Remote Sensing, Volume 15, Issue 4

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is an area known to be sensitive to global climate change, and the problems caused by permafrost degradation in the context of climate warming potentially have far-reaching effects on regional hydrogeological processes...

A joint radar-communication (JRC) system utilizes the integrated transmit waveform and a single platform to perform radar and communication functions simultaneously. Admittedly, the multibeam waveform design approach could transmit the assigned wavef...

Natural disturbances like hurricanes can cause extensive disorder in forest structure, composition, and succession. Consequently, ecological, social, and economic alterations may occur. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and deep learning have been use...

Dynamic response monitoring is of great significance for large engineering structural anomaly diagnosis and early warning. Although the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) has been widely used to measure the dynamic structural response, it has...

This study presents the observations of midlatitude plasma irregularities over Eastern Asia during a moderate magnetic storm on 16 July 2003. Multi-instrumental observations, including the ground-based ionosondes, the GNSS networks, and the CHAMP and...

The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique has achieved astonishing progress over the last few decades and has generated considerable interest in the autonomous driving community. With its conceptual roots in navigation and mapping, S...

Super-resolution methods for real beam mapping (RBM) imagery play a significant role in many microwave remote sensing applications. However, the existing super-resolution methods require high-dimensional matrix operations in the case of wide-field im...

The Harmony satellite mission was recently approved as the next European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Explorer 10. The mission science objectives cover several applications related to solid earth, the cryosphere, upper-ocean dynamics and air–sea in...

Modeling of land use and land cover (LULC) is a very important tool, particularly in the agricultural field: it allows us to know the potential changes in land area in the future and to consider developments in order to prevent probable risks. The id...

Terrestrial photographic imagery combined with structure-from-motion (SfM) provides a relatively easy-to-implement method for monitoring environmental systems, even in remote and rough terrain. However, the collection of in-situ positioning data and...

The moon has stable luminosity. Radiometric calibration on the lunar region is a good step in the right direction with the expansion of instrument observation capabilities. The uneven composition and terrain types of the lunar surface make it possibl...

This paper proposes two data-independent phase-only beamforming algorithms for frequency diverse array multiple-input multiple-output radar against swarm interference. The proposed strategy can form a deep null at the interference area to achieve swa...

Smartphones now dominate the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) devices capable of collecting raw data. However, they also offer valuable research opportunities in intentional jamming, which has become a serious threat to the GNSS. Smartphones...

The science and application of the Earth observation system are receiving growing traction and wider application, and the scope is becoming wider and better owing to the availability of the higher resolution of satellite remote sensing products. A wa...

Space-borne hyperspectral imagery data are known for their high spectral resolution in a number of narrow wavelength intervals, which makes these data useful for mineral mapping. However, the available free-of-charge hyperspectral scenes cover only n...

Understanding the long-term dynamics and driving factors behind small and micro wetlands is critical for their management and future sustainability. This study explored the impacts of natural and anthropogenic factors on the spatiotemporal evolution...

Active Radar Calibrators (ARC), also called calibration transponders, are often used as reference targets for absolute radiometric calibration of radar systems due to their large achievable Radar Cross-Section (RCS). However, before using a transpond...

Timely and accurate acquisition of crop type information is significant for irrigation scheduling, yield estimation, harvesting arrangement, etc. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as an effective way to obtain high resolution remote sensi...

Evapotranspiration (ET) affects the dry and wet conditions of a region, particularly in arid Central Asia, where changes in evapotranspiration profoundly influence society, the economy, and ecosystems. However, the changing trends in and driving fact...

Accurate monitoring of surface temperature and melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is important for tracking the ice sheet’s mass balance as well as global and Arctic climate change. Using a moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer (...

Land use/land cover change evaluation and prediction using spatiotemporal data are crucial for environmental monitoring and better planning and management of land use. The main objective of this study is to evaluate land use/land cover changes for th...

The Basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, in the Oltrarno area, was built in 1268 (pre-Renaissance low medieval context) and consecrated in 1422. Following a devastating fire in the interior of the original church, in 1771, very little rem...

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are one of the most successfully used tools for precisely and potentially detecting key ground surfaces, vegetation, and minerals. HSIs contain a large amount of information about the ground scene; therefore, object classi...

Knowledge about the spatial-temporal pattern of cropland abandonment is the premise for the management of abandoned croplands. Traditional mapping approaches of abandoned croplands usually utilize a multi-date classification-based land cover change t...

The alpine inland lake dynamics have been good indicators of changes in terrestrial hydrological cycles under global climate change. However, the relationship between alpine inland lake and climatic factors remained largely uncertain. This study exam...

Forest inventory parameters play an important role in understanding various biophysical processes of forest ecosystems. The present study aims at integrating Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and ALOS PALSAR L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data t...

Free-space detection plays a pivotal role in autonomous vehicle applications, and its state-of-the-art algorithms are typically based on semantic segmentation of road areas. Recently, hyperspectral images have proven useful supplementary information...

Clouds can block solar radiation from reaching the surface, so timely and effective cloud cover test and forecasting is critical to the operation and economic efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) plants. Traditional cloud cover algorithms based on meteoro...

Spaceborne snow water retrievals over oceans are assessed using a multiyear coincident dataset of CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) and Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR). Various factors contributing to di...

A robust multisensor navigation filter design for the entry phase of next-generation Mars entry, descent, and landing (EDL) is presented. The entry phase is the longest and most uncertain portion of a Mars landing sequence. Navigation performance at...

Earth flows are complex gravitational events characterised by a heterogeneous displacement pattern in terms of scale, style, and orientation. As a result, their monitoring, for both knowledge and emergency purposes, represents a relevant challenge in...

Due to the limitation of optical images that their waves cannot penetrate clouds, such images always suffer from cloud contamination, which causes missing information and limitations for subsequent agricultural applications, among others. Synthetic a...

Near-land surface air temperature (NLSAT) is an important meteorological and climatic parameter widely used in climate change, urban heat island and environmental science, in addition to being an important input parameter for various earth system sim...

Under external load excitation, damage such as breathing cracks and bolt loosening will cause structural time domain acceleration to have nonlinear features. To solve the problem of time domain nonlinear damage identification, a damage identification...

Accurate quantification of net primary productivity (NPP) is key to estimating vegetation productivity and studying the global carbon cycle. However, C3 and C4 plants vary in their living environments and potential productivity due to their different...

As an effective active remote sensing technology for the exploration of shallow underground targets, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a detection method that can be used to obtain information about the characteristics of underground targets by trans...

Corrections to altimeter-measured sea surface height anomalies (SSHA) have a larger proportional effect for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimetry than conventional, pulse-limited altimetry because of lower range noise. Here, we quantified the impa...

The significant retreat of glaciers in terms of climate change compels researchers to increase the frequency of studies regarding the transformations occurring in glacier boundaries. In this study, we provided glacier area delineation of Ala-Archa va...

Regenerative agricultural practices are a suitable path to feed the global population. Integrated Crop–livestock systems (ICLSs) are key approaches once the area provides animal and crop production resources. In Brazil, the expectation is to in...

It has become undeniable that global land surface temperature (LST) has continued to rise in recent years. The threat of extreme heat to humans has become self-evident, especially in arid regions. Many studies have clarified the temperature rise/fall...

In this paper, a ground target extraction system for a novel LiDAR, airborne streak tube imaging LiDAR (ASTIL), is proposed. This system depends on only a single echo and a single data source, and can achieve fast ground target extraction. This syste...

The Doppler shift of microwave radar sea surface echoes serves as the foundation for sea surface current field retrieval; it includes the shift caused by satellite platform motion, ocean waves, and sea surface currents. The Doppler shift caused by oc...

Due to a lack of labeled samples, deep learning methods generally tend to have poor classification performance in practical applications. Few-shot learning (FSL), as an emerging learning paradigm, has been widely utilized in hyperspectral image (HSI)...

This paper proposes a rectangular array configuration of microstrip antennas combined with a parabolic reflector for C-band satellite communications. The antenna operates in the frequency range of 3.8–4.2 GHz. In particular, the proposed antenn...

We studied the characteristics of quasi-two-day wave (QTDW) using the meridional wind in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) obtained from a meteor radar over Kototabang (KB, 0.2$°$S, 100.3$°$E) from 2003 to 2012. Atmospheric oscillations...

Unfrozen free and non-free water between ice crystals in flat and hummock ice in the Yellow River exists as water films with varying contents based on ice temperature. These contents can affect the radar wave velocity of the ice despite its theoretic...

Spatio–temporal determination of phenotypic traits, such as height, leaf angles, and leaf area, is important for the understanding of crop growth and development in modern agriculture and crop science. Measurements of these parameters for indiv...

Due to the complexity of airborne remote sensing scenes, strong background and noise interference, positive and negative sample imbalance, and multiple ship scales, ship detection is a critical and challenging task in remote sensing. This work propos...

Superpixel generation of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is widely used for intelligent interpretation due to its feasibility and efficiency. However, the initial superpixel size setting is commonly neglected, and empirical valu...

Soil moisture deficit is an essential element in the estimation of irrigation demands, both spatially and temporarily. The determination of temporal and spatial variations of soil moisture in a river basin is challenging in many aspects; however, dis...