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Remote Sensing, Volume 15, Issue 2

January-2 2023 - 254 articles

Cover Story: Satellite altimetry has been providing a continuous record of measurements since 1992. However, Sentinel‐6 now provides Synthetic Aperture Radar processing and improves the along‐track resolution from a few kilometres to about 300 metres. This means a major leap towards higher frequencies of the ocean spectrum, which means reconciling conventional and SAR altimetry. To that end, this study uses the Sentinel‐6/Jason‐3 tandem flight to compare simultaneous Internal Solitary Wave measurements between SAR and conventional altimetry. A new and striking feature is found when comparing Sentinel‐6 and Jason‐3, in which backscatter are in anti-phase. These intriguing results are discussed in light of the intrinsically different acquisition geometries of SAR and conventional altimeters as well as possible implications thereof. View this paper
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Articles (254)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,259 Views
18 Pages

16 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
12,284 Views
21 Pages

Mapping Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation with Planet NICFI Satellite Images and Deep Learning in Mato Grosso State (Brazil) from 2015 to 2021

  • Fabien H. Wagner,
  • Ricardo Dalagnol,
  • Celso H. L. Silva-Junior,
  • Griffin Carter,
  • Alison L. Ritz,
  • Mayumi C. M. Hirye,
  • Jean P. H. B. Ometto and
  • Sassan Saatchi

16 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,547 Views
28 Pages

15 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,732 Views
20 Pages

Inversion of Regional Groundwater Storage Changes Based on the Fusion of GNSS and GRACE Data: A Case Study of Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia

  • Wanqiu Li,
  • Chuanyin Zhang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Jinyun Guo,
  • Yingchun Shen,
  • Zhiwei Wang,
  • Jingxue Bi,
  • Qiuying Guo,
  • Yulong Zhong and
  • Wei Li
  • + 2 authors

15 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,328 Views
17 Pages

Very High Resolution Images and Superpixel-Enhanced Deep Neural Forest Promote Urban Tree Canopy Detection

  • Yang Liu,
  • Huaiqing Zhang,
  • Zeyu Cui,
  • Kexin Lei,
  • Yuanqing Zuo,
  • Jiansen Wang,
  • Xingtao Hu and
  • Hanqing Qiu

15 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,771 Views
24 Pages

Automatic Modulation Recognition of Radiation Source Signals Based on Data Rearrangement and the 2D FFT

  • Yangtian Liu,
  • Xiaopeng Yan,
  • Xinhong Hao,
  • Guanghua Yi and
  • Dingkun Huang

15 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,390 Views
24 Pages

Arctic Sea Ice Lead Detection from Chinese HY-2B Radar Altimeter Data

  • Wenqing Zhong,
  • Maofei Jiang,
  • Ke Xu and
  • Yongjun Jia

15 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,627 Views
17 Pages

Mapping Large-Scale Bamboo Forest Based on Phenology and Morphology Features

  • Xueliang Feng,
  • Shen Tan,
  • Yun Dong,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Jiaming Xu,
  • Liheng Zhong and
  • Le Yu

15 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,852 Views
17 Pages

15 January 2023

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...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,642 Views
11 Pages

Status of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications in Svalbard

  • Shridhar D. Jawak,
  • Veijo Pohjola,
  • Andreas Kääb,
  • Bo N. Andersen,
  • Małgorzata Błaszczyk,
  • Roberto Salzano,
  • Bartłomiej Luks,
  • Hiroyuki Enomoto,
  • Kjell Arild Høgda and
  • Geir Moholdt
  • + 2 authors

15 January 2023

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 [...]

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