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Elevated temperatures observed in urban areas have significant implications for human health, energy consumption and infrastructure reliability, and their negative effects disproportionately impact disadvantaged populations. Increasing scientific and practical understanding of urban heat islands is an important step in identifying those regions at elevated risk, and effective mitigation strategi ...

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The firm proposes to perform studies related to size, weight, power, cost reduction, and ruggedizationnbsp;of a flight-capable, multi-parameter distributed fiber-optic sensing interrogator for testing advanced flight vehicles including those pertaining to NASArsquo;s Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP) Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities (FDC) project. The technology will aid understandi ...

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of western wildfires. Threats to people and infrastructure are growing with more population living in the wildland-urban interface. Blindly throwing more resources at the problem while doing things the same way is not a cost-effective. Extending manned and unmanned aerial firefighting to 24-hour, second-shift operations will provide a major i ...

Environmental monitoring and forecasting for marine, coastal and terrestrial environments plays a critical role in informed decision making for a wide range of stakeholders in government and regulatory agencies, private industry, and the scientific community. The need for high-quality rapid data and analytics is becoming increasingly important in the face of a changing climate, which threatens to ...

Battery health monitoring is particularly crucial for space applications since battery shutoff or complete drain can be catastrophic. The battery management system (BMS) is vital to avoid such instances. Conventional on-board BMS are currently limited to the monitoring of extrinsic parameters including voltage, current, and temperature. From these, batteryrsquo;s state of charge (SoC) and state of ...

Recording spatial and spectral content has been the traditional domain of hyperspectral cameras. They produce very large datasets that require significant storage, transmission and processing capabilities. Despite the great usefulness of this information, they are captured in a very inefficient way; in many important problems, only a tiny subspace of the signal is necessary to produce the correspo ...

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of western wildfires. Threats to people and infrastructure are growing with more population living in the wildland-urban interface. Blindly throwing more resources at the problem while doing things the same way is not a cost-effective solution.nbsp;Extending manned and unmanned aerial firefighting to 24-hour operations will provide a major in ...

The objective is to develop and implement an S-band communication transmitter/radio capable of operation at extreme high temperatures and pressures in hostile and corrosive environments such as those found on the surface of Venus.nbsp; This extreme environment transmitter/radio will be based on our Phase I prototype 500oC capable S-band power amplifier microwave integrated circuit (MIC) which empl ...

High-resolution images from satellites and airplanes have become ubiquitous in the current digital landscape, and readily available to the public. In recent years, deep learning approaches, and in particular deep convolutional neural networks have revolutionized computer vision. Such deep learning models thrive with an abundance of data, creating enormous potential at the nexus of computer vision ...