Journal Description
Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing
is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science and application of remote sensing technology, published semimonthly online by MDPI. The Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ) and Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) are affiliated with Remote Sensing and their members receive discounts on the article processing charge.
- Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
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- Journal Rank: JCR - Q1 (Geosciences, Multidisciplinary) / CiteScore - Q1 (General Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 24.3 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2025).
- Recognition of Reviewers: reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.
- Companion journal: Geomatics.
- Journal Cluster of Geospatial and Earth Sciences: Remote Sensing, Geosciences, Quaternary, Earth, Geographies, Geomatics and Fossil Studies.
Impact Factor:
4.1 (2024);
5-Year Impact Factor:
4.8 (2024)
Latest Articles
Boundary-Aware Multi-Scale Feature Enhancement Based Few-Shot Hyperspectral Image Semantic Segmentation
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1911; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121911 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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To address the issues of model overfitting under scarce samples and poor segmentation performance on slender objects in the task of semantic segmentation of remote sensing hyperspectral images, this paper proposes a hyperspectral image semantic segmentation framework that integrates edge awareness and multi-scale
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To address the issues of model overfitting under scarce samples and poor segmentation performance on slender objects in the task of semantic segmentation of remote sensing hyperspectral images, this paper proposes a hyperspectral image semantic segmentation framework that integrates edge awareness and multi-scale feature enhancement under extremely few-shot conditions. This architecture effectively integrates orthogonal-direction convolutions, elongated feature enhancement, multi-scale feature fusion, and deep supervision mechanisms, solving challenges such as difficulty in extracting features of slender objects, model overfitting under few-sample conditions, and insufficient generalization ability. The experimental results on multiple public datasets show that the proposed algorithm achieves excellent segmentation performance with just one small-sized sample per labeled category, surpassing existing popular algorithms and thereby confirming the algorithm’s effectiveness and superiority. On the PaviaU dataset, the overall accuracy (OA) and mean intersection over union (mIoU) improved by approximately 9.7% and 15.5% compared to the second-best model; especially for the segmentation of the key elongated feature ‘road’, the intersection over union reached 94.75%, highlighting the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism. This paper provides a novel and efficient solution for fine interpretation of hyperspectral images under few-sample conditions.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Hyperspectral Image Classification and Processing in Remote Sensing)
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DFSMamba: A Spatial–Frequency Collaborative Modeling Framework for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution
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Jie Yu, Hui Li, Xiangyong Zheng, Cheng Zhong and Qiao Sun
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1910; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121910 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Existing single-image super-resolution methods for remote sensing images suffer from insufficient global receptive fields, weak high-frequency texture recovery, and excessive computational complexity. To address these issues, this paper proposes DFSMamba, a novel spatial–frequency collaborative modeling framework. First, Semantic Continuous-Sparse Attention enhances semantic perception
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Existing single-image super-resolution methods for remote sensing images suffer from insufficient global receptive fields, weak high-frequency texture recovery, and excessive computational complexity. To address these issues, this paper proposes DFSMamba, a novel spatial–frequency collaborative modeling framework. First, Semantic Continuous-Sparse Attention enhances semantic perception through dynamic chunking and sparse connections while maintaining linear complexity, effectively alleviating the semantic truncation problem caused by fixed window partitioning. Second, the Adaptive State-Space Module employs parallel forward and backward state-space model branches to achieve bidirectional long-range dependency modeling and introduces an activation-guided feature fusion mechanism to adaptively enhance semantically relevant regions. Third, the Discrete Fourier Transform Module maps images to the frequency domain, establishes a global lossless receptive field, and explicitly enhances high-frequency details, compensating for the insufficient utilization of frequency-domain information in pure spatial-domain methods. Experiments on five public datasets demonstrate that DFSMamba outperforms mainstream CNN, Transformer, and Mamba-based methods across ×2 to ×4 scales. On the AID×3 task, it achieves a PSNR of 31.48 dB, exceeding MambaIRv2 by 1.07 dB. Ablation studies verify the positive synergistic effect of the three modules, with the full configuration achieving a PSNR improvement of 0.85 dB over the single-module setup. Fine-grained category, multi-scale input, and loss function experiments further confirm its robustness and generalization capability, particularly in edge and texture detail reconstruction.
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Contrasting Effects of Atmospheric and Soil Compound Extreme Events on NPP, RH, and NEE in the Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone Under Different Land Use Types
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Zigeng Niu, Shihan Feng, Qiuhua He, Liu Yang and Weitao Han
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1909; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121909 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Compound extreme climate events have become increasingly frequent under climate change and may alter terrestrial carbon cycling through different atmospheric and soil pathways. Focusing on the Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone, this study identified three types of compound extreme events during 2003–2024: atmospheric compound
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Compound extreme climate events have become increasingly frequent under climate change and may alter terrestrial carbon cycling through different atmospheric and soil pathways. Focusing on the Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone, this study identified three types of compound extreme events during 2003–2024: atmospheric compound hot–dry events (ACHDs), soil compound hot–dry events (SCHDs), and drought-to-rewetting events (DRWs). We then examined their associations with monthly anomalies of net primary production (NPP), heterotrophic respiration (RH), and net ecosystem exchange (NEE) under different land cover backgrounds. The results showed that ACHDs and SCHDs both increased significantly, whereas DRWs exhibited a slight decreasing trend and a more scattered spatial distribution. During the same period, regional NPP increased significantly, RH decreased slightly, and NEE became more negative, indicating an overall strengthening of net carbon uptake. Different event types were associated with contrasting carbon flux response pathways: ACHDs were mainly associated with reduced NPP and slightly increased RH, thereby shifting NEE toward more positive values and weakening regional net carbon uptake, whereas SCHDs and DRWs were more strongly associated with reduced RH and more negative NEE. In addition, the event–carbon relationships differed among land cover types, with cropland, built-up land, and sparsely vegetated surfaces showing higher sensitivity to ACHDs, whereas the responses to SCHDs and DRWs varied markedly among forest, grassland, wetland, and open water classes. These results highlight that compound atmospheric and soil extremes influence regional carbon cycling through distinct component-specific pathways, and that land use background is an important factor associated with differences in carbon flux sensitivity in humid lake–floodplain systems.
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(This article belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)
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Maritime Distress Target Detection Based on Improved RT-DETR: For Robust Small Target Localization
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Kun Liu, Xinbo Chang, Zhen Liu, Jian Xu, Yuhan Zhang and Yang Liu
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1908; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121908 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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With the rapid development of maritime transportation and resource development activities, maritime distress events are increasingly frequent, and efficient and accurate target recognition and rescue response methods are urgently needed. The traditional monitoring methods are limited by efficiency and real time, which is
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With the rapid development of maritime transportation and resource development activities, maritime distress events are increasingly frequent, and efficient and accurate target recognition and rescue response methods are urgently needed. The traditional monitoring methods are limited by efficiency and real time, which is difficult to adapt to the complex and changeable marine environment. Therefore, based on the RT-DETR model of transformer architecture, an improved scheme for maritime distress target detection is proposed to improve the small target recognition ability and detection efficiency. Specific improvements include: a small target-focused convolution module (SFConv) is designed to enhance the efficiency of feature extraction and reasoning of small-scale targets; The cross-scale feature interaction optimization module (SPE) is further proposed to improve the ability of multi-scale perception and background suppression; The Focaler-DIoU loss function is introduced to enhance the discrimination performance of the model for difficult samples. On the basis of maintaining the end-to-end detection advantage of RT-DETR, the improvement is of 0.83474, which is 5.7% higher than the original model (0.78964). The accuracy and robustness of the model in complex marine environment is significantly improved, and technical support is provided for the construction of an efficient and intelligent marine monitoring and emergency response system.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Detection, Recognition, Tracking, and Positioning Using Remote Sensing and AI Techniques (Second Edition))
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Hierarchical Scale-Adaptive Diffusion Priors for Efficient Remote Sensing Dehazing
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Wei Ju, Zheng Liang, Huan Chen and Jie Shen
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1907; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121907 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Remote sensing image dehazing remains a formidable challenge due to complex atmospheric scattering and large-scale spatially varying degradation, which severely compromise fine-grained surface details. While recent diffusion-based restoration frameworks, such as DiffIR, have achieved remarkable efficiency by injecting compact diffusion priors into deterministic
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Remote sensing image dehazing remains a formidable challenge due to complex atmospheric scattering and large-scale spatially varying degradation, which severely compromise fine-grained surface details. While recent diffusion-based restoration frameworks, such as DiffIR, have achieved remarkable efficiency by injecting compact diffusion priors into deterministic networks, they typically rely on a monolithic global Image Prior Representation (IPR). However, such a global design is suboptimal for the dehazed results of remote sensing imagery, where haze distribution exhibits strong spatial heterogeneity and scale dependency. To address this limitation, this paper presents the Hierarchical and Scale-Adaptive Diffusion Prior (HS-DiffIR) framework. Specifically, Hierarchical Image Prior Representation decomposes the holistic diffusion latent into multi-scale priors aligned with the hierarchical stages of the restoration network. Such a design facilitates fine-grained, scale-aware guidance by projecting the compact global latent into layer-specific representations, thereby bypassing the computational burden of high-dimensional generative modeling. Complementing this, the Scale-Adaptive Injection mechanism utilizes lightweight learnable coefficients to dynamically modulate the influence of diffusion priors across different feature scales, allowing the network to adaptively balance global semantic consistency and local detail recovery under dense-haze conditions. Evaluations on remote sensing benchmarks confirm that HS-DiffIR generally outperforms the DiffIR baseline. The method yields superior quantitative metrics (particularly PSNR) at a marginal computational cost while demonstrating robust detail restoration in regions subject to severe, spatially variant haze.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Analysis via Advanced Deep Learning and Computer Vision)
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A Spatial Distribution Probability-Guided Detection Framework for Underwater Sonar Imagery
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Dayu Jia, Yan Huang, Jianan Qiao, Zhenyu Wang, Hao Feng and Jiancheng Yu
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1906; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121906 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Underwater target detection via side-scan sonar is vital for defense and economy but hindered by sparse targets, high data costs, and feature extraction difficulties due to textureless acoustic data and limited samples. To overcome these limitations, particularly for few-shot, small-object detection, we propose
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Underwater target detection via side-scan sonar is vital for defense and economy but hindered by sparse targets, high data costs, and feature extraction difficulties due to textureless acoustic data and limited samples. To overcome these limitations, particularly for few-shot, small-object detection, we propose a Spatial Distribution Probability-Guided Detection Framework to aid Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) in precise localization and clustering. The framework features a novel module that leverages a pre-trained Vision Foundation Model (DINOv3) to generate spatial distribution probability maps, guiding a Transformer-based network for accurate detection with scarce data. Additionally, it incorporates a Target Position Calculation Module and a DBSCAN-based post-processing module to determine global geographic coordinates and cluster discrete points, respectively. Experiments were conducted on both a Public Mine Detection Dataset and a self-collected dataset containing simulated mines and buoys. Ablation studies and comparison experiments demonstrated that the proposed guidance mechanism significantly improves detection performance. Furthermore, two comb-search missions verified that the system could accurately locate and cluster targets, distinguishing real targets from false detections (noise). These results confirm the framework’s efficacy in enabling high-precision perception and autonomous operations for complex underwater inspection tasks.
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Time-Series Monitoring and Analysis of Surface Deformation in Shiguilong Tailings Storage Using E-SBAS-InSAR
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Haoxin Cui, Dongliang Han, Yibo Meng, Chuanzeng Shu, Zhiguo Meng and Qing Ding
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1905; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121905 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Tailings storage facility (TSF) failures have caused severe casualties and economic losses. This study used Enhanced Small Baseline Subset InSAR (E-SBAS-InSAR) and 88 Sentinel-1A images to retrieve the 2022–2024 surface deformation time series of the Shiguilong TSF, located in the Fe–Cu polymetallic metallogenic
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Tailings storage facility (TSF) failures have caused severe casualties and economic losses. This study used Enhanced Small Baseline Subset InSAR (E-SBAS-InSAR) and 88 Sentinel-1A images to retrieve the 2022–2024 surface deformation time series of the Shiguilong TSF, located in the Fe–Cu polymetallic metallogenic belt of the middle–lower Yangtze River. The reliability of the results was assessed through consistency comparisons with Small Baseline Subset InSAR (SBAS-InSAR) and Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR). A time-series decomposition model was applied to extract seasonal deformation components and analyze their lagged responses to temperature and intense rainfall events. The results show that: (1) E-SBAS-InSAR achieved a monitoring-point density nearly 7 times higher than SBAS-InSAR, enabling dense and long-term deformation characterization; (2) subsidence at Shiguilong continued to increase, with cumulative subsidence reaching −76.8 mm and a maximum annual mean subsidence rate of −22.78 mm/yr; (3) deformation was mainly controlled by long-term consolidation of loose tailings and creep of dam–tailings materials, while seasonal factors induced stage-dependent fluctuations; (4) seasonal deformation showed lagged responses of 6 days to temperature variations and 2 days to intense rainfall events, with rainfall exerting a more pronounced influence. This work is significant for TSFs monitoring under complex surface conditions.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in InSAR for Deformation Monitoring and Earth Surface Process Analysis)
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Machine Learning Forecasts of Coastal Chlorophyll-a Based on Satellite and Model Data: A Case Assessment in the Northern Taiwan Strait
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Yangcong Wu, Long Jiang, Heshan Lin, Chun Chen and Degang Jiang
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1904; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121904 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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The chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentration is a major indicator of marine ecosystem status, harmful algal blooms, and marine primary productivity. In coastal waters, however, complex hydrodynamic and ecological conditions lead to highly variable chl-a dynamics, driven by diverse and interacting mechanisms, posing
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The chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentration is a major indicator of marine ecosystem status, harmful algal blooms, and marine primary productivity. In coastal waters, however, complex hydrodynamic and ecological conditions lead to highly variable chl-a dynamics, driven by diverse and interacting mechanisms, posing substantial challenges for chl-a forecasts. To assess the applicability of machine learning approaches in predicting chl-a under complex coastal environments, we present a case study in the Taiwan Strait, where harmful algal blooms occur a few times every year. Based on satellite remote sensing data, a spatiotemporal imputation and prediction framework (STIMP), temporal models (Transformer, CrossFormer, Tsmixer), and spatiotemporal models (MTGNN and PredRNN) were applied to simulate chl-a spatiotemporal variability. A hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model was compared with these machine learning approaches to assess the model skills in coastal chl-a simulations. Results indicate that machine learning models trained with satellite data exhibit reasonable predictive skill offshore with pronounced seasonal variability and low data missing ratio, while their performance weakens in regions where seasonal signals are masked by short-term chl-a fluctuations with more missing data. In contrast, the hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model represents short-term variations in chl-a in nearshore regions with higher temporal resolution and accounts for the underlying mechanisms of phytoplankton biomass accumulation and die-off. When trained with model output, the machine learning approach shows improved performance in coastal chl-a forecasts, with much higher computational efficiency compared to the hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model. This study highlights the advantage of mechanistic and machine learning models in deciphering the spatiotemporal scales and governing mechanisms of chl-a variability in coastal regions and extracting spatiotemporal variability with computational efficiency, respectively. With input data of sufficient temporal resolution (e.g., daily to 3 days) and duration (5–10 years), a combination of the machine learning and mechanistic modeling approaches is recommended for operational coastal phytoplankton bloom forecasting.
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Phenology-Informed Multitemporal PlanetScope and UAV-LiDAR Fusion for Above-Ground Carbon Mapping in Tropical Dry Forests of Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand
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Naruemol Kaewjampa, Piyapong Tongdeenok, Renuka Klabsuk, Surachit Waengsothorn, Hyeon Tae Kim and Sitthisak Moukomla
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1903; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121903 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Tropical dry forests of mainland Southeast Asia contain considerable above-ground carbon (AGC) but present challenges for precise satellite-based AGC quantification because seasonal leaf phenology alters canopy reflectance throughout the year. To address this, we propose a phenology-informed approach that fuses multitemporal satellite imagery
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Tropical dry forests of mainland Southeast Asia contain considerable above-ground carbon (AGC) but present challenges for precise satellite-based AGC quantification because seasonal leaf phenology alters canopy reflectance throughout the year. To address this, we propose a phenology-informed approach that fuses multitemporal satellite imagery with airborne LiDAR. Using 17 PlanetScope images acquired between February 2024 and April 2026 over the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, together with UAV-LiDAR data, we extracted 128 phenological features and 12 canopy metrics at 10, 20 and 30 m. Machine learning models (Random Forest, XGBoost and LightGBM) were trained separately for dry evergreen forest (DEF) and dry dipterocarp forest (DDF). Under random five-fold cross-validation at 30 m, the best Random Forest models yielded R2 = 0.681 (95% CI: 0.626–0.729) for DEF and R2 = 0.661 (95% CI: 0.615–0.705) for DDF, with RMSE of 11.85 and 7.40 Mg C ha−1, respectively. Because the AGC reference labels are themselves back-calculated from LiDAR canopy height, these Combined values partly reflect allometric circularity between predictors and labels and should be read as an upper bound rather than an independent accuracy; the spectral-only PlanetScope models, which are free of this circularity, give a more conservative R2 = 0.342 (DEF) and 0.473 (DDF). Multitemporal phenological features and per-forest stratification jointly outperformed single-date baselines by 3.4× in DEF and 2.0× in DDF. We produced a 30 m AGC map of the reserve (total = 0.217 Tg C) and a higher resolution 3 m layer comprising ~8.7 million pixels. The results demonstrate the value of phenology-informed features and forest-type stratification for accurate AGC mapping in seasonally dry tropical forests, marking a step forward for remote sensing carbon assessment in phenologically dynamic landscapes.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Remote Sensing Technology for Precision Forestry and Carbon Sink Assessment)
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High-Resolution Soil Surface Moisture Projections for European Perennial Crops: A Machine Learning Framework Integrating Sentinel-1 and CMIP6 Climate Scenarios
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Nathalie Guimarães, Helder Fraga, André Fonseca, Fernando Pacheco, Luís Filipe Fernandes, João Paulo Moura, Cristina Carlos, Leonor Pereira, Juan M. Jurado, Sara Negri, Jerzy Jonczak and João A. Santos
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1902; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121902 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Soil surface moisture (SSM) is a critical indicator of agricultural drought, yet high-resolution projections under climate change remain scarce. This study develops a machine learning framework to predict and project SSM at 1 km resolution across five European Living Labs (LLs), encompassing vineyards,
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Soil surface moisture (SSM) is a critical indicator of agricultural drought, yet high-resolution projections under climate change remain scarce. This study develops a machine learning framework to predict and project SSM at 1 km resolution across five European Living Labs (LLs), encompassing vineyards, olive groves, and fruit tree systems. Historical Sentinel-1 SSM observations (2014–2024) were used to train ensemble models (Random Forest, XGBoost, ExtraTrees, LightGBM) incorporating climate variables, soil texture, topography, and land use. Tree-based models achieved R2 values of 0.63–0.87. Vineyards showed the highest predictability (R2 ≈ 0.87), reflecting their sensitivity to short-term atmospheric demand and surface water availability, whereas olive groves were the least predictable (R2 ≈ 0.63–0.68), consistent with deeper rooting systems and greater drought buffering capacity. When forced with bias-corrected CMIP6 projections under SSP1-2.6 and SSP5-8.5 for 2041–2070, models indicate minimal changes under SSP1-2.6 but pronounced SSM declines of 8–24% under SSP5-8.5, with historically wetter regions experiencing the largest absolute losses. SHAP analysis confirmed precipitation and potential evapotranspiration as dominant predictors across all crops. This framework provides spatially explicit, crop-relevant SSM projections to support climate adaptation in European agricultural landscapes.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Multi-Instrument Remote Sensing in Climate Change and Sustainability Monitoring)
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Enhanced Detection of Subsurface Combustion: An Improved Index Combined with Time Series Analysis
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Guoqin Wang, Zhijun Zhen, Xin Liu and Shengbo Chen
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1901; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121901 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Subsurface combustion in coal mines poses a significant threat to ecosystem integrity, geological stability, and public safety. Effective risk mitigation requires continuous monitoring and accurate detection of combustion dynamics. In this study, an improved subsurface combustion index (SCI) was developed based on multisource
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Subsurface combustion in coal mines poses a significant threat to ecosystem integrity, geological stability, and public safety. Effective risk mitigation requires continuous monitoring and accurate detection of combustion dynamics. In this study, an improved subsurface combustion index (SCI) was developed based on multisource remote sensing indicators, and long-term time series observations (2010–2025) were used to characterize its spatiotemporal evolution. Results show that dREGI achieved the highest anomaly discrimination among all evaluated vegetation indices, with an M-statistic of 1.4186, outperforming NDVI (1.1073) and EVI (0.8226). Adaptive principal component analysis identified dREGI and H as the dominant contributors to SCI construction. Separability analysis further demonstrated that integrating dREGI with LST and H improved the performance of the composite SCI by 16.3%, increasing its M-statistic from 0.959 to 1.115 relative to the dREGI-only baseline. Temporally, subsurface combustion exhibits a multi-stage evolution, with initial anomalies emerging around 2013, followed by a transitional phase during 2014–2018. Activity intensifies during 2019–2023, peaks in 2023, and declines in 2024, indicating residual combustion. Spatially, high-risk areas are concentrated in the eastern region, while moderate and low-risk zones occur in the central and western regions, respectively. These results demonstrate that the proposed indices provide a more robust and sensitive framework for early warning and spatial delineation of subsurface combustion zones.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Remote Sensing Techniques Applied in Surface and Underground Mine Operations)
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Variations in Ice Discharge and a Frontal Ablation Estimate of Marine-Terminating Glaciers Throughout Alaska from 2015 to 2021
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Hannes Zierer, Dakota Pyles and Thorsten Seehaus
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1900; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121900 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Marine-terminating glaciers are major contributors to sea-level rise, yet their frontal ablation—the combined loss from ice discharge and terminus retreat—remains poorly constrained. This study presents a monthly time series of ice discharge for 40 marine-terminating glaciers in Alaska from 2015 to 2021, derived
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Marine-terminating glaciers are major contributors to sea-level rise, yet their frontal ablation—the combined loss from ice discharge and terminus retreat—remains poorly constrained. This study presents a monthly time series of ice discharge for 40 marine-terminating glaciers in Alaska from 2015 to 2021, derived from Sentinel-1 velocity data, and reconstructed ice thickness information. Frontal ablation was calculated as the sum of ice discharge and terminus mass loss, from manually delineated terminus positions between 2015 and 2020. The mean annual ice discharge was 11.81 ± 5.35 Gt a−1, dominated by Hubbard, Columbia and Yahtse glaciers, which together accounted for ~70% of Alaska’s total ice discharge. Terminus retreat contributed an additional 1.30 ± 0.07 Gt a−1, resulting in a total frontal ablation of 13.11 ± 5.35 Gt a−1. Most glaciers exhibited late-summer velocity minima indicating seasonal changes in subglacial drainage efficiency, while the strongest relationship was found with regional ocean temperature. These findings confirm that Alaska’s marine-terminating glaciers currently lose relatively little mass through frontal retreat compared to their regional mass balance. Our observations are consistent with previous studies suggesting that many Alaskan marine-terminating glaciers have passed their phase of rapid retreat. The presented analysis also provides fundamental information for refining sea-level rise projections.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progress in Understanding Global Sea Level Rise Using Space and Earth Observations)
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An Open and Transferable Deep Learning Framework for Mapping Urban Tree Canopy Using NAIP Imagery
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Jooyoung Yoo, Yi Qi, Isaac Ashe-McNalley, Beau MacDonald and John P. Wilson
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1899; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121899 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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The urban tree canopy is an important resource that spans public and private property and whose form and quantity change over short distances. Although remote sensing and deep learning approaches have been used to map urban tree canopy, the high cost of commercial
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The urban tree canopy is an important resource that spans public and private property and whose form and quantity change over short distances. Although remote sensing and deep learning approaches have been used to map urban tree canopy, the high cost of commercial imagery and the technical complexity of model development have limited their adoption by urban forestry practitioners. We developed a structured and reproducible deep learning workflow optimized for freely available USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery. The workflow incorporates a reproducible U-Net segmentation model for canopy delineation and a YOLOv9e object detection model for individual tree identification, enabling complementary estimation of the canopy extent and individual tree locations. Across two neighborhoods in Los Angeles, the optimized U-Net achieved a Dice coefficient of 0.824 for canopy segmentation, while YOLOv9e reached an F1-score of 0.687 for individual tree detection on a held-out test set with 17,466 annotated trees. A data sufficiency experiment showed that model performance stabilizes when approximately 130 trees are annotated per 320 × 320 pixel (px) tile, corresponding to about 25,379 training and 2641 validation labels, providing a practical target for annotation effort. Additional experiments demonstrate a structured workflow for spatial sampling, training data requirements, and the use of model inferences to estimate tree canopy extent and individual tree locations. The workflow also shows encouraging evidence of transferability to previously unseen urban areas without retraining. By relying solely on NAIP-optimized approaches, this new workflow bridges the gap between complex deep learning techniques and the practical needs of urban foresters; empowers local stakeholders to create accurate, affordable, and timely urban tree inventories; and fosters data-driven decision-making for the sustainable management of urban green infrastructure.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Algorithms and Techniques for Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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Biodiversity Assessment of Urban Green Space Based on Remote Sensing—A Case Study of Hangzhou Bay Urban Agglomeration
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Jing Li, Bo Tang, Wei He, Sen Yang, Kai Cao, Huiping Chen, Lingbo Ji, Yanying Xu, Ying Li and Shucun Sun
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1898; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121898 (registering DOI) - 9 Jun 2026
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Rapid urbanization exerts profound pressure on urban biodiversity, yet long-term assessments integrating multi-source remote sensing data remain scarce. Objective: Focusing on the Hangzhou Bay Urban Agglomeration, a rapidly developing region in China’s Yangtze River Delta, this study aims to construct a remote sensing-based
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Rapid urbanization exerts profound pressure on urban biodiversity, yet long-term assessments integrating multi-source remote sensing data remain scarce. Objective: Focusing on the Hangzhou Bay Urban Agglomeration, a rapidly developing region in China’s Yangtze River Delta, this study aims to construct a remote sensing-based Biodiversity Index (BI) and analyze its spatiotemporal evolution and underlying drivers. Six Essential Biodiversity Variables derived from satellite observations (2000–2024) were integrated using Principal Component Analysis. Spatial autocorrelation and Geodetector models were then applied to examine BI dynamics and driving factors. The regional BI declined gradually from 0.80 in 2000 to 0.72 in 2024, with the rate of decline slowing after 2020 and a partial recovery observed in Zhoushan. Marked inter-city heterogeneity exists: Huzhou retains the highest and most stable BI due to extensive forest cover, whereas Jiaxing exhibits the lowest BI and the most pronounced decline, driven by rapid expansion of construction land. Land use/cover (LULC) and fractional vegetation cover (FVC) emerge as the dominant drivers (average q-values of 0.196 and 0.208, respectively), and their interaction explains over 46% of the spatial variance in BI. Road density shows a consistently increasing influence over time. This study demonstrates the utility of remote sensing-based frameworks for monitoring urban biodiversity dynamics and provides actionable insights for evidence-based land use planning and ecological restoration.
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(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote-Sensing Insights for Sustainable Urban Ecosystems)
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Model of Randomly Oriented Spheroids for the Retrieval of Non-Spherical Particle Microphysical Parameters from 3β + 2α + 3δ Lidar Measurements, Part 2: ATLAS (Version 2.0) Retrieval Algorithm
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Alexei Kolgotin and Detlef Müller
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1897; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121897 (registering DOI) - 8 Jun 2026
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We present a novel algorithm for the retrieval of non-spherical particle microphysical parameters (PMP) from 3β + 2α + 3δ optical data taken with multiwavelength lidar. The 3β + 2α + 3δ optical datasets describe particle backscatter
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We present a novel algorithm for the retrieval of non-spherical particle microphysical parameters (PMP) from 3β + 2α + 3δ optical data taken with multiwavelength lidar. The 3β + 2α + 3δ optical datasets describe particle backscatter coefficients (β) at three wavelengths, λ = 355, 532, and 1064 nm, particle extinction coefficients (α) at two wavelengths, λ = 355 and 532 nm, and particle linear depolarization ratios (PLDR, δ) at three wavelengths, λ = 355, 532, and 1064 nm. The algorithm can be used for retrieving bimodal particle size distributions (PSDs). The PSDs can comprise mixtures of spheres and spheroids (SS). One or both modes can comprise spheroid-shaped particles or spherically shaped particles. The spheroids are used for approximating an arbitrary ensemble of non-spherical particles. The algorithm works on the basis of a combination of direct and analytical inversion methods. The algorithm uses the spheroid reference look-up table (RLUT) we developed and presented in part 1 of our research work. The algorithm uses constraints regarding the particle complex refractive index (CRI) and information on relative humidity (RH) in the atmosphere (in the case of aerosol lidar observation) for suppressing retrieval uncertainties. We carried out a numerical simulation study to evaluate the algorithm’s performance. In these numerical simulations, we considered perturbed synthetic 3β + 2α + 3δ optical data that mimic different organic carbon (OC)–dust (D) mixtures. Such mixtures are suitable examples for describing bimodal PSDs that consist of a fine mode of spherical particles and a coarse mode of non-spherical particles. The results of the numerical simulation show that (1) the PMPs of each mode of these particle mixtures can be found separately, (2) the mean retrieval errors of the effective radius, number, surface-area, and volume concentrations of these mixtures are 25%, 52%, 9%, and 28%, respectively, and (3) the mean retrieval error of single-scattering albedo (SSA) at 355 nm of these mixtures is as low as ±0.02. SSA retrieval accuracies at 532 and 1064 nm degrade because the complex refractive index (CRI) of OC and D particles depends on the measurement wavelength. In future studies, we will upgrade the algorithm such that it takes into account a spectrally dependent CRI. We also compare the results of our novel algorithm with our TiARA2.1 algorithm. The errors obtained from the TiARA2.1 algorithm are approximately three times larger compared to the errors we obtain with our novel ATLAS algorithm for the case of the OC-D mixtures considered in the present study. We explain the higher accuracy of the PMP retrievals by the use of three PLDRs and the extra constraints placed on CRI and RH.
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Extracting UAV Signatures from Sea Clutter: An Autocorrelation-Guided Cyclic Spectral Fusion Filtering Approach
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Shuaiyong Lin, Ding Nie, Wangqiang Jiang and Chuan Li
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1896; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121896 (registering DOI) - 8 Jun 2026
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In the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target perception in complex marine environments, the significant cyclostationarity of UAV radar echoes makes it highly suitable for extracting their signatures via cyclic spectral analysis. This method projects the signal onto the cyclic frequency dimension,
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In the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target perception in complex marine environments, the significant cyclostationarity of UAV radar echoes makes it highly suitable for extracting their signatures via cyclic spectral analysis. This method projects the signal onto the cyclic frequency dimension, exploiting the fundamental difference between the periodicity of the UAV’s micro-vibrations and the non-periodic randomness of sea clutter, enabling the effective and reliable extraction of the UAV’s target features. However, the sea-clutter background often masks the UAV signal, making it difficult to identify the target processing unit for cyclic spectral analysis rapidly. Autocorrelation processing excels at rapidly filtering out non-periodic components from the echo signal, thereby preserving and enhancing periodic components. It exploits the correlation between adjacent pulses to suppress slow clutter and enhance the echoes from moving targets, thereby establishing a target range for cyclic spectral analysis. Inspired by this, we first propose a novel method in this paper that innovatively employs autocorrelation-guided cyclic spectral fusion filtering, which effectively mitigates the short-term coherence and non-stationarity characteristics of strong sea-clutter background. Corresponding results with a measured strong sea-clutter background demonstrate that the proposed method effectively suppresses sea clutter and reliably extracts UAV target signals from other maritime targets. Compared with the classic moving target indicator (MTI) and the singular value decomposition (SVD) method, as well as their cascade processing, the proposed method achieves higher gain across various input signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratios (SCNRs), demonstrating broad applicability and excellent detection performance.
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Characterizing the Three-Dimensional Urban Morphology and Vertical Growth Trajectory of Major Chinese Megacities over the Past Three Decades
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Guoyu Li, Xuanchen Jiang, Mingtao Xiang, Jiaqi Liu, Qing Wu, Baihe Liang, Mengran Ma and Yangfei Huang
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1895; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121895 (registering DOI) - 8 Jun 2026
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The three-dimensional (3D) built environment encodes critical information about urban form intensity, environmental exposure, and resource consumption. However, previous studies have often overlooked the integration of long-term analyses of both horizontal expansion and vertical growth. This study aims to identify the spatial differentiation,
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The three-dimensional (3D) built environment encodes critical information about urban form intensity, environmental exposure, and resource consumption. However, previous studies have often overlooked the integration of long-term analyses of both horizontal expansion and vertical growth. This study aims to identify the spatial differentiation, morphology types, and vertical growth trajectories of major Chinese megacities over the past three decades. Using high-resolution GABLE building data and time-series GAIA impervious surface data, we examine the evolution of urban 3D morphology across six major Chinese megacities from 1991 to 2023 through a retrospective analysis of building construction years combined with spatial gradient analysis. The results reveal that although the megacities exhibit distinct differences in vertical structure, shape complexity, and spatial compactness, they share a consistent center-to-periphery gradient across most 3D indicators. The most active volumetric growth was concentrated in a zone 8–14 km from city centers, which accounted for 23.6% of total new development, whereas the inner core within 6 km contributed less than 2.68%. In terms of temporal dynamics, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou follow an inverted-V-shaped 3D expansion trajectory driven by mid-rise construction; Tianjin and Hangzhou show accelerated growth with a higher proportion of high-rise clusters; while Shenzhen demonstrates an early peak and a decelerated growth rate, accompanied by a pronounced polycentric pattern. While recent global-scale studies have suggested a shift from outward urban sprawl to vertical development, our findings indicate that horizontal expansion still dominates in the selected Chinese megacities, with outward sprawl exceeding vertical densification during the study period. The integrated approach provides a robust framework for mapping 3D urbanization and offers practical insights for policymakers seeking to manage horizontal expansion, guide vertical intensification, and optimize land-use efficiency in rapidly urbanizing megacities.
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What Will the Future Human–Environment Relationship in the Northeastern Qinghai–Xizang Plateau Be by 2030?
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Zizhen Jiang, Yuxuan Liu, Yuxin Wang, Kai Chai and Meimei Wang
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1894; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121894 (registering DOI) - 8 Jun 2026
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The human–environment interaction on the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau determines the direction of global human sustainable development, making it necessary to propose a refined prediction for this relationship. Currently, there is a lack of a predictive method for human–environment relationships, especially at the grid scale.
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The human–environment interaction on the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau determines the direction of global human sustainable development, making it necessary to propose a refined prediction for this relationship. Currently, there is a lack of a predictive method for human–environment relationships, especially at the grid scale. This study focuses on Qinghai Province and proposes a human–environment relationship simulation method based on cellular automata (CA), utilizing land-use data and a remote sensing-based ecological (RSEI) index. The method enables grid-scale explicit predictions of human–environment relationships. The results show that by 2030, the human–environment relationship in Qinghai Province will become more diverse, with the coordination ratio rising to 11% and the degradation ratio to 7%. The ecological protection scenario serves a defensive role, preventing 3835 km2 of land from degradation. In contrast, the urban development scenario plays a revitalizing role, achieving a coordinated area 2% larger than the business-as-usual scenario. By 2030, about 8956 km2 of land in Qinghai will be suitable for agricultural revitalization, and 54,340 km2 must be reserved for ecological protection. Due to the high-altitude environment, the human–environment relationship aligns only with the right half of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, namely, development brings greater harmony. We further discover the lag in the natural system’s response, for artificially increasing vegetation cover will not quickly improve habitat quality. Likewise, leapfrogging expansion in the urban development scenario may conceal long-term ecological risks behind short-term coordination. For stakeholders and policymakers, this study provides refined and differentiated governance measures at the grid scale, while highlighting the need to focus on underdeveloped regions and remain vigilant about the lag in human–environment relationship responses.
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Automated Intertidal Beach Profile Reconstruction from Timex Video Imagery: A Case Study of Xisha Bay Beach, China
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Kai Liu, Hongshuai Qi, Hang Yin, Feng Cai, Gen Liu, Shaohua Zhao and Jixiang Zheng
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1893; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121893 (registering DOI) - 8 Jun 2026
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The intertidal beach profile provides a fundamental representation of beach morphology and serves as a key indicator of shoreline morphodynamics. To enable frequent and accurate mapping of intertidal beach profiles, this study proposes an automated reconstruction framework that integrates single-pixel image columns with
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The intertidal beach profile provides a fundamental representation of beach morphology and serves as a key indicator of shoreline morphodynamics. To enable frequent and accurate mapping of intertidal beach profiles, this study proposes an automated reconstruction framework that integrates single-pixel image columns with a stacked bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) network. Time-exposure imagery, commonly referred to as Timex imagery, acquired from a shore-based video monitoring station at Xisha Bay, China, is used as the primary data source, while wave records obtained from a wave buoy are incorporated to assign elevations to the detected waterline breakpoints, thereby enabling automatic beach profile reconstruction. The stacked Bi-LSTM network is trained for land–sea segmentation and waterline breakpoint localization. achieving the best performance among the tested methods, with precision, recall, accuracy, and F1 score values of 0.951, 0.894, 0.978, and 0.903, respectively, and a mean breakpoint localization error of 2.23 pixels. Breakpoint elevations were then estimated using a local slope–wave setup attribution model. Validation against field-measured topographic data from four fixed profiles and three survey periods showed good agreement between the reconstructed and measured profiles, with a period-based root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.212 ± 0.080 m. When all validation points were combined, the reconstructed elevations showed strong agreement with the measured elevations, with a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.988 and an overall RMSE of 0.24 m. The profile comparisons further showed that the reconstructed profiles generally captured the overall profile shape and cross-shore morphological pattern of the measured profiles, although reconstruction accuracy varied among the four fixed profiles. These differences demonstrate that camera viewing angle, field-of-view position, camera-to-profile distance, and image quality are important factors influencing video-derived beach profile reconstruction. These results indicate that the proposed method can directly reconstruct fixed intertidal beach profiles from shore-based Timex imagery without generating a digital elevation model of the entire intertidal zone. It provides a practical tool for high-frequency monitoring of intertidal profile morphology and supports the quantitative analysis of beach erosion–accretion dynamics.
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Impact Study of Assimilating Fengyun-3 GNSS-R Ocean Surface Winds in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Sensitivity Analysis on Observation Error Specifications
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Guanyi Wang, Weihua Bai, Feixiong Huang, Yueqiang Sun, Junming Xia, Xianyi Wang, Xiangguang Meng, Peng Hu, Cong Yin, Guangyuan Tan, Ruhan Wu, Yunlong Du and Xiaofeng Meng
Remote Sens. 2026, 18(12), 1892; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18121892 (registering DOI) - 8 Jun 2026
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The Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) technique provides global ocean surface wind observations unaffected by rainfall with high spatiotemporal resolution. The Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) mission, as the first operational GNSS-R satellite in China, offers low-latency data suitable for numerical weather prediction (NWP). However,
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The Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) technique provides global ocean surface wind observations unaffected by rainfall with high spatiotemporal resolution. The Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) mission, as the first operational GNSS-R satellite in China, offers low-latency data suitable for numerical weather prediction (NWP). However, the dense along-track sampling of GNSS-R winds poses challenges for observation error specification in data assimilation. In this study, FY-3E GNSS-R winds are assimilated into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to investigate the impacts of different observation error configurations. Both static and dynamic error specifications, with and without data thinning, are evaluated through a sensitivity experiment and subsequent Observing System Experiments (OSEs). The results indicate that using a static observation error of 6 m/s without data thinning achieves the best performance. Under this configuration, GNSS-R winds influence atmospheric analyses from the surface up to approximately 700 hPa in a single assimilation case, while cycling experiments further extend the impact vertically and spatially. These findings highlight the importance of appropriate observation error specification for dense GNSS-R data and provide a practical reference for their assimilation in WRF, with potential applicability to other NWP systems.
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