[1] Three radiative transfer equations are built for MODIS bands 29, 31, and 32, which involve six unknown parameters (average atmospheric temperature, land surface temperature (LST), three band emissivities, and water vapor content). The relationships between geophysical parameters have been analyzed in detail, which indicates that neural network is one of the best methods to resolve these ill...

There is currently significant uncertainty about the extent to which cirrus clouds are composed of ”small” ice crystals smaller than about 20 μm effective radius. This is due in part to concerns that in-situ measurements from aircraft are plagued by ice particle shattering on instrument inlets, artificially biasing effective radii low. Here, we apply space-based measurements to the problem. We ...

Land surface emissivity (LSE) has been roughly treated in the current split-window (SW) LST retrieval algorithms. This paper extended National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Enterprise algorithm to Feng Yun-4A (FY-4A)/Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager (AGRI) thermal infrared (TIR) data by incorporating a daily LSE database for high-tempor...

A mixed time-domain/frequency-domain method is proposed for modelling dense wave energy converter (WEC) arrays with non-linear power take-off (PTO). The model based on a harmonic balance which describes the system response in frequency domain, while evaluating PTO force and solving equations of motion time domain. computed Lagrange multipliers. In order to apply WEC array responses real sea sta...

A new color quantization (CQ) technique and its VLSI implementation is introduced. It is based on image split into windows and uses Kohonen Self Organized Neural Network Classifier (SONNC). Initially, the dominant colors of each window are extracted through the SONNC and then are used for the quantization of the colors of the entire image. The image split in windows offers reduction of the memo...

Cross docking is a logistics strategy that strives to reduce inventory holding costs, shipping costs, and delays in delivering the products. In this research, an optimization model is presented for split loading and unloading products by suppliers and customers, vehicle routing with fuzzy possibilistic time window constraints among them, assignment of vehicles to cross dock, consolidation and i...

This paper proposes new techniques for efficiently parallelizing sliding window processing over data streams on a shared-nothing cluster of commodity hardware. Data streams are first partitioned on the fly via a continuous split stage that takes the query semantics into account in a way that respects the natural chunking (windowing) of the stream by the query. The split does not scale well enou...

Previous works in IEEE 802.16e power saving mainly focused on standard Type I or Type II power saving class. The limitation of adopting Type I or Type II was discussed in our previous work, and the idea of applying traffic modeling and measurement called Load-Based Power Saving (LBPS) was proposed. The base station in LBPS measures the traffic load and estimates the sleep window size for mobile...