Introduction: Quadrangle geological maps from Mariner 10 data cover 45% [1] of the surface of Mercury at 1:5M scale, e.g. [2],[3]. Orbital MESSENGER data, which cover the entire planetary surface, can now be used to produce finer scale geological maps, including regions unseen by Mariner 10. Hokusai quadrangle (0–90° E; 22.5–66° N) is in the hemisphere unmapped by Mariner 10. It contains promin...

Remotely sensed data are essentially used for land cover and vegetation classification. However, classes of interest are often imperfectly separable in the feature space provided by the spectral data. One of the most common attempts to improve image classification is the integration of ancillary data into classification. In this study, an approach for integrating topographic data into land cove...

Title of Dissertation: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF MULTIFREQUENCY IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY METHODS IN DYNAMIC ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY Gaurav Chawla, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Assistant Professor Santiago D. Solares, Department of Mechanical Engineering Force spectroscopy and surface dissipation mapping are two of the most important applications of dynamic atomic f...

Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful tool for mineral mapping and increasingly used in poorly-accessible areas. It only requires a limited amount of validation sample points, but can fail to discriminate spectrally-similar features. In this manuscript, we show that we improve the identification of interesting targets by including geomorphological data in the spectral mapping scheme. We jointly u...