This paper presents a Python QGIS (PyQGIS) plugin, which has been developed for the purpose of producing Land Surface Temperature (LST) maps from Landsat 5 TM, Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 TIRS, Thermal Infrared (TIR) imagery. The plugin has been developed purposely to ease the process of LST extraction from Landsat Visible, Near Infrared (VNIR) and TIR imagery. It has the ability to estimate L...

Landsat can be used to map tropical forest cover at 15–60 m resolution, which is helpful for detecting small but important perturbations in increasingly fragmented forests. However, among the remaining Landsat satellites, Landsat-5 no longer has global coverage and, since 2003, a mechanical fault in the Scan-Line Corrector (SLC-Off) of the Landsat-7 satellite resulted in a 22–25% data loss in e...

BACKGROUND The recent U.S. Geological Survey policy offering Landsat satellite data at no cost provides researchers new opportunities to explore relationships between environment and health. The purpose of this study was to examine the potential for using Landsat satellite data to support pesticide exposure assessment in California. METHODS AND RESULTS We collected a dense time series of 24 L...

Landsat image data have been used to document global land cover and land use change since 1972. The archive of Landsat imagery constitutes some of the most valuable climate data records available to the world. There has been a longstanding interest in not only maintaining the continuity of Landsat imaging, but in increasing its temporal repeat frequency to improve agricultural and ecological mo...

An image dataset from the Landsat OLI spaceborne sensor is compared with the Landsat TM in order to evaluate the excellence of the new imagery in urban landcover classification. Widely known pixel-based and object-based image analysis methods have been implemented in this work like Maximum Likelihood, Support Vector Machine, k-Nearest Neighbor, Feature Analyst and Sub-pixel. Classification resu...

در این مقاله، به‌منظور رفع برخی محدودیت‌های شناسایی ساختمان تصاویر چندطیفی، از دادة SAR به‌منزلة مکمل استفاده می‌شود. روش پیشنهادی، برای استفادة هم‌زمان اطلاعات مفید رادار و استراتژی مبتنی‌بر تلفیق تصاویر، با هدف ساختمان، مطرح همچنین، ازآن‌جاکه انتخاب ویژگی نقش بسزایی طبقه‌بندی عوارض دارد، اغلب روش‌های مرسوم رایج زمینه، مانند الگوریتم ژنتیک، نیازمند داده‌های آموزشی‌اند؛ اما دردسترس‌نبودن همیشگی...

Land cover classification of Landsat images is one of the most important applications developed from Earth observation satellites. The last four decades were marked by different developments in land cover classification methods of Landsat images. This paper reviews the developments in land cover classification methods for Landsat images from the 1970s to date and highlights key ways to optimize...