emissivity mapping of the earth’s surface is the prerequisite to thermal remote sensing. a precise determinationof a surface's temperature is dependent upon the availability of precise emissivity data for that surface. the presentstudy area is a part of sugarcane plantation fields in the west part of khuzestan province. in this work, temperatureemissivity separation algorithm (tes) was applied ...

Peatlands store large amounts of terrestrial carbon and any changes to their carbon balance could cause large changes in the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance of the Earth's atmosphere. There is still much uncertainty about how the GHG dynamics of peatlands are affected by climate and land use change. Current field-based methods of estimating annual carbon exchange between peatlands and the atmosphe...

The green coverage region is a relevant information to be extracted from remote sensing agriculture images. Automatic methods based on threshold and vegetation indices are often applied to address this task. However, sub-orbital remote sensing images have elements that can hinder the automatic analysis. Also, supervised methods can suffer from imbalance since there is often many more green cove...

Over the past decades, most of the remote sensing studies dealt with natural environment. The advance of remote sensing satellites and the innovative methods of proceeding high resolution images have contributed to integrated urban studies. This project is an attempt to use remote sensing technology so as to monitor the urban sprawl of the city of Thessaloniki and detect the changes occurred th...

Today more than ever, archeological research is interdisciplinary: environmental sciences, pollen analysis, botany, soil science, and hydrology. In fact, the impacts of human behaviors on environment and environment on human behaviors can be studied through use of remote sensing technology. The use of this important technique gives archaeologists the opportunity to understand these impacts, whi...

landscape ecology as a modern interdisciplinary science offers new concepts, theories, and methods for land evaluation and management. a main part of landscape ecology is describing patterns in the landscape and interpreting the ecological effects of these patterns on flora, fauna, flow of energy and materials. remote sensing and gis techniques have a high ability for landscape researchers to s...

The extraction of land cover information from remote sensing data is a complex process. Spectral information has been widely utilized in classifying remote sensing images. However, shadows limit the use of multispectral images because they result in loss of spectral radiometric information. In addition, true reflectance may be underestimated in shaded areas. In land cover classification, shaded...

a r t i c l e i n f o The capacity to remotely identify impacts of ozone on conifers in California, USA and Catalonia, Spain was investigated using remote sensing and terrain-driven GIS analyses related to plant water relations and ozone uptake. The Ozone Injury Index (OII) field metric applied to Pinus ponderosa and Pinus jeffreyi in the USA and adapted to Pinus uncinata in Spain included visi...

Vegetation is one of the most important components of the ecosystems. Knowledge about variations in vegetation species and community distribution patterns, alternations in vegetation phonological (growth) cycles, and modifications in plant physiology and morphology provide a valuable insight in to the climate, geologic and physiographic, characteristics of an area, so mapping vegetation cover i...