The spatial analysis associated with remote sensing allows…
- Finding patterns, clusters and hot spots.
- Optimizing locations, determining routes, selecting locations.
- Study interactions between features and why they occur.
- Find spatial relationships among variables.
- Modeling of location-based features through simulation and prediction.
These applications can be used in a wide range of fields of activity, such as, for example:
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- Finding the driving factors that contribute to poverty
- Observing population growth in urban areas using land use change
- Improving long-term fisheries sustainability
- Mapping economic activity
- Predicting retail earnings and market share by counting cars in parking lot
CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENT
- Comparing climatic factors from past to present
- Assessing the environmental change and promoting biodiversity in natural areas
- Monitoring the environment
- Uncovering habitat suitability and fragmentation
- Using environmental models to predict the abundance of mosquitoes
- Tracking the great distances of migratory birds and inspecting their prevalence
- Keeping a watchful eye on biodiversity
- Monitoring air quality
- Measuring the rise of sea levels
- Comparing the past and present with human impact change
- Watching algae grow as an indicator of environmental health
- Optimizing photovoltaic energy production
- Delineating and assessing the health of riparian zones
AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY
- Comparing past and present photo-synthetic and moisture indices for early detection of crop anomalies
- Determining soil moisture content using active and passive sensors
- Mapping soil types for agriculture planning
- Quantifying crop conditions
- Identifying forest stands and tallying their area to estimate forest supplies
- Fighting wildfires
- Preventing the spread of forest disease types
- Reversing illegal rainforest cutting
- Saving money and time with precision farming
EMERGENCY & DISASTERS
- Risk monitoring to improve emergency and post-emergency response
- Inventorying potential landslides
- Finding the driving factors that contribute to poverty
- Quantifying the damage after an earthquake
- Assessing terrain stability
- Detecting oil spills
- Monitoring active volcanoes
- Adapt insurance premiums according to the risks associated with their location
HYDROLOGY & OROGRAPHY
- Deriving elevation and contours
- Delineating watersheds
- Identification of the drainage network
- Delineation of view-sheds and location of observation stations
- Mapping with laser precision