Remote Sensing, Volume 16, Issue 19

Gridless direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods have garnered significant attention due to their ability to avoid grid mismatch errors, which can adversely affect the performance of high-resolution DOA estimation algorithms. However, most exis...

Sustainable forest management faces challenges from various biotic and abiotic stresses. The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) and drought stress both induce water shortages in poplar trees, but require different management strategies. In northwestern Ch...

Recent advances in 3D scanning have enabled the digital recording of complex objects as large-scale point clouds, which require clear visualization to convey their 3D shapes effectively. Edge-highlighting visualization is used to improve the comprehe...

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are indispensable for studying severe convective weather events. Research demonstrates that the outcomes of convective precipitation simulations are profoundly influenced by the choice between single or doubl...

Melt ponds play a crucial role in the melting of Arctic sea ice. Studying the evolution of melt ponds is essential for understanding changes in Arctic sea ice. In this study, we used a revised sea ice model to simulate the evolution of melt ponds alo...

Dust and air pollution events are increasingly occurring around the Taklimakan Desert in southern Xinjiang and in the urban areas of northern Xinjiang. Predicting such events is crucial for the advancement, growth, and prosperity of communities. This...

The interseismic behavior of faults (whether they are locked or creeping) and their quantitative kinematic constraints are critical for assessing the seismic hazards of faults and their surrounding areas. Currently, the creep of the eastern segment o...

Rivers convey a broad range of materials, such as sediment, nutrients, and contaminants. Much of this transport can occur during or immediately after an episodic, pulsed event like a flood or an oil spill. Understanding the flow processes that influe...

Low carbon management and policies should refer to local long-term inter-annual carbon uptake. However, most previous research has only focused on the quantity and spatial distribution of gross primary product (GPP) for the past 50 years because most...

Aerosol is an important atmospheric component that severely influences the global climate and air quality of our planet [...]

Strong salinity stratification induced by large freshwater fluxes in the northern Bay of Bengal (BOB) results in the formation of a quasi-permanent barrier layer (BL) that covers almost the entire BOB and leads to a unique temperature inversion withi...

Open-set recognition (OSR) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imageries plays a crucial role in maritime and terrestrial monitoring. Nevertheless, numerous deep learning-based SAR classifiers struggle with unknown targets outside of the training dat...

The Qinzhou fold belt, situated at the contact zone between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks in South China, was affected by the 1936 Lingshan M6¾ earthquake and the 1958 Lingshan M5¾ earthquake, both of which occurred within the conjug...

In this paper, an end-to-end system framework is proposed for the Digital Twin study of spaceborne ATI-SAR ocean current velocity inversion. Within this framework, a fitting inversion approach is proposed to enhance the conventional spaceborne ATI-SA...

Land use and cover change (LUCC) is directly linked to the sustainability of ecosystems and the long-term well-being of human society. The Helong Region in the Loess Plateau has become one of the areas most severely affected by soil and water erosion...

The vertical distribution of the marine total suspended matter (TSM) concentration significantly influences marine material transport, sedimentation processes, and biogeochemical cycles. Traditional field observations are constrained by limited spati...

Catch crops are intermediate crops sown between two main crop cycles. Their adoption into the cropping system has increased considerably in the last years due to its numerous benefits, in particular its potential in carbon fixation and preventing nit...

The Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation (NDSA) technique was proposed years ago as an active method for measuring integrated water vapor (IWV) along a Ku/K-band radio link immersed (totally or partially) in the troposphere. The approach is o...

Existing studies on the vulnerability assessment of ecological drought often focus on analyzing vegetation phenotypic characteristics, overlooking the impact of drought on ecosystem services. This study proposes an ecosystem vulnerability assessment...

Lake Sevan in Armenia is a unique, large, alpine lake given its surface, volume, and geographic location. The lake suffered from progressing eutrophication and, since 2018, massive cyanobacterial blooms repeatedly occurred. Although the lake is compa...

Small communities in the Arequipa region of Peru are susceptible to rockfall hazards, which impact their lives and livelihoods. To mitigate rockfall hazards, it is first necessary to understand their locations and characteristics, which can be compil...

Remote sensing and process-coupled ecological models are widely used for the simulation of GPP, which plays a key role in estimating and monitoring terrestrial ecosystem productivity. However, most such models do not differentiate the C3 and C4 photo...

Urban trees support vital ecological functions and help with the mitigation of and adaption to climate change. Yet, their monitoring and management require significant public resources. remote sensing could facilitate these tasks. Recent hyperspectra...

The significance of detecting faint and diminutive space targets cannot be overstated, as it underpins the preservation of Earth’s orbital environment’s safety and long-term sustainability. Founded by the different response characteristic...

It is usually hard to obtain adequate annotated data for delivering satisfactory scene classification results. Semi-supervised scene classification approaches can transfer the knowledge learned from previously annotated data to remote sensing images...

The Tianshan Expressway plays a crucial role in China’s “Belt and Road” strategy, yet the extreme climate of the Tianshan Mountains poses significant traffic safety risks, hindering local economic development. Efficient detection of...

In Microwave Radar Coincidence Imaging (MRCI), the imaging region is typically discretized into a fine grid. In other words, it assumes that the equivalent scatterers of the target are precisely located at the centers of these pre-discretized grids....

The climate impact of Arctic aerosols, like the Arctic Haze, and their origin are not fully understood. Therefore, long-term aerosol observations in the Arctic are performed. In this study, we present a homogenised data set from a sun and star photom...

The increased intensity and frequency of extreme climate events (ECEs) have significantly impacted vegetation phenology, further profoundly affecting the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the mechanisms by which ECEs affec...

Gross primary productivity (GPP) is vital for ecosystems and the global carbon cycle, serving as a sensitive indicator of ecosystems’ responses to climate change. However, the impact of future climate changes on GPP in the Tibetan Plateau, an e...

In the production of high-definition maps, it is necessary to achieve the three-dimensional instantiation of road furniture that is difficult to depict on traditional maps. The development of mobile laser measurement technology provides a new means f...

Ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in complex and high-risk traffic scenarios remains a critical unresolved challenge. Current AV planning methods exhibit limitations in generating robust driving trajectories that effectively avoid coll...

Accurate and timely estimation of oat biomass is crucial for the development of sustainable and efficient agricultural practices. This research focused on estimating and predicting forage oat biomass using UAV and agronomic variables. A Matrice 300 e...

Misusing image tampering software makes it easier to manipulate satellite images, leading to a crisis of trust and security concerns in society. This study compares the inconsistencies between heterogeneous images to locate tampered areas and propose...

Several studies proposed relationships linking irradiances in the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) range and broadband irradiances. A previous study published in 2024 by the same authors proposes a linear model relating clear-sky indices in...

An accurate and historical land cover monitoring dataset for Alaska could provide fundamental information for a range of studies, such as conservation habitats, biogeochemical cycles, and climate systems, in this distinctive region. This research add...

Online maps are of great importance in modern life, especially in commuting, traveling and urban planning. The accessibility of remote sensing (RS) images has contributed to the widespread practice of generating online maps based on RS images. The pr...

Due to a heavy reliance on groundwater, Bangladesh is experiencing a severe decline in groundwater storage, with some areas even facing land subsidence. This study aims to investigate the relationship between groundwater storage changes and land subs...

Given the growing threat posed by the widespread availability of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), which can be utilised for various unlawful activities, the need for a standardised method to evaluate the effectiveness of systems capable of detecting...

Haze refers to an atmospheric phenomenon with extremely low visibility, which has significant impacts on human health and safety. Water vapor alters the scattering properties of atmospheric particulate matter, thus affecting visibility. A comprehensi...

Rising food demands require new techniques to achieve higher genetic gains for crop production, especially in regions where climate can negatively affect agriculture. Wheat is a staple crop that often encounters this challenge, and ideotype breeding...

Accurate detection of transportation objects is pivotal for enhancing driving safety and operational efficiency. In the rapidly evolving domain of transportation systems, the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for low-altitude detection,...

Landslides are the most serious geological disaster in our country, causing economic losses. Because they go undetected, a large number of landslides that have caused disasters are not in the catalogue. At present, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture...

Precisely estimating the grassland biomass carbon storage is vital for evaluating grassland carbon sequestration potential and the monitoring and management of grassland resources. With the increasing intensity of climate change (CC) and human activi...

Vegetation temperature sensitivity is a key indicator to understand the response of vegetation to temperature changes and predict potential shifts in ecosystem functions. However, under the context of global warming, the impact of future extreme heat...

Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) has gained significant attention for three-dimensional (3D) imaging in urban environments. A notable limitation of traditional TomoSAR approaches is their primary focus on persistent scatterers (PSs), dis...

Desertification greatly threatens the ecological environment and sustainable development over approximately 30% of global land. In this study, the contributions of climate drivers and human activity in shaping the desertification process from 1984 to...

This research studies the characteristics of snow-covered area (SCA) from two vastly different sensors: optical (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, equipped on board the Terra satellite) and radar (Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...

In this work, the airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) infrastructure developed at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is described. This infrastructure allows IREA-CN...

The bright band (BB) is an important symbol of the ice–water transition zone in stratiform precipitation, and the presence or absence of BB will lead to different microphysical processes. In this paper, the characteristics of BB and precipitati...