All Outputs (11)

SFSDAF: an enhanced FSDAF that incorporates sub-pixel class fraction change information for spatio-temporal image fusion (2019)
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Li, X., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Ge, Y., Zhang, Y., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2020). SFSDAF: an enhanced FSDAF that incorporates sub-pixel class fraction change information for spatio-temporal image fusion. Remote Sensing of Environment, 237, Article 111537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111537

Spatio-temporal image fusion methods have become a popular means to produce remotely sensed data sets that have both fine spatial and temporal resolution. Accurate prediction of reflectance change is difficult, especially when the change is caused by... Read More about SFSDAF: an enhanced FSDAF that incorporates sub-pixel class fraction change information for spatio-temporal image fusion.

Night-time lights are more strongly related to urban building volume than to urban area (2019)
Journal Article
Shi, L., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Girindran, R., Wang, L., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2020). Night-time lights are more strongly related to urban building volume than to urban area. Remote Sensing Letters, 11(1), 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2019.1682709

A strong relationship between night-time light (NTL) data and the areal extent of urbanized regions has been observed frequently. As urban regions have an important vertical dimension, it is hypothesized that the strength of the relationship with NTL... Read More about Night-time lights are more strongly related to urban building volume than to urban area.

Measuring River Wetted Width from Remotely Sensed Imagery at the Subpixel Scale with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2019)
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Ling, F., Boyd, D., Ge, Y., Foody, G. M., Li, X., Wang, L., Zhang, Y., Shi, L., Shang, C., Li, X., & Du, Y. (2019). Measuring River Wetted Width from Remotely Sensed Imagery at the Subpixel Scale with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Water Resources Research, 55(7), 5631-5649. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018wr024136

River wetted width (RWW) is an important variable in the study of river hydrological and biogeochemical processes. Presently, RWW is often measured from remotely sensed imagery and the accuracy of RWW estimation is typically low when coarse spatial r... Read More about Measuring River Wetted Width from Remotely Sensed Imagery at the Subpixel Scale with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions (2019)
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Shenkin, A., Chandler, C. J., Boyd, D. S., Jackson, T., Disney, M., Majalap, N., Nilus, R., Foody, G., bin Jami, J., Reynolds, G., Wilkes, P., Cutler, M. E. J., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Coomes, D. A., Bentley, L. P., & Malhi, Y. (2019). The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00032

Here we report the recent discovery of the world's tallest tropical tree (Shorea faguetiana), possibly the world's tallest angiosperm (flowering plant), located in the rainforests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In addition, we provide a novel three-dime... Read More about The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions.

Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products (2019)
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Stehman, S. V., & Foody, G. M. (2019). Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 231, Article 111199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.05.018

© 2019 Accuracy assessment and land cover mapping have been inexorably linked throughout the first 50 years of publication of Remote Sensing of Environment. The earliest developers of land-cover maps recognized the importance of evaluating the qualit... Read More about Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products.

Permanent disappearance and seasonal fluctuation of urban lake area in Wuhan, China monitored with long time series remotely sensed images from 1987 to 2016 (2019)
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Shi, L., Ling, F., Foody, G. M., Chen, C., Fang, S., Li, X., Zhang, Y., & Du, Y. (2019). Permanent disappearance and seasonal fluctuation of urban lake area in Wuhan, China monitored with long time series remotely sensed images from 1987 to 2016. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(22), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2019.1612119

Lakes are important to the healthy functioning of the urban ecosystem. The urban lakes in Wuhan, China, which is known as ‘city of hundreds of lakes’, are facing substantial threats mainly due to rapid urbanization. This paper focused on detecting th... Read More about Permanent disappearance and seasonal fluctuation of urban lake area in Wuhan, China monitored with long time series remotely sensed images from 1987 to 2016.

Spatial-temporal super-resolution land cover mapping with a local spatial-temporal dependence model (2019)
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Li, X., Ling, F., Foody, G. M., Ge, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, L., Shi, L., Li, X., & Du, Y. (2019). Spatial-temporal super-resolution land cover mapping with a local spatial-temporal dependence model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(7), 4951-4966. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2894773

The mixed pixel problem is common in remote sensing. A soft classification can generate land cover class fraction images that illustrate the areal proportions of the various land cover classes within pixels. The spatial distribution of land cover cla... Read More about Spatial-temporal super-resolution land cover mapping with a local spatial-temporal dependence model.

Super-resolution land cover mapping by deep learning (2019)
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Ling, F., & Foody, G. M. (2019). Super-resolution land cover mapping by deep learning. Remote Sensing Letters, 10(6), 598-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704x.2019.1587196

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is a technique to estimate a fine spatial resolution land cover map from coarse spatial resolution fractional proportion images. SRM is often based explicitly on the use of a spatial pattern model that represents the la... Read More about Super-resolution land cover mapping by deep learning.

Optimal endmember-based super-resolution land cover mapping (2019)
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Li, X., Li, X., Foody, G., Yang, X., Zhang, Y., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2019). Optimal endmember-based super-resolution land cover mapping. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 16(8), 1279-1283. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2019.2894805

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) aims to determine the spatial distribution of the land cover classes contained in the area represented by mixed pixels to obtain a more appropriate and accurate map at a finer spatial resolution than the input remotely... Read More about Optimal endmember-based super-resolution land cover mapping.

Earth observation and machine learning to meet Sustainable Development Goal 8.7: mapping sites associated with slavery from space (2019)
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Foody, G., Ling, F., Boyd, D., Li, X., & Wardlaw, J. (2019). Earth observation and machine learning to meet Sustainable Development Goal 8.7: mapping sites associated with slavery from space. Remote Sensing, 11(3), Article 266. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030266

A large proportion of the workforce in the brick kilns of the Brick Belt of Asia are modern-day slaves. Work to liberate slaves and contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 would benefit from maps showing the location of brick kilns. Previou... Read More about Earth observation and machine learning to meet Sustainable Development Goal 8.7: mapping sites associated with slavery from space.

Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015/16 El Niño across the tropics (2019)
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Whitfield, S., Beauchamp, E., Boyd, D. S., Burslem, D., Byg, A., Colledge, F., Cutler, M., Didena, M., Dougill, A., Foody, G., Godbold, J. A., Hazenbosch, M., Hirons, M., Speranza, I. C., Jew, E., Lacambra, C., Mkwambisi, D., Moges, A., Morel, A., Morris, R., …White, P. C. (2019). Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015/16 El Niño across the tropics. Global Environmental Change, 55, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.01.004

In a context of both long-term climatic changes and short-term climatic shocks, temporal dynamics profoundly influence ecosystems and societies. In low income contexts in the Tropics, where both exposure and vulnerability to climatic fluctuations is... Read More about Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015/16 El Niño across the tropics.