The area of land consolidation projects are generally small, so remote sensing images used in land cover classification are generally of high resolution. The spectral characteristics of the high-resolution remote sensing data are unstable, while the texture feature is prominent. In view of this issue, this paper study the spatial relation between the adjacent pixels in the remote sensing image,...

Contemporary optical remote sensing satellites or constellations of satellites can acquire imagery at sub-weekly or even daily timescales. These systems have the potential to facilitate intra-seasonal, short-term surface velocity variations across a range of ice masses. Current techniques for displacement estimation are based on matching image pairs with sufficient displacement and/or preservat...

BACKGROUND The mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles is a prevalent and confirmed Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) vector. This vector, in association with Aedimorphus arabiensis (Patton), was responsible for causing the outbreak of 2000 in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Larval occurrence records and a total of 19 bioclimatic and three topographic layers imported...

This paper presents field-based classifications performed using the multi-resolution images of SPOT4 XS, SPOT5 XS, IKONOS XS, QuickBird XS, and QuickBird Pansharpaned (PS) covering an agricultural area located in Karacabey, Turkey. The objective was to assess the classification accuracies of different spatial resolution images in an agricultural land using the field-based classification techniq...

This paper introduces an operational and extensible system for sensor modeling, triangulation, DEM extraction and stereo mapping of space borne pushbroom sensor images. The methods for sensor modeling and triangulation are introduced with the consideration of the newer sensors such as EROS A1, ALOS PRISM, FORMOSAT2 and THEOS satellite systems. They are based on the collinearity equation and bun...

The recent trend in image classification of agricultural areas is towards the use of per-field approaches that work in a manner that a crop label is assigned to each field. The existing field boundaries are commonly used as ancillary information for performing fieldbased image classification. However, the presence of multiple crops within the fields may cause problems during per-field image cla...

We present spatial patterns of glacier fluctuations from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, (glacier area, terminus elevations, median elevations and hypsography) at decadal timescales derived from 1970 aerial photography, 2003 SPOT5 satellite data, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and statistical analyses. We derived new glacier outlines from the 2003 SPOT images, and ingested them in the Global...

Earthquake is one of the dominant triggering factors of landslides. Given the wide areas covered by mega earthquake-triggered landslides, their inventory requires development of automatic or semi-automatic methods applied to satellite imagery. A detection method is here proposed for this purpose, to fit with simple datasets; SPOT5 panchromatic images of 5 m resolution coupled with a freely and ...

A new procedure to assess the quality of topographic correction (TOC) algorithms applied to remote sensing imagery was previously proposed by the authors. This procedure was based on a model that simulated synthetic scenes, representing the radiance an optical sensor would receive from an area under some specific conditions. TOC algorithms were then applied to synthetic scenes and the resulting...