Sedimentary rocks are of great importance for the oil and gas industry. Spectral matching using known references made on hyperspectral images is one of the most rapid and cost effective alternatives for the detailed a...
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(数字)9798331513139
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(纸本)9798331513146
Sedimentary rocks are of great importance for the oil and gas industry. Spectral matching using known references made on hyperspectral images is one of the most rapid and cost effective alternatives for the detailed analysis in these areas, since they can adequately catch the specific absorption features of the multiple minerals available. In many initiatives, scientists run the methods with standard spectral references, usually from spectral libraries or samples from other places. However, for the success of their application, they must be used along with spectral references that accurately describe the actual constituents of the surface. In this paper we scrutinize three different ways for mineralogical mapping performed by spectral matching techniques. The results showed that using reference spectra from samples collected directly on the surveyed environment can considerably improve the results, reaching high scores, pointing out that many places share common substances, but each specific material has particular differences that cannot be generalized.
Improvement in spatial resolution of remote sensing images will always be a hot-topic since the sharpening of image objects is mandatory for many appications. Even thought image instruments have received great improve...
Improvement in spatial resolution of remote sensing images will always be a hot-topic since the sharpening of image objects is mandatory for many appications. Even thought image instruments have received great improvements in the recent years, super-resolution techniques are welcome to increase even more the level of quality of the data for further interpretations. In this paper we present a multi-frame super-resolution approach that uses a set of UAV images acquired at the same spot, but with slight different perspectives caused by random fluctuations. The small off-sets between consecutive pixels of the low spatial resolution images are considered at subpixel level to feed an arithmetic system of equations able to produce high resolution pixels, which are the unknowns of the system. The results are soundness and could show visual enhancement. However, further developments is need to in deep undertanding and possible advancement of the designed approach.
Wearable devices have emerged from the evolution of communication and information technology, along with the miniaturization of electronic components. These devices monitor the user's physiology on a periodic basi...
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Workflow has become a standard for many scientific applications that are characterized by a collection of processing elements. Particularly, a pipeline application is a type of workflow that receives a set of tasks, w...
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Nowadays, data has become an invaluable asset to entities and companies, and keeping it secure represents a major challenge. Data centers are responsible for storing data provided by software applications. Nevertheles...
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Elasticity is one of the key features of cloud computing. It allows applications to dynamically scale computing and storage resources, avoiding over- and under-provisioning. In high performance computing (HPC), initia...
Elasticity is one of the key features of cloud computing. It allows applications to dynamically scale computing and storage resources, avoiding over- and under-provisioning. In high performance computing (HPC), initiatives are normally modeled to handle bag-of-tasks or key-value applications through a load balancer and a loosely-coupled set of virtual machine (VM) instances. In the joint-field of Message Passing Interface (MPI) and tightly-coupled HPC applications, we observe the need of rewriting source codes, previous knowledge of the application and/or stop-reconfigure-and-go approaches to address cloud elasticity. Besides, there are problems related to how profit this new feature in the HPC scope, since in MPI 2.0 applications the programmers need to handle communicators by themselves, and a sudden consolidation of a VM, together with a process, can compromise the entire execution. To address these issues, we propose a PaaS-based elasticity model, named AutoElastic. It acts as a middleware that allows iterative HPC applications to take advantage of dynamic resource provisioning of cloud infrastructures without any major modification. AutoElastic provides a new concept denoted here as asynchronous elasticity, i.e., it provides a framework to allow applications to either increase or decrease their computing resources without blocking the current execution. The feasibility of AutoElastic is demonstrated through a prototype that runs a CPU-bound numerical integration application on top of the OpenNebula middleware. The results showed the saving of about 3 min at each scaling out operations, emphasizing the contribution of the new concept on contexts where seconds are precious.
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