Genetic algorithm utilizing image clustering with merge and split processes which allows minimizing Fisher distance between clusters is proposed. Through experiments with simulation and real remote sensing satellite imagery data, it is found that the proposed clustering method is superior to the conventional k-means and ISODATA clustering methods in comparison to the geographic maps and classif...

Over-parameterization and over-correction are two of the major problems in the rational function model (RFM). A new approach of optimized RFM (ORFM) is proposed in this paper. By synthesizing stepwise selection, orthogonal distance regression, and residual systematic error correction model, the proposed ORFM can solve the ill-posed problem and over-correction problem caused by constant term. Th...

In this article we present a method that extracts plantations from satellite imagery by finding and exploiting appropriate feature space projections. Segmentation is done using an automatic two-region segmentation based on the level set method. The behaviour of this algorithm is defined by a statistical region model that describes the similarity of regions using distances in arbitrary feature s...

land use change may influence many natural phenomena and ecological processes, including runoff, soil erosion, sedimentation and soil conditions. decreasing of forest area in the north of iran is one of the critical problems in recent years. the aims of this study are to detect land use changes between 1967 to 2002 using satellite images of land sat 7 etm+ (2002), aerial photos and digital topo...

1. Introduction. In the early hours of March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boe-ing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board [14]. At the time of writing this article there has been no confirmation of any debris from the aircraft and no survivors have been found. 1 If the crash site is not discovered, this tragedy may become one of the great aviation mysterie...

We present the results of a search for gravitational waves associated with 154 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments in 2009-2010, during the sixth LIGO science run and the second and third Virgo science runs. We perform two distinct searches: a modeled search for coalescences of either two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole; and a searc...