Accession Number:

ADA280950

Title:

Satellite Imagery and Topographic Data in Verification

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 17 Apr 1989-30 Jun 1992

Corporate Author:

LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY PALISADES NY

Personal Author(s):

• Simpson, David
• Lerner-Lam, Arthur

Report Date:

1993-09-28

Pagination or Media Count:

129.0

Abstract:

Analysis procedures, hardware platforms and software systems for the analysis of digital topographic data, satellite images, and generic time series have been developed. These have been implemented in a distributed processing environment on commonly available platforms and are available over Internet. Contact lerneratldeo.Columbia.Edu for details. Our imaging analysis methodologies have been applied to the southern border regions of the former Soviet Union. This area contains some of the most interesting tectonics on the planet and until recently has been relatively inaccessible to modern field programs. We demonstrate how views of available digital data sets can be combined to yield new insight and overviews of tectonic setting. A spatial- and time-domain deconvolution methodology based on inverse theory, which offers the advantage of adaptation to noisy data and incorporation of scientific constraints has been developed. It is applied to the problem of singular deconvolution of noisy time series as an example.

Descriptors:

• *TOPOGRAPHY
• *EARTHQUAKES
• *TECTONICS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• IMAGE PROCESSING
• MOUNTAINS
• ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
• DIGITAL MAPS
• SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY
• ASIA
• SEISMOLOGY
• TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
• MAPPING
• IMAGES
• USSR
• COMPUTERS

Subject Categories:

• Cartography and Aerial Photography
• Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy
• Seismology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE