Technological advances and increasing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery offer the potential for more accurate land cover classifications and pattern analyses, which could greatly improve the detection and ...

The presence of shadows in remote sensing images leads to misinterpretation of objects and a wrong discrimination of the targets of interest, therefore, limiting the use of several imaging applications. An automatic ...

Current urban conditions in central metropolitan areas demand emergency actions involving implementation of public policies and directives to minimize heat islands. Heat islands produce thermal stress and are harmful to ...

Different built-up structures usually lead to large regions covered by shadows, causing partial or total loss of information present in urban environments. In order to mitigate the presence of shadows while improving the ...

Field evaluations for studying the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases like dengue in urban areas are often restricted to selection of households and buildings for field surveys. Therefore, the resulting sampling frame ...

Field evaluations for studying the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases like dengue in urban areas are often restricted to selection of households and buildings for field surveys. Therefore, the resulting sampling frame ...