5 resultados para Backscatter
em AMS Tesi di Laurea - Alm@DL - Università di Bologna
Resumo:
RTLS and RFID systems are becoming more and more important in several fields. When these systems meet the UWB technology, they can take advantage of each other strengths. Since nowadays a strong importance is given to the "green" technology, we chose to adopt a passive solution. In this case the backscattering modulation can be used to carry data. Therefore it is necessary to analyze the behavior of the antennas used as tags, when they are closed to dierent material objects. In particular, the antenna mode part has been deeply observed, as it is the crucial part of the signal regarding the backscatter modulation.
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In the last years, the importance of locating people and objects and communicating with them in real time has become a common occurrence in every day life. Nowadays, the state of the art of location systems for indoor environments has not a dominant technology as instead occurs in location systems for outdoor environments, where GPS is the dominant technology. In fact, each location technology for indoor environments presents a set of features that do not allow their use in the overall application scenarios, but due its characteristics, it can well coexist with other similar technologies, without being dominant and more adopted than the others indoor location systems. In this context, the European project SELECT studies the opportunity of collecting all these different features in an innovative system which can be used in a large number of application scenarios. The goal of this project is to realize a wireless system, where a network of fixed readers able to query one or more tags attached to objects to be located. The SELECT consortium is composed of European institutions and companies, including Datalogic S.p.A. and CNIT, which deal with software and firmware development of the baseband receiving section of the readers, whose function is to acquire and process the information received from generic tagged objects. Since the SELECT project has an highly innovative content, one of the key stages of the system design is represented by the debug phase. This work aims to study and develop tools and techniques that allow to perform the debug phase of the firmware of the baseband receiving section of the readers.
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L’utilizzo del Multibeam Echo sounder (MBES) in ambienti di transizione poco profondi, con condizioni ambientali complesse come la laguna di Venezia, è ancora in fase di studio e i dati biologici e sedimentologici inerenti ai canali della laguna di Venezia sono attualmente scarsi e datati in letteratura. Questo studio ha lo scopo di mappare gli habitat e gli oggetti antropici di un canale della laguna di Venezia in un intervallo di profondità tra 0.3 e 20 m (Canale San Felice) analizzando i dati batimetrici e di riflettività (backscatter) acquisiti da ISMAR-Venezia nell’ambito del progetto RITMARE. A tale scopo il fondale del canale San Felice (Venezia) è stato caratterizzato dal punto di vista geomorfologico, sedimentologico e biologico; descrivendo anche l’eventuale presenza di oggetti antropici. L’ecoscandaglio utilizzato è il Kongsberg EM2040 Dual-Compact Multibeam in grado di emettere 800 beam (400 per trasduttore) ad una frequenza massima di 400kHZ e ci ha consentito di ricavare ottimi risultati, nonostante le particolari caratteristiche degli ambienti lagunari. I dati acquisiti sono stati processati tramite il software CARIS Hydrographic information processing system (Hips) & Sips, attraverso cui è possibile applicare le correzioni di marea e velocità del suono e migliorare la qualità dei dati grezzi ricavati da MBES. I dati sono stati quindi convertiti in ESRI Grid, formato compatibile con il software ArcGIS 10.2.1 (2013) che abbiamo impiegato per le interpretazioni e per la produzione delle mappe. Tecniche di ground-truthing, basate su riprese video e prelievi di sedimento (benna Van Veen 7l), sono state utilizzate per validare il backscatter, dimostrandosi molto efficaci e soddisfacenti per poter descrivere i fondali dal punto di vista biologico e del substrato e quindi degli habitat del canale lagunare. Tutte le informazioni raccolte durante questo studio sono state organizzate all’interno di un geodatabase, realizzato per i dati relativi alla laguna di Venezia.
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The Venice Lagoon is a complex, heterogeneous and highly dynamic system, subject to anthropogenic and natural pressures that deeply affect the functioning of this ecosystem. Thanks to the development of acoustic technologies, it is possible to obtain maps with a high resolution that describe the characteristics of the seabed. With this aim, a high resolution Multibeam Echosounder (MBES) bathymetry and backscatter survey was carried out in 2021 within the project Research Programme Venezia 2021. Ground-truthing samples were collected in 24 sampling sites to characterize the seafloor and validate the maps produced with the MBES acoustic data. Ground-truthing included the collection of sediment samples for particle size analysis and video footage of the seabed to describe the biological component. The backscatter data was analysed using the unsupervised Jenks classification. We created a map of the habitats integrating morphological, granulometric and biological data in a GIS environment. The results obtained in this study were compared to those collected in 2015 as part of the National Flagship Project RITMARE. Through the comparison of the repeated morpho-bathymetric surveys over time we highlighted the changes of the seafloor geomorphology, sediment, and habitat distribution. We observed different type of habitats and the presence of areas characterized by erosive processes and others in which deposition occurred. These effects led to changes in the benthic communities and in the type of sediment. The combination of the MBES surveys, the ground truth data and the GIS methodology, permitted to construct high-resolution maps of the seafloor and proved to be effective implement for monitoring an extremely dynamic area. This work can contribute not only to broaden the knowledge of transitional environments, but also to their monitor and protection.