To estimate global gross primary production (GPP), which is an important parameter for studies of vegetation productivity and the carbon cycle, satellite data are useful. In 2014, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch the Global Change Observation Mission-Climate (GCOM-C) satellite carrying the second-generation global imager (SGLI). The data obtained will be used to est...

This article sheds light on the impact of media economists' expectations for future economic developments. We conducted a worldwide expert survey and find that provides most economists with valuable information influences their expectations. applies significantly more in countries long standing democratic systems developing somewhat flawed institutions than newer democracies authoritarian regim...

The global positioning system (GPS) is one of the most important and useful technology that has been developed for information and communication technology. The propagated wireless signals along GPS link are affected by the ionospheric electron density irregularities, so the GPS signals may experience amplitude and phase fluctuations. The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) ionospheric sc...

Many drawbacks has been found in Hu’s moment Invariant or known as Geometric Moment Invariant (GMI). Due to its flexibility, GMI is still widely used by the researchers until now. This paper proposes an alternative approach, Weighted Aspect Moment Invariant (WAMI) by combining Weighted Central Moment (WCM) and Aspect Moment Invariant (AsMI) to solve GMI’s drawbacks in term of noise and unequal ...

Resource allocation is one of the challenges for self-management of large scale distributed applications running in a dynamic and heterogeneous environment. Considering Application Layer Networks (ALN) as a general term for such applications including computational Grids, Content Distribution Networks and P2P applications, the characteristics of the ALNs and the environment preclude an efficien...

Automatic segmentation and analysis of ancient mosaic images can help archeologists and experts build digital collections and automatically compare mosaics by means of image database indexing and content-based retrieval tools. However, ancient mosaics are characterized by low contrast colors, irregular tessella shape, orientation and positioning, making automatic segmentation difficult. In this...

To increase visibility and maintain return on investment of television news broadcasts (“digital property”, as termed in the television industry), web distribution is needed in addition to television broadcasts. This paper presents the results of a study on the use of metadata within Mexican television stations, analyzing those that fulfill a relevant function for representation and thematic re...

The ability to count people from video is a challenging problem. The scientific challenge arises from the fact that although the task is relatively well-defined, the imaging scenario is not well constrained. The background scene can be uncontrolled along with the illumination being complex and varying. Additionally, the spatial and temporal image resolution is usually poor. The context of most ...