Minnaert constants (K) were derived from non atmospherically corrected, high-sun elevation angle Landsat TM data (8 June 1996 and 13 July 1997) and DEMs at 30x30 m spatial resolution using the IDL procedure developed at Dartmouth College. K constants were calculated for two contiguous areas in northern Apennines, the former (366 ha) covered by beech (Fagus Sylvatica) forest and the latter (343 ...

Nationwide geospatial databases in general and topographic ones in particular are today one of the most common infrastructure for mapping and other geo-related tasks. These databases are designated to establish an adequate, continuous and if possible homogeneous representation of our natural environment. New data acquisition technologies, which present high accuracies and resolution levels that...

A recent study from our laboratory has provided evidence for the generation of slow potentials occurring in anticipation to task-performance feedback stimuli, in multiple association cortical areas, consistently including two prefrontal areas. In the present study, we intended to determine whether these slow potentials would indicate some abnormality (topographic) in schizophrenic patients, and...

Land-surface topographic attributes can be useful for estimating stable spatial patterns of crop yield caused by spatial variability in soils and water availability. We present spatial analyses of grain yield for three fields of dryland winter wheat in northeastern Colorado using topographic attributes as explanatory variables. Topographic attributes including elevation, slope, aspect, curvatur...

This paper proposes a method of implementation of automatic contour line extraction from scanned digital topographic maps. First, color image segmentation is executed to recognize the features on digital topographic maps, second, morphological and filtering operations are presented to eliminate all unwanted information from digital topographic map except from contour lines. Then, resolving the ...

Several learning algorithms for topographic map formation have been introduced that adopt overlapping activa-tion regions, rather than Voronoiregions, usually in the form of kernel functions. We review and introduce a numberof fixed point rules for training homogeneous, heteroscedastic but otherwise radially-symmetric Gaussian kernel-based topographic maps, or kernel topographic...