Mobile robot operators must make rapid decisions based on information about the robot's surrounding environment. This means that terrain modeling and photorealistic visualization are required for the remote operation of mobile robots. We have produced a voxel map and textured mesh from the 2D and 3D datasets collected by a robot's array of sensors, but some upper parts of objects are beyond the...

Fine mesh screen was used to create a physical barrier to prevent redbay ambrosia beetles,Xyleborus glabratusEichhoff (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), from accessing various parts of the boles of redbay trees, Persea borbonia (L.) Sprengel, and infecting them with the laurel wilt fungus, Raffaelea lauricola (T.C. Harrington, Fraedrich, & Aghayeva). Screen barriers prevented beetles from...

Abstract. Lidar backscatter and wind retrievals of the planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) are assimilated into 22-hourly forecasts from NASA Unified – Weather Research Forecast (NU-WRF) model during Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) campaign on 11 July 2015 in Greensburg, Kansas, using error statistics collected profiles to compute necessary covariance matrices. Two separate forec...

A Toposys-1 airborne laser scanner (ALS or LIDAR) measurement campaign was arranged in June 2000 (Kalkkinen) and another campaign with helicopter-borne TopEye laser scanner was arranged in September 2002 in southern Finland (Masala, Otaniemi). The Toposys flying altitudes were about 400 and 800 m above ground and for the TopEye, 100, 200, 400 and 550 m flying altitudes were used. Reference meas...

This study investigated the effects of seat-height settings of wheelchairs with alternating propulsion with both legs. Seven healthy individuals with no orthopedic disease participated. Flexion angles at initial contact (FA-IC) of each joint, range of motion during propulsion period (ROM-PP), and ground reaction force (GRF) were measured using a three dimensional motion capture system and force...

There is compelling evidence that the incomplete laser beam receiver field-of-view overlap (i.e., partial overlap) of ground-based vertically-pointing aerosol LiDAR restricts the observational range for detecting aerosol layer boundaries to a certain height above the LiDAR. This height varies from one to few hundreds of meters, depending on the transceiver geometry. The range, or height of full...

The wing-in-ground effect craft (WIG craft) is a kind of vehicle that flies close to the ground achieve flight with low aerodynamic drag and high lift. A robust precise height control system essential ensure small WIG crafts fly safely in effect. In this paper, performance different precision systems based on PID controllers investigated numerically altitude disturbances. results show operates ...

This paper presents a new LiDAR segmentation technique for automatic extraction of building roofs. First, it uses a height threshold, based on the digital elevation model to divide the LiDAR point cloud into ‘ground’ and ‘non-ground’ points. Then starting from the maximum LiDAR height, and decreasing the height at each iteration, it looks for coplanar points to form planar roof segments. At eac...