Measuring centimeter-scale and smaller surface changes by satellite-based systems on the periglacial terrains and permafrost zones of the northern hemisphere is an ongoing challenge. We are investigating this challenge by using data from the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (ICESat GLAS) and the JAXA Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array t...

Introduction: The Genesis Mission carried four collector arrays which where exposed to the solar wind depending upon solar conditions, representing the major solar regimes: Interstream is the “normal” SW, <500km/s, collected for 334 days by the L-array; Coronal Hole wind with speeds about 500-800 km/s was collected by the H-array for 313 days; the highest average and variable speed, Coronal Mas...

Due to the increasing costs of high resolution satellite image data with stereo capabilities, products like accurate DSMs are becoming attractive for more and more users and applications. The Japanese optical sensor ALOS/PRISM which was launched in January 2006 has stereo capabilities by providing a simultaneous acquired image triplet. We have published several results of our evaluation of the ...

In the process of high resolution images orthorectification, an uneven distribution of ground control points in mountainous area results in the phenomenon of ground objects dislocation between orthophotos edges in the overlap area. Followed image mosaic, fusion and interpretation are seriously affected. High-resolution (2.5 m) panchromatic images with a 30% forward overlap of ALOS satellite wer...

From leveling to SAR-based interferometry, the monitoring of land subsidence in coastal transitional environments significantly improved. However, the simultaneous assessment of the ground movements in these peculiar environments is still challenging. This is due to the presence of relatively small built-up zones and infrastructures, e.g., coastal infrastructures, bridges, and river embankments...

Path following and obstacle avoidances are used in heading control path replanning for unmanned surface vessels (USVs), which have attracted the interest of many researchers over years. This paper investigates path-following avoidance problems USVs. First, on basis current position desired path, an adaptive line-of-sight (ALOS) algorithm is to obtain angle, sideslip angle compensation considere...

On 24 August 2016, the M 6.2 Amatrice earthquake struck central Italy, well-known as a seismically active region, causing considerable damage to buildings in the town of Amatrice and the surrounding area. Damage from this earthquake was assessed quantitatively by means of multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) coherence and SAR intensity methods using dual-polarized SAR data obtained from...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper was to profile staffing levels for allied health (AH) professional and support staff in Queensland Health inpatient general rehabilitation services (at a given point-in-time) and compare them against established profession-specific standards and guidelines in order to provide a reference for future workforce planning for these services. METHODS A statewide ...

We demonstrate here a computer code for calculation of time series and also mean and linear deformation rates from a set of coregistered unwrapped differential interferograms using a linear leastsquares inversion technique based on the small baseline subset (SBAS) algorithm. The computer code is written in C and uses a singular value decomposition (SVD) routine from the LAPACK library and the f...