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Heat and temperature is on the news of the air in the today's world. High temperatures in urban areas have a direct impact on human health and are associated with heat related problems and excess summer deaths. This study is carried out to know the trend of land surface temperature and assess the impact of land use intensity on temperature in the Chittagong City Corporation Area, Bangladesh. A general...
An algorithm able to identify and characterize episodes of different aerosol types above sea surfaces of the greater Mediterranean basin (GMB), including the Black Sea and the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Iberia and northwest Africa, is presented in this study. Based on this algorithm, five types of intense (strong and extreme) aerosol episodes in the GMB are identified and characterized using...
FY-3 and NOAA satellite microwave soundings, which penetrate high clouds, delineate the development and dissipation of the upper tropospheric warm core associated with a tropical cyclones. And as a new comer in China's FY-3series, FY-3C microwave sounding has the innovation channel settings, so the storm's vertical thermal structure may be detected from these microwave imagery. The emphasis of this...
The Earth Observation data are recognized as valuable source of information about fire events. In this paper we present the potential of using the satellite-based ‘hotspots’ in management of fires as well as challenges of validating the remotely detected fire events in Poland. We compare the spatio-temporal distribution of fires derived from satellites against ground-based fires reported in the National...
Statistics provided by the European Join Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra/Italy show that Poland is a third European country after Portugal and Spain in number of fires reported annually. The aim of this study was to assess if and how Earth Observation data can support the existing ground-based Forest Fire Information System in Poland. We have examined a sets of spaceborne data and products, i.e. Active...
This paper measures land-use transition in three time intervals in a typical county with high-level agriculture intensification, Southeast China. Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery of 1986, 1996, 2002 and 2007 is used to create maps of each time point for the categories: Agriculture, Natural and Built. The results show that the rate of change has accelerated from 1986 to 2007 for Agriculture,...
Since the 1980s, corals have experienced unprecedented high temperature-induced coral bleaching and subsequent mortality. Location, intensity, severity, duration, and recovery from bleaching are predictable by the satellite sea surface temperature (SST) "HotSpot" method (Goreau&Hayes, 1994). HotSpot patterns have been mapped over the last 2 decades, and show strong regional trends: SST...
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