1.0 Introduction Imaging Spectrometry data or Hyperspectral Imagery (HSI) acquired using airborne systems have been used in the geologic community since the early 1980’s and represent a mature technology (Goetz et al., 1985; Kruse et al., 1999). The solar spectral range, 0.4 to 2.5 μm, provides abundant information about many important Earth-surface minerals (Clark et al., 1990). In particular,...

Abstract. Over the past 50 years, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been one of major acquirers aerogeophysical data over Antarctica, providing scientists with gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets that have central to many studies past, present, future evolution Ice Sheet. Until recently, these were not openly available, restricting further usage for different glaciological geophysical applic...

Title of Thesis: SHADOW DETECTION IN VIDEOS ACQUIRED BY STATIONARY AND MOVING CAMERAS Antonio Trias, Master of Science, 2005 Thesis directed by: Professor Rama Chellappa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shadow Detection has become a key issue in object detection, tracking and recognition problems. Object appearances might be completely changed by the effects of shading and shad...

Introduction: This study was aimed to investigate the beneficial effects of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in treatment planning for patients with CNS tumors in order to decrease the injury of functional regions of the brain followed by increase in life quality and survival of patients. This study pursues a novel approach in planning for the treatment of brai...

High resolution multi-pass, airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is useful for surveillance and remote sensing applications. We present a technique for registering multiple high resolution SAR images, acquired from Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) and other airborne platforms. A global aane transformation derived from the sensor acquisition parameters is used to automatically register th...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 virus can cause morbidity and mortality in humans but thus far has not acquired the ability to be transmitted by aerosol or respiratory droplet ("airborne transmission") between humans. To address the concern that the virus could acquire this ability under natural conditions, we genetically modified A/H5N1 virus by site-directed mutagenesis and subsequen...

Previous work' has shown that epidemic diarrhea of infant mice (EDIM) is a virus-induced disease that can spread in mouse colonies by the airborne route. This fact made it imperative, under the ordinary conditions of animal care available at that time, to limit the incubation period of experimentally induced diarrhea to three days, since animals becoming ill after that time might have acquired ...

The rapidly growing use of sUAS technology and fast sensor developments continuously inspire mapping professionals to experiment with low-cost airborne systems. Smartphones has all the sensors used in modern airborne surveying systems, including GPS, IMU, camera, etc. Of course, the performance level of the sensors differs by orders, yet it is intriguing to assess the potential of using inexpen...