Thermal Remote Sensing Research Papers

Thick deposits of evaporitic hydrates can markedly influence heat flow due to the anomalous low thermal conductivity of hydrated salts and the high conductivity of anhydrous salts. The regulation or oscillation of hydration states and... more

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Penginderaan jauh sistem termal telah digunakan pada perencanaan perkotaan untuk menilai dampak dari urban heat island. Penelitian ini menganalisis apakah karakteristik tutupan lahan dalam daerah perkotaan berhubungan dengan suhu... more

Due to global climate change, population growth and an ever increasing demand for fresh water, monitoring groundwater changes over large areas becomes very important. Current groundwater monitoring still heavily depends on groundwater... more

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Urban growth is the most evident aspect of anthropogenic impact on the earth system, replacing the natural physical characteristics of earth's surface and thus influencing the thermal environment. The resulting thermal environment impact... more

It is so important to be aware of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of changes for the environment, land use planning and sustainable development. Detecting the changes in the condition of an issue is done by time difference... more

The present research was conducted to determine the sensitivity of needle-leaved species compared to broad-leaved in causing a natural fire in Golestan province. Vegetation and moisture stresses of plants were studied in both needle and... more

ABSTRACT Knowledge about the freeze/thaw state of the surface is of major importance for climate modelling, hydrology and numerous other applications. In this study, a freeze/thaw state detection algorithm using the ASCAT scatterometer is... more

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CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE GEOFLUIDS (IF 1.75) Fluids are fundamental in many aspects of geology. First of all, fluids are responsible for the formation of both geothermal fields and hydrocarbon deposits. The exploitation of ground... more

CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE GEOFLUIDS (IF 1.75)
Fluids are fundamental in many aspects of geology. First of all, fluids are responsible for the formation of both geothermal fields and hydrocarbon deposits. The exploitation of ground water, which is a fundamental resource, can lead to subsidence or uplift phenomena that can affect the Earth surface. Fluids can also play an important role in natural disasters such as floods, and they can modify the slope
stability by triggering landslides. Pressure changes in magma chambers and/or hydrothermal systems and magma/ hydrothermal fluids migration can promote volcano deformation, eventually anticipating destructive eruptions.
During the last decades, the importance of satellite and/or airborne remote sensing data and related products increased strongly together with the sensors spatial and temporal resolutions. Fluid migration could be successfully assessed using geodetic techniques and, among all, the one that is showing the best benefits appears to be
the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. SAR remote sensing products are extensively used to detect, measure, and monitor over time ground deformation related to water extraction and aquifer recharge, exploitation of geothermal and oil reservoir, as well as landslide phenomena (rainfall infiltration and runoff), and magma/hydrothermal uids in volcanic and geothermal environments.
Optical (multispectral) imageries have a great potential to characterize surface physical properties. Even more, with future hyperspectral satellite systems (e.g., EnMap, launch is scheduled for òýÔÀ) it will be possible to move to a level of quantitative modelling.
Thermal data can be used to evaluate top-surface temperature, emissivity, and thermal capacity. the combined use of both optical and thermal multitemporal imageries can be thus used to map a complex terrestrial surface property, as well as detect dynamic changes.
Considering the first priority of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (disaster risk management should be based on an understanding of disaster risk in all its dimensions of vulnerability, capacity, exposure of persons and assets, hazard characteristics, and the environment. Such knowledge can be used for risk assessment, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, and response), the above-mentioned multisensor EO technologies can be profitably used to map and monitor wide areas affected by fluids migration related hazards, such as landslide and subsidence dynamics, soil degradation and contamination due to anthropogenic activities, and volcanic monitoring.

Manuscripts may describe new remote sensing methodologies or applications of well-known remote sensing processing techniques for the dynamics related to subsurface fluids in the field of risk monitoring, preparedness, and prevention.
Contribution related to the integration of different monitoring records with conventional field observations and new modelling frameworks for the interpretation of the observed data are welcome.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Monitoring of geothermal energy, oil and gas extraction, and production
- Monitoring surface deformation related to fluid injection in the subsurface (including hydrofracturing)
- Map, monitor, and forecast subsidence phenomena induced by water
extraction
- Assess the effects of rainfall and/or water table variation in slope stability
- Assess the role of magmatic fuids in crustal deformation

Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at
https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/geouids/retg/.
Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication
date.

Surface emissivities play an important role in thermal remote sensing, since knowledge of them is required to estimate land surface temperature with enough accuracy. They are also important in other environmental or geological studies. We... more

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Alamkouh is one of the most typical glaciers in Iran which was assorted as an alpine glacier and it&amp;#x27;s clumsily covered by heavy debris (refereed as supraglacial debris). The source of this debris and debris covers that exist... more

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Thick deposits of evaporitic hydrates can markedly influence heat flow due to the anomalous low thermal conductivity of hydrated salts and the high conductivity of anhydrous salts. The regulation or oscillation of hydration states and... more

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The wide uncontrolled spread of the invasive species of Tamarisk (Salt Cedar) in the riparian areas of the southwest of the United States has become a source of concern to the water resource management community. This tree which was... more

The wide uncontrolled spread of the invasive species of Tamarisk (Salt Cedar) in the riparian areas of the southwest of the United States has become a source of concern to the water resource management community. This tree which was imported for ornamental purposes and to control bank erosion during the 1800's later became problematic and unwanted due to its biophysical properties: Its vigorous growth out-competes native species for moisture, lowering water tables, increasing the soil salinity and hence becomes the dominant riparian vegetation especially over arid to semi-arid floodplain environments. Most importantly they consume large amounts of water leading to reduction of river flows and lowering the groundwater table. We implemented this study in an effort to provide reliable estimates of the amount of water consumed or ``lost'' by such species through evapotranspiration (ET) as well as to a better understand of the related land surface and near atmosphere interactions. The recent advances in remote sensing techniques and the related data quality made it possible to provide spatio-temporal estimates of ET at a considerably higher resolution and reliable accuracy over a wide range of surface heterogeneity. We tested two different soil-vegetation atmosphere transfer models (SVAT) that are based on thermal remote sensing namely: the two source model (TSM) of Norman et al. (1995) with its recent modifications and the Surface Energy balance algorithm (SEBAL) of Bastiaanssen et al. (1998) to estimate the different surface energy balance components and the evapotranspiration (ET) spatially. We used high resolution (1.0 meter pixel size) shortwave reflectance and longwave thermal airborne imagery acquired by the research aircraft at the Remote Sensing Services Lab at Utah State University (USU) and land use map classified from these images as well as a detailed vegetation height image acquired by the LASSI Lidar also developed at USU. We also compared estimates of ET from lower resolution Landsat TM imagery, at 30 meter pixel size, acquired on the same dates of the airborne images. The study was conducted over the Cibola wildlife refuge in southern California which is populated with dense stands of tamarisk, during the summer of 2007-2008 as part of a project funded by the USBR initiated for water resources management over the Palo Verdi Irrigation District (PVID) and Cibola area. The models results were compared to fluxes from eddy covariance and Bowen ratio towers deployed within the area. Both models were then applied in a different area over the 15 km of Mojave river floodplain near Barstow, California in a study that is aimed at estimating the amount of water that could be saved by controlling the Tamarisk.

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- by Eufemia Tarantino
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- Thermal Remote Sensing

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- by Sei-ichi Saitoh and +1
  Mukti Zainuddin
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  Remote Sensing, Thermal Remote Sensing, Multidisciplinary, North Pacific

The temporal monitoring of any glacier is important for observing the effects of changing climate. This study reports the decadal changes in Siachen glacier. Analysis was carried out on decadal basis by processing and analyzing Landsat... more

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