Remote Sensing, Volume 17, Issue 11

The study of impact craters is crucial for understanding planetary evolution and geological processes, particularly small craters, which are key to reconstructing the lunar impact history. Detecting small craters, with diameters ranging from 0.2 to 2...

While the role of expanding agriculture in deforestation and the loss of other natural ecosystems is well known, the specific drivers in the context of small- and large-scale agriculture remain poorly understood. In this study, we employed satellite...

The transponder-style deception jamming implemented by Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) exhibits high similarity to real target radar echoes, while traditional detection methods suffer severe performance degradation under low signal-to-noise rat...

Visible and thermal-infrared re-identification (VTI-ReID) based on aerial images is a challenging task due to the large range of elevation angles, which exacerbates the modality differences between different modalities. The substantial modality gap m...

Understanding the nonlinear relationship between human activity intensity (HAI) and ecosystem resilience (ER) is crucial for sustainability, yet underdeveloped areas are often overlooked. This study examines the Xuzhou Urban Agglomeration (XZUA) from...

Phytoplankton size classes (PSC), which categorize phytoplankton into pico- (<2 µm), nano- (2–20 µm), and microphytoplankton (>20 µm), have been widely used to describe functional group responses to environmental variabi...

Landslides are major geological hazards that pose serious threats to life and property, particularly in the high-mountain canyon regions of Sichuan, Yunnan, and southeastern Tibet. Displacement prediction plays a critical role in disaster prevention...

The debate surrounding the optimal polarimetric modes—compact polarimetry (CP) versus dual polarization (DP)—for PolSAR ship detection persists. This study pioneers a systematic investigation into Generalized Compact Polarimetry (GCP) for...

PM_2.5 pollution poses significant risks to human health and the environment, underscoring the importance of accurate PM_2.5 simulation. This study simulated a representative PM_2.5 pollution event using the Weather Research and Forecasting model couple...

The wheat stem sawfly (WSS, Cephus cinctus Norton) is a major insect pest of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in North America. Few management tactics exist, and quantifying their efficacy is confounded by the difficulty in monitoring infestation at the...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an all-weather and all-day imaging technique for Earth observation. Achieving efficient observation, high resolution, and wide swath coverage have remained critical development goals in SAR technology, which inherent...

Enhancing the detection capabilities of marine vessels is crucial for maritime security and intelligence acquisition. However, accurately identifying small ships in complex oceanic environments remains a significant challenge, as these targets are fr...

The China–Mongolia arid region adjacent to the Altai Mountain (CMA) has a sensitive ecosystem that relies heavily on both terrestrial water (TWS) and groundwater storage (GWS). However, during the 2003–2016 period, the CMA experienced sig...

This study investigates the performance of three different signal combinations (L1-L2, L1-L5, and L2-L5) for estimating ionospheric total electron content (TEC) and the rate of TEC (ROT) using Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) observations over th...

Benefiting from the development of deep learning, the super-resolution technology for remote sensing hyperspectral images (HSIs) has achieved impressive progress. However, due to the high coupling of complex components in remote sensing HSIs, it is c...

This paper addresses the challenge of robust pose estimation for spacecraft under rapid inter-frame motion, proposing a two-stage point cloud registration framework. The first stage computes coarse pose estimation by leveraging Fast Point Feature His...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown strong performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image classification. However, their “black-box” nature limits interpretability and poses challenges for robustness, which is critical for sensiti...

Migrating insects and birds are the primary biological targets in the aerial ecosystem. Radar is a powerful tool for monitoring and studying aerial animals. However, accurately identifying insects and birds based on radar observations has remained an...

Ambient fine particulate matter of size less than 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM_2.5) is a key ambient air pollutant that has been linked to numerous adverse health outcomes. Reliable estimates of PM_2.5 are important for supporting epidemiologi...

Previous lunar missions, such as Surveyor, Apollo, and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), have played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of the lunar exosphere’s dynamics and its relationship with solar wind...

The deposition and evolution of ice-rich materials on Martian surfaces offer valuable insights into climatic evolution and the potential driving forces behind global climate change. Substantial evidence indicates that the mid-latitudes of Mars played...

High-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) is unable to measure the target’s altitude information due to its limited antenna aperture in the elevation dimension. This paper focuses on the 3-D localization problem for moving targets within the li...

The power spectral density (PSD) shape of the transmit waveform plays an important role in some fields of radar, such as electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM), target detection, and target classification. In addition, radar hardware generally req...

In recent years, the altered hydrological regimes and frequent extreme hydrological events in its watershed have significantly affected the stability and biodiversity of the dish-shaped lakes (DSLs) ecosystem in Poyang Lake. This study uses long-term...

Large-scale high-resolution (HR) land cover mapping is essential in monitoring the Earth’s surface and addressing critical challenges facing humanity. While weakly supervised methods help to mitigate the scarcity of HR annotations across wide g...

This paper investigates the application of open-source software and methods for forest LiDAR analysis, with a focus on enhancing forest inventory metrics in the radiata pine forests of South Australia’s Green Triangle region. A semi-systematic...

This study analyzes the potential of optical and radar satellite data to monitor faba bean (Vicia faba L.) phenology over six years (2016–2021) in southwestern France. Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat-8 data, temporal variations in NDV...

A simple statistical model capturing the degree to which different patterns of urban development intensify urban heat islands (UHIs) and stress human health would be useful but has remained elusive. Accurately predicting street-level urban air temper...

This study aims to elucidate the optimal exploitation of polarimetric scattering information in dual-pol SAR data. For an effective comparison of the flood detection performance between dual-pol parameters, we presented a simple fuzzy-based flood det...

Spaceborne high-resolution wide-area SAR image formation processing faces critical challenges induced by orbital curvature, Earth rotation, and spherical ground surfaces. The Spherical Geometry Algorithm (SGA) offers an effective solution to these pr...

Understanding optical turbulence within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is essential for refining atmospheric motion analyses, enhancing numerical weather prediction models, and improving light propagation assessments. This study develops an opt...

Lightning is one of the most severe natural disasters, characterized by its sudden onset, short duration, and significant damage. Existing quality control (QC) schemes for millisecond-level lightning observation data from a single source are primaril...

Point cloud data provide three-dimensional (3D) information about objects in the real world, containing rich semantic features. Therefore, the task of semantic segmentation of point clouds has been widely applied in fields such as robotics and autono...

Forest age is a key factor in determining the carbon sequestration capacity and trends of forests. Based on the Google Earth Engine platform and using the topographically complex and climatically diverse Southeastern Tibet as the study area, we propo...

Biodiversity monitoring requires the discovery of multi-target tracking. The main requirement is not to reduce the localization error but the continuity of the tracks: a high ratio between the duration of the track and the lifetime of the target. To...

Path-planning algorithms for planetary rovers are critical for autonomous robotic exploration, enabling the efficient and safe traversal of complex and dynamic extraterrestrial terrains. Unlike terrestrial mobile robots, planetary rovers must navigat...

Detecting small targets in infrared search and track (IRST) systems in complex backgrounds poses a significant challenge. This study introduces a novel detection framework that integrates directional derivative correlation filtering (DDCF) with a loc...

Utilizing remote sensing models to monitor apple orchards facilitates the industrialization of agriculture and the sustainable development of rural land resources. This study enhanced the DeepLabv3+ model to achieve superior performance in apple orch...

Forest cover dynamics are studied on a routine basis, but how changes in forest cover impact forest fragmentation has rarely been studied over a long time period resolution. This is, however, important because forest fragmentation critically impacts...

Real-time object detection on embedded unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is crucial for emergency rescue, autonomous driving, and target tracking applications. However, UAVs’ hardware limitations create conflicts between model size and detection...

An urban heat island (UHI) refers to urban areas that experience higher temperatures due to heat absorption and retention by impervious surfaces compared to the surrounding rural areas. Urban wetlands are crucial in mitigating the UHI effect and impr...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) mission provides a new perspective for studying atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂). Here we assess the potentiality of OCO-3 satellite acquisitions to analyse and monitor the CO₂ emissions from Mt. Etna volcano...

Small object detection remains a challenge in the remote sensing field due to feature loss during downsampling and interference from complex backgrounds. A novel network, termed SEMA-YOLO, is proposed in this paper as an enhanced YOLOv11-based framew...

Developing data-driven models for spatiotemporal hydrological prediction presents challenges in managing complexity, capturing fine spatial and temporal resolution, and ensuring model resilience across diverse regions. This study introduces an innova...

Enhancing the spatial resolution of gypsiferous soil detection, as a valuable baseline information layer, is beneficial for investigating agroecological processes and tackling land degradation in semi-arid environments. This study evaluates the perfo...

Rapid urbanization has transformed cityscapes worldwide, yet vertical urban growth (VUG) receives less attention than horizontal expansion. This study mapped and analyzed VUG patterns in Wuhan, China, from 2012 to 2020 based on a Persistent Scatterer...

The Southwest Alpine Canyon Area (SACA) is a typical ecologically sensitive location in China; therefore, constructing and optimizing an ecological network for this area is essential to ensure the regional ecological security of its fragile ecosystem...

Landslides are characterized by their suddenness and destructive power, making rapid and accurate identification crucial for emergency rescue and disaster assessment in affected areas. To address the challenges of limited landslide samples and data c...

Mining waste management is a significant environmental challenge that requires effective technical and economic solutions. In this context, the use of underground storage systems is sometimes a viable option to isolate this type of mining waste from...

To address the challenge of optimizing the layout of pseudolite anchor points in complex indoor environments with significant occlusions, this paper proposes a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm (MG-MOPSO). The algorithm leverages...