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Remote Sensing, Volume 4, Issue 10

October 2012 - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,468 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2012

The worldwide waning health of coral reefs implies an increasing need for monitoring them at colony scale over large areas. Relaying fieldwork considerably, the remote sensing approach can address this need in offering spectral information relevant f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
116 Citations
14,045 Views
29 Pages

22 October 2012

Establishment of protected areas (PA) has been one of the leading tools in biodiversity conservation. Globally, these kinds of conservation interventions have given rise to an increase in PAs as well as the need to empirically evaluate the impact of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
148 Citations
15,174 Views
17 Pages

Downscaling Land Surface Temperature in an Urban Area: A Case Study for Hamburg, Germany

  • Benjamin Bechtel,
  • Klemen Zakšek and
  • Gholamali Hoshyaripour

19 October 2012

Monitoring of (surface) urban heat islands (UHI) is possible through satellite remote sensing of the land surface temperature (LST). Previous UHI studies are based on medium and high spatial resolution images, which are in the best-case scenario avai...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,274 Views
14 Pages

A Web Platform Development to Perform Thematic Accuracy Assessment of Sugarcane Mapping in South-Central Brazil

  • Marcos Adami,
  • Marcio Pupin Mello,
  • Daniel Alves Aguiar,
  • Bernardo Friedrich Theodor Rudorff and
  • Arley Ferreira de Souza

19 October 2012

The ability to monitor sugarcane expansion in Brazil, the world’s largest producer and exporter of sugar and second largest producer of ethanol, is important due to its agricultural, economic, strategic and environmental relevance. With the advent of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
14,494 Views
32 Pages

18 October 2012

In this study we use visible, short-wave infrared and thermal Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data validated with high-resolution Quickbird (QB) and Worldview2 (WV2) for mapping debris cover in the eastern Himal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,460 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2012

Coastal lagoons mix inflowing freshwater and tidal marine waters in complex spatial patterns. This project sought to detect and measure temperature and spatial variability of flood tides for a constricted coastal lagoon using multitemporal remote sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,159 Views
16 Pages

18 October 2012

An accurate estimation of soybean crop areas while the plants are still in the field is highly necessary for reliable calculation of real crop parameters as to yield, production and other data important to decision-making policies related to governme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,222 Views
25 Pages

18 October 2012

Several studies have focused in the past on global land cover (LC) datasets harmonization and inter-comparison and have found significant inconsistencies. Despite the known discrepancies between existing products derived from medium resolution satell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,692 Views
16 Pages

A New Window-Based Program for Quality Control of GPS Sensing Data

  • Dongha Lee,
  • Jaemyoung Cho,
  • Yongcheol Suh,
  • Jinsang Hwang and
  • Hongsik Yun

18 October 2012

The main purpose of this study is to develop a new Windows-based program that calculates a quality control parameter that shows the quality of GPS observations using Global Positing Sensing (GPS) data in a Receiver INdependent Exchange (RINEX) format...

  • New Book Received
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,373 Views
3 Pages

15 October 2012

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of satellite archaeology and it is an invaluable volume for archaeologists, scientists, and managers interested in using satellite Earth Observation (EO) to improve the traditional approach for archaeolo...

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