This study investigates how useful the PIXE technique is in the analysis of complex matrix composition in earth materials. Hence it gives an information on PIXE in relation to other nuclear techniques. Results obtained by PIXE must be compared with other complementary techniques to obtain an overall elemental analysis of the matrix composition of high-grade earth materials. Finally, the results are reviewed.

The Capon method serves as a powerful and robust data analysis tool when working on various kinds of ill-posed inverse problems. Besides the analysis of waves, the method can be used in a generalized way to compare actual measurements with theoretical models, such as Mercury's magnetic field analysis. In view to the BepiColombo mission this work establishes a mathematical basis for the application of Capon's method to analyze Mercury's internal magnetic field in a robust and manageable way.

The aerosol optical depth is a parameter widely used in remote sensing for the characterization of the atmospheric aerosol particles. The AERONET network was created by NASA for aerosol monitoring, satellite and model validation. The University of Valladolid manages since 2006 a calibration center of AERONET. The CÆLIS software tool, developed by UVa, was created to manage the data generated by the AERONET photometers. The AOD algorithm in CÆLIS is developed and validated in this work.

The baseline wander has special characteristics, such as low frequency, large amplitude, non-periodic and non-stationary. This phenomenon is causes by the receiving coil motion and always exists in the process of data acquisition. The proposed method can be used to solve similar problem. This paper has the following highlights: 1. The method can be used to process non-periodic and non-stationary signal. 2. The method own adaptive to satisfy stopping criterion based on measured signal.

At present, indoor positioning technology is used in all aspects of life. I study the positioning method of UWB radar network. Because of the interference in the indoor environment, the UWB radar measurement data produce abnormal values. In order to eliminate the outliers, the method of fitting the known true value with the actual measured value is used to obtain the linear relationship between the true value and the measured value, so as to get the unknown true value through the measured value.

Bidirectinal muographic measurements were conducted at the ancient burial mound built in the beginning of the 6th century and later collapsed after a landslide caused by the 1596 Fushimi Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes over last few centuries in Japan. The result indicated large-scale vertical cracks at the top of the mound, which caused its collapse and thus, an intrinsic problem was suggested with the stability of the basic foundation of the mound before this earthquake.

In this paper, a low-cost, computer-aided and geophone-based system designed to record, monitor and analyze the three-component microtremor data, is presented. This system has several features such as 200 Hz sampling frequency, text data format and data analysis tools. The developed software undertakes many tasks such as communication between the external hardware and computer, transferring, monitoring and recording the seismic data to computer, and interpretation of the recorded data.

We propose a gradiometer based technique to clean multi-sensor magnetic field data acquired onboard spacecraft. The technique takes advantage on the fact that the maximum variance direction of many AC disturbances onboard spacecraft does not change in time. We apply the proposed technique to the SOSMAG instrument onboard GeoKompsat-2A. We analyse the performance and limitations of the technique and discuss in detail how various disturbances are removed.

One of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, Europa, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to find life outside Earth. For this reason, the space science community is currently focused on exploring it. One of the main difficulties of such task is the harsh radiation environment, caused by the radiation belts of Jupiter. In this paper we present results for a magnetic fields sensor being exposed to radiation levels similar to those expected at the surface of Europa.

Combining short time forecast models, standardized interfaces to a wide range of environment detectors and a flexible user access interface the CITYZER concept provides decision making authorities and private citizens with reliable information about the near-future development of critical environmental parameters like air quality and rain. The system can be easily adapted to different areas or different parameters. Alarms for critical situations can be set and used to support authority decisions.

Soil gas flux describes the movement of various gases either to or from the ground. The ability to efficiently detect changes in soil gas flux has the potential to better understand and detect leakage from Under Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes, diffuse degassing in volcanic and geothermal areas and greenhouse-gas emissions. Traditional chamber-based techniques may require weeks of fieldwork to to assess a site. We present a new method to speed up assessment of diffuse leakage.

This paper presents a quasi-distributed thrust measurement system based on an optical frequency domain reflectometer (OFDR). This OFDR sensing system achieved a spatial resolution of 20 cm using a 500 m test fiber (the resolution of an OTDR sensing system is generally approximately 1 m), the maximum measurement pressure can reach 1.059 MPa and the maximum relative error is 8.9 %. This system has good engineering application prospects in the safety monitoring field.

Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are widely used in geospatial applications and terrains are often defined by regular grids in geographic coordinates. However, because of convergence of lines of longitude near the poles there is oversampling in the latitude (zonal) direction. Also, there is no standard way of defining a hierarchy of grids to consistently deal with data having different spatial resolutions. The proposed Global Geographic Grid System solves both problems.

We developped a method to acquire dense point clouds with a low-cost Velodyne Puck lidar system, without using expensive GNSS positioning or IMU. Our setting consists in mounting the lidar on a motor to continuously change the scan direction, which leads to a significant increase in the point cloud density. The system was compared with a more expensive system based on IMU registration and a SLAM algorithm. The alignment between acquisitions with those two systems is within a distance of 2 cm.

Current borehole receivers only measure a single parameter of the magnetic field component, which does not meet the special requirements of controlled source electromagnetic methods.This study proposes a borehole electromagnetic receiver which realizes multi-component synchronous acquisition of adding the vertical electric field component. Results of the experiments show that the design has the performance of low noise and wide band and that high quality CSEM signals were obtained.

This paper describes GRUAN's strategy to a network-wide change in the operational radiosonde, from Vaisala RS92 to RS41. GRUAN's main goal is providing long-term data records that are free of inhomogeneities due to instrumental effects, which requires proper change management. The approach is to fully characterize the differences between both radiosonde types, using a.o. laboratory tests, twin soundings, ancillary data, and by drawing from the various fields of expertise available in GRUAN.

GPS Drifters that float down rivers are important tools in studying rivers, but can be expensive. Recently both GPS receivers and GSM modems have become available at lower prices to tinkering scientists due to the rise of the Open Hardware revolution and the Arduino. We provide detailed instructions on how to build a Low Power GPS drifter with local storage and GSM model that we tested in a fieldwork in Myanmar. These instructions allow fellow geoscientists to recreate the device.

This article describes the development of a mobile roadside survey procedure for obtaining corroboration data for the remote sensing of agricultural land use practices over county level areas where atmospheric conditions are unfavourable for satellite remote sensing, while improving on financial, temporal, and safety costs for in-field verification data acquisition.

This paper gives an outlook of the research aimed at development of an instrument for magnetic field survey. The developed instrument performs accurate measurements of the parameters of the Earth’s magnetic field. Such measurements are required for control of magnetic environment at observational points where the Earth’s magnetic field is continuously measured. The developed instrument is considered as a possible standard solution for assessment of artificial noise at various locations.

Nowadays ocean-bottom observatories, equipped with acceleration and pressure gauges (seismometers and tsunameters), became widespread. We suggest simple and reliable method for remote testing the calibration of the gauges installed at the ocean bottom. The method is extremely convenient for practice, since, besides measured quantities, it involves a sole physical constant – the gravity acceleration.

The CUGB-CS48DAS data acquisition system was designed for seismic purpose at first. However, we tried to integrate the acquisition circuit and after several hardware improvements and software updates, it can be used now for seismic exploration as well as electrical prospecting. It has good application effects in engineering geology, mineral geology and energy geology, and is suitable for exploration tasks in coalfields, petroleum, minerals, earthquake monitoring and urban construction, etc.

Observations of the stable isotopes of water vapor by high-resolution ground-based Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) provide information on study of the variation of the atmospheric water vapor at Hefei site. In this paper, the percentage of atmospheric H₂O(X_H2O) and HDO (X_HDO) have been retrieved based on a high-resolution ground-based FTIR at Hefei site, and also calculated the stable isotopes of water composition δD. The time series of X_H2O were compared with the Greenhouse gase.

Terrestrial photogrammetry is the approach by which measurements are derived from images. It is a rapidly growing method in glaciology, providing detailed records of glacier change. However, glacial photogrammetry toolboxes are limited currently. PyTrx (freely available online) has been developed here as a Python-alternative toolbox with wider capabilities for deriving velocities, areas, and line measurements. Examples are presented throughout using time-lapse imagery from glaciers in Svalbard.

Meteorological observational data obtained in highly complex terrain has to be treated differently than it is usually done within state of the art quality control procedures. The main motivation and goal is to preserve as much information as possible in order to enhance the accuracy of analysis and forecast model output. It is recommended to use the method in highly complex terrain. Sufficient data density and coherent structures within data is required.

- This study aimed to calibrate some of the existing models in the literature for estimating daily total global solar radiation parameter using available measuring records (maximum and minimum air temperatures) and three new models are developed based on maximum and minimum air temperatures and relative humidity.
- In this study, three new models that are based on the relative humidity and the difference between maximum and minimum air temperatures were suggested.

A new investigation technique for magnetic data by a 2D dipping dike has been presented. The main interpretive parameters are: the depth to the top, exact origin, and the width of dipping dike. The comparison of the results with drilling information reported in the literature demonstrated the prevalence of the suggested method and its potential for solving magnetic problem, for example in china field example the depth to the top of dike is 22.24 m and from drilling information range from 22–25.

Radar Signal processing is one of the area where there is a lot of scope for research. This area demands efficient algorithms for study of echoes derived from various atmospheric regions. Denoising techniques were used and spectral moments were calculated. Stacked doppler profile was plotted to observe the improvement in doppler detection. It has been observed that there is a considerable improvement in recognition of the doppler echoes.

An automatic process for the estimation of forest properties in high spatial resolution using National Land Survey's airborne laser scanning data is presented. Results were evaluated by compering against national MS-NFI forest data. The estimation accuracy was generally good, but deciduous forests in leaf-off conditions caused somewhat underestimation. The method can be used to support e.g. forest managing, construction planning, wood industry and other remote sensing applications and research.