2024 January-1 - 210 articles
A thorough evaluation of the recently released Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) is critical for both end-users and algorithm developers. In this study, six products from three versions of GSMaP version 8, including real time (NOW-R a...
The surface currents in coastal areas are closely related to the ecological environment and human activities, and are influenced by both local and remote factors of different timescales, resulting in complex genesis and multi-timescale characteristic...
Ozone plays an important role in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is mainly formed in the tropical stratosphere and is transported by the Brewer–Dobson Circulation to higher latitudes. In the stratosphere, ozone can filter the incoming solar ul...
Aerosol optical properties retrieved using polarization Raman lidar observations play an increasingly vital role in meteorology and environmental protection. The quality of the data products directly affects the impact of relevant scientific applicat...
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Sea surface temperature (SST) responses have been perceived as crucial to consequential tropical cyclone (TC) intensity development. In addition to regular cooling responses, a few TCs could cause extreme SST drops (ESSTDs) (e.g., SST drops more than...
The forests of Central Africa constitute the continent’s largest continuous tract of forest, maintained in part by over 200 protected areas across six countries with varying levels of restriction and enforcement. Despite protection, these Centr...
When it comes to the application of the photon data gathered by the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), accurately removing noise is crucial. In particular, conventional denoising algorithms based on local density are susceptible t...
Mid-level clouds play a crucial role in the Arctic. Due to observational limitations, there is scarce research on the long-term evolution of Arctic mid-level clouds. From a satellite perspective, this study attempts to analyze the seasonal variations...
The interrelation between grassland vegetation greenness and hydrothermal conditions on the Tibetan Plateau demonstrates a significant correlation. However, understanding the spatial patterns and the degree of this correlation, especially in relation...
Soil moisture (SM) data can provide guidance for decision-makers in fields such as drought monitoring and irrigation management. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite offers sufficient spatial resolution for global-scale applications, but its...
The operation of underwater vehicles in deep waters is a very challenging task. The use of AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) is the preferred option for underwater exploration activities. They can be autonomously navigated and controlled in real...
The performance of a high-frequency (HF) radar network situated within the Pearl River Estuary from 17 July to 13 August 2022 is described via a comparison with seven acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs). The radar network consists of six OSMAR...
This paper addresses the conservation problems of the cave of Altamira, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, Spain, due to the effects of moisture and water inside the cave. The study focuses on the description of methods fo...
Two-stage remote sensing image captioning (RSIC) methods have achieved promising results by incorporating additional pre-trained remote sensing tasks to extract supplementary information and improve caption quality. However, these methods face limita...
In this paper, a compound-Gaussian model (CGM) with the Nakagami-distributed textures (CGNG) is proposed to model sea clutter at medium/high grazing angles. The corresponding amplitude distributions are referred to as the CGNG distributions. The anal...
Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of Earth observation satellites, and the area of ground targets requiring observation has also been expanding. To effectively utilize the capabilities of these satellites...
In recent years, deep learning methods utilizing convolutional neural networks have been extensively employed in hyperspectral image classification (HSI) applications. Nevertheless, while a substantial number of stacked 3D convolutions can indeed ach...
Accurate snow cover data are critical for understanding the Earth’s climate system, and exploring hydrological processes and regional water resource management over High Mountain Asia (HMA). However, satellite-based remote sensing observations...
The UAV-borne video SAR (ViSAR) imaging system requires miniaturization, low power consumption, high frame rates, and high-resolution real-time imaging. In order to satisfy the requirements of real-time imaging processing for the UAV-borne ViSAR unde...
A multipath error is one of the main sources of GNSS positioning errors. It cannot be eliminated by forming double-difference and other methods, and it has become an issue in GNSS positioning error processing, because it is mainly related to the surr...
Because of the complex structure and different shapes of building contours, the uneven density distribution of airborne LiDAR point clouds, and occlusion, existing building contour extraction algorithms are subject to such problems as poor robustness...
Snow cover is a sensitive indicator of global climate change, and optical images are an important means for monitoring its spatiotemporal changes. Due to the high reflectivity, rapid change, and intense spatial heterogeneity of mountainous snow cover...
Hyperspectral imaging is an emerging non-invasive technology with potential for early nutrient stress detection in plants prior to visible symptoms. This study evaluated hyperspectral imaging for early identification of nitrogen, phosphorus, and pota...
Three-dimensional resistivity/chargeability tomography based on distributed data acquisition technology is likely to provide abundant information for mineral exploration. To realize true 3D tomography, establishing transmitter sources with different...
Monitoring shoreline movements is essential for understanding the impact of anthropogenic activities and climate change on the coastal zone dynamics. The use of remote sensing allows for large-scale spatial and temporal studies to better comprehend c...
The increasing availability and quality of remote sensing data are changing the methods used in fluvial geomorphology applications, allowing the observation of hydro-morpho-biodynamics processes and their spatial and temporal variations at broader an...
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) applied to intelligent transport systems in urban areas suffer from multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) effects due to the signal reflections from high-rise buildings, which seriously degrade the accurac...
Accurate atmospheric correction (AC) is one fundamental and essential step for successful ocean colour remote-sensing applications. Currently, most ACs and the associated ocean colour remote-sensing applications are restricted to solar zenith angles...
When natural disasters occur, timely and accurate building damage assessment maps are vital for disaster management responders to organize their resources efficiently. Pairs of pre- and post-disaster remote sensing imagery have been recognized as inv...
In polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR), it is of great significance for civil and military applications to find novel model-based decomposition methods suitable for ship detection in different detection backgrounds. Based on the physical i...
The Cartagena Bay in Colombia has vital economic and environmental importance, playing a fundamental role in both the port and tourism sectors. Unfortunately, the water quality of the bay is undergoing a deterioration process due to the significant i...
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are widely used to identify and characterize objects in scenes of interest, but they are associated with high acquisition costs and low spatial resolutions. With the development of deep learning, HSI reconstruction from lo...
Gravitational processes on cut slopes located close to infrastructure are a high concern in mountainous regions. There are many techniques for survey, assessment, and prognosis of hazardous exogenous geological processes. The given research describes...
The optical complexity of coastal waters is mostly caused by the water discharged from land carrying optical components (such as dissolved and particulate matter) into coastal bays and estuaries, and increasing the attenuation of light. This paper ai...
Remote sensing technology is widely used to obtain evapotranspiration (ETa), but whether it can distinguish the differences in farmland energy balance components and ETa under different irrigation methods has not been studied. We used Landsat 8 data...
Indoor mobile robots can be localized by using scene classification methods. Recently, two-dimensional (2D) LiDAR has achieved good results in semantic classification with target categories such as room and corridor. However, it is difficult to achie...
Riverbed materials serve multiple environmental functions as a habitat for aquatic invertebrates and fish. At the same time, the particle size of the bed material reflects the tractive force of the flow regime in a flood and provides useful informati...
This article provides insights into the optical signatures of plastic litter based on a published laboratory-scale reflectance data set (350–2500
Several satellite missions are currently available to provide thermal infrared data at different spatial resolutions and revisit time. Furthermore, new missions are planned thus enabling to keep a nearly continuous ‘eye’ on thermal volcan...
Evapotranspiration (E) is one of the most uncertain components of the global water cycle (WC). Improving global E estimates is necessary to improve our understanding of climate and its impact on available surface water resources. This work presents a...
Building extraction refers to the automatic identification and separation of buildings from the background in remote sensing images. It plays a significant role in urban planning, land management, and disaster monitoring. Deep-learning methods have s...
Due to their advantages of high measurement accuracy and wide coverage, global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) can carry out long-distance time transfers, among which the precise point positioning (PPP) method is widely used. However, the accura...
Underwater Sound Speed Profile (SSP) distribution is crucial for the propagation mode of acoustic signals, so fast and accurate estimation of SSP is of great importance in building underwater observation systems. The state-of-the-art SSP inversion me...
Owing to the dependence of algorithms on the measurement of ship soundings and geophysical parameters, the accuracy and coverage of topography still need to be improved. Previous studies have mostly predicted topography using gravity or gravity gradi...
By means of alteration of the transmitted linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal waveform parameters, such as pulse width or chirp rate, initial phase, pulse repetition interval (PRI), and chirp rate polarity at every position of synthetic aperture...
Unmanned rescue systems have become an efficient means of executing maritime search and rescue operations, ensuring the safety of rescue personnel. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), due to their agility and portability, are well-suited for these missi...
The escalating frequency and severity of extreme climate greatly impact the carbon dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. To understand the multi-temporal response of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) to extreme climate, we investigated 11 temp...
As a major grain-producing region in China, the North China Plain (NCP) faces serious challenges such as water shortage and land subsidence. In late 2014, the Central Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWD-C) began to provide NCP w...
Scene-matching navigation is one of the essential technologies for achieving precise navigation in satellite-denied environments. Selecting suitable-matching areas is crucial for planning trajectory and reducing yaw. Most traditional selection method...
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