Two objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy post-2013 (CAP, 2014-2020) in the European Union (EU) are the sustainable management of natural resources and climate smart agriculture. To understand the CAP impact on these priorities, the Land Use/Cover statistical Area frame Survey (LUCAS) employs direct field observations and soil sub-sampling across the EU. While a huge amount of informatio...

Rock typing is an essential part of building geological model for an asset. Millions of dollars are invested in logs, core measurements, SCAL studies and geological interpretation that result in definition of different rock types. In most caes rock types that are identified in a reservoir do not have crisp boundaries and display overlapping characteristics. During the upscaling process, multipl...

Modeling of wave propagation in a heterogeneous medium requires input data that varies on many different spatial and temporal scales. Operator-based upscaling allows us to capture the effect of the fine scales on a coarser domain without solving the full fine-scale problem. The method applied to the constant density, variable sound velocity acoustic wave equation consists of two stages. First, ...

Presently used single-needle air-driven droplet generators are incapable of producing sufficient numbers of islet-containing droplets in a sufficiently short time-period to allow for successfully grafting alginate-poly-L-lysine encapsulated islets in large animals or humans. We have designed an air-driven multineedle droplet generator, which increases the production rate by simultaneously produ...

Image interpolation is one of key contents in image processing. We present an interpolation algorithm based on a rational function model with constraint parameters. Firstly, based on the construction principle of the rational function, the detection threshold is selected through contour analysis. The smooth and non-smooth areas are interpolated by bicubic interpolation and general rational inte...

When pumping from a single well in a real (heterogeneous) aquifer, the steady state drawdown at the well is proportional to the pumping rate through a value called the equivalent transmissivity, Tea, which, in short, is the value that best suits Thiem's formula. Equivalent transmissivity is not a local value, but some representative value of a certain area surrounding the well. By means of nume...

Upscaling of gross ecosystem production to the landscape scale using multi-temporal Landsat images, eddy covariance measurements and a footprint model B. Chen, Q. Ge, D. Fu, G. Liu, G. Yu, X. Sun, S. Wang, and H. Wang LREIS Institute of Geographic Sciences and Nature Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Fore...

The radiative properties of any porous medium are statistically defined by a cumulated extinction distribution function, a cumulated absorption probability and a bidirectional phase function. These functions are obtained by a Monte Carlo technique, from both the medium morphology data, known or issued from a X or γ ray tomography, and the radiative properties at a scale lower than the tomograph...