After the collapse of the Minnesota I-35 bridge (August 1, 2007), there has been a renewed interest in the US to enhance bridge infrastructure monitoring (Liu et al., 2009). Other than developing traditional inspection and material testing techniques, there has been also increased discussions about possible applications of Commercial Remote Sensing (CRS) technologies for civil infrastructure mo...

Contemporary research has shown that remote sensing techniques can be used for estimating live fuel moisture content (FMC) from space. These remote sensing based live FMC measurements must conform to some accuracy requirements to be of any practical use in fire behavior predictions. This paper thus investigates the potential errors in live FMC estimations using two simple established techniques...

Understanding the spatial and temporal variations of soil moisture is crucial for the land surface processes and their management. Accurate estimation of spatial and temporal variations of soil moisture is important for various hydrological studies also. Recently, remote sensing techniques have been used to estimate soil moisture. Estimation of soil moisture by remote sensing techniques provide...

Remote sensing delivers multimodal and –temporal data from the Earth’s surface. In order to cope with these multidimensional data sources and to make the most of them, image fusion is a valuable tool. It has developed over the past few decades into a usable image processing technique for extracting information of higher quality and reliability. As more sensors and advanced image fusion techniqu...

Remote sensing is widely used to analyze marine environments. While many effective and advanced methods have been developed, they are generally used independently of each other, despite the potential advantages of combining different modules into an integrated system. We develop here an image-driven remote-sensing mining system, RSMapMining (Remote Sensing driven Marine spatiotemporal Associati...

Epidemiologists are adopting new remote sensing techniques to study a variety of vector-borne diseases. Associations between satellite-derived environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, and land cover type and vector density are used to identify and characterize vector habitats. The convergence of factors such as the availability of multi-temporal satellite data and georeferenced ep...

Geospatial technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been widely used in land resources survey and environmental monitoring. Assessment and monitoring of natural resources like land, soil, water and vegetation and socio-economic conditions and integrating them in a spatial information platform like GIS will facilitate the effective management of land resou...

The fast mineral exploration system with remote sensing is a brand new exploration system of recognition, identification, analysis and prediction. It takes metallogenic materials as the detection targets, uses the spectrum measuring technique as detection means and takes the spatial and temporal sequence of mineralization and alteration information as an evaluation basis. It develops and improv...

* Corresponding author. ** The work was co-financed by TEKES and the Academy of Finland Abstract – A user survey was conducted among Finnish professional users on their requirements on water quality information, which could be produced with remote sensing. The purpose of the survey was to direct the related research and development to the most interesting applications from the user perspective....