The planet Earth has hundreds of impact events, with some occurrences causing both in terms of human casualty as well as economic losses. Such attitudes of earth pushed the frontiers to develop innovative monitoring strategies for the earth system. To make that real, although, will require coherent and real-time data by observing the earth behaviour contiguously. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) a...

Geostationary (GEO) weather satellites have differed from low-Earth orbiting (LEO) weather satellites in that they have not carried microwave radiometers. The reason is that to get LEO resolution from GEO, one needs an antenna forty times as large. Even scaling the small AMSU antenna requires a 6-meter dish. As discussed elsewhere, a 3-meter antenna still provides adequate spatial resolution fo...

The “GEO (Global Earth Observation) Grid” is aiming at providing an E-Infrastructure to understand our Earth more insightful and more precisely, but faster and easier to worldwide Earth Sciences community. On the E-Infrastructure we are able to share data, application programs, and scientific workflows without knowing deep knowledge in IT where the grid technology is provisioned. GEO Grid provi...

Shoreline mapping and shoreline change detection are critical in many coastal zone applications. This paper presents results of the semi-automatic mapping of a coastal area of Lake Erie using 4-meter resolution multispectral (XS) and 1-meter resolution panchromatic (Pan) IKONOS Geo stereo images. An overview of the geometric processing of IKONOS imagery is presented. Then, the latest results of...

Sample data plays an important role in land cover (LC) map validation. Traditionally, they are collected through field survey or image interpretation, either of which is costly, labor-intensive and time-consuming. In recent years, massive geo-tagged texts are emerging on the web and they contain valuable information for LC map validation. However, this kind of special textual data has seldom be...

The processing of cloud free geo-referenced imagery is one of the preliminary processing steps of any land application. This letter describes the methodology developed to obtain a seamless cloud free composite of Africa for 2016 using Sentinel-2A data at 10-meter resolution freely available from the European Space Agency. The method is based on a hybrid method resulting from the merging of the ...

A low-cost aerial platform represents a flexible tool for acquiring high-resolution images for ground areas of interest. The geo-referencing of objects within these images could benefit civil engineers in a variety of research areas including, but not limited to, work zone management, traffic congestion, safety, and environmental impact studies. During the Phase II effort, a Remotely Controlled...

• Non-destructive system for in-wall moisture assessment of cultural heritage buildings. Geo-positioning microwave monitoring. Cultural preservation and safeguarding. In-depth wall measurement location the content. sites are exposed to several factors that cause their deterioration degradation, namely There destructive non-destructive methods available monitor moisture. However, avoided in prev...

abstract this paper presents a robust approach using artificial neural networks in the form of a self organizing map (som) as a semi-automatic method for analysis and identification of morphometric features in two completely different environments, the man and biosphere reserve “eastern carpathians” (central europe) in a complex mountainous humid area and yardangs in lut desert, iran, a hyper a...