The concept of Economic Traffic Management (ETM) encompasses various techniques for optimizing overlay networks considering both, underlay and overlay networks’ performance requirements as well as the resulting economic implications for ISPs. This work presents several mechanisms through an overall ETM System (ETMS), identifying the possibility for synergies between mechanisms, both in the sens...

In remote sensing images the gapping is a known phenomenon. There are several reasons for image gaps, e.g. shadowed area for SAR data sets, cloud coverage for optical imagery and instrument errors such as SLC-off failure. On May 13, 2003 the Scan Line Corrector (SLC) of Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor failed permanently causing around 20% of pixels per scene not scanned wh...

Interviewing stakeholders is a common way to elicit information about requirements of the system-to-be and the conditions in its operating environment. One difficulty in preparing and doing interviews is how to avoid missing the information that may be important to understand the requirements and environment conditions. Some information may remain implicit throughout the interview, if the inter...

Selective logging is currently a widely adopted management practice throughout the tropics. Monitoring of spatial extent and intensity of such logging is, therefore, becoming an important issue for sustainable management of forest. In spite of successful use of RS in various field of forestry, detection and quantification of selective logging is still a problem. This study explores the possibil...

An atmospheric correction tool has been developed for public web site access for the Landsat-5 and Landsat-7 thermal band. The Atmospheric Correction Parameter Calculator uses the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) modeled atmospheric global profiles for a particular date, time and location as input. Using commercially-available MODTRAN software and a suite of integration algo...

BP algorithm of neural net is used more in remote sensing data classification. One of drawbacks of BP algorithm is the overall low function when the net is training. To avoid this kind of problem, the paper introduces the tolerant rough set for classification-preprocessing the training data to reduce the influence elements of the training convergence in order to improve the net training success...

-This is the second paper of the series on atmospheric correction of ETM+ land surface imagery. In the first paper, a new algorithm that corrects heterogeneous aerosol scattering and surface adjacency effects was presented. In this study, our objectives are to 1) evaluate the accuracy of this new atmospheric correction algorithm using ground radiometric measurements; 2) apply this algorithm to ...

A thin film of electron-trapping material (ETM), when combined with suitable optical bistability, is considered as medium for optical implementation of bio-inspired neural nets. The optical mechanism of ETM under blue light and NIR exposure has the inherent ability at the material level to mimic the crucial components of the stylized Hodgkin-Huxley model of biological neuron. Combining this uni...