Sustainability Assessment of Road Marking Systems

A Comprehensive Framework in Sustainability Assessment of Agricultural Exploitation Systems

Introduction Lack of a comprehensive framework is one of the most important challenges in sustainability assessment of Agricultural Exploitation Systems. This is the reason of tunnel vision in many researches in the field of sustainability. The history of Agricultural Exploitation Systems in Iran is back to thousands years ago, when ancient Iranian tried to domesticate wild animals and cerea...

Criteria Assessment of Energy Carrier Systems Sustainability

An Assessment of the Sustainability of Agricultural Systems in Golestan Province, Iran

Sustainable agriculture is a holistic approach to produce food, fiber, feed and fuel in a way that does not damage the environment and also must meet the needs of the present and future population of the world, while considering agro-ecosystem health, social and economic equity and profitability. Therefore, the sustainable agriculture cannot be isolated from the concept of sustainable developme...

Road-marking Analysis for Autonomous Vehicle Guidance

Driving an automobile autonomously on rural roads requires knowledge about the geometry of the road. Furthermore, knowledge about the meaning of each lane of the road is needed in order to decide which lane should be taken and if the vehicle can do a lane change. This paper addresses the problem of extracting additional information about lanes. The information is extracted from the types of roa...

A Road Marking Extraction Method Using GPGPU

In driving assistance system (DAS), road marking’s data can provide important assistance for driving safety. As the input image usually includes unnecessary information, lane detection system usually needs to remove most unnecessary data except for the lane markings. In this paper, a road marking extraction method is proposed to separate the painted lane lines using a special designed band-pass...