The knowledge of auxiliary variables for entire population is a necessary task in many agricultural applications; for example a method widely applied to improve the efficiency of crop area estimations is the regression estimator (Cochran, 1977), that exploit the correlation between classified satellite images (auxiliary information) and ground surveys’ data. The regression analysis offer a lot ...

In the last decade several mining areas and corresponding dumps are subject to reclamation process in Bulgaria. We focused our research on one of the most important in the copper production for 20 year period for our country – Medet deposit. This mining complex consists of an open cast mine, the overburden dumps and a processing plant. After ceasing its exploitation in 1994 a rehabilitation pro...

This study intends to identify both general trends and subtle patterns of urban land changes of the past three decades in metropolitan Kansas City area. Landsat images were used to generate time series of land cover data from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. Based on remotely sensed land cover data, landscape metrics were calculated. Both the remotely sensed data and landscape metrics were u...

Mangrove forests, distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, are in a constant flux. They provide important ecosystem goods and services to nature and society. In recent years, the carbon sequestration potential and protective role of mangrove forests from natural disasters is being highlighted as an effective option for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The fores...

Hyperspectral image compression has received considerable interest in recent years due to the enormous data volumes collected by imaging spectrometers for Earth Observation. JPEG2000 is an important technique for data compression, which has been successfully used in the context of hyperspectral image compression, either in lossless and lossy fashion. Due to the increasing spatial, spectral, and...

Although it is well recognized that photointerpretation of the Landsat imagery can provide adequate information for mapping broad categories of land cover at a reconnaissance level, it is also true that the Landsat data in digital format (CCT's) together with numerical (computer-aided) analysis techniques can provide a great deal more information at a higher level of mapping detail with mapping...

Satellite technology produces data at an enormous rate. Most of the database research on the analysis of remotely sensed images concentrated on data retrieval and simple queries that involved spatial joins and spatial selections. For example, the Sequoia 2000 project [13] aimed at the retrieval of raster data, while the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [14] poses the need for the creation of multiterab...