Cloud computing offers the convenience of outsourcing storage and processing power to a public shared environment. Physical infrastructure is managed by the cloud provider, allowing hosted services to be deployed without any upfront investment. Cloud infrastructure may additionally manage deployment, migration, scalability, and fault tolerance, transparently from the hosted service. Serverless ...

Polar lows are small, but extreme cyclones that develop in marine polar air mass. They feature one of the largest natural hazards in the polar regions. Their associated strong winds, high waves, substantial amounts of snow fall, low visibility and possibility for ice accumulation on ships and airplanes cause threats for coastal communities and marine operations. Hence, accurate prediction of polar ...

CO₂ is a non-toxic, abundant and readily available gas, which has the potential to become an important carbon source in chemical synthesis. The clear advantage of CO₂ is its sustainability, in contrast to typical carbon sources such as oil, coal, or natural gas, which are in the process of depletion. However, the use of CO₂ also poses a big challenge as it features ...

<p><i>Change detection</i> is a thriving and challenging topic in remote sensing for Earth observation. The goal is to identify changes that happen on the Earth by comparing two or more satellite or aerial images acquired at different times. Traditional methods rely on homogeneous data, that is, images acquired by the same sensor, under the same geometry, seasonal conditions,and recording ...

Accurate sea-ice prediction is essential for safe operations in the Arctic and potentially also for weather forecast at high-latitudes. The increasing number of sea-ice related satellite observations in the Arctic can be used to improve the model predictions through data assimilation. For sea ice, sea-ice concentration (SIC) observations have been available for many years. Observational information ...

This thesis proposes a novel approach to explore and extract context information attached with images, mainly gathered from social network sites. I first performed a user study, to understand the user behavior on social network sites. I inferred that the relationship among users have central importance.<p> <p>To assist users to annotate images in social network, I use existing metadata gathered ...

The formation of metal and mineral deposits is closely related to the tectonic setting in which they form. Structures create avenues of net permeability that allow ore-bearing fluids to transport and deposit mineralization. In a deeper crustal setting these structures can be ductile shear zones, while brittle faults and fractures are the dominant fluid pathways in the upper continental crust. This ...

Porphyrinoids are a family of molecules, which consist of large ring structures or macrocycles. One of the oldest, and most important, of the porphyrinoids is the biological molecule called porphyrin. Since the dawn of life, porphyrins have orchestrated photosynthesis and oxygen respiration, two of the most important energy-generating processes in nature. In addition to porphyrins, other porphyrinoids ...

<p>Minimally invasive technologies to characterize the structure and functionality of biological samples on the cellular and molecular scale are fundamental to life sciences. Optical fluorescence imaging at visible wavelengths is able to acquire to do so. Due to the wavelike nature of light the maximum achievable resolution in conventional microscopy is limited by diffraction, about half the wavelength ...

Solar proton events cause large-scale ionization in the Earth's middle atmosphere leading to chemical changes, changes in the energy budget of the middle atmosphere, and radio wave absorption. The accurate implementation of the spatial impact of solar protons and other particle ionization sources in climate models is necessary to understand the role of energetic particle precipitation in natural ...