Remote Sensing, Volume 16, Issue 15

The frequency of natural disasters has increased recently, posing a huge threat to human society. Rapid, accurate, authentic, and comprehensive acquisition and transmission of disaster information are crucial in emergency response. In this paper, we...

Compared to conventional spoofing, emerging spoofing attacks pose a heightened threat to security applications within the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) due to their subtly designed signal structures. In response, a novel spoofing detectio...

Cloud contamination significantly impairs optical remote sensing images (RSIs), reducing their utility for Earth observation. The traditional cloud removal techniques, often reliant on deep learning, generally aim for holistic image reconstruction, w...

This paper investigates null control within the transmit–receive beampattern of Frequency Diverse Array-Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (FDA-MIMO) systems, presenting a novel phase-only optimization approach for achieving null control in FDA...

The long convergence time and non-robust positioning accuracy are the main factors limiting the application of precision single-point positioning (PPP) in kinematic vehicle navigation. Therefore, a dual/triple-frequency multi-constellation PPP-RTK me...

On 5 September 2022, a Ms 6.8 earthquake struck Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. This seismic event triggered over 16,000 landslides and caused serious casualties and infrastructure damages. The aim of this...

In recent years, the detection performance of SAR-GMTI (synthetic aperture radar-ground moving target indication) algorithm based on deep learning has always been limited by insufficient measured data due to the heavy operation complexity and high co...

The laser station (BORL) owned by the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences and situated at the Astrogeodynamic Observatory in Borowiec near Poznań regularly observes more than 100 different objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) and...

In this paper, we propose a comprehensive and optimised workflow for the documentation and the future maintenance and management of a historical building, integrating the state of the art of different techniques, in the challenging context of industr...

Ubiquitous Radar has become an essential tool for preventing bird strikes at airports, where accurate target classification is of paramount importance. The working mode of Ubiquitous Radar, which operates in track-then-identify (TTI) mode, provides b...

Change detection using SAR data has been an active topic in various applications. Because conventional change detection identifies signal changes in single-pol radar observations, they cannot separately detect different kinds of change associated wit...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery presents significant advantages for observing ocean surface winds owing to its high spatial resolution and low sensitivity to extreme weather conditions. Nevertheless, signal noise poses a challenge, hindering p...

To meet the requirement of autonomous driving development, high-quality point cloud generation of the environment has become the focus of 4D mmWave radar development. On the basis of mass producibility and physical verifiability, a design method for...

Efforts to identify suitable habitat for wildlife conservation are crucial for safeguarding biodiversity, facilitating management, and promoting sustainable coexistence between wildlife and communities. Our study focuses on identifying potential blac...

To optimize growth and management, precision agriculture relies on a deep understanding of agricultural dynamics, particularly crop water status analysis. Leveraging unmanned aerial vehicles, we can efficiently acquire high-resolution spatiotemporal...

The satellite–ground bistatic configuration, which uses geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) for illumination and ground equipment for reception, can achieve wide coverage, high revisit, and continuous illumination of interest area...

High-resolution and thermal infrared hyperspectral data acquired from the Thermal Infrared Airborne Spectrographic Imager (TASI) have been recognized as efficient tools in geology, demonstrating significant potential for rock discernment. Deep learni...

Land-cover segmentation, a fundamental task within the domain of remote sensing, boasts a broad spectrum of application potential. We address the challenges in land-cover segmentation of remote-sensing imagery and complete the following work. Firstly...

The ionospheric quasi-periodic wave is a type of typical and common electromagnetic wave phenomenon occurring in extremely low-frequency (ELF) and very low-frequency ranges (VLF). These emissions propagate in a distinct whistler-wave mode, with varyi...

Mangrove ecosystems provide numerous ecological services and serve as vital habitats for a wide range of flora and fauna. Thus, accurate mapping and monitoring of relevant land covers in mangrove ecosystems are crucial for effective conservation and...

Band selection (BS) aims to reduce redundancy in hyperspectral imagery (HSI). Existing BS approaches typically model HSI only in a single dimension, either spectral or spatial, without exploring the interactions between different dimensions. To this...

Under space-based observation conditions, targets are subject to a large number of stars, clutter, false alarms, and other interferences, which can significantly impact the traditional Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) filterin...

Forest fires pose a catastrophic threat to Earth’s ecology as well as threaten human beings. Timely and accurate monitoring of forest fires can significantly reduce potential casualties and property damage. Thus, to address the aforementioned p...

Sonic layer depth (SLD) is crucial in ocean acoustics research and profoundly influences sound propagation and Sonar detection. Carrying 90% of oceanic kinetic energy, mesoscale eddies significantly impact the propagation of acoustic energy in the oc...

In light of recently accelerating global warming, the changes in vegetation trends are vital for the monitoring of the dynamics of both whole ecosystems and individual species. Detecting changes within the time series of specific forest ecosystems or...

The Shendong Mining Area, being the largest coal base in the world, has significant challenges in the intensive development and utilization of coal resources, as well as the impact of a dry climate, which can have serious negative effects on the grow...

Wildfire susceptibility maps play a crucial role in preemptively identifying regions at risk of future fires and informing decisions related to wildfire management, thereby aiding in mitigating the risks and potential damage posed by wildfires. This...

This paper addresses polarimetric adaptive coherent detection of radar targets embedded in sea clutter. Initially, radar clutter data across multiple polarimetric channels is modeled using a compound Gaussian framework featuring an unspecified speckl...

The measurement of the target azimuth angle using forward-looking radar (FLR) is widely applied in unmanned systems, such as obstacle avoidance and tracking applications. This paper proposes a semi-supervised support vector regression (SVR) method to...

Revealing the response of vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) to climate change and human activities is crucial for ensuring East Asian ecological security and regulating the global climate. However, the current research rarely explores the...

With LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) time series being used for various applications, the optimal realization of a common geodetic datum over many epochs is a highly important prerequisite with a direct impact on the accuracy and reliability of d...

Transformers have recently gained significant attention in low-level vision tasks, particularly for remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR). The vanilla vision transformer aims to establish long-range dependencies between image patches. However...

Urban green spaces (UGSs) provide important support for the health of urban residents and the realization of sustainable urban development. However, the spatiotemporal pattern of urban resident exposure to UGSs in cities is unclear, especially at the...

Monitoring areas susceptible to desertification contributes to the strategic development of regions located in environments of extreme hydric and social vulnerability. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the process of soil degradat...

Preserving historical architectural structures is crucial for safeguarding cultural heritage. This study explores the application of Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) to enhance the documentation process of the Ghiqa Historical Market in...

Driven by the scientific objective of geophysical field detection and natural hazard monitoring from space, China launched an electromagnetic satellite, which is known as the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01), on 2 February 2018, into...

The study of the polarimetric target decomposition algorithm with physical scattering models has contributed to the development of the field of remote sensing because of its simple and clear physical meaning with a small computational effort. However...

Deep learning-based template matching in remote sensing has received increasing research attention. Existing anchor box-based and anchor-free methods often suffer from low template localization accuracy in the presence of multimodal, nonrigid deforma...

Investigating urban vitality and comprehending the influence mechanisms of the built environment is essential for achieving sustainable urban growth and improving the quality of life for residents. Current research has rarely addressed the nonlinear...

Analysis of turbulent heat fluxes in urban forests is crucial for understanding structural variations in the urban sub-surface boundary layer. This study used data captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an improved semi-empirical triangle m...

Beijing is a city on the North China Plain with severe land subsidence. In recent years, Beijing has implemented effective measures to control land subsidence. Since this implementation, the development of time-series land subsidence in Beijing has s...

With rising global temperatures, wildfires frequently occur worldwide during the summer season. The timely detection of these fires, based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images, can significantly reduce the damage they cause. Existing Convolutional...

This paper aims to analyze the North Brazil Current (NBC) rings during the initial 5 months of 2020 using surface currents derived from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data in comparison with altimetry-based Archiving, Validation and Interpreta...

Effective forest management is essential for mitigating climate change effects. This is why understanding forest growth dynamics is critical for its sustainable management. Thus, characterizing forest plot deadwood levels is vital for understanding f...

The accurate extraction and monitoring of offshore aquaculture areas are crucial for the marine economy, environmental management, and sustainable development. Existing methods relying on unimodal remote sensing images are limited by natural conditio...

This study introduces a novel method utilizing hyperspectral imaging for instantaneous ore-waste analysis of drill cuttings. To implement this technique, we collected samples of drill cuttings at regular depth intervals from five blast holes in an op...

Deep learning techniques are increasingly applied to point cloud semantic segmentation, where single-modal point cloud often suffers from accuracy-limiting confusion phenomena. Moreover, some networks with image and LiDAR data lack an efficient fusio...

Hazy weather reduces contrast, narrows the dynamic range, and blurs the details of the remote sensing image. Additionally, color fidelity deteriorates, causing color shifts and image distortion, thereby impairing the utility of remote sensing data. I...

Wheat scab can reduce wheat yield and quality. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for monitoring field crops. However, UAV is constrained by limited computational resources on-board the platforms. In addition, compared to grou...

In light of the lack of ground-based observations, this study utilizes reanalysis data from the CHIRPS database and CMIP6 models under the SSP5-8.5 scenario to predict future rainfall in the Beni–Irumu region of eastern DR Congo. The use of rea...