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A strong windthrow affected many forests in Slovenia and northern Italy on the night of the 29th and the 30th of October, 2018. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for windthrow identification, comprising two new indexes, PCA-CI for evaluating change detection and PCA-WI for the identification of windthrows by analysing the time series of C-SAR Sentinel-1 data. The proposed methodology, unlike the previous studies on the identification of windthrows, does not subtract the values of dual and single polarised VH-VV data combinations, but proposes a new approach with a multivariate transformation of dimensionality reduction of the time series of the dual and single polarised data in two different time frames.

A strong windthrow affected many forests in Slovenia and northern Italy on the night of the 29th and the 30th of October, 2018. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for windthrow identification, comprising two new indexes, PCA-CI for evaluating change detection and PCA-WI for the identification of windthrows by analysing the time series of C-SAR Sentinel-1 data. The proposed methodology, unlike the previous studies on the identification of windthrows, does not subtract the values of dual and single polarised VH-VV data combinations, but proposes a new approach with a multivariate transformation of dimensionality reduction of the time series of the dual and single polarised data in two different time frames. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a review and comparison of the detection capability of water facilities or water surfaces with different systems of remote sensing: optical and radar satellite sensors, as well as optical sensors on aircraft. The capabilities of water detection are estimated from several aspects: differences in the spatial and spectral resolution of imagery, the complexity of imagery pre-processing requirements, and the method of analysis and interpretation feasibilities for the type and purpose of mapping. Particular attention is paid to evaluating the applicability of remote sensing data in light of the detection efficiency of water areas in heterogeneously structured environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]