How to Build Cost-Effective Skid-Sprayers for Prescribed Burning

Considerations for Prescribed Burning

How to Build a Low-Cost, Extended-Range RFID Skimmer

Radio-Frequency Identifier (RFID) technology, using the ISO-14443 standard, is becoming increasingly popular, with applications like credit-cards, national-ID cards, E-passports, and physical access control. The security of such applications is clearly critical. A key feature of RFID-based systems is their very short range: Typical systems are designed to operate at a range of 5-10cm. Despite t...

BOX 10.1 Prescribed Burning for Understory Restoration

Role of Prescribed Burning. Because the longleaf ecosystem evolved with and is adapted to frequent fire, every 2 to 8 years, prescribed burning is often useful for restoring understory communities to a diverse ground layer of grasses, herbs, and small shrubs. This restoration provides habitat for a number of plant and animal species that are restricted to or found mostly in longleaf pine commun...

How to build a flexible and cost-effective high-speed access network based on FTTB+LAN architecture

In this paper we propose an approach of building a modern high-speed access network based on FTTB+LAN architecture in multi-dwelling buildings where cat.5 copper infrastructure is available and can be used. Presented approach allows building easy-to-deploy and cost-effective access network as compared to another FTTH and FTTB-based topologies. Thanks to flexible network design various service p...

The Response of Thurber’s Needlegrass to Fall Prescribed Burning

Thurber’s needlegrass (Achnatherum thurberianum [Piper] Barkworth) is an important component of many sagebrush communities in the Intermountain West. Prescribed fall burning is often implemented in sagebrush plant communities to mimic historic wildfires, improve wildlife habitat, and increase livestock forage production. Burning is used because it shifts dominance from sagebrush to herbaceous v...