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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"Satellite Remote Sensing"”.
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Satellite remote sensing for improvement of groundwater characterisation
… better assess our complex groundwater resources. Satellite geophysical data can help tackle the problem of data sparsity in groundwater research because they commonly cover several regions or a whole nation in one image. On a global scale, in recent years, use of satellite-derived data in …
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Instrument Trade Studies for Satellite Remote Sensing of Ammonia
… instrument sensitivity have allowed for satellite NH3 observations to be performed by instruments such as NASA’s Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer and NASA’s Cross-track Infrared Sounder, but these instruments, and others like them, were not designed specifically to measure ammonia. This …
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Satellite Remote Sensing of Suspended Sediment Concentrations in Turbid Rivers
… cannot provide continuous SSC records. Although remote sensing has been applied to estimate the SSC of sea waters as well as low turbid inland waters like lakes, reservoirs and short river reaches visible within a single Landsat satellite image coverage, rivers, especially highly turbid large …
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Missing methane: Machine learning for satellite remote sensing of methane
… in the near future. Over the past two decades, satellites have begun to be used to monitor greenhouse gases, and are crucial for maintaining accountability as nations commit to reductions in emissions. The latest such satellite is the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), capable of …
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Monitoring eutrophication in the Vaal Dam using satellite remote sensing
… blooms within the Vaal Dam. A 10-year archive of remotely sensed satellite data was collected from the medium resolution imaging spectrometer full resolution (MERIS FR) satellite from 2002 to 2012. Data products on chlorophyll-a, cyanobacteria concentration, cyanobacteria and surface scum …
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Estimating Reservoir Storage Dynamics Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Hypsometric Information
… dissertation aims to leverage the strengths of remote sensing technologies to enhance the estimation of reservoir outflows both in space and time, especially in highly regulated, transboundary regions. To achieve this objective, Chapter 2 investigates the feasibility of using remote sensing …
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Toward Closing the Urban Surface Energy Balance Using Satellite Remote Sensing
… layer turbulence measurements and advanced remote sensing methods are presented as solutions to advance our understanding of urban surface energy balance. Here, new methodologies are developed that apply remote sensing-based algorithms to urban environments. The first topic uses satellite …
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Satellite remote sensing of mixing dynamics at a large river confluence
… contrasts in turbidity often are detectable on remotely sensed images of rivers downstream from confluences, no systematic methodology has been developed for assessing mixing over distance of confluent flows with differing suspended sediment concentrations. In contrast to field measurements of …
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The use of satellite remote sensing to determine land water runoff
… this study is to estimate land water runoff from satellite measurements of net radiation at the top of the atmosphere by invoking columnar atmospheric water and energy balance. Land water runoff is an important parameter in many areas including management of human water use and validation of …
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Multi-scale analysis of urban wetland changes using satellite remote sensing techniques
… this objective, multi-year and multi-season SPOT satellite images were acquired and digitally classified to generate wetland and related land-cover data over various temporal ranges. To detect long term changes of urban wetland, the study examined the landscape changes between 1992 and 2008. …
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Innovative methods for the reconstruction of new generation satellite remote sensing images
Remote sensing satellites have demonstrated to be a helpful instrument. Indeed, satellite images have been successfully exploited to deal with several applications including environmental monitoring and prevention of natural disasters. In the last years, the increasing of the availability of very …
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Algorithm development for characterizing coastal and inland aquatic environments using satellite remote sensing
… scalable, and timely monitoring systems. Satellite remote sensing has emerged as a promising tool for large-scale observation, yet its operational use is limited by challenges in algorithm robustness and transferability, processing scalability, and the ability to monitor complex aquatic …
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Advanced Techniques For Prediction of Forest Above Ground Biomass Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data
… for modelling AGB using multi-sensor satellite RS data. It proposes a method to derive AGB-oriented features and provides a seamless multi-sensor feature fusion method for AGB prediction. The third contribution presents a framework developed from the combination of a hyperparameter …
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UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION AND DECOMPOSITION THROUGH BAYESIAN DEEP LEARNING FOR BIG DATA SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING PROBLEMS
… quantification and decomposition for big data satellite remote sensing problems in both classification and regression settings. Bayesian deep learning methods are applied to a classification and a regression problem with datasets in excess of 14 million samples, quantifying total uncertainty …
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Weak-Supervised Deep Learning Methods for the Analysis of Multi-Source Satellite Remote Sensing Images
Satellite remote sensing has revolutionized the acquisition of large amounts of data, employing both active and passive sensors to capture critical information about our planet. These data can be analysed by using deep learning methodologies that demonstrate excellent capabilities in extracting the …
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Protection and management of marine areas in the Mediterranean Sea: applications of satellite remote sensing
… management of Mediterranean MPAs. The advance in satellite Remote Sensing (RS) technologies has made possible to look at the MPAs not only by means of discrete in situ surveys but rather on the basis of a “synoptic” and repeated view. The primary aim of this thesis was to establish how the …
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Informing on Crop Water-Use, Stress, and Growth with Integrated Satellite Remote Sensing and Modeling
… climate change. Since 2014, numerous space-based remote sensing platforms have been deployed to increase land surface monitoring, with an objective to improve vegetation and crop monitoring. Space-based remote sensing platforms that operate in the thermal infrared (TIR) and microwave wavelengths …
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