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Remote Sensing, Volume 12, Issue 21

November-1 2020 - 206 articles

Cover Story: The climatological surface solar radiation (SSR) is an important indicator of the solar energy production potential. In the Baltic area, previous studies have indicated lower cloud amounts over seas than over land. Here, we quantify the climatological land–sea contrast of the SSR using two satellite data records of EUMETSAT. Our results show that off-shore locations on average receive higher SSR than inland areas and that the land–sea contrast is strongest during the summer. Furthermore, the land–sea contrast in the summer time SSR exhibits similar behavior in various parts of the Baltic. The annual SSR is 8% higher 20 km off the coastline than 20 km inland. We further find that convective clouds are a key driver of this behavior, as they tend to form over inland areas rather than over the seas during the summer part of the year. View this paper
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Articles (206)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,392 Views
7 Pages

Special Issue “Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Vegetation”

  • Simone Pascucci,
  • Stefano Pignatti,
  • Raffaele Casa,
  • Roshanak Darvishzadeh and
  • Wenjiang Huang

9 November 2020

The advent of up-to-date hyperspectral technologies, and their increasing performance both spectrally and spatially, allows for new and exciting studies and practical applications in agriculture (soils and crops) and vegetation mapping and monitoring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,344 Views
23 Pages

9 November 2020

Remote sensing technology has rendered lots of information in agriculture. It has usually been used to monitor paddy growing ecosystems in the past few decades. However, there are uncertainties in data fusion techniques which can be resolved in image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,562 Views
24 Pages

Application of the DIC Technique to Remote Control of the Hydraulic Load System

  • Radosław Jasiński,
  • Krzysztof Stebel and
  • Jarosław Domin

9 November 2020

Displacements or deformations of materials or structures are measured with linear variable differential transducers (LVDT), fibre optic sensors, laser sensors, and confocal sensor systems, while strains are measured with electro-resistant tensometers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,106 Views
23 Pages

Application of Multiple Geomatic Techniques for Coastline Retreat Analysis: The Case of Gerra Beach (Cantabrian Coast, Spain)

  • José Juan de Sanjosé Blasco,
  • Enrique Serrano-Cañadas,
  • Manuel Sánchez-Fernández,
  • Manuel Gómez-Lende and
  • Paula Redweik

9 November 2020

The beaches of the Cantabrian coast (northern Spain) are exposed to strong winter storms that cause the coastline to recede. In this article, the coastal retreat of the Gerra beach (Cantabria) is analyzed through a diachronic study using the followin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,806 Views
23 Pages

Spatiotemporal Changes in 3D Building Density with LiDAR and GEOBIA: A City-Level Analysis

  • Karolina Zięba-Kulawik,
  • Konrad Skoczylas,
  • Ahmed Mustafa,
  • Piotr Wężyk,
  • Philippe Gerber,
  • Jacques Teller and
  • Hichem Omrani

9 November 2020

Understanding how, where, and when a city is expanding can inform better ways to make our cities more resilient, sustainable, and equitable. This paper explores urban volumetry using the Building 3D Density Index (B3DI) in 2001, 2010, 2019, and quant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,786 Views
22 Pages

9 November 2020

Net Primary Productivity (NPP) is one of the significant indicators to measure environmental changes; thus, the relevant study of NPP in Northeast China, Asia, is essential to climate changes and ecological sustainable development. Based on the Globa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,769 Views
17 Pages

9 November 2020

Solar photovoltaics (PV) has advanced at an unprecedented rate and the global cumulative installed PV capacity is growing exponentially. However, the ability to forecast PV power remains a key technical challenge due to the variability and uncertaint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,484 Views
19 Pages

Development of a Seamless Forecast for Solar Radiation Using ANAKLIM++

  • Isabel Urbich,
  • Jörg Bendix and
  • Richard Müller

9 November 2020

A novel approach for a blending between nowcasting and numerical weather prediction (NWP) for the surface incoming shortwave radiation (SIS) for a forecast horizon of 1–5 h is presented in this study. The blending is performed with a software t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,653 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Spatiotemporal Data Fusion Method Using Surface Heterogeneity Information Based on ESTARFM

  • Mengxue Liu,
  • Xiangnan Liu,
  • Xiaobin Dong,
  • Bingyu Zhao,
  • Xinyu Zou,
  • Ling Wu and
  • Hejie Wei

9 November 2020

The use of the spatiotemporal data fusion method as an effective data interpolation method has received extensive attention in remote sensing (RS) academia. The enhanced spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model (ESTARFM) is one of the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,086 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2020

To reconstruct Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) band reflectance with optimal spatiotemporal continuity, three bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) models—the Ross-Thick-Li-Sparse Reciprocal (RTLSR) model,...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292