ASTER has similar bandwidths and spatial resolution to Landsat and is an important component of the mid-resolution data archive. However, the limited duty cycle of ASTER and relatively small scene size has resulted in a “patchwork” archive of global imagery. The changes of solar geometries (BRDF) and phenology complicate land cover classification and change detection especially when comparing t...

[1] High spatial resolution thermal infrared satellite images acquired 38 minutes apart from Landsat ETM+ and ASTER were used to measure the surface currents and circulation in Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada, USA. Mean currents of 5–10 cm/s were measured, with maximum currents approaching 35 cm/s. The eastward transport of an upwelling surface jet was clearly apparent, with 15–30 cm/s currents. ...

The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon is a significant worldwide problem caused by rapid population growth and associated urbanization. The UHI effect exacerbates heat waves during the summer, increases energy and water consumption, and causes the high risk of heat-related morbidity and mortality. UHI mitigation efforts have increasingly relied on wisely designing the urban residential environ...

Satellite data have been used for temperature modeling both in urban areas and water. This paperstudies viability of ASTER satellite images that provide high spatial and spectral resolution to model watersurface temperature, as a fundamental water quality parameter. This study is focused on Dez dam reservoirresiding in Khuzestan province, south west of Iran. After the image corrections required...

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important parameter that is highly responsive to surface energy fluxes and has become valuable to many disciplines. However, it is difficult to acquire satellite LSTs with both high spatial and temporal resolutions due to tradeoffs between them. Thus, various algorithms/models have been developed to enhance the spatial or the temporal resolution of thermal i...

Modeling and mapping of soil properties has been identified as key for effective land degradation management and mitigation. The ability to model and map soil properties at sufficient accuracy for a large agriculture area is demonstrated using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery. Soil samples were collected in the El-Tina Plain, Sinai, Egypt, concurren...

introduction monitoring of salt lake dry areas is an important parameter for sustainable development and environmental protection. monitoring of dried areas of the salt lake requires extraction of thematic maps at different times. powerful tool for remote sensing of the earth different ecosystems, such as playa environments, is to produce valuable and useful data. the major causes of widespread...

The most favorable locations for wind farm were determined based on environmental landuse factors, wind resources and the layout of the electrical grid lines. In the study landuse map was prepared and updated by using Survey of India topographic sheet and ASTER satellite imagery in open source Quantum GIS & GRASS GIS software environment. Wind Power Density Layer was digitized by using Indian w...

Recovering method of missing data based on the proposed modified Kalman filter for the case that the time series of mean data is know is proposed. There are some cases of which although a portion of data is missing, mean value of the time series of data is known. For instance, although coarse resolution of imagery data are acquired every day, fine resolution of imagery data are missing sometime...