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Remote Sensing, Volume 17, Issue 4

February-2 2025 - 169 articles

Cover Story: Bare soil (BS) identification through satellite remote sensing is crucial for monitoring land degradation and supporting digital soil mapping. Accurate BS identification enables the better assessment of soil properties, erosion risks, and land use dynamics. However, distinguishing BS from spectrally similar surfaces—such as non-photosynthetic vegetation and urban areas—remains a challenge due to spectral confusion and inconsistencies in validation approaches. In this review, we synthesise the methodologies used for BS identification, including threshold masking and classification algorithms, and evaluate their limitations. We also assess validation strategies, emphasising the need for robust ground truthing to improve classification accuracy. View this paper
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Articles (169)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,201 Views
28 Pages

PhenoCam Guidelines for Phenological Measurement and Analysis in an Agricultural Cropping Environment: A Case Study of Soybean

  • S. Sunoj,
  • C. Igathinathane,
  • Nicanor  Saliendra,
  • John Hendrickson,
  • David Archer and
  • Mark Liebig

19 February 2025

A PhenoCam is a near-surface remote sensing system traditionally used for monitoring phenological changes in diverse landscapes. Although initially developed for forest landscapes, these near-surface remote sensing systems are increasingly being adop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,335 Views
20 Pages

Fine Estimation of Water Quality in the Yangtze River Basin Based on a Geographically Weighted Random Forest Regression Model

  • Fuliang Deng,
  • Wenhui Liu,
  • Mei Sun,
  • Yanxue Xu,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Ying Yuan and
  • Lei Cui

19 February 2025

Water quality evaluation usually relies on limited state-controlled monitoring data, making it challenging to fully capture variations across an entire basin over time and space. The fine estimation of water quality in a spatial context presents a pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,120 Views
21 Pages

An Optimization Method for Multi-Functional Radar Network Deployment in Complex Regions

  • Yi Han,
  • Xueting Li,
  • Xiangliang Xu,
  • Zhenxing Zhang,
  • Tianxian Zhang and
  • Xiaobo Yang

19 February 2025

This paper addresses the deployment of a multi-functional radar network (MFRN) in complex regions that may exhibit non-connectivity, holes, or concave shapes, utilizing multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO). Unlike traditional approache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,180 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2025

Accurate and timely acquisition of soil information is crucial for precision agriculture, food security, and environmental protection. Proximal visible near-infrared reflectance (vis–NIR) spectroscopy has been widely employed for rapid and accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,060 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2025

Cloud liquid water (CLW) and total precipitable water (TPW) are two important parameters for weather and climate applications. These parameters are typically retrieved at 23.8 GHz and 31.4 GHz. Historically, the CLW and TPW physical retrievals always...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,493 Views
17 Pages

Improved Landslide Deformation Prediction Using Convolutional Neural Network–Gated Recurrent Unit and Spatial–Temporal Data

  • Honglei Yang,
  • Youfeng Liu,
  • Qing Han,
  • Linlin Xu,
  • Tengjun Zhang,
  • Zeping Wang,
  • Ao Yan,
  • Songxue Zhao,
  • Jianfeng Han and
  • Yuedong Wang

19 February 2025

As one of the major forms of geological disaster, landslides cause huge casualties and economic losses in China every year. Given the importance of landslide prediction, it is a challenging task due to difficulties in efficiently leveraging the spati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,176 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2025

Accurate information on crop planting and spatial distribution is critical for understanding and tracking long-term land use changes. The method of using deep learning (DL) to extract crop information has been applied in large-scale datasets and plai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,648 Views
21 Pages

19 February 2025

Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) images are extensively used in Radar Automatic Target Recognition (RATR) for non-cooperative targets. However, acquiring training samples for all target categories is challenging. Recognizing target classes wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,119 Views
14 Pages

19 February 2025

GNSS integrity is an essential component for ensuring the reliability of safety-critical applications using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs). These applications, such as use in aviation and autonomous vehicles, demand high precision and de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,220 Views
17 Pages

Dam Deformation Data Preprocessing with Optimized Variational Mode Decomposition and Kernel Density Estimation

  • Siyu Chen,
  • Chaoning Lin,
  • Yanchang Gu,
  • Jinbao Sheng and
  • Mohammad Amin Hariri-Ardebili

19 February 2025

Deformation is one of the critical response quantities reflecting the structural safety of dams. To enhance outlier identification and denoising in dam deformation monitoring data, this study proposes a novel preprocessing method based on optimized V...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292