1. Why Create Multiple Small Maps? Although we commonly use maps to convey geographical information, and graphs to convey time series information, there is no common graphical format to convey geographical time series information. Such information is of great interest to both scientists and the general the lack of a visual format may inhibit our understanding of this kind of information. This a...

The preparation of vegetation cover maps by used the land inventory and a traditional method has a lot of cost and time. But today, remote sensing is one of the main sources of data collection and information production for study and monitoring land resources, and was efficient tools for providing quickly and timely data and information needs for program planning in the natural resource filed. ...

The Geosciences Network (GEON) project is a large-scale collaborative effort aimed at creating cyberinfrastructure for the Earth Sciences. GEON focuses on consistent representation, query access, integration and analysis of multiple semantically-different distributed spatial datasets. The paper will demonstrate knowledge-based integration of heterogeneous spatial data, stored mostly in shapefil...

Background. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of preheating methacrylate- and silorane-based composite resins on their color stability up to 40 times at 55‒60°C. Methods. Seventy-six methacrylate and silorane-based composite resin samples, with a diameter of 10 mm and a height of 2 mm, were divided into 4 groups (n=19). After the samples were prepared, their color parameters w...

2D color maps are often used to visually encode complex data characteristics such as heat or height. The comprehension of color maps in visualization is affected by the display (e.g., a monitor) and the perceptual abilities of the viewer. In this paper we present a novel method to measure a user's ability to distinguish colors of a two-dimensional color map on a given monitor. We show how to ad...

Abstract: The Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Belt (UDMB) is the host of many Iranian Cu porphyry deposits. Southern part of this belt, in the range of geological Jebal barez, has been less investigated because of the mountainous and rough topography and also some security confrontation. Porphyry deposits are associated with hydrothermal alteration zones can be mapped using remote sensing data such as...