The local climate of cities is changing, and one the primary reasons for this change rapid urbanization. Lahore district situated in Punjab province Pakistan mainly comprised city. This city among fastest expanding Pakistan. Due to urbanization, natural land surfaces are being altered, harming environment thus causing urban heat island (UHI) effect. For analysis UHI effect, fundamental essentia...

On May 9, 2000 the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra satellite obtained data over the Jornada Experimental Range test site along the Rio Grande river and the White Sand National Monument in New Mexico. ASTER has 14 channels from the visible (VNIR) through the thermal infrared (TIR) with 15 m resolution in the VNIR and 90 m in the TIR. The overpa...

This paper examines the applicability of binary decision tree (DT) classifier and ASTER data for the monitoring of wetland vegetation at plant family level (eight dominant plant families in the study area, bare soil, marshland, residential area, and waterbody) in the Banghu Lake, a seasonal lake in the Poyang Lake region. Two sets of ASTER Level-1B Registered Radiance at the Sensor products, AS...

Due to the limitation in spatial and spectral resolution, a few numbers of satellite data are applicable in field scale surface Albedo modeling. ASTER was an alternative for surface energy balance modeling, but since April 2008, shortwave detector has stopped recording due to the high-abnormal-temperature problem. Beside, temporal resolution of ASTER is insufficient for field-scale monitoring o...

Human-induced global warming has significantly increased the importance ofsatellite monitoring of land surface temperature (LST) on a global scale. The MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides a 1-km resolution LST productwith almost daily coverage of the Earth, invaluable to both local and global change studies.The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiomete...

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus Linnaeus) is a globally endangered species, an internationally protected and first-class animal in China. However, future climate change human activities exacerbate the instability of its habitat range, leading to possible reduction range. By using multi-source remote sensing data products, as well models, including ASTER GDEM v3, Landsat8 OLI image ClimateAP...

Overview Each year the commercial carrot crop in Wisconsin suffers losses from alternaria leaf blight, cercospora leaf spot, and aster yellows. The first two are diseases caused by fungi (Alternaria dauci and Cercospora carotae). The third is a disease caused by the aster yellows phytoplasma, a parasitic bacterium of carrot phloem tissue and also of the aster leafhopper (Macrosteles quadrilinea...

The aster yellows phytoplasma (AYp) is transmitted by the aster leafhopper, Macrosteles quadrilineatus Forbes, in a persistent and propagative manner. To study AYp replication and examine the variability of AYp titer in individual aster leafhoppers, we developed a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to measure AYp concentration in insect DNA extracts. Absolute quantification ...

Rock glaciers are an integral part of the periglacial environment. At regional scale in Greater Caucasus, there have been no comprehensive systematic efforts to assess distribution rock glaciers, although some individual parts ranges mapped before. In this study we produce first inventory from entire Caucasus region—Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. A remote sensing survey was conducted using Ge...

ASTER is a high-spatial resolution, multispectral imaging system flying aboard TERRA, a satellite launched in December 1999 as part of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS). An ASTER scene covering 61.5 km x 63 km contains data from 14 spectral bands. An ASTER Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is generated using bands 3N (nadir) and 3B (backward) level 1A images acquired by the Visible Near Infra-red...