Tsunamis are caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a sea. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water have the potential to generate a tsunami. The coastal areas of Kollam district, the present study area was seriously affected by the catastr...

This paper describes a method to automatically construct a 3D geometric model of an urban area by merging features extracted from a cadastral map of the area and from the corresponding digital elevation model (Dem). The cadastral map and the Dem are both transformed into two sets of contour segments: The segments extracted from the map represent contours of buildings and blocks of buildings, wh...

Experiments using in-vivo microdialysis methods were conducted to investigate whether blood pressure changes cause an alteration in the release of noradrenaline (NA) in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) and whether the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor mechanism is involved in the modulation of the pressure response-induced alteration in the NA release. In urethane-anesthetized male rats, in...

purpose: to determine the sensitivity and specificity of posterior corneal elevation in discriminating keratoconus and subclinical keratoconus from normal corneas by galilei and orbscan ii diagnosed on the basis of topography. methods: three groups (keratoconus, subclinical keratoconus and normal) were evaluated with galilei and orbscan ii and results were compared to those obtained by gold sta...

Ecological monitoring of Arctic national parks is challenging owing to their size and remote locations. Baseline ecosystem maps are a basic requirement for monitoring and are often derived from classification of remote sensing data. In many cases, however, the vegetation communities of interest overlap spectrally and cannot be separated using imagery alone. One solution is to use ancillary spat...

The model presented in this paper derives toposequences from a digital elevation model (DEM). It is written in ArcInfo Macro Language (AML). The toposequences are called kth-order random toposequences, because they take a random path uphill to the top of a hill and downhill to a stream or valley bottom from a randomly selected seed point, and they are located in a streamshed of order k accordin...