Digital Image Processing: Experiences in the Gulf War
During the 1990-91 conflict in Southwest Asia between Iraq and coalition forces operating with US Armed Forces, the utility of products developed from digital imagery and digital terrain...
Digital Image Processing and Analysis in Materials Science (Keynote Lecture)
This discussion presents a generic overview of computer aided imaging in materials science. Some of the questions to be answered are: Does the computer perceive the same things that I...
Multispectral/Hyperspectral Imaging and Data Compression
Remote sensing instrumentation, data and analysis techniques for Civil Engineering applications are similar to those used in multidisciplinary remote sensing of the earth's surface. Data...
Machine Vision Based Traffic-Adjusted Intersection Signal Control
This paper describes some of the available machine vision systems and how they can be effectively used for traffic control at an intersection. A set of rules have been defined which make...
Ground Penetrating Radar: Images of Subsurface Characteristics
Ground penetrating radar has not been widely used for subsurface exploration in Civil Engineering. This paper describes the experimental setup used to explore ground penetrating radar...
Survey of Image Processing Applications in Civil Engineering
A number of imaging products have been developed for civil engineering applications. This paper attempts to survey various image processing applications in civil engineering up to date....
Computer Vision Techniques for Comparing Laser Doppler Velocimeter Scans of a Vibrating Plate to Analytical Plate Modes
Computer vision procedures were applied to velocity images of a vibrating square steel plate. A scanning laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) measured the images of low frequency resonant operating...
Image Enhancement: Application to Geotomography
Image enhancement complements geotomographic reconstruction in the rendering of better images. In this paper, available image enhancement techniques are reviewed. Emphasis is given to...
Application of Digital Images and Processing for As-Built Construction Drawings
The production of as-built drawings is a labor intensive activity that often provides the facility owner with inaccurate or incomplete final drawings. This paper briefly reviews work accomplished...
Image Analysis Applied to Geotechnical Engineering
Application of scanning electron microscope and image analyzer to the quantification of grain morphology and microfabric of aged sands is briefly reviewed. Relationships of morphology...
Pavement Design Considerations for Heavy Aircraft Loading at BAA Airports
BAA operates seven airports in the United Kingdom. Two of them, Heathrow and Gatwick, handled 61 million passengers in 1991 with 543,000 air transport movements, 25% by wide-bodied aircraft....
Airfield Pavement Structural Evaluations, Current Practice and Future Needs
The United States Air Force's pavement evaluation teams have to be able to go quickly anywhere in the world to evaluate an airfield pavement's structural capability. A combination of non-destructive...
Durability of Asphalt Mixture
Five asphalts were used in a laboratory testing program to establish a relationship between mixture properties and the binder properties. These five asphalts were used to make Florida...
Ft. Campbell Airfield Emergency Reconstruction
The air deployment from Fort Campbell, Kentucky to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Storm in the summer and fall of 1990 involved several hundred C5 and C141 aircraft loaded...
North Ramp Pavement Evaluation/Rehabilitation?Houston Intercontinental Airport
The North Ramp at Houston's Intercontinental Airport is approximately 23 years old and serves Terminals A and B and also serves as a primary taxiway. Prior to having the new international...
Recycling Concrete and Asphalt Pavements Rehabilitation of Runway 18R-36L Orlando International Airport
The subject project consisted of reconstructing an air carrier runway utilizing a concrete keel section with asphalt overlays along the runway edges. Associated taxiways were rehabilitated...
Evaluation of Runway Roughness for Fighter Jets
A new roughness evaluation procedure is needed, especially, when dealing with modern fighter jets. To this end, a comprehensive pilot attitude survey was conducted in Israel in order to...
Rehabilitation of Runway 4R-22L at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
This paper describes the systematic process that was used to develop a rehabilitation strategy for the busiest runway at O'Hare International Airport. Any rehabilitation alternative that...
Jacksonville's ASE Crosses the River
After over three years of operation, the Jacksonville (Florida) Automated Skyway Express (Skyway) downtown people mover system is expanding. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA),...
Las Vegas?A Significant APM Market
Las Vegas, the gambling and entertainment center of the nation, contains the world's largest concentration of hotels and casinos, and attracts over 18 million visitors a year. APMs have...
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