introduction urmia lake in the northwestern corner of iran is one of the largest permanent hyper saline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the middle east. it is extended as much as 140 km from north to south and is as wide as 85 km east to west during high water periods. qualitative and quantitative degradation of water resources is one of the major challenges in the way of sustainable...

In this paper the automatic detection of industrial heat sources is presented. The proposed method processes the thermal band images acquired by the TM sensor on board Landstat 5 satellite. It is based on a morphological image processing method which removes negligible heat sources such as sun-exposed materials, while preserving the significant ones. It can be used to estimate the energy losses...

This work is on development of a method for automatic registration of satellite images acquired on different dates, for both geometric and radiometric correction with respect to a reference image. Mutual information statistics is used as the similarity metric of geometric and radiometric registration. Affine and linear transformations are used in geometric and radiometric correction respectivel...

This study aims to determine the accuracy level at which different forms of land degradation can be mapped from medium-resolution satellite data, and to assess how accurately degraded land can be detected from multi-temporal satellite images. Land degradation in the form of salinization and waterlogging in Tongyu County, western Jilin Province of Northeast China was mapped from Landsat TM and A...

Qomrood river is one of the rivers that located in arid and semiarid area which has a seasonal fluvial. The river is faced many changes, because of floods or natural- human factors. This study, as a geomorphologic study, tries to survey and identify geometric changes between Kocherey dam and 15-Khordad dam. The study method is a mix of library research and field studies. In library method all p...