the study area locates between an active fault system of north anatolian in turkey and active alborz and zagros mountain ranges in iran. the total shortening concluded from arabia-eurasia collision with a rate of 22 mm/year across the ne persia is partitioned  into  two  fault  systems,  right-lateral  strike slip  movements  in  the  turkish-iranian  plateau  like  north tabriz fault system an...

Focal-plane image processing refers to the integration of image acquisition and image processing functions in the same integrated circuit, or adjacent les. In this paper, the motivation for focal-plane image processing will be developed. Architectures for achieving such integration in high, medium, and low density imagers will be discussed. Future directions will be suggested.

An update on research activities at Columbia University in the area of focal-plane image processing is presented. Two thrust areas have been pursued: image reorganization for image compression and image half-toning. The image reorganization processor is an integration of a 256 x 256 frame-transfer CCD imager with CCD-based circuitry for pixel data reorganization to enable difference encoding fo...

A new smart-sensor VLSI circuit intended for focal-plane processing of grey-scale images is presented. The architecture is based on a fine-grain software-programmable SIMD array. Processing elements, integrated within each pixel of the imager, are implemented utilising a switched-current analogue microprocessor concept. In a 0.6μm CMOS process the cell size is equal to 98.6μm×98.6μm. A prototyp...