Smart Dust is a set of a vast number of ultra-small fully autonomous computing and communication devices, with very restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to quickly and efficiently accomplish a large sensing task. Smart Dust can be very useful in practice, i.e., in the local detection of a remote crucial event and the propagation of data reporting its realization. In thi...

the occurrence of dust storms and their sources in the southern and central parts of iran during the period of 2002 to 2009 was investigated. for this purpose, the meteorological and synoptic data, data from the middle and upper atmosphere, and wind flow tracking model were used. dust storms and nddi were traced using satellite imagery from fasa, shiraz, and bushehr stations. analysis of the gr...

An important issue affecting operation of ground-based observatories is the local environmental conditions, including dust in the atmosphere. Dust “events” can appear suddenly and without warning, and can be very detrimental to a telescope’s optics. Due to these dust events, optics may be required to undergo cleaning and recoating which can cost the observatory a substantial amount of money, in...

[1] Dust fluxes are of wide interest because of the effects of dust on climate, oceanic primary productivity, terrestrial biogeochemical cycles, and regolith composition. Estimating long‐ term dust deposition rates, however, can be difficult, especially in steep, eroding terrain. Here we present a geochemical mass balance method for estimating long‐term average rates of dust incorporation into ...