Space situational awareness (SSA) is vital for international safety and security, and the future of space travel. By improving SSA data-sharing we improve global SSA. Computational ontology should provide one means toward that goal. This paper develops the ontology of the SSA domain and takes steps in the creation of a Space Situational Awareness Ontology. It outlines objectives, requirements a...

In this paper, the diurnal variations of aerosol optical properties and their influences on the estimation of daily average direct aerosol radiative effect (DARE) in the North China Plain (NCP) are investigated based on in situ measurements from Haze in China campaign. For ambient aerosol, the diurnal patterns of single scattering albedo (SSA) and asymmetry factor (g) in the NCP are both highes...

Space division multiplexing (SDM) is a promising technology that aims to overcome the capacity crunch of optical communications. In this paper, we introduce the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Stokes Space Algorithm (SSA) implemented in frequency domain, a novel equalization technique for space division multiplexing (SDM). Although different papers have been published about the SSA and it...

We present a perfect sampling algorithm that can be applied to the master equation of gene regulatory networks. The method recasts Gillespie's stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA) in the light of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and combines it with the dominated coupling from the past (DCFTP) algorithm to provide guaranteed sampling from the stationary distribution. We show how the DCFTP-SSA ...

We estimate the aerosol direct radiative forcing (ADRF) and heating rate profiles of mixed East Asian dust plumes in the solar wavelength region ranging from 0.25 to 4.0 mm using the Santa Barbara Discrete Ordinate Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (SBDART) code. Vertical profiles of aerosol extinction coefficients and single-scattering albedos (SSA) were derived from measurements with a multi-wav...

1 Robust Singular Spectrum Analysis for Erratic Noise Attenuation Ke Chen*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada [email protected] and Mauricio D. Sacchi, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada [email protected] Summary The Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) method, also known as Cadzow filtering, adopts the truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) or fast approximations to TSVD for rank...

The computational complexity of different steps of the basic SSA is discussed. It is shown that the use of the general-purpose “blackbox” routines (e.g. found in packages like LAPACK) leads to huge waste of time resources since the special Hankel structure of the trajectory matrix is not taken into account. We outline several state-of-the-art algorithms (for example, Lanczosbased truncated SVD)...

The orbital debris problem presents an opportunity for inter-agency and international cooperation toward the mutually beneficial goals of debris prevention, mitigation, remediation, and improved space situational awareness (SSA). Achieving these goals requires sharing orbital debris and other SSA data. Toward this, I present an ontological architecture for the orbital debris domain, taking step...

Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) occurs when neurons decrease their responses to frequently-presented (standard) stimuli but not, or not as much, to other, rare (deviant) stimuli. SSA is present in all mammalian species in which it has been tested as well as in birds. SSA confers short-term memory to neuronal responses, and may lie upstream of the generation of mismatch negativity (MMN), an i...