There is a wide variety of geo-spatial data available on the Internet, including a number of data sources that provide satellite imagery and maps of various regions. The National Map, MapQuest, and University of Texas Map Library are good examples of map or satellite imagery repositories. In addition, a wide variety of maps are available from various government agencies, such as property survey...

 Abstract— Satellite Remote sensing with repetitive and pan viewing and multispectral capabilities, is a powerful tool for mapping and monitoring the ecological changes. Analysis of the remote sensing data is faced with a number of challenges ranging from type of sensors, number of sensors, spectral responses of satellite sensors, resolutions in different domains and qualitative and quantitati...

The purpose of multispectral satellite imagery preprocessing for Land Cover Classification is creation of enhanced satellite images before further processing and imagery analysis with final land classification and automated linear object and area border detection for selected classes of objects.

aeolian process and subsequently soil erosion are key factors in dryland environments. such phenomena are related not only to geoecological factors (lithology, topography, and climatology) but also to land-use and plant cover changes. formation of new sand dunes in damghan explains the development of human activities over the past. the aim of this study is to explain the land use changes and th...

One characteristic of numerical weather prediction (NWP) practice in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (‘the Bureau’) since the early 1970s that distinguishes it from the practices in many other national meteorological centres has been the ongoing effort to incorporate the skills of manual analysis, including satellite imagery interpretation, into the initial states for NWP. Both the way in ...

The paper explores and assesses the potential uses of high resolution satellite imagery and digital image processing algorithms for the auto detection and extraction of geospatial features, farmlands, for the purpose of statutory plane surveying tasks. The satellite imagery was georectified to provide the planar surface necessary for morphometric assessments followed by integrated image process...

In response to widespread looting of archaeological sites, archaeologists have used satellite imagery to enable the investigation of looting of affected archaeological sites. Such analyses often require time-consuming direct human interpretation of images, with the potential for human-induced error. We introduce a novel automated image processing mechanism applied to the analysis of very high-r...

Recent growth of the geo-spatial information on the web has made it possible to easily access a wide variety of spatial data. By integrating these spatial datasets, one can support a rich set of queries that could not have been answered given any of these sets in isolation. However, accurately integrating geo-spatial data from different data sources is a challenging task. This is because spatia...