Image Fusion is a process of combining two or more images into a single image which is
more informative and hence more useful from an interpretation point of view. With the rapid …

Urban areas and their vertical characteristics have a manifold and far-reaching impact on
our environment. However, openly accessible information at high spatial resolution is still …

Mapping and anticipating risk is a major issue in the fight against malaria, a disease causing
an estimated one million deaths each year. Approximately half the world's population is at …

In tropical regions, such as in the Amazon, the use of optical sensors is limited by high cloud
coverage throughout the year. As an alternative, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) products …

Mapping Earth's surface and its rapid changes with remotely sensed data is a crucial task to
understand the impact of an increasingly urban world population on the environment …

Urban and peri-urban environments are composed of a wide variety of materials, making
land cover classification challenging. The objective of this research is to determine how …

Urbanization is one of the most important components of global environmental change, yet
most of what we know about urban areas is at the local scale. Remote sensing of urban …

Urbanization accelerated rapidly in China during the first decade of the 21st century, largely
at the expense of agricultural lands. To improve available regional information related to the …

Continuous global-scale mapping of human settlements in the service of international
agreements calls for massive volume of multi-source, multi-temporal, and multi-scale earth …

Urbanization increases the amount of impervious surfaces, making accurate information on
spatial and temporal expansion trends essential; the challenge is to develop a cost-and …