In this senior thesis, I seek to explore the meaning of mist and stars in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. argue that through observation as an entrance point text, we readers are able expand our discussion text incorporate other fundamental aspects story. open with a contextualization Dickens’ previous works, including Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Sketches by Boz. stands symbol for Pip’s un...

The synthetic aperture radar principle has been discovered in the early 50. Since then, a rapid development took place all over the world and a couple of airand space-borne systems are operational today. Progress made in technology and digital signal processing lead to very flexible systems useful for military and civilian applications. Radar has proved to be valuable before, because of its day...

Finding a way to effectively suppress speckle in SAR images has great significance. K-means singular value decomposition (K-SVD) has shown great potential in SAR image de-noising. However, the traditional K-SVD is sensitive to the position and phase of the characteristics in the image, and the de-noised image by K-SVD has lost some detailed information of the original image. In this paper, we p...

As a sensitive indicator of climate change, mountain glacier dynamics are of great concern, but the ice motion pattern of an entire glacier surface cannot be accurately and efficiently generated by the use of only phase-based or intensity-based methods with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. To derive the ice movement of the whole glacier surface with a high accuracy, an integrated approac...

The information which is contained in the multi-spectral and SAR images have different characteristic. Multi-spectral images contain a great deal of spectral information, whereas SAR images contain rich texture information, such as buildings and road network. SAR and TM images fusion based on the wavelet transform ensure the fusion image showing more spatial detail, not only conserving the spec...

With the rapid development of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and the increasing need of ship detection, research on adaptive ship detection in spaceborne SAR imagery is of great importance. Focusing on practical problems of ship detection, this paper presents a highly adaptive ship detection scheme for spaceborne SAR imagery. It is able to process a wide range of sensors, imaging mod...

Statistical modeling of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is of great importance for speckle noise filtering, target detection and classification, etc. Moreover, it can provide a comprehensive understanding of terrain electromagnetics scattering mechanism. Over the past three decades, many sophisticated models have been developed for SAR images, such as Rayleigh, Gamma, K and G etc. The G0 ...

Radar remote sensing is a well-established method to discriminate lakes retaining liquid-phase water beneath winter ice cover from those that do not. L-band (23.6 cm wavelength) airborne radar showed great promise in the 1970s, but spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) studies have focused on C-band (5.6 cm) SAR to classify lake ice with no further attention to L-band SAR for this purpose. ...