UWB radar sensor networks: Detection algorithms design and experimental analysis

In the last years radar sensor networks for localization and tracking in indoor environment have generated more and more interest, especially for anti-intrusion security systems. These networks often use Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology, which consists in sending very short (few nanoseconds) impulse signals. This approach guarantees high resolution and accuracy and also other advantages such as low price, low power consumption and narrow-band interference (jamming) robustness. In this thesis the overall data processing (done in MATLAB environment) is discussed, starting from experimental measures from sensor devices, ending with the 2D visualization of targets movements over time and focusing mainly on detection and localization algorithms. Moreover, two different scenarios and both single and multiple target tracking are analyzed.

Organizational, direct support and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools list including depot maintenance repair parts and special tools : radar set AN/MPQ-49 (X0-1), 1430-00-179-4199, forward area alert radar system.

Includes indexes.

List of Applicable Publications (LOAP) for Foward Area Alerting Radar (FAAR).

"April 1981."

Transportability guidance : Foward Area Alerting Radar system (FAAR) : radar set, AN/MPQ 49, (NSN 1430-00-179-4199), truck, cargo, 1 1/4-ton, M561, (NSN 2320-00-873-5407), trailer, cargo, 3/4-ton, M101A1, (NSN 2330-00-898-6779), test set, radar, AN/MPM 57, (NSN 4935-00-178-0833).

"January 1976."

Análisis de la incidencia del principio de neutralidad en la conformación de las redes transnacionales de defensa de las Zonas Humanitarias y de Biodiversidad de Curvaradó y Jiguamiandó (1997- 2003)

El presente trabajo analiza cómo a través de la constitución de redes transnacionales de defensa los planteamientos en torno a la neutralidad activa se visibilizan por medio de las campañas de mediatización del caso en las comunidades de Curvaradó y Jiguamiandó

Análisis de la participación de los pueblos indígenas latinoamericanos en el accionar de las redes transnacionales medioambientales dentro del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas. Estudio de caso: Consejo Territorial de Cabildos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta durante el período comprendido entre 1990-2014

El propósito de este estudio de caso es analizar la participación del Consejo Territorial de Cabildos y las organizaciones que lo componen en redes transnacionales medioambientales en el marco de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Se analiza el Sistema de las Naciones Unidas y los espacios en los cuales participan los pueblos indígenas, de manera especial, aquellos que se ocupan de temas ambientales, se hace una aproximación al surgimiento de la diplomacia de segunda via, reconstruyendo los movimientos sociales y la diplomacia indígena, para finalmente llegar a reconstruir la participación de las organizaciones que conforman el CTC en espacios del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas privilegiando temáticas ambientales, describiendo detallamente los repertorios de acción de los pueblos de la SNSM.

Innate transcriptional networks activated in bladder in response to uropathogenic Escherichia coli drive diverse biological pathways and rapid synthesis of IL-10 for defense against bacterial urinary tract infection

Early transcriptional activation events that occur in bladder immediately following bacterial urinary tract infection (UTI) are not well defined. In this study, we describe the whole bladder transcriptome of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) cystitis in mice using genome-wide expression profiling to define the transcriptome of innate immune activation stemming from UPEC colonization of the bladder. Bladder RNA from female C57BL/6 mice, analyzed using 1.0 ST-Affymetrix microarrays, revealed extensive activation of diverse sets of innate immune response genes, including those that encode multiple IL-family members, receptors, metabolic regulators, MAPK activators, and lymphocyte signaling molecules. These were among 1564 genes differentially regulated at 2 h postinfection, highlighting a rapid and broad innate immune response to bladder colonization. Integrative systems-level analyses using InnateDB (http://www.innatedb.com) bioinformatics and ingenuity pathway analysis identified multiple distinct biological pathways in the bladder transcriptome with extensive involvement of lymphocyte signaling, cell cycle alterations, cytoskeletal, and metabolic changes. A key regulator of IL activity identified in the transcriptome was IL-10, which was analyzed functionally to reveal marked exacerbation of cystitis in IL-10–deficient mice. Studies of clinical UTI revealed significantly elevated urinary IL-10 in patients with UPEC cystitis, indicating a role for IL-10 in the innate response to human UTI. The whole bladder transcriptome presented in this work provides new insight into the diversity of innate factors that determine UTI on a genome-wide scale and will be valuable for further data mining. Identification of protective roles for other elements in the transcriptome will provide critical new insight into the complex cascade of events that underpin UTI.

Designing Dense Radar Networks for Weather Surveillance in Tropical Regions.

Design considerations are presented for a dense weather radar network to support multiple services including aviation. Conflicts, tradeoffs and optimization issues in the context of operation in a tropical region are brought out. The upcoming Indian radar network is used as a case study. Algorithms for data mosaicing are briefly outlined.

Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images by a Multiscale Boundary Contour System and Feature Contour System

An improved Boundary Contour System (BCS) and Feature Contour System (FCS) neural network model of preattentive vision is applied to large images containing range data gathered by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor. The goal of processing is to make structures such as motor vehicles, roads, or buildings more salient and more interpretable to human observers than they are in the original imagery. Early processing by shunting center-surround networks compresses signal dynamic range and performs local contrast enhancement. Subsequent processing by filters sensitive to oriented contrast, including short-range competition and long-range cooperation, segments the image into regions. The segmentation is performed by three "copies" of the BCS and FCS, of small, medium, and large scales, wherein the "short-range" and "long-range" interactions within each scale occur over smaller or larger distances, corresponding to the size of the early filters of each scale. A diffusive filling-in operation within the segmented regions at each scale produces coherent surface representations. The combination of BCS and FCS helps to locate and enhance structure over regions of many pixels, without the resulting blur characteristic of approaches based on low spatial frequency filtering alone.

Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images by the Boundary Contour System and Feature Contour System

An improved Boundary Contour System (BCS) and Feature Contour System (FCS) neural network model of preattentive vision is applied to two large images containing range data gathered by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor. The goal of processing is to make structures such as motor vehicles, roads, or buildings more salient and more interpretable to human observers than they are in the original imagery. Early processing by shunting center-surround networks compresses signal dynamic range and performs local contrast enhancement. Subsequent processing by filters sensitive to oriented contrast, including short-range competition and long-range cooperation, segments the image into regions. Finally, a diffusive filling-in operation within the segmented regions produces coherent visible structures. The combination of BCS and FCS helps to locate and enhance structure over regions of many pixels, without the resulting blur characteristic of approaches based on low spatial frequency filtering alone.

Operator and organizational maintenance manual, radar set AN/MPQ-50 (XO-2) NSN 1430-01-042-4908, HAWK air defense guided missile system.

Includes index.

Operator and organizational maintenance manual for high-powered illuminator radar set AN/MPQ-57, NSN 1430-01-078-9643 : HAWK air defense guided missile system.

"This copy is a reprint which includes current pages from Changes 1 and 2."

Operator and organizational maintenance fault isolation manual : improved CW acquisition radar AN/MPQ-55, (Improved HAWK Air Defense Guided Missile System).

"September 1980."

Organizational maintenance manual for gun, air defense artillery, towed, 20-mm, M167A1, cannon M168, carriage M42A1, sight M61, and radar AN/VPS-2 (NSN 1005-01-014-0837).

"March 1978"--[Vol. 2].

Operator, organizational, DS and GS maintenance manual : including repair parts and special tools lists electrical equipment shelters (Chaparral Air Defense Guided Missile System) (Forward Area Alerting Radar System) (Improved Hawk Air Defense Guided Missile System).

Includes index.