[1] Images from satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) reveal uplift of a broad 10 km by 20 km area in the Three Sisters volcanic center of the central Oregon Cascade Range, 130 km south of Mt. St. Helens. The last eruption in the volcanic center occurred 1500 years ago. Multiple satellite images from 1992 through 2000 indicate that most if not all of 100 mm of observed upli...

Food habits of tigers Panthera tigris and population attributes of prey species (population structure, density and biomass) were studied in the tropical dry deciduous forest of Pench National Park, Central India, from November 1998 to April 1999. Scat analysis and line transect method were used to estimate tiger food habits and density of major prey species, respectively. The 61.1 km intensive ...

An automatic analysis code, Anisomat+, was developed, tested and improved to calculate anisotropic parameters: fast polarization direction and delay time. Anisomat+ was applied on data coming from three zones of the Apennines in Italy. For each area, anisotropic parameters have been interpreted to determine the fracture and stress field taking into account the geological and structural settings...

Paranoá Lake is a man-made reservoir, created in 1959 with the city of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. The lake has a surface area of 38 Km 2 and an watershed area of 1046 Km, of which approximately 8% is agricultural. Around 450,000 people live in the catchment area. Contamination of Paranoá Lake and other water systems with organochlorine (OC) insecticides has been reported (Dianese et al., ...

A novel 32-element Doppler sonar system was deployed to observe waves and currents over a km-scale area of the open ocean. The measurements cover a pie-shaped area about 1.5 km in range by 45 degrees azimuth, with 7.5 m by 1.3 degree resolution. Acoustic sampling every 2.5 seconds over the entire area provides detailed directional wave spectra and simultaneously the response of the underlying f...

Despite significant knowledge management (KM) hype, we predict the "death" of KM as a discrete (product/service) entity after 2001. Indeed, successful KM must be integrated into specific business processes (e.g., sales, R&D) to support knowledge workers managing those processes. Users should avoid discrete consultancy KM offerings (currently, most are not tied to applications). While some firms...

Using remote sensing images, we provided the first complete picture of freshwater bodies in mainland China. We mapped 89,700 reservoirs, covering about 26,870 km(2) and approximately 185,000 lakes with a surface area of about 82,232 km(2). Despite relatively small surface area, the total estimated storage capacity of reservoirs (794 km(3)) is triple that of lakes (268 km(3)). Further analysis i...

A globally consistent methodology using satellite imagery was implemented to quantify gross forest cover loss (GFCL) from 2000 to 2005 and to compare GFCL among biomes, continents, and countries. GFCL is defined as the area of forest cover removed because of any disturbance, including both natural and human-induced causes. GFCL was estimated to be 1,011,000 km(2) from 2000 to 2005, representing...

Knowledge of an animal's home range is a crucial component in making informed management decisions. However, many home range studies are limited by study area size, and therefore may underestimate the size of the home range. In many cases, individuals have been shown to travel outside of the study area and utilize a larger area than estimated by the study design. In this study, data collected b...

The spatial characteristics of land cover are useful for understanding the various impacts of human activity on the overall ecological conditions of the urban environment. The multi-temporal Landsat images (TM) between the years of 1990 and 2003 were used together with the Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to evaluate the environmental changes in the area around Gabal El Hamza and ...