This study maps distribution and spatial congruence between Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) and species richness of IUCN listed conservation-dependent and endemic avian fauna in Palawan, Philippines. Grey Level Co-Occurrence Texture Matrices (GLCMs) extracted from Landsat and ALOS-PALSAR were used in conjunction with local field data to model and map local-scale field AGB using the Random Forest alg...

ABSTRACT- One of the big problems today human societies are faced with is the problem of soil erosion. In this study, the "MPSIAC model" was used to estimate sediment yield and provide sediment yield map in Cachoyeh watershed. The MPSIAC method incorporates nine environmental factors that contribute to sediment yield of the watershed. These factors are: surface geology, soil, climate, runoff, t...

We present a novel method for estimation of articulated motion in depth scans. The method is based on a framework for regularization of vectorand matrixvalued functions on parametric surfaces. We extend augmented-Lagrangian total variation regularization to smooth rigid motion cues on the scanned 3D surface obtained from a range scanner. We demonstrate the resulting smoothed motion maps to be a...

We derive a new pointwise characterization of the subdifferential of the total variation (TV) functional. It involves a full trace operator which maps certain L vectorfields to integrable functions with respect to the total variation measure of the derivative of a bounded variation function. This full trace operator extents a notion of normal trace, frequently used, for example, to characterize...

In ultra high field magnetic resonance imaging (UHF MRI), the complex interaction of the electromagnetic wave used for excitation with the dielectric load of the human body results in spatially varying magnetic and electric fields that are highly dependent on intersubject anatomical variations. Based on these spatially varying, subject-dependent magnetic and electric field maps, we must design ...

The gyral morphology of the region of the primary auditory cortex (PAC) in the human brain is highly variable, and possible asymmetries between the hemispheres have been noted since the beginning of the century. We mapped the location and extent of PAC as identified from gross anatomical landmarks in magnetic resonance scans that had been transformed into Talairach-Tournoux stereotaxic space. I...