polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (pol.-sar) allows us to implement the recognition and classification of radar targets. this article investigates the arrangement of scatterers by sar data and proposes a new look-up table of region (ltr). this look-up table is based on the combination of (entropy h/anisotropy a) and (anisotropy a/scattering mechanism α), which has not been reported up now. ...

The main aim of the present study was to map of Urmia Lake water surface diminishing rates over a long-term period, and demonstrating the most recent surface of emerged salty alluvial plains. For this purpose, Landsat TM, ETM+ and OLI imageries, observing from 1984 to 2015, were progressively processed to generate most of the thematic models in tempo-spatial context. All multi-date satellite da...

the preparation of vegetation cover maps by used the land inventory and a traditional method has a lot of cost and time. but today, remote sensing is one of the main sources of data collection and information production for study and monitoring land resources, and was efficient tools for providing quickly and timely data and information needs for program planning in the natural resource filed. ...

abstract identification & supervision of fluctuations in physical ecosystems have a special place in optimum using of natural resources. urmia lake is the largest interior natural lake of iran which its potentials and ecosystem & environmental characteristics attracted researchers and environmental planners attention. fluctuations in area and perimeter of the lake attracted many attentions in r...

Similarity measurement is one of key operations to retrieve “desired” images from an image database. As a famous psychological similarity measure approach, the Feature Contrast (FC) model is defined as a linear combination of both common and distinct features. In this paper, an adaptive feature contrast (AdaFC) model is proposed to measure similarity between satellite images for image retrieval...

karun river with a length of about 890 km is considered as a main river in the country. in this paper, types of karun’s screws regarding to the geometric factors of radius of curvature and chord length were identified by fitting circles with the arcs of the river’s axis. river’s arcs were classified into simple and compound screws. then, by formation of the database consist of topographic...

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...

Knowledge discovery from satellite images in spatio-temporal context remains one of the major challenges in the remote sensing field. It is, always, difficult for a user to manually extract useful information especially when processing a large collection of satellite images. Thus, we need to use automatic knowledge discovery in order to develop intelligent image interpretation systems. In this ...