International audienceNowcasting of high resolution maps of direct normal irradiance (DNI) is of interest to efficiently operate Concentrated Solar Power plants. The paper presents a state-of-the-art and innovative methodology, developed in the framework of the FP7 DNICast project, to derive nowcasting of DNI maps from fish-eye cameras in stereoscopic mode. This methodology has been applied at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria: fish-eye cameras at distances from each other between 500 m and 900 m have been used in stereoscopic mode to produce nowcasted 1-min time series of decametric DNI maps

Massip P., Blanc Ph., Wald L., A method to better account for modulation transfer functions in ARSIS-based pan-sharpening methods. IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 99, 1-9, 2011, doi : 10.1109/TGRS.2011 1 Abstract-Multispectral (MS) images provided by EarthObservation satellites have generally a poor spatial resolution while panchromatic images (PAN) exhibit a spatial resolution two or four times better. Data fusion is a mean to synthesize MS images at higher spatial resolution than original by exploiting the high spatial resolution of the PAN. This process is often called pan-sharpening. The synthesis property states that the synthesized multispectral images should be as close as possible to those that would have been acquired by the corresponding sensors if they had this high resolution. The methods based on the concept ARSIS are able to deliver synthesized images with good spectral quality but whose geometrical quality can still be improved. We propose a more precise definition of the synthesis property in terms of geometry. Then, we present a method that takes explicitly into account the difference in modulation transfer function (MTF) between PAN and MS in the fusion process. This method is applied to an existing ARSIS-based fusion method: ATWT-M3. Simulated images of the sensors Pleiades and SPOT-5 are used to illustrate the performances of the approach. Though this study is limited in methods and data, we observe a better restitution of the geometry and an improvement in all indices classically used in quality budget in pan-sharpening. We present also a means to assess the respect of the synthesis property from a MTF point of view.

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Two outbreaks of trichinellosis in the Tarn et Garonne, département, France were reported by the departmental health autorities on 2 March 1998, to the Réseau National de Santé Publique (RNSP). An epidemiological investigation began on 3 March in order to.