Land cover change (LCC) detection is a significant component of sustainability research including ecological economics and climate change. Due to the rapid variability of natural environment, effective LCC detection is required to capture sufficient change-related information. Although such information has been available through remotely sensed images, the complicated image processing and class...

Remotely sensed data provided information on Earth phenomena in different modalities, spectrally, spatially and temporally inhomogeneous. But all this set of data proposes different representations of the same physical environment. How to handle these different representations, how to extract the best of a combination of them? Data fusion is one of the answers to the best possible use of this s...

an ideal fusion method preserves the spectral information in fused image without spatial distortion. the pca is believed to be a well-known pan-sharpening approach and being widely used for its efficiency and high spatial resolution. however, it can distort the spectral characteristics of multispectral images. the current paper tries to present a new fusion method based on the same concept. in ...

I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. Abstract This thesis examines the feasibility of assimilating space borne remotely-sensed microwave data into WATClass using the ensemble Kalman filter. W...

A classification strategy which does not require a priori assumptions about the statistical distribution of training pixels in each class is proposed. This method uses an indicator kriging approach in feature space to classify remotely sensed images incorporating both spectral and textural information of bands. Texture information is used only in cases where spectral information is not sufficie...

This study intends to identify both general trends and subtle patterns of urban land changes of the past three decades in metropolitan Kansas City area. Landsat images were used to generate time series of land cover data from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. Based on remotely sensed land cover data, landscape metrics were calculated. Both the remotely sensed data and landscape metrics were u...