Fusion of High-Level Remote Sensing Products
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial and temporal statistics; spatio-temporal fusion of remote sensing products; up-scaling and downscaling of spatial information; continours monitoring using time series remote sensing data
Interests: thermal infrared remote sensing; atmospheric radiation and surface energy balance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the advancement of remote sensing technology and the stimulus of strong application demands, the number of Earth observation (EO) satellites is increasing rapidly, producing big EO data. Moreover, various high-level products are generated from big EO data. Due to sensor malfunctions, cloud contamination, atmospheric effects, retrieval algorithm defects, etc., high-level remote sensing products derived from single sensors are suspected to have spatial incompleteness, temporal discontinuity, and inconsistent quality; on the other hand, the same product derived from multisensor observations might be inconsistent both in the values and physical meaning. However, products derived from different remote sensors or by different algorithms are somewhat complementary in accuracy and spatiotemporal completeness. Data fusion or integration can combine the advantages of different data sources (remote sensing, in situ observations, model outputs, etc.), thus providing continuous spatial and temporal coverage on the one hand and reducing the uncertainty of fused or integrated data on the other hand. In light of the merits mentioned above, data fusion or integration has become a promising means of obtaining high-quality spatiotemporally complete remote sensing products. With recent advances and innovations in computing, such as cloud computing and high-performance computing, computing power and storage capacity are no longer obstacles, and it is possible to generate high-level remote sensing products at the regional and global scales using data fusion or integration technologies. In this context, reviewing the achieved progress on data fusion or integration and looking forward to future development hold great relevance.
In this Special Issue, we will compile the state-of-the-art data fusion or integration methods that address various aspects of generating spatiotemporally complete, high-level remote sensing products. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Scale effects in remote sensing products;
- Uncertainty quantification methods for fusing remote sensing products;
- Downscaling and upscaling methods;
- Evaluation or validation of remote sensing products;
- Data reconstruction l statistics for spatiotemporal data;
- Integration of multisource data;
- Fusion of multiscale remote sensing products;
- Data assimilation
- Machine learning;
- Evaluation or validation of fused remote sensing products.
Dr. Jie Cheng
Dr. Xin Tao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- scale
- downscaling and upscaling
- reconstruction
- integration
- fusion
- merging
- evaluation
- validation
- spatiotemporal geostatistics
- uncertainty
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