Abstract
Remote sensing data and techniques are being utilized for various purposes including natural disasters such as earthquake as well as flood mapping and detection. The research aims to consume liberates Landsat 8 images for investigating crashed airplanes such as MH370. Overall approximately 300 Landsat images with less than 10% clouds within a defined period were processed and utilized through the Google Earth Engine Platform. Due to the variation of materials as well as the colour of airplane body being different from the area in which the plane crash occurred, the characteristics of the template of a plane’s shape should be different in terms of albedo, temperature as well as a vegetation index value. The research demonstrates the potential of Landsat 8 data especially, the NDVI, the albedo and reflectance of band 4 are capable of distinguishing between the plane and its surrounding green area. Therefore, our result confirms that during the research period, there was no plane on the location and further adds that there is no evidence from the remote sensing to justify the presence of the crashed MH370 in the site as earlier reported.
Highlights
Remote sensing as a valuable source applied successfully in several natural disaster events around the world 1
Albedo: In Heathrow case study, the average albedo of the plane area was 0.17±0.03 while average albedo of the green reference was 0.013±0.02 (Figure 2)
In a sample of Airplane Home, the average albedo of the plane shapefile was 0.13±0.09 while average albedo of the reference was 0.09±0.02 and it is albedo 0.036 less than albedo of the plane
Summary
Remote sensing as a valuable source applied successfully in several natural disaster events around the world 1. Due to it is capable of assist to identify natural disaster's damages as well as furnish maps of the near actual time of the disaster 2. It is data and techniques such as SAR, optical and thermal, LiDAR detection, applied for landslides, volcanic activity, earthquakes and faulting, flooding, wildfire [3,4,5,6,7]. Rolls-Royce's (the engine manufacturing company), confirmed that they had received a health report for five hours. It means that the aircraft had remain flying for four hours 11
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