Cheng, Yen-Ben Tom, Edward Ustin, Susan L.
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Invasive plant species are causing severe environmental and ecological impacts. This study utilized airborne hyperspectral image data and digital image processing techniques to map one of the most aggressive weeds, kudzu (Pueraria montana), in western Georgia. Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF) transform followed by Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) produced t...
Cheng, Yen-Ben Wharton, Sonia Ustin, Susan L. Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J. Falk, Matthias Paw U, Kyaw Tha
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Methods to accurately estimate the biophysical and biochemical properties of vegetation are a major research objective of remote sensing. We assess the capability of the MODIS satellite sensor to measure canopy water content and evaluate its relationship to ecosystem exchange (NEE) for an evergreen forest canopy. A time-series of three vegetation i...
Tobin, David C. Antonelli, Paolo Revercomb, Henry E. Dutcher, Steven Turner, David D. Taylor, Joe K. Knuteson, Robert O. Vinson, Kenneth
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Exploiting the inherent redundancy in hyperspectral observations, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is a simple yet very powerful tool not only for noise filtering and lossy compression, but also for the characterization of sensor noise and other variable artifacts using Earth scene data. Our approach for dependent set PCA of radiance spectra from...
Kumar, Anil Ghosh, S.K. Dadhwal, V.K.
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
A comparative study between two approaches of subpixel classification, based on fuzzy set theory and statistical learning has been carried out. The fuzzy set classifiers investigated in this study are Fuzzy c-Means (FCM) and Possibilistic c-Means (PCM) in supervised modes. Further, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have been used in this study for den...
Gao, Bo-Cai Xiong, Xiaoxiong Li, Rong-Rong Wang, Ding-Yi
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
The 3.75-micron and 11-micron channels on the polar orbiting NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors have saturation temperatures of approximately 325 K. They allowed limited successes in estimating the sub-pixel fire temperature and fractional area coverage. The saturation problem associated with the 3.75-micron AVHRR channel...
Mukai, Sonoyo Nishina, Mitsuru Sano, Itaru Mukai, Makiko Iguchi, Nobukazu Mizobuchi, Shoji
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
The aerosol properties of urban atmospheric particles have been analyzed for radiometry data obtained using a multi-spectral photometer located at a NASA/AERONET station at Kinki University Campus, Higashi-Osaka, Japan, since 2002. The suspended particulate matter has been simultaneously measured at the same AERONET site since 2004. Our measurement...
Weisz, Elisabeth Huang, Hung-Lung Li, Jun Borbas, Eva Baggett, Kevin Thapliyal, Pradeep Guan, Li
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
The high-spectral-resolution AIRS (Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder) instrument onboard the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Earth Observing System (EOS)-Aqua satellite represents the most advanced sounding system in space and provides unprecedented wealth of highly accurate radiance measurements. This paper describes a standalone a...
West, Jason Messinger, David Schott, John
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Algorithms exploiting hyperspectral imagery for target detection have continually evolved to provide improved detection results. Adaptive matched filters, which may be derived in many different fields, can be used to locate spectral targets by modeling the scene background as either structured (i.e., geometric, with endmembers or basis vectors) or ...
Gautam, Rohit S. Singh, Dharmendra Mittal, Anush
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Present paper proposes an algorithm for hotspot (sub-surface fire) detection in NOAA/AVHRR images in Jharia region of India by employing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and fusion technique. Proposed technique is very simple to implement and is more adaptive in comparison to thresholding, multi-thresholding and contextual algorithms. The algorit...
Guo, Qiang Guan, Min
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
In the domain of modern space-borne remote sensing in optical band, the operation mode of multiple-element or linear sensor with plane mirror's two-dimensional (2-D) scanning is popular and has been applied in some real applications successfully. Three basic image rotation models of different 2-D plane mirror scanning modes are analyzed in mathemat...
