SliceNet: Street-to-Satellite Image Metric Localization using Local Feature Matching

This work addresses visual localization for intelligent vehicles. The task of cross-view matching-based localization is to estimate the geo-location of a vehicle-mounted camera by matching the captured street view image with an overhead-view satellite map containing the vehicle's local surroundings. This local satellite view image can be...

Satellite image processing for the coarse-scale investigation of sandy coastal areas

In recent years, satellite imagery has shown its potential to support the sustainable management of land, water, and natural resources. In particular, it can provide key information about the properties and behavior of sandy beaches and the surrounding vegetation, improving the ecomor-phological understanding and modeling of coastal dynamics....

Clay-plug sediment as the locus of arsenic pollution in Holocene alluvial-plain aquifers

Shallow aquifers in many Holocene alluvial basins around the world have in the last three decades been identified as arsenic pollution hotspots, in which the spatial variation of natural (or: geogenic) arsenic concentration is conditioned by the meandering-river geomorphology and the fluvial lithofacies distribution. Despite the large amount of...

Unravelling the sandy shorelines dynamics derived from satellite images

Coastal zones all over the world have become heavily populated and developed due to the aesthetic value and diverse ecosystem services that they provide (Luijendijk et al. 2018). In recent years, however, climate change and anthropogenic pressures have exacerbated unprecedented coastal recession, threatening billions of dollars’ worth of coastal...