BACKGROUND The effective management of content is a key challenge in the digital era. The publishing of websites is often a spectacular and expensive " once-off " exercise that delivers an impressive result in the short term, but in the long term represents many challenges for content management and re-use. Currency of website content rapidly becomes an issue. Similarly, many organisations have...

T h e audio quality, robustness and complexity issues of a novel mobile digital audio broadcast (DAB) scheme a re addressed. T h e audio codec is based on a combination of subband coding (SBC) and mult ipulse excited linear predictive coding ( M P L P C ) , where the bi t allocation is dynamically adapted according t o both the signal power in different subbands and a perceptual hearing model. ...

The basic image processing system (ContextMapper) supports various I/0 devices for images, DEMand map data as well as interfaces to GIS. Different software modules, like a map revision system (MONOPLOTTING), an orthophoto system (IMAGE RECTIFICATION) and a stereoscopic photogrammetric work station (STEREOPLOTTING) are part of the development. Together with the advanced package of feature extrac...