Since it was first proposed in the late 1970s (Munk and Wunsch, 1979, 1982), ocean acoustic tomography has evolved into a multipurpose remote-sensing measurement technique that has been employed in a wide variety of physical settings. In the context of longterm oceanic climate change, acoustic tomography provides integrals through the mesoscale and other high-wavenumber noise over long distance...

We present PastVision, a proof-of-concept approach that explores combining thermal touch sensing and object detection to infer recent actions by a person which have not been directly observed by a system. Inferring such past actions has received little attention yet in the literature, but would be highly useful in scenarios in which sensing can fail (e.g., due to occlusions) and the cost of not...

In this paper, a heat input closed-loop control system based on infrared image sensing for 3D laser cladding is introduced. A high frame-rate (up to 800 frames/s) camera is installed coaxially on the top of the laser-nozzle setup. Complete of the infrared images of the molten pool can be acquired with a short nozzle-substrate distance in different scanning directions, eliminating the noise from...

Optical sensors for detecting temperature and strain play a crucial role in the analysis of environmental conditions and real-time remote sensing. However, the development of a single optical device that can sense temperature and strain simultaneously remains a challenge. Here, a flexible corner cube retroreflector (CCR) array based on passive dual optical sensing (temperature and strain) is de...

Article history: Available online 2 October 2013

Remote sensing imagery has been widely used in urban growth and environment analysis with many effective and advanced strategies being developed. However, most of these approaches are separated from each other. There is an urgent need to combine different modules into some practical processing chains. Firstly, we present a comprehensive analysis of key processing chains in applying remote sensi...

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of the hydrologic cycle, accounting for ~70% of precipitation in the conterminous U.S. (CONUS), but it has been a challenge to predict accurately across different spatio-temporal scales. The increasing availability of remotely sensed data has led to significant advances in the frequency and spatial resolution of ET estimates, derived from energy balanc...

Several hybrid sensing materials, which are organized by interaction of organic molecules onto inorganic supports, have been developed as a novel and hopeful class of hybrid sensing probes. The hybrid silica-magnetic based sensors provide perfect properties for production of various devices in sensing technology. The hybridization of silica and magnetic NPs as biocompatible, biodegradable and s...