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Digitalization of coastal management and decision making supported by multi-dimensional geospatial information and analysis
This paper summarizes the results and outcomes of our NSF Digital Government project. During four years, this project concentrated on investigating, integrating and developing geospatial technologies to enhance the operational capabilities of federal, state, and local agencies responsible for coastal management and decision making. Successful collaborations have been established among research laboratories and government agencies in the areas of data collection and analysis, hydrodynamic modeling, development of web-based systems, and real-world applications of research results.
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Integration of Multi-Source Spatial Information for Coastal Management and Decision Making
This paper presents the second-year outcomes of our Digital Government project "Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis". One of the primary objectives of the second year is to develop and integrate multiple spaceborne, airborne, and in-situ remotely sensed measurements, spatio-temporal databases, coastal hydrological modeling, and geospatial information analysis for coastal management and decision making. The developed coastal management and decision-making system includes applications for coastal mapping and change detection, water surface modeling and analysis, on-site coastal management and decision-making, and web-based spatial data manipulation. Studies have also been conducted on uncertainties in the used coastal spatial data. The above system has been tested at a pilot site along Ohio's Lake Erie shore and is to be applied to a new test site in Tampa Bay, Florida.
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Evaluation of the Geopositioning Accuracy of QuickBird Imagery
QuickBird satellite imagery, provided by DigitalGlobe Inc., has the highest resolution, among the satellite imaging systems that are commercially available. The QuickBird imaging system simultaneously collects 67-72 centimeter resolution stereo panchromatic and 2.44-2.88 meter resolution multispectral images. In this research, a QuickBird stereo pair of basic imagery product that was taken over Tampa Bay, FL, was acquired and its geopositioning accuracy evaluated based on Rational Function (RF) models.
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Spatial Technologies for Coastal Management
This demonstration will be presented at the 2004 National Conference on Digital Government Research. The third year results of the project "Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis" will be presented. Mobile wireless communications, internet web services, and web GIS are integrated into a web-based decision-making system for coastal management. Employing three-dimensional visualization technology, athe system also provides a visualization tool for multisource spatial-temporal data integration and uncertainty analysis. Also demonstrated is an interactive QuickBird image processing subsystem used for high resolution DEM and three-dimensional shoreline extraction of Tampa Bay.The goal of this project is to develop technologies to enhance the operational capabilities of federal, state, and local agencies responsible for coastal management and decision making. The pilot test site is along the Lake Erie coastline from Port Clinton to East Cleveland, Ohio. Research strategies are currently being applied to Painesville, OH and Tampa Bay, Florida. The demonstration will include the following sections.
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Multi-source Coastal Data Analysis
This paper presents results from the second year of a project on coastal management and decision making sponsored by the National Science Foundation Digital Government Program and carried out by a multidisciplinary research team. As one of the primary goals of the project, tide-coordinated shoreline modeling and mapping requires the integration of multi-source spatio-temporal data that include high-resolution digital elevation models (DEM) derived from IKONOS satellite images and aerial photographs, bathymetric data, water gauge data, satellite altimetric data, and water surfaces derived by a hydrodynamic hindcast model (Li et al., 2002b). Quality and accuracy assessment of these data has been made to ensure reliability of the outcomes of the data integration. The resulting shorelines derived from the integrated data are then evaluated for accuracy in comparison with traditional shorelines determined from tide-coordinated aerial surveys.
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Integration of multidimensional geospatial information for coastal management and decision-making
Coastal management and decision-making requires timely and accurate multidimensional geospatial data that often reside in government agencies, organizations, and institutions on various levels. Integration of such data involves research on the spatial and temporal characteristics of coastal geospatial information, interoperability of spatial databases and tools, and distributed and mobile technologies. This demonstration will present a system we have developed in last four years, which aims at integrating multidimensional coastal spatial data and information technology to enhance the operational capabilities of federal, state, and local agencies responsible for coastal management and decision making.
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A Fan-type condition for claw-free graphs to be Hamiltonian
Abstract Let G be a 2 -connected claw-free graph of order n . If for each pair of vertices u and v dist (u,v)=3⇒ max (d(u),d(v))⩾(n−4)/2, then G is Hamiltonian.
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Using marker-based deformable models for deriving anatomical models from medical image databases
The outcome of the application of a deformable model is dependent on its initialization and parameter settings. This is an obstacle to robust automatic segmentation. An approach to reducing the dependences is proposed in this paper based on geodesic topographic distance transforms from two manually or automatically placed markers. This is a novel method that uses object and background differentiation in deformable models via watershed theories. The implementation is based on efficient numerical methods. Experiments have shown that it is a highly promising approach. This approach has been applied to the determination of tissue characteristics in early childhood using a CT database of neonates. We believe that by relaxing dependences on the initialization and parameters this approach will enable a degree of automation needed for segmentation-based construction of organ models from large image databases, particularly when the markers can be determined automatically on the basis of a priori knowledge
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Combining Front Propagation with Shape Knowledge for Accurate Curvilinear Modelling
In this paper, we propose an approach to accurately modelling tubular, anatomical structures as curvilinear entities. Current optimal path and centerline extraction techniques are either prone to introducing spurious tortuosity, or unable to consistently avoid taking shortcuts at high curvature positions. These problems not only affect spatial appreciation of the structure but may also significantly impact the accuracy of length, angle and tortuosity measurements. Our approach overcomes the above deficiencies through the combination of a front propagation method and a model in which a priori shape knowledge is embedded. This approach is designed to be used in endovascular and neurological surgical planning. The efficacy of our method is demonstrated using synthetic and clinical data.
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Schema Mapping for Interoperability in XML-based multidatabase
The main aim of a multidatabase system (MDBS) is to achieve data integration and interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous database systems. But data model heterogeneity and schema make this a challenging task. Multidatabase users can only view the global schemas whose real data come from local database systems. Thus, mappings from global schemas to local schemas should be established. At the same time, the recent emergence of XML has shown great intractability as a new standard for data representation and exchange on the Web. A data model based on XML becomes more suitable for integrating different types of systems. This paper firstly introduces a multidatabase common data model based on XML, named XML-based Integration Model (XIDM). Then, an approach of schema mappings based on XIDM in MDBSs has been presented. Finally, the illustration and implementation of schema mappings in a multidatabase prototype - Panorama are also discussed.
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A time interval based consistency control algorithm for interactive groupware applications
Traditional concurrency control methods such as locking and serialization are not suitable for distributed interactive applications that demand fast local response. Operational transformation (OT) is the standard solution to concurrency control and consistency maintenance in group editors, an important class of interactive groupware applications. It generally trades consistency for local responsiveness, because human users can often tolerate temporary inconsistencies but do not like their interactions be lost or nondeterministically blocked. This paper presents a time interval based operational transformation algorithm (TIBOT) that overcomes the various limitations of previous related work. Our approach guarantees content convergence and is significantly more simple and efficient than existing approaches. This is achieved in a pure replicated architecture by using a linear clock and by posing some constraints on communication that are reasonable for the application domain.