Biomass feedstocks have been utilized for the commercial production of a wide range fuels and chemicals through pyrolysis process. Broom weed is abundant but it has not widely used in Nigeria as means useful fuel chemical thereby constituting an environmental menace. This study aimed to determine effects selected process parameters on product yields during broom fixed bed reactor. was obtained ...

The SRC or Super Resolution Channel is the framing imaging subsystem of the HRSC experiment on the ESA Mars Express spacecraft, designed to show high-resolution detail within the broad swath of the HRSC push-broom camera. It has a separate optical system (focal length 980 mm, f/11) and a 1024x1024 CCD detector, achieving a ground pixel size of 2.3 m from an altitude of 250 km [1]. By December 2...

Three line stereo scanners working in push-broom mode are of high interest for future remote sensing camera developments. This contribution deals with some basic considerations concerning the geometric, spectral, and radiometric design of such a camera. These considerations are applied to the design of the Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner WAOSS for the Russian mission Mars-96 (Bild&Ton,...

The invasive shrub Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link) is a pervasive threat to regenerating Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco var. menziesii) stands in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Field observations indicate that susceptibility of areas invasion and dominance can vary by site. We selected ten sites throughout western Northwest spanned gradient soil textures other factors...

A new camera model for transforming object space coordinates into image coordinates as affected by a push-broom sensor traveling in a straight line is described. It is shown that this transformation can be encoded in a 3 × 4 matrix M representing a non-linear Cremona transformation of object space into image space. Significantly, unlike other known models for satellite cameras, M can be estimat...

Phytoplasmas are insect-transmitted bacterial plant pathogens that cause considerable damage to a diverse range of agricultural crops globally. Symptoms induced in infected plants suggest that these phytopathogens may modulate developmental processes within the plant host. We report herein that Aster Yellows phytoplasma strain Witches' Broom (AY-WB) readily infects the model plant Arabidopsis (...