Up-to-date information of forest resources is required at a variety of scales in order to support forest management practices ranging from strategic to operational levels. The rate of change in Scottish forests is significant and may occur over short periods due to active silvicultural management and the impact of natural disturbances (e.g. windthrow). Field-based sample inventories collect inf...

This paper introduces a new ‘Terrain Sensing System’ (TSS) that is able to record the cumulative damage seen by a ground vehicle over its entire operational life. Used within a HUMS IT process, this information can be calibrated to represent directly the residual life of onboard equipment such as electronic control systems, instrumentation, radios, brackets, refrigeration plants and weapons sys...

A major challenge for operational numerical weather prediction over the Antarctic and Southern Ocean is the lack of traditional meteorological observations. This increases uncertainty in the model initial condition and results in inferior forecast skills as compared with numerical weather prediction in mid-latitudes over the Northern Hemisphere. With the lack of traditional observations over th...

As the share of wind energy increases on the global energy market, the efficient operation of wind farms gains an ever growing significance. Among operational decisions, the planning and scheduling of maintenance operations are crucial for the availability of turbines, as well as for the operational costs. The paper introduces a system that performs the detailed scheduling of maintenance operat...

The authors present a sensor for real-time detection of solder-joint faults in programmed, operational Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), especially those FPGAs in Ball Grid Array (BGA) packages, such as a XILINX® FG1156 [1]. FPGAs are used in all manner and kinds of control systems in aerospace applications. The ability to sense high-resistance faults in the solder joints of operational F...

This paper analyses the concept of velocity isotropy for Parallel Mechanisms with Actuation Redundancy (PMAR). The limits of classical indices based on the Jacobean matrix condition number are shown. It is proposed to use either the largest ellipsoid included in the operational polytop, or the operational polytop itself, as better representations of a PMAR capabilities. The polytop is studied b...

BACKGROUND Simultaneous nitrogen, phosphorous and COD removal in a pilot-scale enhanced Sequencing Batch Reactor (eSBR) was investigated. METHODS The reactor consisted of a pre-anoxic zone and internal recycle and was fed with synthetic wastewater. The study was performed by operating the reactor in 6-hour cycles in three different operational modes during a time frame of 279 days. RESULTS ...

A key software engineering challenge in autonomic computing is the complexity of administrating operational policies of applications. In order to address this challenge, this chapter proposes and evaluates a new development environment, called iNetLab, which is designed to improve the productivity of designing, maintaining and tuning operational policies in autonomic network applications. iNetL...

One of the most important issues in urban planning is developing sustainable public transportation. The basic condition for this purpose is analyzing current condition especially based on data. Data mining is a set of new techniques that are beyond statistical data analyzing. Clustering techniques is a subset of it that one of it’s techniques used for analyzing passengers’ trip. The result of...

HIGHLIGHTS Intelligent diagnostic system for power transformers. Defining the operational behavior of large Ten intelligent classifiers were tested to establish condition