in this study, the environmental effects of land use changes on vegetation cover and emitted land surface temperature in two urban and non-urban areas of ardakan in yazd province, iran, were studied and compared temporally, using remote sensing technique. for this purpose, contemporary land sat satellite images in 1990 and 2002 were acquired and used. then vegetation cover maps were generated u...

Animal movement patterns in space and time are a central aspect of animal ecology. Remotely-sensed environmental indices can play a key role in understanding movement patterns by providing contiguous, relatively fine-scale data that link animal movements to their environment. Still, implementation of newly available remotely-sensed data is often delayed in studies of animal movement, calling fo...

The urban heat island is generally conducted based on ground observations of air temperature and remotely sensing of land surface temperature (LST). Satellite remotely sensed LST has the advantages of global coverage and consistent periodicity, which overcomes the weakness of ground observations related to sparse distributions and costs. For human related studies and urban climatology, canopy l...

Magnusson, M. 2006. Evaluation of remote sensing techniques for estimation of forest variables at stand level. Doctor's dissertation. There is a continuous need for accurate forest description. Forest data at stand level is required in forestry planning, in particular when scheduling treatments within the next few years. Collection of forest data is typically acquired with subjective surveying ...

Remotely sensed images of the Earth’s surface provide information about the spatial distribution of evapotranspiration. Since the spatial resolution of evapotranspiration predictions depends on the sensor type; scaling transfer between images of different scales needs to be investigated. The objectives of this study are first to validate the consistency of SEBAL algorithms for satellite images ...

Accurate latent and sensible heat flux prediction in response to land surface soil moisture at midlatitudes has been shown to be as important as sea surface temperature in making accurate precipitation prediction at mid-latitudes over land (Koster et al., 2000). Unfortunately, land surface models typically give a poor prediction of soil moisture and atmospheric feedback, with large differences ...

Spatially and temporally resolved observations of near-surface air temperatures (Ta, 1.5–2 m above ground) are essential for understanding hydrothermal circulation at the land–atmosphere interface. However, the uneven spatial distribution of meteorological stations may not effectively capture the true nature of the overall climate pattern. Several studies have attempted to retrieve spatially co...

[1] Inverse relationships between sea surface temperature and concentrations of the major inorganic nutrients have recently been exploited to estimate new production from remotely sensed data. In situ surface data collected in the Irminger Basin during four successive seasons in 2001/2 allow a robust examination of the conceptual processes behind temperature-nitrate relationships. The data conf...