In the article ‘Illuminating Resolution’ (GEO ExPro Vol. 8, No. 3) we described the evolution of seismic acquisition technologies that aim to achieve the geophysicists’ goals of illumination and resolution. One development featured in the article is the concept of extending the frequency content or bandwidth of seismic signals, especially at the low-frequency end, in order to achieve better ver...

High-resolution stereo satellite imagery is widely used in environmental monitoring, topographic mapping, and urban three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. However, a critical issue in these applications using high-resolution stereo satellite imagery is to improve the accuracy of point geo-positioning. This paper presents a framework for comparison of the performance of the three-dimensional (3D...

abstract this paper presents a robust approach using artificial neural networks in the form of a self organizing map (som) as a semi-automatic method for analysis and identification of morphometric features in two completely different environments, the man and biosphere reserve “eastern carpathians” (central europe) in a complex mountainous humid area and yardangs in lut desert, iran, a hyper a...

abstractâ iran country due to laying in the desert belt on the northern hemisphere, are dry and desert climate of many parts of it predominate. due to the same location in the atmospheric loss of human life and animal life and it has an important role. and according to the moisture sources in the country and located outside of the atmospheric loss from year to year fluctuations have other roles...

This paper proposes a new imaging algorithm based on a novel accurate range model to process the data acquired by Geosynchronous-Earth-orbital Synthetic Aperture Radar (Geo-SAR). The new range model, called DRM-5, is obtained from the 1–5th order Doppler parameters of spaceborne SAR. It is employed to describe the slant range of Geo-SAR during the super-long integration time. Furthermore, the t...

In the context of aerial imagery, one of the rst steps toward a coherent processing of the information contained in multiple images is geo-registration, which consists in assigning geographic 3D coordinates to the pixels of the image. This enables accurate alignment and geo-positioning of multiple images, detection of moving objects and fusion of data acquired from multiple sensors. To solve th...

A number of recent studies showed that digital footprints around built environments, such as geo-located tweets, are promising data sources for characterizing urban land use. However, challenges for achieving this purpose exist due to the volume and unstructured nature of geo-located social media. Previous studies focused on analyzing Twitter data collectively resulting in coarse resolution map...

Compared with low-Earth orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a geosynchronous (GEO) SAR can have a shorter revisit period and vaster coverage. However, relative motion between this SAR and targets is more complicated, which makes range cell migration (RCM) spatially variant along both range and azimuth. As a result, efficient and precise imaging becomes difficult. This paper analyzes and model...

The processing of cloud free geo-referenced imagery is one of the preliminary processing steps of any land application. This letter describes the methodology developed to obtain a seamless cloud free composite of Africa for 2016 using Sentinel-2A data at 10-meter resolution freely available from the European Space Agency. The method is based on a hybrid method resulting from the merging of the ...