Abstract: In this paper, we focus on the problem of speckle removal by means of anisotropic diffusion and, specifically, on the importance of the correct estimation of the statistics involved. First, ...

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Introduction: The revelation of the assembly mechanism of plant communities in karst region has crucial implications for the restoration of degraded vegetation. Niche theory and neutral theory are the ...

There are three major ways by which the rate of genetic drift can be modelled in the simplest type of population: increase in variance of allele frequencies; approach to identity by descent of all ...

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Eucalypt plantations in the southern region of Brazil represent slightly over 11% of the total area cultivated with this genus in the country, nowadays estimated at 5.47 million hectares (based on ...

Abstract: This article introduces a novel paradigm for hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising, which is termed pan-denoising. In a given scene, panchromatic (PAN) images capture similar structures and ...