Classifying Federal Public Land Grazing Permittees

Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management in the Southwest

What Does the Quality of Public Land Imply for Federal Land Transfers?

INTRODUCTION Ownership of the public domain has long been a contentious issue between Western U.S. states and the federal government. The recent armed confrontations at Nevada’s Bundy Ranch and Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge are simply one manifestation of western frustration. Within the last five years the legislatures of seven Mountain West states (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,...

Classifying Public Key Certificates

In spite of the fact that there are several companies that (try to) sell public key certificates, there is still no unified or standardized classification scheme that can be used to compare and put into perspective the various offerings. In this paper, we try to start filling this gap and propose a four-dimensional scheme that can be used to uniformly describe and classify public key certificat...

Classifying Land-Cover Using Texture Statistics

We present a method for labeling the land-cover in an aerial image using image texture statistics and a trained neural network to interpret the texture data. The introduction includes a brief discussion of land-cover mapping and the types of land-cover classes we would like to identify. There is a section describing the texture statistics used and the Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix (GLCM) for c...

Collecting, Annotating, and Classifying Public Web Services

The limitations of the traditional SOA operational model, such as the lack of rich service descriptions, weaken the role of service registries. Their removal from the model violates the basic principles of SOA, namely, dynamic binding and loose coupling. Currently, most service providers publish their Web Services on their websites instead of publishing them in service registries. This results ...