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Slope Stability Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Techniques, Omar Alberto Conte Robles
Slope Stability Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Techniques, Omar Alberto Conte Robles
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
During the past six years the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) has spent over nine million dollars repairing slope failures that have occurred in the state of Arkansas. Specifically, higher than average precipitation in 2004 and 2008 led to large quantities of slides, all of which were repaired. Two highways, within the state of Arkansas, with known historical movements along or across the highways are being monitored using traditional surveying techniques and advanced remote sensing techniques. These slides, both of which are located in fill slopes. One a 500-foot long slide located north of Chester, Arkansas, within the …
Segmentations Of Through-The-Wall Radar Images, C H. Seng, M G. Amin, F Ahmad, A Bouzerdoum
Segmentations Of Through-The-Wall Radar Images, C H. Seng, M G. Amin, F Ahmad, A Bouzerdoum
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
In this paper, we examine the use of image segmentation approaches for target detection in TWRI. The betweenclass variance thresholding, entropy-based segmentation, and Kmeans clustering are applied to segment target and clutter regions. Real 2D polarimetric images are used to demonstrate that simple histogram-based segmentation methods produce either comparable or improved performance over the Likelihood Ratio Tests (LRT) detector. Specifically, the results show that, for the cases considered, the entropy-based segmentation outperforms the other image segmentation methods and the LRT detector.
Determining The Vertical Profile Of Reflectivity Using Radar Observations At Long Range, Kate Snow, Alan Seed, George Takacs
Determining The Vertical Profile Of Reflectivity Using Radar Observations At Long Range, Kate Snow, Alan Seed, George Takacs
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
The Vertical Profile of Reflectivity (VPR) plays an important role when estimating the rain rate at the surface and has been the subject of radar meteorology research for many years. The VPR can either be sampled directly from observations that are close to the radar where the impact of the convolution with the beam pattern can be ignored, or the parameters for a theoretical form for the VPR are estimated using the available observations or climatology. In either case, a significant difficulty arises when a rain band approaches the radar and quantitative precipitation estimates are required before any detailed observations …