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Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Issue 11

November 2017 - 119 articles

Cover Story: This paper was written as part of a PhD project aiming to improve greenhouse gas emissions estimates from peatland fires in Indonesia. While measuring peatland depth of burn for a previous paper, it was noted that digital terrain models (DTMs) produced from LiDAR were showing unexpected values before the fire burned the vegetation. The effects of vegetation structure were tested on LiDAR-derived DTM accuracy in a UK forest during winter when there are no leaves to block ground survey equipment (i.e., similar to post-burn forests). Over 650 ground control points were used to create a reference DTM to compare two LiDAR-derived DTMs in leaf-on and leaf-off conditions. The LiDAR point cloud was used to characterise the overlying vegetation structure, revealing that leaf-on vegetation and, in particular, dense ground-cover vegetation causes the greatest DTM errors. View the paper
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Articles (119)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,812 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2017

Arctic tundra ecosystems exhibit small-scale variations in species composition, micro-topography as well as significant spatial and temporal variations in moisture. These attributes result in similar spectral characteristics between distinct vegetati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,456 Views
17 Pages

22 November 2017

Multi-feature, especially multi-temporal, remote-sensing data have the potential to improve land cover classification accuracy. However, sometimes it is difficult to utilize all the features efficiently. To enhance classification performance based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
14,043 Views
16 Pages

22 November 2017

The leaf area density (LAD) within a tree canopy is very important for the understanding and modeling of photosynthetic studies of the tree. Terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been applied to obtain the three-dimensional structural p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,133 Views
23 Pages

22 November 2017

During an exceptionally warm September in 2016, unique and stable weather conditions contributed to a heat wave over Poland, allowing for observations of aerosol optical properties, using a variety of ground-based and satellite remote sensors. The da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,555 Views
23 Pages

22 November 2017

The seasonal snow cover of the Tibetan Plateau exerts a profound environmental influence both regionally and globally. Daily observations of snow depth at 37 meteorological stations in Tibet and MODIS eight-day snow products (MOD10A2) during the peri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,975 Views
21 Pages

Mechanisms of SAR Imaging of Shallow Water Topography of the Subei Bank

  • Shuangshang Zhang,
  • Qing Xu,
  • Quanan Zheng and
  • Xiaofeng Li

22 November 2017

In this study, the C-band radar backscatter features of the shallow water topography of Subei Bank in the Southern Yellow Sea are statistically investigated using 25 ENVISAT (Environmental Satellite) ASAR (advanced synthetic aperture radar) and ERS-2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,392 Views
15 Pages

Reconstruction of Daily Sea Surface Temperature Based on Radial Basis Function Networks

  • Zhihong Liao,
  • Qing Dong,
  • Cunjin Xue,
  • Jingwu Bi and
  • Guangtong Wan

22 November 2017

A radial basis function network (RBFN) method is proposed to reconstruct daily Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) with limited SST samples. For the purpose of evaluating the SSTs using this method, non-biased SST samples in the Pacific Ocean (10°N–30°N,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,087 Views
28 Pages

21 November 2017

The L-band radiometry data and in-situ ground and snow measurements performed during the 2016/2017 winter campaign at the Davos-Laret remote sensing field laboratory are presented and discussed. An improved version of the procedure for the computatio...

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  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,824 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2017

This study aimed to statistically and hydrologically assess the performance of the four latest and widely used satellite–gauge combined precipitation estimates (SGPEs), namely CRT (CMORPH CRT), BLD (CMORPH BLD), CDR (PERSIANN CDR), 3B42 (TMPA 3B42 ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,040 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2017

In recent years, very high-rate (10–50 Hz) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has gained a rapid development and has been widely applied in seismology, natural hazard early warning system and structural monitoring. However, existing studies on...

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