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Remote Sensing, Volume 8, Issue 4

April 2016 - 89 articles

Cover Story: The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) is a project funded by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, which aims at providing scientific methods and systems for reliable and automatic mapping of built-up areas from remote sensing data. In the frame of the GHSL, the opportunities offered by Sentinel-2 data are explored using a novel image classification method, called Symbolic Machine Learning (SML). The results show the added-value of Sentinel-2 with respect to Landsat for improving global high-resolution human settlement mapping. They also demonstrate that with the global coverage of Sentinel-2 data, new opportunities exist to confront the global human settlement challenges thanks to the possibility of mapping built-up areas, their heterogeneities, dynamics and interactions with the environment. View this paper
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Articles (89)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,103 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2016

Hickory plantations play an important role in improving local farmers’ economic conditions, but extreme drought in July–August 2013 seriously influenced hickory nut production. It is necessary to understand the extent and magnitude of this drought-in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
8,899 Views
14 Pages

20 April 2016

The effects of ground deformation pose a significant geo-hazard to the environment and infrastructure in Wuhan, the most populous city in Central China, in the eastern Jianghan Plain at the intersection of the Yangtze and Han rivers. Prior to this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Citations
15,015 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2016

The Cat Ba National Park area (Vietnam) with its tropical forest is recognized as being part of the world biodiversity conservation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is a well-known destination for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Citations
16,949 Views
17 Pages

Advancements for Snowmelt Monitoring by Means of Sentinel-1 SAR

  • Thomas Nagler,
  • Helmut Rott,
  • Elisabeth Ripper,
  • Gabriele Bippus and
  • Markus Hetzenecker

20 April 2016

The Sentinel satellite constellation series, developed and operated by the European Space Agency, represents the dedicated space component of the European Copernicus program, committed to long-term operational services in environment, climate and sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
11,804 Views
25 Pages

A Combined Satellite-Derived Drought Indicator to Support Humanitarian Aid Organizations

  • Markus Enenkel,
  • Caroline Steiner,
  • Thomas Mistelbauer,
  • Wouter Dorigo,
  • Wolfgang Wagner,
  • Linda See,
  • Clement Atzberger,
  • Stefan Schneider and
  • Edith Rogenhofer

20 April 2016

Governments, aid organizations and researchers are struggling with the complexity of detecting and monitoring drought events, which leads to weaknesses regarding the translation of early warnings into action. Embedded in an advanced decision-support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
13,266 Views
14 Pages

Estimating Stand Volume and Above-Ground Biomass of Urban Forests Using LiDAR

  • Vincenzo Giannico,
  • Raffaele Lafortezza,
  • Ranjeet John,
  • Giovanni Sanesi,
  • Lucia Pesola and
  • Jiquan Chen

19 April 2016

Assessing forest stand conditions in urban and peri-urban areas is essential to support ecosystem service planning and management, as most of the ecosystem services provided are a consequence of forest stand characteristics. However, collecting data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
11,989 Views
26 Pages

Automatic Geometric Processing for Very High Resolution Optical Satellite Data Based on Vector Roads and Orthophotos

  • Peter Pehani,
  • Klemen Čotar,
  • Aleš Marsetič,
  • Janez Zaletelj and
  • Krištof Oštir

19 April 2016

In response to the increasing need for fast satellite image processing SPACE-SI developed STORM—a fully automatic image processing chain that performs all processing steps from the input optical images to web-delivered map-ready products for various...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,513 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2016

Successful determination of soil texture using reflectance spectroscopy across Visible and Near-Infrared (VNIR, 400–1200 nm) and Short-Wave-Infrared (SWIR, 1200–2500 nm) ranges depends largely on the selection of a suitable data mining algorithm. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,751 Views
23 Pages

19 April 2016

In this study, subsidence patterns in the Historical Centre of Hanoi, Vietnam are mapped using the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technique, with particular emphasis on the stability of ancient monuments, historical buildings and ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,142 Views
18 Pages

Hydrological Response of Alpine Wetlands to Climate Warming in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau

  • Wenjiang Zhang,
  • Yonghong Yi,
  • Kechao Song,
  • John S. Kimball and
  • Qifeng Lu

18 April 2016

Alpine wetlands in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) play a crucial role in the regional hydrological cycle due to their strong influence on surface ecohydrological processes; therefore, understanding how TP wetlands respond to climate change is essential for...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292