Remote sensing techniques in the investigation of aeolian sand dunes: A review of recent advances

Z Zheng, S Du, H Taubenböck, X Zhang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Sand dunes are one of the most abundant aeolian landforms and play an important role in
understanding how aeolian environments evolve. Since the 1970s, remote sensing has …

Remote sensing of geomorphodiversity linked to biodiversity—part III: traits, processes and remote sensing characteristics

A Lausch, ME Schaepman, AK Skidmore, E Catana… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing (RS) enables a cost-effective, extensive, continuous and standardized
monitoring of traits and trait variations of geomorphology and its processes, from the local to …

Evidence for fluctuating wind in shaping an ancient Martian dune field: The Stimson formation at the Greenheugh pediment, Gale crater

SG Banham, S Gupta, DM Rubin… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Temporal fluctuations of wind strength and direction can influence aeolian bedform
morphology and orientation, which can be encoded into the architecture of aeolian deposits …

Megaripple migration on Mars

S Silvestro, M Chojnacki, DA Vaz… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aeolian megaripples, with 5‐to 50‐m spacing, are abundant on the surface of Mars.
These features were repeatedly targeted by high‐resolution orbital images, but they have …

Linking the remote sensing of geodiversity and traits relevant to biodiversity—part II: geomorphology, terrain and surfaces

A Lausch, ME Schaepman, AK Skidmore… - Remote sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as
controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at …

The aeolian environment of the landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover in Oxia Planum, Mars

EA Favaro, MR Balme, JM Davis… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aeolian features at Oxia Planum—the 2023 landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind
Franklin Rover (ERFR)—are important for Mars exploration because they record information …

Remote Sensing and Data Analyses on Planetary Topography

J Kim, SY Lin, H Xiao - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Planetary mapping product established by topographic remote sensing is one of the most
significant achievements of contemporary technology. Modern planetary remote sensing …

Widespread megaripple activity across the north polar ergs of Mars

M Chojnacki, DA Vaz, S Silvestro… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The most expansive dune fields on Mars surround the northern polar cap where various
aeolian bedform classes are modified by wind and ice. The morphology and dynamics of …

Multi-year measurements of ripple and dune migration on Mars: Implications for the wind regime and sand transport

KP Roback, K Runyon, C Newman, JP Avouac - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Aeolian sand dunes are observed across the Martian surface. The arrival of the HiRISE
camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at Mars in 2006 enabled detection of modern-day …

Extensive secondary cratering from the InSight Sol 1034a impact event

PM Grindrod, IJ Daubar, B Fernando… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Impact cratering is one of the fundamental processes throughout the history of the Solar
System. The formation of new impact craters on planetary bodies has been observed with …