From a global perspective, dams are constructed to trap water flowing from higher concentration lower into basin for several purposes aid humanity. The continuous monitoring of is prudent measuring the rate sedimentation and siltation, ensure that it functions its full capacity. Tagwai dam used irrigation domestic activities. It was observed there shortage in storage capacity supplies due sedim...

In this paper we treat design philosophies and enabling technologies for ambient awareness within grids of future mobile computing/communication devices. We extensively describe the possible context sensors, their required accuracies, their use in mobile services—possibly leading to background interactions of user devices—as well as a draft of their integration into an ambient aware device. We ...

SAR interferometric data can be used for extracting three dimensional information of the earth’s surface by using the phase part of the radar signal. In this study, available SAR interferometric data acquired before and after the Marmara earthquake of 1999 and provided by ESA were used for mapping the ground deformation in the satellite line of sight (LOS) in the Izmit province. The interferome...

This paper provides an overview of the Naval Postgraduate School ARIES autonomous underwater vehicle and its control and navigation performance. An attempt is made to highlight its current operational capabilities and provide a description of future enhancements for greater mission utility and flexibility. An overview of the vehicle design along with descriptions of all major hardware component...

Soil fertility evaluation and management can be greatly improved with the use of precision agriculture technologies. Differential global positioning systems (DGPS), yield monitors, various forms of remote sensing, geographical information system (GIS) computer software, and variable rate technologies are available for use to producers. Intensive soil sampling, crop scouting, and other practices...

In this paper we introduce a class of nonlinear data generating processes (DGPs) that are "rst order Markov and can be represented as the sum of a linear plus a bounded nonlinear component. We use the concepts of geometric ergodicity and of linear stochastic comovement, which correspond to the linear concepts of integratedness and cointegratedness, to characterize the DGPs. We show that the sta...

A number of public codes exist for GPS positioning and baseline determination in off-line mode. However, no software code exists for DGPS exploiting correction factors at base stations, without relying on double difference information. In order to accomplish it, a methodology is introduced in MATLAB environment for DGPS using C/A pseudoranges on single frequency L1 only to make it feasible for ...

The accuracy of a standard market receiver GPS (Global Positioning System) is near 10-15 meters the 95% of the times. To reach a sub-metric level of accuracy some techniques must be used [1]. This article describes some of these procedures to improve the positioning accuracy by using a low-cost GPS in a differential relative positioning way. The proposed techniques are some variations of Kalman...

Stationarity tests exhibit extreme size distortions if the observable process is stationary yet highly persistent. In this paper we provide a theoretical explanation for the size distortion of the KPSS test for DGPs with a broad range of first order autocorrelation coefficient. Considering a near-integrated, nearly stationary process we show that the asymptotic distribution of the test contains...

A dosage rate reduction of plant protection products mixed with water, i.e. spray mixture, in a prescribed concentration the vineyard will only be possible future, if natural characteristics vine canopy structures (leaf wall area) and management are taken into account. In practical experiment we evaluated leaf area cv. Sauvignon on different segments left right side canopy. We compared results ...