This study measured runoff and sediment concentration from the tire track and from the non-tire track to determine infiltration, interrill erodibility, and vegetative cover impacts of reopening an abandoned forest road. Runoff was lowest on the non-track portion of the abandoned road and highest on the reopened road. Sediment concentrations were significantly higher on the reopened road. Increa...

We first formulate multiple targets tracking problem in a dynamic Markov network(DMN)which is derived from a MRFs for joint target state and a binary process for occlusion of dual adjacent targets. We then propose to embed a novel Particle based Belief Propagation algorithm into Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach (MCMC) to obtain the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation in the DMN. In the messa...

The explicit recognition of the relationships between interacting objects can improve the understanding of their dynamic model. In this work, we investigate the use of Relational Dynamic Bayesian Networks to represent the dependencies between objects behavior in the context of multitarget tracking. We propose a new formulation of the transition model that accommodates for First-Order Logic rela...