The multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer (MISR) instrument is designed to provide global imagery at nine discrete viewing angles and four visible/near-infrared spectral bands. The MISR standard products include vegetation canopy green leaf area index (LAI) and fraction of photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by vegetation (FPAR). These products are produced using a peer-reviewed algori...

Casimir effects have for many years been the subject of painstaking experiments and a variety of theoretical techniques, but it is only recently that they have attracted widespread attention. The surge of interest is attributable in large part to experimental developments. To the list of subtler reasons I would add one that can best be appreciated by the cognoscenti: Larry’s lapidary elucidatio...

Soil salinity is the main environmental limiting factor for current agricultural farming systems in Bangladesh coastal zone. Targeting crop selection to ameliorate its impact food production a priority ensure security, diversifying outputs and reducing smallholders' vulnerabilities. In this context, growth modelling emerges as useful tool exploring different scenarios selection. Studying spatia...

Aerosol retrievals from multiple spaceborne sensors, including MODIS (on Terra and Aqua), MISR, OMI, POLDER, CALIOP, and SeaWiFS – altogether, a total of 11 different aerosol products – were comparatively analyzed using data collocated with ground-based aerosol observations from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) stations within the Multi-sensor Aerosol Products Sampling System (MAPSS, http:...

The crystallographic maps that are routinely used during the structure-solution workflow are almost always model-biased because model information is used for their calculation. As these maps are also used to validate the atomic models that result from model building and refinement, this constitutes an immediate problem: anything added to the model will manifest itself in the map and thus hinder...