A new objective, full-reference metrics of image quality is proposed in this paper. It should match perceptual (subjective) image quality assessment in a better way. The proposed method consists of two quality measures which separately indicate image quality on edges and in texture areas which are calculated in a three-step algorithm. The “soft mask” is initially found for separation in edge an...

Sentinel-2 is planned for launch in 2013 and it is equipped with the Multi Spectral Instrument (MSI), which will provide images with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution. It incorporates two new spectral bands in the red-edge region, which can be used to derive red-edge type of vegetation indices. These are particularly suitable for deriving estimates of canopy chlorophyll and nitroge...

The h-super connectivity κh and the h-super edge-connectivity λh are more refined network reliability indices than the connectivity and the edge-connectivity. This paper shows that for a connected balanced digraph D and its line digraph L, if D is optimally super edge-connected, then κ1(L) = 2λ1(D), and that for a connected graph G and its line graph L, if one of κ1(L) and λ2(G) exists, then κ1...

Monitoring the components of crop canopies with remote sensing can help us understand the within-canopy variation in spectral properties and resolve the sources of uncertainties in the spectroscopic estimation of crop foliar chemistry. To date, the spectral properties of leaves and panicles in crop canopies and the shadow effects on their spectral variation remain poorly understood due to the i...

There is a need to develop indicators of mangrove condition using remotely sensed data. However, remote estimation of leaf and canopy biochemical properties and vegetation condition remains challenging. In this paper, we (i) tested the performance of selected hyperspectral and broad band indices to predict chlorophyll concentration (CC) on mangrove leaves and (ii) showed the potential of Landsa...

Assessing oil pollution using traditional field-based methods over large areas is difficult and expensive. Remote sensing technologies with good spatial and temporal coverage might provide an alternative for monitoring oil pollution by recording the spectral signals of plants growing in polluted soils. Total petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations of soils and the hyperspectral canopy reflectance ...

In this study, a robust methodology for the detection of buildings from a single color aerial image is proposed. The methodology is initialized with the mean-shift segmentation algorithm. Next, a vector-valued canny edge detection algorithm which relies on the photometric quasi-invariant gradients is utilized to detect edges from the color segmented image. Morphological operations are applied t...

the purpose of present article is to study the application of teaching university indices such as teachable point of view, ideas, values, emotional energy and edge in iranian public universities. present study uses a descriptive - survey research method. the statistical population of research includes all the faculty members of public medical and non medical universities during 2006-2007 academ...

We classify chiral symmetric periodically driven quantum systems on a one-dimensional lattice. The driving process is local, can be continuous or discrete in time, and we assume gap condition for the corresponding Floquet operator. analysis terms of unitary operator at half-period, half-step give complete classification connected classes operators five integer indices. On basis these indices it...

In this research paper, we present a novel frame work for handling $m$-polar information by combining the theory of $m-$polar fuzzy  sets with graphs. We introduce certain types of edge regular $m-$polar fuzzy graphs and edge irregular $m-$polar fuzzy graphs. We describe some useful properties of edge regular, strongly edge irregular and strongly edge totally irregular $m-$polar fuzzy graphs. W...