This paper presents passive radar emitter localization using the Time-Difference-Of-Arrival (TDOA) technique from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) working in conjunction with a fixed/mobile station (such as a shipborne/land-based station) to geolocate a radar emitter to fulfill maritime and littoral area surveillance. Instead of using multiple stationary sensors, multiple TDOA measurements are o...

The effects of loudspeaker azimuth and reference microphone location on probe tube microphone measures were assessed. The real ear unaided response (REUR), real ear aided response (REAR), and real ear insertion response (REIR) were obtained on a KEMAR. Aided measures were obtained with both a behind-the-ear and an in-the-ear hearing aid. All three measurements were affected by changes in the lo...

254 INTRODUCTION The detection, classification, and geo-location of ground-based signal sources is one of the primary missions of modern military surveillance aircraft. Example signals of interest are the search radar of an enemy missile site, the radio communications between enemy combatants, and the distress radio beacon being transmitted by a downed friendly pilot. The ability to locate such...

The problem of hip joint centre location using optical markers located on the skin is addressed. We present a novel computational technique which can recover joint centre location based solely on the marker measurements. In addition a quantitative estimate of the uncertainty in joint centre location is obtained. We also present some preliminary experimental validation of the technique on a rigi...

Coastal waters represent the commingling of offshore marine and terrestrial surface source waters and therefore are naturally complex and variable. Our long term goal is to establish observational and modeling approaches to predict sources and scales of variability in the source waters, particularly those related to land use activities in upstream watersheds, from observations and measurements ...

Techniques and calculations are presented that give explicit expressions for the over-all performance of a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) in terms of the intrinsic spectral response and quantum efficiency of its constituents. We examine the single dye (or inorganic ion) LSC with emphasis on the planar geometry. Preliminary data on the degradation of candidate LSC dyes under severe weather...

Using optical tweezers combined with luminescence measurements we detected the optical field around two optically trapped silica microspheres partially covered by metal. By monitoring the luminescence of rhodamine 6G we were able to observe an increase of the local field intensity owing to the coupling of the local surface plasmons at the surfaces of two spheres.

In this paper, we describe an innovative project where Web technologies are exploited to foster science learning in an integrated but mobile smart learning environment. Contextawareness is considered a crucial skill in science learning, therefore we imagined a solution to train students for context awareness by illustrating context gaps based on on-site observations and measurements. A componen...

Bioluminescence is primarily a marine phenomenon with 80% of metazoan bioluminescent genera occurring in the world's oceans. Here we show that bioluminescence has evolved repeatedly and is phylogenetically widespread across ray-finned fishes. We recover 27 independent evolutionary events of bioluminescence, all among marine fish lineages. This finding indicates that bioluminescence has evolved ...

Photoplethysmography is used in various areas such as vital sign measurement, vascular characteristics analysis, and autonomic nervous system assessment. Photoplethysmographic signals are composed of ac and dc, but it is difficult to find research about the interaction of photoplethysmographic components. This study suggested a model equation combining two Lambert-Beer equations at the onset an...