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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
12 Citations
4,359 Views
27 Pages

21 October 2020

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has been gaining recognition as a promising proximal and remote sensing technique for crop drought stress detection. A modelling approach accounting for the treatment effects on the stress indicators’ standard deviat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,461 Views
22 Pages

Small-UAV Radar Imaging System Performance with GPS and CDGPS Based Motion Compensation

  • Carlo Noviello,
  • Giuseppe Esposito,
  • Giancarmine Fasano,
  • Alfredo Renga,
  • Francesco Soldovieri and
  • Ilaria Catapano

21 October 2020

The present manuscript faces the problem of performing high-resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) radar imaging in sounder modality, i.e., into the vertical plane defined by the along-tack and the nadir directions. Data are collected by means of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,856 Views
20 Pages

UAV-Based LiDAR for High-Throughput Determination of Plant Height and Above-Ground Biomass of the Bioenergy Grass Arundo donax

  • Mauro Maesano,
  • Sacha Khoury,
  • Farid Nakhle,
  • Andrea Firrincieli,
  • Alan Gay,
  • Flavia Tauro and
  • Antoine Harfouche

21 October 2020

Replacing fossil fuels with cellulosic biofuels is a valuable component of reducing the drivers of climate change. This leads to a requirement to develop more productive bioenergy crops, such as Arundo donax with the aim of increasing above-ground bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,015 Views
25 Pages

21 October 2020

Heritage recording has received much attention and benefits from recent developments in the field of range and imaging sensors. While these methods have often been viewed as two different methodologies, data integration can achieve different products...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,860 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2020

Many debris-covered glaciers are broadly distributed across High Mountain Asia and have made a number of contributions to water circulation for Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). The formation of large supraglacial lakes poses risks for glacier lake outbur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,578 Views
16 Pages

A Quantitative Analysis of Surface Changes on an Abandoned Forest Road in the Lejowa Valley (Tatra Mountains, Poland)

  • Joanna Fidelus-Orzechowska,
  • Dariusz Strzyżowski,
  • Jarosław Cebulski and
  • Dominika Wrońska-Wałach

21 October 2020

The main aim of this research was to determine the magnitude of geomorphologic changes within a section of a forest road. The research was carried out in the Lejowa Valley in the Tatra Mountains. The measurements of the surface of the road were perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,749 Views
21 Pages

Upscaling Household Survey Data Using Remote Sensing to Map Socioeconomic Groups in Kampala, Uganda

  • Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx,
  • Sam Van Emelen,
  • Joachim Rymenants,
  • Jac Davis,
  • Peter H. Verburg,
  • Shuaib Lwasa and
  • Anton Van Rompaey

21 October 2020

Sub-Saharan African cities are expanding horizontally, demonstrating spatial patterns of urban sprawl and socioeconomic segregation. An important research gap around the geographies of urban populations is that city-wide analyses mask local socioecon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,592 Views
23 Pages

Reconciling Flagging Strategies for Multi-Sensor Satellite Soil Moisture Climate Data Records

  • Mendy van der Vliet,
  • Robin van der Schalie,
  • Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez,
  • Andreas Colliander,
  • Richard de Jeu,
  • Wolfgang Preimesberger,
  • Tracy Scanlon and
  • Wouter Dorigo

20 October 2020

Reliable soil moisture retrievals from passive microwave satellite sensors are limited during certain conditions, e.g., snow coverage, radio-frequency interference, and dense vegetation. In these cases, the retrievals can be masked using flagging alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,181 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2020

This paper explores the capability of high frequency microwave measurements at vertical and horizontal polarizations in detecting snowfall over land. Surface in-situ meteorological data were collected over Conterminous US during two winter seasons in...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,925 Views
11 Pages

(Quasi-)Real-Time Inversion of Airborne Time-Domain Electromagnetic Data via Artificial Neural Network

  • Peng Bai,
  • Giulio Vignoli,
  • Andrea Viezzoli,
  • Jouni Nevalainen and
  • Giuseppina Vacca

20 October 2020

The possibility to have results very quickly after, or even during, the collection of electromagnetic data would be important, not only for quality check purposes, but also for adjusting the location of the proposed flight lines during an airborne ti...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292