Land-sea contamination observed in SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) brightness temperature images is found to have two main contributions: the floor error inherent of image reconstruction and a multiplicative error either in the antenna temperature or in the visibility samples measured by the correlator. The origin of this last one is traced down to SMOS calibration parameters to yield a...

Let s denote a compact convex object in IR. The f-width of s is the perpendicular distance between two distinct parallel lines of support of s with direction f . A set of disjoint convex compact objects in IR is of equal f -width if there exists a direction f such that every pair of objects have equal f -width. A visibility matching, for a set of equal f -width objects is a matching using non-c...

In this paper we present a very simple proof of the following result due to Abello et al [5], concerning the visibility graphs of simple polygons. The result says that the visibility graph of any simple nondegenerate polygon is isomorphic to the visibility graph of some simple staircase polygon. As a result of the above proof we also give an O(n log n) time algorithm for the following problem: ...

Detecting the passage of an interfering particle through one of the interferometer's arms, known as "which path" measurement, gives rise to interference visibility degradation (dephasing). Here, we consider a detector at equilibrium. At finite temperature, dephasing is caused by thermal fluctuations of the detector. More interestingly, in the zero-temperature limit, equilibrium quantum fluctuat...