Data reduction is used to aggregate or amalgamate the large data sets into smaller and manageable information pieces in order to fast and accurate classification of different attributes. However, excessive spatial or spectral data reduction may result in losing or masking important radiometric information. Therefore, we conducted this research to evaluate the effectiveness of the different...

Honeybees offer the potential of using free-flying organisms to search wide areas for the presence of explosives, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and landmines. The use of bees is analogous to dogs for mine clearance, except that a colony of tens of thousands of bees can be trained in about one hour to fly over and search a field for explosives, does not require a leash, and will not set off any min...

Surface with a static contact angle (CA) greater than 150° are in general defined as superhydrophobic surfaces. Superhydrophobic surface have great potentials in fundamental research,[1-5] and also wide practical applications in the production of textile, microfluidics, self-cleaning surfaces, building glass, windshields of cars, ships hulls, pipes and the satellite antenna surfaces.[6] Superhy...

This study addresses the design issues of an intelligent system for image understanding applied to remote sensing minefield area reduction. We propose a system using a combination of image processing techniques and a knowledge-based intelligent scheme that interactively cooperate together to produce a danger map of the surveyed area. This contribution suggests a semantic knowledge-based scene i...

The emergence of meta computers and computational grids makes it feasible to run parallel programs on large-scale, geographically distributed computer systems. Writing parallel applications for such systems is a challenging task which may require changes to the communication structure of the applications. MPI’s collective operations (such as broadcast and reduce) allow for some of these changes...

The large land area requirement of constructed wetlands (CWs) is a major limitation of its application especially in densely populated and mountainous areas. This review paper provides insights on different strategies applied for the reduction of land area including stack design and intensification of CWs with different aeration methods. The impacts of different aeration methods on the performa...