When monitoring deforestation, frequent images with an optimal spatial resolution are required. But in reality either images with low spatial resolution and a high revisit frequency or high spatial resolution images with a low revisit time are available. Combining different spatial and temporal resolutions could solve this problem. The study site in the Colombian Amazon contains small fields wi...

This paper asks how the benefits of municipal amalgamations compare to the costs thereof. It answers this research question by comparing the postwar experiences with such consolidation in a variety of OECD countries. First, this paper argues that nowadays upscaling local and regional government is popular. Many Western countries have plans to upscale local government or have already implemented...

Many super-resolution algorithms have been proposed for upscaling static images, yet upscaling video footages in real-time with descent quality remains a challenging problem. In this work, we started out developing a super-resolution video player based on upscaling from local self-examples[Freedman and Fattal 2010], for the approach is essentially suitable for applications where maintaining tem...

The upscaled models of reservoirs result in coarse representation of flow for simulation gridblocks. This representation discards subgrid heterogeneities and flow complexities which can lead to an inaccurate performance prediction for reservoir processes. To tackle the problem, reconstruction techniques such as multiscale or upscaling–downscaling methods have been developed to recapture the sub...

This paper asks how the benefits of municipal amalgamations compare to the costs thereof. It answers this research question by comparing the postwar experiences with such consolidation in a variety of OECD countries. First, this paper argues that nowadays upscaling local and regional government is popular. Many Western countries have plans to upscale local government or have already implemented...

Robust Numerical Upscaling at High Contrast

The interrelations between weight-function upscaling (measurement) and the definition of various nonlocal operators is explored. Let < f > = f∗g where f∗g is the convolution product which represents the effect of upscaling via an instrument (defined by g) on a field variable f and its localized counterpart. Nonlocal field variables are defined and employed for upscaling. In this talk it will be...

Problems related to brown plant hopper outbreaks management in the Mekong Delta-Vietnam are complex and need aggregating information across administrative scales. Brown plant hoppers density and environmental indicators are main factors that support stakeholders have suitable decision making. Due to detail levels of information are different from field scale to region scale, upscaling informati...

Due to heterogeneity of lands over ungauged/sparsely gauged watersheds at which the hydrological flows occur, there is a need to upscale the hydrological conservation equations to the scale of the grid areas of the numerical mesh laid out over the watershed which is being modelled. A literature review of the various methods utilized in hydrology for the upscaling of hydrological conservation eq...

This paper presents a general methodology to design macroscopic fluid models that take into account localized kinetic upscaling effects. The fluid models are solved in the whole domain together with a localized kinetic upscaling that corrects the fluid model wherever it is necessary. This upscaling is obtained by solving a kinetic equation on the non-equilibrium part of the distribution functio...