Accurate and frequent updates of surface water have been made possible by remote
sensing technology. Index methods are mostly used for surface water estimation which …

Automatic extraction of water bodies from various satellite images containing complex
targets is a very important and challenging task in remote sensing and image interpretation …

Oil spill incidents contaminate water bodies, and damage the coastal and marine
environment including coral reefs and mangroves, and therefore, monitoring the oil spills is …

Kigali is a rapidly growing city, as exemplified by the phenomenal increase of its inhabitants
from 358,200 in 1996 to 1,630,657 in 2017. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of detailed …

Drought is defined as the amount of precipitation in a region less than the amount of
evaporation. Human facts such as population growth, industrialization, deforestation, and …

Aiming at the convergence between Earth observation (EO) Big Data and Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI), this two-part paper identifies an innovative, but realistic EO optical …

The mapping of urban areas mostly presents a big difficulty, particularly, in arid and semi-
arid environments. For that reason, in this research, we expect to increase built up accuracy …

The purpose of this work was to undertake a systematic assessment of the approaches used
to improve the accuracy of land cover maps from Sentinel-2 satellite images when utilizing …

Land cover (LC) is a crucial parameter for studying environmental phenomena. Cutting-
edge technology such as remote sensing (RS) and cloud computing have made LC change …

Monitoring uncontained built-up area expansion remains a complex challenge for the
development and implementation of a sustainable planning system. In this regard, proper …