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Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2017 - 125 articles

Cover Story: It has long been assumed that South Asia's ancient Indus Civilization was riverine, but many presumed watercourses are no longer visible. For the last 30 years, satellite imagery has been used to map the hydrology of the extensive plains that Indus populations occupied. This paper adopts a seasonal multi-temporal approach to the detection of palaeorivers over this large area (more than 80,000 km2). Twenty-eight years of Landsat 5 data—a total of 1711 multispectral images and 1254 8-day vegetation composites—have been bulk processed using Google Earth Engine© Code Editor and cloud computing infrastructure. The resulting data have allowed the mapping of 8000 km of relic water courses in the Sutlej-Yamuna interfluve, a core area for this Bronze Age civilization. The research also provided insights into the environmental conditions in which Indus urbanism developed and ultimately declined. View the paper
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Articles (125)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,525 Views
17 Pages

21 July 2017

Estimation of impervious surface area is important to the study of urban environments and social development, but surface characteristics, as well as the temporal, spectral, and spatial resolutions of remote sensing images, influence the estimation a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,070 Views
25 Pages

Bathymetry of the Coral Reefs of Weizhou Island Based on Multispectral Satellite Images

  • Rongyong Huang,
  • Kefu Yu,
  • Yinghui Wang,
  • Jikun Wang,
  • Lin Mu and
  • Wenhuan Wang

21 July 2017

Shallow water depth measurements using multispectral images are crucial for marine surveying and mapping. At present, relevant studies either depend on the use of other auxiliary data (such as field water depths or water column data) or contain too m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,302 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2017

The accurate detection of land subsidence rates in urban areas is important to identify damage-prone areas and provide decision-makers with useful information. Meanwhile, no precise measurements of land subsidence have been undertaken within the coas...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,479 Views
14 Pages

Mapping of Aedes albopictus Abundance at a Local Scale in Italy

  • Frédéric Baldacchino,
  • Matteo Marcantonio,
  • Mattia Manica,
  • Giovanni Marini,
  • Roberto Zorer,
  • Luca Delucchi,
  • Daniele Arnoldi,
  • Fabrizio Montarsi,
  • Gioia Capelli and
  • Annapaola Rizzoli
  • + 1 author

21 July 2017

Given the growing risk of arbovirus outbreaks in Europe, there is a clear need to better describe the distribution of invasive mosquito species such as Aedes albopictus. Current challenges consist in simulating Ae. albopictus abundance, rather than i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,609 Views
62 Pages

Criteria Comparison for Classifying Peatland Vegetation Types Using In Situ Hyperspectral Measurements

  • Thierry Erudel,
  • Sophie Fabre,
  • Thomas Houet,
  • Florence Mazier and
  • Xavier Briottet

20 July 2017

This study aims to evaluate three classes of methods to discriminate between 13 peatland vegetation types using reflectance data. These vegetation types were empirically defined according to their composition, strata and biodiversity richness. On one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,377 Views
23 Pages

Aerosol Optical Properties and Associated Direct Radiative Forcing over the Yangtze River Basin during 2001–2015

  • Lijie He,
  • Lunche Wang,
  • Aiwen Lin,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Minghui Tao

20 July 2017

The spatiotemporal variation of aerosol optical depth at 550 nm (AOD550), Ångström exponent at 470–660 nm (AE470–660), water vapor content (WVC), and shortwave (SW) instantaneous aerosol direct radiative effects (IADRE) at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,939 Views
24 Pages

20 July 2017

The U.S. Geological Survey has produced the Landsat Burned Area Essential Climate Variable (BAECV) product for the conterminous United States (CONUS), which provides wall-to-wall annual maps of burned area at 30 m resolution (1984–2015). Validation i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
12,678 Views
23 Pages

Early Detection of Plant Physiological Responses to Different Levels of Water Stress Using Reflectance Spectroscopy

  • Matthew Maimaitiyiming,
  • Abduwasit Ghulam,
  • Arianna Bozzolo,
  • Joseph L. Wilkins and
  • Misha T. Kwasniewski

19 July 2017

Early detection of water stress is critical for precision farming for improving crop productivity and fruit quality. To investigate varying rootstock and irrigation interactions in an open agricultural ecosystem, different irrigation treatments were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,041 Views
15 Pages

Feasibility of GNSS-R Ice Sheet Altimetry in Greenland Using TDS-1

  • Antonio Rius,
  • Estel Cardellach,
  • Fran Fabra,
  • Weiqiang Li,
  • Serni Ribó and
  • Manuel Hernández-Pajares

19 July 2017

Radar altimetry provides valuable measurements to characterize the state and the evolution of the ice sheet cover of Antartica and Greenland. Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has the potential to complement the dedicated rada...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,972 Views
15 Pages

19 July 2017

We present joint analyses of satellite-observed combustion products to examine bulk characteristics of combustion in megacities and fire regions. We use retrievals of CO, NO2 and CO2 from NASA/Terra Measurement of Pollution In The Troposphere, NASA/A...

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