Publications
PhD Thesis
Reconstruction and Motion Estimation of Sparsely Sampled Ionospheric Data
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- Author: Matthew P. Foster
- Date: April 2009
- Copyright: See thesis copyright below. Note: this rather draconian copyright notice is mandated by the University of Bath. Please, feel free to use excerpts or diagrams without prior consultation, but reference this document where possible. In addition, sources for some images are available under a creative commons license.
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- The LaTeX source of the thesis is available online. I probably won't leave this up permanently, so clone it now if you think it will be useful to you.
- Some of the code used in this document is available online. Please see the other publications listed here for details.
- Some of the diagrams created for thesis thesis are available online with a creative commons license. The rest are in the git repository.
Journal and Conference Papers
An Evaluation of Interpolation Techniques for Reconstructing Ionospheric TEC Maps
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- Authors: Matthew P. Foster and Adrian N. Evans
- In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Volume: 46, Number: 7
- Date: July 2008
- Pages: 2153 - 2164
- DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916642
- Copyright: See IEEE copyright below
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Some of the code used in this article is available online.- Octave Scattered Image Toolkit - contains Octave functions for performing RBF interpolation and kriging, as well as semivariogram and ACF computation. Other functions are work in progress.
Performance Evaluation of Multivariate Interpolation Methods for Scattered Data in Geoscience Applications
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- Authors: Matthew P. Foster and Adrian N. Evans
- In proceedings: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- IGARSS 2008, Boston, MA, USA
- Copyright: See IEEE copyright below
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The slides for the associated presentation are available on slideshare.
Segmentation and Tracking of Ionospheric Storm Enhancements
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- Authors: Matthew P. Foster and Adrian N. Evans
- In proceedings: Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIV
- SPIE Europe Remote Sensing, Cardiff
- Volume: 7109, Pages: 71090O, Sept. 2008
- DOI: PSI/7109/71090O/1
- Copyright: See SPIE copyright below
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The slides for the associated presentation are available on slideshare. Some of the code used in this presentation/article is available online.- Matlab/Octave Diffusion Distance - code to calculate the diffusion distance between histograms.
Tongue of Ionisation Motion Estimation from Polar TEC Sequences
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- Authors: Matthew P. Foster and Adrian N. Evans
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- Volume: 6, number: 3, pages: 582-586, July 2009
- DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2019970
- Copyright: See IEEE copyright below
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Movies of the images sequences are available online, and will be included in the final submission.
Small Print
Thesis Copyright
© 2009 Matthew P. Foster Attention is drawn to the fact that copyright of this thesis rests with its author. A copy of this thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with the author and they must not copy it or use material from it except as permitted by law or with the consent of the author. This thesis may be made available for consultation within the University Library and may be photocopied or lent to other libraries for the purposes of consultation.
IEEE Copyright
© 2008 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
SPIE Copyright
© 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was (will be) published in Proceedings SPIE Europe Remote Sensing 2008 and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Reports and Guides
This section contains some reports and guides created during the course of my PhD studies, and before.
Writing MEX functions for image processing
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- Authors: Matt P. Foster
- Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
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The code in this report is available online.
PhD Transfer Report
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- Authors: Matt P. Foster
- Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
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This report was written during the first year of my PhD. Consequently it should not be treated as anything like reviewed academic work, and may be naive in places!Undergraduate Final Project Report
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- Authors: Matt P. Foster
- Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
