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Remote Sensing, Volume 6, Issue 2

February 2014 - 40 articles

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Articles (40)

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
13,771 Views
21 Pages

24 February 2014

Natural disasters like floods are a worldwide phenomenon and a serious threat to mankind. Flood simulations are applications of disaster control, which are used for the development of appropriate flood protection. Adequate simulations require not o...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
6,400 Views
2 Pages

Correction: Van Beek, J. et al. Stem Water Potential Monitoring in Pear Orchards through WorldView-2 Multispectral Imagery. Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 6647–6666

  • Jonathan Van Beek,
  • Laurent Tits,
  • Ben Somers,
  • Pieter Janssens,
  • Wendy Odeurs,
  • Hilde Vandendriessche,
  • Tom Deckers and
  • Pol Coppin

24 February 2014

The suitability of high resolution satellite imagery to provide the water status in orchard crops, i.e. stem water potential (Ψstem) was evaluated in [1]. However, the contribution of a number of collaborators was not properly acknowledged. Pieter Ja...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,932 Views
26 Pages

Early Detection of Crop Injury from Glyphosate on Soybean and Cotton Using Plant Leaf Hyperspectral Data

  • Feng Zhao,
  • Yanbo Huang,
  • Yiqing Guo,
  • Krishna N. Reddy,
  • Matthew A. Lee,
  • Reginald S. Fletcher and
  • Steven J. Thomson

20 February 2014

In this paper, we aim to detect crop injury from glyphosate, a herbicide, by both traditionally used spectral indices and newly extracted features with leaf hyperspectral reflectance data for non-Glyphosate-Resistant (non-GR) soybean and non-GR cotto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,518 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2014

Owing to the development of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platforms, and in particular the increase in the availability of multi-source (multi-band and multi-resolution) data, it is now feasible to design a surface displacement monitoring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,687 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2014

Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is a critical variable in estimating aerosol concentration in the atmosphere, evaluating severity of atmospheric pollution, and studying their impact on climate. With the assistance of the 6S radiative transfer model, we s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,541 Views
29 Pages

Monitoring Wetlands Ecosystems Using ALOS PALSAR (L-Band, HV) Supplemented by Optical Data: A Case Study of Biebrza Wetlands in Northeast Poland

  • Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska,
  • Maria Budzynska,
  • Monika Tomaszewska,
  • Maciej Bartold,
  • Martyna Gatkowska,
  • Iwona Malek,
  • Konrad Turlej and
  • Milena Napiorkowska

20 February 2014

The aim of the study was to elaborate the remote sensing methods for monitoring wetlands ecosystems. The investigation was carried out during the years 2002–2010 in the Biebrza Wetlands. The meteorological conditions at the test site varied from ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,696 Views
20 Pages

Performance Analysis of MODIS 500-m Spatial Resolution Products for Estimating Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Oligo- to Meso-Trophic Waters Case Study: Itumbiara Reservoir, Brazil

  • Igor Ogashawara,
  • Enner H. Alcântara,
  • Marcelo P. Curtarelli,
  • Marcos Adami,
  • Renata F. F. Nascimento,
  • Arley F. Souza,
  • José L. Stech and
  • Milton Kampel

20 February 2014

Monitoring chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentrations is important for the management of water quality, because it is a good indicator of the eutrophication level in an aquatic system. Thus, our main purpose was to develop an alternative technique to monit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
26,352 Views
30 Pages

A Review of Swidden Agriculture in Southeast Asia

  • Peng Li,
  • Zhiming Feng,
  • Luguang Jiang,
  • Chenhua Liao and
  • Jinghua Zhang

20 February 2014

Swidden agriculture is by far the dominant land use system in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia (SEA). It provides various valuable subsistence products to local farmers, mostly the poor ethnic minority groups. Controversially, it is also clo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,391 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2014

Forest fires constitute a natural disturbance factor and an agent of environmental change with local to global impacts on Earth’s processes and functions. Accurate knowledge of forest fuel extent and properties can be an effective component for asses...

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