satellite data have been used for temperature modeling both in urban areas and water. this paperstudies viability of aster satellite images that provide high spatial and spectral resolution to model watersurface temperature, as a fundamental water quality parameter. this study is focused on dez dam reservoirresiding in khuzestan province, south west of iran. after the image corrections required...

the study on water level fluctuation in the urmia lake has become of a great importance in recent years. this is due to the importance of the position of this lake as a natural heritage at an international level. the water level decrease at the urmia lake during the recent years has made it necessary to address the matter more than before. investigation and assessment of changes in the lake is ...

satellite imagery was used as a rapid and spatially explicit method to delineate crop residue cover and to estimate the use and intensity of conservation tillage. the potential of multispectral high-spatial resolution of worldview-2 local data was evaluated using 11 satellite spectral indices and linear spectral unmixing analysis (lsua). experimental plots were examined; residue cover was measu...

Determining the location and orientation of vehicles in satellite and airborne imagery is a challenging task given the density of cars and other vehicles as well as the complexity of the environment in urban regions around the world. We describe an accurate and flexible method for detecting vehicles using a template-based directional chamfer matching approach, and vehicle orientation estimation...

The proliferation of nuclear weapons poses great threat to international peace and security. How to strengthen the non-proliferation regime has become a central question. In May 1997, the IAEA Board of Governors adopted the Additional Safeguards Protocol to improve its ability to detect the undeclared production of fissile material. This new strengthened safeguards system has opened the door fo...

Using snakes to extract buildings from satellite imagery such as IKONOS and Quickbird is an active activity in remote sensing society. Building extraction from satellite imagery has more than 20 years of history but the automated extractions are still undergoing developmental stages due to increasing image variation, required level of details and higher resolution imagery are acquired. This pap...

There is a wide variety of geo-spatial data available on the Internet, including a number of data sources that provide satellite imagery and maps of various regions. The National Map, MapQuest, and University of Texas Map Library are good examples of map or satellite imagery repositories. In addition, a wide variety of maps are available from various government agencies, such as property survey...

The purpose of multispectral satellite imagery preprocessing for Land Cover Classification is creation of enhanced satellite images before further processing and imagery analysis with final land classification and automated linear object and area border detection for selected classes of objects.

Merging of different data sets is often used in digital image processing to improve the visual and analytical quality of the data. The analyst may need to merge different types of data. In this process, different data such as satellite imagery from the same sensor but with different resolution, satellite imagery from different sensors with varying resolution, digitized aerial photography and sa...