BACKGROUND Characterizing the interface between wild and domestic animal populations is increasingly recognized as essential in the context of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that are transmitted by wildlife. More specifically, the spatial and temporal distribution of contact rates between wild and domestic hosts is a key parameter for modeling EIDs transmission dynamics. We integrated sate...

The workstation, minicomputer, and microcomputer marketplaces have been revolutionized in the past decade by systems that are both open and distributed. As a leader in this revolution, the Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST), has been employing reusable software components to build a series of test beds, test and checkout systems for satellite assembly lin...

Snow contributes to regional and global water budgets, and is of critical importance to water resources management and our society. Along with advancement in remote sensing tools and techniques to retrieve snowfall, verification and refinement of these estimates need to be performed using ground-validation datasets. A comprehensive evaluation of the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) snowfall prod...

We aim to improve upon our existing tagging and tracking methods for odontocetes and to develop new telemetry technology and attachment techniques that will advance researchers’ abilities to understand the impacts of anthropogenic sound on odontocetes, especially beaked whales. Goal 1 is to improve upon our existing remotely-deployed satellite tag attachment technique to achieve longer monitori...

Multidimensional times series prediction is a challenging task. Only recently the increased data availability has made it possible to tackle with such problems. In this work we devised novel method exploit multiple correlated features in time series. The recurrent neural networks and wavelet transform have been important innovations fields of signal processing prediction. This paper proposes Wa...

Abstract: Ocean observing systems provide a means to monitor oceanic variables on a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Data from ocean observing systems are most useful when they are collected in real-time; real-time data allow the detection of important events as they occur. Various real-time telemetry options exist for transferring data from sea to shore and from the subsurface to the su...