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In this paper, we consider a problem inspired by the real-world need to identify the topographical features of ocean basins. Specifically we consider the problem of estimating the bottom impermeable boundary to an inviscid, incompressible,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Vishal Vasan , Manisha , Didier Auroux

Due to limited evidence and complex causes of regional climate change, the confidence in predicting fluvial floods remains low. Understanding the fundamental mechanisms intrinsic to geo-spatiotemporal information is crucial to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Aishwarya Sarkar , Jien Zhang , Chaoqun Lu , Ali Jannesari

This paper presents a method for the simulation of scour around arbitrary offshore structures. It is based on the solution of the Reynolds-Averaged-Navier-Stokes equations implemented in the OpenFOAM framework. The sediment is simulated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Janek Meyer , Kai Graf , Thomas Slawig

Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a popular geophysical method to estimate three-dimensional (3D) permeability fields from electrical potential difference measurements. Traditional inversion and data assimilation methods…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 M. K. Mudunuru , E. L. D. Cromwell , H. Wang , X. Chen

A Gaussian Process GP based ground segmentation method is proposed in this paper which is fully developed in a probabilistic framework. The proposed method tends to obtain a continuous realistic model of the ground. The LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Pouria Mehrabi , Hamid D. Taghirad

A Bayesian approach is developed to analyze change points in multivariate time series and space-time data. The methodology is used to assess the impact of extended inundation on the ecosystem of the Gulf Plains bioregion in northern…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-06-21 Chris Strickland , Robert Burdett , Robert Denham , Robert Kohn , Kerrie Mengersen

Sidescan sonar intensity encodes information about the changes of surface normal of the seabed. However, other factors such as seabed geometry as well as its material composition also affect the return intensity. One can model these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yiping Xie , Nils Bore , John Folkesson

In recent years an increasing number of observational studies have hinted at the presence of warps in protoplanetary discs, however a general comprehensive description of observational diagnostics of warped discs was missing. We performed a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Attila Juhasz , Stefano Facchini

We propose GAGrasp, a novel framework for dexterous grasp generation that leverages geometric algebra representations to enforce equivariance to SE(3) transformations. By encoding the SE(3) symmetry constraint directly into the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Tao Zhong , Christine Allen-Blanchette

The ocean interior regulates Earth's climate but remains sparsely observed due to limited in situ measurements, while satellite observations are restricted to the surface. We present a depth-aware generative framework for reconstructing…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Niloofar Asefi , Tianning Wu , Ruoying He , Ashesh Chattopadhyay

We introduce a nonstationary spatio-temporal statistical model for gridded data on the sphere. The model specifies a computationally convenient covariance structure that depends on heterogeneous geography. Widely used statistical models on…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-25 Stefano Castruccio , Joseph Guinness

Many subsurface engineering applications require accurate knowledge of the in-situ state of stress for their safe design and operation. Existing methods to meet this need primarily include field measurements for estimating one or more of…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ting Bao , Jeff Burghardt

Spatially 3-dimensional seismic full waveform inversion (3D FWI) is a highly nonlinear and computationally demanding inverse problem that constructs 3D subsurface seismic velocity structures using seismic waveform data. To characterise…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Xuebin Zhao , Andrew Curtis

Understanding the orientation of geological structures is crucial for analyzing the complexity of the Earths' subsurface. For instance, information about geological structure orientation can be incorporated into local anisotropic…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Ali Gholami , Silvia Gazzola

3D situational awareness is critical for any autonomous system. However, when operating underwater, environmental conditions often dictate the use of acoustic sensors. These acoustic sensors are plagued by high noise and a lack of 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-06 John McConnell , Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

The growing number of seismic and elastic attributes poses a challenge, making the full benefit from each attribute in characterizing geological formation very difficult, if not impossible. Various approaches are routinely employed to…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Mohammed Farfour , Rachid Hedjam , Douglas Foster , Said Gaci

Learning to estimate 3D geometry in a single image by watching unlabeled videos via deep convolutional network is attracting significant attention. In this paper, we introduce a "3D as-smooth-as-possible (3D-ASAP)" prior inside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Zhenheng Yang , Peng Wang , Yang Wang , Wei Xu , Ram Nevatia

Sea surface temperature (SST) is a fundamental determinant of global climate dynamics and economic activity. Reliable projections of future SST patterns depend critically on a rigorous characterization of the underlying spatial random…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Marchesin , Alessandra Menafoglio , Piercesare Secchi

The rigorous quantification of uncertainty in geophysical inversions is a challenging problem. Inversions are often ill-posed and the likelihood surface may be multi-modal; properties of any single mode become inadequate uncertainty…

We present a framework for inference for spatial processes that have actual values imperfectly represented by data. Environmental processes represented as spatial fields, either at fixed time points, or aggregated over fixed time periods,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-27 Benjamin D. Youngman , David B. Stephenson