Remote Sensing the Mekong

Claudia Kuenzer is Head of the ‘Land Surface’ Department in the Earth Observation Centre at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). She has led several research projects on the Mekong region and published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and a book on the Mekong Delta. Patrick Leinenkugel is Vice-Head of the ‘Land Surface Dynamics’ team in the Earth Observation Centre at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). He has contributed to multiple research initiatives in the Mekong Basin and has published several remote sensing studies for the region. Stefan Dech is Director of DLR’s German Remote Sensing Data Center, and University Professor and holder of the endowed chair in remote sensing in the Department of Geography at Julius Maximilian University, Germany. He has co-authored numerous Mekong-related papers.

1. Preface: Remote sensing the Mekong Claudia Kuenzer 2. Comparing global land-cover products – implications for geoscience applications: an investigation for the trans-boundary Mekong Basin Claudia Kuenzer, Patrick Leinenkugel, Matthias Vollmuth, and Stefan Dech 3. Land-surface temperature dynamics in the Upper Mekong Basin derived from MODIS time series C.M. Frey and C. Kuenzer 4. Sensitivity analysis for predicting continuous fields of tree-cover and fractional land-cover distributions in cloud-prone areas Patrick Leinenkugel, Michel L. Wolters, Claudia Kuenzer, Natascha Oppelt, and Stefan Dech 5. Recent climate variability and its impact on precipitation, temperature, and vegetation dynamics in the Lancang River headwater area of China Chong Huang, Yafei Li, Gaohuan Liu, Hailong Zhang, and Qingsheng Liu 6. Drought impact on vegetation productivity in the Lower Mekong Basin Binghua Zhang, Li Zhang, Huadong Guo, Patrick Leinenkugel, Yu Zhou, Li Li, and Qian Shen 7. Suitability of SAR imagery for automatic flood mapping in the Lower Mekong Basin Felix Greifeneder, Wolfgang Wagner, Daniel Sabel, and Vahid Naeimi 8. Ecosystem assessment in the Tonle Sap Lake region of Cambodia using RADARSAT-2 Wide Fine-mode SAR data Lu Zhang, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, and Liyan Wang 9. The Ha Tien Plain – wetland monitoring using remote-sensing techniques Tim Funkenberg, Tran Thai Binh, Florian Moder, and Stefan Dech 10. Operational multi-sensor monitoring of turbidity for the entire Mekong Delta Thomas Heege, Viacheslav Kiselev, Magnus Wettle, and Nguyen Nghia Hung