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Remote Sensing, Volume 5, Issue 12

December 2013 - 39 articles

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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,017 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2013

Alluvial fans in arid and semi-arid regions can provide important evidence of geomorphic and climatic changes, which reveal the evolution of the regional tectonic activity and environment. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing technology, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,037 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2013

Evapotranspiration is a major loss flux of the water balance in arid and semi-arid areas. The estimation of actual evapotranspiration has significance for hydrological and environmental purposes. The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) algorithm was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,417 Views
20 Pages

Long-Term Satellite Detection of Post-Fire Vegetation Trends in Boreal Forests of China

  • Kunpeng Yi,
  • Hiroshi Tani,
  • Jiquan Zhang,
  • Meng Guo,
  • Xiufeng Wang and
  • Guosheng Zhong

12 December 2013

This paper describes the long-term effects on vegetation following the catastrophic fire in 1987 on the northern Great Xing’an Mountain by analyzing the AVHRR GIMMS 15-day composite normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) dataset. Both temporal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
7,941 Views
18 Pages

12 December 2013

Based on simulated reflectance, deep convective clouds (DCC) can be used as an invariant target to monitor the radiometric response degradation of the FY-3A/MERSI (Medium Resolution Spectral Imager) reflective solar bands (RSBs). The long-term respon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,422 Views
22 Pages

11 December 2013

This paper presents a new approach for the discrimination of ship responses using polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data. The PolSAR multidimensional information is analyzed using a linear Time-Frequency (TF) decomposition approach, which permits to describe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,414 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2013

Fine registration of point clouds plays an important role in data analysis in Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS). This work proposes a block-to-point fine registration approach to correct the errors of point clouds from TLS and of geodetic networks obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,372 Views
19 Pages

9 December 2013

Most current land surface models (LSMs) coupled to regional climate models (RCMs) have been implemented at the several tens of kilometer spatial scales. Modeling land surface processes in LSMs at a finer resolution is necessary for improvements in te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
11,175 Views
23 Pages

Integrating Solar Induced Fluorescence and the Photochemical Reflectance Index for Estimating Gross Primary Production in a Cornfield

  • Yen-Ben Cheng,
  • Elizabeth M. Middleton,
  • Qingyuan Zhang,
  • Karl F. Huemmrich,
  • Petya K. E. Campbell,
  • Lawrence A. Corp,
  • Bruce D. Cook,
  • William P. Kustas and
  • Craig S. Daughtry

9 December 2013

The utilization of remotely sensed observations for light use efficiency (LUE) and tower-based gross primary production (GPP) estimates was studied in a USDA cornfield. Nadir hyperspectral reflectance measurements were acquired at canopy level during...

  • Article
  • Open Access
703 Citations
45,464 Views
19 Pages

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for High-Resolution Reconstruction of Topography: The Structure from Motion Approach on Coastal Environments

  • Francesco Mancini,
  • Marco Dubbini,
  • Mario Gattelli,
  • Francesco Stecchi,
  • Stefano Fabbri and
  • Giovanni Gabbianelli

9 December 2013

The availability of high-resolution Digital Surface Models of coastal environments is of increasing interest for scientists involved in the study of the coastal system processes. Among the range of terrestrial and aerial methods available to produce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Citations
28,102 Views
50 Pages

Illuminating the Capabilities of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band

  • Steven D. Miller,
  • William Straka,
  • Stephen P. Mills,
  • Christopher D. Elvidge,
  • Thomas F. Lee,
  • Jeremy Solbrig,
  • Andi Walther,
  • Andrew K. Heidinger and
  • Stephanie C. Weiss

6 December 2013

Daytime measurements of reflected sunlight in the visible spectrum have been a staple of Earth-viewing radiometers since the advent of the environmental satellite platform. At night, these same optical-spectrum sensors have traditionally been limited...

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