Advances in pressure sensing for vapour phase soldering process monitoring

Preface: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Growth Monitoring

This Special Issue gathers sixteen papers focusing on applying various remote sensing techniques to crop growth monitoring. The studies span observations from multiple scales, a combination of model simulations and experimental measurements, and a range of topics on crop monitoring and mapping. This preface provides a brief overview of the contributed papers.

Low Cost UAV-based Remote Sensing for Autonomous Wildlife Monitoring

In recent years, developments in unmanned aerial vehicles, lightweight on-board computers, and low-cost thermal imaging sensors offer a new opportunity for wildlife monitoring. In contrast with traditional methods now surveying endangered species to obtain population and location has become more cost-effective and least time-consuming. In this paper, a low-cost UAV-based remote sensing platform...

Pressure and Draw-In Maps for Stamping Process Monitoring

This paper presents two tooling-integrated sensing techniques for the in situ measurement and analyses of pressure distribution at the tool–workpiece interface and material drawin during the stamping processes. Specifically, the contact pressure distribution is calculated from the measurements by an array of force sensors embedded in the punch, whereas sheet draw-in is measured by custom-design...

Oscillometric Continuous Blood Pressure Sensing for Wearable Health Monitoring System

In this paper we present an acquisition chain for the measurement of blood arterial pressure based on the oscillometric method. This method does not suffer from any limitation as the well-known auscultatory method and it is suited for wearable health monitoring systems. The device uses a pressure sensor whose signal is filtered, digitalized and analyzed by a microcontroller. Local analysis allo...

Reflow Soldering Process Considerations for Surface Mount Application