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Diablo Canyon power plant site ecological study Quarterly Report no. 17: July 1 - September 30, 1977
During the quarter a total of 38 random 30-m2
and 152 random 1/4-m2 subtidal stations were
surveyed. Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens,
densities remained very low. There was a continued
decline in densities of giant red sea
urchins, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus, in
Diablo Cove as well as the North Control area.
The annual shore census of bull kelp, Nereocystis
luetkeana, revealed the lowest number of plants
in the surface canopy in Diablo Cove since 1973. The subtidal station data supported this observation.
Sea otter, Enhydra lutris, observations were
continued. A small group of otters continued
to raft in the Cove east of Lion Rock. Some
of these otters probably forage as far south as
South Cove.
The survey of 11 random intertidal stations
completed our Upwelling sampling effort. (16pp.
Ascent and descent abort flight corridors for orbital transport vehicles
Ascent and descent abort flight corridors for orbital transport vehicles - two dimensional equations of motion for point mass vehicle derived in circular earth coordinate syste
Neural-inspired sensors enable sparse, efficient classification of spatiotemporal data
Sparse sensor placement is a central challenge in the efficient
characterization of complex systems when the cost of acquiring and processing
data is high. Leading sparse sensing methods typically exploit either spatial
or temporal correlations, but rarely both. This work introduces a new sparse
sensor optimization that is designed to leverage the rich spatiotemporal
coherence exhibited by many systems. Our approach is inspired by the remarkable
performance of flying insects, which use a few embedded strain-sensitive
neurons to achieve rapid and robust flight control despite large gust
disturbances. Specifically, we draw on nature to identify targeted
neural-inspired sensors on a flapping wing to detect body rotation. This task
is particularly challenging as the rotational twisting mode is three
orders-of-magnitude smaller than the flapping modes. We show that nonlinear
filtering in time, built to mimic strain-sensitive neurons, is essential to
detect rotation, whereas instantaneous measurements fail. Optimized sparse
sensor placement results in efficient classification with approximately ten
sensors, achieving the same accuracy and noise robustness as full measurements
consisting of hundreds of sensors. Sparse sensing with neural inspired encoding
establishes a new paradigm in hyper-efficient, embodied sensing of
spatiotemporal data and sheds light on principles of biological sensing for
agile flight control.Comment: 21 pages, 19 figure
A spatial disorientation predictor device to enhance pilot situational awareness regarding aircraft attitude
An effort was initiated at the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (AAMRL) to investigate the improvement of the situational awareness of a pilot with respect to his aircraft's spatial orientation. The end product of this study is a device to alert a pilot to potentially disorienting situations. Much like a ground collision avoidance system (GCAS) is used in fighter aircraft to alert the pilot to 'pull up' when dangerous flight paths are predicted, this device warns the pilot to put a higher priority on attention to the orientation instrument. A Kalman filter was developed which estimates the pilot's perceived position and orientation. The input to the Kalman filter consists of two classes of data. The first class of data consists of noise parameters (indicating parameter uncertainty), conflict signals (e.g. vestibular and kinesthetic signal disagreement), and some nonlinear effects. The Kalman filter's perceived estimates are now the sum of both Class 1 data (good information) and Class 2 data (distorted information). When the estimated perceived position or orientation is significantly different from the actual position or orientation, the pilot is alerted
Diablo Canyon power plant site ecological study Annual Report July 1, 1976 - June 30, 1977 and Quarterly Report no. 16 April 1, 1977 - June 30, 1977
More stations were surveyed during this report period
than during any previous period. A total of 818 mandays
was spent surveying 18 permanent and 67 random
subtidal stations, 19 permanent and 50 random intertidal
stations, and 64 sportfish catch-per-unit-of-effort
stations, as well as conducting corollary laboratory
work.
In the subtidal areas, Laminaria dentigera and Pterygophora
californica, both important subsurface kelp
species, increased in their combined total numbers from
the 1976 survey. However, Nereocystis luetkeana, the
bull kelp, declined substantially in all study areas.
Population trends of many of the dominant subtidal
macro-invertebrates have varied depending on the species
and on the type of method utilized. Regression analyses
have been performed on selected species for numbers
versus depth. Red algal abundance and diversity appear
to have increased in both subtidal study areas.
Of the three observation areas, sea otters were observed
least frequently in Diablo Cove. However, there continues
to be fresh evidence of otter foraging within
Diablo Cove.
Several seasons' data for intertidal algae and invertebrates have been summarized for one study area. While the algae biomass shows a fairly clear seasonality of
abundance, the trends in numbers of the six invertebrate
species considered are not as well defined.
Because of high variability in the data, the sportfish
catch-per-unit-of-effort and hook-and-line study was
cancelled in December.
Populations of intertidal red and black abalones,
Haliotis rufescens and H. cracherodii, respectively,
appear to have remained fairly stable during the
1976-77 period.
Two other ancillary studies were also terminated during
this period: interviews of commercial abalone and
urchin fishermen, and observations of foam in Diablo Cove. (107pp.
A study of the effects of varying the sampling for a simplified version of the Saturn V/S-1C Final report, 15 May 1968 - 31 Aug. 1969
Bending frequency filtering through adaptive sampling for Saturn 5 stage 1C desig
Diablo Canyon power plant site ecological study Quarterly Report no. 7; January 1 - March 31, 1975
During the period January 1 - March 31, 1975 we relocated
and remarked five permanent subtidal stations and surveyed 28 random and two permanent intertidal stations. We failed to find a single giant red sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus, around station 16 during a dive in March. Abalone, Haliotis spp., numbers decreased at random intertidal stations in North Diablo Cove and the North Control Area.
The commerical sea urchin fishery was inactive, while the commerical red abalone, H. rufescens, fishery continued to operate around Pecho Rock.
Counts of sea otters south of Point Buchon increased significantly, 20 to 30 otters are now feeding just north of Pecho Rock.
Eight random fishery stations in Diablo Cove, Lion Rock Cove and the North Control Area yielded a substantial increase in catch-per-unit-of-effort. (15pp.
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