The appetite for up-to-date information about earth's surface is ever increasing, as such
information provides a base for a large number of applications, including local, regional and …

Remote sensing imagery needs to be converted into tangible information which can be
utilised in conjunction with other data sets, often within widely used Geographic Information …

A satellite-derived cropland extent map at high spatial resolution (30-m or better) is a must
for food and water security analysis. Precise and accurate global cropland extent maps …

In using traditional digital classification algorithms, a researcher typically encounters serious
issues in identifying urban land cover classes employing high resolution data. A normal …

Characterizations of land-cover dynamics are among the most important applications of
Earth observation data, providing insights into management, policy and science. Recent …

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 …

There is a growing demand for accurate high-resolution land cover maps in many fields, eg,
in land-use planning and biodiversity conservation. Developing such maps has been …

Object-based image analysis (OBIA) has gained widespread popularity for creating maps
from remotely sensed data. Researchers routinely claim that OBIA procedures outperform …

More than 80% of agricultural land in Ireland is grassland, which is a major feed source for
the pasture based dairy farming and livestock industry. Many studies have been undertaken …

Change detection methods can achieve high learning ability and recognition accuracy with
the introduction of deep convolutional neural networks, but due to the influence of the …