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Remote Sensing Applications in Satellite Oceanography
Satellite remote sensing provides repeated global observations of key ocean surface variables. These observations are complementary to in situ...
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Measurements for Oceanography
This chapter describes the instruments and platforms used to measure the physical properties of seawater to study the density field and dynamics of...
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The Influence of the A Priori Uncertainty of the Shallow Sea Sound Channel Model on the Vertical Array Gain
The purpose of this paper is to numerically demonstrate and comparatively analyze the critically strong and ambiguous impact of the a priori...
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Array Acoustic Signal Processing in Shallow-Water Channels under Conditions of a Priori Uncertainty: Estimates of the Efficiency Loss
The objective of this study is a comparative analysis of the efficiency of the matched-field and optimal spatial signal processing methods in a...
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Sea Level Measurement
A sea height for whom, for what? This question finds several answers in wide multidisciplinary scientific domains varying from in situ measurements...
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Reactor field reconstruction from sparse and movable sensors using Voronoi tessellation-assisted convolutional neural networks
The aging of operational reactors leads to increased mechanical vibrations in the reactor interior. The vibration of the in-core sensors near their...
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Sea Monitoring Networks
This chapter aims to describe and analyse different types of sea monitoring networks and their potential and characteristics. The life history of...
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Building a Model of the Earth’s Gravity Field within the Caribbean Sea Based on Satellite Altimetry Data
The paper systematizes and describes the ways of processing measurement data collected over the past 30 years by altimetry spacecraft using different...
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Measurements for Meteorology
Ocean state and sea-air interactions exert a relevant role on the variability of the atmospheric circulation at several timescales from months to...
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Applications of High-Power Semiconductor Lasers in Marine Environmental Monitoring
The protection and utilization of marine resources is an important development strategy in China. It is of great significance to the healthy...
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China’s Weather Satellites
After setting up ground stations to receive US weather data China decided to launch its own weather satellites. Though the programme was thought of...
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VLC system using LEDs for transmitting underwater information
The challenges of high latency and interference plaguing Radio Frequency (RF) communication have sparked a quest for alternative solutions. Visible...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter outlines the format of the book and motivation for its creation. The cycle that a musical work travels from the composer’s...
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Integration of microfluidics in smart acoustic metamaterials
Microfluidics has achieved a paradigm-shifting advancement in life sciences, automation, thermal management, and various other engineering streams....
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Strategic Trends and Future Directions
China launched a total of 678 satellites on 396 launchers from the first satellite launch of 1970 till the end of 2020. Figure 5.1 provides a year...
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Oceans from the Space and Operational Oceanography
Satellites monitor now the global ocean in near real time and at high space resolution. The chapter starts with a brief survey of those aspects of...
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On the Dynamics of Waters in Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Satellite Information)
AbstractKara-Bogaz-Gol (KBG) is a hypersaline reservoir (with water salinity varying from 40 to 270‰), which is an effective evaporator of water from...
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Other Solar Observing Missions
The spacecraft described in this chapter are generally devoted to missions that send back key information about the state of the solar wind and other...
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Outside the Spacecraft
The first female to conduct an Extravehicular Activity (EVA, or spacewalk) was the Soviet Union’s Svetlana Savitskaya, who spent three hours and 33...