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Precision Agriculture: Past, Present and Future
2011
From 1978 the Global Positioning System, needed for sensing the position of military targets (e.g. buildings, machinery), was developed as a pure military system, while in 1983 it was made available also for public use. Therefore, at the beginning of 80s precision agriculture, requiring GPS for sensing the position to which any measured field parameter must be geo-referenced, was implemented for the first time in US. In fact, soil and crop parameters are spatially variable in a field, so that spatially uniform rate crop input applications cause increased environmental impact and crop input waste. In order to reduce the environmental impact and optimise the use of crop inputs, precision agri…
The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing
2014
The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and spectral resolution of its main instrument, LOFT will study the behaviour of matter under extreme conditions, such as the strong gravitational field in the innermost regions of accretion flows close to black holes and neutron stars, and the supra-nuclear densities in the interior of neutron stars. The science payload is based on a Large Area Detector (LAD, 10 m 2 effective area, 2-30 keV, 240 eV spectral resolution, 1 deg collimated field of view) and a WideFi…
Čukstošas galerijas modas rezonatoru temperatūras sensors
2019
Čukstošo galerijas modu (ČGM) rezonatori ir sfēriskas formas objekti, kas ir taisīti no optiski caurspīdīgiem materiāliem un ir spējīgi uzturēt optiski cirkulējošu vilni iekšā sfērā, izmantojot pilnīgu iekšējo atstarošanos. Ja ir monohromātisks gaismas avots ar konstantu intensitāti, tad vilnis, kas kustās pa lodes perimetru, sāk konstruktīvi interferēt. Šajā gadījumā rodas rezonanse, ko sauc par čukstošo galeriju modu (ČGM), pēc analoģijas no akustikas. Darbā tiek aplūkots koncepts, ka ČGM rezonatorus varētu izmantot kā temperatūras sensorus. Izmantojot dažāda lieluma rezonatorus un mainot tempratūru, tiek testēta sistēma un rezonanses. Darbā tiek veidota praktiska sistēma ar kuras palīdzī…