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Sensors 2009, 9, 148-174; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Remote Sensing Data with the Conditional Latin Hypercube Sampling and Geostatistical Approach to Delineate Landscape Changes Induced by Large Chronological Physical Disturbances * Yu-Pin Lin , Hone-Jay Chu, Cheng-Long Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan Yu and Yung-Chieh Wang Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City 106, Taiwan, R. O. C; E-Mails: honejaychu@ (H.-J. C.); .tw (C.-L. W.); .tw (H.-H. Y.); .tw (Y.-C. W.)   * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Email: yplin@.tw (Y.-P. L.); Tel.: +886-2 Fax: +886-2 Received: 12 November 2008; in revised form: 5 January 2009 / Accepted: 6 January 2009 / Published: 7 January 2009 Abstract: This study applies variogram analyses of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) images derived from SPOT HRV images obtained before and after the ChiChi earthquake in the Chenyulan watershed, Taiwan, as well as images after four large typhoons, to delineate the spatial patterns, spatial structures and spatial variability of landscapes caused by these large disturbances. The conditional Latin hypercube sampling approach was applied to select samples from multiple NDVI images. Kriging and sequential Gaussian simulation with suffi