High resolution space-borne remote sensing image data show a high level of detail and provide manifold opportunities to be integrated into remote sensing applications. In particular, surface mapping from stereo data sets becomes feasible with a height accuracy in the meter range. Following the focus on forest applications of the Institute, the feasibility to determine tree heights from high res...

Using the high resolution Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in combination with photometry from the high-speed CCD camera ULTRACAM, we derive precise system parameters for the pre-cataclysmic binary, NN Ser. A model fit to the ULTRACAM light curves gives the orbital inclination as i= 89.6◦±0.2◦ and the scaled radii, RWD/a and Rsec/a. An...

Based on compressive sensing framework and sparse reconstruction technology, a new pan-sharpening method, named Sparse Fusion of Images (SparseFI, pronounced as sparsify), is proposed in [1]. In this paper, the proposed SparseFI algorithm is validated using UltraCam and WorldView-2 data. Visual and statistic analysis show superior performance of SparseFI compared to the existing conventional pa...

We present preliminary results of a simultaneous X-ray/optical campaign of the prototypical LMXB Sco X-1 at 1-10 Hz time resolution. Lightcurves of the high excitation Bowen/HeII emission lines were obtained through narrow interference filters with ULTRACAM, and these were cross-correlated with X-ray lightcurves. We find evidence for correlated variability, in particular when Sco X-1 enters the...