The tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission TRMM 3B42 V7 product and its successor, the Global Precipitation Measurement Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM IMERG high-resolution V5, have been validated against rain gauges precipitation in an arid mountainous basin where ground-based observations of are sparse, or spatially undistributed. This paper aims to evaluate hydro-statically perfo...

We present a method for the stylization of mountainous terrains that allows creating abstract representations in different rendering styles. Our method consists of two major components: structure-aware terrain filtering and streamline-based hatching. For a given input terrain we compute different Levels-of-Detail (LoD) according to a crest line oriented importance measure and then filter each L...

one of the main objectives of ecosystem management is to preserve the speciesdiversity. many researchers regard higher species diversity as the stability of ecologicalsystems. the aim of this study is to investigate the stability and relationships betweentopographical factors with diversity indices in ghorkhud mountainous rangeland innorthern khorasan province, iran. for data sampling (2012), l...

Wind load is one of the common loads for civil engineering structures viz. long span bridges, tall buildings, towers and mast also. acting on such structure throughout its life span. Therefore it most important phenomenon to be taken into consideration a structural engineer. Due scarcity land or due mountainous terrains in North North-East part India time are constructed sloping grounds which c...

biodiversity is an important component in sustainability assessment of agroecosystems. along with increasing or decreasing of biodiversity, ecosystem services in agroecosystems will be varied. agricultural experts take into account different factors which affect agroecosystems variation. in this study, farming systems of two areas including a protected mountainous area and also a plain – hilly ...

The geometric resolution of space images has been improved. With WorldView-1 and GeoEye-1 images taken from space with 0.5m ground sampling distance (GSD) are now available. The Bosphorus Engineering Consultancy Services Inc (BIMTAS), company of Istanbul Greater Municipality ordered a WorldView-1 image, covering large parts of Istanbul city. For the orientation and investigation of the scene ac...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the regional pattern of physical inactivity in Croatia based on the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 data. A total of 9,070 adult respondents were included in this study. In men, the highest prevalence of physical inactivity was recorded in the City of Zagreb (39.6%), and it was significantly higher than in Central (25.6%), Coastal (25.6%) and Mountainous r...

Taiwan had been considered rabies free since 1961. In 2013, Taiwan confirmed the detection of rabies virus in wild Taiwan ferret-badgers. Up to December 2014, there have been 423 rabies-confirmed ferret-badgers and three cases of spillover infection into non-reservoir hosts. Genetic analysis indicates that TFBV is distinct from all other known rabies virus variants. To date, ferret-badger rabie...