Google Earth now hosts high-resolution imagery that spans twenty percent of the Earth's landmass and more than a third of the human population. This contemporary highresolution archive represents a significant, rapidly expanding, cost-free and largely unexploited resource for scientific inquiry. To increase the scientific utility of this archive, we address horizontal positional accuracy (geore...

Smart grids allow more connectivity between the end-user and electric utility. Residential meters are replaced by smart meters, enabling near real-time communication customer company. The metering data serves to billing, monitoring, service delivery. However, interception of a malicious entity, or misused utility, could expose privacy. With this comes need protect privacy end-users. Literature ...

This paper introduces the source and utility circumstance of natural gas in China. The utility circumstance of natural gas is discussed in detail, such as, natural gas as feedstock is produced to acetylene; natural gas is used to cut metal; natural gas is applied to generate ethylene; natural gas instead of heavy oil is fired to produce chromium trioxide. In so doing, the energy demand of China...

The deployment of electronic energy meters has gained a great deal of momentum over the past several years. This is due to their two main advantages over the traditional electromechanical designs: improved accuracy and an expanded set of features. Current microcontroller technology allows designers to build meters that are competitive in price with traditional devices, while maintaining the req...

This document provides a description of the small and medium range gas flow calibration facilities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fluid Flow Group, as reported in NIST Special Publication 250 [1] for Test Nos. 18010C-18040C and 18050S, Flow Rate Measurements. The Fluid Flow Group can perform gas meter calibrations and special tests at flows between 3.7 x 10"^ mVmin...