Mapping deciduous rubber plantations through integration of PALSAR and multi-temporal Landsat imagery

J Dong, X Xiao, B Chen, N Torbick, C Jin… - Remote Sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Due to increasing global demand for natural rubber products, rubber (Hevea brasiliensis)
plantation expansion has occurred in many regions where it was originally considered …

Earth environmental monitoring using multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar: A critical review of selected applications

D Amitrano, G Di Martino, R Guida, P Iervolino… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microwave remote sensing has widely demonstrated its potential in the continuous
monitoring of our rapidly changing planet. This review provides an overview of state-of-the …

Mapping tropical forests and rubber plantations in complex landscapes by integrating PALSAR and MODIS imagery

J Dong, X Xiao, S Sheldon, C Biradar, G Xie - ISPRS Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Knowledge of the spatial distribution of forest types in tropical regions is important for
implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) …

A comparison of forest cover maps in Mainland Southeast Asia from multiple sources: PALSAR, MERIS, MODIS and FRA

J Dong, X Xiao, S Sheldon, C Biradar… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The uncertainty in tracking tropical forest extent and changes substantially affects our
assessment of the consequences of forest change on the global carbon cycle, biodiversity …

A 50-m forest cover map in Southeast Asia from ALOS/PALSAR and its application on forest fragmentation assessment

J Dong, X Xiao, S Sheldon, C Biradar, G Zhang… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Southeast Asia experienced higher rates of deforestation than other continents in the 1990s
and still was a hotspot of forest change in the 2000s. Biodiversity conservation planning and …

Assessing integration of intensity, polarimetric scattering, interferometric coherence and spatial texture metrics in PALSAR-derived land cover classification

H Jin, G Mountrakis, SV Stehman - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important alternative to optical remote sensing due to
its ability to acquire data regardless of weather conditions and day/night cycle. The Phased …

Forest disturbances and regrowth assessment using ALOS PALSAR data from 2007 to 2010 in Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR

S Mermoz, T Le Toan - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper aims to develop a new methodology for monitoring forest disturbances and
regrowth using ALOS PALSAR data in tropical regions. In the study, forest disturbances and …

Evaluation of ALOS PALSAR imagery for burned area mapping in Greece using object-based classification

A Polychronaki, IZ Gitas, S Veraverbeke, A Debien - Remote Sensing, 2013 - mdpi.com
In this work, the potential of Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array type L-
band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) imagery to map burned areas was evaluated in …

Detecting deforestation using logistic analysis and sentinel-1 multitemporal backscatter data

A Dascălu, J Catalão, A Navarro - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a new approach for detecting deforestation using Sentinel-1 C-band
backscattering data. It is based on the temporal analysis of the backscatter intensity and its …

Sensitivity of multi-source SAR backscatter to changes in forest aboveground biomass

W Huang, G Sun, W Ni, Z Zhang, R Dubayah - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) after anthropogenic disturbance
could reduce uncertainties in the carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems and provide critical …