Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth Over Land by Inverse Modeling of Multi-Source Satellite Data

The Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), a measure of the scattering and absorption of light by aerosols, has been extensively used for scientific research such as monitoring air quality near the surface due to fine particles aggregated, aerosol radiative forcing (cooling effect against the warming effect by carbon dioxide CO2 ), aerosol long-term trend...

The Shortest Path Problem on Real Road Networks: Theory, Algorithms and Computations

This thesis contains the following subjects: - Several shortest path algorithms, both label-setting and label-correcting; - Unidirectional and bidirectional methods; - A* algorithms; - Symmetric and balanced estimators; - Preprocessing techniques. This thesis contains an elaborate, comparative evaluation of the various methods described....