The wide range of applications of thermal imaging devices existing in military, industrial and space fields attract researchers to study pyroelectric materials which exhibit a temperature-dependent spontaneous polarisation. A brief review of pyroelectricity, pyroelectric materials and some commercial applications of these materials we will be given in this paper.

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are attracting increasing research attention, due to their wide spectrum of applications, including military purposes for monitoring, tracking and surveillance of borders, intelligent transportation systems for monitoring traffic density and road conditions, and environmental applications to monitor, for example, atmospheric pollution, water quality, agriculture,...

Cryptography is the practice of hiding information, converting some secret information to not readable texts. Applications of cryptography include military information transmission, computer passwords, electronic commerce, and others. This paper aims to introduce the reader to applications of number theory in cryptography. We will briefly talk about the idea of encryption and public key cryptos...

During the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of applications within the commercial and military market requiring very high input/output (I/O) bandwidth and real-time processing power. These applications have been creating an insatiable demand for increasingly higher performance commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer systems that can be easily configured to closely ...

Collaborative Virtual Environment concepts have been used in many systems in the past few years. Applications of such technology range from military combat simulations to various civilian commercial applications. This paper presents CVE as a medium for Industrial Training and Electronic Commerce. Key-Words: Collaborative Virtual Environments, Virtual Reality, Collaboration, Java3D, VRML, Multim...

In any communication system, including the satellite and the Internet, it is almost impossible to prevent unauthorized people from eavesdropping. When information is broadcast from a satellite or transmitted through the Internet, there is a risk of information interception. Security of image and video data has become increasingly important for many applications, including video conferencing, se...

Three real-time mission-critical applications are discussed from the following domains: scientific (high-energy physics experiments), commercial (satellite control), and military (embedded simulations). Problems facing designers of real-time software architectures are grouped into two categories: architectural patterns and design tools. Consistent solutions used by the authors and applied in th...

Handbook of Real-World Applications in Modeling and Simulation provides a thorough explanation of modeling and simulation in the most useful, current, and predominant applied areas of transportation, homeland security, medicine, operational research, military science, and business modeling. Offering a cutting-edge and accessible presentation, this book discusses how and why the presented domain...

Although sensor network research was initially driven by military applications such as enemy tracking and surveillance in battle field, they have been deployed in several civilian and commercial applications such as habitat monitoring, environmental observations and forecasting, health monitoring etc. In this paper, we study and propose algorithms for detecting fire and localizing the same usin...

INTRODUCTION Exciting applications are emerging that involve large, heterogeneous human-robot teams acting in complex environments. Examples include search and rescue [5], disaster response [12], and military applications [4]. Robots are capable of augmentation and force multiplication of human assets, providing superhuman perception, coverage, and mobility, without risking human life.