Sea Ice Image Processing with MATLAB® (Signal and Image Processing of Earth Observations)

<p>Sea Ice Image Processing with MATLAB addresses the topic of image processing for the extraction of key sea ice characteristics from digital photography, which is of great relevance for Artic remote sensing and marine operations. This valuable guide provides tools for quantifying the ice environment that needs to be identified and reproduced for such testing. This includes fit-for-purpose studies of existing vessels, new-build conceptual design and detailed engineering design studies for new developments, and studies of demanding marine operations involving multiple vessels and operational scenarios in sea ice. A major contribution of this work is the development of automated computer algorithms for efficient image analysis. These are used to process individual sea-ice images and video streams of images to extract parameters such as ice floe size distribution, and ice types. Readers are supplied with Matlab source codes of the algorithms for the image processing methods discussed in the book made available as online material.\nFeatures<br />
Presents the first systematic work using image processing techniques to identify ice floe size distribution from aerial images<br />
Helps identify individual ice floe and obtain floe size distributions for Arctic offshore operations and transportation<br />
Explains specific algorithms that can be combined to solve various problems during polar sea ice investigations<br />
Includes MATLAB® codes useful not only for academics, but for ice engineers and scientists to develop tools applicable in different areas such as sustainable arctic marine and coastal technology research<br />
Provides image processing techniques applicable to other fields like biomedicine, material science, etc</p>

Computers & Technology

Zhang, Qin

Skjetne, Roger

Computer Science

CRC-Press

<p>Sea Ice Image Processing with MATLAB addresses the topic of image processing for the extraction of key sea ice characteristics from digital photography, which is of great relevance for Artic remote sensing and marine operations. This valuable guide provides tools for quantifying the ice environment that needs to be identified and reproduced for such testing. This includes fit-for-purpose studies of existing vessels, new-build conceptual design and detailed engineering design studies for new developments, and studies of demanding marine operations involving multiple vessels and operational scenarios in sea ice. A major contribution of this work is the development of automated computer algorithms for efficient image analysis. These are used to process individual sea-ice images and video streams of images to extract parameters such as ice floe size distribution, and ice types. Readers are supplied with Matlab source codes of the algorithms for the image processing methods discussed in the book made available as online material. </p> <p>Features</p> <li>Presents the first systematic work using image processing techniques to identify ice floe size distribution from aerial images</li> <li>Helps identify individual ice floe and obtain floe size distributions for Arctic offshore operations and transportation</li> <li>Explains specific algorithms that can be combined to solve various problems during polar sea ice investigations</li> <li>Includes MATLAB® codes useful not only for academics, but for ice engineers and scientists to develop tools applicable in different areas such as sustainable arctic marine and coastal technology research</li> <li>Provides image processing techniques applicable to other fields like biomedicine, material science, etc</li>

<p>This textbook surveys hydraulics and fluid power systems technology, with new chapters on system modeling and hydraulic systems controls now included.The text presents topics in a systematic way, following the course of energy transmission in hydraulic power generation, distribution, deployment, modeling, and control in fluid power systems. </p>

Basics of Hydraulic Systems, Second Edition

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

<b><u>Draws the Link Between Service Knowledge and the Advanced Theory of Fluid Power</u></b> <p>Providing the fundamental knowledge on how a typical hydraulic system generates, delivers, and deploys fluid power, <b>Basics of Hydraulic Systems </b>highlights the key configuration features of the components that are needed to support their functionality in a system, such as operating principles, structural features, functionalities, and applications of core composing elements. It also shows how those components work together to perform the designated power transmission task. </p>
<p><b>Moves from a System to Instructional ComponentsApproach</b> </p>
<p>By presenting the ins and outs of hydraulic systems in an easy-to-follow way, this example-filled textbook provides students, engineers, and technical managers an effective nuts-and-bolts reference for studying the fundamentals of fluid power transmission technology. Rather than bogging readers down with extensive mathematical equations, this resource uses a visual, expressive approach with many graphic illustrations. It also includes examples and problems within each chapter and a solutions manual for qualifying course adoptions. </p>
<p>The text includes a section devoted to hydraulic energy storage and regeneration elements, since both play an important role in many hybrid power transmission systems, such as diesel-hydraulic hybrid vehicles. As a hydraulics expert and holder of seven US patents, the author’s experience gives readers a practical view of the field that they can then immediately apply.</p>

Basics of Hydraulic Systems

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles

Rapid developments in electronics over the past two decades have induced a move from purely mechanical vehicles to mechatronics design. Recent advances in computing, sensors, and information technology are pushing mobile equipment design to incorporate higher levels of automation under the novel concept of intelligent vehicles. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles introduces this concept, and provides an overview of recent applications and future approaches within this field. Several case studies present real examples of vehicles designed to navigate in off-road environments typically encountered by agriculture, forestry, and construction machines. The examples analyzed describe and illustrate key features for agricultural robotics, such as automatic steering, safeguarding, mapping, and precision agriculture applications.  The eight chapters include numerous figures, each designed to improve the reader’s comprehension of subjects such as: • automatic steering systems; • navigation systems; • vehicle architecture; • image processing and vision; and • three-dimensional perception and localization.  Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles will be of great interest to professional engineers and researchers in vehicle automation, robotics, and the application of artificial intelligence to mobile equipment; as well as to graduate students of mechanical, electrical, and agricultural engineering.

Rovira Más, Francisco Rovira

Hansen, Alan C.

Springer

Originating in Central Asia, apples are one of the most important fruits globally and are grown in over 100 countries. Apple cultivation faces a number of challenges. Increasing global competition has put the focus on lowering costs whilst further improving sensory quality and shelf-life. There is a need to reduce inputs such as water, fertiliser and labour, both to save costs and reduce environmentally-damaging emissions and pollution. There is a continual battle with fungal, viral and bacterial diseases as well as insect pests. In the long term there is a need for new varieties able to withstand disease or more extreme conditions associated with climate change. This means preserving genetic variety and exploiting new molecular breeding techniques opened up by the sequencing of the apple genome in 2010.Drawing on an international range of expertise, this collection focuses on ways of improving the cultivation of apples as a food crop at each step in the value chain, from breeding through to post-harvest storage. Volume 2 focusses on cultivation techniques. It includes chapters on tree training, pruning and thinning operations, soil and nutrient management as well as irrigation. The book also reviews developments in mechanization and methods for control of postharvest diseases as well as postharvest storage and handling. Concluding chapters address wider issues such as economics, consumer trends and sustainability.Achieving sustainable cultivation of apples Volume 2: Cultivation techniques will be a standard reference for fruit and horticultural scientists in universities, government and other research centres and companies producing apples. It is accompanied by Volume 1 which reviews research in apple physiology and breeding as well as diseases and pests and their management.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of apples Volume 2: Cultivation techniques and sustainability (Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science)

Musacchi, Stefano

Neilsen, Gerry

Else, Mark

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Agricultural Cybernetics (Agriculture Automation and Control)

<p>Agricultural systems are uniquely complex systems, given that agricultural systems are parts of natural and ecological systems. Those aspects bring in a substantial degree of uncertainty in system operation. Also, impact factors, such as weather factors, are critical in agricultural systems but these factors are uncontrollable in system management. Modern agriculture has been evolving through precision agriculture beginning in the late 1980s and biotechnological innovations in the early 2000s. Precision agriculture implements site-specific crop production management by integrating agricultural mechanization and information technology in geographic information system (GIS), global navigation satellite system (GNSS), and remote sensing. Now, precision agriculture is set to evolve into smart agriculture with advanced systematization, informatization, intelligence and automation. From precision agriculture to smart agriculture, there is a substantial amount of specific control and communication problems that have been investigated and will continue to be studied. <div><br /></div> <div>In this book, the core ideas and methods from control problems in agricultural production systems are extracted, and a system view of agricultural production is formulated for the analysis and design of management strategies to control and optimize agricultural production systems while exploiting the intrinsic feedback information-exchanging mechanisms. On this basis, the theoretical framework of agricultural cybernetics is established to predict and control the behavior of agricultural production systems through control theory. <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> </div></p>

Huang, Yanbo

Reference

Calculus (Economics and Management) (Second Edition) (Vol.2)(Chinese Edition)

Science Press

长夜的独行者(童寯1963-1983)

新华书店北美网

同济大学出版社

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