The decline of the number of newly discovered mineral deposits and increase in demand for
different minerals in recent years has led exploration geologists to look for more efficient and …

Remote sensing-based methods of aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation in forest
ecosystems have gained increased attention, and substantial research has been conducted …

Image classification is a complex process that may be affected by many factors. This paper
examines current practices, problems, and prospects of image classification. The emphasis …

As the basic units of urban areas, functional zones are essential for city planning and
management, but functional-zone maps are hardly available in most cities, as traditional …

Appropriate integration of remote sensing technologies into ecosystem services concepts
and practices leads to potential practical benefits for the protection of biodiversity and the …

Knowing the expected crop yield in the current growing season provides valuable
information for farmers, policy makers, and food processing plants. One of the main benefits …

Developing reliable methods for representing and managing information uncertainty
remains a persistent and relevant challenge to GIScience. Information uncertainty is an …

Climate change presents unprecedented challenges for biological conservation. Agencies
are increasingly looking to modeled projections of species' distributions under future …

All digital data contain error and many are uncertain. Digital models of elevation surfaces
consist of files containing large numbers of measurements representing the height of the …

While remote sensing has made enormous progress over recent years and a variety of
sensors now deliver medium and high resolution data on an operational basis, a vast …