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Radar for hydrology: unfulfilled promise or unrecognized potential?

Hydrology requires accurate and reliable rainfall input. Because of the strong spatial and temporal variability of precipitation, estimation of spatially distributed rain rates is challenging. Despite the fact that weather radars provide high-resolution (b ...

Elsevier2013

Detection of Floods In Sar Images with Non-Linear Kernel Clustering and Topographic Prior

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Devis Tuia, Frank Grégoire Jean de Morsier, Maurice Borgeaud

After a major flood catastrophe, a precious information is the delineation of the affected areas. Remote sensing imagery, especially synthetic aperture radar, allows to obtain a global and complete view of the situation. However, the detection of the flood ...

2013

New diagnostics for density measurement on Frascati Tokamak upgrade

Fabio Avino, Anton Petrov

In FTU, density profile is measured with two new diagnostics: a CO2/CO scanning interferometer and a time-of-flight radar (denominated refractometer). The first, using two scanning beams, can provide a plasma density profile every 62.5 mu s. Two lasers (CO ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Seasonal small-scale spatial variability in alpine snowfall and snow accumulation

Michael Lehning, Alexis Berne, Marc Schneebeli Zeugin, Danny Eddy Scipion Castillo

[1] In mountainous regions, snow accumulation on the ground is crucial for mountain hydrology and water resources. The present study investigates the link between the spatial variability in snowfall and in snow accumulation in the Swiss Alps. A mobile pola ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Detection Of Symmetric Junctions In Biological Images Using 2-D Steerable Wavelet Transforms

Michaël Unser, Cédric René Jean Vonesch

We present a method for designing steerable wavelets that can detect local centers of symmetry in images. Based on this design, we then propose an algorithm for estimating the locations and the orientations of M-fold symmetric junctions in biological micro ...

IEEE2013

A Variational Approach to Retrieve Rain Rate by Combining Information from Rain Gauges, Radars, and Microwave Links

Alexis Berne, Blandine Bianchi

Accurate and reliable rain rate estimates are important for various hydrometeorological applications. Consequently, rain sensors of different types have been deployed in many regions. In this work, measurements from different instruments, namely, rain gaug ...

2013

Improved rain rate estimation by combining radars, rain gauges and microwave links

Blandine Bianchi

The measurement of rainfall and its prediction at short lead times (often referred to as nowcasting) have important implications in hydrometeorology, and improving their accuracy may have an impact on various human activities. Indeed, the importance of now ...

EPFL2013

Enhancing the Performances of H-plane SIW Horn Antennas

Juan Ramon Mosig, Marc Esquius Morote, Benjamin Fuchs

The performances of SIW horns antennas diminish significantly when the substrate thickness is much smaller than the free space wavelength lambda(0). Specifically, the mismatch between the antenna aperture and the air yields to unwanted back radiation and p ...

Ieee2013

Influence of the DSD variability at the radar subgrid scale on radar power laws

Alexis Berne, Joël Jaffrain

Power laws relating the different radar observables (from conventional or polarimetric radar systems) are commonly used in the processing of radar measurements (e.g., attenuation correction) and in their conversion into rain rate values (e.g., Z-R relation ...

2012

A sun-tracking method to improve the pointing accuracy of weather radar

Alexis Berne, Marc Schneebeli Zeugin, Xavier Muth

Accurate positioning of data collected by a weather radar is of primary importance for their appropriate georeferencing, which in turn makes it possible to combine those with additional sources of information (topography, land cover maps, meteorological si ...

2012

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