Remote Sensing, Volume 15, Issue 10

The spatial accuracy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the images they capture play a crucial role in the mapping process. Researchers are exploring solutions that use image-based techniques such as structure from motion (SfM) to produce topogra...

Downward continuation is a key technique for processing and interpreting gravity anomalies, as it has a major role in reducing values to horizontal planes and identifying small and shallow sources. However, it can be unstable and inaccurate, particul...

Hyperspectral image classification (HSI) has rich applications in several fields. In the past few years, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models have demonstrated great performance in HSI classification. However, CNNs are inadequate in captur...

Adversarial example generation on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is an important research area that could have significant impacts on security and environmental monitoring. However, most current adversarial attack methods on SAR images are des...

Accurate information on dominant tree species and their spatial distribution in subtropical natural forests are key ecological monitoring factors for accurately characterizing forest biodiversity, depicting the tree competition mechanism and quantita...

Continuous long-term eddy covariance (EC) measurements of CO₂ fluxes (NEE) in a variety of terrestrial ecosystems are critical for investigating the impacts of climate change on ecosystem carbon cycling. However, due to a number of issues, approximat...

Old urban reform usually reactivates the urban fabric in a new era of sustainable development. However, what remains of the former fabric and how it interacts with the new one often inspires curiosity. How the old residents adapt their lives to the n...

Global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a remote sensing technology of soil moisture measurement using signals of opportunity from GNSS, which has the advantages of low cost, all-weather detection, and multi-platform application....

Over-exploitation of coal mines leads to surface subsidence, surface cracks, collapses, landslides, and other geological disasters. Taking a mining area in Nalintaohai Town, Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, as an exampl...

In the field of unmanned systems, cameras and LiDAR are important sensors that provide complementary information. However, the question of how to effectively fuse data from two different modalities has always been a great challenge. In this paper, in...

As an indispensable material for animals, plants and human beings, obtaining accurate water body information rapidly is of great significance to maintain the balance of ecosystems and ensure normal production and the life of human beings. Due to its...

Automatically extracting 2D buildings from high-resolution remote sensing images is among the most popular research directions in the area of remote sensing information extraction. Semantic segmentation based on a CNN or transformer has greatly impro...

We analyze vertical total electron content (vTEC) variations from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at different latitudes in different continents of the world during the geomagnetic storms of June 2015, August 2018, and November 2021. Th...

Global dryland areas are vulnerable to climate change and anthropogenic activities, making it essential to understand the primary drivers and quantify their effects on vegetation growth. In this study, we used the Time Series Segmented Residual Trend...

Based on morphological methods, MODIS satellite remote sensing data were used to establish a dataset of the local roughness length (Z₀) of vegetation-covered surfaces in Guangdong Province. The local Z₀ was used to update the mesoscale Weather Resear...

Edge detection for PolSAR images has demonstrated its importance in various applications such as segmentation and classification. Although there are many edge detectors which have demonstrated an impressive ability to achieve accurate edge detection...

High-resolution albedo has the advantage of a higher spatial scale from tens to hundreds of meters, which can fill the gaps of albedo applications from the global scale to the regional scale and can solve problems related to land use change and ecosy...

Forest disturbances and restoration are key processes in carbon transmission between the terrestrial surface and the atmosphere. In boreal forests, fire is the most common and main disturbance. The reconstruction process for post-disaster vegetation...

The area fluctuation of lakes directly affects the stability of the surrounding ecological environment. Research on the area evolution of lakes and the driving factors affecting it plays an important role in sustainable water resource management. In...

The unique geographical diversity and rapid urbanization across the Indian subcontinent give rise to large-scale spatiotemporal variations in urban heating and air emissions. The complex relationship between geophysical parameters and anthropogenic a...

Cotton is one of the most important cash crops in Xinjiang, and timely seedling inspection and replenishment at the seedling stage are essential for cotton’s late production management and yield formation. The background conditions of the cotto...

The eastern Andean treeline (EATL) is the world’s longest altitudinal ecotone and plays an important role in biodiversity conservation in the context of land use/cover and climate change. The purpose of this study was to assess to what extent t...

Raindrop size distribution (DSD) over the complex terrain of Guangdong Province, southern China, was studied using six disdrometers operated by the Guangdong Meteorology Service during the period 1 March 2018 to 30 August 2022 (~5 years). To analyze...

Desertification, a current serious global environmental problem, has caused ecosystems and the environment to degrade. The total area of desertified land is about 1.72 million km² in China, which is extensively affected by desertification. Estimating...

Satellites are designed to monitor geospatial data over large areas at a catchment scale. However, most of satellite validation works are conducted at local point scales with a lack of spatial representativeness. Although upscaling them with a spatia...

Understanding atmospheric motions and projecting climate changes depends significantly on cloud types, i.e., different cloud types correspond to different atmospheric conditions, and accurate cloud classification can help forecasts and meteorology-re...

The Wuwei area in the arid region of northwestern China is impacted by the harsh natural environment and human activities, and the problem of ecological degradation is severe there. In order to ensure the sustainable development of the regional socia...

Device-free wireless localization based on Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) is an emerging technique that could estimate users’ indoor locations without invading their privacy or requiring special equipment. It deduces the position of a pe...

A storm tracking and nowcasting model was developed for the contiguous US (CONUS) by combining observations from the advanced baseline imager (ABI) and numerical weather prediction (NWP) short-range forecast data, along with the precipitation rate fr...

In recent years, remote sensing techniques such as satellite and drone-based imaging have been used to monitor Pine Wilt Disease (PWD), a widespread forest disease that causes the death of pine species. Researchers have explored the use of remote sen...

This paper proposes a novel approach for hydrometeor classification using passive microwave observations. The use of passive measurements for this purpose has not been extensively explored, despite being available for over four decades. We utilize th...

The Swarm mission aims to study the principle and change regularities of the Earth’s magnetic field. Precise orbit determination is essential to the successful implementation of the mission and relevant scientific research. This article focuses...

In order to improve the understanding of the microphysical characteristics of raindrop size distribution (DSD) under different rainfall rates (R) classes, and broaden the knowledge of the impact of radar wavelengths and R classes on the QPE of dual-p...

Disturbances to forests are getting worse with climate change and urbanization. Assessing the functionality of forest ecosystems is challenging because it requires not only a large amount of input data but also comprehensive estimation indicator meth...

Altimeter data processing is very important to improve the quality of sea surface height (SSH) measurements. Sea state bias (SSB) correction is a relatively uncertain error correction due to the lack of a clear theoretical model. At present, the comm...

The correction of atmospheric effects on optical remote sensing products is an essential component of Analysis Ready Data (ARD) production lines. The MAJA processor aims at providing accurate time series of surface reflectances over land for satellit...

Terrain significantly influences the physical processes and human activities occurring on the Earth’s surface, especially in mountainous areas. The classification and clarification of topographic structures are essential for the quantitative an...

When navigating ships in cold regions, sea ice concentration plays a crucial role in determining a ship’s navigability. However, automatically extracting the sea ice concentration and floe size distribution remains challenging, due to the diffi...

The alpine vegetation of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is extremely vulnerable and sensitive to climatic fluctuations, making it an ideal area to study the potential impacts of climate on vegetation dynamics. Fractional vegetation cover (FVC)...

We revisit two recent methodologies based on Monin–Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST), the 2D method and Hybrid-Wind (HW), which are aimed at estimation of the Obukhov length, friction velocity and kinematic heat flux within the surface layer. Bo...

Large volumes of atmospheric pollutants injected into the troposphere and stratosphere from volcanic eruptions can exert significant influence on global climate. Through utilizing multi-satellite observations, we present a large-scale insight into th...

The frequent occurrence and spread of wildfires pose a serious threat to the ecological environment and urban development. Therefore, assessing regional wildfire susceptibility is crucial for the early prevention of wildfires and formulation of disas...

With the continuous development of three-dimensional city modeling, traditional close-range photogrammetry is limited by complex processing procedures and incomplete 3D depth information, making it unable to meet high-precision modeling requirements....

Operational forest monitoring often requires fine-detail information in the form of an orthomosaic, created by stitching overlapping nadir images captured by aerial platforms such as drones. RGB drone sensors are commonly used for low-cost, high-reso...

Locally-originated typhoons in the South China Sea (SCS) are characterized by long duration, complex track, and high probability of landfall, which tend to cause severe wind, rainstorm, and flood disasters in coastal regions. Therefore, it is of grea...

In February 2023, Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.7 earthquakes struck southeastern Turkey. Generating a coseismic 3D deformation field that can directly reflect the characteristics of surface deformation is important for revealing the movement mode of a seismogenic...

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An atmospheric correction algorithm is proposed for the reconstruction of the ground surface reflectance from the data of satellite measurements. A distinctive feature of the algorithm is that it takes into account the influence of the ground surface...

Beach behaviour and evolution are controlled by a large number of factors, being susceptible to human-derived pressures and the impacts of climate change. In order to understand beach behaviour at different scales, systematic monitoring programs that...

Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection (HAD) aims to detect the pixel or target whose spectral characteristics are significantly different from the surrounding pixels or targets. The effectiveness of reconstructing the background model is an essential eleme...