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Remote Sensing, Volume 13, Issue 7

2021 April-1 - 179 articles

Cover Story: Wuhan is an important city in Central China, whose rapid development has led to increasingly serious land subsidence over the last few decades. In this study, we used nearly 300 high-resolution COSMO-SkyMed StripMap HIMAGE scenes acquired in 2012–2019 to monitor the long-term subsidence process and reveal its spatiotemporal variations. By combining the sequence of settlement curves in the subsiding area, the relationship between natural factors (soft soil consolidation, rainfall), human factors (subway construction, new urbanization, groundwater pumping), and ground deformation was discussed in detail. Our work unveils previously unknown characters of land subsidence in Wuhan and its causative factors, and also shows the benefits of non-linear PSInSAR to study the temporal evolution of such processes in dynamic and expanding cities. View this paper.
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Articles (179)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,629 Views
20 Pages

6 April 2021

Moisture content in tidal flats changes frequently and spatially on account of tidal fluctuations, which greatly influence the reflectance of the tidal flat surface. Precise prediction of the spatial-temporal variation of tidal flats’ moisture conten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,885 Views
23 Pages

6 April 2021

Deep-learning methods, especially convolutional neural networks (CNN), have become the first choice for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification to date. It is a common procedure that small cubes are cropped from hyperspectral images and then fed int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,173 Views
17 Pages

Graph Convolutional Networks by Architecture Search for PolSAR Image Classification

  • Hongying Liu,
  • Derong Xu,
  • Tianwen Zhu,
  • Fanhua Shang,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Jianhua Lu and
  • Ri Yang

6 April 2021

Classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images has achieved good results due to the excellent fitting ability of neural networks with a large number of training samples. However, the performance of most convolutional neural n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,314 Views
19 Pages

Error Analysis of LAI Measurements with LAI-2000 Due to Discrete View Angular Range Angles for Continuous Canopies

  • Jun Geng,
  • Gang Yuan,
  • J. M. Chen,
  • Chunguang Lyu,
  • Lili Tu,
  • Weiliang Fan,
  • Qingjiu Tian,
  • Zhaofu Wu,
  • Tingye Tao and
  • Shaoteng Wang
  • + 5 authors

6 April 2021

As a widely used ground-based optical instrument, the LAI-2000 or LAI-2200 plant canopy analyzer (PCA) (Li-Cor, Inc., Lincoln, NE) is designed to measure the plant effective leaf area index (Le) by measuring the canopy gap fraction at several limited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,881 Views
19 Pages

NRTK, PPP or Static, That Is the Question. Testing Different Positioning Solutions for GNSS Survey

  • Gino Dardanelli,
  • Antonino Maltese,
  • Claudia Pipitone,
  • Alessandro Pisciotta and
  • Mauro Lo Brutto

6 April 2021

Worldwide, the determination of the coordinates from a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) survey (in Network Real Time Kinematic, Precise Point Positioning, or static mode) has been analysed in several scientific and technical applications. Ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,791 Views
27 Pages

Crop Monitoring and Classification Using Polarimetric RADARSAT-2 Time-Series Data Across Growing Season: A Case Study in Southwestern Ontario, Canada

  • Qinghua Xie,
  • Kunyu Lai,
  • Jinfei Wang,
  • Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez,
  • Jiali Shang,
  • Chunhua Liao,
  • Jianjun Zhu,
  • Haiqiang Fu and
  • Xing Peng

5 April 2021

Multitemporal polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) has proven as a very effective technique in agricultural monitoring and crop classification. This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of crop monitoring and classification over an agr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,300 Views
17 Pages

Presence of the Past: Digital Narrative of the Dennys Lascelles Concrete Wool Store; Geelong, Australia

  • Md Mizanur Rashid,
  • Chin Koi Khoo,
  • Sofija Kaljevic and
  • Surabhi Pancholi

5 April 2021

Recreation of the past—of historical buildings—sits at the intersection of the spatio-temporal manifestation of cultural memories, socio-cultural meanings, values, and identity remolds, and refines the existing understanding and sense of place. Digit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,950 Views
27 Pages

5 April 2021

An urban heat island (UHI) is a significant anthropogenic modification of urban land surfaces, and its geospatial pattern can increase the intensity of the heatwave effects. The complex mechanisms and interactivity of the land surface temperature in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,331 Views
18 Pages

Crustal Strain and Stress Fields in Egypt from Geodetic and Seismological Data

  • Mohamed Rashwan,
  • Rashad Sawires,
  • Ali M. Radwan,
  • Federica Sparacino,
  • José Antonio Peláez and
  • Mimmo Palano

5 April 2021

The comparison between crustal stress and surface strain azimuthal patterns has provided new insights into several complex tectonic settings worldwide. Here, we performed such a comparison for Egypt taking into account updated datasets of seismologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,554 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Strategy to Reconstruct NDVI Time-Series with High Temporal Resolution from MODIS Multi-Temporal Composite Products

  • Linglin Zeng,
  • Brian D. Wardlow,
  • Shun Hu,
  • Xiang Zhang,
  • Guoqing Zhou,
  • Guozhang Peng,
  • Daxiang Xiang,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Ran Meng and
  • Weixiong Wu

5 April 2021

Vegetation indices (VIs) data derived from satellite imageries play a vital role in land surface vegetation and dynamic monitoring. Due to the excessive noises (e.g., cloud cover, atmospheric contamination) in daily VI data, temporal compositing meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,362 Views
17 Pages

5 April 2021

In this study, we analyze the influence of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on 11 March 2011, on the shoreline of the northern Ibaraki Coast. After the earthquake, the area experienced subsidence of approximately 0.4 m. Shoreline chang...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,701 Views
18 Pages

5 April 2021

Photosynthesis and its sensitivity to the changing environment in alpine regions are of great significance to the understanding of vegetation–environment interactions and other global ecological processes in the context of global change, while their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,016 Views
15 Pages

5 April 2021

When flooding occurs, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is often used to identify flood extent and the affected buildings for two reasons: (i) for early disaster response, such as rescue operations, and (ii) for flood risk analysis. Furthermore,...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,358 Views
11 Pages

4 April 2021

The high-frequency channel of lunar penetrating radar (LPR) onboard Yutu-2 rover successfully collected high quality data on the far side of the Moon, which provide a chance for us to detect the shallow subsurface structures and thickness of lunar re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,689 Views
18 Pages

4 April 2021

Ghosts are a common phenomenon widely present in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing image stitching that seriously affect the naturalness of stitching results. In order to effectively remove ghosts and produce visually natural stitching res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,252 Views
30 Pages

4 April 2021

Ice phenology data of 22 large lakes of the Northern Hemisphere for 40 years (1979–2018) have been retrieved from passive microwave remote sensing brightness temperature (Tb). The results were compared with site-observation data and visual interpreta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,918 Views
15 Pages

A New Method for Determining an Optimal Diurnal Threshold of GNSS Precipitable Water Vapor for Precipitation Forecasting

  • Haobo Li,
  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Suqin Wu,
  • Kefei Zhang,
  • Erjiang Fu,
  • Ying Xu,
  • Cong Qiu,
  • Jinglei Zhang and
  • Li Li

4 April 2021

Nowadays, precipitable water vapor (PWV) retrieved from ground-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) tracking stations has heralded a new era of GNSS meteorological applications, especially for severe weather prediction. Among the existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
13,048 Views
25 Pages

Rice-Yield Prediction with Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Data and 3D CNN: A Case Study in Nepal

  • Ruben Fernandez-Beltran,
  • Tina Baidar,
  • Jian Kang and
  • Filiberto Pla

4 April 2021

Crop yield estimation is a major issue of crop monitoring which remains particularly challenging in developing countries due to the problem of timely and adequate data availability. Whereas traditional agricultural systems mainly rely on scarce groun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,871 Views
22 Pages

Mapping Surficial Soil Particle Size Fractions in Alpine Permafrost Regions of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

  • Chong Wang,
  • Lin Zhao,
  • Hongbing Fang,
  • Lingxiao Wang,
  • Zanpin Xing,
  • Defu Zou,
  • Guojie Hu,
  • Xiaodong Wu,
  • Yonghua Zhao and
  • Hanbo Yun
  • + 4 authors

4 April 2021

Spatial information of particle size fractions (PSFs) is primary for understanding the thermal state of permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) in response to climate change. However, the limitation of field observations and the tremendous spat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,179 Views
25 Pages

Cereal Crops Soil Parameters Retrieval Using L-Band ALOS-2 and C-Band Sentinel-1 Sensors

  • Emna Ayari,
  • Zeineb Kassouk,
  • Zohra Lili-Chabaane,
  • Nicolas Baghdadi,
  • Safa Bousbih and
  • Mehrez Zribi

4 April 2021

This paper discusses the potential of L-band Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) and C-band Sentinel-1 radar data for retrieving soil parameters over cereal fields. For this purpose, multi-incidence, multi-polarization and dual-frequency sat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,368 Views
20 Pages

3 April 2021

This study aims to evaluate and analyze the orbit predictions of selected satellites: geodetic, Global Navigational Satellite Systems (GNSS), and scientific low-orbiting, which are tracked by laser stations. The possibility of conducting satellite la...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,301 Views
11 Pages

A Coastal Experiment for GNSS-R Code-Level Altimetry Using BDS-3 New Civil Signals

  • Fan Gao,
  • Tianhe Xu,
  • Xinyue Meng,
  • Nazi Wang,
  • Yunqiao He and
  • Baojiao Ning

3 April 2021

High temporal and spatial resolutions are the key advantages of the global navigation satellites system-reflectometry (GNSS-R) technique, while low precision and instabilities constrain its development. Compared with conventional Ku/C band nadir-look...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,649 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2021

Understanding stream thermal heterogeneity patterns is crucial to assess and manage river resilience in light of climate change. The dual acquisition of high-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) and red–green–blue-band (RGB) imagery from unmanned aerial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,250 Views
24 Pages

Registration and Fusion of Close-Range Multimodal Wheat Images in Field Conditions

  • Sébastien Dandrifosse,
  • Alexis Carlier,
  • Benjamin Dumont and
  • Benoît Mercatoris

3 April 2021

Multimodal images fusion has the potential to enrich the information gathered by multi-sensor plant phenotyping platforms. Fusion of images from multiple sources is, however, hampered by the technical lock of image registration. The aim of this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,938 Views
20 Pages

Land Cover Mapping and Ecological Risk Assessment in the Context of Recent Ecological Migration

  • Tingting Zhang,
  • Zhenrong Du,
  • Jianyu Yang,
  • Xiaochuang Yao,
  • Cong Ou,
  • Bowen Niu and
  • Shuai Yan

3 April 2021

In order to protect the ecological environment and solve the poverty problem in the western region, China has established an ecological migration (EM) policy. This policy aims to relocate populations from poverty-stricken areas with fragile ecologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,050 Views
23 Pages

3 April 2021

The damming of rivers has altered their hydrological regimes. The current study evaluated the impacts of major hydrological interventions of the Zhikong and Pangduo hydropower dams on the Lhasa River, which was exposed in the form of break and change...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,844 Views
25 Pages

Inconsistency among Landsat Sensors in Land Surface Mapping: A Comprehensive Investigation Based on Simulation

  • Feng Chen,
  • Chenxing Wang,
  • Yuansheng Zhang,
  • Zhenshi Yi,
  • Qiancong Fan,
  • Lin Liu and
  • Yuejun Song

3 April 2021

Comprehensive investigations on the between-sensor comparability among Landsat sensors have been relatively limited compared with the increasing use of multi-temporal Landsat records in time series analyses. More seriously, the sensor-related differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
10,800 Views
20 Pages

Flood Monitoring in Rural Areas of the Pearl River Basin (China) Using Sentinel-1 SAR

  • Junliang Qiu,
  • Bowen Cao,
  • Edward Park,
  • Xiankun Yang,
  • Wenxin Zhang and
  • Paolo Tarolli

3 April 2021

Flood hazards result in enormous casualties and huge economic losses every year in the Pearl River Basin (PRB), China. It is, therefore, crucial to monitor floods in PRB for a better understanding of the flooding patterns and characteristics of the P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,874 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2021

The response of a summer upwelling system to recent climate change in the Taiwan Strait has been investigated using a time series of sea surface temperature and wind data over the period 1982–2019. Our results revealed that summer upwelling intensiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,415 Views
26 Pages

Seamless 3D Image Mapping and Mosaicing of Valles Marineris on Mars Using Orbital HRSC Stereo and Panchromatic Images

  • Yu Tao,
  • Greg Michael,
  • Jan-Peter Muller,
  • Susan J. Conway and
  • Alfiah R. D. Putri

3 April 2021

A seamless mosaic has been constructed including a 3D terrain model at 50 m grid-spacing and a corresponding terrain-corrected orthoimage at 12.5 m using a novel approach applied to ESA Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera orbital (HRSC) images...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,209 Views
16 Pages

2 April 2021

Two main approaches are used in mapping rice paddy distribution from remote sensing images: phenological methods or machine learning methods. The phenological methods can map rice paddy distribution in a simple way but with limited accuracy. Machine...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,996 Views
13 Pages

2 April 2021

High-resolution imagery of small buoyant plumes often reveals an extensive pattern of concentric rings spreading outward from near the discharge point. Recent remote sensing studies of plumes from rivers flowing into the Black Sea propose that such r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,244 Views
21 Pages

Multitemporal InSAR Coherence Analysis and Methods for Sand Mitigation

  • Marco Manzoni,
  • Monia Elisa Molinari and
  • Andrea Monti-Guarnieri

2 April 2021

Dunes and sand sheets motion natural hazard affect many desertic areas worldwide and require careful assessment to develop effective mitigation plans to protect populated sites, infrastructure, and human activities. The study explores the suitability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,039 Views
22 Pages

2 April 2021

Graph learning is an effective dimensionality reduction (DR) manner to analyze the intrinsic properties of high dimensional data, it has been widely used in the fields of DR for hyperspectral image (HSI) data, but they ignore the collaborative relati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,483 Views
20 Pages

High-Resolution Monitoring of Tidal Systems Using UAV: A Case Study on Poplar Island, MD (USA)

  • Yuri Taddia,
  • Alberto Pellegrinelli,
  • Corinne Corbau,
  • Giulia Franchi,
  • Lorie W. Staver,
  • John Court Stevenson and
  • William Nardin

2 April 2021

Tidal processes regulating sediment accretion rates and vegetated platform erosion in tidal systems strongly affect salt marsh evolution. A balance between erosion and deposition in a restored salt marsh is crucial for analyzing restoration strategie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,088 Views
25 Pages

2 April 2021

Earthquake activities in and around the Korean Peninsula are relatively low in number and intensity compared with neighboring countries such as Japan and China. However, recent seismic activity caused great alarm and concern among citizens and govern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,574 Views
20 Pages

Sea Ice Thickness Estimation Based on Regression Neural Networks Using L-Band Microwave Radiometry Data from the FSSCat Mission

  • Christoph Herbert,
  • Joan Francesc Munoz-Martin,
  • David Llaveria,
  • Miriam Pablos and
  • Adriano Camps

2 April 2021

Several methods have been developed to provide polar maps of sea ice thickness (SIT) from L-band brightness temperature (TB) and altimetry data. Current process-based inversion methods to yield SIT fail to address the complex surface characteristics...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,971 Views
17 Pages

Selecting Optimal Combination of Data Channels for Semantic Segmentation in City Information Modelling (CIM)

  • Yuanzhi Cai,
  • Hong Huang,
  • Kaiyang Wang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Lei Fan and
  • Fangyu Guo

2 April 2021

Over the last decade, a 3D reconstruction technique has been developed to present the latest as-is information for various objects and build the city information models. Meanwhile, deep learning based approaches are employed to add semantic informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,281 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2021

Vibration monitoring is a frequent task within the general topic of Structural Health Monitoring. For this monitoring, usually accelerometers, strain gauges, fibre optic sensors or Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers are placed on pre...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,026 Views
9 Pages

The Road to Operationalization of Effective Tropical Forest Monitoring Systems

  • Carlos Portillo-Quintero,
  • Jose L. Hernández-Stefanoni,
  • Gabriela Reyes-Palomeque and
  • Mukti R. Subedi

2 April 2021

The urgency to preserve tropical forest remnants has encouraged the development of remote sensing tools and techniques to monitor diverse forest attributes for management and conservation. State-of-the-art methodologies for mapping and tracking these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,674 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2021

Recently, deep learning has developed rapidly, while it has also been quite successfully applied in the field of hyperspectral classification. Generally, training the parameters of a deep neural network to the best is the core step of a deep learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,601 Views
20 Pages

LighterGAN: An Illumination Enhancement Method for Urban UAV Imagery

  • Junshu Wang,
  • Yue Yang,
  • Yuan Chen and
  • Yuxing Han

2 April 2021

In unmanned aerial vehicle based urban observation and monitoring, the performance of computer vision algorithms is inevitably limited by the low illumination and light pollution caused degradation, therefore, the application image enhancement is a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,050 Views
22 Pages

2 April 2021

Low-rank representation with hypergraph regularization has achieved great success in hyperspectral imagery, which can explore global structure, and further incorporate local information. Existing hypergraph learning methods only construct the hypergr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,476 Views
24 Pages

High-Resolution Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery for Assessing Yield, Biomass, Grain N Concentration, and N Output in Spring Wheat

  • María D. Raya-Sereno,
  • J. Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio,
  • María Alonso-Ayuso,
  • Francelino A. Rodrigues,
  • Arlet A. Rodríguez,
  • Lorena González-Perez and
  • Miguel Quemada

2 April 2021

Remote sensing allows fast assessment of crop monitoring over large areas; however, questions regarding uncertainty in crop parameter prediction and application to nitrogen (N) fertilization remain open. The objective of this study was to optimize of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,090 Views
24 Pages

Estimation of Lower-Stratosphere-to-Troposphere Ozone Profile Using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)

  • Xinxin Zhang,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Xiaoyan Lu,
  • Lu Bai,
  • Liangfu Chen,
  • Jinhua Tao,
  • Zhibao Wang and
  • Lili Zhu

2 April 2021

Climate change and air pollution are emerging topics due to their possible enormous implications for health and social perspectives. In recent years, tropospheric ozone has been recognized as an important greenhouse gas and pollutant that is detrimen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,450 Views
17 Pages

2 April 2021

Understanding the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of ecosystem services (ESs) and their drivers in mountainous areas is important for sustainable ecosystem management. However, the effective construction of landscape heterogeneous units (LHUs) to reflec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,442 Views
16 Pages

Strategies for the Development of Spectral Models for Soil Organic Matter Estimation

  • Everson Cezar,
  • Marcos Rafael Nanni,
  • Luís Guilherme Teixeira Crusiol,
  • Liang Sun,
  • Mônica Sacioto Chicati,
  • Renato Herrig Furlanetto,
  • Marlon Rodrigues,
  • Rubson Natal Ribeiro Sibaldelli,
  • Guilherme Fernando Capristo Silva and
  • José A. M. Demattê
  • + 1 author

2 April 2021

Visible (V), Near Infrared (NIR) and Short Waves Infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy has been indicated as a promising tool in soil studies, especially in the last decade. However, in order to apply this method, it is necessary to develop prediction models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,744 Views
19 Pages

Quantification of the Environmental Impacts of Highway Construction Using Remote Sensing Approach

  • Shuailong Feng,
  • Shuguang Liu,
  • Lei Jing,
  • Yu Zhu,
  • Wende Yan,
  • Bingchun Jiang,
  • Maochou Liu,
  • Weizhi Lu,
  • Ying Ning and
  • Jingni Jia
  • + 2 authors

1 April 2021

Highways provide key social and economic functions but generate a wide range of environmental consequences that are poorly quantified and understood. Here, we developed a before–during–after control-impact remote sensing (BDACI-RS) approach to quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,379 Views
25 Pages

1 April 2021

Rust disease is an important problem for leek cultivation worldwide. It reduces market value and in extreme cases destroys the entire harvest. Farmers have to resort to periodical full-field fungicide applications to prevent the spread of disease, on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,136 Views
29 Pages

A Tool for Pre-Operational Daily Mapping of Floods and Permanent Water Using Sentinel-1 Data

  • Luca Pulvirenti,
  • Giuseppe Squicciarino,
  • Elisabetta Fiori,
  • Luca Ferraris and
  • Silvia Puca

1 April 2021

An automated tool for pre-operational mapping of floods and inland waters using Sentinel-1 data is presented. The acronym AUTOWADE (AUTOmatic Water Areas DEtector) is used to denote it. The tool provides the end user (Italian Department of Civil Prot...

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