Optical imagery and range data can be registered to create photo-realistic scene models via texture mapping. Presented in this paper is an alternative approach where true colour (RBG) point clouds are generated by automatically fusing a close-range optical (RGB) image acquired with an uncalibrated digital camera with the corresponding high-density 3D lidar point cloud collected with a terrestri...

aerosol formation due to ions in the atmosphere is not well understood, although it seems to play an important role in cloud formation. the ions in the atmosphere can enhance cloud formation and can increase nucleation as well as impeding the evaporation from the surfaces of the droplets. recently there has been some experimental work to find the relation between ions concentrations and cloud i...

For Cloud based services to support enterprise class production workloads, Mainframe like predictable performance is essential. However, the scale, complexity, and inherent resource sharing across workloads make the Cloud management for predictable performance difficult. As a first step towards designing Cloud based systems that achieve such performance and realize the service level objectives,...

We propose a new method to constrain the actual state of the interstellar cloud that surrounds the solar system. Using Voyager UVS Lyman-α sky maps and the powerful principle of invariance, we derive the H distribution all along the spacecraft path. Provided current models of the heliopause interface between the solar and the interstellar winds, we extrapolate this distribution to farther dista...

Businesses today must maintain a laser-like focus on containing costs and increasing efficiencies in every possible way in order to generate profits and maintain competitiveness. Supply chain management (SCM) & optimization is a critical aspect of modern enterprises and an ever-green research area. IT dept plays a major role in the optimization of supply chains. This paper presents a critical r...

Inertial properties of body segments, such as mass, centre of mass or moments of inertia, are important parameters when studying movements of the human body. However, these quantities are not directly measurable. Current approaches include using regression models which have limited accuracy: geometric models with lengthy measuring procedures or acquiring and post-processing MRI scans of partici...

Cloud evolution for various metallicities is investigated by three-dimensional nested grid simulations, in which the initial ratio of rotational to gravitational energy of the host cloud β0 (= 10 –10) and cloud metallicity Z (= 0–Z⊙) are parameters. Starting from a central number density of nc = 10 4 cm, cloud evolution for 48 models is calculated until the protostar is formed (nc ≃ 10 23 cm) o...

* Corresponding author address: Tom Greenwald, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706-1695; e-mail: [email protected]. Cloud liquid water path (LWP) observed over the oceans by microwave sensors is one of only a handful of physical cloud parameters measured from space. These observations have had some use in, e.g., climate studies (Greenwald et al. 1995, Zuidema ...