Background: Spine gourd (Momordica dioica Roxb. Willd) is one of the important cucurbitaceous crops grown across the world for vegetable and medicinal purposes. Diseases caused by the DNA viruses are becoming the limiting factors for the production of spine gourd reducing its potential yield. For the commercial cultivation of the spine gourd, propagation material used by most o...

Precise point positioning with satellite navigation signals requires knowledge of satellite code and phase biases. In this paper, a new multi-stage method is proposed for estimating of these biases using measurements from a geodetic network. The method first subtracts all available a priori knowledge on orbits, satellite clocks and multipath from the measurements to reduce their dynamics. Secon...

We study the problem of carrying voice calls over a LEO satellite network, and we present an analytical model for computing call blocking probabilities for a single orbit of a satellite constellation. We have devised a method to solve the corresponding Markov process eÆciently for up to 5-satellite orbits. For orbits consisting of a larger number of satellites, we have developed an approximate ...

Abstract. Parking management plays a critical role in keeping urban spaces accessible and managers strive for an optimal balance between not enough too much parking. Deciding which parking space can be liberated or needs to extended requires detailed data on occupancy trends. In person inspection in-situ sensors provide such but are costly city wide deployment. High-resolution satellite imagery...

Because the cartography is often deficient, the use of satellite images is the best way to know the land use of Africa. But to extract a reliable map from these raw data is not an easy task. The aim of this study was to find a method to map the main landscape units, a method which can be easily reproducible. Satellite images were chosen according to the agricultural calendar, among those freely...

We present an approach for tracking water courses in satellite images, a general strategy for tracking and recognising features in computer vision tasks on satellite images. Our approach is related to recent work in automatic image interpretation and urban scene analysis. We report a method for image recognition from multi-spectral SPOT satellite imagery, based on the different response of wate...