Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a survey tool with many applications in forestry and forest research. It can capture the 3D structure of vegetation and topography quickly and accurately over thousands of hectares of forest. However, very few studies have assessed how accurately LiDAR can measure surface topography under forest canopies, which may be important, for example, in re...

Geologic variation has important influences on habitat quality for species of concern, but it can be difficult to evaluate due to subtle variations, complex terminology, and inadequate maps. To better understand habitat of the Apache trout (Onchorhynchus apache or O. gilae apache Miller), a threatened endemic species of the White Mountains of eastcentral Arizona, we reviewed existing geologic r...

A recent particle method, the Local Regularized Rejection Particle Filter L2RPF is applied here in terrain navigation. An aircraft measures periodically the relative elevation. By means of a digital elevation map, the goal is to estimate the absolute position and velocity of the aircraft. Moreover, an inertial navigation system (INS) drives the generation of the particles (fusion of L2RPF and t...

Francesco Comiti) had the following objectives included in the Workpackage WP1 "Development of functional relationships for debris flow behaviour" and WP3 " Development of a small basin debris flow impact model": • Organisation of the research team and scientific coordination of activities • Acquisition of existing data on debris flow characteristics in small basins located in the Veneto Region...

As digital terrain models are indispensable for visualizing and modeling geographic processes, terrain information content is useful for terrain generalization and representation. For terrain generalization, if the terrain information is considered, the generalized terrain may be of higher fidelity. In other words, the richer the terrain information at the terrain surface, the smaller the degre...

The knowledge of visibility information on a terrain is essential for a large number of current applications. There exist several algorithms in the literature for building visibility maps (VMs) but only for one single viewpoint or at most for a very small number of observers. This limitation is due to the high computational complexity of the used methods (which is greater than O(N2), where N is...

The sub-Himalayan thrust belt is an active thrust wedge which progresses southward over the northdipping Indian plate. The north–south compression resulted in severe deformation of sedimentary rocks in this belt. Distinct thrust geometries and topography have evolved under the interaction between tectonic and erosional environments. To better understand the relationship between tectonics and to...

The problem of detecting the visible and hidden areas of a topographic surface from a given viewpoint is well known, and has applications in GIS and other fields. The computational geometry literature is rich with solutions based on a polygonal representation of the surface. This work confronts the problem by working directly on the Digital Elevation Map which represents the terrain surface. We...

The TerraSAR-X launched on June 15, 2007 is one of the most state of the art satellite sensors. Its sophisticated feature is in demand for the application for map generation and monitoring purposes. One of the basic products of TerraSAR-X is the Enhanced Ellipsoid Corrected (EEC) orthorectified image. The product is projected to map geometry and terrain induced distortions are corrected using a...

The approach described in this paper is intended for 3D building reconstruction on large and dense urban areas. It provides a real-time solution for automatic inferring of polyhedral rooftops of buildings from cadastral maps and aerial images. From the initial planimetric outline and hypotheses of planes inferred from it, a set of rooftop models depending on two parameters (slope and gutter alt...