There is a wide variety of geo-spatial data available on the Internet, including a number of data sources that provide satellite imagery and maps of various regions. The National Map, MapQuest, and University of Texas Map Library are good examples of map or satellite imagery repositories. In addition, a wide variety of maps are available from various government agencies, such as property survey...

Tropical cyclones spend most of their life cycle over the tropical and subtropical oceans. Because of the lack of in situ data in these regions, satellite observations are fundamental for tracking and estimating the intensity of these storms for real-time forecasting and monitoring climate trends. This chapter reviews methods for estimating tropical cyclone intensity from satellites, including ...

The impact of including the diffraction loss in the interference modeling on the system throughput is assessed in the context of cognitive Ka-band satellite systems. In particular, we focus on the cognitive satellite downlink, where Geostationary (GEO) Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) terminals receive interference from the incumbent Fixed-Service (FS) microwave links. We present numerical results...

TO THE EDITOR: We thank Snijders et al. (5) for raising important questions worthy of further discussion. In our study, 14 days of bed rest induced robust myofiber atrophy and muscle weakness that was accompanied by a reduction in satellite cell content (1). Individual changes in satellite cell quantity were significantly correlated with the decline in myofiber cross-sectional area after bed re...

We construct a data-driven model for solar irradiation based on satellite observations. The model yields probabilistic estimates of the irradiation field every thirty minutes starting from two consecutive satellite measurements. The probabilistic nature of the model captures prediction uncertainties and can therefore be used by solar energy producers to quantify the operation risks. The model i...

gravity acceleration data have grand pursuit for marine applications. due to environmental effects, marine gravity observations always hold a high noise level. in this paper, we propose an approach to produce marine gravity data using satellite altimetry, high-resolution geopotential models and harmonic splines. on the one hand, harmonic spline functions have great capability for local gravity ...