We assessed the compatibility of three Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radometer (ASTER) based Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) products generated in the GEO Grid system to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) EVI. The three products were two forms of the two-band EVI with ASTER red and NIR bands but without a blue band and the original, three-band EVI comput...

This paper presents an analysis of four open-source Global Digital Elevation Models (GDEMs) and compares them on two topographic profiles (nearly flat, hills regions) for mapping geomatics applications. The chief intention is to investigate if GDEMs-based heights, contour intervals, slopes, are valid all map scales mapping, which constitutes a major issue in activities. Two case studies, the Ni...

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...