1.1 The intention behind the publication in 1989 of "Midlands Prehistory: Some recent and current researches into the prehistory of central England", was to show that the Midlands was "far from the prehistoric wilderness that was once envisaged" (Gibson 1989, 3). This collection of papers provided a demonstration of how the combined efforts of aerial photography, fieldwalking and rescue archaeo...

A Semi-Automatic Building Extraction system using two or more digitized overlapping aerial images has been enhanced by increased automation for the measurement of saddle-back-roof buildings, hip-roof buildings and boxes. All newly developed modules have been incorporated in the object oriented design of the system. The new methods consist of a ground-point and roof-top matching tool and a robus...

This paper participates in the development of a unified approach to the control of aerial vehicles with extended flight envelopes. More precisely, modeling for control purposes of a class of thrust-propelled aerial vehicles subjected to lift and drag aerodynamic forces is addressed assuming a rotational symmetry of the vehicle’s shape about the thrust force axis. A condition upon aerodynamic ch...

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existence of atmospheric contamination and aerial currents and waves. The main object of Dr. Sisley's book is to " demonstrate the contagious nature of influenza, and urge the propriety of its being included among the diseases of which notification is compulsory." In support of his opinion that influenza is contagious, and that it is chiefly, if not entirely, spread by contagion he advances evi...

In this paper, we apply a special application of the Rao quadratic diversity for multiscale analysis of land use changes in a mixed agricultural-forest landscape in Central Italy. The proposed approach is similar to a block-size analysis of compositional diversity for which a given landscape is overlaid with a series of square grids composed of increasingly larger boxes. The combination of land...

This paper describes computational techniques for utilizing the relationship between shadows and man-made structures to aid in the automatic extraction of man-made structures from aerial imagery. Four methods are described that perform the prediction of structure shape, grouping of related structures, verification of individual structures, and structure height estimation. In each method the rel...

We tackle the problem of semi-automatic road tracking in aerial photos. Our solution to this human-computer interaction problem is to provide a learning approach that integrates naturally input from human experts with automatic tracking of roads. More specifically, our system learns an ensemble of road predictors from human inputs and uses them to further track a road, alerting the human expert...

Quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are prone to external interference during photography of farmland environments. For example, they affected by airflow and load, resulting in route deviation irregular image overlap, which seriously affects quality. An trajectory tracking controller is designed for this process. To ensure that a drone can fly according the established process meet requir...