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Remote images are useful tools for detecting and monitoring landslides, including shallow landslides in agricultural environments. However, the use of non-commercial satellite images to detect the latter is limited because their spatial resolution is...

Plastics in the river environment are of major concern due to their potential pathways into the ocean, their persistence in the environment, and their impacts on human and marine health. It has been documented that plastic concentrations in riparian...

Dissemination of antibiotic resistance (AR) in marine environments is a global concern with a propensity to affect public health and many ecosystems worldwide. We evaluated the use of sea turtles as sentinel species for monitoring AR in marine enviro...

The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of the SNOWED dataset, specifically designed for identifying water bodies in Sentinel-2 images, in developing a remote sensing system based on deep neural networks. For this purpose, a system is implemented fo...

Teresina-Timon conurbation (TTC) area is an example of urban agglomeration, situated in the semiarid environment of the northeast region of Brazil, which has shown an accelerated process of urban development over the last four decades (1985–2019). In...

Emergence of new state-of-the-art technologies has enabled an unprecedented amount of high spatial resolution satellite data having great potential for exploitation of extracted time series for a vast range of applications. Despite the high temporal...

This research discusses the application of Sentinel satellite data for monitoring air pollution in port areas. The Scopus and Web of Science databases were comprehensively analysed to identify relevant peer-reviewed literature and assess research pub...

Chlorophyll-a concentrations in water bodies are one of the most important environmental evaluation indicators in monitoring the water environment. Small water bodies include headwater streams, springs, ditches, flushes, small lakes, and ponds, which...

Environmental change poses a devastating risk to human and environmental health. Rapid assessment of water conditions is necessary for monitoring, evaluating, and addressing this global health danger. Sentinels or biological monitors can be deployed...

Satellite data are very useful for the continuous monitoring of ever-changing environments, such as wetlands. In this study, we investigated the use of multispectral imagery to monitor the winter evolution of land cover in the Albufera wetland (Spain...

The LuTan-1 (LT-1) satellite, launched in 2022, is China’s first L-band full-polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation, boasting interferometry capabilities. However, given its limited use in subsidence monitoring to date, a com...

Mining-induced subsidence poses a serious hazard to the surrounding environment and infrastructure, necessitating the detection of such subsidence for effective disaster mitigation and the safeguarding of local residents. Fucheng 1 is the first high-...

Land subsidence in urban environments is an increasingly prominent aspect in the monitoring and maintenance of urban infrastructures. In this study we update the subsidence information over Rome and its surroundings (already the subject of past resea...

Mapping water bodies with a high accuracy is necessary for water resource assessment, and mapping them rapidly is necessary for flood monitoring. Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China, and its wetland is one of the most important in the...

The west coast of Tangier, in northern Morocco, has been affected by industrial wastewater discharge that reaches the ocean through the Boukhalef river. Therefore, the Jbila and Sidikacem beaches near to the Boukhalef river mouth have been classified...

Taihu Lake is a large lake with high levels of eutrophication. Cyanobacterial outbreaks significantly affect the ecological environment and socioeconomic development. The chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration, which is crucial for monitoring eutrophica...

This study investigates the uncertainty of satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) in turbid port environments by integrating multi-temporal composites of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 satellite imagery with in situ bathymetry and turbidity data. The research...

Urban trees contribute to urban well-being but face challenging environments that can reduce their lifespan and increase young tree mortality. Although many studies have used remote sensing data to monitor the functional status of trees in rural area...

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China and is well known for its ecological function and economic importance. However, due to the influence of clouds, it is difficult to dynamically monitor the changes in water surface areas using optica...

Focusing on a sustainable and strategic urban development, local governments and public administrations, such as the Veneto Region in Italy, are increasingly addressing their urban and territorial planning to meet national and European policies, alon...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in wave mode is a powerful tool for monitoring sea states in terms of long-period ocean swells of a specific wave directional partition. Since 2016, SARs aboard Sentinel-1A/B operating in wave mode have provided ocean s...

With the advances of ESA’s Sentinel-1 InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission, there are freely available remote sensing ground deformation observations all over the globe that allow continuous monitoring of natural hazards and...

A method for estimating meteo-marine parameters from satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, intended for near-real-time (NRT) service over the Baltic Sea, is presented and validated. Total significant wave height data are retrieved with an em...

Accurate monitoring of surface water bodies is essential in numerous hydrological and agricultural applications. Combining imagery from multiple sensors can improve long-term monitoring; however, the benefits derived from each sensor and the methods...

Mining activities can trigger geological disasters, including slope instability and surface subsidence, posing a serious threat to the surrounding environment and miners’ safety. Consequently, the development of reasonable, effective, and rapid...

High-altitude wetlands in the Ecuadorian Andes are key ecosystems for water regulation and biodiversity conservation but remain poorly monitored due to persistent cloud cover and complex terrain. This study aims to develop a multitemporal approach to...

In urban environments, aerosol distributions may change rapidly due to building and transport infrastructure and human population density variations. The recent availability of medium resolution Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellite data provide the opp...

Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) are well-established systems for flood mapping, thanks to their high sensitivity towards water surfaces and their independence from daylight and cloud cover. Particularly able is the 2014-launched Copernicus...

In recent years, Jas’s Larch Inchworm (Erannis jacobsoni Djak, EJD) outbreaks have frequently occurred in forested areas of Mongolia, causing significant damage to forest ecosystems, and rapid and effective monitoring methods are urgently neede...

Earth observation offers a variety of techniques for monitoring and characterizing geomorphic processes in high mountain environments. Terrestrial laserscanning and unmanned aerial vehicles provide very high resolution data with high accuracy. Automa...

This study establishes a new technique for peatland fire detection in tropical environments using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2. The Tropical Peatland Combustion Algorithm (ToPeCAl) without longwave thermal infrared (TIR) (henceforth known as ToPeCAl-2) w...

Accurate waterbody mapping can support water-related environment monitoring and resource management. The Sentinel series satellites provide high-quality Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical observations that are commonly used in waterbody mappi...

Oil pollution is one of the major critical risks to the Egypt’s marine environment due to the heavy traffic caused by shipping in the Suez Canal and the exploration and production of crude oil. Indeed, such frequent oil pollution cases harm to the ma...

Abandoned cropland may lead to a series of issues regarding the environment, ecology, and food security. In hilly areas, cropland is prone to be abandoned due to scattered planting, relatively fewer sunlight hours, and a lower agricultural input&ndas...

There is a lot of discussion on how viruses (such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2) are transmitted in air, potentially from aerosols and respiratory droplets, and thus it is important to monitor the environment for the presence of an active pathogen. Cur...

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), native to South America, is a highly invasive aquatic plant threatening freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Its rapid proliferation negatively impacts water quality, biodiversity, and navigation. Remote sensing off...

Multi-mission satellite altimetry (e.g., ERS, Envisat, TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason) data have enabled a synoptic-scale view of ocean variations in past decades. Since 2016, the Sentinel-3 mission has provided better spatial and temporal sampling compared t...

Missing data is a common issue in remote sensing. Data reconstruction through multiple satellite data sources has become one of the most powerful ways to solve this issue. Continuous monitoring of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in arid lakes is v...

The European CORINE land cover mapping scheme is a standardized classification system with 44 land cover and land use classes. It is used by the European Environment Agency to report large-scale land cover change with a minimum mapping unit of 5 ha e...

Quantifying the vegetation aboveground biomass (AGB) is crucial for evaluating environment quality and estimating blue carbon in coastal wetlands. In this study, a UAV-LiDAR was first employed to quantify the canopy height model (CHM) of coastal Phra...

Organic pollution poses a significant threat to water security, making the monitoring of organic pollutants in water environments essential for the protection of water resources. Remote sensing technology, with its wide coverage, continuous monitorin...

In this study, we apply high-resolution Sentinel-2A imagery to assist in the monitoring of the southwestern Spanish coast during its first year of data. The aim is to test suitability of MultiSpectral Imager (MSI) at higher resolution (10 m) for mapp...

This study investigates the impact of landfills on surrounding vegetation in Naples, Italy, utilizing Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 imagery processed with Sen2like. Seventeen landfill sites were studied with indices NDVI and GCI using four years of data,...

Sulfur dioxide (SO2) degassing at Strombolian volcanoes is directly associated with magmatic activity, thus its monitoring can inform about the style and intensity of eruptions. The Stromboli volcano in southern Italy is used as a test case to demons...

Marine phanerogams are considered biological sentinels or indicators since any modification in seagrass meadow distribution and coverage signals negative changes in the marine environment. In recent decades, seagrass meadows have undergone global los...

Savannahs are heterogeneous environments with an important role in supporting biodiversity and providing essential ecosystem services. Due to extensive land use/cover changes and subsequent land degradation, the provision of ecosystems services from...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is essential for maintaining ecosystem health, and its depletion is widely recognized as a key indicator of soil degradation. Activities such as mining and wildfire disturbances significantly intensify soil degradation, lead...

This review discusses the evolution and integration of open-access remote sensing technology in shoreline detection and coastal erosion monitoring through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Unmanned Aerial...

Marshlands in arid and semi-arid areas are considered constantly changing environments due to unsecured water supplies as a result of high evapotranspiration and limited and highly variable rainfall. Classification of marshlands in these regions and...

The sub-Saharan African coast is experiencing fast-growing urbanization, particularly around major cities. This threatens the equilibrium of the socio-ecosystems where they are located and on which they depend: underground water resources are exploit...