The Victorian bushfires in February 2009 were one of the most terrifying recent natural disasters in Australia. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an all–weather remote observation system which can penetrate through cloud and smoke to image the Earth’s surface at anytime. Hence, it is an ideal tool for change detection, and in particular for fire monitoring. This paper describes the use of ALOS/...

Snow cover mapping is a very important parameter for snowmelt runoff modeling and forecasting. Snow cover information is also useful for managing transportation and avalanche forecasting. This study will discuss the capability of full polarimetric L-band ALOS PALSAR data for snow classification. Therefore, Polarimetric decomposition and the complex Wishart classifier will be applied on ALOSPALS...

Forests are crucial in carbon sequestration and oxygen release. An accurate assessment of forest storage is meaningful for Chinese cities to achieve peak neutrality. For an estimation regional-scale aboveground density, this study applied a Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI), Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2 (ALOS-2) L-band, Sentinel-1 C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) estimate ma...

DEM can be generated from a wide range of sources including land surveys, Photogrammetry, and Remote sensing satellites. SRTM 30m by The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), the Global Digital Elevation Model Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflectance Radiometer (ASTER GDEM) global surface model called ALOS Worldview 3D 30 meter (AW3D30) Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) are satellite-b...