A study on focusing in telescience using the TELEPODI breadboard

Microgravity experiments operated using telescience concepts face certain constraints. The effect of these constraints on the focusing task are identified. Four types of focusing strategy, which provide a natural means of focusing in the presence of these constraints, are described. Three specific strategies are implemented as part of the...

Telescience pilot experiment results using telePODI: Final report

The Prototype Optical Diagnostic Instrument (PODI) has been extended to Teleoperated PODI (TelePODI) to allow for the study of telescience and image processing for microgee related instrumentation. TelePODI has been integrated in the Telescience Test Bed, phase I, at ESTEC to simulate remote control. Telescience pilot experiments have been...

Telescience experiments using the prototype optical diagnostic instrument (PODI)

The breadboard called PODI (Prototype Optical Diagnostic Instrument) was developed following a study for a general facility for fluid experimental research on fluid physics in a space laboratory. PODI has been developed further for the study of telescience and image processing related to microgee instrumentation. The extended breadboard called...

Remote sensing en landmeetkunde

Working with Remote Sensing data can be generalized into four categories: - registration - processing - interpretation - presentation. A short overview of these four categories will be given. Emphasis will be put on the Dutch airborne multichannel pushbroom scanner CAESAR showing specific geodetic points of interest in working with Remote...

Quantitative updating of land use information on 1:50,000 scale topographic maps using spot landsat thematic mapper imagery

This report gives the results of a study carried out in the Remote Sensing Department of the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in The Netherlands concerning the updating of land use on topographic maps using remote sensing information. It was found that SPOT multispectral imagery is less suitable for land use classification purposes than...

Image data reduction with splines and segmentation with emphasis on earth observation

This report describes the results of a feasibility study on image data compression using spline approximation and image segmentation, with emphasis on earth observation applications. The main subjects dealt with, are: the data compression method, implementation aspects, the test software and test results. It appears that a reduction factor of 5...

Image quality criteria with emphasis on criteria for remote sensing imagery

Image quality plays an important role on the various levels of image processing. However, until now it lacks a survey of methods for the evaluation of image quality. With a grant of the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR) a study was performed with respect to the quantification of image quality. Some results of this study are...

Improvement of the superposition of geographical data in KOSMOSS

Since mid 1982, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI has to its possession a ground station (KOSMOSS), which receives and processes high resolution imagery, acquired from Tiros-N type weather satellites. To determine the weather positions in the images, the ground station is equipped with the capability to superpose, in real time,...

Design and Implementation of the Delft Image Processor DIP-1

This report describes the design and implementation of the Delft Image Processor DIP-1. In this pipelined image-processing computer, a number of storage and processing modules which operate concurrently and synchronously (hardware floating-point ALUs and multiplier, conversion table and cellularlogic table) may be interconnected in a...