Hawaii is home to over 60 ant species, including five of the six most damaging invasive ants. Although there have been many surveys of ants in Hawaii, the last island-wide hand-collection survey of ants on Oahu was conducted in 1988-1994. In 2012, a timed hand-collection of ants was made at 44 sites in a systematic, roadside survey throughout Oahu. Ants were identified and species distribution ...

BACKGROUND After the invasion of Iraq in April 2003, coalition forces have remained in the country in a bid to maintain stability and support the local security forces. The improvised explosive device (IED) has been widely used by the insurgents and is the leading cause of death and injury among Coalition troops in the region. METHOD From January 2006, data were prospectively collected on 100...

Service migration is one of the key topics Internet Vehicles (IoV). MEC (mobile edge computing), which carried on roadside unit (RSU), could serve as a service provider and provide V2I (vehicle to infrastructure) cooperation service. To solve high rate caused by vehicle’s mobility feature, MSCN secondary computing node) framework defined. study features under further, in this paper, road motion...

This paper describes an application of pointwise structure from known motion to assist in the construction of roadside and trackside maps. A single camera is used to record the view from the front of the vehicle, and positional information from an onboard GPS receiver is used to provide the location and orientation of the vehicle. After calibration from known structures, the transformation from...

Motion detection in driving environment, which aims to detect REAL moving objects from continuously changing background, is vital for Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) applications. This paper presents an efficient solution for such problem using a stereovision based method. First, a comprehensive analysis about 3D global motion is given based on ”U-V-disparity” concept, in which a 5-parameter mode...

This paper establishes a new mobile electronic toll collection (m-ETC) by integrating mobile communication with radio frequency (RF) communication on microprocessor control with an e-commerce business model. A simple ETC system architecture and protocol for e-transactions from vehicles to toll stations is proposed to complete toll interaction on wireless environment. A software flow through Int...

This paper describes the first phase of a three year PhD research project which aims at extracting road and roadside information accurately and robustly from airborne sensor data and assessing its suitability for integration in a spatial analysis system. The context for this research is road safety and the requirements of the European noise directive for noise mapping. Phase 1 concentrated on u...