The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), scheduled for launch in December 2008, will make the first space-based measurements of atmospheric CO2 with the precision, spatial and temporal resolution needed to characterize CO2 sources and sinks on regional spatial scales and seasonal to interannual time scales. Variations in surface topography have a direct impact on the retrieval of the columnaverag...

The quality and accuracy of DEMs derived from repeatpass InSAR is limited by atmospheric phase screen (APS) difference and decorrelation between SAR images. In this paper, we show a compromising but effective approach to avoid DEM gaps and remove height errors induced by the atmosphere. Existing low resolution DEMs are used as external data to improve the quality of interferometric DEM. Our app...

ASTER is a high-spatial resolution, multispectral imaging system flying aboard TERRA, a satellite launched in December 1999 as part of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS). An ASTER scene covering 61.5 km x 63 km contains data from 14 spectral bands. An ASTER Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is generated using bands 3N (nadir) and 3B (backward) level 1A images acquired by the Visible Near Infra-red...

PURPOSE This pilot study sought to determine the efficacy of using the Developmental Eye Movement (DEM) test in the adult, acquired brain injury (ABI) population to quantify clinically the effects of controlled, laboratory-performed, oculomotor-based vision therapy/vision rehabilitation. METHODS Nine adult subjects with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and five with stroke were assessed bef...

Ein wesentliches Ziel der Produktentwicklungsprozesse ist die fortlaufende Reduzierung der Komplexität ohne wichtige Merkmale aus den Augen zu verlieren. Weiterhin zeichnet sich die virtuelle Produktentwicklung durch eine durchgängige Integration verschiedener Produktinformationen und Produktmodelle aus, wobei dem Gestaltmodell in Form von CAD-Daten eine zentrale Bedeutung zukommt. Dabei basier...

We study the influence of particle shape on the shear band formation in quasistatic granular media in biaxial compression test using two-dimensional Distinct Element Method (DEM). Elliptical-shaped particles are used to study the influence of particle shape. We also report an experimental verification to check the ability of DEM to model elliptical particles created by the clustering technique....

Digital Elevation Model (DEM), while providing a “bare earth” look, is heavily used in many applications including construction modeling, visualization, and GIS. Their registration techniques have not been explored much. Methods like Coarse-to-fine or pyramid making are common in DEM-to-image or DEM-to-map registration. Selfconsistency measure is used to detect any change in terrain elevation a...

Visuospatial deficits have long been recognized as a potential predictor of dementia, with visuospatial ability decline having been found to accelerate in later stages of dementia. We, therefore, believe that the visuospatial performance of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia (Dem) might change with varying visuospatial task difficulties. This study administered the Wechs...

We prove the equivalence between the recent matrix model formulation of 2Dgravity and lattice integrable models. For even potentials this system is theVolterra hierarchy.