The tremendous computing power needed for the inter­ active processing and generation of visual information is more and more becoming a major technology driver in the consumer market. Illustrative are the bench­ marks used by Mac World magazine recently at the in­ troduction of the new generation of Power PC MACs (a major commercial event) used to compare the process­ ing power of the Power PC ...

Land use and land cover (LULC) change is a common trend in all parts of the globe. The possible reasons might be economic, political, social or cultural motives. In Ethiopia, most rural urban people are highly dependent on eucalypts for various purposes, particularly, fuel wood construction materials. study area, Western Gurage Watersheds Omo-Gibe Basin, eucalypt plantations have become emergen...

The Imagine Stream Processor is a single-chip programmable media processor with 48 parallel ALUs. At 400 MHz, this translates to a peak arithmetic rate of 16 GFLOPS on single-precision data and 32 GOPS on 16bit fixed-point data. The scalability of Imagine’s programming model and architecture enable it to achieve such high arithmetic rates. Imagine executes applications that have been mapped to ...

First posted February 24, 2021 For additional information, contact: Director, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, MS-973Denver, CO 80225-0046 Multispectral remote sensing data acquired by the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor were analyzed using a new, automated technique to generate map of exposed mineral vegetation groups in wester...