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IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Surface-flow Characteristics in Glaciated Landscapes
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of the US and Canada is characterized by thousands of shallow, water-filled depressions with sizes ranging from a fraction of a hectare to several...
Janet Gritzner
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
General Framework on Change Detection in a Sparse Domain
The paper presents a general framework for change detection in radar images, for an operational purpose and in the context of environmental monitoring. This framework is based on ...
Abdourrahmane M. Atto, Grégoire Mercier, Do...
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
The Use of ORFEO ToolBox in the Context of Map Updating
This paper presents experiments with the ORFEO ToolBox (OTB) developed by the CNES in the context of the Brussels project ARMURS about map updating. Depending on the availability ...
Christophe Simler, Charles Beumier, Christine Leig...
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing the Dimensionality of Hyperspectral Data using Diffusion Maps
We examine the analysis of hyperspectral data produced by the Hyperspectral Core Imager of AngloGold Ashanti. The dimension of the data is reduced using diffusion maps and the dat...
Luis du Plessis, Steven Damelin, Michael Sears
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Microwave Radiometer Inter-calibration using the Vicarious Calibration Method
The vicarious cold and warm calibration methods of Ruf, and Brown and Ruf, have been used to assess the calibration of the WindSat radiometer as well as the biases of the TMI, SSM...
Darren McKague, Christopher Ruf, John Puckett
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Improving NDVI Time Series Class Separation using an Extended Kalman Filter
It is proposed that the NDVI time series derived from MODIS multitemporal remote sensing data can be modelled as a triply (mean, phase and amplitude) modulated cosine function. A ...
Waldo Kleynhans, J. Corne Olivier, Brian P. Salmon...
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Developing a New Automated Tool for Detecting and Monitoring Dust and Sand Storms using MODIS and Meteosat SEVIRI-MSG Data
In the last three decades, significant advances have been made in mapping and monitoring environmental changes from Earth Observation satellites across a range of spatial and temp...
Hosni Ghedira, Adnan Al Rais
IGARSS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Within- and Between-class Variability of Spectrally Similar Tree Species
In this paper, a comparison is made through evaluating the withinand between-class species variability for the original, the first derivative and second derivative spectra. For ea...
Pravesh Debba, Moses Azong Cho, Renaud Mathieu