Summary
In this special issue, we wish to explore the current state in using remote sensing technology to understand land surface properties, patterns, and processes. In particular, studies that employ remotely sensed data to derive quantitative measurements of land surface properties, to characterize and quantify land surface ecological and geographical patterns, and to analyze and model land surface processes are encouraged. The virtues and importance of remote sensing data from various ground, aircraft, and satellite platforms will be assessed. Moreover, we wish to explore how improved sensor and analytical techniques can be employed to better define, characterize, quantify, and model land surface forms, patterns, and processes. The topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Retrieval and analysis of land surface biophysical parameters, temperatures, surface emissivity, surface roughness and anisotropy.
- Analysis of remote sensed data derived parameters such as land surface temperature, emissivity, vegetation cover, soil type, soil moisture, and surface water content for estimation of surface energy fluxes and investigation of land-atmosphere interactions.
- Utilization of remote sensing data of various platforms for landscape characterization (e.g., land cover/land use attributes, impervious surfaces, and habitats).
- Analysis of land surface patterns and their relations to land surface processes and properties.
- Application of GIS, geospatial statistics, visualization, and landscape ecological approaches to remote sensing of land surfaces.
- Study of the improvements in spatial, spectral, radiometric, and temporal resolutions of remote sensing data for analysis of land surface properties, patterns, and processes.
- Investigation of impacts of spatial and temporal scale on analysis of remote sensing data.
Markus Hollaus 1,*, Wolfgang Wagner 1,2, Bernhard Maier 3 and Klemens Schadauer 41 Christian Doppler Laboratory for “Spatial Data from Laser Scanning and Remote Sensing”, at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria, Tel: ++43(0)1 58801 12239, Fax: ++43(0)1 58801 12299. E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]
2 Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: [email protected]
3 Stand Montafon Forstfonds, Montafonerstraße 21, 6780 Schruns, Austria. E-mail: [email protected]
4 Department of Forest Inventory at the Federal Research and Training Center for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg,
1130 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 20 July 2007 / Accepted: 14 August 2007 / Published: 17 August 2007Full Paper: Airborne Laser Scanning of Forest Stem Volume in a Mountainous Environment
Sensors 2007, 7, 1559-1577 (PDF format, 1770 K)
Christopher D. Elvidge 1,*, Benjamin T. Tuttle 2,3, Paul C. Sutton 3, Kimberly E. Baugh 2, Ara T. Howard 2, Cristina Milesi 4,
Budhendra Bhuduri 5 and Ramakrishna Nemani 6
1 Earth Observation Group, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA. Email: [email protected]
2 Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
3 Department of Geography, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA. Email: [email protected]
4 Foundation of California State University, Monterey Bay, California.
5 U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
6 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 30 August 2007 / Accepted: 11 September 2007 / Published: 21 September 2007
Full Paper: Global Distribution and Density of Constructed Impervious Surfaces
Sensors 2007, 7, 1962-1979 (PDF format, 4690 K)
Amanda Harris 1, Sayma Rahman 2, Faisal Hossain 1,*, Lance Yarborough 3, Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou 2 and Greg Easson 3
1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505, USA
2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
3 Geoinformatics Research Center, Department of Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi. Oxford, MS, USA
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 30 November 2007 / Accepted: 18 December 2007 / Published: 20 December 2007
Full Paper: Satellite-based Flood Modeling Using TRMM-based Rainfall Products
Sensors 2007, 7, 3416-3427 (PDF format, 574 K)
Minha Choi 1,* and Jennifer M. Jacobs 2
1 Research Physical Scientist, USDA-ARS Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab., Beltsville, MD 20705, U.S.A.; E-mail: [email protected]
2 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, U.S.A.; E-mail: [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 3 December 2007 / Accepted: 8 April 2008 / Published: 14 April 2008
Full Research Paper: Temporal Variability Corrections for Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer E (AMSR-E) Surface Soil Moisture: Case Study in Little River Region, Georgia, U.S.
Sensors 2008, 8, 2617-2627 (PDF format, 303 K)
Desheng Liu 1,* and Ruiliang Pu 2
1 Department of Geography and Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210 USA; Tel: 614-247-2775; Fax: 614-292-6213; E-mail: [email protected]
2 Department of Geography, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., NES 107, Tampa, FL 33620 USA; Tel.: +1 813 974 1508; Fax: +1 813 974 4808; E-mail: [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 2 March 2008 / Accepted: 8 April 2008 / Published:16 April 2008
Full Research Paper: Downscaling Thermal Infrared Radiance for Subpixel Land Surface Temperature Retrieval
Sensors 2008, 8, 2695-2706 (PDF format, 597 K)
Camille C. D. Lelong 1,*, Philippe Burger 2, Guillaume Jubelin 3, Bruno Roux 4, Sylvain Labbé 5 and Frédéric Baret 6
1 CIRAD, UMR TETIS, 500 Rue J.-F. Breton, 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
2 INRA, UMR 1248 AGIR, Chemin de Borde Rouge, BP52627, 31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
3 Nev (a) ntropic, 16 bis Avenue du Quatorze Juillet, 97300 Cayenne, France
4 L’Avion Jaune, Minéa Incubation, 361 Rue J.-F. Breton, BP5095, 34196 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
5 Cemagref, UMR TETIS, 500 Rue J.-F. Breton, 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
6 INRA, UMR 1114 EMMAH, Domaine St Paul, Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: camille.lelong (a) cirad.fr
Received: 29 April 2008 / Accepted: 23 May 2008 / Published: 26 May 2008
Article: Assessment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Imagery for Quantitative Monitoring of Wheat Crop in Small Plots
Sensors 2008, 8, 3557-3585 (PDF format, 1230 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053557
Martin Rutzinger 1,2,*, Bernhard Höfle 3, Markus Hollaus 4 and Norbert Pfeifer 3
1 alpS - Centre for Natural Hazard Management, Grabenweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck. E-mail: [email protected]
2 Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck. E-mail: [email protected]
3 Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, TU Vienna, Gußhausstraße 27-29, A-1040 Vienna. Email: [email protected]. E-mail: [email protected]
4 Christian Doppler Laboratory “Spatial Data from Laser Scanning and Remote Sensing” at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, TU Vienna, Gußhausstraße 27-29, A-1040 Vienna. E-mail: [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 1 July 2008; in revised form: 28 July 2008 / Accepted: 28 July 2008 / Published: 4 August 2008
Article: Object-Based Point Cloud Analysis of Full-Waveform Airborne Laser Scanning Data for Urban Vegetation Classification
Sensors 2008, 8, 4505-4528 (PDF format, 6690 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8084505
Derrick Lampkin * and Rui Peng
Department of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA; E-Mails: [email protected] (F. L.); [email protected] (F. L.)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel.: (814)-865-2493; Fax: (814)-863-7943
Received: 3 July 2008; in revised form: 22 July 2008 / Accepted: 15 August 2008 / Published: 22 August 2008
Article: Empirical Retrieval of Surface Melt Magnitude from Coupled MODIS Optical and Thermal Measurements over the Greenland Ice Sheet during the 2001 Ablation Season
Sensors 2008, 8, 4915-4947 (PDF format, 3400 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8084915
Raita Säynäjoki 1, Petteri Packalén 1, Matti Maltamo 1,*, Mikko Vehmas 1 and Kalle Eerikäinen 2
1 University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forest Sciences, P.O.Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland; E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
2 Finnish Forest Research Institute, Joensuu Research Unit, P.O Box 68, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland; E-mail: [email protected]
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 5 August 2008; in revised form: 21 August 2008 / Accepted: 22 August 2008 / Published: 25 August 2008
Article: Detection of Aspens Using High Resolution Aerial Laser Scanning Data and Digital Aerial Images
Sensors 2008, 8, 5037-5054 (PDF format, 145 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8085037
Alexander Savelyev and Ramanathan Sugumaran *
Department of Geography, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA; E-mail: [email protected] (Alexander Savelyev)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 25 July 2008; in revised form: 22 August 2008 / Accepted: 22 August 2008 / Published: 25 August 2008
Article: Surface Temperature Mapping of the University of Northern Iowa Campus Using High Resolution Thermal Infrared Aerial Imageries
Sensors 2008, 8, 5055-5068 (PDF format, 757 K) DOI: 10.3390/s8085055
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