This paper describes statistical models and an efficient Monte-Carlo algorithm for detecting tracks of slowly moving objects in optical telescope imagery sequences. The algorithm is based on accurate robust image pre-registration with respect to the star background, hot/warm pixel suppression, extracting dense normalized local image features, pixelwise statistical event detection, segmentation ...

Service oriented architecture in a distributed computing environment, with loosely coupled geo-services is a new approach for using GIS services in environmental modeling. The messages exchanged must follow a set of standard protocols which support syntactic interoperability, but do not address application semantics. This article proposes a layer-based ontology with additional layers for descri...

Media mix modeling is a statistical analysis on historical data to measure the return on investment (ROI) on advertising and other marketing activities. Current practice usually utilizes data aggregated at a national level, which often suffers from small sample size and insufficient variation in the media spend. When sub-national data is available, we propose a geo-level Bayesian hierarchical m...

Heavy metal contamination of minesoils is a widespread problem in China. In Pingle manganese mineland in Guangxi (south China), heavy metal concentrations in soils and dominant plants were determined, and soil contamination was assessed with pollution index (Pi) and index of geoaccumulation (I-geo). Pi showed the minesoil was heavily polluted by Cd and slightly polluted by Cr. I-geo showed a se...

The Takomkane Pro ject is a multiyear bed rock map ping pro gram ini ti ated by the BC Geo log i cal Sur vey in 2005. This pro gram will con cen trate on Me so zoic arc vol ca nic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the vi cin ity of the Takomkane batholith, which strad dles the Bonaparte Lake (92P) and Quesnel Lake (93A) map sheets (Fig. 1). Pre vi ous bed rock maps of the area are ba...

The Islamic world is one of the most important regions in terms geopolitical competition, focusing on region Southwest Asia geo-economic, geo-strategic and geo-culture. Despite widespread commonalities political geography structural functional terms, interdependence has not been able to move towards convergence, cooperation interaction. One influential variables trends this policies United Stat...

The semireactive bargaining set, a solution for cooperative games, is introduced. This solution is in general a subsolution of the bargaining set and a supersolution of the reactive bargaining set. However, on various classes of transferable utility games the semireactive and the reactive bargaining set coincide. The semireactive prebargaining set on TU games can be axiomatized by one-person ra...

although on the basis of geo-economic theories, study of energy-related issues is of strategic importance to all countries, energy resources are no more restricted to oil and gas reserves as was the case during the past century. of course, these resources are still key elements of global energy reserves. today, in addition to geo-politics and geo-economics, the concept of hydro-geopolitics puts...