Hyperspectral remote-sensed data were obtained via a Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager-II (CASI-II) and used to estimate leaf-area index (LAI) and aboveground biomass of a highly invasive weed species, yellow starthistle (YST). In parallel, 34 ground-based field plots were used to measure aboveground biomass and LAI to develop and validate hyperspectral-based models for estimating these me...

This study introduces a new geographic framework, phenological classification, for the conterminous United States based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time-series data and a digital elevation model. The resulting pheno-class map is comprised of 40 phenoclasses, each having unique phenological and topographic characteristics...

Meteorological satellite data from 1982 to 1990 were used to identify areas of significant association between tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) and remotely sensed normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) anomalies, here taken as a surrogate for rainfall anomalies. During this period, large areas of arid and semi-arid Africa, Australia and South America experienced NDVI anoma...

Using the fuzzy rule-based classification method, seventeen phases of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) images acquired from 1982 to 1998 were classified respectively based on NDVI and climate images. And then, spatiotemporal dynamics of NDVI and land use are described. Finally, this paper analyzes NDVI trends and their relationships with climate and human activity under the land co...

A large-scale re-vegetation supported by the Grain for Green Project (GGP) has greatly changed local eco-hydrological systems, with an impact on soil moisture conditions for the Chinese Loess Plateau. It is important to know how, exactly, re-vegetation influences soil moisture conditions, which not only crucially constrain growth and distribution of vegetation, and hence, further re-vegetation,...

This paper describes the creation of a forest fire history database for part of the Far East region of Asia using remotely sensed data, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The algorithm for burnt scar mapping utilizes an active fire detection technique together with detection of abrupt vegetation damage depicted by time series of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). ...

Species richness generally promotes ecosystem productivity, although the shape of the relationship varies and remains the subject of debate. One reason for this uncertainty lies in the multitude of methodological approaches to sampling biodiversity and productivity, some of which can be subjective. Remote sensing offers new, objective ways of assessing productivity and biodiversity. In this stu...

INTRODUCTION The use of remote sensing has found its way into the field of epidemiology within the last decades. With the increased sensor resolution of recent and future satellites new possibilities emerge for high resolution risk modeling and risk mapping. METHODS A SPOT 5 satellite image, taken during the rainy season 2009 was used for calculating indices by combining the image's spectral ...