geographic information and analysis provide a wide range of data and techniques to monitor and manage natural resources. as an important case, in arid and semi-arid areas, water management is critical for both local governance and citizens. as a result, the estimation of water potential brought by snowmelt runoff and rainfalls seems to be very useful and important for these areas. hydrological ...

Forest canopies are composed of photosynthetically active vegetation (PAV, chloroplasts) and nonphotosynthetic vegetation (NPV, e.g., cell wall, vein, branch). The fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) absorbed by the canopy (FAPAR) should be partitioned into FAPARPAV and FAPARNPV. Gross primary production (GPP) of forests is affected by FAPARPAV. In this study we developed and ...

[1] Two cases of upstream propagation of atmospheric solitons generated by atmospheric flow over topography were identified on two RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired near St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea on 7 September 1997 and 6 June 2001, respectively. In both cases, a group of solitons was shown as three darkbright linear features on the SAR images. The soliton wi...

Sammendrag/Abstract: In this report, we describe a method for geometric correction of satellite images generalizing a method developed for NOAA AVHRR images. The method is based on modeling the imaging process, including satellite orbital modeling. We also present an approach for automatic detection of ground control points based on matching of a near-infrared band with watermasks. The methods ...

In this study, we used the time series images of spectral reflectance from TERRA satellite to compute normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference moisture index (NDMI) in the Chaoyang City, western Liaoning, north-eastern China. Time-series data of NDVI and NDMI derived from satellite images of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) were used to sh...

The performance of a new algorithm for binary snow cover monitoring based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images at 250 m resolution is validated using snow cover maps (SCA) based on Landsat 7 ETM+ images and in situ snow depth measurements from ground stations in selected test sites in Central Europe. The advantages of the proposed algorithm are the improved ...

Suspended particulate matter concentration (CSPM) is a key parameter describing case-II water quality. Empirical and semi-empirical models are frequently developed and applied for estimating CSPM values from remote sensing images; however, they are usually regionor season-dependent. This study aimed to develop a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-based retrieval model of CSPM...