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Land Surface Phenology Monitoring with SeaWinds Scatterometer Time Series in Eastern Asia
Vegetation phenology tracks plants’ lifecycle events and reveals the response of vegetation to global climate change. Microwave backscatter is insensitive to signal degradation from solar illumination and atmo...
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Assessing phenological change and climatic control of alpine grasslands in the Tibetan Plateau with MODIS time series
The Tibetan Plateau, a unique cold and dry region recognized as the Earth’s third pole, is primarily composed of alpine grasslands (>60 %). While a warming climate in the plateau is being recorded, phenology o...
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Monitoring Recent Urban Expansion and Urban Subsidence of Bei**g Using ENVISAT/ASAR Time Series Datasets
With worldwide economic development and population increases, urban areas create significant stresses on the local, regional and global environment. Information about the spatial and temporal dynamics of the c...
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Scientific big data and Digital Earth
Big data has been a focus of research in science, technology, economics, and social studies. Many countries have already incorporated big data research into their national strategies. This paper elaborates upo...
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The long-term trends (1982–2006) in vegetation greenness of the alpine ecosystem in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
The increased rate of annual temperature in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau exceeded all other areas of the same latitude in recent decades. The influence of the warming climate on the alpine ecosystem of the plat...
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Conceptual study of lunar-based SAR for global change monitoring
As an active microwave remote sensing imaging sensor, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) plays an important role in earth observation. Here we establish a SAR system based on the platform of the moon. This will ai...
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Research on global change scientific satellites
Global change now poses a severe threat to the survival and development of mankind. Large-scale, real-time, highly accurate Earth observation from space has become a key technology used to observe global chang...
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Monitoring Muztagh Kuksai glacier surface velocity with L-band SAR data in southwestern **njiang, China
This study presents the results of measuring surface velocity fields of alpine glaciers with multi-temporal ALOS/PALSAR synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data using the normalized cross-correlation technique. The...
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Cratering process and morphological features of the **uyan impact crater in Northeast China
By using crater impact morphological theory and mathematics modeling, the paper studies the cratering process and morphological features of the **uyan Crater in Northeast China based on remote sensing imagery,...
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Spaceborne Thermal Infrared Observation – An Overview of Most Frequently Used Sensors for Applied Research
This chapter presents an overview of the most commonly used spaceborne sensors for thermal infrared research applications. There is a large fleet of international sensors available which allow for the acquisit...
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Open AccessAssessment of damage to buildings and farms during the 2011 M 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan from remote sensing data
At 13:46 on March 11, 2011 (Bei**g time), a great earthquake of magnitude of 9.0 occurred off the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan (Tohoku Region). After the earthquake, the Center for Earth Observation an...
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Quantitative estimation of the shrub canopy LAI from atmosphere-corrected HJ-1 CCD data in Mu Us Sandland
The leaf area index (LAI) is an important ecological parameter that characterizes the interface between vegetation canopy and the atmosphere. In addition, it is used by most process-oriented ecosystem models. Thi...
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Yushu earthquake synergic analysis using multimodal SAR datasets
The large earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale that occurred in Yushu County, Qinghai Province, China, on April 14, 2010, caused a huge loss of life and major damage to people’s properties. Using thre...
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Spatial distribution and inducement of collapsed buildings in Yushu earthquake based on remote sensing analysis
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An improved automatic detection method for earthquake-collapsed buildings from ADS40 image
Earthquake-collapsed building identification is important in earthquake damage assessment and is evidence for map** seismic intensity. After the May 12th Wenchuan major earthquake occurred, experts from CEOD...
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Analysis on phase information of polarized radar in monitoring vegetation
T-matrix method was employed to analyze the relation between the co-polarization phase difference of back scattering of vegetation and its geometrical and physical parameters, and the effect from the frequency...
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Retrieving dry snow density with SIR-C polarimetric SAR data
For a given incidence angle at the snow surface, a greater snow density causes a greater change in the incidence angle at the snow-ground interface; for a given snow density, however, a larger incidence angle ...
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Subsurface old drainage detection and paleoenvironment analysis using spaceborne radar images in Alxa Plateau
For geological and environmental research in an arid area, a unique advantage of radar remote sensing is that radar wave can penetrate a certain layer of dry sand (a few centimeters to meters thick) to reach t...
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Relative dielectric constant from dry rocks
Relative dielectric constant is an important physical factor in the theory of microwave remote sensing and electromagnetic transmission. This note reports the results of detecting relative dielectric constant ...
