This thesis is a philosophical analysis of the epistemic role of scientific data in biomedical research. It is comprised of an introduction (Chapter 1), three articles (Chapter 2, 3, 4) and a conclusion (Chapter 5). I use ...

Modern spaceborne SAR sensors like TerraS AR-X offer ground resolution of up to one meter in range and azimuth direction. Buildings, roads, bridges, and other man-made structures appear in such data often as regular patterns ...