ECRS-2 2018 - 46 articles
Online | 22 March–5 April 2017
Issue Editor: Ioannis Gitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Scientific Advisory Committee: Vincent Ambrosia, Alexander Braun, Mingnin Chi, Jón Atli Benediktsson, Mihai Datcu, Yuliya Tarabalka, Sangram Ganguly, Mario Caetano, Igor Savin, Jing M. Chen, Jesus San Miguel, Iain H. Woodhouse, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Norman Kerle, Kevin Tansey, Yuliya Tarabalka, Francesco Nex, Clive Oppenheimer, Gui-Song Xia, Daniele Riccio, Chandra Giri
This Issue collates papers presented at the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing (ECRS-2), covering research in key areas of opportunity and challenge in remote sensing sciences, such as:
The conference was attended by 258 participants from 28 different countries. We would like to thank all attendees for their participation as well as the conference committee members for reviewing the papers.
In 2015, the Environment Agency—Abu Dhabi developed the extensive Abu Dhabi Habitat, Land Use, Land Cover Map based on very high resolution satellite imagery acquired between 2011 and 2013. This was the first integrated effort at such a scale. This i...
In this paper, we develop algorithms for oil spill detection using radar remote sensing. The algorithms take into account both the mathematical and the physical modeling of the sea surface covered by oil slicks. We use the statistical characterizatio...
The Ma-le’l Dunes are located at the upper end of the North Spit of Humboldt Bay, California and are home to a range of plant and animal species. The goal of this study was to determine which classification method was the most accurate in identifying...
This study deals with the integration of merging highly accurate precipitation estimates from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) with sampling gap-free satellite observations from Meteosat 7 of the Meteosat First Generation (MFG) to develop a...
In the coming decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces challenges to sustainably increase food production while keeping pace with continued population growth. Conservation agriculture (CA) has been proposed to enhance soil health and productivity to respond...
With large volumes of data acquired every month, the Copernicus satellites provide essential information for analysing and monitoring our environment. However, technical and knowledge barriers may affect user’s uptake of such a wealth of information....
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is a future Canadian spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission, with the purpose of supporting the operational use of SAR imagery for different Earth observation applications. The mission, through its...
Pan Sharpening is an important part of the Remote Sensing science. Obtaining high spatial resolution data can be crucial in some studies. Sentinel-2 provides data of 10, 20 and 60 m, and it is a promising program for Earth observation studies. Althou...
The ice flow velocity is a critical variable in understanding the glacier dynamics. The Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) is a robust technique to monitor Earth’s surface mainly to measure its topography and deformation. The phase infor...
Glaciers exhibit a wide range of surface facies that can be analyzed as proxies for mass balance studies. Along with hydrological implications, these are in turn quintessential indicators of climate change. Moderate-to-high-resolution (MHR) data for...
Changes in the earth's surface significantly increase natural disasters, resulting in severe damage to man-made objects, such as roads, buildings, bridges, and so on. Radar techniques have advantages, such as lack of sensitivity to weather conditions...
The Earth’s land-cover is exposed to several types of environmental change, caused by either human activities or natural disasters. On 11 March 2011, an earthquake occurred about 130 km off the east coast of Sendai City in Japan. This earthquake was...
Limited research has studied the use of Lidar in mapping coastal geomorphology. The purpose of this project was to build on existing research and develop an automated modeling approach to classify the coastal geomorphology of barrier islands and test...
Flying in a non-Sun-synchronous orbit, RapidScat is the first scatterometer capable of measuring ocean vector winds over the full diurnal cycle, instead of observing a given location at a fixed time of day. The non-Sun-synchronous orbit also enables...
The determination of evapotranspiration (ET) using ground-based meteorological data does not adequately capture the spatial patterns of mass and energy fluxes in mountainous areas. In this work, we evaluate the daily spatial distribution of ET over a...
An urban heat island (UHI) is an urban area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to antropogenic activities. The urban area of the city of Skopje has been rising rapidly in the past decade. In this study, the effect of UH...
Throughout the world, deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation threaten the integrity of tropical forests and the biodiversity that they contain. Although southern Belize is generally recognized as a highly forested landscape, it is becoming inc...
During the last decade, remote sensing methods have developed significantly. The technological progress in development of new sensors and techniques opened up a large scope of new applications including near-field data collecting using Unmanned Aeria...
Satellite earth observation enables the monitoring of different types of natural hazards, contributing to the mitigation of their fatal consequences. In this paper, satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are used to derive terrain deformatio...
Urban development contributing to air pollution is one of the factors seriously affecting public health. Besides the traditional ground observation methods, the current space technology has been added to the monitoring and managing environment. This...
This paper deals with (both supervised and unsupervised) classification of multispectral Sentinel-2 images, utilizing the abundance representation of the pixels of interest. The latter pixel representation uncovers the hidden structured regions that...
Maize is the most commonly cultivated cereal in Africa in terms of land area and production. Low yields in this region are very often associated with issues related to low Nitrogen (N), such as low soil fertility or low fertilizer availability. Devel...
Accurate and rapid mapping of fire damaged areas is fundamental to support fire management, account for environmental loss, define planning strategies and monitor the restoration of vegetation. Under climate change conditions, drought severity may tr...
Carbon Use Efficiency (CUE) is the ratio of net primary production (NPP) to gross primary production (GPP) and shows the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to transfer carbon from the atmosphere to biomass. The aim of this study is to examine the CUE...
Canopy cover (or vegetation cover) maps serve in irrigation management mainly to determine the primary evapotranspiration (ET) coefficient, as radiation interception and evaporative surface area are directly related to canopy cover. Crop size and dev...
Quantifying and monitoring woody cover distribution in semiarid regions is challenging, due to their scattered distribution. Data mining has been widely used with remote sensing data for the information extraction of spectral and temporal data in the...
Arable soils are subjected to the altering influence of agricultural and natural processes determining surface feedback patterns therefore affecting their ability to reflect light. However, remote soil mapping and monitoring usually ignore informatio...
Aquaculture is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscus, aquatic plants, algae, and other aquatic organisms. Aquaculture farming in coastal areas of India plays key role in the economy which contributes 1.1% of GDP. In Odisha, the aquaculture syst...
Indian Space Research Organisation’s SCATSAT-1 is a continuity mission for Oceansat-2 Scatterometer. The sensor works in a Ku-band (13.515 GHz) similar to the one flown on-board Oceansat-2. It provides backscattering coefficient over the globe and wi...
Urban areas are important for city planning, security, traffic purposes, decision makers etc. Remotely sensed data are useful to detect urban areas either with active or passive systems. Each system has advantages and disadvantages. Passive images ar...
Ground control points (GCPs) are used in the process of indirectly georeferencing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) images. A minimum of three ground control points (GCPs) is required but increasing the number of GCPs will lead to higher accuracy of the...
This study was carried out for Siberia using Terra/Modis satellite data (2002–2016), data of ground surveys on burned areas of different ages, long-term meteorological information, and numerical simulation results. On the basis of meteorological and...
Synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) technology is one of the powerful tools to measure deformation and/or deposition on the ground’s surface. In addition to this, mass movement can also be monitored using InSAR techniques. The earthquake...
The Canadian Ice Service (CIS, Ottawa, ON, Canada) is receiving hundreds of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images daily with almost a complete coverage of Canada navigable waters for the monitoring and mapping of seasonal sea and lake ice. In order t...
Considering that ground areas with intense compositional variability appear as mixed pixels in hyperspectral data, we focus on the mixing problem imposed by the various volcanic products found in the vicinity of Mt. Etna’s volcanic craters. Mt. Etna,...
Nowadays, nanosatellites are widely used in space technology due to their small size, ease of deployment, and relatively short development period. CubeSat specifications have been suggested as an effort to standardize nanosatellite mission design. St...
Natural disasters and wars wreak havoc not only on individuals and critical infrastructure, but also leave behind ruined residential buildings and housings. The size, type and location of damaged houses are essential data sources for the post-disaste...
Clouds and cloud-shadow are a persistent problem in all optical satellite imagery. Plenty of methods have been suggested in the literature to address this problem, and reconstruct the missing part of the optical signal. In this work, three methods re...
A quantitative understanding of vegetation structure is vital to inform long-term protection and management of Australia’s vegetation communities. Although airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems are increasingly utilised to provide thre...
In this study, we have evaluated the use of unmanned air vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry for the monitoring of a wheat experiment under field conditions, filtered a digital surface model (DSM) to derive the wheat plant heights, and compared the results...
High resolution elevation data is fundamental information for multiple applications in geomorphology spanning from visual analyses to modeling. Nowadays, gathering of high-quality elevation data relies on multiple sensors and technologies that can be...
The study shows the variation in the most important climatic variables i.e., Net Surface Radiation (Rn), Temperature, Rainfall, Evapotranspiration (ET), etc. during 2000–2016 along the North–South transect across Jharkhand, Bihar and Eastern Nepal. T...
Recently, with the development of remote sensing and computer techniques, automatic and accurate road extraction is becoming feasible for practical usage. Nowadays, accurate extraction of road information from satellite data has become one of the mos...
Many works dealing with the problem of urban detection at large scale have been published, but very little attention has been paid to the investigation of the features’ relative importance. Feature selection is known to be an NP-hard problem, which m...
Post-earthquake analysis using radar interferometry has become a standard procedure for assessing earthquakes with significant damages. Sentinel-1 satellite provides 6-day revisiting time, and Sentinel-2 data has 5-day revisiting time and the same vi...
Changes in the dynamics of glaciers must be assessed, as they are important for sea level changes. Glacier velocity is the most important parameter used in glacier dynamics studies. Various image matching techniques, which are implemented in differen...
