, with potential for better constraining snowfall retrieval. View this paper
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Articles (196)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,715 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Global Ionospheric Maps Performance by Means of Ionosonde Data

  • Gabriel O. Jerez,
  • Manuel Hernández-Pajares,
  • Fabricio S. Prol,
  • Daniele B. M. Alves and
  • João F. G. Monico

21 October 2020

This work presents a new method for assessing global ionospheric maps (GIM) using ionosonde data. The method is based on the critical frequency at the F2 layer directly measured by ionosondes to validate VTEC (vertical total electron content) values...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,388 Views
25 Pages

A Phase Filtering Method with Scale Recurrent Networks for InSAR

  • Liming Pu,
  • Xiaoling Zhang,
  • Zenan Zhou,
  • Jun Shi,
  • Shunjun Wei and
  • Yuanyuan Zhou

21 October 2020

Phase filtering is a key issue in interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications, such as deformation monitoring and topographic mapping. The accuracy of the deformation and terrain height is highly dependent on the quality of phase fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,251 Views
26 Pages

A Quantitative Framework for Analyzing Spatial Dynamics of Flood Events: A Case Study of Super Cyclone Amphan

  • Mohammad Mehedy Hassan,
  • Kevin Ash,
  • Joynal Abedin,
  • Bimal Kanti Paul and
  • Jane Southworth

21 October 2020

Identifying the flooding risk hotspot is crucial for aiding a rapid response and prioritizes mitigation efforts over large disaster impacted regions. While climate change is increasing the risk of floods in many vulnerable regions of the world, the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,064 Views
19 Pages

Quasi-Active Thermal Imaging of Large Floating Covers Using Ambient Solar Energy

  • Yue Ma,
  • Leslie Wong,
  • Benjamin Steven Vien,
  • Thomas Kuen,
  • Jayantha Kodikara and
  • Wing Kong Chiu

21 October 2020

Melbourne Water Corporation has two large anaerobic lagoons at the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), Werribee, Victoria, Australia. The lagoons are covered using numerous sheets of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes to prevent the emission of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,174 Views
23 Pages

21 October 2020

Hyperspectral remote sensing images have characteristics such as high dimensionality and high redundancy. This paper proposes a pseudo-label guided artificial bee colony band selection algorithm with hypergraph clustering (HC-ABC) to remove redundant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
18,623 Views
28 Pages

21 October 2020

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation parameter. Active light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology has been widely used to estimate vegetation LAI. In this study, LiDAR technology, LAI retrieval and validation methods, and impact facto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,069 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2020

The advancements of Earth observations, remote sensing, communications and navigation augmentation based on low Earth orbit (LEO) platforms present strong requirements for accurate, real-time and autonomous navigation of LEO satellites. Precise onboa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,182 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2020

The increasing availability of very-high resolution (VHR; <2 m) imagery has the potential to enable agricultural monitoring at increased resolution and cadence, particularly when used in combination with widely available moderate-resolution imager...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,639 Views
22 Pages

Patch Pattern and Ecological Risk Assessment of Alpine Grassland in the Source Region of the Yellow River

  • Jia Liu,
  • Jianjun Chen,
  • Qiaoting Qin,
  • Haotian You,
  • Xiaowen Han and
  • Guoqing Zhou

21 October 2020

The source region of the Yellow River (SRYR) is an important water conservation and animal husbandry resource in China. It is of great significance to understand the patch pattern and ecological risk of alpine grassland in the SRYR for ecological env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,208 Views
18 Pages

Raindrop-Aware GAN: Unsupervised Learning for Raindrop-Contaminated Coastal Video Enhancement

  • Jinah Kim,
  • Dong Huh,
  • Taekyung Kim,
  • Jaeil Kim,
  • Jeseon Yoo and
  • Jae-Seol Shim

21 October 2020

We propose an unsupervised network with adversarial learning, the Raindrop-aware GAN, which enhances the quality of coastal video images contaminated by raindrops. Raindrop removal from coastal videos faces two main difficulties: converting the degra...

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