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No-Sampling Linear Sampling and Contrast Source Inversion methods for breast cancer microwave imaging
No full textA system for beach video-monitoring: Beachkeeper plus
Full text linkA suitable knowledge of coastal systems, of their morphodynamic characteristics and their response to storm events and man-made structures is essential for littoral conservation and management. Nowadays webcams represent a useful device to obtain information from beaches. Video-monitoring techniques are generally site specific and softwares working with any image acquisition system are rare. Therefore, this work aims at submitting theory and applications of an experimental video monitoring software: Beachkeeper plus, a freeware non-profit software, can be employed and redistributed without modifications. A license file is provided inside software package and in the user guide. Beachkeeper plus is based on Matlab ® and it can be used for the analysis of images and photos coming from any kind of acquisition system (webcams, digital cameras or images downloaded from internet), without any a-priori information or laboratory study of the acquisition system itself. Therefore, it could become a useful tool for beach planning. Through a simple guided interface, images can be analyzed by performing georeferentiation, rectification, averaging and variance. This software was initially operated in Pietra Ligure (Italy), using images from a tourist webcam, and in Mar del Plata (Argentina) using images from a digital camera. In both cases the reliability in different geomorphologic and morphodynamic conditions was confirmed by the good quality of obtained images after georeferentiation, rectification and averaging. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.Fil: Brignone, Massimo. University of Genoa; ItaliaFil: Schiaffino, Chiara F.. University of Genoa; ItaliaFil: Isla, Federico Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; ArgentinaFil: Ferrari, Marco. University of Genoa; Itali
The use of constraints for solving inverse scattering problems: physical optics and the linear sampling method
No full textPhysical optics is an asymptotic scattering regime where the wavelength of the incident field is much smaller than the linear dimensions of the scatterer. In such conditions, the inverse scattering problem of determining the object profile from measurements of the far-field pattern can be formulated in terms of a linear integral equation of the first kind. We apply an iterative algorithm with convex projections to scattering data corresponding to different conducting objects and discuss the complementarity between this physical optics approach and the reconstruction algorithm based on the linear sampling method. Finally, the two approaches are combined to increase the reconstruction accuracy
A free software for sand and gravel embayed beach modelling: PhoEbuS - parabolic equation shape
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Application of the parabolic bay shape equation to sand and gravel beaches on Mediterranean coasts: Reply to the comments of D.E. Reeve
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