High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing

High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing
Author: Yuhong He
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0429893000

High spatial resolution remote sensing is an area of considerable current interest and builds on developments in object-based image analysis, commercial high-resolution satellite sensors, and UAVs. It captures more details through high and very high resolution images (10 to 100 cm/pixel). This unprecedented level of detail offers the potential extraction of a range of multi-resource management information, such as precision farming, invasive and endangered vegetative species delineation, forest gap sizes and distribution, locations of highly valued habitats, or sub-canopy topographic information. Information extracted in high spatial remote sensing data right after a devastating earthquake can help assess the damage to roads and buildings and aid in emergency planning for contact and evacuation. To effectively utilize information contained in high spatial resolution imagery, High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing: Data, Analysis, and Applications addresses some key questions: What are the challenges of using new sensors and new platforms? What are the cutting-edge methods for fine-level information extraction from high spatial resolution images? How can high spatial resolution data improve the quantification and characterization of physical-environmental or human patterns and processes? The answers are built in three separate parts: (1) data acquisition and preprocessing, (2) algorithms and techniques, and (3) case studies and applications. They discuss the opportunities and challenges of using new sensors and platforms and high spatial resolution remote sensing data and recent developments with a focus on UAVs. This work addresses the issues related to high spatial image processing and introduces cutting-edge methods, summarizes state-of-the-art high spatial resolution applications, and demonstrates how high spatial resolution remote sensing can support the extraction of detailed information needed in different systems. Using various high spatial resolution data, the third part of this book covers a range of unique applications, from grasslands to wetlands, karst areas, and cherry orchard trees.

The Future of National Infrastructure

The Future of National Infrastructure
Author: Jim W. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316558657

Infrastructure forms the economic backbone of modern society. It is a key determinant of economic competitiveness, social well-being and environmental sustainability. Yet infrastructure systems (energy, transport, water, waste and ICT) in advanced economies globally face serious challenges. For the first time, a leading team of researchers sets out a systematic approach to making long-term choices about national infrastructure systems. Great Britain is used as a case study to demonstrate how the methodologies and accompanying models can be effectively applied in a national infrastructure assessment. Lessons and insights for other industrialised nations and emerging economies are highlighted, demonstrating practical scenarios for delivering infrastructure services in a wide range of future socio-economic and environmental conditions. The Future of National Infrastructure provides practitioners, policy-makers, and academics with the concepts, models and tools needed to identify and test robust, sustainable, and resilient strategies for the provision of national infrastructure.

Deep Learning for Marine Science, volume II

Deep Learning for Marine Science, volume II
Author: Haiyong Zheng
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2024-11-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 283255640X

This Research Topic is the second volume of this collection. You can find the original collection via https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/45485/deep-learning-for-marine-science Deep learning (DL) is a critical research branch in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, encompassing various technologies such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), Transformer networks and Diffusion models, as well as self-supervised learning (SSL) and reinforcement learning (RL). These technologies have been successfully applied to scientific research and numerous aspects of daily life. With the continuous advancements in oceanographic observation equipment and technology, there has been an explosive growth of ocean data, propelling marine science into the era of big data. As effective tools for processing and analyzing large-scale ocean data, DL techniques have great potential and broad application prospects in marine science. Applying DL to intelligent analysis and exploration of research data in marine science can provide crucial support for various domains, including meteorology and climate, environment and ecology, biology, energy, as well as physical and chemical interactions. Despite the significant progress in DL, its application to the aforementioned marine science domains is still in its early stages, necessitating the full utilization and continuous exploration of representative applications and best practices.

Introduction to Small Area Estimation Techniques

Introduction to Small Area Estimation Techniques
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292622234

This guide to small area estimation aims to help users compile more reliable granular or disaggregated data in cost-effective ways. It explains small area estimation techniques with examples of how the easily accessible R analytical platform can be used to implement them, particularly to estimate indicators on poverty, employment, and health outcomes. The guide is intended for staff of national statistics offices and for other development practitioners. It aims to help them to develop and implement targeted socioeconomic policies to ensure that the vulnerable segments of societies are not left behind, and to monitor progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Time, Quantum and Information

Time, Quantum and Information
Author: Lutz Castell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662105578

The articles treat subjects such as the social responsibility of scientists, thermonuclear processes in stars and stellar neutrinos, turbulence and the emergence of planetary systems. Considerable attention is paid to the unity of nature, the nature of time, and to information about, and interpretation of, the structure of quantum theory, all important philosophical problems of our times. The last section describes von Weizsäcker's ur-hypothesis and how it will theoretically permit the construction of particles and interactions from quantized bits of information.

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2022-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781009157971

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Valuing Climate Damages

Valuing Climate Damages
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309454204

The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages - that is, the monetized value of the net impacts, both negative and positive - from the global climate change that results from a small (1-metric ton) increase in carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. Under Executive Orders regarding regulatory impact analysis and as required by a court ruling, the U.S. government has since 2008 used estimates of the SC-CO2 in federal rulemakings to value the costs and benefits associated with changes in CO2 emissions. In 2010, the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG) developed a methodology for estimating the SC-CO2 across a range of assumptions about future socioeconomic and physical earth systems. Valuing Climate Changes examines potential approaches, along with their relative merits and challenges, for a comprehensive update to the current methodology. This publication also recommends near- and longer-term research priorities to ensure that the SC- CO2 estimates reflect the best available science.

Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users

Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users
Author: Robert Tanton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9400746237

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial microsimulation models have been used to analyse health and social disadvantage for small areas; and to look at the effect of policy change for small areas. This provides a powerful analysis tool for researchers and policy makers. This book covers preparing the data for spatial microsimulation; a number of methods for both static and dynamic spatial microsimulation models; validation of the models to ensure the outputs are reasonable; and the future of spatial microsimulation. The book will be an essential handbook for any researcher or policy maker looking to design and create a spatial microsimulation model. This book will also be useful to those policy makers who are commissioning a spatial microsimulation model, or looking to commission work using a spatial microsimulation model, as it provides information on the different methods in a non-technical way.