Traditional vegetation mapping methodologies consist primarily of field surveying and mapping from aerial photographs or high resolution satellite images. Previous applications of satellite imagery for this task (e.g. ...

The management of vegetated areas by urban planners relies on detailed and updated knowledge of their nature and distribution. Manual photo-interpretation of aerial photographs is efficient, but is time consuming. Image ...

The assessment of the performance of multi-resolution image fusion, or image sharpening methods, is difficult. In the context of binary classification of snow targets in mountainous terrain, fusion methods were applied to ...

Glacier fluctuations have been recognized as one of the clearest signals of climate variability and change. A change in climate characteristics directly alters the glacier mass balance. The End-Of-Summer-Snowlines (EOSS) ...