introduction the dust storms are one of the climatic hazards in the dry climates of the world. they cause many damages to the environment and humans. one of the aspects of a study to understand the origin of this phenomenon is the formation of foci in the recent years in the areas of research. it has been done in the central regions. the dust storms have gained global scale. this has demonstrat...

Using photos of captive Andean bears of known age and pedigree, and photos of wild Andean bear cubs <6 months old, we evaluated the degree to which visual information may be used to estimate bears' ages and assess their kinship. We demonstrate that the ages of Andean bear cubs ≤6 months old may be estimated from their size relative to their mothers with an average error of <0.01 ± 13.2 days (SD...

the mahabad river watershed has been exposed to severe erosion as a result of landuse change. the aim of this study is to quantify the amount of sediment yield and the relationship between land use change and slope. different sources such as geologic and topographic maps, satellite images, hydrometric as well as meteorological data were used to extract and gather the information needed for this...

in western and southern watersheds of isfahan province, combinations of natural and human factors have caused numerous landslides related damages. one of the main strategies for restricting the damage caused by the landslide is to avoid these regions. for this purpose, it is necessary to prepare precise landslide hazard zonation map for such areas. for this purpose, by aerial photos, satellite ...

in recent years, acquiring information of remote sensing data, especially satellite data has excessively increased and several methods are presented in order to improve the quality of remote sensing studies in earth sciences. it is possible to manage many projects and provide different types of thematic maps in a short period of time, and a low cost by utilizing satellite data and gis method. r...

Many historical people were only ever captured by old, faded, black and white photos, that are distorted due to the limitations of early cameras passage time. This paper simulates traveling back in time with a modern camera rephotograph famous subjects. Unlike conventional image restoration filters which apply independent operations like denoising, colorization, superresolution, we leverage Sty...

This paper will introduce a new approach, mainly based on wavelets transform and mathematical morphology, for the detection of geological faults in satellite and aerial photos. This can be useful for territorial analysis, digital cartography and the use of geographical information systems. The proposed method is fast enough and unsupervised. Different techniques will be compared and some exampl...