• Analyzing COVID-19 Impacts on Vehicle Travels and Daily Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Levels among Florida Counties 

      Karaer, Alican; Balafkan, Nozhan; Gazzea, Michele; Arghandeh, Reza; Ozguven, Eren Erman (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing social distancing behaviors resulted in substantial reduction on traffic, making this a unique experiment on observing the air quality. Such an experiment is also supplemental to the smart ...
    • Automated Power Lines Vegetation Monitoring using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery 

      Gazzea, Michele; Pacevicius, Michael Felix; Dammann, Dyre Oliver; Sapronova, Alla; Lunde, Torleif Markussen; Arghandeh, Reza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Vegetation Management is a significant preventive maintenance expense in many power transmission and distribution companies. Traditional Vegetation Management operational practices have proven ineffective and are rapidly ...
    • Automated Satellite-based Assessment of Hurricane Impacts on Roadways 

      Gazzea, Michele; Karaer, Alican; Ghorbanzadeh, Mahyar; Balafkan, Nozhan; Abichou, Tarek; Ozguven, Eren Erman; Arghandeh, Reza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      During extreme weather events like hurricanes, trees can cause significant challenges for the local communities with roadway closures or power outages. Local responders must act quickly with information regarding the extent ...
    • Day-ahead inflow forecasting using causal empirical decomposition 

      Yousefi, Mojtaba; Cheng, Xiaomei; Gazzea, Michele; Wierling, August Hubert; Rajasekharan, Jayaprakash; Helseth, Arild; Farahmand, Hossein; Arghandeh, Reza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      It is essential to have accurate and reliable daily-inflow forecasting to improve short-term hydropower scheduling. This paper proposes a Causal multivariate Empirical mode Decomposition (CED) framework as a complementary ...
    • MARU-Net: Multiscale Attention Gated Residual U-Net With Contrastive Loss for SAR-Optical Image Matching 

      Gazzea, Michele; Sommervold, Oscar; Arghandeh, Reza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Accurate synthetic aperture radar-optical matching is essential for combining the complementary information from the two sensors. However, the main challenge is overcoming the different heterogeneous characteristics of the ...
    • A Survey on SAR and Optical Satellite Image Registration 

      Sommervold, Oscar; Gazzea, Michele; Arghandeh, Reza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      After decades of research, automatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-optical registration remains an unsolved problem. SAR and optical satellites utilize different imaging mechanisms, resulting in imagery with dissimilar ...
    • Traffic monitoring system design considering multi-hazard disaster risks 

      Gazzea, Michele; Miraki, Amir; Alisan, Onur; Kuglitsch, Monique M.; Pelivan, Ivanka; Ozguven, Eren Erman; Arghandeh, Reza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Roadways are critical infrastructure in our society, providing services for people through and between cities. However, they are prone to closures and disruptions, especially after extreme weather events like hurricanes. ...