Effective approaches to achieve food safety and security can prevent catastrophic situations.
Therefore, it is required to monitor agricultural crops on a regular basis. This can be easily …

Land use/land cover (LULC) is a fundamental concept of the Earth's system intimately
connected to many phases of the human and physical environment. Earth observation (EO) …

Abstract Today, approximately 7.2 billion people inhabit the Earth and by 2050 this number
will have risen to around nine billion, of which about 70% will be living in cities. The …

Land use maps describe the spatial distribution of natural resources, cultural landscapes,
and human settlements, serving as an important planning tool for decision makers. In the …

Wetlands are important ecosystems around the world, although they are degraded due both
to anthropogenic and natural process. Newfoundland is among the richest Canadian …

Land cover–land use (LCLU) classification tasks can take advantage of the fusion of radar
and optical remote sensing data, leading generally to increase mapping accuracy. Here we …

Land use and land cover maps provide fundamental information that has been used in
different kinds of studies, ranging from climate change to city planning. However, despite …

Quantifying and monitoring the spatial and temporal dynamics of the global land cover is
critical for better understanding many of the Earth's land surface processes. However, the …

Abstract Knowledge about inland surface water distribution and its short-to long-term
variability is of high importance. Recently many studies have presented interesting results at …

In recent years, the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace
Center (DLR) has gained a lot of experience in water surface extraction from synthetic …