This paper describes the characteristics of a neural network image interpretation system that is designed to extract both rural land cover and urban land use from high spatial resolution imagery (e.g., digitized aerial photography, IKONOS imagery) and/or from relatively coarse spatial and spectral resolution remote sensor data (e.g., Landsat Thematic Mapper). The system consists of modules that...

OBJECTIVE Given the importance of assessing owned dog and cat populations to adequate planning and evaluation of rabies control measures in urban areas, it is proposed the use of an estimate of these populations based on human population parameters. METHODS The ratio between human population and owned animal (dogs and cats) population was calculated in the municipality of Taboão da Serra, sta...

Satellite-derived thermal information over urban areas offers and attractive and inexpensive method which have been utilized in diverse studies including land cover classification, energy flux interactions, and as input for models of urban surface atmosphere exchange. In this study, we utilize Landsat ETM+ imagery to analyze the dependence of energy fluxes on the urban surface properties in Yor...

BACKGROUND Plasmodium vivax imposes substantial morbidity and mortality burdens in endemic zones. Detailed understanding of the contemporary spatial distribution of this parasite is needed to combat it. We used model based geostatistics (MBG) techniques to generate a contemporary map of risk of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Indonesia in 2010. METHODS Plasmodium vivax Annual Parasite Incidence d...

The development of modern information systems in various application areas (ecommerce, logistics, and intelligent telecommunication services) presents a serious challenge to software technologies. This can be acknowledged to the difficulty, complexity, heterogeneity and distributed functionality of the systems. It is still a difficult task to find a homogeneous technological framework for the e...

Depth at homogeneous or weakly-textured image areas is difficult to obtain because such image areas suffer the well-known correspondence problem. In this paper, we propose a voting model that predicts the depth at such image areas from the depth of bounding edge-like structures. The depth at edge-like structures is computed using a feature-based stereo algorithm, and is used to vote for the dep...

protein secretory systems are found in all living organisms including gram negative bacteria, and eukaryotic cell’s organelles that are derived from these bacteria. unlike all other living organisms, gram negative bacteria have different protein secretory systems. at least there are four different independent secretory systems, which are responsible to transport the secreted proteins to the mil...