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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"remote sensor"”.
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An Assessment of remote sensing technology in Virginia planning agencies
Remote sensing techniques have proven utility to a wide range of planning problems. This research explores the adoption and application of remote sensing techniques by Virginia planning agencies. All planning agencies within the Commonwealth were sent a Remote Sensing Utilization Questionnaire. …
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Understanding and quantifying motor vehicle emissions with vehicle specific power and TILDAS remote sensing
… to be made between data from different remote sensing sites, dynamometer driving cycles, and emission models. Modem U.S. vehicles are likely to operate under commanded enrichment when SP exceeds the maximum value on the Federal Test Procedure (-22 kW/Metric Ton). This may allow transient …
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Evaluation Of A Microwave Radiative Transfer Model For Calculating Sat
Remote sensing is the process of gathering and analyzing information about the earth's ocean, land and atmosphere using electromagnetic "wireless" techniques. Mathematical models, known as Radiative Transfer Models (RTM), are developed to calculate the observed radiance (brightness temperature) …
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Calibration of Snowmaking Equipment for Efficient Use on Virginia's Smart Road
… activities including snow and ice control, remote sensor testing, snow removal management, safety and human factors, and vehicle dynamics. An all-weather testing system will feature 75 automated snowmaking towers. In order to provide timely and repeatable weather scenarios, equipment …
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Seawinds Radiometer Brightness Temperature Calibration And Validation
The NASA SeaWinds scatterometer is a radar remote sensor which operates on two satellites; NASA's QuikSCAT launched in June 1999 and on Japan's ADEOS-II satellite launched in December 2002. The purpose of SeaWinds is to provide global measurements of the ocean surface wind vector. On QuikSCAT, a …
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Assessment of Land Use Suitability Based on Water Erosion Susceptibility in Medium-Sized Urban Areas of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Central Chile
… in urban environments. Since publicly available remote sensor and ancillary GIS data were incorporated, this approach has application beyond the cities studied. The results indicate that it is possible to assess the land use suitability of medium-sized urban areas based on water erosion …
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Service Oriented Architecture for Monitoring Cargo in Motion Along Trusted Corridors
… a system called the Transportation Security SensorNet that can be used to perform extensive cargo monitoring. It is built as a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using open web service specifications and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. This allows for compatibility, …
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Vehicle Engine Classification Using of Laser Vibrometry Feature Extraction
<p>Used as a non-invasive and remote sensor, the laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) has been used in many different applications, such as inspection of aircrafts, bridge and structure and remote voice acquisition. However, using LDV as a vehicle surveillance device has not been feasible due to the lack …
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Managing resources on a multi-modal sensing device for energy-aware state estimation
… form of a smartphone, mobile computing device, remote sensor node, or a sensor-packed robot, they are used almost everywhere. Often these devices run on battery power or on energy harvested from the environment. In these situations, energy is at a premium, and resources must be intelligently …
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Multisensor modeling underwater with uncertain information
… three-dimensional terrain; high-bandwidth sensors providing redundant, overlapping coverage; lack of prior knowledge about the environment; and inherent inaccuracy or ambiguity in sensing and interpretation. The models are cast as a three-dimensional spatial decomposition of stochastic, …
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Fish and mammals of the lower Calaveras River, Stockton, CA
… soot track plates, photography, and remote sensor infrared trail cameras. Native mammals included North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), raccoon (Procyon lotor), Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae), Califomia vole (Microtus …
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Developing GPS river flow tracers (GRiFTers) to investigate large scale river flow phenomena
… bedform features.The expanding usage of remote sensor monitoring techniques, the incorporation of GPS receivers into drifters to provide improved positioning, and the adaptation of drifters for use in the surf zone and in estuaries and lakes have combined to highlight the potential of …
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Chalcogenide glass materials for integrated infrared photonics
… and mid-IR wavelengths. Such an integrated sensor design will enable the creation and deployment of low-cost remote sensor arrays with small footprints, and ultimately lead to "lab-on-a-chip" structures.
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Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for the Estimation of Soil Organic Matter from the Integration of UAV and In-Ground Soil Sensor
… of field measurements employing in-ground sensors inside the ML (Machine Learning) approach should produce a good correlation with the laboratory LOI (Loss on Ignition) tested samples. Two methods were used to gather the data: aerial images collected by UAVs displayed the vegetative index …
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Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for the Estimation of Soil Organic Matter from the Integration of UAV and In-Ground Soil Sensor
… of field measurements employing in-ground sensors inside the ML (Machine Learning) approach should produce a good correlation with the laboratory LOI (Loss on Ignition) tested samples. Two methods were used to gather the data: aerial images collected by UAVs displayed the vegetative index …
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Improving the consistency of nonlinear estimators: analysis, algorithms, and applications
… and orientation) using measurements from onboard sensors (e.g., an odometer and a camera). Another closely-related and important example is target tracking, where the objective is to estimate the target's state using remote sensor observations. Even though many different algorithms, such as the …
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In-Situ Spectrocopy: Gas Mixture Analysis Using A Simplified Multi-Pass Capillary Cell and Optical Considerations In Dual-Pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Analysis of Bulk Aqueous Solutions
… methods described herein will be an in-situ gas sensor using Raman Spectroscopy and considerations for a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopic method geared towards in-situ analysis of hydrothermal vents. </p> <p> Chapter 1 will describe a novel, yet simple gas sensor that utilizes a fiber-optic …