Remote sensing has changed modern oceanography by proving synoptic periodic data which can be processed. Since the satellite data are usually too much and nonlinear, in most cases, it is difficult to distinguish the patterns from these images. In fact, SOM (Self-Organizing Maps) model is a type of ANN (Artificial Neural Network) that has the ability to distinguish the efficient patterns from th...

The results of a new multispectral infrared retrieval scheme for obtaining fractional cloud cover and 11-/am emissivity are compared with those of the spatial coherence method which obtains fractional cloud cover assuming that the clouds are opaque at infrared wavelengths. Both methods are applied to 4-km NOAA advanced very high resolution radiometer global area coverage data for 250-km-scale r...

the objective of this study was to assess the relationship betweenvegetation, landform and physicochemical properties of soil. at the first terrainmap unit were provided using the landsat thematic mapper (tm) satellite images,aerial photograph, topographical and geology map. field sampling was done in therepresentative area using plot sampling. 104 plots 100 m2 were sampled in eachplot landform...

over the last two decades there have been numerous reports from different seismically active regions of the world that thermal infrared (tir) anomalies can be identified around the epicentral areas before major earthquakes [e.g. (tronin et al., 2002)]. the tir anomalies reportedly appear as early as 14 to 7 days before the seismic events and affect areas as large as 1000s to 100,000s km2 in siz...

Images from the GOES 8 satellite were used along with auxiliary information such as snow cover to produce an hourly solar radiation database on a 0.1° grid for the Pacific Northwest from 1998 through 2002[1]. Both global and beam irradiance values were derived from the satellite images and diffuse values were calculated from the beam and global values. Data from the University of Oregon Solar R...

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Surface solar radiation forecasting permits to predict photovoltaic plant production for a massive and safe integration of solar energy into the electric network. For short-term forecasts (intra-day), methods using images from meteorological geostationary satellites are more suitable than numerical weather prediction models. Forecast schemes consist in assessing cloud motion vectors and in extr...