Statewide land cover change detection analysis provides a useful tool for conservation planning and environmental monitoring and addresses issues of habitat fragmentation and urban sprawl. Furthermore, using historical and recent land cover data offers two perspectives on landscape dynamics. To this end, the first alliance level land cover map of Kansas recently completed by the KARS Program wa...

Camera model identification is of interest for many applications. In-camera processes, specific of each model, leave traces that can be captured by features designed ad hoc, and used for reliable classification. In this work we investigate on the use of blind features based on the analysis of image residuals. In particular, features are extracted locally based on co-occurrence matrices of selec...

Seismic interpretation can be supported by seismic attribute analysis. Common seismic attributes use mathematical relationships based on the geometry and the physical properties of the subsurface to reveal features of interest. But they are mostly not capable of describing the spatial arrangement of depositional facies or reservoir properties. Textural attributes such as the grey level co-occur...

Background: Although phytoremediation is a promising method for pollution control, biomass produced by the remediation process must be managed; otherwise, it will eventually return to the environment and cause secondary pollution. Therefore, research and policy development for the post-remediation management of biomass are both required. Results: While there are many published studies of phytor...

In this paper, we deal with the problem of extracting meaningful textural features leading to good segmentations on satellite images of natural environments. Standard texture features using graylevel co-occurrence matrices have been widely applied on remote sensed images but they impose limitations (due to finite window sizes) as poor spatial localization. We have generalized the definition of ...

The development and application of various remote sensing platforms result in the production of huge amounts of satellite image data. Therefore, there is an increasing need for effective querying and browsing in these image databases. In order to take advantage and make good use of satellite images data, we must be able to extract meaningful information from the imagery. Hence we proposed a new...

Image indexing based on Modified Color Co-occurrence Matrix (MCCM) is proposed in this paper. First, CCM is simplified to represent the number of color (hue) pairs between adjacent pixels in the image. And then, CCM is split into diagonal and non-diagonal elements that constitute two elements of MCCM. Indexing the image by MCCM could exploit shape information in abstract level. Proposed MCCM is...

It has been suggested that the way that number words are used may play an important role in the development of number concepts. However, little is currently known about the overall ways in which number words are used in child-directed speech. To address this, we performed an analysis of how number words are used in the CHILDES database. We looked at four statistics: 1) lexical frequency, 2) con...