Roads are of important elements of urban infrastructure which directly and crucially affect the life of people in cities. The criticality of the roads network in urban areas justifies the efforts made to use remotely sensed data especially High Resolution Satellite Imagery (HRSI) to generate fast and accurate knowledge about road networks and to update road maps. Besides, on the way towards inv...

This paper presents an algorithm for near-real time registration of airborne video sequences with reference images from a different sensor type. Phase-correlation using Fourier-Melin Invariant (FMI) descriptors allow to retrieve the rigid transformation parameters in a fast and non-iterative way. The robustness to multi-sources images is obtained by an enhanced image representation based on the...

Identifying the optimal structure of terrain dependent Rational Function Models (RFMs) not only decreases the number of Ground Control Points (GCPs) required, but also increases the accuracy of the model, by reducing the multi-collinearity of Rational Polynomials Coefficients (RPCs) and avoiding the ill-posed problem. Global optimization algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), evaluate the d...

Official protection can play a major role in the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable management of endangered species habitat. Bozin and Marakhil Forest in Kermanshah province of Iran covers 23,724 ha of semi-arid Zagros forests. It was designated as a protected habitat area for Eurasian roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in 1999, a species that thrives on forest edge habitat. Using remote...

Vegetation in the Arctic is often sparse, spatially heterogeneous, and difficult to model. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has shown some promise in above-ground phytomass estimation at sub-arctic latitudes, but the utility of this type of data is not known in the context of the unique environments of the Canadian High Arctic. In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were created to mode...

Satellite images have been systematically explored by archaeologists to detect crop marks, which are considered as a proxy for the identification of buried archaeological remains. Even though several existing algorithms are frequently applied, such as histogram enhancements and vegetation indices, the detection of crop marks still remains a difficult task, while the final interpretation results...

This paper introduces an operational and extensible system for sensor modeling, triangulation, DEM extraction and stereo mapping of space borne pushbroom sensor images. The methods for sensor modeling and triangulation are introduced with the consideration of the newer sensors such as EROS A1, ALOS PRISM, FORMOSAT2 and THEOS satellite systems. They are based on the collinearity equation and bun...

When catastrophic earthquakes happen and affect cities and settlements, immediate and efficient actions are required which ensure the minimization of the damage and loss of human lives. Responding local and national authorities should be provided in advance with information and maps where the highest damages due to unfavourable, local site conditions and earthquake related secondary effects suc...