1 The original use of remote sensing using infrared photography for yield variation was conducted by Colwell (1956). Since the launch of the Landsat 1 imaging satellite in 1972 (Mulla, 2013), satellite imagery has been widely used in agriculture for yield prediction and most lately for site-specific N management. Bhatti et al. (1991) used Landsat imagery and auxiliary data to estimate wheat yie...

BACKGROUND Peatlands play an important role in the global carbon cycle. They provide important ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and storage. Drainage disturbs peatland ecosystem services. Mapping drains is difficult and expensive and their spatial extent is, in many cases, unknown. An object based image analysis (OBIA) was performed on a very high resolution satellite image (Ge...

Remote sensing technologies have been commonly used to perform greenhouse detection and mapping. In this research, stereo pairs acquired by very high-resolution optical satellites GeoEye-1 (GE1) and WorldView-2 (WV2) have been utilized to carry out the land cover classification of an agricultural area through an object-based image analysis approach, paying special attention to greenhouses extra...

Monitoring post-fire vegetation response using remotely-sensed images is a top priority for post-fire management. This study investigated the potential of very-high-resolution (VHR) GeoEye images on detecting the field-measured burn severity of a forest fire that occurred in Evros (Greece) during summer 2011. To do so, we analysed the role of topographic conditions and burn severity, as measure...

In this article, we proposed a novel image fusion method based on multiscale convolution sparse decomposition (MCSD). A unified framework MCSD is first utilized to decompose panchromatic (PAN) and the spatial component of upsampled low resolution multispectral (LR MS) images, which can produce corresponding frequencies feature maps. By combining with analysis, efficiently approximate spectral i...

Elevation data is an important component of geospatial database. This paper focuses on digital surface model (DSM) generation from high-resolution satellite imagery (HRSI). The HRSI systems, such as IKONOS and QuickBird have initialed a new era of Earth observation and digital mapping. The half-meter or better resolution imagery from Worldview-1 and the planned GeoEye-1 allows for accurate and ...