Forest fires are a chief environmental concern, causing economical and ecological damage. The application of remote sensing is at present a significant method for forest fires monitoring, particularly in vast and remote areas. Different methods have been presented by the researchers for finding forest types and fire detection. In this study, we propose polygon segmentation for adaptive regional...

The ratio of leaf area to ground area (leaf area index, LAI) is an important state variable in ecosystem studies since it influences fluxes of matter and energy between the land surface and the atmosphere. As a basis for generating temporally continuous and spatially distributed datasets of LAI, the current study contributes an analysis of its spatial variability and spatial structure. Soil-veg...

This paper deals with the encoding of high resolution images for remote sensing and geographic information systems applications. We are currently investigating the suitability of several still image coding techniques for this kind of applications. We present results for an adapted and modified version of the CCSDS-ILDC technique. In addition to evaluate its compression factor and quality of rec...

given the critical role played by urban green spaces and the emergence of remote sensing as avaluable natural resource management tool, this study sought to identify trends in green spaces within thecontext of south africa’s transition period (1990 - 2000). using the city of port elizabeth as a case study, threesets of landsat - 5 thematic mapper images (1990, 1995 and 2000) were geo-processed,...

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are always available, globally, and the signal structures are well known, except for those dedicated to military use. They also have some distinctive characteristics, including the use of L-band frequencies, which are particularly suited for remote sensing purposes. The idea of using GNSS signals for remote sensing the atmosphere, oceans or ...

An accurate estimation of the leaf area index (LAI) by satellite remote sensing is essential for studying the spatial variation of ecosystem structure. The goal of this study was to estimate the spatial variation of LAI over a forested catchment in a mountainous landscape (ca. 60 km2) in central Japan. We used a simple model to estimate LAI using spectral reflectance by adapting the Monsi-Saeki...

In order to solve some problems in managing and parallel processing of global expanding remote sensing data, introduces the spatial subdivision organization framework. Firstly, analyzes the spatial properties of subdivision cell and its significant advantages in parallel processing. Then, discusses subdivision template and template parallel processing mode for remote sensing image. And a templa...

In this paper, a new wavelet based image interpolation algorithm is proposed for remote sensing images. Remote sensing images include many mid and high frequency elements such as aerial and satellite photograph images. These frequency elements contain important information. Because conventional interpolation techniques have blurring or blocking effects, the quality of interpolated remote sensin...