Impervious surface area (ISA) is a key factor for monitoring urban environment and land development. Automatic mapping of impervious surfaces has attracted growing attention in recent years. Spectral built-up indices are considered promising to map ISA distributions due to their easy, parameter-free implementations. This study explores the potentials of impervious surface indices for ISA mappin...

Abstract Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon is a particular climate change impact in urban areas that can trigger adverse effects on environmental conditions. This effect usually worsened by increasing anthropogenic activities. While the of UHI has mostly been studied metropolitans around world, few studies are presented investigating outcome mid-sized cities. study aims to assess spatial distr...

When different time periods are considered, detection of past and present changes in land cover enabled, also for quantifying qualifying those changes. Land cover/use maps the primary tools management conservation natural man-made areas. For this, remote sensing bands reflected spectrum usually used, leaving aside thermal data. The objective this work was to evaluate inclusion band (b10) TIRS (...

Land surface temperature (LST) is an essential parameter for studying environmental and ecological processes climate change at various scales. It also valuable studies of evapotranspiration, soil moisture conditions, energy balance, urban heat islands. Since meteorological station data can provide a limited number point data, satellite images that high temporal spatial resolution LST in large a...

The main problem of stitching unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) thermal infrared remote sensing (TIRS) images lies in that the cumulative error caused by inaccurate alignment image matching pairs easily leads to deformation and even failure. Few studies literature are reported TIRS images. For first time, we propose a simple robust method exploring prior information during flight. First, according ...

Thermal infrared remote sensing data are used to make estimates of the land surface temperature (LST) by recording radiant energy emitted Earth. Satellite and image processing software also allow for LST estimation. Since its launch, two thermal bands aboard Landsat satellite have been continuously observe Earth, providing estimation normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). Due significan...