Remote Sensing, Volume 15, Issue 2

Knowledge of tree size is of great importance for the precision management of a hazelnut orchard. In fact, it has been shown that site-specific crop management allows for the best possible management and efficiency of the use of inputs. Generally, me...

In recent years, high-altitude infrasound sensing has become more prolific, demonstrating an enormous value especially when utilized over regions inaccessible to traditional ground-based sensing. Similar to ground-based infrasound detectors, airborne...

Exploring the trade-off/synergy among ecosystem services (ESs) of agroecosystems could provide effective support for improving agricultural resilience for sustainable development. The construction of ecological tea gardens is emerging, aims to achiev...

Weeds are a crucial threat to agriculture, and in order to preserve crop productivity, spreading agrochemicals is a common practice with a potential negative impact on the environment. Methods that can support intelligent application are needed. Ther...

Data in the form of images are now generated at an unprecedented rate. A case in point is remote sensing images (RSI), now available in large-scale RSI archives, which have attracted a considerable amount of research on image classification within th...

When a large-scale flood disaster occurs, it is important to identify the flood areas in a short time in order to effectively support the affected areas afterwards. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is promising for flood detection. A number of change d...

The traditional three-dimensional (3D) magnetotelluric (MT) forward modeling using Krylov subspace algorithms has the problem of low modeling efficiency. To improve the computational efficiency of 3D MT forward modeling, we present a novel geometric...

Automatic landslide classification based on digital elevation models has become a powerful complementary tool to field mapping. Many studies focus on the automatic classification of landslides’ geomorphological features, such as their steep mai...

In image-based three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction, texture-mapping techniques can give the model realistic textures. When the geometric surface in some regions is not reconstructed, such as for moving cars, powerlines, and telegraph poles, the tex...

The space-based infrared observatory of aircraft in the air has the advantages of wide-area, full-time, and passive detection. The optical design parameters for space-based infrared sensors strongly rely on target observed radiation, but there is sti...

A uniformity index for the axis ratios (U_ar) derived from dual polarization weather radar data is proposed for raindrop area identification and analysis. The derivation of this new parameter is based on radar scattering simulations and assumptions. U...

The navigation and positioning of multi-autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in the complex and variable marine environment is a significant and much-needed area of attention, especially considering the fact that cooperative navigation technology is...

Many regions worldwide suffer from heavy air pollution caused by particulate matter (PM_2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), resulting in a huge annual disease burden and significant welfare costs. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, e...

Different interferometric approaches have been developed over the past few decades to process SAR data and recover surface deformation, and each approach has advantages and limitations. Finding an accurate and reliable interval for preparing mean def...

We propose a mathematical study of the statistics of chlorophyll fluorescence indices. While most of the literature assumes Gaussian distributions for these indices, we demonstrate their fundamental non-Gaussian nature. Indeed, while the noise in the...

Recently, methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve superior performance in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification. However, the current CNN-based classifiers follow patch-based frameworks, which need...

Due to the satellite signals are blocked, it is difficult to obtain the vehicle position in the tunnels. We propose a single-site vehicle localization scheme for the rectangular tunnel environment, where most satellite-based positioning methods can n...

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most significant global ocean–atmosphere coupled signal in the tropical Pacific Ocean, and it can affect the stratosphere. However, the ENSO-related dynamical processes that influence the ozone...

Since flood inundation hampers human life and the economy, flood inundation retrieval with high temporal resolution and accuracy is essential for the projection of the environmental impact. In this study, a novel cyclone global navigation satellite s...

The Three-River Headwaters Region (TRHR) is an important part of the ecological security barrier of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China. Twenty years after the implementation of the TRHR ecological protection and construction project, the restor...

In this study, we proposed a region of interest (ROI) compression algorithm under the deep learning self-encoder framework to improve the reconstruction performance of the image and reduce the distortion of the ROI. First, we adopted a remote sensing...

Monitoring changes in tree cover for assessment of deforestation is a premise for policies to reduce carbon emission in the tropics. Here, a U-net deep learning model was used to map monthly tropical tree cover in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso b...

The coming years will see the launch of several missions (TRISHNA, LSTM, SBG), which will acquire images in four or more spectral bands in thermal infrared (TIR) at high spatial resolution (~50–60 m) and with high temporal revisit (~2–3 d...

This paper aims to address the limitations of the distribution number and uniformity of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) and their impact on the reliability of inverting regional groundwater storage (GWS) based on Green’s functi...

Urban tree canopy (UTC) area is an important index for evaluating the urban ecological environment; the very high resolution (VHR) images are essential for improving urban tree canopy survey efficiency. However, the traditional image classification m...

It is a challenge for automatic modulation recognition (AMR) methods for radiation source signals to work in environments with low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). This paper proposes a modulation feature extraction method based on data rearrangement a...

Sea ice thickness is one of the essential characteristics of sea ice. Sea ice lead detection is the key to sea ice thickness estimation from radar altimetry data. This research studies ten different surface type classification methods, including supe...

Bamboo forest is a unique forest landscape that is mainly composed of herbal plants. It has a stronger capability to increase terrestrial carbon sinks than woody forests in the same environment, thus playing a special role in absorbing atmospheric CO...

Water resources are important strategic resources related to human survival and development. Water body extraction from remote sensing images is a very important research topic for the monitoring of global and regional surface water changes. Deep lea...

Remarkable developments in the fields of earth observation (EO) satellites and remote sensing (RS) technology over the past four decades have substantially contributed to spatial, spectral, and temporal sampling [...]

Drought is a major disaster over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) that exerts great impacts on natural ecosystems and agricultural production. Furthermore, most drought indices are only useful for assessing drought conditions on a coarse temporal scale. Drou...

The geophysical effects are the main factor that causes the nonlinear motion of the station, and a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the GRACE seasonal load deformation and the GPS station coordinates is helpful to study the physical...

Land reclamation has a profound impact on coastal environments. On the Chinese coast, the new Xiang’an International Airport has been built on newly reclaimed land. The impact of the massive land reclamation project (finished in 2018) on water...

The definition of strategies for forest restoration projects depends on information of the successional stage of the area to be restored. Usually, classification of the successional stage is carried out in the field using forest inventory campaigns....

Total phosphorus (TP) is the main limiting factor of eutrophication for most inland waters globally. However, the combination of the limited temporal-spatial ranges of traditional manual sampling, poor spectral resolutions, and weather-vulnerable sat...

In the remote sensing monitoring of conservation tillage, the acquisition of remote sensing data with high spatial and temporal resolution is critical. The current optical remote sensing images cannot realize both temporal and spatial resolution, esp...

In the context of the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) international program, a new-generation spaceborne lidar is expected to be in polar orbit for deriving new observations of aerosol and clouds. In this work, we analyze the added values of these...

Protected areas, or national parks, are established to preserve natural ecosystems; their effectiveness on the territory needs to be evaluated. We propose considering a time series of the SDG 15.1.2 indicator, “Proportion of important sites for...

Stockpile volume estimation plays a critical role in several industrial/commercial bulk material management applications. LiDAR systems are commonly used for this task. Thanks to Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal availability in outdoo...

Coastal dune ecosystems are highly threatened, and one of the strongest pressures is invasive alien plants (IAPs). Mitigating the negative effects of IAPs requires development of optimal identification and mapping protocols. Remote sensing offers inn...

Numerous microseismic signals are produced by rock mass fracture during earthquakes, geological disasters, or underground excavations. Moreover, a large amount of noise signals are captured during microseismic signal monitoring. Specifically, some no...

Aerosol robotic network (AERONET) data from Dongsha Island (20.699N, 116.729E) and Taiping Island (35.90N, 3.03W) over the South China Sea (SCS) from January 2018 to December 2020 were used to analyze and discuss the temporal evolution properties of...

Traction spoofing is an important component of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) intermediate attacks, and the traction scheme directly determines the concealment of spoofing. However, spoofing via conventional traction strategies can be easi...

This study trialled a convolutional neural net (CNN)-based approach to mapping peat ditches from aerial imagery. Peat ditches were dug in the last century to improve peat moorland for agriculture and forestry at the expense of habitat health and carb...

The advanced imagers onboard the new generation of geostationary satellites could provide multilayer atmospheric moisture information with unprecedented high spatial and temporal resolutions, while the physical retrieval algorithm (One-Dimensional Va...

The mainstream image matching method for recovering the motion of the camera is based on local feature matching, which faces the challenges of rotation, illumination, and the presence of dynamic objects. In addition, local feature matching relies on...

Recent studies offer more evidence that the rate of warming is amplified with elevation, indicating thereby that high-elevation ecosystems tend to be exposed to more accelerated changes in temperature than ecosystems at lower elevations. The phenomen...

Earthquakes at depths of ≥300 km are generally called deep-focus earthquakes. Only two deep-focus earthquakes with Mw 8.0 or more have occurred in this century—the 2013 Okhotsk earthquake (Mw 8.3) and the 2018 Fiji earthquake (Mw 8.2) on 19...

Plastic-covered greenhouse (PCG) segmentation represents a significant challenge for object-based PCG mapping studies due to the spectral characteristics of these singular structures. Therefore, the assessment of PCG segmentation quality by employing...

Lithium (Li) resources are widely used in many strategic emerging fields; recently, several large-scale to super-large-scale pegmatite-type lithium deposits have been discovered in Dahongliutan, NW China. However, the natural environmental conditions...