This paper is concerned with the capacity evaluation of an incremental redundancy (IR) scheme with mapper rearrangement. The AWGN performance of the scheme originally proposed by Schmitt [6], [7] is evaluated for the coded modulation (CM) as well as for the bitinterleaved coded modulation (BICM) scenario. A mapper that is improving the BICM performance at low SNR values is introduced. Simulatio...

A fully automated method uses Landsat Thematic Mapper data to map snow cover in the Sierra Nevada and make quantitative estimates of the fractional snow-covered area within each pixel. We model winter and spring reference scenes as linear mixtures of image end member spectra to produce the response variables for tree-based regression and classification models. Decision trees identify cloud cove...

High-throughput Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data are increasingly ubiquitous and abundant for life science and health care research. Many applications of this technology rely on high-fidelity mappings of new sample data to a previously characterized reference sequence. There are a growing number of tools capable of performing such read mapping, including the Geneious 6.0.3 Read Mapper. Thi...

Given a high dimensional point cloud of data with functions defined on the points, the Mapper produces a compact summary in the form of a simplicial complex connecting the points. This summary offers insightful data visualizations, which have been employed in applications to identify subsets of points, i.e., subpopulations, with interesting properties. These subpopulations typically appear as l...

Abstract Quaternary placer deposits are becoming increasingly important. Remote sensing is a very powerful tool in discriminating altered areas related to intrusion deposits, which has significantly reduced the cost and time of exploration. In this study, to identify iron-bearing alluvial zones within the 1:100000 sheet of Hamedan, satellite image processing techniques such as band ratio (BR),...