We consider dynamic scenes consisting of moving points whose motion is constrained to happen in one of a pencil of planes. This is for example the case when rigid objects move independently, but on a common ground plane (each point moves in one of a pencil of planes parallel to the ground plane). We consider stereo pairs of the dynamic scene, taken by a moving stereo system, that allow to obtai...

In the westernmost region of the rapidly widening Corinth rift, Greece, extensive development of roads, bridges and other human infrastructure has caused continuous environmental change over the past twenty years. River networks, the land surface and the coastal environment, have been altered, especially in the areas corresponding to deltaic fans. In this paper we use earth observation systems ...

This article examines several major bathymetry mapping methods and describes an experimental procedure of determining seabed bathymetry from multi-source passive remote sensing data. Issues to be addressed include how to deal with less desirable spectral data quality and the absence of in-situ water depth measurements. A case study was presented using DigitalGlobe QuickBird and Landsat-7 ETM+ m...

NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) are seeking to generate a map of the entire globe using Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor data from the “mid-decadal” period of 2004 through 2006. The global map is comprised of thousands of scene locations and, for each location, tens of different images of varying quality to chose from. Furthermore...

In this paper, we propose a new integrated framework for joint routing and rate adaptation in multirate multi-hop wireless networks. Unlike many previous efforts, our framework considers several factors that affect end-to-end performance. Among these factors, the framework takes into account the effect of the relative positions of the links on a path when choosing the rates of operation and the...

The new Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) is intended to be broadly compatible with the previous Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). The spectral response of the OLI is slightly different to the ETM+, and so there may be slight differences in the reflectance measurements. Since the differences are a function not just of spectral responses, but also of the target pixels, there ...

In the frame of our long term, interdisciplinary Nasca/Palpa project, conducted in a close cooperation between our group and archaeologists from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI, KAAK Bonn), our aim is to develop a GIS database well-suited for management and analysis of the archaeological and spatial data acquired during various field campaigns by the project partners. The region around...

While many remote sensing and GIS applications require both the spatial resolution and spectral resolution be high, image fusion, or in other words, image sharpening, is a useful technique. To date, numerous image fusion techniques have been developed. However, some undesirable effects such as modified spectral signatures and resolution overinjection are produced. In this paper, a novel spectra...

Free and hybrid models of multisource satellite images fusion are developed using the plausible and paradoxical reasoning theory of Dezert-Smarandache. The aim of this work is to show the contribution of these fusion models for improving the thematic classification and the quantification of change. The maps obtained by the free model are composed by simple classes and compound classes. Neverthe...

The hydrologic networks play a paramount significance in paddy rice cultivation. The aerial photographs and satellite images, the latter were acquired from the Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Thematic Mapper (TM), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), and Operational Land Imager (OLI) were utilized to extract the fundamental information about the natural rivers and manmade canals over the past for...