Sebastiano B. Serpico, Silvana Dellepiane, Giorgio Boni, Gabriele Moser, Elena Angiati, Roberto Rudari
Satellite remote sensing missions devoted to Earth observation (EO) currently offer a unique capability to monitor the evolution of the Earth's surface by providing temporally...
Martha C. Anderson, Christopher Hain, Brian Wardlow, Augustin Pimstein, John R. mecikalski, William P. Kustas
The reliability of standard meteorological drought indices based on measurements of precipitation is limited by the spatial distribution and quality of currently available...
Zhenfeng Shao, Huyan Fu, Deren Li, Orhan Altan, Tao Cheng
Urban impervious surface coverage is an important parameter to understand effects of hydro-environment on the process of urbanization. Impervious surfaces have altered urban...
Ting Ma, Chenghu Zhou, Tao Pei, Susan Haynie, Junfu Fan
Urbanization process involving increased population size, spatially extended land cover and intensified economic activity plays a substantial role in anthropogenic environment...
Previous work has analyzed whether luminosity data contain useful information for estimating economic output and concluded that there was significant promise for regions with...
C. D. Elvidge, K. E. Baugh, S. J. Anderson, P. C. Sutton, T. Ghosh
We have developed a satellite data derived ''Night Light Development Index'' (NLDI) as a simple, objective, spatially explicit and globally available empirical measurement of...
Steeve Ebener, Christopher Murray, Ajay Tandon, Christopher C Elvidge
Sub-national figures providing information about the wealth of the population are useful in defining the spatial distribution of both economic activity and poverty within any...
U. Niethammer, M.R. James, S. Rothmund, J. Travelletti, M. Joswig
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with digital compact cameras can be used to map landslides quickly and at a high ground resolution. Images taken by a radio-controlled...
Remote sensing data have been proposed as a potential tool for monitoring environmental treaties. However, to date, satellite images have been used primarily for visualization,...
This study evaluates land use/cover changes and urban expansion in Greater Dhaka,Bangladesh, between 1975 and 2003 using satellite images and socio-economic data.Spatial and...
Afera Halefom, Asirat Teshome, Ermias Sisay, Imran Ahmad
The importance of accurate and timely information describing the nature and extent of land resources and changes over time is increasing, especially in fast-growing urban areas....
Digital change detection is the process helps in
determining the changes associated with land use and land cover
properties. Landuse/landcover change detection in the form of...
Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin, Kabir Abdulkadir Gidado, Mohd Ekhwan Toriman, Hafizan Juahir, Roslan Umar, Noorjima Abd Wahab, Salisu Ibrahim, Suriyani Awang, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud
Geographical information system (GIS) techniques and Remote Sensing (RS) data are fundamental in the study of land use (LU) and land cover (LC) changes...
The objectives of this study are to quantify, based on remote sensing data, processes of land-cover change and to test a Markov-based model to generate short-term land-cover...
The use of remote sensing data in design, monitoring, and evaluation of irrigation
systems is becoming popular due to rapid advances in remote sensing technology,
ease of access...
This study demonstrates estimations of economic activities on global, national, and subnational levels using remote sensing data, with a focus on developing economies. It...
Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu
For more than forty years the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) has been the only system collecting
global low...
Christina Milesi, Christopher D. Elvidge, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Steven W. Running
The southeastern United States (SE-US) has undergone one of the highest rates of landscape changes in the country due to changing demographics and land use practices over the...
Tess Ahlnorn, Robert Allan Shuchman, Lawrence L Sutter, Colin Neil Brooks, Devin K. Harris, Joseph W Burns, Kevin Arthur Endsley, D. C. Evans, Khatereh Vaghefi, Renee C. Oats,
Improving transportation infrastructure inspection methods and the ability to assess conditions of bridges has become a priority in recent years as the transportation...
Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in...