Wind has become increasingly important as a source of energy although the generation of wind energy is quite erratic because of its changeable nature. For a given location, wind speed and direction change over time and at different heights. Previous studies have discovered different pattern of wind profiles, however an improved understanding of its spatial, temporal and variation in heights is ...

So far, spatial databases have mainly dealt with the management of two-dimensional geometric data. This has turned out to be sufficient for many spatial applications. But on the other hand, our world is three-dimensional. In this project, first, possible applications are investigated that require or would greatly benefit from a treatment of three-dimensional data and operations. This study shou...

There are complex spatio-temporal relationships among cadastral entities. Cadastral spatio-temporal data model should not only describe the data structure of cadastral objects, but also express cadastral spatio-temporal relationships between cadastral objects. In the past, many experts and scholars have proposed a variety of cadastral spatio-temporal data models, but few of them concentrated on...

Many applications capture, or make use of, spatial data that changes over time. This requirement for effective and efficient spatio-temporal data management has given rise to a range of research activities relating to spatio-temporal data management. Such work has sought to understand, for example, the requirements of different categories of application, and the modelling facilities that are mo...

Large-scale spatio-temporal data is crucial for testing the spatio-temporal pattern mining algorithms. In this paper we present a data set generator that can generate moving spatio-temporal instances, with evolving regions. The characteristics of data generated can be configured with parameters given to program and those parameters allow users to test the performance of spatio-temporal mining a...

It is widely accepted that the perception of human voices is supported by neural structures located along the superior temporal sulci. However, there is an ongoing discussion to what extent the activations found in fMRI studies are evoked by the vocal features themselves or are the result of phonetic processing. To show that the temporal lobes are indeed engaged in voice processing, short utter...

BACKGROUND Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is one of the highest reported infectious diseases with several outbreaks across the world. This study aimed at describing epidemiological characteristics, investigating spatio-temporal clustering changes, and identifying determinant factors in different clustering areas of HFMD. METHODS Descriptive statistics was used to evaluate the epidemic ch...

The formation of oriented thermokarst lakes on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska has been the subject of debate for more than half a century. The striking elongation of the lakes perpendicular to the prevailing wind direction has led to the development of a preferred wind-generated gyre hypothesis, while other hypotheses include a combination of sun angle, topographic aspect, and/or a...

In many application areas there is a need to represent human-like knowledge related to spatio-temporal relations among multiple moving objects. This type of knowledge is usually imprecise, vague and fuzzy, while the reasoning about spatio-temporal relations is intuitive. In this paper we present a model of fuzzy spatio-temporal knowledge representation and reasoning based on high-level Petri ne...