This study evaluates an approach for Land-Use Land-Cover classification (LULC) using multispectral satellite images. This proposed approach uses the Bagging Ensemble (BE) technique with Random Forest (RF) as a base classifier for improving classification performance by reducing errors and prediction variance. A pixel-based supervised classification technique with Principle Component Analysis (P...

Leaf aging is a fundamental driver of changes in leaf traits, thereby regulating ecosystem processes and remotely sensed canopy dynamics. We explore leaf reflectance as a tool to monitor leaf age and develop a spectra-based partial least squares regression (PLSR) model to predict age using data from a phenological study of 1099 leaves from 12 lowland Amazonian canopy trees in southern Peru. Res...

Phenology-based multi-index with the random forest (RF) algorithm can be used to overcome the shortcomings of traditional deforestation mapping that involves pixel-based classification, such as ISODATA or decision trees, and single images. The purpose of this study was to investigate methods to identify specific types of deforestation in North Korea, and to increase the accuracy of classificati...

Remote sensing information extraction is the key step of remote sensing application, and water body is one of its main targets. Thus, the automatic and high-precise extraction of water information from remotely sensed images is of great significance and urgently required in research fields of water resources investigation, natural disaster evaluation, even global ecological environment evolutio...

Drought alert systems for forest fire prevention often rely on vegetation water content (VWC) monitoring which is a key parameter in forest fire hazard. In southern France, VWC is up to now monitored through regular field surveys. Thanks to the theoretical sensitivity of shortwave infrared reflectance to VWC, MODIS satellite data are potentially able to monitor VWC depending on plant species VW...

Storm surges due to severe weather events threaten low-land littoral areas by increasing the risk of seawater inundation coastal floodplains. In this paper, we present recent developments a numerical modelling system for induced sea level elevation storm enhanced astronomical tides. The proposed code (CoastFLOOD) performs high-resolution (5 m × 5 m) raster-based, storage-cell Manning-type equat...

Rapid urban land use and cover changes have become a major environmental issue because of their ecological effects, including loss green space heat islands. Effective monitoring management techniques are required. The Saudi Arabian twin city Abha-Khamis Mushyet was selected as case study for this research. As result, the current aimed to statistically spatially investigate relationship between ...

In the past two decades, severe drought has been a recurrent problem in Iraq due part to climate change. Additionally, catastrophic drop discharge of Tigris and Euphrates rivers their tributaries aggravated situation Iraq, which was formerly one most water-rich nations Middle East. The Kurdistan Region (KRI) also conditions. This study analyzed Landsat time-series dataset from 1998 2021 determi...