Forests are crucial in carbon sequestration and oxygen release. An accurate assessment of forest storage is meaningful for Chinese cities to achieve peak neutrality. For an estimation regional-scale aboveground density, this study applied a Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI), Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2 (ALOS-2) L-band, Sentinel-1 C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) estimate ma...

BACKGROUND Anterior lens opacities (ALO) are found in 3-14% of pediatric patients with cataracts. No clear guidelines exist in the management and treatment of these cataracts. OBJECTIVE To evaluate pediatric patients with anterior lens opacities and assess rate of amblyopia and need for surgery over time. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on patients with unilateral and bil...

For optical images, cloud and cloud shadow is always a problem during image processing and interpretation. Landsat ETM+ images, as a kind of optical images, are affected by cloud too. On the other hand, microwave images such as ALOS PALSAR images, which depend on microwave, is not affected by cloud, thus they are cloud-free. The aim of this study is to develop a semi-automatic method for removi...

AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of management of diabetic foot problems (DFP) by the National University Hospital (NUH) Multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Team combined with a clinical pathway in terms of average length of stay (ALOS), readmission rates, hospitalisation cost per patient, major reamputation rate, and complication rate. METHODS 939 patients admitted to the Department of Orthopa...

Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array L-band type Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) backscatter images with 50 m pixel size (strip images) at HV-polarization were used to map clear-cuts at a regional and national level in Sweden. For a set of 31 clear-cuts, on average 59.9% of the pixels within each clear-cut were correctly detected. When compared with a one-pixel edge-eroded ve...

In previous attempts to identify aquatic vegetation from remotely-sensed images using classification trees (CT), the images used to apply CT models to different times or locations necessarily originated from the same satellite sensor as that from which the original images used in model development came, greatly limiting the application of CT. We have developed an effective normalization method ...

11 Retrievals of inherent optical properties (IOPs) and Chlorophyll-a concentration (Chla) was 12 investigated for AVNIR-2 images with 30-m spatial resolution and four bands in the southwest 13 tropical lagoon of New Caledonia. We corrected the atmospheric and sea-surface reflectance 14 iteratively through the retrieval of IOPs. After an additional correction of sea floor reflectance, 15 the es...

s contain over 100 comorbid diseases and severity measures that collectively summarize all the major associated diseases and functional status impairments. Moreover, the abstracts include AMI severity measures following the CCP’s expert advisory panel, which influence the appropriateness of major AMI treatment decisions and health outcomes (Noguchi et al., 2008). Table 1 presents the frequency ...