Saline lakes can increase the soil and water salinity of the coastal areas. The main aim of this study is to distinguish the characteristics of the spectral reflectance of saline soil, analyze the statistical relationship between soil EC and characteristics of the spectral reflectance of saline soil, and to map soil salinity east of the Maharloo Lake. The correlation between field measurements ...

The history of remote sensing and development of different sensors for environmental and natural resources mapping and data acquisition is reviewed and reported. Application examples in urban studies, hydrological modeling such as land-cover and floodplain mapping, fractional vegetation cover and impervious surface area mapping, surface energy flux and micro-topography correlation studies is di...

Information on the structural complexity of forest stands is required to inform conservation priorities that guide the sustainable management of private native vegetation for multiple objectives of landowners. Whilst research into methods for the operational mapping of vegetation structure is expanding, the research is largely exploratory, and no methods have yet seen widespread acceptance. Thi...

to determine the suitable indices for vegetation cover and production assessment based on the remote sensing data, simultaneous digital data with field data belonging to the spring rangeland of the semirom-isfahan province were analyzed. during two years of monitoring the annual, grass, forb, and shrub vegetation cover and the total production data from 86 were collected. the global positioning...

Ecological monitoring of Arctic national parks is challenging owing to their size and remote locations. Baseline ecosystem maps are a basic requirement for monitoring and are often derived from classification of remote sensing data. In many cases, however, the vegetation communities of interest overlap spectrally and cannot be separated using imagery alone. One solution is to use ancillary spat...

Understanding the relationship between the size of mangrove structural features and the optimum image pixel size is essential to support effective mapping activities in mangrove environments. This study developed a method to estimate the optimum image pixel size for accurately mapping mangrove features (canopy types and features (gaps, tree crown), community, and cover types) and tested the app...

The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI mapping. When housing data are zonal, the concept of a WUI neighborhood can be captured easily in a density measure, but var...

This paper describes the creation of a forest fire history database for part of the Far East region of Asia using remotely sensed data, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The algorithm for burnt scar mapping utilizes an active fire detection technique together with detection of abrupt vegetation damage depicted by time series of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). ...

WenHao Ou, Wei Su ** , Chen Wu, ZhongZheng Zhu, YanMin Li, Shi Shen (Collage of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083) Abstract:Landsat TM5 images are used to calculate and retrieve normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and land surface temperature (LST). Combining with two index mentioned, vegetation temperature condition index (VTCI) ca...

Using Montarice in central Adriatic Italy as a case study, this paper focuses on the extraction of the spectral (i.e., plant colour) and geometrical (i.e., plant height) components of a crop canopy from archived aerial photographs, treating both parameters as proxies for archaeological prospection. After the creation of orthophotographs and a canopy height model using image-based modelling, new...