Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an active microwave imaging system equipped with penetration capability, enabling all-time and all-weather Earth observation, and demonstrates significant advantages in large-scale surface water-body detection. Altho...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an active microwave sensor with all-day/night and all-weather detection capability, which is crucial for detecting surface water resources. Surface water-body such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds usually appe...
Driven by the urgent demand for flood monitoring, water resource management and environmental protection, water-body detection in remote sensing imagery has attracted increasing research attention. Deep semantic segmentation networks (DSSNs) have gra...
This article is dedicated to the study of airborne GNSS-R signal processing techniques for water body detection and edge localization using a low-altitude airborne carrier with high rate reflectivity measurements. A GNSS-R setup on-board a carrier wi...
Water features (e.g., water quantity and water quality) are one of the most important environmental factors essential to improving climate-change resilience. Remote sensing (RS) technologies empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) have become one o...
The application of remote sensing technology in water body detection has become increasingly widespread, offering significant value for environmental monitoring, hydrological research, and disaster early warning. However, the existing methods face ch...
Water body detection from satellite imagery is still challenging due to spectral confusion and the limitation of traditional water indices. This paper proposes a new approach by incorporating Particle Swarm Optimization with a Spectral Multi-Band Wat...
Water body detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery plays a critical role in applications such as disaster response, water resource management, and environmental monitoring. However, it remains challenging due to complex background interfe...
Inland water bodies, wetlands and their dynamics have a key role in a variety of scientific, economic, and social applications. They are significant in identifying climate change, water resource management, agricultural productivity, and the modeling...
Accurate delineation of inland waterbodies is critical for applications such as hydrological monitoring, disaster response preparedness and response, and environmental management. While optical satellite imagery is hindered by cloud cover or low-ligh...
A waterbody detection technique is an essential part of a digital elevation model (DEM) generation to delineate land–water boundaries and set flattened elevations. This paper describes the technical methodology for improving the initial tile-ba...
Anomaly detection based on Kittler’s Taxonomy (ADS-KT) has emerged as a powerful strategy for identifying and categorizing patterns that exhibit unexpected behaviors, being useful for monitoring environmental disasters and mapping their consequ...
In satellite remote sensing applications, waterbody segmentation plays an essential role in mapping and monitoring the dynamics of surface water. Satellite image segmentation—examining a relevant sensor data spectrum and identifying the regions...
The extraction of urban water bodies from high‐resolution remote sensing images, which has been a hotspot in researches, has drawn a lot of attention both domestic and abroad. A challenging issue is to distinguish the shadow of high‐rise buildings fr...
Water body detection worldwide using spaceborne remote sensing is a challenging task. A global scale multi-temporal and multi-spectral image analysis method for water body detection was developed. The PROBA-V microsatellite has been fully operational...
To meet the real-time, multi-task processing demands of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems under limited onboard resources, this paper presents a configurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architecture that supports both water b...
Water bodies are a highly abundant feature of Arctic permafrost ecosystems and strongly influence their hydrology, ecology and biogeochemical cycling. While very high resolution satellite images enable detailed mapping of these water bodies, the incr...
Severe forest fires caused by extremely high temperatures have resulted in devastating disasters in the natural forest reserves of New South Wales, Australia. Traditional forest research methods primarily rely on manual field surveys, which have limi...
Coastal regions and surface waters are among the fundamental biological and social development resources worldwide. For this reason, it is essential to thoroughly monitor these regions to determine and characterize their geographical features and env...
Chemical oxygen demand (COD), reflecting the degree of waterbody contaminated by reduction substances, is an important parameter for water quality monitoring. The existing measurement method of waterbody COD takes time and is a complex system, which...
This study proposed a natural-rule-based-connection (NRBC) method to connect river segments after water body detection from remotely sensed imagery. A complete river network is important for many hydrological applications. While water body detection...
Accurate information of urban surface water is important for assessing the role it plays in urban ecosystem services under the content of urbanization and climate change. However, high-resolution monitoring of urban water bodies using remote sensing...
Providing timely and accurate maps of surface water is valuable for mapping malaria risk and targeting disease control interventions. Radar satellite remote sensing has the potential to provide this information but current approaches are not suitable...
In recent years, spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System reflectometry (GNSS-R) technology has made significant progress in the fields of Earth observation and remote sensing, with a wide range of applications, important research value, and bro...
Monitoring changes within the land surface and open water bodies is critical for natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy. While the use of satellite imagery for these purposes is common, fine-scale change detection can be...
Small water bodies ranging in size from 1 to 50,000 m2, are numerous, widely distributed, and have various functions in water storage, agriculture, and fisheries. Small water bodies used for agriculture and fisheries are economically significant in C...
The tidal flat is long and narrow area along rivers and coasts with high sediment content, so there is little feature difference between the waterbody and the background, and the boundary of the waterbody is blurry. The existing waterbody extraction...
Plastic pollution poses a significant environmental threat to the existence and health of biodiversity and the marine ecosystem. The intrusion of plastic to the food chain is a massive concern for human health. Urbanisation, population growth, and to...
The assessment of water body dynamics is not only in itself a topic of strong demand, but the presence of water bodies is important information when it comes to the derivation of products such as land surface temperature, leaf area index, or snow/ice...
Inland water is an important part of the Earth’s water cycle. Mapping inland water is vital for understanding surface hydrology and climate change. Spaceborne global navigation satellite systems reflectometry (GNSS-R) has been proven to be an e...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), as a microwave sensor that can sense a target all day or night under all-weather conditions, is of great significance for detecting water resources, such as coastlines, lakes and rivers. This paper reviews literature p...
In traditional change detection methods, remote sensing images are the primary raster data for change detection, and the changes produced from cartography generalization in multi-scale maps are not considered. The aim of this research was to use a ne...
Subglacial water bodies are critical components in analyzing the instability of the Antarctic ice sheet. Their detection and identification normally rely on geophysical and remote sensing methods such as airborne radar echo sounding (RES), ground sei...
Climate change has directly impacted Earth’s habitats, resulting in various adverse effects, such as the desiccation of water bodies. The process of identifying such changes through field observations is time-consuming and costly. By using remo...
According to the United Nation’s World Water Development Report, by 2050 more than 50% of the world’s population will be under high water scarcity. To avoid water stress, water resources are needed to be managed more securely. Smart water...
Farm dams are a ubiquitous limnological feature of agricultural landscapes worldwide. While their primary function is to capture and store water, they also have disproportionally large effects on biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling, with importan...
Microplastic (MP) contamination in riverine systems poses a growing environmental challenge, and their spatial and temporal variability complicates proper assessments. This study investigated MP concentrations (≥10 µm) across three German ri...
Environmental monitoring, such as analyses of water bodies to detect anomalies, is recognized worldwide as a task necessary to reduce the impacts arising from pollution. However, the large number of data available to be analyzed in different contexts...
The increasing water temperature due to climate change has led to more frequent algae blooms and deteriorating water quality in coastal areas and rivers worldwide. To address this, we developed a deep learning-based model for identifying floating alg...
Due to the similarity of the radar backscatter over open water and over sand surfaces a reliable near real-time flood mapping based on satellite radar sensors is usually not possible in arid areas. Within this study, an approach is presented to enhan...
As an important ecosystem on the earth, forests not only provide habitat and food for organisms but also play an important role in regulating environmental elements such as water, atmosphere, and soil. The quality of forest waters directly affects th...
Water reservoirs play a crucial role in the environment in many aspects: hydrology, geochemistry, sediment lithology, geo- and biodiversity, landscape, etc. First of all, it is necessary to have accurate information about the spatial distribution of...
Monitoring surface water bodies is crucial for environmental protection and resource management. Existing segmentation methods often struggle with limited generalization across different satellite domains. We propose DASAM, a domain-adaptive Segment...
This study presents a novel methodology for the detection and monitoring of changes in surface water bodies, with a particular emphasis on the near-eastern region of Antioquia, Colombia. The proposed approach integrates remote sensing and artificial...
Water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes, also known as Eichhornia crassipes) is a highly invasive aquatic macrophyte species, indigenous to Amazonia, Brazil and tropical South America. It was introduced to India in 1896 and has now become an environment...
The automation revolution provides access to robotized water-surface vehicles, which support behaviors of different autonomy and intelligence levels, ranging from those achieved by Remotely Piloted Surface Vehicle (RPSV) to those supported by Autonom...
Water detection algorithms are now being routinely applied to continental and global archives of satellite imagery. However, water resource management decisions typically take place at the waterbody rather than pixel scale. Here, we present a workflo...
Bathymetry is a subset of hydrography, aimed at measuring the depth of waterbodies and waterways. Measurements are taken inter alia to detect natural obstacles or other navigational obstacles that endanger the safety of navigation, to examine the nav...
Water body feature extraction using a remote sensing technique represents an important tool in the investigation of water resources and hydrological drought assessment. Nuntasi-Tuzla Lake, a component of the Danube Delta Natural Reserve, is located o...
Remote sensing (RS) has been widely used to monitor cyanobacterial blooms in inland water bodies. However, the accuracy of RS-based monitoring varies significantly depending on factors such as waterbody type, sensor characteristics, and analytical me...
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