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Remote Sensing, Volume 8, Issue 9

September 2016 - 96 articles

Cover Story: The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combined with Structure-from-Motion (SfM) now allows scientists to undertake low-level aerial surveys with relative ease. A wide range of disciplines now use the combined technique: ranging from undertaking ecological surveys to assessing surface change in a geomorphological context. Our work contributes to this exciting UAV-SfM research area by helping users understand how survey error can arise and how it can be avoided. When the camera positions used are unknown, the SfM processing requires known surveyed positions (xyz co-ordinates) on the ground (‘ground control points’, GCPs). We provide guidance on the impact of GCP number and distribution on survey error. View this paper
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Articles (96)

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,692 Views
19 Pages

20 September 2016

This paper presents a semi-automatic procedure to discriminate seasonally flooded areas in the shallow temporary marshes of Doñana National Park (SW Spain) by using a radiommetrically normalized long time series of Landsat MSS, TM, and ETM+ images (1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
8,114 Views
19 Pages

20 September 2016

Long-term remote sensing normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) datasets have been widely used in monitoring vegetation changes. In this study, the NASA Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) NDVI3g dataset was used as the data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,901 Views
19 Pages

Improved Detection of Human Respiration Using Data Fusion Basedon a Multistatic UWB Radar

  • Hao Lv,
  • Fugui Qi,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Teng Jiao,
  • Fulai Liang,
  • Zhao Li and
  • Jianqi Wang

20 September 2016

This paper investigated the feasibility for improved detection of human respiration using data fusion based on a multistatic ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. UWB-radar-based respiration detection is an emerging technology that has great promise in practic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,590 Views
13 Pages

20 September 2016

Large woody debris (LWD) plays a critical structural role in riparian ecosystems, but it can be difficult and time-consuming to quantify and survey in the field. We demonstrate an automated method for quantifying LWD using aerial LiDAR and object-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,817 Views
19 Pages

Sediment-Mass Accumulation Rate and Variability in the East China Sea Detected by GRACE

  • Ya-Chi Liu,
  • Cheinway Hwang,
  • Jiancheng Han,
  • Ricky Kao,
  • Chau-Ron Wu,
  • Hsuan-Chang Shih and
  • Natthachet Tangdamrongsub

20 September 2016

The East China Sea (ECS) is a region with shallow continental shelves and a mixed oceanic circulation system allowing sediments to deposit on its inner shelf, particularly near the estuary of the Yangtze River. The seasonal northward-flowing Taiwan W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,592 Views
13 Pages

Voxel-Based Spatial Filtering Method for Canopy Height Retrieval from Airborne Single-Photon Lidar

  • Hao Tang,
  • Anu Swatantran,
  • Terence Barrett,
  • Phil DeCola and
  • Ralph Dubayah

19 September 2016

Airborne single-photon lidar (SPL) is a new technology that holds considerable potential for forest structure and carbon monitoring at large spatial scales because it acquires 3D measurements of vegetation faster and more efficiently than conventiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
178 Citations
24,008 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2016

Planet Labs (“Planet”) operate the largest fleet of active nano-satellites in orbit, offering an unprecedented monitoring capacity of daily and global RGB image capture at 3–5 m resolution. However, limitations in spectral resolution and lack of accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,411 Views
17 Pages

Exploratory Analysis of Dengue Fever Niche Variables within the Río Magdalena Watershed

  • Austin Stanforth,
  • Max J. Moreno-Madriñán and
  • Jeffrey Ashby

19 September 2016

Previous research on Dengue Fever have involved laboratory tests or study areas with less diverse temperature and elevation ranges than is found in Colombia; therefore, preliminary research was needed to identify location specific attributes of Dengu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
10,167 Views
21 Pages

Analysis of MABEL Bathymetry in Keweenaw Bay and Implications for ICESat-2 ATLAS

  • Nicholas A. Forfinski-Sarkozi and
  • Christopher E. Parrish

19 September 2016

In 2018, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to launch the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), with a new six-beam, green-wavelength, photon-counting lidar system, Advanced Topographic Laser Altime...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
13,494 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Single Photon and Geiger Mode Lidar for the 3D Elevation Program

  • Jason M. Stoker,
  • Qassim A. Abdullah,
  • Amar Nayegandhi and
  • Jayna Winehouse

19 September 2016

Data acquired by Harris Corporation’s (Melbourne, FL, USA) Geiger-mode IntelliEarth™ sensor and Sigma Space Corporation’s (Lanham-Seabrook, MD, USA) Single Photon HRQLS sensor were evaluated and compared to accepted 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) data a...

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Remote Sens. - ISSN 2072-4292