Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

Interest in knowing more about the Earth's land cover and how it has changed over time
motivated the mission and sensor design of early terrestrial remote sensing systems. Rapid …

Land cover information plays a vital role in many aspects of life, from scientific and economic
to political. Accurate information about land cover affects the accuracy of all subsequent …

Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

Many applications that target dynamic land surface processes require a temporal
observation frequency that is not easily satisfied using data from a single optical sensor …

Abstract Information about forest stand species distribution is essential for biodiversity
modelling, forest disturbances, fire hazard and drought monitoring, biomass and carbon …

Ever increasing data volumes of satellite constellations call for multi-sensor analysis ready
data (ARD) that relieve users from the burden of all costly preprocessing steps. This paper …

Reliable and accurate crop classification maps are an important data source for agricultural
monitoring and food security assessment studies. For many years, crop type classification …

Reliable identification of clouds is necessary for any type of optical remote sensing image
analysis, especially in operational and fully automatic setups. One of the most elaborated …

Insect disturbance are important agents of change in forest ecosystems around the globe,
yet their spatial and temporal distribution and dynamics are not well understood. Remote …