In this paper, the application and development of a highly integrated GPS receiver that employs reflected GPS signals for ground object detection and flood flow is described. Both righthand circular polarization (RHCP) and left-hand circular polarization (LHCP) antennas are employed so that the direct and reflected signals can be simultaneously obtained. The objective of this study is to use th...

We propose a methodology for the combination of a gravimetric (quasi-) geoid with GNSS-levelling data in the presence of noise with correlations and/or spatially varying noise variances. It comprises two steps: first, a gravimetric (quasi-) geoid is computed using the available gravity data, which, in a second step, is improved using ellipsoidal heights at benchmarks provided by GNSS once they ...

Mid-parental heights are widely used to help assess an individual child's growth. However, the methods in use vary, and most make no allowance for extremes of parental height. This study aimed to examine the actual distribution of parental heights in a survey population and the relation with their children's heights. The heights of 419 representatively sampled children aged 8-9 years were compa...

Radar cloud-top heights were retrieved at both the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research, UK (CFARR) and the ARM Southern Great Plain site, USA (SGP), using millimetre wave cloud radars and identical algorithms. The resulting cloud-top heights were used for comparison with MODIS and MISR retrieved cloud-top heights, from March 2000 to October 2003. Both imaging instruments resi...

The aqueducts built by the ancient Romans are among most impressive evidence of their engineering skills. water inside was transported for kilometers, exploiting only slight but constant differences in altitude throughout route. To keep height constant, could proceed underground or aboveground on well-known arched structures that supported lead, ceramic stone pipes. In order to reconstruct char...