Mountain resort development is having increasing effects on ecological functions in the intermountain West. High-resolution remote sensing has the potential to assist in monitoring this development. We evaluated classification of mountain resort development in the Big Sky, Montana, watershed using Quickbird 2.4-m multispectral imagery with an object-oriented classification. Quickbird imagery, h...

Volkman, Sarah, "Quickbird satellite imagery for riparian management : characterizing riparian filter strips and detecting concentrated flow in an agricultural watershed ", Master's Thesis, Date _________________________________________ iii ABSTRACT Riparian ecology plays an important part in the filtration of sediments from upland agricultural lands. The focus of this work makes use of multisp...

In this paper we present a practical and convenient 2D city mapping and 3D digital surface model construction technique based on data merge of spatial, spectral, and textural information of QuickBird High Resolution Satellite Imagery with precise Digital Surface Model (DSM) information of LiDAR data for an urban area within the city of Cairo. Due to recent increased demand for city mapping from...

This paper describes the processing of IKONOS and QUICKBIRD imagery of two different datasets in Switzerland for analyzing the geometric accuracy potential of these images for 3D point positioning, and orthoimage and DSM generation. The first dataset consists of panchromatic and multispectral IKONOS and QUICKBIRD images covering the region of Geneva. In the second area around Thun with a height...

In this work, we focus on investigating the Quickbird and Landsat-8 datasets for mapping hydrothermal and gossans alterations in reconnaissance porphyry copper mineralization in the Babbiduyeh area. This area is situated in the Central Iranian Volcano-sedimentary Complex, where large copper deposits like Sarcheshmeh as well as numerous occurrences of copper exist. The alteration zones are discr...

Image fusion is an important tool in remote sensing, as many Earth observation satellites provide both high-resolution panchromatic and low-resolution multispectral images. To date, many image fusion techniques have been developed. However, the available algorithms can hardly produce a satisfactory fusion result for IKONOS and QuickBird images. Among the existing fusion algorithms, the IHS tech...

This research study addressed and compared 3D physical and empirical models for stereo-processing and the generation of digital surface models (DSMs) from different stereo highresolution (HR) sensors (Ikonos and QuickBird). The 3D physical model is Toutin’s Model (TM) developed at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, and the empirical model is the rational function model (RFM). The study also ...

In this paper, work was carried out to simulate three-dimensional (3-D) tsunami run-up from high resolution remote sensing satellite data of QuickBird. In doing so, the tsunami wave spectra are extracted from QuickBird data using two dimensional di Fourier transform (2-DFFT). The tsunami propagation equation was then solved based on the standard Galerkin finite element approach to simulate 3-D ...

Polygon-based classification was performed on multi-scale images of SPOT4 XS, SPOT5 XS, IKONOS XS, QuickBird XS and QuickBird Pansharpaned (PS) covering an agricultural area located in Karacabey, Turkey. The objective of the study was to assess the classification accuracies of different spatial resolution images on an agricultural land using the polygon-based classification techniques. The exis...