Research Center for Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment

Remote Sensing of Mountain Environments

Remote Sensing Based Retrieval of Snow Cover Properties Case Study (Shirkooh Mountain Yazd, Iran)

Snow cover area is one of the most important criteria to calculate snow melt runoff. This can have an effect on the biology of the plant and the environment of a region. Using the catchment basin physical characteristic to calculate snow cover area is a conventional method, though its accuracy is not good enough. Most of the useful methods in calculating snow cover area are based on satellite i...

Remote Sensing Based Retrieval of Snow Cover Properties Case Study (Shirkooh Mountain Yazd, Iran)

Snow cover area is one of the most important criteria to calculate snow melt runoff. This can have an effect on the biology of the plant and the environment of a region. Using the catchment basin physical characteristic to calculate snow cover area is a conventional method, though its accuracy is not good enough. Most of the useful methods in calculating snow cover area are based on satellite i...

Remote Sensing Technologies For Mountain Pine Beetle Surveys

Surveys for mountain pine beetle are undertaken across a range of scales to provide forest managers with up-to-date information regarding the location, extent, and numbers of infested trees. Remote sensing provides new opportunities to detect and map mountain pine beetle damage to inform management and mitigation decisions. The key to using remotely sensed data is to identify how this new infor...

Identifying Curviness of Overpass Mountain Roads from Remote Sensing Data

Curvy roads are important subjects for many applications, because of their spatial geometry. Digital curve identification is easier from continuous objects than from discrete objects, such as roads extracted from remote sensing data. Use of high spatial resolution images can lead to an increase in the accuracy of the detection , and it also gives the possibility to detect curvy segments from th...