Measuring glacier mass changes from space: a review

Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are currently losing mass rapidly with direct and severe impacts on the habitability of some regions on Earth as glacier meltwater contributes to sea-level rise and alters regional water resources in arid regions. In this review, we present the different techniques developed during...

Variability in wave impacts: An experimental investigation

The prospect of stricter national and international emission standards for the shipping industry are a driving force in the search for alternative shipping fuels, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG). However, new challenges arise with the widespread use of LNG. For example, there is a desire to use LNG cargo containment...

Glacier mass balance in the Nyainqentanglha mountains between 2000 and 2017 retrieved from ZiYuan-3 stereo images and the SRTM DEM

Mountain glaciers are excellent indicators of climate change and have an important role in the terrestrial water cycle and food security in many parts of the world. Glaciers are the major water source of rivers and lakes in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains (NM) region, where the glacier area has the second largest extent on the Tibetan Plateau....

Development of a high resolution topography and colour scannner: Applied to the craquelure pattern of paintings

Building classification of VHR airborne stereo images using fully convolutional networks and free training samples

Semantic segmentation, especially for buildings, from the very high resolution (VHR) airborne images is an important task in urban mapping applications. Nowadays, the deep learning has significantly improved and applied in computer vision applications. Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) is one of the tops voted method due to their good...

Topographical scanning and reproduction of near-planar surfaces of paintings

Paintings are near-planar objects with material characteristics that vary widely. The fact that paint has a material presence is often overlooked, mostly because we often encounter these artworks in the form of two-dimensional reproductions. Capturing paintings in the third dimension is not only important for study, restoration and conservation,...

Measurements on directional reflectance and aquisition of stereo information by CAESAR

CAESAR, a multispectral pushbroom-scanner, was developed in The Netherlands within the framework of the National Remote Sensing Programme. In 1988 the scanner became available for specific remote sensing research. CAESAR is capable of obtaining information on the directional reflectance of objects on the ground by the acquisition of...