Sustainable management of coastal mangrove systems requires up-to-date data on land use and land cover information. The objective of this study was to use Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) remote sensing information to provide such management data and corresponding analysis. This study showed that the degradation of Ghana’s mangroves was due primarily to ...

Hyperspectral imaging is a promising non-invasive method for applications in conservation of painting. With its ability to capture both spatial and spectral information which relates to physical characteristics of materials, the identification of pigments and its spatial distribution across the painting is now possible. In this work, The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch is acquired using a hypersp...

The northwestern part of the Kerman Cenozoic magmatic arc (KCMA) contains many areas with porphyry copper mineralization. In this research, we used the advanced space-borne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) images of this region to map the distribution of hydrothermally altered rocks, based on their mineral assemblages. The spectral meas...

We present a computational method for extracting simple descriptions of high dimensional data sets in the form of simplicial complexes. Our method, called Mapper, is based on the idea of partial clustering of the data guided by a set of functions defined on the data. The proposed method is not dependent on any particular clustering algorithm, i.e. any clustering algorithm may be used with Mappe...

This paper studies the feasibility of using transfer learning for process-oriented case-based reasoning. The work introduces a novel approach to transfer workflow cases from a loosely related source domain to a target domain. The idea is to develop a representation mapper based on workflow generalization, workflow abstraction, and structural analogy between the domain vocabularies. The approach...

We present a new approach to the integration of input devices into virtual environment software systems. Our approach employs a so-called Mapper module as an intermediate between input device drivers and virtual environment application. Major advantages of our approach are full device-independence, including the easy integration of new input devices and emulation of missing device capabilities,...