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Remote Sensing, Volume 17, Issue 13

July-1 2025 - 221 articles

Cover Story: Tropical forests are rich in biodiversity but face increasing pressure from human-driven degradation and land-use changes. Monitoring the disturbance and recovery of such forests is essential for effective conservation. Robust assessment requires remote sensing tools capable of penetrating cloud cover and detecting changes in forest structure over time. This study leverages over a decade of spaceborne L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to track forest disturbances and regeneration in Ecuador’s Lowland Chocó biodiversity hotspot. By analyzing changes in radar image texture derived from time series SAR, this study characterizes forest recovery across conservation landscapes. The proposed approach is especially relevant to the upcoming NASA-ISRO NISAR mission, which will greatly enhance the global Earth observation capacity to monitor vegetation structure and biodiversity from space. View this paper
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Articles (221)

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,155 Views
49 Pages

7 July 2025

Mapping marine habitats is fundamental for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem-based management in oceanic regions under increasing anthropogenic and climatic pressures. In the context of global initiatives—such as marine protected area exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,919 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2025

Accurate calibration and validation of remote sensing soil moisture products critically depend on high-quality in situ measurements. However, effectively capturing representative soil moisture patterns across heterogeneous catchments using ground-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,424 Views
28 Pages

Effects of the October 2024 Storm over the Global Ionosphere

  • Krishnendu Sekhar Paul,
  • Haris Haralambous,
  • Mefe Moses and
  • Sharad C. Tripathi

7 July 2025

The present study analyzes the global ionospheric response to the intense geomagnetic storm of 10–11 October 2024 (SYM—H minimum of −346 nT), using observations from COSMIC—2 and Swarm satellites, GNSS TEC, and Digisondes. Sig...

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  • Open Access
773 Views
27 Pages

Spatiotemporal Dynamic Changes in Cropland and Multi-Scenario Simulation in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin

  • Mengni He,
  • Yanguo Liu,
  • Liwei Tan,
  • Jingji Li,
  • Ziqin Wang,
  • Yafeng Lu,
  • Wenxu Liu and
  • Qi Tan

7 July 2025

Cropland is crucial for food production, food security, and economic stability, especially in high-altitude Tibetan regions where it is limited. This study investigates the spatiotemporal changes and driving factors of cropland in the Yarlung Zangbo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
828 Views
20 Pages

7 July 2025

Azimuth ambiguity caused by spectral aliasing severely degrades the quality of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. To suppress azimuth ambiguity while preserving image details as much as possible, this paper proposes an azimuth ambiguity suppressi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
781 Views
21 Pages

7 July 2025

Short-term precipitation forecasting is a core task in meteorological science, aiming to achieve accurate predictions by modeling the spatiotemporal evolution of radar echo sequences, thereby supporting meteorological services and disaster warning sy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,346 Views
35 Pages

Land Use and Land Cover Products for Agricultural Mapping Applications in Brazil: Challenges and Limitations

  • Priscilla Azevedo dos Santos,
  • Marcos Adami,
  • Michelle Cristina Araujo Picoli,
  • Victor Hugo Rohden Prudente,
  • Júlio César Dalla Mora Esquerdo,
  • Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz,
  • Cleverton Tiago Carneiro de Santana and
  • Michel Eustáquio Dantas Chaves

7 July 2025

Reliable remote sensing-based Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) information is crucial for assessing Earth’s surface activities. Brazil’s agricultural dynamics, including year-round cropping, multiple cropping, and regional climate variabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
609 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2025

Surface soil moisture (SM) is a critical factor in hydrological modeling, agricultural management, and numerical weather forecasting. This paper presents a highly effective soil moisture retrieval algorithm developed for the FY-3E (FengYun-3E) GNOS-R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
708 Views
22 Pages

Principles of Correction for Long-Term Orbital Observations of Atmospheric Composition, Applied to AIRS v.6 CH4 and CO Data

  • Vadim Rakitin,
  • Eugenia Fedorova,
  • Andrey Skorokhod,
  • Natalia Kirillova,
  • Natalia Pankratova and
  • Nikolai Elansky

7 July 2025

This study considers methods for assessing the quality of orbital observations, quantifying drift over time, and the application of correction methods to long-term series. AIRS v6 (IR-only) satellite methane (CH4) and carbon monoxide (CO) total colum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
860 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2025

While space weather indices (e.g., F10.7, Dst index) are commonly employed to characterize ionospheric activity levels, the Global Mean Electron Content (GMEC) provides a more direct and comprehensive indicator of the global ionospheric state. This m...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292