Coastal lagoons mix inflowing freshwater and tidal marine waters in complex spatial patterns. This project sought to detect and measure temperature and spatial variability of flood tides for a constricted coastal lagoon using multitemporal remote sensing. Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Radiometer (ASTER) thermal infrared data provided estimates of surface temperature for delineation of re...

In alluvial areas of the Near East, the former locations of settlements are often represented by “tells”, small artificial mounds resulting from millennia of human settlement activity, especially the continual construction and decay of mud brick architecture. To identify such tells and other, smaller settlement sites in the modern landscape, we develop a classifier which screens wide areas for ...

The limited radiometric resolution and expiring life expectancy of the Landsat sensors have prompted this study to investigate the potential of using ASTER imagery in conjunction with Landsat imagery. This project developed methods to calibrate processed ASTER imagery and Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery to equivalent measurements for change detection studies. Landsat 7 ETM+ and ASTER imagery of southwes...

Citation: Berthier E, Cabot V, Vincent C and Six D (2016) Decadal Region-Wide and Glacier-Wide Mass Balances Derived from Multi-Temporal ASTER Satellite Digital Elevation Models. Validation over the Mont-Blanc Area. Front. Earth Sci. 4:63. doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00063 Decadal Region-Wide and Glacier-Wide Mass Balances Derived from Multi-Temporal ASTER Satellite Digital Elevation Models. Valida...

Erosion reduces soil productivity and causes negative downstream impacts. Erosion processes occur on areas with erodible soils and sloping terrain when high-intensity rainfall coincides with limited vegetation cover. Timing of erosion events has implications on the selection of satellite imagery, used to describe spatial patterns of protective vegetation cover. This study proposes a method for ...

The MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) are onboard the same satellite platform NASA TERRA. Both MODIS and ASTER offer routine retrieval of land surface temperatures (LSTs), and the ASTER- and MODIS-retrieved LST products have been used worldwide. Because a large fraction of the earth surface consists o...

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...

* Corresponding author. Abstract Monitoring and calculation of coal fire radiative energy (CFRE) are an advanced field of application for satellite imagery. The five thermal infrared bands of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) proved to be suitable for automated fire pixel detection and energy release quantification. Two different automated algorithms wer...