Stress is a significant factor influencing the clinical course of tinnitus. The auditory system is particularly sensitive to the effects of various stress factors (chemical, oxidative, emotional, etc.). Different stages of reaction (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) lead to different characteristics of tinnitus and to different therapeutic approaches. Individual characteristics of stress reaction ...

This paper presents a methodology of image orientation and DEM extraction from ALOS-PRISM stereopairs without the use of GCPs. It uses the approximate geo-location information derived from the sensor navigation instruments and the SRTM-DEM. The method consists in the extraction of a relative DEM, which initially is not correctly geo-referenced. This relative DEM is then matched to the SRTM-DEM,...

Verifiable trust is a desirable property for computing platforms. Current trusted computing systems developed by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) provide verifiable trust by taking immutable snapshots of the whole set of platform components. It is, however, difficult to use this technology directly in virtualized platforms because of complexity and dynamic changes of platform components. In this p...

Fractional tree cover (Fcover) is an important biophysical variable for measuring forest degradation and characterizing land cover. Recently, atmospherically corrected Landsat data have become available, providing opportunities for high-resolution mapping of forest attributes at global-scale. However, topographic correction is a pre-processing step that remains to be addressed. While several me...

This work presents a methodology for the refinement of shuttle radar topographic mission (SRTM-90m) data available for South America to enable detailed watershed studies in Amazonia. The original data were pre-processed to properly map detailed low-order drainage features and allowed digital estimates of morphometric variables. Spatial-resolution refinement (300 to 100, or 90 to 30m) through da...

[1] This paper investigates the potential of low‐cost spaceborne data to approximate longitudinal surface profiles during flood events on large rivers. In February 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) measured the elevation of most of the Earth’s surface with spatially continuous sampling and an absolute vertical accuracy between 5.6 and 9 m. The vertical error has been shown to ch...

The geodetic information of the terrain can be measured using remote sensing techniques such as photogrammetry, airborne laser scanner (ALS) and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). They are considered to be more cost-effective and complementary to conventional ground-based surveying methods. Differential InSAR (DInSAR) can be further used to monitor the dynamic change of the terra...

Interferometric SAR data should be filtered in order to remove the geometrical decorrelation caused by the presence in the signal pair of “incoherent” components not illuminated in both the passes. This operation is generally carried out, via common band filters, by assuming a planar topography whereas in the real, non-planar topography case, the problem becomes space variant. We discuss the ap...

This report addresses the problem of extracting topographic features from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) imagery. The features are used for Earth science applications and include slope, curvature, aspect, flow direction, flow accumulation and compound topographic index (CTI). The objective of our work is (1) to support topographic feature extraction similar to the one in ArcGIS, (2) to...

To date, the majority of digital elevation models (DEMs) are generated using photogrammetric methods. Recent remote sensing techniques, such as radar interferometry (InSAR), have also been used to generate high quality DEMs over a great area. Spaceborne high resolution DEMs with almost global coverage, such as SRTM, ACE2 and ASTER-GDEM, were made available to the public in the last few years. T...