Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP)

Rangeland Health Standards Assessment

Rangeland Monitoring Using Remote Sensing

Rangeland Condition Monitoring: A New Approach Using Cross-Fence Comparisons of Remotely Sensed Vegetation

A need exists in arid rangelands for effective monitoring of the impacts of grazing management on vegetation cover. Monitoring methods which utilize remotely-sensed imagery may have comprehensive spatial and temporal sampling, but do not necessarily control for spatial variation of natural variables, such as landsystem, vegetation type, soil type and rainfall. We use the inverse of the red band...

NKS-130, Wire System Aging Assessment and Condition Monitoring (WASCO)

Nuclear facilities rely on electrical wire systems to perform a variety of functions for successful operation. Many of these functions directly support the safe operation of the facility; therefore, the continued reliability of wire systems, even as they age, is critical. Condition Monitoring (CM) of installed wire systems is an important part of any aging program, both during the first 40 year...

Bridge Structural Condition Assessment Based on Vibration and Traffic Monitoring

A stochastic model of traffic excitation on bridges is developed assuming that the arrival of vehicles traversing a bridge modeled as an elastic beam follows a Poisson process, and that the contact force of a vehicle on the bridge deck can be converted to equivalent dynamic loads at the nodes of the beam elements. The parameters in this model, such as the Poisson arrival rate and the stochastic...