This paper deals with automatic road extraction from SAR imagery. In general, automatically extracted road networks are not complete, i.e., gaps remain in the erxtracted network. Especially in SAR imagery many objects occlude road sections and cause gaps, due to the side looking geometry of the SAR sensor. In this paper an approach for automatic road extraction is proposed that is optimized for...

background: this toxicological investigation involves a report on the death of four ‎occupants of a sport utility vehicle on one of the major busy federal roads of nigeria ‎where they were held for up to three hours in a traffic jam while the car was steaming.‎ methods: autopsy was executed using the standard procedure and toxicological ‎analysis was done using simple spectrophotometric method ...

We seek to start a dialogue about the challenges cancer control researchers and specialists may face in attempting to understand the Appalachians' experience with cancer. Through examples drawn from our own research among Appalachian communities, we discuss the hazards of defining a culture in order to develop culturally tailored cancer control interventions and programs. We also acknowledge th...

This paper proposes a dynamic path planning method based on discrete optimization applied to suburban highways or expressways. We optimize the generated candidate points according cost function and then generates local through quintic spline curve. The kinematics obstacle boundary conditions are set up improve reliability of planned path. Meanwhile, two-dimensional normal distribution function,...

One of the important items of highway information has been, and probably will always be, who should pay how much of the cost of building and maintaining roads and streets. Of similar importance is the question where should we spend the money collected in taxes for highways. Each year the highway officials at every government level have more roads which need to be rebuilt or maintained than avai...

Municipal engineers are faced with the difficult task of managing the urban roadway network. Maintaining this significantly large and expensive infrastructure requires effective planning and design. However, the majority of currently available design tools were developed originally for analyzing highway pavements. Little attention has been given in the past to urban road related issues. The env...

This paper describes investigations that have been undertaken on the effect of heavy vehicle traffic on residents. The study focused on sixteen roads in four North Island communities. The roads selected were predominantly regional arterial roads and had heavy vehicle volumes ranging from 2.1% to 32% of total traffic volume. The study had two main components, a residents' survey and an environme...

The years we are experiencing often identified as those of the Age Smart Technologies. is now a very popular term, with meaning clever, intelligent, sharp, quick on uptake. Its extensive can be grasped if consider it an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology to indicate essential features innovative technologies that characterize today's society in its daily life. Thus, a...