• Characteristics of fragmented aurora-like emissions (FAEs) observed on Svalbard 

      Dreyer, Joshua; Partamies, Noora; Whiter, Daniel; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Baddeley, Lisa; Buchert, Stephan C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-04)
      This study analyses the observations of a new type of small-scale aurora-like feature, which is further referred to as fragmented aurora-like emission(s) (FAEs). An all-sky camera captured these FAEs on three separate occasions in 2015 and 2017 at the Kjell Henriksen Observatory near the arctic town of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. A total of 305 FAE candidates were identified. They seem to appear ...
    • Classification of Bulk Cargo Types Stored Openly at Ports Using CNN 

      Koirala, Madhu; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Ådland, Roar Os (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      In this paper, we present a novel concept of tracking cargoes at open ports using remote sensing images and convolution neural network (CNN) to classify various dry bulk commodities. The dataset used is prepared using Sentinel-2 atmospherically corrected (Sentinel-2 L2A) images covering 12 spectral bands. There are total 4995 labeled and geo-referenced images for four different cargoes-bauxite, ...
    • Classification of bulk cargo types stored openly at ports using CNN 

      Koirala, Madhu; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Ådland, Roar Os (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-10-20)
      In this paper, we present a novel concept of tracking cargoes at open ports using remote sensing images and convolution neural network (CNN) to classify various dry bulk commodities. The dataset used is prepared using Sentinel-2 atmospherically corrected (Sentinel-2 L2A) images covering 12 spectral bands. There are total 4995 labeled and geo-referenced images for four different cargoes-bauxite, coal, ...
    • Conformal Transformation Analysis of Capacitive Wireless Charging 

      Al-Sallami, Hussein Mahdi Yaseen; Hoff, Bjarte; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Østrem, Trond (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-30)
      This paper studies the capacitive coupling in a capacitive power transfer (CPT) system designed for charging applications. It proposes mathematical models using the conformal transformation for calculating air-gapped and underwater capacitance and verifies the proposed models using COMSOL multiphysics and measurements. The measured results show that we can achieve nano-farad capacitance ranges ...
    • Evaluations of UAV-enabled FSO Communications in the Arctic 

      Pottoo, Sahil Nazir; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Ho, Tu Dac (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022-02-16)
      This paper investigates the feasibility of using free space optics (FSO) for communication between multiple hovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and a detection unit (DU) in the Arctic. The uniqueness that sets apart UAV-based FSO systems from conventional FSO systems is the dynamics of the system since location and inclination of the UAV changes over time due to wind load and UAV oscillations. ...
    • Keeping track of samples in multidisciplinary fieldwork 

      Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Ferrighi, Lara; Godøy, Øystein Arne; Gabrielsen, Tove M. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-10)
      We here present methods, tools and results for efficiently collecting metadata and tracking samples collected in the field. The samples and metadata were collected during scientific cruises conducted by amongst others marine biologists, oceanographers, geochemists and marine geologists in the Nansen Legacy project. It is here reported on the successful development and implementation of a system ...
    • A new spectral harmonization algorithm for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 remote sensing reflectance products using machine learning: a case study for the Barents Sea (European Arctic) 

      Asim, Muhammad; Matsuoka, Atsushi; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Brekke, Camilla; Eltoft, Torbjørn; Blix, Katalin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-12)
      The synergistic use of Landsat-8 operational land imager (OLI) and Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI) data products provides an excellent opportunity to monitor the dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. However, the merging of data products from multisensors is often adversely affected by the difference in their spectral characteristics. In addition, the errors in the atmospheric correction (AC) ...
    • Observations of sunlit N2+ aurora at high altitudes during the RENU2 flight 

      Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Lorentzen, Dag Arne; Kenward, David; Hecht, James H.; Evans, J. Scott; Sigernes, Fred; Lessard, Marc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-24)
      We present measurements of sunlit aurora during the launch of the Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling 2 (RENU2) on the 13 December 2015, 07:34 UTC. The in situ auroral conditions coincide with those of sunlit aurora and were characterised by the 391.4 and 427.8 nm N<sub>2</sub> <sup>+</sup> emissions. A correlation between several auroral wavelengths, as measured by a meridian-scanning ...
    • TRACKING VOLUME CHANGE OF THE BULK COMMODITIES WITH INTERFEROMETRIC SAR 

      Wu, Zhenming; Ellingsen, Pål Gunnar; Jia, Haiying; Ådland, Roar Os (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Bulk commodities are crucial to global economy and modern society. Some commodities, such as grain, are normally stored in cylindrical tanks. The height of the tank’s roof may be correlated to the substance quantity inside the tank, indicating that roof displacement may be associated with the volume of the bulk commodities. Here we analyzed the displacements derived from C-band Sentinel-1 data ...