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Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Issue 10

October 2017 - 115 articles

Cover Story: Africa has potential to provide solution to the global food-security challenges of the twenty-first century, given that it is the only continent where land and water are still plentiful for cropland expansion. Further, with the population expected to reach 4 billion by the end of this century—from the current 1.2 billion—there is urgent need for accurate, high-resolution cropland maps of Africa. This paper integrates novel approaches, involving pixel-based machine learning algorithms with object-based segmentation on the Google Earth Engine cloud, to derive the cropland extent product at 30 m resolution of Africa (2015) using about 36,924 Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 images. This 30-m Global Food Security-Support Analysis Data, cropland extent product of Africa is available for download (https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/GFSAD/GFSAD30AFCE.001) and live view (https://croplands.org/app/map). View the paper
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Articles (115)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,111 Views
19 Pages

Computing Coastal Ocean Surface Currents from MODIS and VIIRS Satellite Imagery

  • Jianfei Liu,
  • William J. Emery,
  • Xiongbin Wu,
  • Miao Li,
  • Chuan Li and
  • Lan Zhang

24 October 2017

We explore the potential of computing coastal ocean surface currents from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite imagery using the maximum cross-correlation (MCC) method....

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,626 Views
23 Pages

A 33-Year NPP Monitoring Study in Southwest China by the Fusion of Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Station Data

  • Xiaobin Guan,
  • Huanfeng Shen,
  • Wenxia Gan,
  • Gang Yang,
  • Lunche Wang,
  • Xinghua Li and
  • Liangpei Zhang

24 October 2017

Knowledge of regional net primary productivity (NPP) is important for the systematic understanding of the global carbon cycle. In this study, multi-source data were employed to conduct a regional NPP study in southwest China, with a 33-year time span...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,320 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2017

In recent years, airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) that provided three-dimensional forest information has been widely applied in forest inventory and has shown great potential in automatic individual tree crown delineation (ITCD). Usually,...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,613 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Layer Model Based on Multi-Scale and Multi-Feature Fusion for SAR Images

  • Aobo Zhai,
  • Xianbin Wen,
  • Haixia Xu,
  • Liming Yuan and
  • Qingxia Meng

24 October 2017

A multi-layer classification approach based on multi-scales and multi-features (ML–MFM) for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the SAR image is partitioned into superpixels, which are local, coherent regions tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,675 Views
14 Pages

23 October 2017

Soil spectroscopy has shown to be a fast, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, non-destructive, reproducible and repeatable analytical technique. Soil components, as well as types of instruments, protocols, sampling methods, sample preparation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,662 Views
24 Pages

23 October 2017

Accurate knowledge of the sea ice parameters, including the thickness and the snow depth over sea ice, are key to both climate change studies and operational forecast in polar regions. The estimation of these parameters mainly relies on satellite bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,493 Views
22 Pages

Improving Jason-2 Sea Surface Heights within 10 km Offshore by Retracking Decontaminated Waveforms

  • Zhengkai Huang,
  • Haihong Wang,
  • Zhicai Luo,
  • C. K. Shum,
  • Kuo-Hsin Tseng and
  • Bo Zhong

23 October 2017

It is widely believed that altimetry-derived sea surface heights (SSHs) in coastal zones are seriously degraded due to land contamination in altimeter waveforms from non-marine surfaces or due to inhomogeneous sea state conditions. Spurious peaks sup...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
90 Citations
13,390 Views
13 Pages

Vis-NIR Spectroscopy and PLS Regression with Waveband Selection for Estimating the Total C and N of Paddy Soils in Madagascar

  • Kensuke Kawamura,
  • Yasuhiro Tsujimoto,
  • Michel Rabenarivo,
  • Hidetoshi Asai,
  • Andry Andriamananjara and
  • Tovohery Rakotoson

23 October 2017

Visible and near-infrared (Vis-NIR) diffuse reflectance spectroscopy with partial least squares (PLS) regression is a quick, cost-effective, and promising technology for predicting soil properties. The advantage of PLS regression is that all availabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
10,287 Views
19 Pages

Impacts of Airborne Lidar Pulse Density on Estimating Biomass Stocks and Changes in a Selectively Logged Tropical Forest

  • Carlos Alberto Silva,
  • Andrew Thomas Hudak,
  • Lee Alexander Vierling,
  • Carine Klauberg,
  • Mariano Garcia,
  • António Ferraz,
  • Michael Keller,
  • Jan Eitel and
  • Sassan Saatchi

23 October 2017

Airborne lidar is a technology well-suited for mapping many forest attributes, including aboveground biomass (AGB) stocks and changes in selective logging in tropical forests. However, trade-offs still exist between lidar pulse density and accuracy o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,256 Views
20 Pages

23 October 2017

In this work, the bands of a Sentinel-2A image with spatial resolutions of 20 m and 60 m are sharpened to a spatial resolution of 10 m to obtain visible and near-infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectral bands with a spatial resolution o...

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