Multisource and Multitemporal Data Fusion in Remote Sensing

The sharp and recent increase in the availability of data captured by different sensors combined with their considerably heterogeneous natures poses a serious challenge for the effective and efficient processing of remotely sensed data. Such an increase in remote sensing and ancillary datasets, however, opens up the possibility of utilizing multimodal datasets in a joint manner to further improve the performance of the processing approaches with respect to the application at hand. Multisource data fusion has, therefore, received enormous attention from researchers worldwide for a wide variety of applications. Moreover, thanks to the revisit capability of several spaceborne sensors, the integration of the temporal information with the spatial and/or spectral/backscattering information of the remotely sensed data is possible and helps to move from a representation of 2D/3D data to 4D data structures, where the time variable adds new information as well as challenges for the information extraction algorithms. There are a huge number of research works dedicated to multisource and multitemporal data fusion, but the methods for the fusion of different modalities have expanded in different paths according to each research community. This paper brings together the advances of multisource and multitemporal data fusion approaches with respect to different research communities and provides a thorough and discipline-specific starting point for researchers at different levels (i.e., students, researchers, and senior researchers) willing to conduct novel investigations on this challenging topic by supplying sufficient detail and references

LHC Heavy-Ion Collimation Quench Test at 6.37Z TeV

This note summarizes the collimation quench test MD with 208Pb82+ beams at 6.37Z TeV in which a quench of a dipole magnet in the dispersion suppressor (DS) downstream of the betatron collimation region (IR7) was achieved. The aim of the test was to experimentally validate the quench limit in this region by means of inducing high losses at the LHC collimation system and quench the magnet with the collimation debris mainly lost at the IR7 DS. It was the first test with heavy-ions in which the transverse damper (ADT) could be used to induce these losses over extended periods of time (approximately 10-15s) while previous tests used tune resonance crossing methods in which the beam loss is less controllable and faster. The quench was achieved at a beam loss rate of 15 kW. The note summarizes the measurement strategy, technical realization, the test results and implications for future heavy-ion operation