Coastal areas are dynamic zones affected by natural change and human use: they contain rich resources to produce goods and services and are home to most commercial and industrial activities, as well as fragile and valuable ecosystems. A continuous monitoring activity is essential to prevent environmental threats that can be very dangerous for such a sensitive ecosystem. Satellite-borne sensors ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between drainage density and climate, as represented by climate aridity index, understand area. A total 121 sites with low human impact, a wide range index 0.3 (humid)–10.4 (arid), were selected based on availability light detection ranging (LiDAR) data, producing digital elevation model (DEM) spatial resolution 1 m. curvature-based meth...

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The effects of shape, size, and capture resolution on digital area measurement were investigated to accurately and precisely estimate leaf surface area. A digital scanner was used to measure two simple shapes (circle and square) at three resolutions (118.159, 236.270 and 472.441 pixels/cm) and five sizes (3.14, 12.58, 28.29, 50.29, and 78.60 cm). Additionally, the accuracy and precision of two ...

The technique of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar can generate high precise Digital Elevation Model (DEM) fast, which makes it play a very important role in the development of social economy and construct of national defense. Once the high precise DEM can be acquired in real-time, the worthiness of the technique will be embodied fully. In this thesis, the research dynamic of generating ...

In volcanic areas, where it can be difficult to perform direct surveys, digital photogrammetry techniques are rarely adopted for routine volcano monitoring. Nevertheless, they have remarkable potentialities for observing active volcanic features (e.g., fissures, lava flows) and the connected deformation processes. The ability to obtain accurate quantitative data of definite accuracy in short ti...

This paper proposed to use double polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image to classify surface feature, based on DEM. It takes fully use of the polarization information and external information. This paper utilizes ENVISAT ASAR APP double-polarization data of Poyang lake area in Jiangxi Province. Compared with traditional pixel-based classification, this paper fully uses object feature...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is one of the most sufficient technologies to provide global digital elevation modeling (DEM). It unwraps the interferometric phase to provide observations for phase-to-height conversion. However, the phase gradient has great influence on the phase unwrapping quality, thereby affecting the topographic mapping accuracy. Multi-look processing can i...