The studied region in this research (Alborz province) is structurally located in Alborz poly_orogenic system of northern Iran. The purpose of this research is combining the remote sensing and geology sciences to show fault lineaments by analyzing satellite data in a vast region and also comparison between lineaments layer and recognized faults in geology maps. Firstly, two scenes of Landsat ETM...

RAMSEY, E. III; WERLE, D.; SUZUOKI, Y.; RANGOONWALA, A., and LU, Z., 2012. Limitations and potential of satellite imagery to monitor environmental response to coastal flooding. Journal of Coastal Research, 28(2), 457–476. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Storm-surge flooding and marsh response throughout the coastal wetlands of Louisiana were mapped using several types of remote sensi...

Remotely sensed images of the Earth’s surface provide information about the spatial distribution of evapotranspiration. Since the spatial resolution of evapotranspiration predictions depends on the sensor type; scaling transfer between images of different scales needs to be investigated. The objectives of this study are first to validate the consistency of SEBAL algorithms for satellite images ...

A variety of techniques were developed at JPL to assure sub-pixel co-registration of scenes and orthorectification of satellite imagery to other georeferenced information to permit precise change detection and analysis of low (e.g. 1-4km weather satellite) and moderate (e.g. 30m Landsat) resolution space sensors. The methodology employs the additive composition of all pertinent dependent and in...

Reflective bands of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper satellite imagery were used to facilitate the estimation of basal crop evapotranspiration (ETcb), or potential crop water use, in San Joaquin Valley fields during 2008. A ground-based digital camera measured green fractional cover (Fc) of 49 commercial fields planted to 18 different crop types (row crops, grains, orchard, vineyard) of varying maturi...

Seagrass distribution is a very important index for costal management and protection. Seagrass distribution changes can be used as indexes to analyze the reasons for the changes. In this paper, in situ hyperspectral observation and satellite images of QuickBird, CBERS (China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite data) and Landsat data were used to retrieve bio-optical models and seagrass (Enhalus ac...

Increasing abundance of tall, canopy-forming shrubs is one of the primary changes expected in the Arctic tundra biome with recent climate warming, but virtually all evidence for shrub increase comes from North America. Here we demonstrate a novel technique for assessing changes in the extent of tall shrublands in northwest Siberian tundra since the 1960s, using satellite imagery dating to the e...

Fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) algorithm has been used to analyze the sub-pixel composition of medium spatialresolution satellite image (i.e., Landsat ETM). As urban landscape shows complex patterns of land cover composition and setting, it is difficult to have high accuracy in estimating urban land cover composition from Landsat image because of the mixed pixel problem. This study evaluates th...

Remote sensing represents a powerful tool to derive quantitative and qualitative information about ecosystem biodiversity. In particular, since plant species richness is a fundamental indicator of biodiversity at the community and regional scales, attempts were made to predict species richness (spatial heterogeneity) by means of spectral heterogeneity. The possibility of using spectral variance...

Greenhouse detection and mapping via remote sensing is a complex task, which has already been addressed in numerous studies. In this research, the innovative goal relies on the identification of greenhouse horticultural crops that were growing under plastic coverings on 30 September 2013. To this end, object-based image analysis (OBIA) and a decision tree classifier (DT) were applied to a set c...