Functional design for operational earth resources ground data processing

The author has identified the following significant results. Study emphasis was on developing a unified concept for the required ground system, capable of handling data from all viable acquisition platforms and sensor groupings envisaged as supporting operational earth survey programs. The platforms considered include both manned and unmanned spacecraft in near earth orbit, and continued use of low and high altitude aircraft. The sensor systems include both imaging and nonimaging devices, operated both passively and actively, from the ultraviolet to the microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum

The Caltech Videomagnetograph: A Report on its Design and Operation

The present report describes the installation of the Caltech videomagnetograph at Big Bear Solar Observatory, and its initial operation during 1971-1972. When fed by a 10" refracting aperture and 1/8 Å λ5324 birefringent filter, the instrument produced an approximately 4x6 arc-minute field of view, within which high resolution (2-3 arc-second) cancellations could be electronically generated and displayed in real time on a video monitor. These cancellations reveal the structure of the photospheric velocities and magnetic fields in time lapse movies. The amount of data which can be created in this manner is impressive. Daily operation between January-September, 1972 produced some 3500' of magnetic movies and 1500' of Doppler footage (35 mm half-frame negatives), representing on the order of 700 and 200 hours of real time, respectively. In addition, a daily survey of active regions yielded an album of approximately 800 high-resolution H-alpha - magnetic pairs, showing the day-by-day development of more than 60 different solar activity centers. These data are described and catalogued. Principles of operation, details of construction, troubleshooting, and suggestions for future improvements are also discussed

Пособие по развитию основных видов речевой деятельности на английском языке для студентов специальностей ФЭИС дневной и вечерней форм обучения

Prokopyuk Olga Vasilievna; Shpudeyko Lyudmila Nikolaevna. English 4 IT. Manual on the development of the main types of speech activity in English for students of the specialties of FEIS full-time and evening forms of educationПособие предназначено для студентов первого курса специальностей: "Вычислительные машины, системы и сети" (1-40 02 01), "Автоматизированные системы обработки информации" (1-53 01 02), "Искусственный интеллект" (1-40 03 01), "Промышленная электроника" (1-36 04 02) (дневное и вечернее сокращенное обучение), "Программируемые мобильные системы" (1-39 03 02), "Программное обеспечение информационных технологий" (1-40 01 01). Данное пособие составлено в соответствии с требованиями учебной программы «Иностранный язык / английский» для студентов указанных специальностей дневной и вечерней форм обучения. Целью данного пособия является изучение профессиональной лексики, повторение и систематизация грамматического минимума, формирование навыков и умений чтения англоязычной документации по компьютерным программам и другой оригинальной литературы по специальности, совершенствование навыков перевода, а также развитие профессиональной устной речи в пределах проработанной тематики. Текстовый материал заимствован из зарубежных источников, его тематика определена программой подготовки специалистов технического профиля

Electronics, music and computers

technical reportElectronic and computer technology has had and will continue to have a marked effect in the field of music. Through the years scientists, engineers, and musicians have applied available technology to new musical instruments, innovative musical sound production, sound analysis, and musicology. At the University of Utah we have designed and are implementing a communication network involving and electronic organ and a small computer to provide a tool to be used in music performance, the learning of music theory, the investigation of music notation, the composition of music, the perception of music, and the printing of music

Sixth Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Held in Cooperation with the Fifteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems

This document contains copies of those technical papers received in time for publication prior to the Sixth Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies which is being held in cooperation with the Fifteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems at the University of Maryland-University College Inn and Conference Center March 23-26, 1998. As one of an ongoing series, this Conference continues to provide a forum for discussion of issues relevant to the management of large volumes of data. The Conference encourages all interested organizations to discuss long term mass storage requirements and experiences in fielding solutions. Emphasis is on current and future practical solutions addressing issues in data management, storage systems and media, data acquisition, long term retention of data, and data distribution. This year's discussion topics include architecture, tape optimization, new technology, performance, standards, site reports, vendor solutions. Tutorials will be available on shared file systems, file system backups, data mining, and the dynamics of obsolescence

Audio Mastering as a Musical Competency

In this dissertation, I demonstrate that audio mastering is a musical competency by elucidating the most significant, and clearly audible, facets of this competence. In fact, the mastering process impacts traditionally valued musical aspects of records, such as timbre and dynamics. By applying the emerging creative scholarship method used within the field of music production studies, this dissertation will aid scholars seeking to hear and understand audio mastering by elucidating its core practices as musical endeavours. And, in so doing, I hope to enable increased clarity and accuracy in future scholarly discussions on the topic of audio mastering, as well as the end product of the mastering process: records. Audio mastering produces a so-called master of a record, that is, a finished version of a record optimized for duplication and distribution via available formats (i.e, vinyl LP, audio cassette, compact disc, mp3, wav, and so on). This musical process plays a crucial role in determining how records finally sound, and it is not, as is so often inferred in research, the sole concern of a few technicians working in isolated rooms at a record label\u27s corporate headquarters. In fact, as Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (2013: 2) explain, nowadays “all musicians and engineers, to a lesser or greater extent, have to actively engage in the mastering process.” Thus, this dissertation clarifies the creative nature of audio mastering through an investigation of how mastering engineers hear records, and how they use technology to achieve the sonic goals they conceptualize