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Marine storms strongly affect operations at sea, both DoD and commercial. The DMSP SSM/I clearly depicts certain features of marine storms. Improved depiction of these storms will aid nowcasting in support of execution.of operations at sea and fore- casting of the evolution of these storms in support of planning. However, SSM/I data as well as many other satellite data have only small impacts on t ...

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ALPHATECH has recently developed an integrated software environment for developing and testing prototype fault detection and identification (FDI) systems. It has been applied with excellent results (zero false and missed alarms, with 4% probability of deferral to the next decision time) to helicopter gearbox test-stand accelerometer data. The front-end of our environment extracts novel feature set ...

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AN ACCURATE, HIGH SPEED, LOW COST, HELMET MOUNTED EYE POSITION MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT IS REQUIRED. APPLIED SCIENCE LABORATORIES (ASL) PROPOSES TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF A DUAL PATH, SOLID STATE LIGHT POSITION DETECTOR SCHEME BY BUILDING A LABORATORY BENCH TOP MODEL. TWO COORDINATES ON THE EYE THAT MOVE DIFFERENTIALLY WITH ROTATION WILL BE MEASURED. THIS WILL COMPENSATE FOR RELATIVE MOTION ...

PROJECT OBJECTIVES: COMPLETE TESTING OF FIRE-RESISTANCE AND STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF PAPER AND PAPERBOARD TREATED WITH ARNOX FIRE RETARDANT, DEVELOP PRODUCTION SCALE APPLICATION METHODS. ARNOX IS A PATENTED CONDENSED PHASE SYSTEM, LOW SMOKE FIRE RETARDANT RENDERS PAPER AND PAPERBOARD ESSENTIALLY NON-COMBUSTIBLE. DECOMPOSITION AND OUTGASSING IS MATERIALLY SLOWED. ASTM TESTS DEMONSTRATE TREATED P ...

This Phase I SBIR proposal is aimed at developing and assessing the feasibility of Image Processing Techniques to distinguish between submarine and non-submarine in Active Sonar Echoes. Image Processing Techniques have proven to be highly effective in detecting objects in cluttered backgrounds using other sensors such as Synthetic Aperture Radar, Infrared Sensors, and Lasers. The highly reverberan ...

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Biosurfactants are proposed as an innovative technological solution to the problem of sludge accumulation on ship-board oil/water separators. They are equal or superior to synthetic surfactants with respect to exhibiting minimuminterfacial tension values at significantly lower CMC values. Biosurfact- ants are also more readilyu biodegradable and exhibit less toxicity then do the majority of synthe ...

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