The outbreak of debris flows in a reservoir region can affect the stability of hydropower stations and threaten the lives of the people living downstream of dams. Therefore, determining the hazard degree of debris flows in a reservoir region is of great importance. SPOT5 remote sensing images and digital elevation models are introduced to determine the characteristics of debris-flow catchments....

In this paper, the development of Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Serials is reviewed, the specifications of CARTOSAT-1 satellite platform and Sensor is introduced and compared with IKONOS、SPOT5 HRS. The positioning algorithm using Rational Function Model (RFM Model) of CARTOSAT-1 is described in detail. Experimentation is carried out using stereo pair of Beijing hilly area. The results show th...

The offer of high spectral and high spatial resolutions images has grown in the last decade. It is know possible to obtain data from different sources with different spatial and spectral resolutions. The field of data fusion of remotely sensed data grown also very fast in the last years. In this paper, an algorithm allowing the merging of SPOT 5 images and Ikonos images are proposed. This algor...

An automatic process for relative registering and merging the panchromatic and multispectral images of SPOT5 is presented. The automated hierarchical local registration process makes use of feature information to select tie points from both images. The tie points are then used to refine the sensor model of the multispectral image by method of least squares solution. Both panchromatic and multis...

HRS instrument on board of SPOT5 allows acquisition of stereoscopic pairs in a single pass. This instrument has been subject of specific attention even after the end of SPOT5 in flight commissioning phase. The stake was not only to fulfil HRS' location specification of 50 meters in root mean square but to obtain a location performance as best as possible and at least about 25 meters in root mea...

Detecting clouds in satellite imagery is becoming more important with increasing data availability, however many earth observation sensors are not designed for this task. In Satellite pour l’Observation de la Terre 5 (SPOT5) High Resolution Geometrical (HRG) imagery, the reflectance properties of clouds are very similar to common features on the earth’s surface, in the four available bands (gre...

Tree cover maps are used for many purposes, such as vegetation mapping, habitat connectivity and fragmentation studies. Small remnant patches of native vegetation are recognised as ecologically important, yet they are underestimated in remote sensing products derived from Landsat. High spatial resolution sensors are capable of mapping small patches of trees, but their use in large-area mapping ...

In the framework of the on-going SLAM project (Service for Landslide Monitoring), funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) the Permanent Scatterers processing and the analysis of high resolution images (e.g. SPOT5) have been performed at a basin scale, on the whole territory of the Arno River basin (Central Italy). The project aims at the development of a service based on the integration of EO...