atmospheric correction of the satellite data, for example correction of visible and near-infrared spectral bands, requires removing the adjacency effect that is due to the reflection from contiguous pixels. To evaluate the accuracy of the ATCOR software atmospheric correction method of Terra/ASTER data (Jun 30, 2002) we compared the NDVI parameters taken from different sources, such as ground m...

D.C. Comer and M.J. Harrower, Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space, SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6074-9_18, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Nearly all Near Eastern surveys have employed some form of satellite remote sensing, although usually at coarse resolution or for very limited study areas only, and nearly always in a qualitative fas...

New “geoscience-tuned” remote sensing technologies are now available (e.g. satellite-borne multi-spectral ASTER and airborne HyMap imaging systems) or soon to be available (e.g. satellite hyperspectral Hyper-J and EnMap systems) for the resources (energy, minerals and soils) community. These imaging sensors have the potential to provide global information at high spatial resolution for baseline...

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a 15-channel imaging instrument operating on NASA’s Terra satellite. A joint project between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, ASTER has been acquiring data for 15 years, since March 2000. The archive now contains over 2.8 million scenes; for t...

Reliably estimating the turbulent fluxes of latent and sensible heat at the Earth’s surface by remote sensing is important for research on the terrestrial hydrological cycle. This paper presents a practical approach for mapping surface energy fluxes using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images from an improved two-source energy balance (TSEB) model. The or...

Rock debris on the surface of a glacier can dramatically reduce local melt rate, where primary factor governing reduction is layer thickness. Relating temperature to thickness recurring approach in literature, yet demonstrations reproducibility have been limited. Here, I present results field experiment conducted Canwell Glacier, Alaska, United States constrain how thermal data be used glaciolo...

Land managers need cost-effective methods for mapping and characterizing fire fuels quickly and accurately. The advent of sensors with increased spatial resolution may improve the accuracy and reduce the cost of fuels mapping. The objective of this research is to evaluate the accuracy and utility of imagery from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellit...

New ice-velocity measurements are obtained for the main trunk of Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, using recently acquired Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery. The velocities are derived from the application of a cross-correlation technique to sequential images acquired in 2000 and 2001. Images were co-registered and ortho-rectified with the aid of a digi...

The Tibetan Plateau holds clues to understanding the dynamics and mechanisms associated with continental growth. Part of the region is characterized by zones of ophiolitic mélange believed to represent the remnants of ancient oceanic crust and underlying upper mantle emplaced during oceanic closures. However, due to the remoteness of the region and the inhospitable terrain many areas have not r...

Suitability of ASTER satellite data for estimating biomass and LAI for mountain birch forests was investigated. The field data consisted of 124 plots surveyed in northernmost Finland in July 2004. The statistical relationships between the field measurements and ASTER reflectances were modelled using canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and reduced major axis (RMA) regression. The models were ap...