Nationwide native forest structure maps for Argentina based on forest inventory data, SAR Sentinel-1 and vegetation metrics from Sentinel-2 imagery

EMO Silveira, VC Radeloff, S Martinuzzi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Detailed maps of forest structure attributes are crucial for sustainable forest management,
conservation, and forest ecosystem science at the landscape level. Mapping the structure of …

Temporal changes in Mediterranean Pine Forest Biomass using synergy models of ALOS PALSAR-Sentinel 1-Landsat 8 sensors

EA Velasco Pereira, MA Varo Martínez… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Currently, climate change requires the quantification of carbon stored in forest biomass.
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data offers a significant advantage over other remote …

[HTML][HTML] A Sentinel-1 backscatter datacube for global land monitoring applications

W Wagner, B Bauer-Marschallinger, C Navacchi… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites allow global monitoring of the
Earth's land surface with unprecedented spatio-temporal coverage. Yet, implementing large …

Combining GEDI and Sentinel-2 for wall-to-wall mapping of tall and short crops

S Di Tommaso, S Wang, DB Lobell - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
High resolution crop type maps are an important tool for improving food security, and remote
sensing is increasingly used to create such maps in regions that possess ground truth labels …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of combining satellite and airborne remote sensing data for habitat classification and monitoring in forest landscapes

A Iglseder, M Immitzer, A Dostálová, A Kasper… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mapping and monitoring of habitats are requirements for protecting biodiversity. In this study,
we investigated the benefit of combining airborne (laser scanning, image-based point …

Wall-to-wall mapping of carbon loss within the Chornobyl exclusion zone after the 2020 catastrophic wildfire

M Matsala, V Myroniuk, O Borsuk, D Vishnevskiy… - Annals of Forest …, 2023 - Springer
Key message We propose a framework to derive the direct loss of aboveground carbon
stocks after the 2020 wildfire in forests of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone using optical and …

Predicting species and structural diversity of temperate forests with satellite remote sensing and deep learning

J Hoffmann, J Muro, O Dubovyk - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenically-driven climate change, land-use changes, and related biodiversity losses
are threatening the capability of forests to provide a variety of valuable ecosystem services …

Forest canopy changes in the southern Amazon during the 2019 fire season based on passive microwave and optical satellite observations

H Zhang, DFT Hagan, R Dalagnol, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Canopy dynamics associated with fires in tropical forests play a critical role in the terrestrial
carbon cycle and climate feedbacks. The aim of this study was to characterize forest canopy …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution mapping of forest structure from integrated SAR and optical images using an enhanced U-net method

M Gazzea, A Solheim, R Arghandeh - Science of Remote Sensing, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest structure is an essential part of biodiversity and ecological analysis and provides
crucial insights to address challenges in these areas. Modern sensor technologies unlock …

[HTML][HTML] Utilising Sentinel-1's orbital stability for efficient pre-processing of radiometric terrain corrected gamma nought backscatter

C Navacchi, S Cao, B Bauer-Marschallinger, P Snoeij… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Radiometric Terrain Corrected (RTC) gamma nought backscatter, which was introduced
around a decade ago, has evolved into the standard for analysis-ready Synthetic Aperture …