Advances of Forensic Remote Sensing Applications in the Face of Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism

2022 ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Elhoucine Essefi
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
The Face ◽  
Remote Sensing Applications ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter aims to investigate advance and relevance of remote sensing in detecting the increasing transnational terrorist and crimes acts. This work should take into the widest definition of transnational crimes and terrorist activities and the link between. Geopolitics has created a favor climate for the setting of transnational crimes and terrorism at the Tunisian-Libyan borders. A possible future scenario is the fall of a military base with high technology arms in the hand of terrorist groups. Remote would be relevant by monitoring of terrorist mobility and their number evolution, arms quality and quantity within the base and the region, linked illegal activities funding terrorist groups (human trafficking from Africa to Europe, arms trade towards Mali, and smuggling).

scholarly journals Remote Sensing Applications for Landslide Monitoring and Investigation in Western Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Renato Macciotta ◽  
Michael T. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Landslide Monitoring ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
River Valleys

Transportation infrastructure in mountainous terrain and through river valleys is exposed to a variety of landslide phenomena. This is particularly the case for highway and railway corridors in Western Canada that connect towns and industries through prairie valleys and the Canadian cordillera. The fluidity of these corridors is important for the economy of the country and the safety of workers, and users of this infrastructure is paramount. Stabilization of all active slopes is financially challenging given the extensive area where landslides are a possibility, and monitoring and minimization of slope failure consequences becomes an attractive risk management strategy. In this regard, remote sensing techniques provide a means for enhancing the monitoring toolbox of the geotechnical engineer. This includes an improved identification of active landslides in large areas, robust complement to in-place instrumentation for enhanced landslide investigation, and an improved definition of landslide extents and deformation mechanisms. This paper builds upon the extensive literature on the application of remote sensing techniques and discusses practical insights gained from a suite of case studies from the authors’ experience in Western Canada. The review of the case studies presents a variety of landslide mechanisms and remote sensing technologies. The aim of the paper is to transfer some of the insights gained through these case studies to the reader.

Coral reef remote sensing applications

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Kuchler ◽  
David L.B. Jupp ◽  
Daniel B. van R. Claasen ◽  
William Bour
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Remote Sensing Applications

Lossless Compression for Text and Images

1997 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 179-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Moffat ◽  
Timothy C. Bell ◽  
Ian H. Witten
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Lossless Compression ◽  
Lossy Compression ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Standard Methods ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Remote Sensing Applications

Most data that is inherently discrete needs to be compressed in such a way that it can be recovered exactly, without any loss. Examples include text of all kinds, experimental results, and statistical databases. Other forms of data may need to be stored exactly, such as images—particularly bilevel ones, or ones arising in medical and remote-sensing applications, or ones that may be required to be certified true for legal reasons. Moreover, during the process of lossy compression, many occasions for lossless compression of coefficients or other information arise. This paper surveys techniques for lossless compression. The process of compression can be broken down into modeling and coding. We provide an extensive discussion of coding techniques, and then introduce methods of modeling that are appropriate for text and images. Standard methods used in popular utilities (in the case of text) and international standards (in the case of images) are described.

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