Target species composition of the forests of the republic of belarus within the problem of “forest of the future”

Тhе forest target species composition substantiation requires the full alignment of the latter with the economy of a specific region, and the prospect of individual sectors development as a whole. Technology for conversion derived softwood stands to the valuable hardwood and coniferous ones must be tested and demonstrated at specific sites primarily in the Ministry of Forestry Experimental Forestries

Optimal strategies of radial velocity observations in planet search surveys

Applications of the theory of optimal design of experiments to radial velocity planet search surveys are considered. Different optimality criteria are discussed, basing on the Fisher, Shannon, and Kullback-Leibler informations. Algorithms of optimal scheduling of RV observations for two important practical problems are considered. The first problem is finding the time for future observations to yield the maximum improvement of the precision of exoplanetary orbital parameters and masses. The second problem is finding the most favourable time for distinguishing alternative orbital fits (the scheduling of discriminating observations). These methods of optimal planning are demonstrated to be potentially efficient for multi-planet extrasolar systems, in particular for resonant ones. In these cases, the optimal dates of observations are often concentrated in quite narrow time segments.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, no tables, Accepted to MNRA