Several methods currently exist to efficiently correct topographic effects on the radiance measured by satellites. Most of those methods use topographic information and satellite data at the same spatial resolution. In this study, the 30 m spatial resolution data of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) are used to account ...

The classical morphological segmentation paradigm is based on the watershed transform, constructed by flooding the gradient image seen as a topographic surface. For flooding a topographic surface, a topographic distance is defined from which a minimum distance algorithm is derived for the watershed. In a continuous formulation, this is modeled via the eikonal PDE, which can be solved using curv...

We studied the stability of force-feedback high-speed atomic force microscopy (HSAFM) by imaging soft, hard, and biological sample surfaces at various applied forces. The HSAFM images showed sudden topographic variations of streaky fringes with a negative applied force when collected on a soft hydrocarbon film grown on a grating sample, whereas they showed stable topographic features with posit...

We previously[3] defined eight second-order volumetric primitives and then showed[4] that they can be extracted from range data. This paper shows that by using them model matching is more efficient, because the shape vocabulary reduces the combinatorial generation of hypotheses. With the model-to-data correspondences, accurate three dimensional model location is possible.

Current techniques of water wave visualisation such as shadowgraphy and stereophotography are widely used but are deficient in many aspects. Refraction based visualisation observes the bending of light as it traverses across a water wave -air interface. This work describes the continued development of techniques to measure the surface height of a liquid free surface. The method utilizes refract...

The ability to automatically generate internal models from sensed data will be of critical importance in the development of flexible, adaptive and useful unmanned underwater vehicles. The subsequent recognition of objects based on these a-priori models, which may be incomplete or partial, will also be an essential component in the success of UUV missions. This paper describes and presents exper...

The ultrastructure of huma corpora luntea obtained approximately 2, 3, 5, 11, and 15 days after ovulation is reported . All specimens were fixed in Karnovsky's formaldehyde-glutaraldehyde solution . The 5-day corpus luteum is presumed to represent, in terms of fine structure, the ultrastructural aspects of high progesterone production and is compared to younger differentiating and older regress...

It is known that digital elevation models (DEMs) can vary in quality depending on their method of creation. Six DEMs derived from digitised contours from the British Ordnance Survey were compared. The DEMs were used to run TOPMODEL for a small catchment in Devon. There were differences between the DEMs in the prediction of the catchment area and the spatial pattern of topographic index values, ...

The Loess Plateau in China is internationally known for its unique geographical features and has therefore been studied by many researchers. This research exploits the regional differences in the spatial morphological characteristics of Loess shoulder lines in different landform types as an important basis for geomorphological regionalization. In this study, we used ensemble empirical mode deco...

Topographic and ultrastructural changes in the infundibular segment of goat (Capra hircus) oviduct has been studied during the follicular and luteal phases of the oestrous cycle. Histologically, the mucosal epithelium of the infundibulum revealed characteristic pattern of changes in the number, height, branching of the mucosal folds and relative frequency of ciliated and secretary cells during ...