Glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate fluctuations. The effects of climate warming are for instance evident in the continuous retreat of glaciers. In the paper, the movement of the Dongkemadi Glacier in the Qinhai-Tibetan Plateau and the Keqicar Baxi glacier motion in the Tianshan Mountains of western China are measured using two-pass differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry ...

Multispectral visible/near-infrared (VNIR) earth observation satellites, e.g., Ikonos, Quickbird, ALOS AVNIR-2, and DMC, usually acquire imagery in a few (3 - 5) spectral bands. Atmospheric correction is a challenging task for these images because the standard methods require at least one shortwave infrared band (around 1.6 or 2.2 µm) or hyperspectral instruments to derive the aerosol optical t...

Abstract: Lineaments are mapable linear surface features, which presumably reflect subsurface phenomena. The study demonstrates the use of ALOS imagery for lineament mapping for geological application. The image was enhanced and used for lineaments extraction through on-screen digitising. The extracted lineaments were evaluated against the published geological map for the study area using GIS o...

Microwave remote sensing has shown proof of its effectiveness for frozen ground mapping due to the high difference of permittivity between frozen and unfrozen soil. However, the characterization of seasonal frozen ground still remains a problematic application. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) on the 24 of January 2006. This sat...

This paper presents a verification processor, developed under ESA contract, for the generation of polarimetric, interferometric and polarimetric-interferometric geocoded products derived from SAR data obtained from the ALOS PALSAR instrument. The processor, developed with a modular approach, contains the following main elements: Phase-preserving fine resolution processor; Phase-preserving ScanS...

ضرورت دسترسی به کاربردهای وسیع تصاویر ابرطیفی سبب توسعة سیستم‌های تصویربرداری نوآورانه و اقتصادی در ثبت این شده است. به‌منظور استفاده از تصاویر، لازم است ارتباط هندسی دقیقی میان آنها فضای زمین برقرار شود فرایند نیازمند نقاط کنترلی بسیاری نکته راهکارهای اصلاح منطبق با ساختار هریک دوربین‌ها را بارز می‌کند. سنجندة (nm 400-1000) BaySpec OCI-F یکی نوآورانه‌ای که هندسة پوش‌بروم دریافت سنجنده، علاوه‌ب...

Hospital length of stay is an important performance indicator for hospital management and a key measure of efficiency in health care. However, it is difficult to analyze as most distributions pertaining to hospital length of stay are asymmetric due to outliers. The objective of the present study is to suggest a new method to estimate average length of stay (ALOS). Data on LOS in the year 2010 f...