Thermal remote sensing from Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner data in the framework of the SPARC and SEN2FLEX projects: an overview

The AHS (Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner) instrument has 80 spectral bands covering the visible and near infrared (VNIR), short wave infrared (SWIR), mid infrared (MIR) and thermal infrared (TIR) spectral range. The instrument is operated by Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial (INTA), and it has been involved in several field campaigns since 2004. <br><br> This paper presents an overview of the work performed with the AHS thermal imagery provided in the framework of the SPARC and SEN2FLEX campaigns, carried out respectively in 2004 and 2005 over an agricultural area in Spain. The data collected in both campaigns allowed for the first time the development and testing of algorithms for land surface temperature and emissivity retrieval as well as the estimation of evapotranspiration from AHS data. Errors were found to be around 1.5 K for land surface temperature and 1 mm/day for evapotranspiration

New crystal forms of Trypanosoma cruzi dUTPase.

The dUTPase from Trypanosoma cruzi has been crystallized in two crystal forms, both belonging to space group P6(3)22, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 134.67, c = 148.66 A (form I, two molecules per asymmetric unit) and a = b = 136.43, c = 68.71 A (form II, one molecule per asymmetric unit). Single-wavelength data have been collected using synchrotron radiation to 3.0 A for crystal form I and to 2.4 A for crystal form II and structure solution is under way. T. cruzi dUTPase is a potential target for anti-protozoan drug design

El Projecto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Palazzo de Villa Adriana. Campañas de 2019 y 2021.

Proyecto Palazzo,which was first developed in 2013 by the Archaeology Area from the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain), is the successor of Proyecto Teatro Greco, run by the same team between 2003-2012. Proyecto Palazzo focuses on one area of Villa Adriana in particular, corresponding to the imperial residence which was initially built in the villa. The palace area is superimposed on the pre-existing Republican villa, which was partially incorporated into Hadrian›s Villa. This fact provides special complexity and interest. In this paper, the results of the excavations performed during 2019 and 2021 are submitted. These excavations focused on the southern corner of the palace’s central portico (Portico B)