Spaceborne L-band synthetic aperture radar data for geoscientific analyses in coastal land applications: A review

M Ottinger, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The coastal zone offers among the world's most productive and valuable ecosystems and is
experiencing increasing pressure from anthropogenic impacts: human settlements …

New global forest/non-forest maps from ALOS PALSAR data (2007–2010)

M Shimada, T Itoh, T Motooka, M Watanabe… - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Four global mosaics of Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Arrayed L-band
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) HH and HV polarization data were generated at 25 m …

Fusing Landsat and SAR time series to detect deforestation in the tropics

J Reiche, J Verbesselt, D Hoekman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fusion of optical and SAR time series imagery has the potential to improve forest monitoring
in tropical regions, where cloud cover limits optical satellite time series observations. We …

Discrimination of tropical forest types, dominant species, and mapping of functional guilds by hyperspectral and simulated multispectral Sentinel-2 data

GV Laurin, N Puletti, W Hawthorne… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
To answer new scientific and ecological questions and monitor multiple forest changes, a
fine scale characterization of these ecosystems is needed, and could imply the mapping of …

Combined Landsat and L-band SAR data improves land cover classification and change detection in dynamic tropical landscapes

JDT De Alban, GM Connette, P Oswald, EL Webb - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Robust quantitative estimates of land use and land cover change are necessary to develop
policy solutions and interventions aimed towards sustainable land management. Here, we …

Combining radar and optical imagery to map oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia, using the Google Earth Engine

T Sarzynski, X Giam, L Carrasco, JSH Lee - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Monitoring the expansion of commodity crops in the tropics is crucial to safeguard forests for
biodiversity and ecosystem services. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is one such crop that is a …

Forest cover maps of China in 2010 from multiple approaches and data sources: PALSAR, Landsat, MODIS, FRA, and NFI

Y Qin, X Xiao, J Dong, G Zhang, M Shimada… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Forests and their changes are important to the regional and global carbon cycle, biodiversity
and ecosystem services. Some uncertainty about forest cover area in China calls for an …

RUESVMs: An ensemble method to handle the class imbalance problem in land cover mapping using Google Earth Engine

A Naboureh, H Ebrahimy, M Azadbakht, J Bian… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Timely and accurate Land Cover (LC) information is required for various applications, such
as climate change analysis and sustainable development. Although machine learning …

Mapping oil palm plantations in Cameroon using PALSAR 50-m orthorectified mosaic images

L Li, J Dong, SN Tenku, X Xiao - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly. Estimating either positive effects on the
economy, or negative effects on the environment, requires accurate maps. In this paper …

[图书][B] Imaging from spaceborne and airborne SARs, calibration, and applications

M Shimada - 2018 - books.google.com
Sixty years after its birth, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) evolved as a key player of earth
observation, and it is continually upgraded by enhanced hardware functionality and …