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Coastal Lidar and Radar Imaging System (CLARIS) Lidar Data Report
The Army analyzed shoreline change, dune volume, beach volume, beach slope, and cumulative elevation change along the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Briefs Software
Localization and Mapping of Unknown Locations with Unmanned Ground Vehicles
The main goals of this research are to enhance a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software platform to support unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) exploring the complex...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Going Digital & Electric @ Bauma 2019
Digitalization, efficiency and sustainability are three megatrends that off-highway OEMs and suppliers touted this month at the triennial bauma trade fair in Munich, when they revealed their...
News Defense
DigitalGlobe Taps Satellite Images, Data Analytics, AI, Machine Learning to Map Continent for PSMA Australia
DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE:MAXR), in Westminster, Colorado, has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI), machine...
Articles Power
Starship Road Trip
Dubbed the Starship Initiative, the collaboration between Shell and AirFlow Truck Co. on the Starship Class 8 concept truck achieved 178.4 ton-mpg for freight ton efficiency (FTE) in a recent cross-country drive, a nearly...
Briefs Aerospace
Subjective Mapping of Dust-Emission Sources by Using MODIS Imagery
Dust storms (5 to 100 km across) often originate from multiple dust-emission sources (1 to 10 km across). Remote-sensing-based dust-source identification is a challenge. A...
Articles Aerospace
Developing an Airborne Optical Systems Testbed (AOSTB)
The United States shares 5,525 miles of land border with Canada, and 1,989 miles with Mexico. Monitoring these borders, which is the responsibility of U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
Articles Aerospace
NASA Miniaturizes Century-Old Radio Sounder Technology
A century-old technology that scientists use to probe the ionosphere — the important atmospheric layer that can interfere with the transmission of radio waves — is getting smaller.
Application Briefs Defense
F-16 Upgrades
Lockheed MartinBethesda, MD817-777-6148For more info click here The U.S. Air Force recently authorized extending the service life of the Lockheed Martin F-16's designed service life to 12,000 Equivalent Flight Hours — far beyond...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Next Generation FPGAs for Electronic Warfare Systems
Designers of virtually all electronic warfare system applications exploit CPUs and FPGAs, each offering unique strengths and advantages for handling a wide range of tasks. This diversity...
Technology Update Defense
Preparing for First Flight on Mars
With its eye on Mars, NASA Armstrong has been working on a prototype it refers to as the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-m, which is “a flying wing aircraft with a...
Articles Aerospace
Stand-Off Scanning and Pointing with Risley Prisms
With the ever increasing threat of improvised explosive devices, both in the military arena and the civilian realm, there is a growing demand for technologies with the ability to detect...
Articles Defense
Electronic Warfare Technology
Military electronic warfare (EW) systems including navigation, radar guidance, terrain mapping and others, require lightweight compact components, with radio frequency (RF) output power levels to several kilowatts...
News Regulations/Standards
Notes of Caution from an Optimistic Futurist (Video)
The so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are indeed properly pursued as automotive growth markets, “but maybe some of us a little overestimated the growth...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Oil Pipeline Fault Detection System Determines Material Permittivity at Microwave Frequencies
Researching fault location techniques for the oil industry requires data on the complex permittivity of the polyamide Rilsan at microwave frequencies....
Application Briefs Defense
Laser Polarimeter Classifies Remote Material
Advanced Optical Technologies, Inc. (AOT) has been awarded a Phase 2 SBIR contract to develop a next-generation laser polarimeter for the US Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermal Analysis and Microhardness Mapping in Hybrid Laser Welds in a Structural Steel
The concept of combining a laser welding system with a conventional arc welding system (GTAW) was first proposed in order to improve the stability of the laser welding system and to allow greater flexibility in part fit-up. Prior research stated that using a YAG...
Articles Aerospace
How Digital “Sand Tables” Will Guide Future Military Strategy
Throughout history, the use of sand tables has been common practice in rehearsing military strategy in the field. Built on piles of sand with scale models of operational units,...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Development of High-Resolution Eddy Current Imaging Using an Electromechanical Sensor
An oscillating current flowing through a coil produces an oscillating magnetic field. When an electrically conducting material like a metal is brought close...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Distributed, Collaborative Human- Robotic Networks for Search, Identify, and Track
A human-robotic system is under development that can map an unknown environment, as well as discover, track, and neutralize several static and dynamic objects of...
Articles Aerospace
Automating Radiation Effects Mitigation with FPGA Synthesis
FPGA designers of aerospace and defense applications have long wrestled with radiation effects. More recently, due to shrinking technology nodes, concerns have arisen about...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Small Form Factor Computing in OpenVPX
The new OpenVPX™ (VITA 65) standard helps military system designers build compatible embedded systems by defining “profiles” to which vendors can adhere when designing boards, and system integrators...
Briefs Physical Sciences
MALDI-MSI Imaging of Latent Fingerprints
For years, forensic scientists have been seeking new methods to improve existing techniques for the visualization of latent fingerprints. The structured combination of optical methods (diffused reflection, luminescence, UV absorption and reflection), physical methods (powdering, vacuum metal deposition,...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Demodulating Over-the-Air Communications
Today, modern radio designs have made a predominant shift to the software-defined radio architecture. From cellular handsets to military communications devices, the flexibility to use multiple wireless...
Briefs Imaging
Geo*View
Visualization of geospatially correct, remotely sensed data is a key element of many government and commercial applications. It enables a user to analyze and assess ground activities and other conditions of interest. Because remotely...
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Transportation
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
Unmanned Systems
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
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Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
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Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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