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3D Line Segment Extraction Based on Line Fitting of Elevation Data

  • Woo, Dong-Min
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.181-185
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we are concerned with a 3D line segment extraction method by area-based stereo matching technique. The main idea is based on line fitting of elevation data on 2D line coordinates of ortho-image. Elevation data and ortho-image can be obtained by well-known area-based stereo matching technique. In order to use elevation in line fitting, the elevation itself should be reliable. To measure the reliability of elevation, in this paper, we employ the concept of self-consistency. We test the effectiveness of the proposed method with a quantitative accuracy analysis using synthetic images generated from Avenches data set of Ascona aerial images. Experimental results indicate that our method generates 3D line segments almost 7.5 times more accurate than raw elevations obtained by area-based method.

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Sinus membrane elevation and implant placement

  • Kim, Young-Kyun;Ku, Jeong-Kui
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.292-298
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    • 2020
  • Sinus Schneiderian membrane elevation surgery is widely performed for dental implant placement in the maxillary posterior region. With regard to sinus elevation surgery, various complications can occur and lead to implant failure. For successful implants in the maxillary posterior region, the clinician must be well acquainted with sinus anatomy and pathology, a variety of bone graft materials, the principles of sinus elevation surgery, and prevention and management of complications.

The Effect of Cold and Elevation on Skin Temperature (냉과 거상이 피부 온도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Min-Kyu;Current, Marion E.;Kim, Hyo;Lee, Jung-Bae
    • Physical Therapy Korea
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.48-56
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    • 1996
  • The research of cold therapy is preceding rarely nowadays. This study was researched to measure the skin temperature of the right foot malleolus when the leg change the situation precisely speaking it was cold, elevation, cold plus elevation. Twenty young healthy volunteers(M:10, F:10)with no history of cardiopulmonary disease, peripheral artery disease were tested. This study were analyzed by one-way-repeated ANOVA. In the first we examined the within changes of the skin temperature between before and after examination for each modality. The skin temperature at all of modalities had fallen. Therefore we could know the fact that elevation plus cold modality had fallen skin temperature significantly more than elevation or cold. And there were no significant difference between male and female. We conclude that elevation and cold therapy could be better effective on edema, contusion and sprain than cold or elevation therapy independently.

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Optimal Inter-Element Spacing of FD-MIMO Planar Array in Urban Macrocell with Elevation Channel Modelling

  • Abubakari, Alidu;Raymond, Sabogu-Sumah;Jo, Han-Shin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.4759-4780
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    • 2017
  • Full Dimension multiple input multiple output (FD-MIMO) architecture employs a planar array design at the Base Station (BS) to provide high order multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) via simultaneous data transmission to large number of users. With FD-MIMO, the BS can also adjust the beam direction in both elevation and azimuth direction to concentrate the energy on the user of interests while minimizing the interference leakage to co-scheduled users in the same cell or users in the neighboring cells. In a typical highly populated macrocell environment, modelling the elevation angular characteristics of three-dimensional (3D) channel is critical to understanding the performance limits of the FD-MIMO system. In this paper, we study the throughput performance of FD-MIMO system with varying elevation angular spread and inter-element spacing using a 3D spatial channel model. Our results show that for a typical urban scenario, horizontal beamforming with correlated antenna spacing achieves optimal performance but by restricting the spread of elevation angles of departure, elevation beamforming achieves high array gain with wide inter-element spacing. We also realize significant gains due to spatial array processing via modelling the elevation domain and varying the inter-element spacing for both the transmitter and receiver.

Diversity and distribution of invasive alien plant species along elevation gradient in Makawanpur district, central Nepal

  • Dipesh Karki;Bijay Pandeya;Balkrishna Ghimire
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2023
  • Background: Knowledge of the spatial trends of plant invasions in different habitats is essential for a better understanding of the process of these invasions. We examined the variation in invasive alien plant species (IAS) richness and composition at two spatial scales defined by elevation and habitat types (roadside, forest, and cultivated lands) in the Makawanpur district of Nepal. Following an elevation gradient ranging from 500 to 2,400 m asl along a mountain road, plant species cover was recorded within sample plots of size 10 m × 5 m. Systematic random sampling was adopted in every 100 m elevation intervals on three habitat types. Results: Altogether 18 invasive alien plants belonging to eight families were recorded within 60 plots, of which 14 species (representing 80%) were from tropical North and South America. The most common plants by their frequency were Ageratina adenophora, Chromolaena odorata, Bidens pilosa, Lantana camara, and Parthenium hysterophorus. We found a significant relationship between species composition and elevation in the study area. Low-elevation regions had a higher number of alien species as compared to high-elevation regions within different habitat types. Conclusions: The species richness and density of IAS were higher in the road site followed by the cultivated land and forest sites. This pattern occurred throughout the elevation range and habitats. IAS were found mostly in the open land with high sunlight availability. Information from such scientific assessment of invasive alien plants will assist in developing appropriate management plans in the Makawanpur district.

The Time Course of NMDA-and Kainate-induced cGMP Elevation and Glutamate Release in Cultured Neuron

  • Oh, Sei-Kwan;Shin, Chang-Sik;Kim, Hack-Seang
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.153-158
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    • 1995
  • The levels of extracellualr glutamate, intracellular $Ca^{2+}\;([Ca2+]_i)$ and cGMP were determined for 1 h with the excitatory amino acids, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) or kainate in cultured cerebellar granule cells. Both NMDA and kainate produced a time-dependent release of glutamate, and kainate was more potent than NMDA in glutamate elevation. The elevation of extracellular glutamate was not purely governed by intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ concentration. However, in opposite to the time-dependent elevation of glutamate, the elevation of cGMP by NMDA and kainate were at maximum level in short-time (1 min) incubation then remarkably decreased with longer incubation times. Post-applications (30 min after agonist) of EAA antagonist did not block EAAs-induced glutamate elevation. However, NMDA antagonist, phencyclidine (PCP), blocked NMDA-induced cGMP elevation at pre- or post-application, but kainate antagonist, 6,7-dinitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (DNQX), paradoxically augmented kainate-induced cGMP elevation for 1 h incubation. These results show that NMDA or kainate induces time-dependent elevations of extracellular glutamate, while the elevations of cGMP by these EAAs are remarkably decreased with longer incubation times. However, NMDA- arid kainate-indcued glutamate release was blocked by pre-application of each receptor antagonist but not by post-application while EAA-induced $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ was blocked by post-application of antagonist. These observations suggest that EAA-induced elevation of $[Ca^{2+}]_i$ is not parallel with elevation of glutamate release or cGMP.

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Elevation Correction of Multi-Temporal Digital Elevation Model based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images over Agricultural Area (농경지 지역 무인항공기 영상 기반 시계열 수치표고모델 표고 보정)

  • Kim, Taeheon;Park, Jueon;Yun, Yerin;Lee, Won Hee;Han, Youkyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.223-235
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    • 2020
  • In this study, we propose an approach for calibrating the elevation of a DEM (Digital Elevation Model), one of the key data in realizing unmanned aerial vehicle image-based precision agriculture. First of all, radiometric correction is performed on the orthophoto, and then ExG (Excess Green) is generated. The non-vegetation area is extracted based on the threshold value estimated by applying the Otsu method to ExG. Subsequently, the elevation of the DEM corresponding to the location of the non-vegetation area is extracted as EIFs (Elevation Invariant Features), which is data for elevation correction. The normalized Z-score is estimated based on the difference between the extracted EIFs to eliminate the outliers. Then, by constructing a linear regression model and correcting the elevation of the DEM, high-quality DEM is produced without GCPs (Ground Control Points). To verify the proposed method using a total of 10 DEMs, the maximum/minimum value, average/standard deviation before and after elevation correction were compared and analyzed. In addition, as a result of estimating the RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) by selecting the checkpoints, an average RMSE was derivsed as 0.35m. Comprehensively, it was confirmed that a high-quality DEM could be produced without GCPs.

Suggestion of the Relative Elevation Analysis Methods for Conservation of Local Topography : Focused on Analysis Range (지역규모의 지형경관 보전을 위한 상대고도 분석 방법론 제안 : 분석범위 설정을 중심으로)

  • Song, Wonkyong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2014
  • Given the structure of Korean mountains, it is more appropriate to apply the relative elevation method than the absolute elevation method. However, so far there were not suitable quantitative methodologies to analyze relative elevation, these analytical concepts were difficult to be utilized in urban environmental planning. This study suggested three methods for analyzing relative elevation, and one method for setting the analytical scope of relative elevation by calculating terrain relief. The results showed that the procedure considering 500m radius of each point and standardizing to 30% of the 7th height ridge was the most effective method to extract the local topography. This methodology is the quantitative tool to be able to conserve local important hills and ridges, and apply to fields of urban environmental planning and ecological restoration, especially urban ecological network.

Elevation Mask와 CNR Mask가 GPS 보정정보에 미치는 영향 분석

  • Kim, Yeong-Gi;Jang, Won-Seok;Seo, Gi-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2012.06a
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    • pp.76-77
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    • 2012
  • GPS 보정정보를 방송하는 우리나라의 DGPS 기준국에서는 IALA의 권고와 같이 $5^{\circ}{\sim}10^{\circ}$의 Elevation Mask를 사용한다. Elevation Mask는 GPS 수신기의 안테나를 기준으로 일정 앙각 이하의 고도에 위치한 위성의 신호를 여과하는 방법으로, 잡음이 많아 정확도가 낮은 위성신호를 측위에 사용하지 않기 위한 방법이다. 또한, CNR Mask는 신호대 잡음비가 작은 신호를 직접 제거하여 측위정확도를 향상시키는 방법이다. GPS 보정정보를 생산하는 DGPS 기준국에서 이들 Mask를 사용하는 것은 보정정보의 생산량에 영향을 미치고, 사용자 측위정확도에 각각 영향을 미친다. 본 연구에서는 Elevation Mask와 CNR Mask의 변화에 따른 잡음의 변화와 이를 기반으로 생성된 보정정보를 적용한 사용자 측위정확도의 변화를 살펴봄으로써, DGPS 기준국에서의 Elevation Mask와 CNR Mask 사용이 보정정보 사용자에게 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 살펴보고자 한다.

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Design of Elevation Data Transmission Method for Mobile Vector GIS

  • Choi, Jin-Oh
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.41-45
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    • 2009
  • In mobile GIS environments, a client needs to receive the isogram data with a topographical map from a server, if the mobile client wants to display map with elevation information. Because the elevation data size is normally quite large, the client will suffer some problems to receive the elevation data from server. The main reason is a resource limitation of the mobile devices. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes new data structures and algorithms. They are designed for efficient transmission of contour data to a client. Because of the contour data are generated as a vector style from elevation information stored at a server, the proposed algorithms are focused to minimize the transmission data volume and time.