Innovative technologies for preserving printed publications

Preserving electronic publications

Scientific journals are more and more published electronically. Gradually the amount of e-books increases and on Internet a vast amount of digital information is being published. Electronic publishing offers major opportunities for dissemination and for access but at the same time imposes new challenges on national libraries and other deposit institutes in charge of preserving countries’ cultur...

Innovative Science and Technology Publications

Innovative Technologies for Terrestrial Remote Sensing

Characterizing and monitoring terrestrial, or land, surface features, such as forests, deserts, and cities, are fundamental and continuing goals of Earth Observation (EO). EO imagery and related technologies are essential for increasing our scientific understanding of environmental processes, such as carbon capture and albedo change, and to manage and safeguard environmental resources, such as ...

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES: Microscopy Not to Dye For

In Bangladesh as many as 57 million people drink water with arsenic levels that exceed the 10-ppb limit set by the World Health Organization. Arsenic occurs naturally in high concentrations in groundwater in Bangladesh. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka now report that ponds resulting from...

Broadband Access Communication Technologies VII | Publications: SPIE

100-GHz and 300-GHz coherent radio-over-fiber transmission using optical frequency comb source Author(s): Atsushi Kanno; Toshiaki Kuri; Iwao Hosako; Tetsuya Kawanishi; Yoshihiro Yasumura; Yuki Yoshida; Ken-ichi Kitayama Millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber (RoF) technology with digital-signal-processing aided coherent detection can be a promising candidate for high-speed rad...