In the context of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal realignment consists in reopening polders to marine waters favor ‘nature-based’ mitigation measures. Such operations have consequences on biodiversity, which vary depending parameters studied site features. this study, a multimetric indicator aiming evaluate predict potential ecological quality sites undergoing operation was developed...

This paper presents a new approach for integrating the segmentation and interpretation phases of scene analysis. Knowledge from a variety of sources is used to make inferences about the interpretations of regions, and regions are merged in accordance with their possible interpretations. The deduction of region interpretations is performed using a generalization of Waltz's filtering algorithm. D...

This paper presents a selected aspect of research conducted within the Gaugamela Project, which seeks to finally identify location one most important ancient battles: Battle (331 BCE). The aim this study was discover material remains Macedonian military camp on Navkur Plain in Kurdish Iraq. For purpose, three very high resolution satellite (VHRS) datasets from Pleiades and WorldView-2 were acqu...

Since December 2004 the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) has taken more than 135 000 digital aerial images with two Digital Mapping Cameras (DMC) from ZEISS/INTERGRAPH (Z/I). After three years of experience and with the new, fully digital, production lines well established, this paper analyses the performance of the digital camera in a true production environment, specially compared to t...

Effective conservation of woodland vernal pools—important components of regional amphibian diversity and ecosystem services—depends on locating and mapping these pools accurately. Current methods for identifying potential vernal pools are primarily based on visual interpretation and digitization of aerial photographs, with variable accuracy and low repeatability. In this paper, we present an ef...

Urban tree canopy (UTC) is commonly used to assess urban forest extent and has traditionally been estimated using photointerpretation human intelligence (HI). Artificial (AI) models may provide a less labor-intensive method estimate canopy. However, studies on how artificial estimation methods compare are limited. We investigated with estimates of other landcovers. Change in between two time pe...

Permanent crops, such as olive groves, vineyards and fruit trees, are important in European agriculture because of their spatial and economic relevance. Agricultural geographical databases (AGDBs) are commonly used by public bodies to gain knowledge of the extension covered by these crops and to manage related agricultural subsidies and inspections. However, the updating of these databases is m...

River floods are influenced by factors such as the duration, intensity and spacial distribution of precipitation and the land-use as well as the morphological characteristics of the river basin. While the characteristics of the precipitation are tied to the climatology of the region and can change only over the long term, anthropogenic land use changes exhibit a more pronounced dynamic. However...