This paper is designed to ascertain if the resorts on the Great Barrier Reef are grey tourist (senior) friendly and living up to the expectations and meeting or surpassing the satisfaction levels of their visitors. Existing research has been undertaken on the satisfaction level of tourists to various destinations, however no research has been undertaken on the satisfaction of seniors visiting t...

This paper presents an advanced DInSAR-GIS technique developed by the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC) for the generation of precise terrain deformation maps using data acquired by satellite platforms. These radar systems, known as Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR), allow obtaining terrain reflectivity images, which are processed by means of DInSAR algorithms for monitoring ground stabil...

The aporphine alkaloids are known to have affinities as the dopaminergic, adrenergic and serotonergic receptor system. Hence the aporphine template can be considered as a privileged scaffold for the design of selective monopotent as well as multi-potent Central Nervous System (CNS) ligands. This review attempts to summarize the recent Structure Activity Relationship (SAR) studies of aporphine a...

Internal calibration greatly diminishes the dependence on calibration target deployment compared to external calibration. Therefore Electromagnetics Institute (EMI) at the Technical University of Denmark (TUD) has equipped its polarimetric SAR, EMISAR, with several calibration loops and developed a procedure calibrating the entire system except a few passive components which must be measured in...

VHF-band SAR holds great promise for forest stem volume mapping. The paper describes a coherent scattering model and demonstrates that radar backscattering is mainly proportional to stem volume in coniferous forests. The model is also used to develop inverse methods. It is noted that a sloping ground may change the backscattering significantly and therefore needs compensation. Results of stem v...

this study has been derived from my doctorate thesis entitled as ‘’al derasate val tahghigh hula area alsarfie val nahvie leibn geni fi ketabeh al khasaes’’ which while expressing a little about life and literature of ibne geni, explain the subject of accent variations in terms of meaning and structure. it is believed that ibn geni in 321 (h-gh) was born in mousel. some believe that his name ha...

The speckle is omnipresent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images as an intrinsic characteristic. However, it is unwanted in certain applications. Therefore, intelligent filters for speckle reduction are of great importance. It has been demonstrated in several literatures that the non-local means filter can reduce noise while preserving details. This paper discusses non-local means filter for...

PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to determine the relationship between perceived neck disability and active cervical range of motion (ROM). METHODS Twenty-three senior center attendees aged 60 to 90 participated. Their ROM was measured using the cervical range of motion instrument (CROM). Perceived neck disability was characterized using the Neck Disability Index (NDI). Pearson correlatio...

This paper presents an efficient and precise imaging algorithm for the large bandwidth sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The existing sub-aperture processing method based on the baseband azimuth scaling (BAS) algorithm cannot cope with the high order phase coupling along the range and azimuth dimensions. This coupling problem causes defocusing along the range and azimuth dimensi...

This paper shows the suitability of High Resolution (HR) TerraSAR-X data for monitoring urban areas by means of feature extraction algorithms able to exploit the new information content provided by HR Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The approach we follow is deterministic and model-based, meaning that the building feature extraction is based on the direct inversion of the electromagnetic...