Es werden Themenschwerpunkte der gegenwärtigen Modernisierungsdebatte zum Datenschutzrecht dargestellt, mit denen sowohl auf die Entwicklung der Datenverarbeitungstechnik als auch auf den gestiegenen wirtschaftlichen Wert von Informationen reagiert werden soll. Grundlage ist ein Gutachten zur Modernisierung des Datenschutzrechts, das im Jahr 2001 im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums des Innern ers...

Digital elevation model (DEM) is one of the most important datasets for the greater part of spatial-based studies and research. Generally, a high quality DEM could be used as all-purpose dataset, but unfortunately its production could be very expensive. If we know a nature of application that applies DEM, if our demands for the final result are clear, and if provider of DEM gives enough clear i...

soil salinity has been a large problem in arid and semi arid regions. preparation of such maps is useful for natural resource managers. old methods of preparing such maps require a lot of time and cost. multi-spectral remotely sensed dates due to the broad vision and repeating of these imageries is suitable for provide saline soil maps. this investigation is conducted to provide saline soil map...

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is the core data for three-dimensional visualization and geographical spatial analysis. With the implementation of Digital Earth, the amount of various DEM data is rapidly expanding. In order to compress DEM data, researchers ever put forward two kinds of DEM compression methods: Generic entropy encoding compression; Converting grid DEM to TIN DEM [1][2]. In recent...

This paper reports experiments carried out for automated extraction of a digital elevation model (DEM) from satellite images. In particular, this paper focuses on DEM extraction from dense urban areas where there are occlusions, shadow and height discontinuities. These properties have been known to create many problems in stereo matching and for automated DEM extraction. Using satellite images ...

An approach to DEM fusion was developed to improve the overall accuracy of DEMs and applied to two public products: Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) DEM and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) DEM. The relative ASTER DEM was co-registered to the SRTM coordinates and converted to the near absolute DEM by shifting the histogram to the average elevation of the SRTM ...