Rover-mounted geotechnical systems are of paramount importance to lunar trafficability assessment, construction, and excavation/mining toward establishing permanent human presence on the Moon. These tools can also be used to determine density, when the regolith is used as radiation shield, for example. Two popular insitu devices for establishing geotechnical properties of soil are the Static Co...

This paper presents three algorithms that outperform all other published work for allocating a limited number of orthogonal frequency channels to access points (APs) in wireless networks. Unlike other work, we minimize interference seen by both users and APs, we use a physical rather than binary model for interference, and we mitigate the impact of rogue RF interference. Our three algorithms ha...

Effects of the electrical flame off (EFO) parameters on the hardness and work hardening properties of Cu free air balls (FABs) are reported and compared to those of Au. Cu FABs were characterised using an online deformability method that measures the insitu deformability of the Cu FAB and by traditional off-line Vickers microhardness testing of cross-sectioned samples. The online deformability ...

We discuss a current, ongoing demonstration of insitu onboard detection in which the Earth Observing-1 spacecraft detects surface sulfur deposits that originate from underlying springs by distinguishing the sulfur from the ice-rich glacial background, a good analogue for the Europan surface. In this paper, we describe the process of developing the onboard classifier for detecting the presence o...

Using insitu digital image correlation to obtain full-field measurements, we study the intermartensitic transformations in single crystal NiFeGa. Full-field strain measurements identify the coexistence of modulated martensite phases during the first plateau of the multistage stress-strain curve at room temperature. At a higher temperature, the measurements indicate the bypassing of one of the m...

CAPACITIVE SENSOR FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF VFTO IN GIS V. Vinod Kumar and Joy Thomas M. A capacitive sensor based on the theory of electric field measurements using floating electrodes has been developed for the measurement of VFTO and the same has been fitted to the metallic enclosure of a 145 kV GIS experimental test setup available in the laboratory. The sensor has been calibrated insitu with ...

Using N,N-dimethylacetalamide (DMAc) as the suspension media of polystyrene (PS) and poly[styrene-co-(4-vinyl-pyridin)] (PSVP) nanoparticles, insitu condensation polymerization of dianhydride and diamine was carried out and homogenous polyamic acid solution containing the nanoparticles were obtained. Novel PMDA-ODA nanocomposite membranes with various contents of nanoparticles were prepared by ...

Satellite sensors have provided new datasets for monitoring regional and urban air quality. Satellite sensors provide comprehensive geospatial information on air quality with both qualitative remotely sensed imagery and quantitative data, such as aerosol optical depth. This paper presents a new method for retrieving aerosol optical thickness. The method is based on the determination of the aero...

The acceleration of urbanization and rapid development of economy led to making surface water pollution problem becoming more critical. Water treatment technologies can be generally classified as insitu or ex-situ. In this paper, a comprehensive review describing the latest surface water remediation developments and technologies that can be suitable for in-situ applications. The review covers t...

Fabrication of a cysteamine (CA) self-assembled monolayer (SAM) modified gold electrode insitu functionalized with L-Lysine (Lys) is presented and described. The fabricated electrode was used for highly selective and sensitive accumulation and the determination of copper ions (Cu) in a nanomolar concentration. Techniques like cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (E...