High-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) based on Mars orbiter laser altimeter (MOLA) data provide geospatial characterizations of Martian topography. MOLA range data are essentially two-dimensional topographic profiles. Transforming these profile data into three-dimensional DEMs requires the interpolation of a continuous surface between MOLA observations. To this end, we outline a metho...

High quality DEMs are necessary for several urban applications such as telecommunication, urban development, and visualization, and city planning and management. Sudden changes in surface topography weaken the capability of existing automatic terrain extraction techniques to provide high quality DEMs. Hence, these DEMs need to be refined either manually or automatically to be useful for such ap...

This paper presents an intuitive approach for the rapid generation of arbitrary high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) of moon-like surfaces, with minimal required extra expertise. It combines manual terrain shaping in a soil bin with automatic generation of 3 mm resolution DEMs. The generated DEMs are upscaled to 0.3 m resolution and integrated into lower-resolution DEMs of the lunar s...

In this article an attempt for improving an existing method creating DEMs fully automatically from stereoscopic image pairs is presented. Results applying this method to very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery is shown. The herein discussed “column” algorithm is illustrated in brief and compared to a conventional algorithm frequently used in generating DEMs from satellite line scanner data...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2012 upgraded its hazard characterization of diesel engine exhaust (DEE) to "carcinogenic to humans." The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study (DEMS) cohort and nested case-control studies of lung cancer mortality in eight U.S. nonmetal mines were influential in IARC's determination. We conducted a reanalysis of the DEMS case-control data to e...