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Reflectance Measurements of Soil Variability

  • Sudduth, K.A.;Hong, S.Y.;Hummel, J.W.;Kitchen, N.R.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1194-1196
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    • 2003
  • Variations in soil physical and chemical properties can affect agricultural productivity and the environmental implications of crop production. These variations are present and may be important at regional, field, and sub-field (precision agriculture) scales. Because traditional measurements are time-consuming and expensive, reflectance-based estimates of soil properties such as texture, organic matter content, water content, and nutrient status are attractive. Soil properties have been related to reflectance measured with laboratory, in-field, airborne, and satellite sensors. Both multispectral and hyperspectral instruments have been used, with both natural and artificial illumination. Varying levels of accuracy have been obtained, with the best results (r > 0.95) using hyperspectral reflectance data to estimate soil organic matter and water content.

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White Light -Emitting Diodes with Multi-Shell Quantum Dots

  • Kim, Kyung-Nam;Han, Chang-Soo;Jeong, So-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.02a
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    • pp.92-92
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    • 2010
  • Replacing the existing illumination with solid-state lighting devices, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are expected to reduce energy consumption and environmental pollution as they provide better efficiency and longer lifetimes. Currently, white light emitting diodes are composed of UV or blue LED with down-converting materials such as highly luminescent phosphors White light-emitting diodes (LED) were fabricated with multi-shell nanocrystal quantum dots for enhanced luminance and improved stability over time. Multi-shell quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized through one pot process by using the Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption and Reaction (SILAR) method. As prepared, the multi-shell QD has cubic lattice of zinc-blend structure with semi-spherical shape with quantum yield of higher than 60 % in solution. Further, highly fluorescent multi-shell QD was deposited on the blue LED, which resulted in QD-based white LED with high luminance with excellent color rendering properties.

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Estimation of the 3-D Shape Surfaces with Specular Reflections

  • Kim, Jee Hong
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.672-678
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    • 2014
  • We propose a method to estimate the 3-D shape of surfaces with specular reflection, using a model of the difference in appearance between images reflected from a flat surface and a curved surface. First, we analyze the geometry of spatial reflection from a specular surface and how reflected light varies due to a curved surface. This is used to estimate 3-D shape. The proposed method is shown to be effective in experiments using illumination from spatially distributed light sources and a camera capturing the reflected light from curved, specular surfaces.

DPR System for Projection Displays - Today and Tomorrow

  • Li, Kenneth
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.667-669
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    • 2008
  • With the advancements or LEDs and lasers in projection display applications, arc lamps still provide the most cost effective solution to high brightness display systems. When will arc lamps become obsolete, will be of great importance today and tomorrow? Given the fact that traditional elliptical and parabolic reflectors had been around for decades; Wavien's new dual paraboloid reflector (DPR) technology with its unique imaging property enhances various aspects of the arc lamp performance will shed some light to this question. In this talk, various applications that are feasible today and anticipated needs of tomorrow will be presented.

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A Study on target tracking system for a mobile robot using ultrasonic sensors

  • Kim, Hon-Hui;Han, Dong-Hui;Ha, Yun-Su
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.134.5-134
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    • 2001
  • The capability of environment recognition is very important for mobile robot. Especially, a function of target tracking is necessary in monitoring and watching an object using mobile robot. In general, vision sensors such as CCD camera and laser range finder were used for tracking of a moving target. However, they are not only affected by intensity of illumination in environment but also require high performance processors to process large amount of data. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the construction of target tracking system for mobile robot using only ultrasonic sensors to cope with these problems.

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Modeling and Parameter Optimization of Agile Beam Radar Tracking in Cluttered Environments

  • Hong, Sun-Mog;Jung, Young-Hun
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.99.6-99
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    • 2001
  • The parameter optimization for agile beam radar tracking is addressed to minimize the radar resources that are required to maintain a target under track. The parameters to be optimized include the track-revisit interval and the sequence of pairs of target signal strengths and detection thresholds associated with repeated illumination attempts in each track-revisit. The optimization problem is solved numerically for typical examples.

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Implementation and Enhancement of GMM Face Recognition System using Flatness Measure (평탄도 측정을 이용한 GMM 얼굴인식기 구현 및 성능향상)

  • 천영하;고대영;김진영;백성준
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.07e
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    • pp.2004-2007
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes a method of performance enhancement using Flatness Mesure(FM) for the Gaussian Mixture Model(GMM) face recognition systems. Using this measure we discard the frames having low information before training and test. As the result, the performance increases about 9% in the lower mixtures and calculation burden is decreased. As well, the recognition error rate is decreased under the illumination change surroundings. We use the 2D DCT coefficients lot face feature vectors and experiments are carried out on the Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) face database.

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FIRE DISASTER SIMULATION BASED ON PARTICLE SYSTEM

  • Shin, Zen-Chung;Chen, Yean-Liang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 1999.06a
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    • pp.195-200
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    • 1999
  • In computer graphics, the modeling and simulation of flames is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an approach for the simulation of a fire disaster. We use particle systems to describe the dynamic behavior fire. The illumination of dynamic flame is rendered by progressive radiosity algorithm.

ShadowCam Instrument and Investigation Overview

  • Mark Southwick Robinson;Scott Michael Brylow;Michael Alan Caplinger;Lynn Marie Carter;Matthew John Clark;Brett Wilcox Denevi;Nicholas Michael Estes;David Carl Humm;Prasun Mahanti;Douglas Arden Peckham;Michael Andrew Ravine;Jacob Andrieu Schaffner;Emerson Jacob Speyerer;Robert Vernon Wagner
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.149-171
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    • 2023
  • ShadowCam is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advanced Exploration Systems funded instrument hosted onboard the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) satellite. By collecting high-resolution images of permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), ShadowCam will provide critical information about the distribution and accessibility of water ice and other volatiles at spatial scales (1.7 m/pixel) required to mitigate risks and maximize the results of future exploration activities. The PSRs never see direct sunlight and are illuminated only by light reflected from nearby topographic highs. Since secondary illumination is very dim, ShadowCam was designed to be over 200 times more sensitive than previous imagers like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Narrow Angle Camera (LROC NAC). ShadowCam images thus allow for unprecedented views into the shadows, but saturate while imaging sunlit terrain.