This paper proposes a practical split-window algorithm (SWA) for retrieving land surface temperature (LST) from Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data. This SWA has a universal applicability and a set of parameters that can be applied when retrieving LSTs year-round. The atmospheric transmittance and the land surface emissivity (LSE), the essential SWA input parameters, of the Landsat-8 ...

Entomological investigations were conducted in 1995 in Senegal, following a yellow fever (YF) outbreak. A total of 1125 mosquitoes collected in the field, including males, females and 12-48 h old newly emerged adults reared from wild-caught larvae, were tested for YF virus. Among the 22 species captured, Aedes aegypti was the most common. 'Wild' vectors of YF were also captured, including A. fu...

Transposable elements (TEs) and satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are abundant components of most eukaryotic genomes studied so far and their impact on evolution has been the focus of several studies. A number of studies linked TEs with satDNAs, but the nature of their evolutionary relationships remains unclear. During in silico analyses of the Drosophila virilis assembled genome, we found a novel DNA t...

This research utilized various methods for extracting soil characteristics from Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS imagery in the Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam. In this study, Object-Based Oriented Classification (OBOC) method was used to extract information about land cover (focusing on rock outcrops) basis of TGSI, NDVI, and NDBI indicators. The moisture determined by examining correlation between Land Su...