Author:Faniso, Zimbini; Griffith, Derek J; Matthews, M; Kravits, JDate:Nov 2017Remote sensing of inland water quality is challenging satellite Earth observation application. Inland water bodies are small, optically complex and dark targets compared to surrounding land. Signal reaching satellites is dominated by light ...Read more
Author:Ramoelo, Abel; Cho, Moses A; Mathieu, Renaud SADate:Oct 2012The emergence of high resolution multispectral sensors with red-edge information such as, WorldView-2, RapidEye, Sentinel-2 (to be launched in 2013) and
SumbandilaSAT moves remote sensing towards routine monitoring of rangeland resource quality.Read more
Author:Van Zyl, TL; McFerren, G; Vahed, AnwarDate:Sep 2011Geospatially Enabled Scientific Workflows offer a promising paradigm to facilitate researchers, in the earth observation domain, with many aspects of the scientific process. One such aspect is that of access to distributed earth observation ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, HeidiDate:Oct 2021The first space-borne satellite was launched nearly fifty years ago in 1972, initiating global monitoring of freshwater ecosystems. Space-borne images have contributed to forty years of mapping and monitoring of wetlands in South Africa, and ...Read more
Author:Deadman, AJ; Behnert, ID; Fox, NP; Griffith, DDate:Jul 2011This paper presents the results of the laboratory and field based reflectance panel and radiometer comparisons that took place as part of the CEOS 2010 Key comparison of “techniques and instruments used for the vicarious calibration of Land ...Read more
Author:Van den Dool, R; Van der Walt, SDate:Oct 2012We describe a method for improving Earth observation satellite image resolution, for specific areas of interest where the sensor design resolution is insufficient. Our method may be used for satellites with yaw-steering capability, such as ...Read more