The Earth's ecosystems face severe environmental stress from unsustainable
socioeconomic development linked to population growth, urbanization, and industrialization …

Remote sensing offers the capability of observing an object without being in contact with the
object. Throughout the recent history of agriculture, researchers have observed that different …

Urban areas feature complex and heterogeneous land covers which create challenging
issues for tree species classification. The increased availability of high spatial resolution …

Optical remote sensing is one of the most attractive options for generating crop cover maps
because it enables computation of vegetation indices, which are useful for assessing the …

Accurate and timely maps of tree cover attributes are important tools for environmental
research and natural resource management. We evaluate the utility of Landsat 8 for …

Wildfires are major natural disasters negatively affecting human safety, natural ecosystems,
and wildlife. Timely and accurate estimation of wildfire burn areas is particularly important for …

Abstract Remote sensing, geographic information systems, and modeling have combined to
produce a virtual explosion of growth in ecological investigations and applications that are …

Estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) is very useful for accurate monitoring of carbon
sequestration. However, there are still significant gaps in the knowledge of SOC reserves in …

The identification and mapping of crops are important for estimating potential harvest as well
as for agricultural field management. Optical remote sensing is one of the most attractive …

Airborne and ground-based lidars are useful tools to probe the structure of forest canopies.
Such information is not readily available from other remote sensing methods but is essential …