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Superresolution of Land Surface Temperature Through Satellite Data Fusion
Jiří Pihrt
,Karel Charvát
,Alexander Kovalenko
,Šárka Horáková
High-resolution land surface temperature (LST) is required for field-scale agriculture, heat-risk services, and land–atmosphere process studies, but existing products show a persistent spatial–temporal trade-off and strong cloud-induced gaps. We develop a hybrid superresolution framework that couples hourly ICON-EU LST with sporadic Landsat 8/9 thermal observations. A U-Net convolutional neural network is trained on 256×256-pixel tiles over central Europe using year-2023 pairs of ICON-EU inputs and five-step Landsat history, and validated on the independent year 2024. The fusion model reconstructs Landsat-scale LST with MAE of 2.55 °C and RMSE of 3.43 °C, improving on bilinear ICON-EU upscaling (MAE 3.24 °C; RMSE 4.40 °C). Qualitative examples show recovery of field and land-cover boundary thermal texture while preserving ICON-EU large-scale temperature level. The framework enables daily 100 m LST estimates independent of current satellite visibility and provides an open pipeline for reproducible NWP–satellite LST fusion.
High-resolution land surface temperature (LST) is required for field-scale agriculture, heat-risk services, and land–atmosphere process studies, but existing products show a persistent spatial–temporal trade-off and strong cloud-induced gaps. We develop a hybrid superresolution framework that couples hourly ICON-EU LST with sporadic Landsat 8/9 thermal observations. A U-Net convolutional neural network is trained on 256×256-pixel tiles over central Europe using year-2023 pairs of ICON-EU inputs and five-step Landsat history, and validated on the independent year 2024. The fusion model reconstructs Landsat-scale LST with MAE of 2.55 °C and RMSE of 3.43 °C, improving on bilinear ICON-EU upscaling (MAE 3.24 °C; RMSE 4.40 °C). Qualitative examples show recovery of field and land-cover boundary thermal texture while preserving ICON-EU large-scale temperature level. The framework enables daily 100 m LST estimates independent of current satellite visibility and provides an open pipeline for reproducible NWP–satellite LST fusion.
Posted: 16 December 2025
Provincial Scale Monitoring of Mangrove Area and Smooth Cordgrass Evasion in Subtropical China Using UAV Imagery and Machine-Learning Methods
Qiliang Lv
,Peng Zhou
,Sheng Yang
,Yongjun Shi
,Jiangming Ma
,Jiangcheng Yang
,Guangsheng Chen
The survival and growth of mangrove along the coastal China was threatened by the invasive smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora). Due to the high mortality and frequent replanting of mangrove trees and impacts of invasive smooth cordgrass, it is still unclear about the exact mangrove forest area in Zhejiang Province, China. Based on provincial scale UAV imagery and large numbers of field survey plots, this study classified the area and distribution of mangroves and the invasion status of smooth cordgrass using the identified machine-learning method. The accuracy assessment indicated that the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were 97% and 0.96, respectively for land cover classifications. The total area of mangrove forest and smooth cordgrass was 140.83 ha and 52.95 ha, respectively in Zhejiang Province. The mangrove forest area was mostly concentrated in Yuhuan, Dongtou, Yueqing and Longgang districts. The overall survival rate of mangrove trees was only 36.41%, with lower than 20% survival rates in all northern and some central districts. At spatial scale, the mangrove trees showed a scattered distribution pattern, and over 70.04% of the planting area has canopy coverage lower than 20%, indicating a high mortality rate. Smooth cordgrass has widely invaded in all 11 districts, accounting for about 13.7% of the total planting area of mangrove trees. Over 67.3% and 85.4% of the planting area has been occupied by smooth cordgrass in Wenling and Jiaoxiang districts, respectively, which calls for an intensive anthropogenic intervention to control the spreading of smooth cordgrass in these districts. Our study provides a more accurate monitoring of the mangrove and smooth cordgrass distribution area at a provincial scale. The findings will help guide the replanting and management activities of mangrove trees and the control planning of smooth cordgrass, and also provide data basis for accurate estimation of carbon stock for mangrove forests in Zhejiang Province.
The survival and growth of mangrove along the coastal China was threatened by the invasive smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora). Due to the high mortality and frequent replanting of mangrove trees and impacts of invasive smooth cordgrass, it is still unclear about the exact mangrove forest area in Zhejiang Province, China. Based on provincial scale UAV imagery and large numbers of field survey plots, this study classified the area and distribution of mangroves and the invasion status of smooth cordgrass using the identified machine-learning method. The accuracy assessment indicated that the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were 97% and 0.96, respectively for land cover classifications. The total area of mangrove forest and smooth cordgrass was 140.83 ha and 52.95 ha, respectively in Zhejiang Province. The mangrove forest area was mostly concentrated in Yuhuan, Dongtou, Yueqing and Longgang districts. The overall survival rate of mangrove trees was only 36.41%, with lower than 20% survival rates in all northern and some central districts. At spatial scale, the mangrove trees showed a scattered distribution pattern, and over 70.04% of the planting area has canopy coverage lower than 20%, indicating a high mortality rate. Smooth cordgrass has widely invaded in all 11 districts, accounting for about 13.7% of the total planting area of mangrove trees. Over 67.3% and 85.4% of the planting area has been occupied by smooth cordgrass in Wenling and Jiaoxiang districts, respectively, which calls for an intensive anthropogenic intervention to control the spreading of smooth cordgrass in these districts. Our study provides a more accurate monitoring of the mangrove and smooth cordgrass distribution area at a provincial scale. The findings will help guide the replanting and management activities of mangrove trees and the control planning of smooth cordgrass, and also provide data basis for accurate estimation of carbon stock for mangrove forests in Zhejiang Province.
Posted: 11 December 2025
Beyond Plane Sailing: Solving the Range-Doppler Equations in a Reduced Geometry
Tom Grydeland
,Yngvar Larsen
Posted: 08 December 2025
Heat Indices for Europe Derived From Satellite Data: A Proof of Concept
Arno Cheda
,Anke Duguay-Tetzlaff
,Josh Blannin
,Elizabeth Good
,Varun Sharma
,Isabel Trigo
,Jonas Schwab
,Aku Riihela
,Christian M. Grams
,Marc Schröder
Posted: 08 December 2025
Vegetation
Response to Interannual Precipitation Variability in High-Andean Wetlands of
Central Chile Using Sentinel-2, ERA5-Land, and UAV Imagery
Fabián Llanos-Bustos
,Leonardo Durán-Garate
,Waldo Pérez-Martínez
,Jesica Garrido-Leiva
,Benjamín Castro-Cancino
Posted: 05 December 2025
Simultaneous Hyperspectral and Radar Satellite Measurements of the Soil Moisture for Hydrogeological Risk Monitoring
Kalliopi Karadima
,Andrea Massi
,Alessandro Patacchini
,Federica Verde
,Claudia Masciulli
,Carlo Esposito
,Paolo Mazzanti
,Valeria Giliberti
,Michele Ortolani
Posted: 03 December 2025
A Low-Complexity, County-Scale Yield Prediction Method for Maize and Sunflower Using Harmonized Landsat–Sentinel (HLS) Data
Péter Bognár
,Edina Birinyi
,Vivien Pacskó
,Szilárd Pásztor
,Anikó Kern
Posted: 03 December 2025
Assessing a Semi-Autonomous Drone-in-a-Box System for Landslide Monitoring
Margaret Kalacska
,Oliver Lucanus
,J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora
,John Stix
,Panya Lipovsky
,Justin Roman
Posted: 03 December 2025
Mamba for Remote Sensing: Architectures, Hybrid Paradigms, and Future Directions
Zefeng Li
,Long Zhao
,Yihang Lu
,Ma Yue
,Guoqing Li
Posted: 02 December 2025
Forest Transition Under Climate Pressure: Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Change in the Greater Shawnee National Forest (GSNF)
Saroj Thapa
,David J. Gibson
,Ruopu Li
Posted: 01 December 2025
Sensor and Actuator Technologies for Environmental Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operations
Hammed Akano
,Omosalewa Odebiri
,Waliu Igbaoreto
Posted: 01 December 2025
Sustainable Palm Oil Certification Has No Detectable Impacts on Plantation Production Efficiency in Malaysia
Erik Meijaard
,Douglas Sheil
,Nabillah Unus
,Adria Descals
Posted: 28 November 2025
Evaluating AlphaEarth Foundation Embeddings for Pixel- and Object-Based Land Cover Classification in Google Earth Engine
Hayat Khan
,Aftab Ahmad
Posted: 27 November 2025
Deep Architectures Fail to Generalize: A Lightweight Alternative for Agricultural Domain Transfer in Hyperspectral Images
Praveen Pankajakshan
,Aravind Padmasanan
,S Sundar
Posted: 26 November 2025
Sensitivity Analysis of Remote Sensing Vegetation Index to Phenological Characteristics of Northern Vegetation: A Case Study in the Northern Foothills of Qinling Mountains (China)
Xiaoping Li
,Tieming Liu
,Yingying Liu
,Jiajun Feng
,Yuanzhi Zhang
Posted: 24 November 2025
Variation Trend of Greenhouse Gases CO2 and CH4 in Hefei, China
Dandan Liu
,Xiangyuan Liu
,Ke Tang
,Ping Yu
Posted: 21 November 2025
Assimilating FY4A AMV Winds with the Nudging- Forced-3DVar Method for Promoting the Numerical Nowcasting of “7.20” Rainstorm over Zhengzhou
Yakai Guo
,Changliang Shao
,Aifang Su
,Guanjun Niu
,Dongmei Xu
,Yanna Gao
Geostationary atmospheric motion vectors (e.g., FY4A AMVs) are routine mid-upper atmospheric observations used in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, yet their complex spatiotemporal errors and assimilation limitations, i.e., high-temporal/coarse-spatial data and large-scale-adjustment/direct-assimilation scheme, leave unclear impacts of AMVs assimilation on nowcasting forecasts. To this end, a Nudging-Forced-3DVar (NFV) scheme is designed within a multi-scale (i.e., 12-, 4-, and 1-km) regional NWP framework to exploit AMVs characteristics; ablation experiments for the Zhengzhou “7·20” rainstorm isolate Nudging and 3DVar impacts on assimilation and nowcasting. Results show: 1) large-scale Nudging and high-resolution 3DVar both improve mid-upper analyses, with the former ingesting more observations; 2) Nudging retains large-scale background updates but yields significant misses, whereas 3DVar intensifies rainfall extremes yet blurs fine structures; 3) NFV merges their strengths, modulating deep convection through upper-level systems and markedly improving rainfall spatiotemporal patterns. Therefore, NFV is recommended for the FY4A AMVs’ future numerical nowcasting, which provides useful guidance for regional application of geostationary 3D-winds.
Geostationary atmospheric motion vectors (e.g., FY4A AMVs) are routine mid-upper atmospheric observations used in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, yet their complex spatiotemporal errors and assimilation limitations, i.e., high-temporal/coarse-spatial data and large-scale-adjustment/direct-assimilation scheme, leave unclear impacts of AMVs assimilation on nowcasting forecasts. To this end, a Nudging-Forced-3DVar (NFV) scheme is designed within a multi-scale (i.e., 12-, 4-, and 1-km) regional NWP framework to exploit AMVs characteristics; ablation experiments for the Zhengzhou “7·20” rainstorm isolate Nudging and 3DVar impacts on assimilation and nowcasting. Results show: 1) large-scale Nudging and high-resolution 3DVar both improve mid-upper analyses, with the former ingesting more observations; 2) Nudging retains large-scale background updates but yields significant misses, whereas 3DVar intensifies rainfall extremes yet blurs fine structures; 3) NFV merges their strengths, modulating deep convection through upper-level systems and markedly improving rainfall spatiotemporal patterns. Therefore, NFV is recommended for the FY4A AMVs’ future numerical nowcasting, which provides useful guidance for regional application of geostationary 3D-winds.
Posted: 21 November 2025
Estimating Cloud Base Height via Shadow-Based Remote Sensing
Lipi Mukherjee
,Dong L. Wu
Posted: 20 November 2025
Spatiotemporally Invariant Ionospheric Feature Learning For Cross-Regional Earthquake Prediction
Evangelos Chaniadakis
,Ioannis Contopoulos
,Vasileios Tritakis
Posted: 20 November 2025
Adaptive Spectral-Spatial Fusion Mamba A Novel Framework for Enhanced Hyperspectral Image Classification
Ziyu Rao
,Minghao Gai
Posted: 19 November 2025
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