The goal for this thesis is to test various Hybrid-Polarization (HP) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) parameters using actual HP data, and to evaluate the validity of these parameters with respect to oil slick detection. As part of the evaluation, the impact of the system noise and incidence angle on the SAR images is discussed. It is shown that the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the sensor has a ...

Microparticles are trapped by optical forces created by the evanescent field present on the surface of an optical waveguide. An optical waveguide loop with an intentional gap is used to propel and stably hold the trapped particles. The particles are trapped in the gap of the loop by counter-diverging fields. Simulations indicate that particles trapped in the gap on a strip waveguide will be levitated. ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å karakterisere bølgeledere av silisium-rik nitrid, SiRN, med hensyn på koblingstap, propagasjonstap, tall på modi og feltfordeling. Det skal gjøres forsøk på å redusere tapet mest mulig ved å prøve ut forskjellige måter å koble inn lys og forbedre kuttingen av bølgelederene. Det skal også gjøres forsøk på å finne tykkelse og brytningsindeks på bølgelederene ved hjelp av ...

The studies about the climatic changes have always more underlined the importance of the climatic balance of the Arctic regions. For this reason the need of monitoring the Arctic becomes always more urgent. To measure the sea ice thickness, the sea ice cover, the motion of the glaciers and to discriminate the various kind of ice are only several of the challenges about the Arctic monitoring. But the ...

Segmenting and labelling tumors in multimodal medical imaging are often vital parts of diagnostics and can in many cases be very labor intensive for clinicians. The effort in advancing time-saving methods in the medical health sector might be of great help for busy clinicians and can maybe even save lives. Furthermore, creating methods that generically, accurately and successfully process unlabelled ...

The machine learning method, Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), has lately been introduced for chlorophyll content mapping from remotely sensed data. It has been shown that GPR has outperformed other machine learning and empirical methods in accuracy, speed and stability. Moreover, GPR not only estimates the chlorophyll content, it also provides the certainty level of the prediction, allowing the ...

In the field of Remote Sensing the main device, used to obtain the surface images, are the so-called Synthetic Aperture Radar. This systems are devices able to catch high-resolution images, which keep peculiar informations about the observed surface. Through the use of a Radar, mounted on board of a spaceborne or airborne vehicle, large overflow areas are electromagnetically radiating. The ...

I denne oppgaven ser vi nærmere på fenomenet tidsreversert fokusering som kan benyttes til å fokusere et signal i tid og rom. Mulighetene for tidsreversering er mange og prinsippet kan benyttes generelt ved overføring av både akustiske, elektromagnetiske og andre bølgeformer, der det er liten dempning av signalet under overføringen. I korthet går tidsreversering ut på å få en bølge som går fra et ...

This master project was inspired by challenges faced by commercial fisheries in the north of Norway of controlling food quality and food safety. In this thesis, four different ML models’ ability to do object and keypoint detection on specific anatomy parts of fish, has been studied. With the aim of recommending a suitable model to be part of a CV system for an industrial fish gutting machine that ...

Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is an abnormality that causes urine to flow back from the bladder to the kidneys, which may cause renal scarring and kidney damage. A non-ionizing and non-invasive VUR diagnostic technique, based on microwave hyperthermia, is under development. The possibility for improved hyperthermia efficiency and patient safety through implementation of ultrasound transducers is the ...