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A manual for inexpensive methods of analyzing and utilizing remote sensor data
Instructions are provided for inexpensive methods of using remote sensor data to assist in the completion of the need to observe the earth's surface. When possible, relative costs were included. Equipment need for analysis of remote sensor data is described, and methods of use of these equipment items are included, as well as advantages and disadvantages of the use of individual items. Interpretation and analysis of stereo photos and the interpretation of typical patterns such as tone and texture, landcover, drainage, and erosional form are described. Similar treatment is given to monoscopic image interpretation, including LANDSAT MSS data. Enhancement techniques are detailed with respect to their application and simple techniques of creating an enhanced data item. Techniques described include additive and subtractive (Diazo processes) color techniques and enlargement of photos or images. Applications of these processes, including mappings of land resources, engineering soils, geology, water resources, environmental conditions, and crops and/or vegetation, are outlined
Higgs boson search significance deformations due to mixed-in scalars
The existence of exotic scalars that mix with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs
boson can affect Higgs boson phenomenology in a multitude of ways. We consider
two light Higgs bosons with shared couplings to SM fields and with masses close
to each other, in the range where the h \to WW \to l \nu l \nu is an important
search channel. In this channel, we do not find the dilution of significance of
the `SM-like' Higgs boson that is naively expected because of the mixing. This
is because of leakage of events from the decay of the other scalar into its
signal region. Nevertheless, we show that the broadening of the h\to WW \to l
\nu l \nu significance plots of Standard Model Higgs boson searches could
indicate the first evidence of the the extra scalar state.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; v2: all plots now made with the lighter Higgs
mass equal to 125 GeV and other minor corrections made, to be published in
Physics Letters
Community learning and development training for professionals engaged in community regeneration and community planning
The study was commissioned by the Scottish Executive Development Department to identify training needs and current provision of community learning and development (CLD) training for a range of professionals (other than those formally qualified in CLD) who are engaged in community regeneration and community planning (Local Government in Scotland Act 2003). It was one of a series of studies emanating from the Scottish Executive response to the review: „Empowered to Practice – the future of community learning and development training in Scotland‟. One of the themes of the report taken up by the Scottish Executive was the need for; „wider opportunities for joint training with other disciplines such as teachers, librarians, college lecturers, health workers and social workers‟
Application transfer activity in Missouri
Experimental demonstrations and workshop instructional courses were conducted to transfer the technology of satellite remote sensing to a wide audience of resource managers. This audience included planning commissions, state agencies, federal agencies, and special councils of the Governor. Some of the experiments and workshops are outlined
An investigation of pulsar searching techniques with the Fast Folding Algorithm
Here we present an in-depth study of the behaviour of the Fast Folding
Algorithm, an alternative pulsar searching technique to the Fast Fourier
Transform. Weaknesses in the Fast Fourier Transform, including a susceptibility
to red noise, leave it insensitive to pulsars with long rotational periods (P >
1 s). This sensitivity gap has the potential to bias our understanding of the
period distribution of the pulsar population. The Fast Folding Algorithm, a
time-domain based pulsar searching technique, has the potential to overcome
some of these biases. Modern distributed-computing frameworks now allow for the
application of this algorithm to all-sky blind pulsar surveys for the first
time. However, many aspects of the behaviour of this search technique remain
poorly understood, including its responsiveness to variations in pulse shape
and the presence of red noise. Using a custom CPU-based implementation of the
Fast Folding Algorithm, ffancy, we have conducted an in-depth study into the
behaviour of the Fast Folding Algorithm in both an ideal, white noise regime as
well as a trial on observational data from the HTRU-S Low Latitude pulsar
survey, including a comparison to the behaviour of the Fast Fourier Transform.
We are able to both confirm and expand upon earlier studies that demonstrate
the ability of the Fast Folding Algorithm to outperform the Fast Fourier
Transform under ideal white noise conditions, and demonstrate a significant
improvement in sensitivity to long-period pulsars in real observational data
through the use of the Fast Folding Algorithm.Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, 3 table
A flow equation approach to periodically driven quantum systems
We present a theoretical method to generate a highly accurate {\em
time-independent} Hamiltonian governing the finite-time behavior of a
time-periodic system. The method exploits infinitesimal unitary transformation
steps, from which renormalization group-like flow equations are derived to
produce the effective Hamiltonian. Our tractable method has a range of validity
reaching into frequency regimes that are usually inaccessible via high
frequency expansions in the parameter , where is the
upper limit for the strength of local interactions. We demonstrate our approach
on both interacting and non-interacting many-body Hamiltonians where it offers
an improvement over the more well-known Magnus expansion and other high
frequency expansions. For the interacting models, we compare our approximate
results to those found via exact diagonalization. While the approximation
generally performs better globally than other high frequency approximations,
the improvement is especially pronounced in the regime of lower frequencies and
strong external driving. This regime is of special interest because of its
proximity to the resonant regime where the effect of a periodic drive is the
most dramatic. Our results open a new route towards identifying novel
non-equilibrium regimes and behaviors in driven quantum many-particle systems.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figure
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