Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973Program)(No.2011CB707106);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41071261,41023001,41021061,40906092,40971193,41101415);the Opening Foundation of Institute of Remote Sensing and Earth Sciences,Hangzhou Normal University(No.PDKF2010YG06);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.20100480861);LIESMARS Special Research Funding,the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province,China(No.2009CDB107);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province,China(No.Y5090143)
We explored the potential of the environment and disaster monitoring and forecasting small satellite constellations (HJ-1A/1B satellites) charge-coupled device (CCD) imagery (spatial resolution of 30 m, revisit time o...