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About a year ago, I got an email or two about a white rapper that skates. Given the utter wackness in the history of all two white rappers that skate, I laughed and didn't look into it any further. Then I recently saw a video David Loy posted of a skate session he had. It was the white rapper guy, but this time, it wasn't the vert jock and it wasn't the retiree. From there, I checked his Trunk Muzik album out and although he rips at skating, there were only real short mentions of skateboarding on the whole album. That's a good thing because as amazing as we all think skateboarding is, rapping about it generally comes across stupid. He does have some skateboarding and a P-Rod cameo in his latest video, but it's good because it's not a blatant fake use of skateboarding as a cool factor. He worked with Bun B, Raekwon, and Gucci on his this album and is now on Shady working with Eminem. I'm a fan of this dude now. He's Yelawolf and you can find out more about his influences and who else he's worked with on his skater profile and website. Dude's from Alabama, has a twang, and uses a lot of hard/classic rock samples. I'm looking forward to his new work out in March. During Tampa Pro, we'll see it live. Yelawolf was just confirmed for the Tampa Pro Party on March 12. Tickets will be on sale soon. See you here, Catfish Billy.
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Peoples MarketRead MoreFind all of your favorite seasonal items in one place at Peoples Market in Washington and enjoy some of your favorites. Do you meet your recommended calcium intake? If not, pick up some dairy products and put yourself on the path to a healthier lifestyle. Going on a road trip or heading to the office? Easy to take anywhere, this snack will hold you over between any meal. When you need some essential proteins, you'll definitely be covered with the great meat selection here. Go under the sea with a few fresh catches, and enjoy a meal rich in protein and flavor. This store has all the supplies you need to make a scrumptious dessert when your tastebuds are calling. Keep your energy and mood up all day long with a tasty coffee or refreshing tea from Peoples Market. The frozen food here tastes so good, you'll forget it came from the microwave! When you need a quick meal after a long day of work, a TV dinner from here is sure to fill you up in a jiffy. Make your own salad dressing in a snap! Oil and vinegar are essential components for a number of common creations, so make sure these guys always have a place in your kitchen. Health-conscious eaters will love cooking with the fresh produce available here. Whether you're hitting the gym or just running errands, water keeps your energy up and your body moving. Make sure to hit the shelves at Peoples Market for some hydration while you're on the move. Get your noodle on! Peoples Market has some of the best and affordable noodle and pasta options in the area. Here you can find a wide range of great spices and seasonings to make your next dish more flavorful and creative. Need a sandwich for lunch or toast to compliment your hearty breakfast? Grab a loaf of bread today. People can't get enough of the drinks here that take refreshment to the max. Canned food often presents a cheaper alternative as the food doesn't spoil. That's why Peoples Market encourages you to stock up today. Both sugary and high-fiber cereals are delicious and this store carries them all. Fortunately for all, there's space to park close to Peoples Market for your convenience. Peoples Market has everything you need for your pantry, fridge, or freezer, so get to shopping.3041 Naylor Road SoutheastWashington, DC US
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Under paragraph 1(a) of Executive Order 10096, the conditions under which this invention was made entitle the Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army, to an undivided interest in any patent granted thereon by the United States. This and related patents are available for licensing. Please contact Sharon Borland at 603 646-4735 or Phillip Stewart at 601 634-4113.
The present invention relates generally to automated detection and alerting to the presence of hidden structure. More particularly, it provides a low-cost, fully integrated, mobile, early warning system for continuous detection and early warning of bridged crevasses. For certain applications, it may be solar powered with battery backup, with an option for at least one battery to be solar rechargeable.
Bridged crevasses present a challenge and hazard to parties traversing ice streams and glaciers in the Antarctic, the Arctic and elsewhere. While an open crevasse is usually visually discernible and therefore avoidable, there is little or no visual cue to the presence of a bridged crevasse or to the thickness of the overlying snow bridge. When in terrain where there is probable occurrence of bridged crevasses, progress is inhibited; parties remain roped together and travel slowly and deliberately. Personnel are at risk of injury or death if a snow bridge is unwittingly breached. Secondarily, loss of vehicles, sleds and equipment may occur.
The current state-of-the-art for bridged crevasse detection, warning, and spatial parameter quantification consists of two methods. Probing is a low-tech solution requiring a securely roped individual to carefully approach a suspected snow bridge and repetitively insert a long, thin wand deep into the snow, feeling for an underlying void. This "dipstick" approach can provide an approximate indication of the thickness of a snow bridge and the horizontal extent of the underlying abyss. The second method is an application of ground penetrating radar (GPR). This application has been discussed in the literature and has seen limited use in several forms for many years. Recent applications of this technique have been quite successful in locating bridged crevasses in the path of over-snow vehicles. The conventional GPR alternative, typically using a research-grade radar system, is hi-tech, expensive, requires a trained operator to interpret, and thus is used less frequently. In a typical application, a GPR antenna is positioned on a long boom ahead of the traversing vehicle or party. Electromagnetic pulses are transmitted in a broad antenna lobe pattern having vertical and some near-horizontal components. These pulses reflect from underlying snow and firn density boundaries, i.e., a boundary indicative of a dielectric contrast, and refract from the near-vertical walls of proximate crevasses. The boundary between the snow, firn or ice, and the air-filled void of the crevasse provides a strong dielectric contrast and reflector and refractor of electromagnetic energy. The typical radar signature (return) of snow and firn stratigraphy 100 devoid of crevassing is a series of nearly horizontal layers appearing as horizontal traces 102 below the surface 101 on a profile image as shown in FIG. 1. If a crevasse is encountered, the crevasse radar signature 200 is displayed as a convex hyperbolic curve 202, the apex being directly over the crevasse and the "tails" trending deeper into the snowpack as shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 3 annotates the "crevasse signature" 200 of FIG. 2 with a dashed line 301 to delineate the crevasse. Note that this crevasse signature 200 is intermixed on the display with the stratigraphic signature 100 depicted in FIG. 1.
Conventional GPR operation while traversing suspect snow and ice fields employs a trained operator constantly observing a radar display to discern the hyperbolic crevasse signatures 200, halting traversal as the convex hyperbolic curve 202 appears on the display. This important activity is manpower intensive and is subject to a high fatigue factor with resultant dire consequences if not carefully monitored. Automating bridged crevasse proximity detection and warning using a low-cost designed-for-purpose radar system has positive implications for safety, economics and efficiency. It may be applied to scientific, search-and-rescue, industrial and commercial trans-glacial traversing in the Antarctic, the Arctic, and elsewhere.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an automatic, portable, inexpensive, designed-for-purpose, crevasse detection system that is easy to operate and may be applied to field party and general snow field traversal scenarios to include diverse activities such as identifying the snow cave of a polar bear for investigation by a wildlife biologist.
An inexpensive system integrates the front-end of a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ground-penetrating radar, a COTS personal computer (PC), and a specialized algorithm to alert to geospatial anomalies in real time. The alert may be aural, indicating the relative proximity of a geospatial anomaly. The system may also include a visual alert that indicates the relative proximity of a geospatial anomaly, or both an aural and visual alert.
In a preferred embodiment, the geospatial anomaly of interest is a crevasse, in particular, a bridged (hidden) crevasse. The bridge may result from accretion of snow, ice, firn, or any combination thereof.
In a preferred embodiment, the radar front-end is an FM-CW radar front-end, comprising an antenna (although multiple antennas may be used), a transceiver incorporating a circulator, a local oscillator, and a mixer.
In a preferred embodiment, the processor is a personal computer that incorporates at least a low pass filter (LPF), a high pass filter (BIF), an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, a digital signal processor (DSP), and a display, such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display (LCD). For aural alerts, the PC further incorporates a sound card connected to at least one speaker.
The specialized algorithm processes returns from operation of the radar front-end in A and B parallel channels to establish a running average of vectors in the A channel for comparison to each single vector being processed currently (and concurrently) by B channel, such that the comparison permits detection of a spatial anomaly within a target volume illuminated by the radar front-end.
Also provided is an inexpensive method of detecting spatial anomalies within a target volume, the anomalies not otherwise evident without use of methods that are expensive, time-consuming, or both. A preferred embodiment of the method comprises:
illuminating a target volume with electromagnetic energy;
using circuitry to derive audio frequencies representing reflections of the electromagnetic energy;
establishing vectors representing the audio frequency versions of the reflected energy in A and B parallel channels, such that a running average of the vectors is maintained in channel A for comparison to a current vector being processed in channel B; and
using this comparison to initiate an alert.
The cost of equipment for this processing is minimized through down conversion to audio frequencies prior to processing.
In a preferred embodiment, the anomalies are voids otherwise hidden from observation. Of particular interest are voids representing crevasses hidden by accretion of snow, ice, firn, and any combination thereof. Methods are provided to provide an alert aurally, visually, or as a combination of both.
Aural alerts are established by processing scaled signals in parallel to establish the frequency and volume of the aural alert. Visual alerts are established by:
subtracting the running average vector of channel A from the current vector processed in channel B;
filtering the result of the subtracting to remove spikes that cause "speckle;"
stacking by m, a whole number, the filtered result to achieve a stacked value,
clipping the stacked value to eliminate any amplitude variability that may introduce adverse effects;
peak extracting the clipped stacked value to establish a bin number for it, the bin number providing an estimate of distance to a nearest edge of the spatial anomaly;
using the bin number to drive a visual alarm function; and
displaying a visual alarm.
There are several advantages to a preferred embodiment of the present invention:
self-monitoring standoff geospatial anomaly detection;
useful for establishing a database of common stratigraphy types;
reduced workload and stress on detection system operator(s);
automated detection of geospatial anomalies, including bridged crevasses;
automated visual and aural alarm upon detection of a geospatial anomaly;
inexpensive to implement;
uses COTS hardware;
uses commercially available software;
suitable for applications such as determining archaeological sites of importance prior to employing heavy machinery for road building or construction;
easily reconfigurable for updating or use in other applications;
easy to learn, thus reduced training time and shortened learning curve;
increased speed of traversing surfaces of unknown stability;
facilitates search and rescue operations;
easily maintained; and
For a lightweight, inexpensive embodiment that may be mounted on a PC board, the antenna may be any of: a stripline antenna, a stripline beam antenna, a Yagi stripline beam antenna, and a log periodic array (LPA) stripline beam antenna. The simplest embodiment for this antenna is a printed circuit wide-band "bow-tie" dipole antenna.
Preferably, the processing sub-assembly includes analog circuitry connected to the transceiver sub-assembly through a mixer. This analog circuitry conditions output signals from the mixer for digital processing. Digital circuitry receives conditioned output signals from the analog circuitry, converts it to digital format, and employs a complex algorithm for identifying geospatial anomalies such as a bridged crevasse or a snow cave. Display and alerting devices receive output from the digital circuitry to indicate the geospatial anomaly and provide a required alert.
In a preferred embodiment, the analog circuitry includes a first amplifier for amplifying the signal products from the mixer, a low pass filter (LPF) that passes only those frequencies that correlate to a pre-specified range, a second amplifier for amplifying the output of the LPF and a high pass filter (HPF).
The digital circuitry includes an analog-to-digital (AID) converter for converting the output of the high pass filter, a digital signal processor (DSP) for performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and a audio-visual display. The DSP implements a complex algorithm providing input to at least two methods of alerting, visual and audio.
If used with a robot, the system may further include a communications device including a UHF or VHF radio link, or a system providing an autodialer, a cellular phone and a cellular phone antenna. The frequency band of the radar system must be significantly displaced in frequency from the transmit frequency of any communications frequency (radio telemetry) to prevent interference between the radar and communication link and visa versa. To facilitate passing data, the radar signal may be converted from electrical to optical and passed from the radar transceiver to the data acquisition computer via an optical fiber. Preferably, all system components noted above are enclosed within a weatherproof enclosure.
In one embodiment, the system includes it own power source. The power source may include a solar panel augmenting a rechargeable battery. Further, a preferred embodiment may include its own boom and mounting bracket. In addition to the system itself, a unique method of implementing a geospatial anomaly detection capability is provided.
Provided is a method for detecting geospatial anomalies that may otherwise be hidden from view or other inexpensive means of detection. It comprises mounting a system of the present invention approximately level with a surface such as the surface of a snow field at a pre-selected look angle in azimuth and elevation; providing power to the system; illuminating at least part of a target volume with a signal containing electromagnetic energy; receiving energy reflected from the target volume as a result; processing the reflected energy together with a reference signal sampled from the transceiver to produce a difference frequency signal representing the difference in frequency between the reference signal and the reflected energy; establishing a value of the difference frequency signal; processing any non-zero value difference signals by implementing a complex algorithm; and using the output of the algorithm, collecting background data as a running average, and providing notification of any occurrence of the pre-specified geospatial anomaly. The notification, at least in part, may be audio, visual, or both.
A preferred implementation uses an antenna in direct contact with the surface e.g., snow or ice, and positioned at nadir (directly downward). Other embodiments may use slight "slant angles" to gain some marginal standoff distance advantage.
In a preferred embodiment, an autonomous geospatial anomaly detecting and alerting system is provided in which components of the system as described above are mounted on a single printed circuit (PC) board. The existence of a pre-specified range of frequencies is correlated to an expected geospatial anomaly such as may be representative of a hidden void, for example.
Ground penetrating radar has long been used for archeological and utility location purposes. While the basic radar hardware design of an embodiment of the present invention could be used for those purposes, the crevasse-location algorithm is specific to detection of void anomalies in snow, ice and glacier fields. Other algorithms may be developed and "tuned" for these other applications although these applications present a more difficult problem and are not pursued as an application of the present invention. A glacial snowfield presents a fairly benign target volume for ground penetrating radar with few anomalies present internally. In the general condition of penetrating the earth, however, there are boulders, debris, and buried manmade objects that display, possibly confusing the snowfield-specific crevasse-detecting algorithm of the present invention.
An embodiment of the system may be powered by any of a number of sources including a source remote from its location and a backup source.
In one embodiment, a preferred embodiment of the present invention is mounted on a boom at the front of a mobile platform (to include a self-powered vehicle, a remotely piloted vehicle, a robot, or even a mammal) that is proceeding toward a target volume to be observed such as bridged crevasse or snow cave. The target volume may be remote from the controller of the mobile platform. The controller may also be mobile, thus a wireless communications device may be provided in one embodiment. A reference signal, fsource, is transmitted from the antenna towards the target surface. Resultant reflected radiation, i.e., the "backscattered" portion, is mixed with a portion of the transmitted signal sampled for that purpose. This mixing produces a difference frequency, fDif, which is then processed to distinguish internal structure of the target volume.
Digital circuitry implementing a complex algorithm establishes the presence of a geospatial anomaly within the target volume. Using a complex algorithm, the anomaly is identified and an alert displayed both visually and aurally. Upon such determination, the system may send a notification, preferably over a wireless communications device, to a platform controller at a remote location.
Further advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the description below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like numbers indicate like elements.
FIG. 1 depicts an image derived from a radar signature of a snowfield having no voids.
FIG. 2 depicts an image derived from a radar signature of a snowfield having a bridged crevasse.
FIG. 3 depicts an image derived from a radar signature of a snowfield having a bridged crevasse, the convex parabola indicating a crevasse being highlighted by a dashed line.
FIG. 4 is a schematic depicting the relationship of the principle components of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of first parallel processing actions taken on digitized signals from an A/D converter of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of second processing actions taken in combining the parallel processed signals of the first parallel processing actions.
FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of final processing actions taken on processed signals from the second processing action, inserting two scale factors for further parallel processing to enable an audio alert function.
FIG. 8A is a cartoon depicting a normal status of a visual display that may be used with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8B is a cartoon depicting an alert status of a visual display that may be used with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a cartoon depicting a profile view of an installed embodiment of the present invention during operation.
To provide automated crevasse detection, the basic principle employed is discerning the difference in GPR signatures (radar returns) between a near continuous, steady-state environment and a transient and occasional event. For purposes of the present invention the radar antenna is disposed close to the surface of the volume to be illuminated. Anomaly detection is accomplished by detecting and comparing recently acquired time and spatially averaged processed GPR signatures to "real time" signatures. Typically, crevasse-free snow, firn, and ice fields present a GPR signature of relatively long-term, monotonic, horizontal, steady-state or slowly spatially-changing stratigraphy 100 in layers 102 as shown in FIG. 1. As depicted in FIG. 2, crevasse signatures 200 present rapidly changing, hyperbolic representations 202 interrupting the steady state layers 102 depicted in FIG. 1. By developing a time and spatial average of the background state of stratigraphy 100; performing some signal processing; and subtracting the averaged background from instantaneous radar data "snapshots" or real time signatures, the crevasse signature 200 may be detected, extracted, and used to provide a timely proximity warning. To perform this function, appropriate hardware 400, as shown in FIG. 4, is used and a complex digital signal-processing algorithm is implemented.
Refer to FIG. 4. The hardware 400 incorporates a designed-for-purpose, frequency-modulated continuous wave (FM-CW) radar front end comprising a transmitter 401, a circulator 403, at least one antenna 404 and a mixer 405. It also includes unique processing circuitry, including an LPF 406, an HPF 407, a DSP 408 implementing an FFT and a display 409. The unique processing circuitry may be incorporated in a COTS PC 460. Although implementation of an embodiment of the present invention may be done with conventional "pulse" or "impulse" radar techniques, an FM-CW version facilitates inexpensive audio-frequency digital signal processing techniques. Thus, the concepts disclosed herein allow implementation of pulse-based radar systems but a pulse-based system is not the preferred embodiment. Depending upon application, the system can be implemented to operate within any appropriate microwave band. Using conventional systems, field GPR applications have been made in the L-, C-, X- and K-bands. Further, it is possible and practical to apply this technique using VHF or UHF GPR systems.
For crevasse detection in snow and ice fields, a center frequency of 300 to 3000 MHz would be optimum, considering snow and ice penetration, simplicity and economics of electronic components, and simplicity of design and physical dimensions of radar antennas. Higher or lower frequencies may be used with varying levels of success and implementation costs.
FM-CW radar principles are well known and have been described frequently in the literature. Botros, A. Z. and A. D. Oliver, Analysis of Target Response of FM-CW Radar, IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-34, No. 4, 575-581, 1986. Skolnick, M. L., Introduction to Radar Systems, McGraw-Hill, New York, 581 pp., 1980. Stove, A. G., Linear FMCW Radar Techniques; IEE Proceedings, Vol. 139, No. 5, 343-350, 1992. Yankielun, N. E., et al., Thickness Profiling of Freshwater Ice Using a Millimeter-Wave FM-CW Radar, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 30, 1094-1100, 1992. These references discuss the principles in depth. An FM-CW radar can be implemented in a variety of configurations using single or dual antennas. Refer to FIG. 4. For simplicity, a single-antenna (transceiver antenna) implementation 404 is described. A constant amplitude sinusoidal signal 425 is transmitted toward a target volume 410. The signal's frequency, over an operating band, ΔF, is increased linearly with time, over a duration, tswp. This signal is produced by a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) 402 that may sweep a band from hundreds of MHz to several GHz as shown using a typical linear voltage ramp 401.
The swept frequency range determines the maximum distance range and spatial resolution of the FM-CW radar. The greater this sweep range is, the smaller the operating distance (range) of the radar and the higher the spatial resolution. This swept frequency range may be discussed in terms of percent of center frequency. A sweep signal that has a sweep range of 30% to 50% of center frequency is easily and inexpensively implemented in hardware. For example, a radar that has a center frequency of 500 MHz, sweeping a 30% bandwidth yields a 150 MHz sweep, typically implemented symmetrically about the center frequency, i.e., swept between 425 MHz and 575 MHz.
The signal reflected from the target, or "radar return" 430, delayed by the round-trip propagation time, 2tp, is mixed with a sample 420 of the VCO 402 output 425. This sample 420 is fed directly to the circulator 403 with a minimal, but known delay time. The mixing process produces sum, F(+), and difference frequency, F(−), signals at the mixer 405. It is passed through an LPF 406 to retain only F(−), typically a signal in the audio frequency range. This signal is further refined by passing through an HPF 407. After Fourier transformation of F(−) in a DSP 408, one component, Fr, is yielded. Fr is proportional to the range, R, to the target volume. This may be displayed on the CRT 409 of a PC 460. The relationship between ΔF and Fr is given by
where c is the velocity of light in a vacuum (3�108 m/s) and n is the index of refraction of the medium in which it is desired to operate, e.g., snow, ice or firn.
Substituting Eqn. (2) into Eqn. (1) and solving for R, in meters, we obtain
The theoretical equivalent 3-dB width of the spectral pulse, wp, in the time domain is determined by the band swept by the FM-CW signal 425, such that
For the measurement of snow depth, d, in meters, from the top surface of a snowpack to some internal feature (such as the bottom of a snow bridge over a crevasse), Eqn. (3) becomes
Fr1 is the difference frequency due to the reflection from the top of the snowpack,
Fr2 is the difference frequency due to the reflection from the bottom of the snowbridge (top of the crevasse), and
n is the index of refraction of the snowpack that can be calculated by
where ρ is the density of the snowpack in gm/cm3.
For lossless media (as assumed for dry snow), the index of refraction is the square root of the relative dielectric permittivity.
Since the Fr1 and Fr2 signals are within the audio frequency spectrum, they may be acquired easily and processed by an inexpensive analog-to-digital (A/D) converter and DSP engine. A special DSP algorithm is used for processing the radar return 430 to perform automatic crevasse detection and warning.
Refer to FIG. 4. The hardware 400 for the system incorporates two major components: a radar front-end 450 and a personal computer (PC) 460 incorporating a digital signal processor (DSP) 408. The PC 460 is programmed with a purpose-built DSP software algorithm. Both the radar front-end 450 and personal computer 460 may be powered by a DC source, such as a 12-volt rechargeable battery (not shown separately) or that provided by the carrier vehicle (not shown separately).
The radar front end 450 may comprise either a single antenna 404 or a pair of antennas (not shown separately) together with the necessary radar transceiver electronics. In a preferred embodiment, the radar front-end 450 is a conventional FM-CW radar built from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. This system may be implemented using a pulse or impulse type radar with minor modification to the interface electronics and signal processing circuitry and algorithm. FM-CW is the preferred implementation.
Refer to FIGS. 4 and 9. A tracked vehicle 903 is depicted traversing a snowfield 901 towards an unseen bridged crevasse 902. In a preferred embodiment, the radar front end 450 is mounted in an enclosure 904 on a lightweight boom 905 that extends ten or more meters in front of the lead vehicle 903 in a traverse train, for example. Controls for the radar front end 450 and data return are provided via appropriate links 906. The enclosure 904 is mounted on a skid 907 to position the radar's antenna 404 as close to the surface of the snowfield 901 as possible.
Digital signal processing may be performed using a conventional laptop computer 460 equipped with an add-in, 16-bit A/D converter (not shown separately) and a DSP 408. This combination of components, with some minor interface hardware (not shown separately), produces the linear voltage ramp as depicted at 401 that drives the linear oscillator 402 of the FM-CW radar front end 450 as well as performing the signal acquisition, processing, display, aural warning annunciator and data storage functions.
The DSP algorithm is written in an appropriate computer language supported by the chosen DSP engine, typically a variant of "C" or "C++." While there are numerous variations for implementing this application, a preferred embodiment employs software using the high-level graphical user interface (GUI) language, HYPERSIGNAL� Ride (Hyperception, Inc., Dallas, Tex.).
The analog audio frequency signal, F(−), from the output of the mixer 405 and filters 406, 407 is input to the A/D converter controlled by the PC 460. The radar return 430 from each FM-CW linear frequency sweep is digitized and placed in 1024 (or an appropriate "power of 2″ number of "bins" or data points, e.g., 512, 2048, 4096, etc.), 16-bit bins. For optimum resolution and reduced computational effort, a 1024-bin vector is the preferred implementation. The "ensemble" of these bins represents a single mathematical "vector" time-series to be processed by the DSP algorithm. A continuous series of sequential data vectors comprises the data record of a profile of radar returns 430. Processing of these vectors individually, and as an ensemble to attain a running average, is used to yield the crevasse detection and alerting function.
Refer to FIGS. 5-7 for the high-level flow diagram 500, 600, 700 for the complex DSP algorithm used in a preferred embodiment. In the initial processing 500, the data stream of vectors from the A/D converter is split into two parallel paths 550, 560 with outputs to A 520 and B 530 respectively. In the first path 550, a sequence of n vectors is "running averaged" or "stacked by n" 501. As an example, the initial implementation of the DSP algorithm employed a value of n=48. This parameter may be set by the user for best results based on experiment or operator experience. Selection of a value will depend on several variables, including the sweep cycle of the radar front end 450 or the pulse repetition rate of the radar (if a pulse radar is used) and the ground speed of the platform. This averaging provides an inherent temporal low-pass filter, i.e., a time-averaged background signal with which individual vectors are sequentially compared later in the process. In both legs 550, 560 of the parallel process, the data streams are then Hanning-windowed 502, 503 and then processed by a kth-order fast Fourier transform (FFT) 504, 505. Note that, although the signals are Hanning-windowed in a preferred embodiment, other suitable windowing techniques may be employed, although use of the Hanning window is the most straightforward and suitable for the purpose. As an example, a 10th-order FFT is performed on a 1024-bin time-series data vector, resulting in a 1024-bin frequency-domain vector.
The magnitude 506, 507 of each transform in each "leg" is determined, producing a power spectrum of the initial time-series data vector. Gain 509, including negative gain (attenuation), is added to the running-average processed data stream 550 to scale it appropriately to each data vector. The power spectrum vectors of the non-stacked data stream 560 are output in spectrogram format in an on-screen display 508. This display 508 shows the stratigraphy 100, e.g., for the snow and firn layering, or it will show the inverted hyperbolic signature 200 of any nearby bridged crevasse as depicted at 202.
The data from both channels 550, 560 are then clipped 510, 511, i.e., peak limited, to the same level. This peak limiting is used to further scale the data from both channels 550, 560, eliminating some amplitude variability that would have an adverse effect in the next processing step. The data 520, 530 from each channel 550, 560 are now processed 600 in the same channel. The most recent (real time) single-scan vector B 530, is subtracted 601 from the running-averaged vector, A 520, to assert a background removal function. The stacked channel 550 is an inherent temporal low-pass filter, attenuating impulse or short duration events and leaving the averaged trend intact. In an embodiment useful for surveying snowfields, the stratigraphy 100 of snow and firn layering is relatively monotonic over lateral distances much greater than the span of a crevasse, thus making background removal a generally viable option. Further filtering is performed by a median filter 602. The median filter 602 removes spikes in the data that cause "salt and pepper noise", or "speckle."
Stacking 603 is accomplished by smoothing the data m times. As an example, for initial implementation, m was set at 8. This parameter is adjustable by the user based on experiment or actual experience.
Refer to FIG. 8A. There are two possible outputs from this filtering process. Under the "no-warning" condition, low-level noise is output, i.e., no further manipulation of the signal is undertaken prior to output as C 610. This condition is displayed in FIG. 8A. This noise is the residual product of the subtraction of the two parallel signal-processing legs 550, 560 indicating very little difference between the averaged (background), A 520, and the instantaneous vector, B 530.
The other possible output occurs when a crevasse is detected. The output signal from the subtraction 601 comprises a dominant spectral line 202, i.e., a narrowband spectral "pedestal," that sweeps across the pre-specified swept-frequency band at a frequency inversely proportional to the distance between the radar's antenna(s) 404 and the crevasse. As the radar antenna 404 closes on the crevasse, this spectral pedestal 202 exhibits a reduction in frequency while, conversely, on moving away from a crevasse, the frequency increases. This spectral pedestal 202, is clipped 604 and processed to "peak extract" 605 the location (bin number) of the peak, thus providing the distance to the nearest, or leading, edge of the pedestal 202.
Refer to FIG. 8B. This extracted "bin position" of the peak is used to drive 606 an on-screen visual alarm 607 as depicted in FIG. 8B as a preferred embodiment of a warning mode available to the indicator 800. In this embodiment, this indicator 800 comprises two components: a large image block 805 of the stratigraphy 102 that may change color, such as from green, to yellow, and finally red as distance reduces to a crevasse. This "color block" 805 may include an appropriately phrased warning statement 801, 803 that is also proximity dependent. Further, in a preferred embodiment, a dynamic thermometer-like on-screen graphic 802 indicates the relative proximity of the crevasse. As determined by the peak extract (position detection) function 605, as the antenna 404 closes on a crevasse, the bin number of the peak decreases. This correlates to a higher "thermometer" reading as depicted in FIG. 8B at 802.
Refer to FIGS. 6 and 7. The output, C 610, of the peak extraction function 605, may be processed 700 to also drive a sound card (not shown separately) in the PC 460 to generate 707 an aural alarm output 708 that increases in frequency and volume with proximity to a crevasse. (If, from an ergonomic perspective, the reverse relationship between range to a crevasse and output frequency is desired, it can be accommodated by simple modification of the DSP algorithm.) To accomplish this, the extracted peak value C 610 is input into a multiplier along with a scaling factor for each leg 710, 720 of a parallel process, i.e., scale factor "A" 701 and scale factor "B" 702. Scale factors A 701 and B 702 are set from an ergonomic perspective to provide an optimal audio and visual cue to the proximity of a crevasse.
These scaling factor constants 701, 702 are multiplied 703, 704 by the extracted 605 peak bin number and sent to respective circuits that hold 705, 706 the peak. Typically, peak-hold settings 705, 706 are not user adjustable, except possibly for audio volume. These hold-and delay functions 705, 706, serving as a lag or damper, provide short-term, nearly constant output values. These stabilized outputs are used to set the frequency 707 of the sound card in the PC and the volume of the associated speakers (not shown separately). The peak-hold function 705, 706 is an inherent LPF, eliminating instantaneous variations in tone and volume, such as "warble," that might be present in the alert signal.
While useful as described above, the DSP algorithm may require some initial manual adjustment by a user to produce optimum results, e.g., optimum settings may depend on the average composition of the area to be traversed, be it snow, firn or ice conditions. As a history of operational experience in the field develops, this experience can be used to establish these parameters. A library of selectable settings or feedback loops in the software may be employed to adjust system parameters for optimized operation automatically.
An alternative or supplemental statistical approach can be taken to the detection of crevasses by calculating the standard deviation of all the values in each vector transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain. A trend of relatively steady-state standard deviation calculations may result from radar returns over stable snow cover. As a crevasse is approached and overridden by the radar antenna, the standard deviation increases from the steady-state level. Given an established steady-state baseline, the proximity of a crevasse can be inferred by observing the increase in standard deviation.
While the invention has been described in terms of its preferred embodiments, one skilled in the art will recognize that the invention may be practiced with modifications within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. For example, although the system is described in specific examples for detecting the presence of a crevasse, in particular a bridged crevasse, it will operate on any surface and in conditions that shield visual determination of the stability of the path ahead, such as may occur with dense fog, heavy precipitation or dust storms. It may be suitable for other applications such as determining voids that may signify archaeological sites of importance prior to employing heavy machinery for road building or construction.
Further, the source may be operated with other types of electromagnetic energy such as acoustical and ultrasonic. The algorithm and signal processing may be applicable to implementation with other sensor types including acoustical and ultrasonic. Thus, it is intended that all matter contained in the foregoing description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative rather than limiting, and the invention should be defined only in accordance with the following claims and their equivalents.
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Officials commenting on the situation to CNN say that the military has a "full understanding" of the types and number of troops and units needed for different potential attacks on Syria, and were ready to present those options as soon as President Obama asks.
The Obama Administration has said they would only attack Syria after the United Nations Security Council authorized it, which seems a virtual impossibility given both Russian and Chinese opposition to a NATO attack, but seems likely to take any pretext they are given by the UN as a full-scale imprimatur for war.
The sudden completeness of the plans is surprising, as only a week ago Gen. Martin Dempsey insisted that the military had put all planning "on hold" because they were never given any goals upon which to base their plans.
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I applaud 14-year-old Paige Dayal for her determination in helping a troubled youth. It is truly remarkable how this young girl had enough courage and empathy to fight for the life of a complete stranger living thousands of miles away. Now that is what you call humanity.
Dayal could have easily ignored the suicidal boy's cry for help just like the many other Tumblr followers but instead she took action and ended up saving the boy's life.
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The study finds that the transportation of the goods accounts for under a third of the carbon savings created by recycling with further savings if reverse haulage is noted. Due to a trade imbalance between the U.K. and China, most of the containers return to China are empty.
Britain currently exports 4.7 million tons of recovered paper and 500,000 tons of plastic to China. According to WRAP this is because China has an increasing demand for plastic bottles while the U.K. did not have the capacity to reprocess them.
Between about 154 kg and 213 kg of CO2 is produced per ton of recycled paper transported, while one ton of recovered plastic bottles emits between 158kg and 230 kg.
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Here is a good graphic novel software: Manga Studio Clip Studio Paint I think Clip studio paint is the advertisement you saw
I would probably not even bother closing the lines, just make a layer behind the lines then use the brush or blob brush to block in areas of solid colour. You can then use Warp / Smooth to get them under control rather than messing with individual points. Closing paths is a pain, so avoid it if you can.
Ideally if the sketch can be done at 100% RGB of the device screen (roughly) Take note when you shrink and image the lines become more finer and detail gets dropped off. What the sketch is drawn on does not matter so much depending upon the line quality needed. If the paper is fine then the drawing will have sharper lines as compared to a textured paper ...
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