Automatic cloud detection and classification using satellite cloud imagery have various meteorological applications such as weather forecasting and climate monitoring. Cloud pattern analysis is one of the research hotspots recently. Since satellites sense the clouds remotely from space, and different cloud types often overlap and convert into each other, there must be some fuzziness and uncerta...

Pasture biomass is an important quantity globally in livestock industries, carbon balances, and bushfire management. Quantitative estimates of pasture biomass or total standing dry matter (TSDM) at the field scale are much desired by land managers for land-resource management, forage budgeting, and conservation purposes. Estimates from optical satellite imagery alone tend to saturate in the cov...

The idea of assessing the damages to roads network after earthquake strikes has been referred as a matter of importance for performing every systematically planned activity in the affected region. When gathering information about the devastated region is crucially costly and time-consuming and in most cases impossible, high-resolution satellite imagery is hired to provide fast and accurate info...

Actualization of cartographic data using imagery is an important application in the earth sciences. Extraction of map objects such roads from satellite imagery are an important task in many civilian and military applications. Particularly, extraction of these objects from digital imagery is of major practical importance for data acquisition and update of geographic information systems GIS datab...

Since the successful launch of DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite and the availability of the data, QuickBird Imagery has quickly become the best choice for large scale mapping using high-resolution satellite images. First, the satellite has panchromatic and multispectral sensors with resolutions of 61-72cm (2-2.4ft) and 2.44-2.88m (8-9.4ft) respectively, depending upon the off-nadir viewing an...

This study examines the use of image processing and remote sensing in landuse changes mapping for Palladam Taluk between 1972(Topographic sheets) and 2011(satellite images). The layers of landuse map (1972) were digitized by heads-up digitization method in Quantum GIS (QGIS) software environment. Similarly the layers of landuse map (2011) were developed by supervised classification of satellite...

We examine the impact of incorrect atmospheric correction, specifically incorrect aerosol model selection, on retrieval of bio-optical properties from satellite ocean color imagery. Uncertainties in retrievals of bio-optical properties (such as chlorophyll, absorption and backscattering coefficients) from satellite ocean color imagery are related to a variety of factors, including errors associ...