Two kinds of method, raster fusion and vector fusion, is proposed for fusion operation by integration of LIDAR point cloud and Ortho aerial photos in this paper. The data set used in the paper and data process for preparation is introduced firstly. In order to complement the raster fusion, the points cloud is interpolated into a raster style by Inverse Distance Weighted(IDW) method using Z and ...

Unconventional gas drilling (UGD) has enabled extraordinarily rapid growth in the extraction of natural gas. Despite frequently expressed public concern, human health studies have not kept pace. We investigated the association of proximity to UGD in the Marcellus Shale formation and perinatal outcomes in a retrospective cohort study of 15,451 live births in Southwest Pennsylvania from 2007-2010...

To design and implement an open-source parallel GIS (OP-GIS) based on a Linux cluster, the parallel inverse distance weighting (IDW) interpolation algorithm has been chosen as an example to explore the workingmodel and the principle of algorithmparallel pattern (APP), one of the parallelization patterns for OP-GIS. Based on an analysis of the serial IDW interpolation algorithm of GRASS GIS, thi...

Within-city variation in air pollution has been associated with childhood asthma development, but findings have been inconsistent. We examined whether perinatal air pollution exposure affected asthma onset during "pre-school and "school age" periods in a population-based birth cohort.65,254 children born between 1999 and 2002 in the greater Vancouver metropolitan region were followed until age ...

This paper presents a method of estimating regional distributions of surface air temperature (Ta) and surface vapor pressure (ea), which uses remotely-sensed data and meteorological data as its inputs. The method takes into account the effects of both local driving force and horizontal advection on Ta and ea. Good correlation coefficients (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE) between the measu...

High-elevation regions in the United States lack detailed atmospheric wet-deposition data. The National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP/NTN) measures and reports precipitation amounts and chemical constituent concentration and deposition data for the United States on annual isopleth maps using inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation methods. This interpolation...

New remote sensing technologies have emerged to quantitatively assess submersed aquatic vegetation abundance and distribution. We evaluated a hydroacoustics global positioning system to map the percent of the water column occupied by submersed vegetation (referred to here as biovolume) in three Minnesota (USA) lakes. We evaluated the relative accuracy and precision of digital biovolume maps pro...

We propose a new adaptive spatio-temporal interpolation method that combines either by a step or a line function existing spatial and temporal interpolation methods. We test the new method using climate data obtained from weather stations in Colorado and Nebraska, for the time period from 1993 to 2003. The experimental results show that in mountainous regions our adaptive spatio-temporal method...

We first present two GPU implementations of the standard Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) interpolation algorithm, the tiled version that takes advantage of shared memory and the CDP version that is implemented using CUDA Dynamic Parallelism (CDP). Then we evaluate the power of GPU acceleration for IDW interpolation algorithm by comparing the performance of CPU implementation with three GPU imp...