landsat 7 etm+ data is widely used in studies of the spatial distribution kc and vegetation cover parameters in regional and global scales but slc failure has greatly reduces its usefulness. additionally, the failure is permanent and has failed subsequent attempts to recover the slc, so required and practical way to address this problem is filling the pixels of missed data in the slc-off images...

We describe the implementation and performance of a novel fill-minimization ordering technique for sparse LU factorization with partial pivoting. The technique was proposed by Gilbert and Schreiber in 1980 but never implemented and tested. Like other techniques for ordering sparse matrices for LU with partial pivoting, our new method preorders the columns of the matrix (the row permutation is c...

Recent reviews of specific topics, such as the relationship between male attractiveness to females and fluctuating asymmetry or attractiveness and the expression of secondary sexual characters, suggest that publication bias might be a problem in ecology and evolution. In these cases, there is a significant negative correlation between the sample size of published studies and the magnitude or st...

This paper describes a new, high-speed contourf i l l method for alpha-numeric and Japanese Kanji characters developed to generate digital bitmap image (binary image) patterns from contour lines. The contour lines are expressed by Freeman's chain code. We call this method the Improved Edge-flag method. The speed of this method is increased by using an edge-flag list which stores the coordinates...