Abstract: Understanding terrain topology at long-range is crucial for the success of off-road robotic missions, especially when navigating at high-speeds. LiDAR sensors, which are currently heavily ...

Using only satellite imagery and digital elevation maps, researchers may have uncovered the next Göbekli Tepe - an 11,000-year-old site buried beneath the hills of Turkey. Hidden oval and circular ...

I feel like I am missing something easy or obvious with lake/road/river/ocean detection, but what I've got gets me most of the way there. If you hack on the RidgeMap.preprocessor method and find ...

The marathon and race walk courses for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 have been officially confirmed by World Athletics (WA) and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF), and ...

Abstract: Online dense mapping gives a representation of the unstructured terrain, which is indispensable for safe robotic motion planning. In this article, we propose such an elevation mapping system ...

This project calculates the average elevation for all ZIP codes (ZCTAs) in the United States using high-resolution elevation data. It outputs a CSV file with ZIP codes and their corresponding average ...

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Digital elevation maps are the bread and butter of many geoscience topics, such as the topography of watersheds and river basins. Having high-resolution, accurate maps world-wide is considered a holy ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Hurricane Milton is expected to bring deadly levels of storm surge at 10 to 15 feet and between 5 to 12 inches of rain to Tampa as it nears landfall late Wednesday night into Thursday ...

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