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Infrared-temperature variability in a large agricultural field
The combined effect of water carved gullies, varying soil color, moisture state of the soil and crop, nonuniform phenology, and bare spots was measured for commercially grown barley planted on varying terrain. For all but the most rugged terrain, over 80% of the area within 4, 16, 65, and 259 ha cells was at temperatures within 3 C of the mean cell temperature. The result of using relatively small, 4 ha instantaneous field of views for remote sensing applications is that either the worst or the best of conditions is often observed. There appears to be no great advantage in utilizing a small instantaneous field of view instead of a large one for remote sensing of crop canopy temperatures. The two alternatives for design purposes are then either a very high spatial resolution, of the order of a meter or so, where the field is very accurately temperature mapped, or a low resolution, where the actual size seems to make little difference
On the IR behaviour of the Landau-gauge ghost propagator
We examine analytically the ghost propagator Dyson-Schwinger Equation (DSE)
in the deep IR regime and prove that a finite ghost dressing function at
vanishing momentum is an alternative solution (solution II) to the usually
assumed divergent one (solution I). We furthermore find that the Slavnov-Taylor
identities discriminate between these two classes of solutions and strongly
support the solution II. The latter turns out to be also preferred by lattice
simulations within numerical uncertainties.Comment: 15 pages, Axodraw neede
Airborne observed solar elevation and row direction effects on the near-IR/red ratio of cotton
An airborne multispectral scanner was used to obtain data over two adjacent cotton fields having rows perpendicular to one another, at three times of day (different solar elevations), and on two dates (different plant size). The near IR/red ratios were displayed in image form, so that within-field variations and differences between fields could be easily assessed. The ratio varied with changing Sun elevation for north-south oriented rows, but no variation was detected for east-west oriented rows
Nuclear models on a lattice
We present the first results of a quantum field approach to nuclear models
obtained by lattice techniques. Renormalization effects for fermion mass and
coupling constant in case of scalar and pseudoscalar interaction lagrangian
densities are discussed.Comment: 4 pages - 7 figures ; Invited talk to QCD 05: 12th International QCD
Conference, 4-9 Jul 2005, Montpellier, France ; To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
(Proc. Suppl.
Conditional cash and in-kind transfers increase household total and food consumption in poor rural communities in Mexico
Instanton traces in lattice gluon correlation functions
Strong coupling constant computed in Landau gauge and MOM renormalization
scheme from lattice two and three gluon Green Functions exhibits an unexpected
behavior in the deep IR, showing a maximum value around . We
analise this coupling below this maximum within a semiclassical approach, were
gluon degrees of freedom at very low energies are described in terms of the
classical solutions of the lagrangian, namely instantons. We provide some new
results concerning the relationship between instantons and the low energy
dynamics of QCD, by analising gluon two- and three-point Green functions
separately and with the help of a cooling procedure to eliminate short range
correlations.Comment: 4 pages, talk given at XXXX Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic
Interactions, La Thuile (Italy
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