This paper presents a research prototype of topic maps repository. The main purpose of this repository is to promote knowledge structure sharing and reuse in representing and organizing information resources. The overall architecture of the repository includes a relational database (using MY-SQL), an XML-enabled application server, a customized XML schema for Topic Maps, a set of XML stylesheet...

December 2006 | Volume 4 | Issue 12 | e418 Most governments around the world set conservation policy based on the assumption that resource exploitation and species protection can co-exist in the same place. These policies have led to Orwellian “marine protected areas” that host commercial fi shing operations, leading one to wonder who’s protecting whom. A new study reveals the danger of this ap...

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Automatic interpretation of laser scanner data for building detection and map updating was studied. Digital surface and terrain models (DSM and DTM) and an intensity image were created using a helicopter-borne TopEye system recording with 2–3 pulses per m. The DSM was segmented into homogeneous regions using a region-based segmentation method, and the segments were classified as `building ́, `tr...