Sensing In Nature

Author : Carlos López-Larrea
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146141704X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensing in Nature written by Carlos López-Larrea and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological systems are an emerging discipline that may provide integrative tools by assembling the hierarchy of interactions among genes, proteins and molecular networks involved in sensory systems. The aim of this volume is to provide a picture, as complete as possible, of the current state of knowledge of sensory systems in nature. The presentation in this book lies at the intersection of evolutionary biology, cell and molecular biology, physiology and genetics. Sensing in Nature is written by a distinguished panel of specialists and is intended to be read by biologists, students, scientific investigators and the medical community.

Author : Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950172
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Program Earth written by Jennifer Gabrys and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volume of environmental data been so broadly collected or so widely available. Grappling with the consequences of wiring our world, Program Earth examines how sensor technologies are programming our environments. As Jennifer Gabrys points out, sensors do not merely record information about an environment. Rather, they generate new environments and environmental relations. At the same time, they give a voice to the entities they monitor: to animals, plants, people, and inanimate objects. This book looks at the ways in which sensors converge with environments to map ecological processes, to track the migration of animals, to check pollutants, to facilitate citizen participation, and to program infrastructure. Through discussing particular instances where sensors are deployed for environmental study and citizen engagement across three areas of environmental sensing, from wild sensing to pollution sensing and urban sensing, Program Earth asks how sensor technologies specifically contribute to new environmental conditions. What are the implications for wiring up environments? How do sensor applications not only program environments, but also program the sorts of citizens and collectives we might become? Program Earth suggests that the sensor-based monitoring of Earth offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but rather as new “technogeographies” that connect technology, nature, and people.

Author : Friedrich G. Barth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709160251
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensors and Sensing in Biology and Engineering written by Friedrich G. Barth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological sensors are usually remarkably small, sensitive and efficient. It is highly desirable to design corresponding artificial sensors for scientific, industrial and commercial purposes. This book is designed to fill an urgent need for interdisciplinary exchange between biologists studying sensors in the natural world and engineers and physical scientists developing artificial sensors. The main topics cover mechanical sensors, e.g. waves and sounds, visual sensors and vision and chemosensors. Readers will obtain a fuller understanding of the nature and performance of natural sensors as well as enhanced appreciation for the current status and the potential applicability of artificial microsensors.

Author : Deric P. Jones
Publisher : Momentum Press
ISBN 13 : 1606500562
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biomedical Sensors written by Deric P. Jones and published by Momentum Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensors are the eyes, ears, and more, of the modern engineered product or system- including the living human organism. This authoritative reference work, part of Momentum Press's new Sensors Technology series, edited by noted sensors expert, Dr. Joe Watson, will offer a complete review of all sensors and their associated instrumentation systems now commonly used in modern medicine. Readers will find invaluable data and guidance on a wide variety of sensors used in biomedical applications, from fluid flow sensors, to pressure sensors, to chemical analysis sensors. New developments in biomaterials- based sensors that mimic natural bio-systems will be covered as well. Also featured will be ample references throughout, along with a useful Glossary and symbols list, as well as convenient conversion tables.

Author : Robert A. Schowengerdt
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080516106
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing written by Robert A. Schowengerdt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a completely updated, greatly expanded version of the previously successful volume by the author. The Second Edition includes new results and data, and discusses a unified framework and rationale for designing and evaluating image processing algorithms. Written from the viewpoint that image processing supports remote sensing science, this book describes physical models for remote sensing phenomenology and sensors and how they contribute to models for remote-sensing data. The text then presents image processing techniques and interprets them in terms of these models. Spectral, spatial, and geometric models are used to introduce advanced image processing techniques such as hyperspectral image analysis, fusion of multisensor images, and digital elevationmodel extraction from stereo imagery. The material is suited for graduate level engineering, physical and natural science courses, or practicing remote sensing scientists. Each chapter is enhanced by student exercises designed to stimulate an understanding of the material. Over 300 figuresare produced specifically for this book, and numerous tables provide a rich bibliography of the research literature.

Author : NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing of Earth Resources written by NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James K. Lein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781493901715
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Sensing written by James K. Lein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote sensing has witnessed a renaissance as new sensor systems, data collection capabilities and image processing methodologies have expanded the technological capabilities of this science into new and important applications areas. Perhaps nowhere has this trend been more evident than in the study of earth environments. Within this broad application area remote sensing has proven to be an invaluable asset supporting timely data gathering at a range of synoptic scales, facilitating the mapping of complex landscapes and promoting the analysis of environmental process. Yet remote sensing’s contribution to the study of human/environmental interaction is scattered throughout a rich and diverse literature spanning the social and physical sciences, which frustrates access to, and the sharing of the knowledge gained through, these recent advances, and inhibits the operational use of these methods and techniques in day to day environmental practice, a recognized gap that reduces the effectiveness of environmental management programs. The objective of this book is to address this gap and provide the synthesis of method and application that is currently missing in the environmental science, re-introducing remote sensing as an important decision-support technology.

Author : Dong Wang
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128011319
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Sensing written by Dong Wang and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the key problem faced by application designers: how to extract reliable information from data collected from largely unknown and possibly unreliable sources. The book explains how a myriad of societal applications can be derived from this massive amount of data collected and shared by average individuals. The title offers theoretical foundations to support emerging data-driven cyber-physical applications and touches on key issues such as privacy. The authors present solutions based on recent research and novel ideas that leverage techniques from cyber-physical systems, sensor networks, machine learning, data mining, and information fusion. Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective bridging social networks, big data, cyber-physical systems, and reliability Presents novel theoretical foundations for assured social sensing and modeling humans as sensors Includes case studies and application examples based on real data sets Supplemental material includes sample datasets and fact-finding software that implements the main algorithms described in the book

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing of Earth Resources written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Kerry
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030784312
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture written by Ruth Kerry and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture aims to bring together the ‘state of the art’ of the most popular sensing techniques and the current state of research on the application of sensors in Precision Agriculture (PA). Sensing is of great value in PA because it provides cheap and immediate data for management. This book gives a broad overview of sensing in PA and a coherent introduction for new professionals and research scientists. Readers are introduced to the potential applications of a range of different sensors, how they should be used properly and their limitations for use in PA. Chapters on specific topics and case studies provide depth and enable implementation of the methods by users. A general introduction about sensing techniques in PA is followed by Chapters 2–9 on the most important specific techniques in sensing and Chapters 10–13 include mini-case studies, each showing cutting-edge applications for different sensing methods. Finally, there is an Epilogue on how we expect sensors and analysis to develop.