A review of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar for invasive alien plant research

G Shennan, R Crabbe - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, a strong international focus has been placed on invasive species and their
ecological, economic, and social impacts. Satellite remote sensing (SRS) for the detection of …

[HTML][HTML] Development of L-band fully polarimetric SAR algorithm for forest biomass retrieval using 7SD and random forest regression

M Musthafa, P Kumar, S Alsulamy, K Khedher… - … of the Earth, Parts a/b/c, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest biomass is essential for carbon budgeting, biodiversity health, and climate change
research. We developed a novel L-band fully polarimetric SAR method for estimating …

General five-component scattering power decomposition with unitary transformation (G5U) of coherency matrix

R Malik, G Singh, O Dikshit, Y Yamaguchi - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) provides us with a two-by-two scattering
matrix data set. The ensemble averaged coherency matrix in an imaging window derived …

Tree species classification on images from airborne mobile map** using ML. NET

M Michałowska, J Rapiński… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Deep learning is a powerful tool for automating the process of recognizing and classifying
objects in images. In this study, we used ML. NET, a popular open-source machine learning …

Assessing Borneo's tropical forests and plantations: A multi-sensor remote sensing and geospatial MCDA approach to environmental sustainability

SA Suab, H Supe, AS Louw, A Korom… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The assessment of environmental sustainability is of utmost importance for the forests and
plantations in Borneo, given the critical need for environmental protection through the …

Analysis of the relationship between L-band SAR backscatter and understory weed density in eucalyptus plantation forests

S Kobayashi, MS Fujita, Y Omura… - GIScience & Remote …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to reveal the relationships between understory coverage (principally, weed
growth) beneath the canopies of Sumatran eucalyptus plantations and L-band backscatter …

[HTML][HTML] Studying Forest Species Classification Methods by Combining PolSAR and Vegetation Spectral Indices

H Zhu, W Song, B Zhang, E Lu, J Dai, W Zhao, Z Hu - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
Tree species are important factors affecting the carbon sequestration capacity of forests and
maintaining the stability of ecosystems, but trees are widely distributed spatially and located …

Development of Four Component Scattering Power Decomposition Technique for Dual Polarization SAR Data

R Avtar - Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2024 - Springer
The increasing availability of dual-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data has
led to a significant rise in its applications over the past few decades. Model-based …

Tree species classification at the pixel-level using deep learning and multispectral time series in an imbalanced context

F Mouret, D Morin, M Planells… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper investigates tree species classification using Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite
image time-series. Despite their critical importance for many applications, such maps are …

Forests, Biodiversity, Ecology, LULC, and Carbon

PS Thenkabail - Remote Sensing Handbook, Volume IV, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter provides a summary of each of the 11 chapters in Volume IV of the six-volume
Remote Sensing Handbook. The topics covered include (Figure 12.0):(a) forests,(b) …