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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,086 Views
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3 July 2025

Wildfires threaten ecosystems, biodiversity, and human livelihood while exacerbating climate change. Accurate identification and monitoring of burned areas (BA) are critical for effective post-fire recovery and management. Although satellite multi-sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,736 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of Spectral Sensing Using Angle-Time Cyclostationarity

  • Pedro Souza,
  • Vinicius Souza and
  • Luiz F. Silveira

28 September 2019

This work presents a novel spectral sensing method for the detection of signals presenting nonlinear phase variation over time. The introduced method is based on the angle-time cyclostationarity theory, which applies transformations to the signal to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
711 Views
11 Pages

11 May 2025

Holographic optical elements (HOEs) are promising for solar energy collection due to their advantages of lightweight and high efficiency, but the narrow reconstruction of their angular and spectral widths limits their application. This paper proposes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,404 Views
21 Pages

Radiometric Calibration of UAV Remote Sensing Image with Spectral Angle Constraint

  • Kaiqiu Xu,
  • Yan Gong,
  • Shenghui Fang,
  • Ke Wang,
  • Zhiheng Lin and
  • Feng Wang

30 May 2019

In recent years, the acquisition of high-resolution multi-spectral images by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for quantitative remote sensing research has attracted more and more attention, and radiometric calibration is the premise and key to the quan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
24,571 Views
9 Pages

The Tradeoff Analysis for Remote Sensing Image Fusion Using Expanded Spectral Angle Mapper

  • Shaohui Chen,
  • Hongbo Su,
  • Renhua Zhang,
  • Jing Tian and
  • Lihu Yang

24 January 2008

Image fusion is a useful tool in integrating a high-resolution panchromaticimage (HRPI) with a low-resolution multispectral image (LRMI) to produce a highresolutionmultispectral image (HRMI). To date, many image fusion techniques have beendeveloped t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,994 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2023

Zhaotong City in Yunnan Province is one of the largest apple growing bases in China. However, the terrain of Zhaotong City is complicated, and the rainy weather is more frequent, which brings difficulties to the identification of apple orchards by re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,401 Views
17 Pages

9 February 2019

The generation of high dynamic range (HDR) images in the presence of moving objects results in the appearance of blurred objects. These blurred objects are called ghosts. Over the past decade, numerous deghosting techniques have been proposed for rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
700 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of Color Fade Phenomenon in Studies on the Multi-Angle Characterization of Spectral Reflectance Standards

  • Maciej Skrzetuszewski,
  • Łukasz Litwiniuk,
  • Maciej Zajkowski and
  • Sylwia Górnik

12 September 2025

This paper describes the new aspects to be taken into account in the calibration procedures for reflectance spectrophotometers used at the Central Office of Measures in Warsaw, Poland. The measurement set-up for the multi-angled characterization of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,823 Views
16 Pages

12 August 2024

The beat signal obtained from frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar is a waveform that is corrupted by noise and requires filtering out interference components for frequency calibration. Traditional FFT methods are affected by the fence ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,963 Views
17 Pages

Spectral Angle Mapper Application Using Sentinel-2 in Coastal Placer Deposits in Vigo Estuary, Northwest Spain

  • Wai L. Ng-Cutipa,
  • Ana Lobato,
  • Francisco Javier González,
  • Georgios P. Georgalas,
  • Irene Zananiri,
  • Morgana Carvalho,
  • Joana Cardoso-Fernandes,
  • Luis Somoza,
  • Rubén Piña and
  • Rosario Lunar
  • + 1 author

23 May 2025

Remote sensing applications for marine placer deposit exploration remain limited due to the mineralogical complexity and dynamic coastal processes. This study presents the first medium- to high-level detailed multi-scale remote sensing analysis of pl...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,782 Views
5 Pages

The functional activity of a tree is affected by various biotic and abiotic factors. The vitality and health status of a tree also affects the growth. Recent remote sensing technologies provide pow-erful means for monitoring forest health. The aim of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,773 Views
19 Pages

Spectral Angle Mapping and AI Methods Applied in Automatic Identification of Placer Deposit Magnetite Using Multispectral Camera Mounted on UAV

  • Brian Bino Sinaice,
  • Narihiro Owada,
  • Hajime Ikeda,
  • Hisatoshi Toriya,
  • Zibisani Bagai,
  • Elisha Shemang,
  • Tsuyoshi Adachi and
  • Youhei Kawamura

20 February 2022

The use of drones in mining environments is one way in which data pertaining to the state of a site in various industries can be remotely collected. This paper proposes a combined system that employs a 6-bands multispectral image capturing camera mou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,779 Views
17 Pages

22 October 2015

The high-grade uranium deposits in the Xiemisitan area, northwestern China, are genetically associated with the faulting of felsic volcanic or sub-volcanic rocks. Ferric iron alteration indicates that oxidizing hydrothermal fluids percolated through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
16,894 Views
19 Pages

A Comparison of Spectral Angle Mapper and Artificial Neural Network Classifiers Combined with Landsat TM Imagery Analysis for Obtaining Burnt Area Mapping

  • George P. Petropoulos,
  • Krishna Prasad Vadrevu,
  • Gavriil Xanthopoulos,
  • George Karantounias and
  • Marko Scholze

11 March 2010

Satellite remote sensing, with its unique synoptic coverage capabilities, can provide accurate and immediately valuable information on fire analysis and post-fire assessment, including estimation of burnt areas. In this study the potential for burnt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
14,651 Views
32 Pages

14 April 2018

Landsat time series commonly contain missing observations, i.e., gaps, due to the orbit and sensing geometry, data acquisition strategy, and cloud contamination. A spectral-angle-mapper (SAM) based spatio-temporal similarity (SAMSTS) gap-filling algo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,765 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2025

With the rapid development of hyperspectral applications using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the traditional assumption that ground objects exhibit Lambertian reflectance is no longer sufficient to meet the high-precision requirements for quantita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,783 Views
16 Pages

Information Content of Ice Cloud Properties from Multi-Spectral, -Angle and -Polarization Observations

  • Manting Zhang,
  • Shiwen Teng,
  • Di Di,
  • Xiuqing Hu,
  • Husi Letu,
  • Min Min and
  • Chao Liu

7 August 2020

Ice clouds play an important role in the Earth’s radiation budget, while their microphysical and optical properties remain one of the major uncertainties in remote sensing and atmospheric studies. Many satellite-based multi-spectral, -angle and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,290 Views
18 Pages

Short-Time/-Angle Spectral Analysis for Vibration Monitoring of Bearing Failures under Variable Speed

  • Edgar F. Sierra-Alonso,
  • Julian Caicedo-Acosta,
  • Álvaro Ángel Orozco Gutiérrez,
  • Héctor F. Quintero and
  • German Castellanos-Dominguez

9 April 2021

Vibration-condition monitoring aims to detect bearing damages of rotating machinery’s incipient failures mainly through time–frequency methods because of their efficient analysis of nonstationary signals. However, by having failures with impulse beha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,834 Views
12 Pages

The Stress Phase Angle Measurement Using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Yuqian Zhao,
  • Zhibo Zhu,
  • Huiwen Jiang,
  • Yao Yu,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Jingmin Luan,
  • Yi Wang and
  • Zhenhe Ma

1 September 2023

The stress phase angle (SPA), defined as the temporal phase angle between circumferential stress (CS) in the arterial wall and wall shear stress (WSS), is utilized to investigate the interactions between CS and WSS. SPA serves as an important paramet...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,671 Views
11 Pages

18 September 2020

This paper analyzes the digital modelling of radiance reflectance of the sea surface when the water column is polluted by oil-in-water emulsion. A method tracking the fate of two billion virtual solar photons was applied to obtain the angular distrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
762 Views
28 Pages

Evaluating the Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging Endoscopes: Mitigating Parameters Affecting Spectral Accuracy

  • Siavash Mazdeyasna,
  • Mohammed Shahriar Arefin,
  • Andrew Fales,
  • Silas J. Leavesley,
  • T. Joshua Pfefer and
  • Quanzeng Wang

4 November 2025

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is increasingly used in studies for medical applications as it provides both structural and functional information of biological tissue, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making. Recently, HSI cameras (HS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
14,817 Views
32 Pages

Radiometric Normalization of Temporal Images Combining Automatic Detection of Pseudo-Invariant Features from the Distance and Similarity Spectral Measures, Density Scatterplot Analysis, and Robust Regression

  • Osmar Abílio De Carvalho,
  • Renato Fontes Guimarães,
  • Nilton Correia Silva,
  • Alan R. Gillespie,
  • Roberto Arnaldo Trancoso Gomes,
  • Cristiano Rosa Silva and
  • Ana Paula Ferreira De Carvalho

30 May 2013

Radiometric precision is difficult to maintain in orbital images due to several factors (atmospheric conditions, Earth-sun distance, detector calibration, illumination, and viewing angles). These unwanted effects must be removed for radiometric consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
155 Citations
13,733 Views
21 Pages

A New Approach to Change Vector Analysis Using Distance and Similarity Measures

  • Osmar A. Carvalho Júnior,
  • Renato F. Guimarães,
  • Alan R. Gillespie,
  • Nilton C. Silva and
  • Roberto A. T. Gomes

18 November 2011

The need to monitor the Earth’s surface over a range of spatial and temporal scales is fundamental in ecosystems planning and management. Change-Vector Analysis (CVA) is a bi-temporal method of change detection that considers the magnitude and direct...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,694 Views
8 Pages

16 August 2024

Spectral small-angle X-ray scattering (sSAXS) is a powerful technique for material characterization from thicker samples by capturing elastic X-ray scattering data in angle- and energy-dispersive modes at small angles. This approach is enabled by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
637 Views
26 Pages

Radiometric Cross-Calibration and Performance Analysis of HJ-2A/2B 16m-MSI Using Landsat-8/9 OLI with Spectral-Angle Difference Correction

  • Jian Zeng,
  • Hang Zhao,
  • Yongfang Su,
  • Qiongqiong Lan,
  • Qijin Han,
  • Xuewen Zhang,
  • Xinmeng Wang,
  • Zhaopeng Xu,
  • Zhiheng Hu and
  • Xiaozheng Du
  • + 1 author

28 October 2025

The Huanjing-2A/2B (HJ-2A/2B) satellites are China’s next-generation environmental monitoring satellites, equipped with four visible light wide-swath charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors. These sensors enable the acquisition of 16-m multispectra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,130 Views
23 Pages

Estimation of Cotton Nitrogen Content Based on Multi-Angle Hyperspectral Data and Machine Learning Models

  • Xiaoting Zhou,
  • Mi Yang,
  • Xiangyu Chen,
  • Lulu Ma,
  • Caixia Yin,
  • Shizhe Qin,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Xin Lv and
  • Ze Zhang

9 February 2023

For crop growth monitoring and agricultural management, it is important to use hyperspectral remote sensing techniques to estimate canopy nitrogen content in a timely and accurate manner. The traditional nadir method has limited ability to assess the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,187 Views
31 Pages

14 August 2025

This study quantifies emissivity uncertainty using a new, specifically collected multi-angle thermal hyperspectral dataset, Nittany Radiance. Unlike previous research that primarily relied on model-based simulations, multispectral satellite imagery,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,466 Views
21 Pages

Validating the Crop Identification Capability of the Spectral Variance at Key Stages (SVKS) Computed via an Object Self-Reference Combined Algorithm

  • Hailan Zhao,
  • Jihua Meng,
  • Tingting Shi,
  • Xiaobo Zhang,
  • Yanan Wang,
  • Xiangjiang Luo,
  • Zhenxin Lin and
  • Xinyan You

17 December 2022

Crop-distribution information constitutes the premise of precise management for crop cultivation. Euclidean distance and spectral angle mapper algorithms (ED and SAM) mostly use the spectral similarity and difference metric (SSDM) to determine the sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,635 Views
21 Pages

Angle Effect on Typical Optical Remote Sensing Indices in Vegetation Monitoring

  • Lingxiao Gu,
  • Yanmin Shuai,
  • Congying Shao,
  • Donghui Xie,
  • Qingling Zhang,
  • Yaoming Li and
  • Jian Yang

27 April 2021

Optical remote sensing indices play an important role in vegetation information extraction and have been widely serving ecology, agriculture and forestry, urban monitoring, and other communities. Remote sensing indices are constructed from individual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
606 Views
21 Pages

Identifying High-Potential Zones for Iron Mineralization in Bahia, Brazil, Using a Spectral Angle Mapper–Random Forest Integrated Framework

  • Rafael Franca-Rocha,
  • Carlos M. Souza,
  • Rodrigo N. Vasconcelos,
  • Pedro Walfir Martins Souza-Filho,
  • Tati de Almeida and
  • Washington J. S. Franca-Rocha

27 October 2025

The state of Bahia in Brazil possesses significant, yet underexploited, iron ore reserves. To support the initial stages of mineral exploration in this vast region, cost-effective and rapid large-scale mapping methods are essential. This paper presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,696 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Simulated AVIRIS-NG Imagery Using a Spectral Reconstruction Method for the Retrieval of Leaf Chlorophyll Content

  • Bhagyashree Verma,
  • Rajendra Prasad,
  • Prashant K. Srivastava,
  • Prachi Singh,
  • Anushree Badola and
  • Jyoti Sharma

25 July 2022

The leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) is a vital parameter that indicates plant production, stress, and nutrient availability. It is critically needed for precision farming. There are several multispectral images available freely, but their applicabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,889 Views
19 Pages

11 February 2023

Accurate information on the spatial distribution of weeds is the key to effective site-specific weed management and the efficient and sustainable use of weed control measures. This work focuses on the early detection of johnsongrass, common cocklebur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,536 Views
14 Pages

Test Method for Mineral Spatial Distribution of BIF Ore by Imaging Spectrometer

  • Wenhua Yi,
  • Shanjun Liu,
  • Ruibo Ding,
  • Heng Yue,
  • Haoran Wang and
  • Jingli Wang

23 September 2024

The spatial distribution characteristics of iron ore components are important when measuring the difficulty of their beneficiation. Polarized light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy are traditional methods with some shortcomings, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,086 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2020

Because semiconductors absorb wavelengths dependent on the light absorption coefficient, photovoltaic (PV) energy output is affected by the solar spectrum. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the solar spectrum for highly accurate PV output estima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
604 Views
15 Pages

Optimization of Convex Transmissive Volume Bragg Grating for Hyperspectral Imaging Applications

  • Yueying Li,
  • Jiazhu Duan,
  • Xiangjie Zhao,
  • Yingnan Peng,
  • Yongquan Luo,
  • Dayong Zhang and
  • Yibo Chen

7 October 2025

The Volume Bragg Grating (VBG) imaging technique provides a novel approach to gaze-type hyperspectral imaging. However, collimation constraints of the incident beam during narrow-band filtering and high-spatial-resolution imaging introduce system com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,682 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2023

Accurate estimation of canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) is critically important for agricultural production management. However, vegetation indices derived from canopy reflectance are influenced by canopy structure, which limits their application acr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,381 Views
20 Pages

25 September 2025

Heavy minerals, such as Rutile, Ilmenite and Zircon, and other essential trace elements are important in modern technology development. The integration of hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence presents a promising approach for the accurat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,163 Views
19 Pages

Spatial Prior Fuzziness Pool-Based Interactive Classification of Hyperspectral Images

  • Muhammad Ahmad,
  • Asad Khan,
  • Adil Mehmood Khan,
  • Manuel Mazzara,
  • Salvatore Distefano,
  • Ahmed Sohaib and
  • Omar Nibouche

13 May 2019

Acquisition of labeled data for supervised Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification is expensive in terms of both time and costs. Moreover, manual selection and labeling are often subjective and tend to induce redundancy into the classifier. Active l...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,514 Views
11 Pages

14 May 2021

Worldview-3 satellite imagery provides panchromatic images with a high spatial resolution and visible near infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) bands with a low spatial resolution. These images can be used for various applications such as en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,801 Views
24 Pages

Monitoring Forest Cover Dynamics Using Orthophotos and Satellite Imagery

  • Lucian Blaga,
  • Dorina Camelia Ilieș,
  • Jan A. Wendt,
  • Ioan Rus,
  • Kai Zhu and
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid

18 June 2023

The assessment of changes in forest coverage is crucial for managing protected forest areas, particularly in the face of climate change. This study monitored forest cover dynamics in a 6535 ha mountain area located in north-west Romania as part of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,760 Views
19 Pages

Analyzing the Angle Effect of Leaf Reflectance Measured by Indoor Hyperspectral Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

  • Peilun Hu,
  • Huaguo Huang,
  • Yuwei Chen,
  • Jianbo Qi,
  • Wei Li,
  • Changhui Jiang,
  • Haohao Wu,
  • Wenxin Tian and
  • Juha Hyyppä

12 March 2020

Hyperspectral light detection and ranging (LiDAR) (HSL) combines the characteristics of hyperspectral imaging and LiDAR techniques into a single instrument without any data registration. It provides more information than hyperspectral imaging or LiDA...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,049 Views
24 Pages

Onboard Spectral and Spatial Cloud Detection for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images

  • Haoyang Li,
  • Hong Zheng,
  • Chuanzhao Han,
  • Haibo Wang and
  • Min Miao

20 January 2018

The accurate onboard detection of clouds in hyperspectral images before lossless compression is beneficial. However, conventional onboard cloud detection methods are not applicable all the time, especially for shadowed clouds or darkened snow-covered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,585 Views
10 Pages

5 January 2024

Theoretical analysis indicated that partially deuterated ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (DADP) crystal with a deuterium content of 23% could realize spectral noncritical phase-matching (S-NCPM) for type-I frequency doubling of an Nd:glass laser. To ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Citations
17,794 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2011

Visual image interpretation and digital image classification have been used to map and monitor mangrove extent and composition for decades. The presence of a high-spatial resolution hyperspectral sensor can potentially improve our ability to differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,649 Views
23 Pages

Mapping Coral Reef Benthos, Substrates, and Bathymetry, Using Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) Data

  • Ian A. Leiper,
  • Stuart R. Phinn,
  • Chris M. Roelfsema,
  • Karen E. Joyce and
  • Arnold G. Dekker

14 July 2014

This study used a reef-up approach to map coral reef benthos, substrates and bathymetry, with high spatial resolution hyperspectral image data. It investigated a physics-based inversion method for mapping coral reef benthos and substrates using read...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,566 Views
22 Pages

14 June 2019

Image segmentation is extensively used in remote sensing spectral image processing. Most of the existing region merging methods assess the heterogeneity or homogeneity using global or pre-defined parameters, which lack the flexibility to further impr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,171 Views
15 Pages

Detection of Eucalyptus Leaf Disease with UAV Multispectral Imagery

  • Kuo Liao,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Haofei Dang,
  • Yunzhong Wu,
  • Kunfa Luo and
  • Guiying Li

18 August 2022

Forest disease is one of the most important factors affecting tree growth and product quality, reducing economic values of forest ecosystem goods and services. In order to prevent and control forest diseases, accurate detection in a timely manner is...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,203 Views
25 Pages

Hyperspectral Sensors as a Management Tool to Prevent the Invasion of the Exotic Cordgrass Spartina densiflora in the Doñana Wetlands

  • Javier Bustamante,
  • David Aragonés,
  • Isabel Afán,
  • Carlos J. Luque,
  • Andrés Pérez-Vázquez,
  • Eloy M. Castellanos and
  • Ricardo Díaz-Delgado

8 December 2016

We test the use of hyperspectral sensors for the early detection of the invasive dense-flowered cordgrass (Spartina densiflora Brongn.) in the Guadalquivir River marshes, Southwestern Spain. We flew in tandem a CASI-1500 (368–1052 nm) and an AHS (430...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,838 Views
18 Pages

A Methodological Approach for Gap Filling of WFV Gaofen-1 Images from Spatial Autocorrelation and Enhanced Weighting

  • Tairu Chen,
  • Tao Yu,
  • Lili Zhang,
  • Wenhao Zhang,
  • Xiaofei Mi,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Yulin Zhan,
  • Chunmei Wang,
  • Juan Li and
  • Jian Yang

21 February 2024

Clouds and cloud shadow cover cause missing data in some images captured by the Gaofen-1 Wide Field of View (GF-1 WFV) cameras, limiting the extraction and analysis of the image information and further applications. Therefore, this study proposes a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,924 Views
20 Pages

Neural Network Based Pavement Condition Assessment with Hyperspectral Images

  • Okan Bilge Özdemir,
  • Hilal Soydan,
  • Yasemin Yardımcı Çetin and
  • Hafize Şebnem Düzgün

30 November 2020

Hyperspectral image processing techniques, with their ability to provide information about the chemical compositions of materials, have great potential for pavement condition assessment. This study introduces a novel age-based pavement assessment met...

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