Among these variables, soil moisture (SM) is one of the most requested ones [1]. This envi‐ ronmental variable is considered important to many ecological processes that occur on Earth's surface, from its relationship to climate events to its importance in terms of water availability for agricultural crops. In fact, it is considered an essential climate variable domain for the Global Earth Obser...

The goal of this study was to map and quantify the number of newly constructed buildings in Accra, Ghana between 2002 and 2010 based on high spatial resolution satellite image data. Two semi-automated feature detection approaches for detecting and mapping newly constructed buildings based on QuickBird very high spatial resolution satellite imagery were analyzed: (1) post-classification comparis...

The identification of materials by measuring and analyzing their reflectance spectra has been an important method used in analytical chemistry for decades. Now, airborne and space-based imaging spectrometers give scientists the opportunity to detect materials and map their distributions across the landscape. With new satelliteborne sensor planned for the future, for example HYSPIRI (HYPerspectr...

Georeferencing images is a laborious process so schemes for automating this process have been under investigation for some time. Among the most promising automatic registration algorithms are those based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT). The displacement between two given images can be determined by computing the ratio F1 conjðF2Þ=jF1F2j; and then applying the inverse Fourier transform. The ...

In the process of high resolution images orthorectification, an uneven distribution of ground control points in mountainous area results in the phenomenon of ground objects dislocation between orthophotos edges in the overlap area. Followed image mosaic, fusion and interpretation are seriously affected. High-resolution (2.5 m) panchromatic images with a 30% forward overlap of ALOS satellite wer...

The goal of this research is to find the most suitable computer simulation software for assessment of urban design performance from physical point of view. Although there are many physical simulation tools available today, there is no one which covers all the needs of urban design. After initial research of available software, we have chosen to assess three applications: ENVI-met, Project Vasar...

Thematic mapping is one of the major application fields of remote sensing techniques. Data quality of the thematic data was concerned about. At present, there are a lot of researches that focus on the uncertainty measures, modeling and visualization. But lacking an easy-to-use visualization system of classification uncertainty. The research work toward how to use uncertainty, especially how to ...