Improving Earth hot-spot detection from MODIS data using MODVOLC algorithm

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gabrieli ◽  
Robert Wright ◽  
Harold Garbeil ◽  
Eric Pilger
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spots ◽  
Thermal Emission ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Anthropogenic Heat ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Lower Intensity ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Spot Detection ◽  
Modis Image

<p>Space-borne hot-spot detection on the Earth surface is key to monitoring and studying volcanic activity, wildfires and anthropogenic heat sources from space. Lower intensity thermal emission hot-spots, which often represent the onset of volcanic eruptions and large wildfires, are difficult to detect. We are improving the MODVOLC algorithm, which monitors Earth’s surface for hot-spots by analyzing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data every 48 hours, to allow lower intensity thermal emission detection. Improving the existing MODVOLC algorithm for hot-spot detection from MODIS image data is not trivial. A new approach, which we refer it to as the Maximum Radiance Algorithm for MODIS, has been explored. The new approach requires a MODIS 4 µm and accompanying 12 µm global radiance time-series at ~1 km grid spacing. This reference data set describes the maximum radiance that has been measured from each square km of Earth’s surface over a ten year period (having first excluded high natural and anthropogenic heat sources from the time-series, using the existing MODVOLC approach). For each new geolocated MODIS image data, the observed radiance for each pixel is compared with this reference, and if its radiance exceeds the historical maximum, it can be considered a potential hot-spot. A dynamic tolerance is used to then confirm if the potential hot-spot is an actual hot-spot. We show that this new approach for hot-spot detection offers significant advantage over existing techniques for lower intensity thermal emission hot-spot detection during both day and nighttime conditions.</p>

scholarly journals RSTVOLC implementation on MODIS data for monitoring of thermal volcanic activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodosio Lacava ◽  
Francesco Marchese ◽  
Nicola Pergola ◽  
Valerio Tramutoli ◽  
Irina Coviello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Mount Etna ◽  
Satellite Monitoring ◽  
Modis Data ◽  
Spot Detection ◽  
Moderate Resolution ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

An optimized configuration of the Robust Satellite Technique (RST) approach was developed within the framework of the ‘LAVA’ project. This project is funded by the Italian Department of Civil Protection and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, with the aim to improve the effectiveness of satellite monitoring of thermal volcanic activity. This improved RST configuration, named RSTVOLC, has recently been implemented in an automatic processing chain that was developed to detect hot-spots in near real-time for Italian volcanoes. This study presents the results obtained for the Mount Etna eruption of July 14-24, 2006, using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. To better assess the operational performance, the RSTVOLC results are also discussed in comparison with those obtained by MODVOLC, a well-established, MODIS-based algorithm for hot-spot detection that is used worldwide.

scholarly journals Potential Application of Hough Transform to Extract Hot Spot Delineated Boundaries using Landsat-8 Satellite Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 3550-3557
Keyword(s):  
Hough Transform ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Spot Detection ◽  
Canny Edge ◽  
Satellite Image Analysis

Coal fires, also known as subsurface fires or hot spots are all-inclusive issues in coal mines everywhere throughout the globe. Aimless mining over a period of past 100 years has prompted large scale damages to the ecosystem of the earth. For example, debasement in nature of water, soil, air, vegetation dissemination and variations in land topography have caused degradation. Research is needed to be more attentive on developing the prospective use of the satellite image analysis for hot spot detection because ground-based hot spots monitoring is time-taking, complex, cumbrous and very expensive. In this paper, a two-stage model has been developed to extract the hot spot delineated boundaries in Jharia coal field (JCF) region. In the first stage, contextual thresholding (CT) technique has been used to classify the hot spot and non-hot spot regions. After thorough processing, hot spots regions have been retrieved and for performance evaluation sensitivity and specificity are calculated, which suggest that hot spots were detected accurately in successful and efficient way. In second stage, the Canny edge detection algorithm is applied to detect the edges of the hot spot regions and then the binary image is generated, which is later converted into a vector image. Finally Hough transform is implemented on the obtained vector images for delineating hot spot boundaries. In future, delineated hot spot boundaries may be used to obtain the expansion or shrinking information of hot spot regions and it can be used for area estimation also.

Study on Heat Conduction in a Simulated Multicore Processor Chip—Part I: Analytical Modeling

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wataru Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Multicore Processor ◽  
Oxide Interface ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Target Spot ◽  
Spot Temperature

A system of temperature calculations is developed to study the conditions leading to hot spot occurrence on multicore processor chips. The analysis is performed on a physical model which incorporates certain salient features of multicore processor. The model has active and background cells laid out in a checkered pattern, and the pattern repeats itself in fine grain active cells. The die has a buried dioxide and a wiring layer stacked on the die body, and heat sources are placed at the wiring layer/buried oxide interface. With this model we explore the effects of various parameters on the target spot temperature. The parameters are the die dimensions, the materials' thermal conductivities, the effective heat transfer coefficients on the die surfaces, the power map, and the spatial resolution with which we view the power and temperature distributions on the die. Closed-form analytical solutions are derived and used to examine the roles of these parameters in creating hot spots. The present paper reports the details of mathematical formulations and steps of temperature calculation. The results for a particular example case are included to illustrate what can be learned from the calculations.

Thermal and Optical Enhancements to Liquid Crystal Hot Spot Detection Methods

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ferrier
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Thermal Modeling ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Optical Sensitivity ◽  
Spot Detection

Abstract Three enhancements to Liquid Crystal hot spot detection improve thermal and optical sensitivity while substantially maintaining simplicity, safety and relative low cost. These enhancements have permitted detection of hot spots unidentifiable by traditional LC methods. Details, capabilities and limitations of the enhancements are discussed, results of rudimentary defect thermal modeling are presented, and an improved metric for evaluating LC technique sensitivity is proposed.

scholarly journals Detection of Ki67 Hot-Spots of Invasive Breast Cancer Based on Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Mutual Information of H&E and Ki67 Whole Slide Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7761
Author(s):  
Zaneta Swiderska-Chadaj ◽  
Jaime Gallego ◽  
Lucia Gonzalez-Lopez ◽  
Gloria Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Mutual Information ◽  
Invasive Breast Cancer ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Cellular Proliferation ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Predictive Biomarker ◽  
Spot Detection ◽  
Color Deconvolution ◽  
Whole Slide Images

Ki67 hot-spot detection and its evaluation in invasive breast cancer regions play a significant role in routine medical practice. The quantification of cellular proliferation assessed by Ki67 immunohistochemistry is an established prognostic and predictive biomarker that determines the choice of therapeutic protocols. In this paper, we present three deep learning-based approaches to automatically detect and quantify Ki67 hot-spot areas by means of the Ki67 labeling index. To this end, a dataset composed of 100 whole slide images (WSIs) belonging to 50 breast cancer cases (Ki67 and H&E WSI pairs) was used. Three methods based on CNN classification were proposed and compared to create the tumor proliferation map. The best results were obtained by applying the CNN to the mutual information acquired from the color deconvolution of both the Ki67 marker and the H&E WSIs. The overall accuracy of this approach was 95%. The agreement between the automatic Ki67 scoring and the manual analysis is promising with a Spearman’s ρ correlation of 0.92. The results illustrate the suitability of this CNN-based approach for detecting hot-spots areas of invasive breast cancer in WSI.

Spatial Hotspot Analysis of Bucharest’s Urban Heat Island (UHI) Using Modis Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgiana Grigoraș ◽  
Bogdan Urițescu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Land Surface Temperature ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Hotspot Analysis ◽  
The City

Abstract The aim of the study is to find the relationship between the land surface temperature and air temperature and to determine the hot spots in the urban area of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. The analysis was based on images from both moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), located on both Terra and Aqua platforms, as well as on data recorded by the four automatic weather stations existing in the endowment of The National Air Quality Monitoring Network, from the summer of 2017. Correlation coefficients between land surface temperature and air temperature were higher at night (0.8-0.87) and slightly lower during the day (0.71-0.77). After the validation of satellite data with in-situ temperature measurements, the hot spots in the metropolitan area of Bucharest were identified using Getis-Ord spatial statistics analysis. It has been achieved that the “very hot” areas are grouped in the center of the city and along the main traffic streets and dense residential areas. During the day the "very hot spots” represent 33.2% of the city's surface, and during the night 31.6%. The area where the mentioned spots persist, falls into the "very hot spot" category both day and night, it represents 27.1% of the city’s surface and it is mainly represented by the city center.

The family Orthotrichaceae (Bryophyta) in flora of Russia: results of revision and biogeographical review

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. E. Fedosov
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spots ◽  
Latitudinal Gradient ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Taxonomic Composition ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Longitudinal Gradient ◽  
Biogeographic Pattern ◽  
The Family ◽  
North Pacific Region

Recent studies on Orthotrichoid mosses in Russia are summarized genus by genus. Orthotrichum furcatum Otnyukova is synonymized with Nyholmiella obtusifolia. Orthotrichum vittii is excluded from the Russian moss flora. Description of O. dagestanicum is amended. Fifty four currently recognized species from 9 genera of the Orthotrichaceae are presently known to occur in Russia; list of species with common synonyms and brief review of distribution in Russia is presented. Numerous problematic specimens with unresolved taxonomy were omitted for future. Revealed taxonomical inconsistencies in the genera Zygodon, Ulota, Lewinskya, Nyholmiella, Orthotrichum are briefly discussed. Main regularities of spatial differentiation of the family Orthotrichaceae in Russia are considered. Recently presented novelties contribute to the certain biogeographic pattern, indicating three different centers of diversity of the family, changing along longitudinal gradient. Unlike European one, continental Asian diversity of Orthotrichaceae is still poorly known, the Siberian specimens which were previously referred to European species in most cases were found to represent other, poorly known or undescribed species. North Pacific Region houses peculiar and poorly understood hot spot of diversity of Orthotrichoid mosses. Thus, these hot spots are obligatory to be sampled in course of revisions of particular groups, since they likely comprise under-recorded cryptic- or semi-cryptic species. Latitudinal gradient also contributes to the spatial differentiation of the revealed taxonomic composition of Orthotrichaceae.

scholarly journals Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110155
Author(s):  
Daniela Pirani ◽  
Vicki Harman ◽  
Benedetta Cappellini
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Family Meals ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Cold Spots

Drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the temporality of family practices taking place in the hot spot. It does so by looking at how breakfast is inserted in the economy of family time in Italy. Our data show that breakfast, contrary to other meals, allows the adoption of more individualised and asynchronous practices, hinged on the consumption of convenience products. These time-saving strategies are normalised as part of doing family. Although the existing literature suggests that convenience and care are in opposition, and consumers of convenience products can experience anxiety and a lack of personal integrity, such features were not a dominant feature of our participants’ accounts. These findings suggest that the dichotomies of hot/cold spots and care/convenience are not always experienced in opposition when embedded within family practices. Hence, this study furthers understandings of family meals, temporality and the distinction between hot and cold spots.

Investigation of On-Chip Hot Spot Cooling Using Microchannel Heat Sink

2013 ◽  
Vol 455 ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
Yun Chuan Wu ◽  
Shang Long Xu ◽  
Chao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
High Heat ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Microchannel Heat Sink ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Spot Cooling ◽  
On Chip

With the increase of performance demands, the nonuniformity of on-chip power dissipation becomes greater, causing localized high heat flux hot spots that can degrade the processor performance and reliability. In this paper, a three-dimensional model of the copper microchannel heat sink, with hot spot heating and background heating on the back, was developed and used for numerical simulation to predict the hot spot cooling performance. The hot spot is cooled by localized cross channels. The pressure drop, thermal resistance and effects of hot spot heat flux and fluid flow velocity on the cooling of on-chip hot spots, are investigated in detail.

scholarly journals Deletion Formation Between the Two Salmonella typhimurium Flagellin Genes Encoded on the Mini F Plasmid: Escherichia coli ssb Alleles Enhance Deletion Rates and Change Hot-Spot Preference for Deletion Endpoints

Genetics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takafumi Mukaihara ◽  
Masatoshi Enomoto
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Salmonella Typhimurium ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Direct Repeats ◽  
Replication Slippage ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Deletion Formation ◽  
Homologous Sequences ◽  
Deletion Detection

Deletion formation between the 5′-mostly homologous sequences and between the 3′-homeologous sequences of the two Salmonella typhimurium flagellin genes was examined using plasmid-based deletion-detection systems in various Escherichia coli genetic backgrounds. Deletions in plasmid pLC103 occur between the 5′ sequences, but not between the 3′ sequences, in both RecA-independent and RecA-dependent ways. Because the former is predominant, deletion formation in a recA background depends on the length of homologous sequences between the two genes. Deletion rates were enhanced 30- to 50-fold by the mismatch repair defects, mutS, mutL and uvrD, and 250-fold by the ssb-3 allele, but the effect of the mismatch defects was canceled by the ΔrecA allele. Rates of the deletion between the 3′ sequences in plasmid pLC107 were enhanced 17- to 130-fold by ssb alleles, but not by other alleles. For deletions in pLC107, 96% of the endpoints in the recA+ background and 88% in ΔrecA were in the two hot spots of the 60- and 33-nucleotide (nt) homologous sequences, whereas in the ssb-3 background >50% of the endpoints were in four- to 14-nt direct repeats dispersed in the entire 3′ sequences. The deletion formation between the homeologous sequences is RecA-independent but depends on the length of consecutive homologies. The mutant ssb allele lowers this dependency and results in the increase in deletion rates. Roles of mutant SSB are discussed with relation to misalignment in replication slippage.

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