Publicly available Digital Elevation Models (DEM) derived from various space-based platforms (Satellite/Space Shuttle Endeavour) have had a tremendous impact on the quantification of landscape characteristics, and related processes products. The accuracy elevation data six major public domain satellite-derived (a 30 m grid size—ASTER GDEM version 3 (Ast30), SRTM (Srt30), CartoDEM V3R1 (Crt30)—a...

The use of wireless sensor networks for bushfire monitoring can help to map and locate fires rapidly and accurately. A Management Centre could use such information in order to deploy fire-fighters, tankers and aircraft to the best locations to protect people and communities from bushfire hazards. This paper describes an application of the GPS/INS technology to support a mobile mapping system wh...

Wheel slip may increase the risk for wheel rutting and tear up ground vegetation and superficial roots and thereby decreasing the bearing capacity of the ground, but also reducing the growth of nearby standing forest trees. With increased slip, more energy is consumed for making wheel ruts in the ground, with increased fuel consumption as a result. This paper proposes a novel method for measuri...

Development of new and innovative applications for high precision differential global positioning systems (DGPS) has exploded in the last two years. Real-time three-dimensional accuracy’s of under three centimeters and processed position update rates in excess of four hertz, along with position update latencies of under eighty milliseconds are now commercially available. Immediate position info...

—Generally vehicular networks are considered to contain two types of nodes; vehicles and roadside stations. Vehicular communications is usually developed as a part of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that seeks to achieve safety and productivity through intelligent transportation which integrates communication between mobile and fixed nodes. The majority of today's automated vehicle location...