2023 August-2 - 199 articles
Accurate forest parameters are crucial for ecological protection, forest resource management and sustainable development. The rapid development of remote sensing can retrieve parameters such as the leaf area index, cluster index, diameter at breast h...
This study investigated the nonlinear changes in the vertical motion of 411 GNSS reference stations situated in mainland China and assessed the influence of the environmental load on their vertical displacement. The researchers evaluated the effect o...
This research investigates Southwest Vortex (SWV) events in China’s Sichuan Basin using Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) and Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) observations. We selected representative cloud systems and precipitation cases, divided into devel...
The automatic calculation of sediment maps from hydroacoustic data is of great importance for habitat and sediment mapping as well as monitoring tasks. For this reason, numerous papers have been published that are based on a variety of algorithms and...
The expansion of mountainous urban areas and road networks can influence the terrain, vegetation, and material characteristics, thereby altering the susceptibility of landslides. Understanding the relationship between human engineering activities and...
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques with remote sensing holds great potential for revolutionizing data analysis and applications in many domains of Earth sciences. This review paper synthesizes the existing literature on AI applicatio...
Automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms are used to classify a given synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image into one of the known target classes by using the information gleaned from a set of training images that are available for each class. Rec...
Ground deformation is the direct manifestation of the earth-rock dam's hazard potential. Therefore, it is essential to monitor deformation for dam warning and security evaluation. The Liuduzhai Dam, a clay-core dam of a large reservoir in China, was...
Potato holds significant importance as a staple food crop worldwide, particularly in addressing the needs of a growing population. Accurate estimation of the potato Leaf Area Index (LAI) plays a crucial role in predicting crop yield and facilitating...
To address the issue that conventional methods cannot recognize unknown patterns of radar jamming, this study adopts the idea of zero-shot learning (ZSL) and proposes an open world recognition method, RCAE-OWR, based on residual convolutional autoenc...
Delineating urban and peri-urban areas has often used information from multiple sources including remote sensing images, nighttime light images, and points-of-interest (POIs). Human mobility from big geo-spatial data could also be relevant for deline...
Digital terrain model (DTM) creation is a modeling process that represents the Earth’s surface. An aptly designed DTM generation method tailored for intended study can significantly streamline ensuing processes and assist in managing errors and...
Surface fine particulate matter (PM) with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) negatively impacts human health and the economy. However, due to data and model limitations, obtaining high-quality, high-spatial-resolution surface PM2.5 concentra...
Turbulence is ubiquitous in the planetary boundary layer (PBL), which is of great importance to the prediction of weather and air quality. Nevertheless, the profiles of turbulence in the whole PBL as observed by radar wind profilers (RWPs) are rarely...
Sea fog detection (SFD) presents a significant challenge in the field of intelligent Earth observation, particularly in analyzing meteorological satellite imagery. Akin to various vision tasks, ImageNet pre-training is commonly used for pre-training...
In recent years, the vegetation cover in the Selinco region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has undergone significant changes due to the influence of global warming and intensified human activity. Consequently, comprehending the distribution and change...
The accuracy and rapidity of total iron content (TFE) analysis can accelerate iron ore production. Although the conventional TFE detection methods are accurate, its detection speed presents difficulties in meeting production requirements. Therefore,...
Analysis of the relationships among ecosystem services (ESs) can help ensure that benefits from ecosystems are consistent over time. This study explored the spatial and temporal patterns of water supply (WS), grain supply (GS), carbon storage (CS), w...
Earthquake Disaster Assessment (EDA) plays a critical role in earthquake disaster prevention, evacuation, and rescue efforts. Deep learning (DL), which boasts advantages in image processing, signal recognition, and object detection, has facilitated s...
The strap-down inertial navigation system (SINS) and Doppler velocity log (DVL) integrated navigation system are widely used for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Whereas DVL works in the water tracking mode, the velocity provided by DVL is rela...
Semantic change detection (SCD) is a challenging task in remote sensing, which aims to locate and identify changes between the bi-temporal images, providing detailed “from-to” change information. This information is valuable for various r...
Fengyun-3E (FY-3E)/Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder-II (HIRAS-II) is an extension Fengyun-3D (FY-3D)/HIRAS-I. It is crucial to fully explore and analyze the detection capabilities of these two instruments for atmospheric gas composition. Ba...
At present, Rn subsurface flow can be described only by diffusion and advection transportation models within porous media that currently exist. Even though the temperature is a strong driving force in climate and gas thermodynamics, the impact of the...
The change in land-use diversity is attributed to the anthropogenic factors sustaining life. The surface water bodies and other crucial natural resources in the study area are being depleted at an alarming rate. This study explored the implications o...
Cities are the main emission sources of the CO2 produced by energy use around the globe and have a great impact on the variation of climate. Although the implications of urbanization and socioeconomic elements for carbon emission have been extensivel...
Grassland ecosystems are an important component of global terrestrial ecosystems and play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Therefore, it is important to study the carbon dioxide (CO2) process in the Middle Tien Shan grassland ecosystem, whi...
Optimizing the spatial structure of forests is important for improving the quality of forest ecosystems. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) could accurately extract forest spatial structural parameters, which has significant advantages in spatial op...
Microwave radar has advantages in detection accuracy and robustness, and it is an area of active research in unmanned ground vehicles. However, the existing conventional automotive corner radar, which employs real-aperture antenna arrays, has limitat...
The Gulf of California (GC) is the only interior sea in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and is the most important fishing area in the northwestern region of the Mexican Pacific. This study focuses on the oceanographic variability of the GC, including its s...
Conducting a quantitative assessment of water yield in mountainous areas is crucial for the management, development, and sustainable utilization of water resources. The Hengduan Mountains Region (HDMR) is a significant water-supporting area character...
Dimensionality reduction is one of the most used transformations of data and plays a critical role in maintaining meaningful properties while transforming data from high- to low-dimensional spaces. Previous studies, e.g., on image analysis, comparing...
Seagrasses are habitat-forming species that support biodiversity and a wide range of associated ecosystem services, from blue carbon capture to providing nursery areas for a variety of organisms. Their decline has been documented worldwide and is att...
In the field of multi-view SAR target location, the greater the difference in viewing angles, the higher the target location accuracy. However, this makes it difficult to match the same target between the SAR images with different viewing angles. The...
Target recognition mainly focuses on three approaches: optical-image-based, echo-detection-based, and passive signal-analysis-based methods. Among them, the passive signal-based method is closely integrated with practical applications due to its stro...
There are frequent and intensive periods of heavy rain in the arid areas of southern Xinjiang. This study uses a typical rainstorm process in the South Xinjiang Basin to investigate the weather, physical mechanisms, mesoscale characteristics, and inc...
This study aimed to develop an approach using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and the Optirrig crop growth and irrigation model to detect irrigation dates and amounts for maize crops in the Occitanie region, Southern France. The surfac...
The aerosol layer height (ALH) is an important parameter that characterizes aerosol interaction with the environment. An estimation of the vertical distribution of aerosol is necessary for studies of those interactions, their effect on radiance and f...
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Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are characterized by hundreds of spectral bands. The goal of HSI is to associate the pixel with a corresponding category label by analyzing subtle differences in the spectrum. Due to their excellent local context modeling...
Detecting the impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbances that cause declines in organisms or changes in community composition has long been a focus of ecology. However, a tradeoff often exists between the spatial extent over which relevant dat...
Turbulence-degraded image frames are distorted by both turbulent deformations and space–time varying blurs. Restoration of the atmospheric turbulence-degraded image is of great importance in the state of affairs, such as remoting sensing, surve...
The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) is the most comprehensive wetland geospatial dataset in the United States. However, it can be time-consuming and costly to maintain. This study introduces automated algorithms and methods to support NWI maintenan...
Mineral prospectivity mapping is a crucial technique for discovering new economic mineral deposits. However, detailed knowledge-based geological exploration and interpretations generally involve significant costs, time, and human resources. In this s...
In recent years, MIMO high-frequency surface wave radar (MIMO-HFSWR) plays an increasingly important role in sea surveillance because of its wide-area surveillance capabilities. In signal processing, the coherent targets with the same distance and sp...
In recent years, with the rapid advancement of China’s urbanization, the contradiction between urban development and the ecological environment has become increasingly prominent, and the urban ecological system now faces severe challenges. In t...
Understanding the spatial distribution of irrigated croplands is crucial for food security and water use. To map land cover classes with high-spatial-resolution images, it is necessary to analyze the semantic information of target objects in addition...
In the present complex electromagnetic environment, radar target detection is threatened by different kinds of interferences, especially mainlobe deceptive interference, which occupies the same energy distributions of targets spatially, meaning that...
Persistent pollution often occurs in North China in winter. The study of the sub-seasonal evolution characteristics of fine particles (PM2.5) can provide a theoretical basis for the prediction and prevention of persistent pollution. Based on the high...
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are extreme events characterized by abnormally high sea surface temperatures, and they have significant impacts on marine ecosystems and human society. The rapid and accurate forecasting of MHWs is crucial for preventing and r...
Heavy metals (HMs) entering soils are redistributed by natural processes such as surface runoff and soil erosion. These natural processes are characterized by topographic factors (TFs, e.g., Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), Total Catchment Area (TCA)...
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