BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 687535

## The APV25 Chip & The STT

**CMS Tracker Readout by APV25**
**Preamp********Shaper ********Pipe ********Mux**
**0.25********m ********Rad hard to 20 Mrad**
**128 chan’s x 192 cell pipe**
**deadtimeless mode (<32 L1acc)**
**Mux speed 20 or 40 MHz**
**The Basic Readout Chain**
**2 APV (preamp, shape, pipe)**
**run at 20 MHz each**
**1 APVMux**
**40 MHz output**
**1 Fiber (256 channels)**
**small size Tx, Rx needed**
**1 FED Channel (96 chan/FED)**
**digitize, subtr ped, ****reorder****, cluster, sparsify**
**link to DAQ**
**FEC/CCU (controller)**

**Hybrid**

_**Warning:**_** I am not an APV expert****watch for errors!**

- STT Meeting: 8-Dec-00

- H.Evans

## DØ Implementation & STT Issues

**D****Ø Modifications to System**
**Use unchanged**
**APV & MUX (hybrid?)**
**Optical Xmitter & Fiber**
**CCU**
**Remake for D****Ø**
**APV & optical hybrids ?**
**FED / FEC **
**replace VRB / VRBC?**
**Interface to STT**
**FEC output ?**
**Interface card(s)**
**temp interlocks, etc.**
**APV vs SVX4**
**The chip exists**
**The readout doesn’t**

**Issues for the STT**
**Increased readout time ******** longer latency**
**APV readout not channel ordered**
**FED reorders / clusters**
**Multi-event buffering of roads on STC & TFC**
**SMT input medium changes**
**4 g-link fibers ******** VTM may not be optimal**
**optical Xmit in units of 12 fibers**
**make a new VTM ?**

- STT Meeting: 8-Dec-00

- H.Evans

## APV Deadtime

**Possibilities for speedup**
**Run APV at 40 MHz****	****(1 APV / MUX)**** ****	******** ****	****~8 ********s****	****	****	****	****	****	****double fiber count**** **
**Run in deadtimeless mode****	****	**** ******** ****	****~7 ********s (?)****	****	****	****	****	****	****add buffering at L1**

**1.75 ********s (for 20 MHz)**

**(7 ********s)**

**(7 ********s)**

**to MUX ****at 20 MHz**

- STT Meeting: 8-Dec-00

- H.Evans

## Schedule & Cost (my understanding)

| APV |  Chips finalized now
 Yield (so far) has been around 84% |
| --- | --- |
| APV Mux |  One more iteration  finalize end of 2000 |
| Optical Tx,Rx |  Commercial components, but few vendors
 Choose vendor mid 2001 – then build units
 Note: can test w/out these |
| FED |  Development through 2002 (?)
 Some help from RAL possible? for DØ FED devel |
| Cost |  Total: 2 CHF / channel  1 M$ for DØ
 28 CHF / APV
 9 MCHF for optical (50% Tx, 25% Rx)
 7.5 kCHF / FED (96 chan)
 includes 10% spares + 10% contingency + test |

- STT Meeting: 8-Dec-00

- H.Evans
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## Domestic U.S. Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (DRVSM)

- Presentation 1

**Domestic U.S. Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (DRVSM)**

- Introduction
- June 9, 2004
**DRVSM SEMINAR  June 9-10, 2004**

## DRVSM Program Leads

- Robert Swain - Flight Technologies and Procedures Division (AFS-400)
- Steve Creamer – Air Traffic Operations – Enroute (ATO-E)
- Brian Colamosca -Separation Standards Group (ACB-310)

## Seminar Objectives

- Focus on technical and operational issues
- Provide information on documents, contacts,  processes and procedures required to gain aircraft and operator approval for RVSM operations
- Provide information on status of planning to implement RVSM in US National Airspace System

##  Public Comment		

- Comment process provided forum for public views on program
- _Not_ a seminar objective to debate DRVSM
- 90-day public comment period on DRVSM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
- 45-day public comment period on Supplemental NPRM

## Schedule for Future Seminars

- Six previous FAA/Industry seminars held between  April 2002 – February 2004
- FAA Inspector Seminars held in April and Sept 2003
- At NBAA request, planning a one-day seminar for
- 	Oct 11 to precede NBAA convention
- Considering additional one-day FAA/Industry seminars for Fall 2004, as needed

## Administrative Details

- CSSI Staff
- Roy Grimes
- Bob Miller
- Latonia Sewell
- Rod Carlson
- Curt Zimmerman
- Hotel Phone Number:404-209-9999
- Hotel Fax Number404-209-8934

- Lunch Options:
- Hotel:
- Concorde Grill
- Lunch Concession Stand
- Outside:
- Malone’s Grill and Bar (.5 miles)
- Steak and Ale (.9 miles)
- Ruby Tuesday (4 miles)
- Wednesday Evening Reception:
- 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
- Sponsored by CSSI, Inc.

## Agenda

- Program Overview
- Air Traffic Overview
- RVSM Website and Documents
- Aircraft and Operator Approval Programs
- Safety Assessment, Approvals Database and Monitoring
- Conclusion
- History of vertical separation slides in back of binder

## Conclusion

- Seminar briefings available on RVSM website:
**www.faa.gov/ats/ato/rvsm1.htm**
- Click Domestic RVSM tab then DRVSM Seminars
- CSSI will route follow-up questions to appropriate FAA office:
- drvsm@cssiinc.com
- Phone 202-863-2175
# Presentation: 755995

## Transit Operations

-  Oversight

## WMATA

- Title 49 CFR Part 659 is the authority for the Federal Transit Administration to require each state to oversee the safety and security of rail fixed guide-way systems through a designated oversight agency.

## Federal  Requirement

- Title 49 CFR 659.19 (c)
- An organization chart:
- A description of how the safety function is integrated into the rest of the rail transit organization; and
- clear identification of the lines of authority used by the rail transit agency to manage safety issues.

## WMATA

- January 6, 1996, collision at Shady Grove station.
- Information isolation within WMATA was identified by Safety Board investigators in the Shady Grove accident investigation.
- A WMATA Safety Review Committee recommended that its safety department report directly to the General Manager.
- WMATA adopted and implemented the organization change.

## WMATA

- The management organizational structure was not a factor in the November 3, 2004,  accident at Woodley Park.
- WMATA’s postaccident reorganization after the November 3, 2004, accident.

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## WMATA

- Postaccident reorganization reverts back to same status of preaccident Shady Grove.

## State Oversight Concern

- Tri-State Oversight Committee (TOC) expressed concern to WMATA about the postaccident reorganization of the WMATA management structure; eliciting a response from WMATA’s General Manager.
- TOC provided the Safety Board with a copy of the letter.

## WMATA

**The WMATA responded to the TOC that change would provide for:**
*Swift resolution of issues and recommendations identified by WMATA Safety and Audit organizations and provide them with a mandate to ensure compliance in the event that necessary corrective actions are not being taken by other parts of WMATA in a prompt fashion.*

## Slide 11
# Presentation: 087683

## white ash 

_*Fraxinus*_ * *_*americana*_  L.
- Synonyms:  _*Fraxinus*_* * _*biltmoreana*_*.*
- Other common names;  Biltmore ash, Biltmore white ash, cane ash, smallseed white ash.

**Culturally:**
- Many tribes appreciated its usefulness for making tools and implements.  Today it is still widely used for tool handles, furniture and baseball bats.
**Medicinally:**
-  A tea brewed from the leaves was used as a laxative and a general tonic for women after childbirth.
- A tea made from the bark was taken to remove bile from the intestines, as a general tonic and to promote menstruation.
- The seeds were eaten as an aphrodisiac, a diuretic, an emetic, an appetite stimulant, a styptic and as a cure for fevers.
- A water solution was poured on a person to treat itching scalp, lice, snakebite and open skin sores.
- A poultice of crushed leaves was applied on mosquito bites for relief of swelling or itching, and as a snake repellant.

- Photo courtesy of:  Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA NRCS. 1995. *Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA. Courtesy of _[USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute](http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/WLI/)_. This image is not copyrighted and may be freely used for any purpose. Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated:**Robert H. Mohlenbrock** @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / **USDA NRCS. 1995. *****Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*****. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA.**

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 265049

## NIDA’s Training Directors’ Meeting: HIV/AIDS Program

*Jacques Normand, Ph.D.*
*Director, AIDS Research Program*
*National Institute on Drug Abuse*

## Objectives

**NIDA’s AIDS Training Profile**
- Proportion of AIDS grants
- Proportion of AIDS grants by mechanism
- Proportion of training grants by Divisions
- Proportion of Division grants AIDS Coded
**NIDA’s HIV/AIDS Training Priorities**
- AIDS-Coded VS AIDS

## HIV/AIDS Training Grants

- 16% of NIDA’s total training grants (i.e., 58 of 369) are AIDS coded vs 33% of NIDA’s budget is AIDS
- Mechanism include: F30, F31, F32, K01, K08, K23, and T32

- AIDS Grants 58 of 369

## Proportion of AIDS Grants per Training Mechanism

***Proportion of AIDS Grants per Training Mechanism***

-   2/20       6/89         1/43      12/74      5/19       23/62      9/53

## Proportion of Training  Grants per Division

***Proportion of Training  Grants per Division***

## Proportion of AIDS Grants per Division

***Proportion of AIDS Grants per Division***

## Other NIDA HIV/AIDS Training Mechanism  

- 	Support research training in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences relevant to the convergence of HIV and drug abuse
- FIC
- NIDA
- Humphrey Fellowships (Mid career)
- Invest (Post-Doc)
- DISCA (Senior Researchers)
- Supplements (Facilitate training and future collaborations)

## NIDA’s Programmatic HIV/AIDS Research Priorities (cont.)

- Support research training in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences relevant to the convergence of HIV and drug abuse.
- HIV Primary and secondary prevention (e.g., Microbicides, Therapeutics, STD)
- HIV/AIDS Treatment (e.g., adherence, drug interactions)
- Natural History & Epidemiology
- Medical Consequences

## Definition Tool
# Presentation: 689551

## OPUS Solutions in Mexico

- Tomás Soler & OPUS Team
- October 26, 2005

**NGS Convocation**

## USA
NAD83 (CORS96), epoch 2002.0 (conterminous) 
NAD83 (CORS96), epoch 2003.0 (Alaska)
NAD83 (PACP00), epoch 2002 (Hawaii)
NAD83(MARP00), epoch 2002 (Guam)

MEXICO
ITRF92, epoch 1988
ITRF00, epoch 2004.0

- NAD83 (CORS96), epoch 2002.0 (conterminous)
- NAD83 (CORS96), epoch 2003.0 (Alaska)
- NAD83 (PACP00), epoch 2002 (Hawaii)
- NAD83(MARP00), epoch 2002 (Guam)
**MEXICO**
- ITRF92, epoch 1988
- ITRF00, epoch 2004.0

##                                       NGS OPUS SOLUTION REPORT                                       ========================      USER: tom.soler@noaa.gov                  DATE: September 12, 2005 RINEX FILE: manz3100.02o                            TIME: 14:35:09 UTC  SOFTWARE: page5  0411.19 master16.pl             START: 2002/11/06  00:00:00 EPHEMERIS: igs11913.eph [precise]                  STOP: 2002/11/06  23:27:00  NAV FILE: brdc3100.02n                        OBS USED: 40306 / 41500   :  97%  ANT NAME: AOAD/M_T                         # FIXED AMB:   114 /   185   :  62% ARP HEIGHT: 0.0                              OVERALL RMS: 0.025(m) REF FRAME: ITRF00(EPOCH:2004.0000)            ITRF00 (EPOCH:2002.8479)         X:     -1489330.720(m)   0.015(m)          -1489330.708(m)   0.015(m)         Y:     -5843667.545(m)   0.057(m)          -5843667.544(m)   0.057(m)         Z:      2070027.805(m)   0.044(m)           2070027.814(m)   0.044(m)       LAT:   19  3 49.91544      0.024(m)        19  3 49.91575      0.024(m)     E LON:  255 42  6.67717      0.027(m)       255 42  6.67756      0.027(m)     W LON:  104 17 53.32283      0.027(m)       104 17 53.32244      0.027(m)    EL HGT:          -14.205(m)   0.064(m)               -14.205(m)   0.064(m)                        UTM COORDINATES                         UTM (Zone 13) Northing (Y) [meters]     2108041.771 Easting (X)  [meters]      573843.374 Convergence  [degrees]     0.22925156 Point Scale                0.99966740 Combined Factor            1.00023661                              BASE STATIONS USED PID       DESIGNATION                        LATITUDE    LONGITUDE DISTANCE(m) AJ7836 LARD LRD-RRP CORS ARP               N273049.913 W0992652.510 1057685.2 AJ7838 PHAR PHR-RRP CORS ARP               N261230.529 W0981121.293 1008641.0 AF9538 CORC CORPUS CHRISTI CORS ARP        N274426.854 W0972630.010 1187007.3 This position and the above vector components were computed without any knowledge by the Instituto de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI)and the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) regarding the equipment or field operating procedures used.
# Presentation: 091686

## CGSIC Overview
September 2005

- September 2005

## SiRFLoc GSM/UMTS System Architecture

- LPL

- SSIII Chip and SLC SW

- Location Protocol Library

**Notes:**
This is a depiction of an end to end system within a GSM/UMTS system.
SiRF’s client and server offerings supports iDEN, CDMA, GSM, W-CDMA, Proprietary systems.

## Control Plane vs. User Plane

**Location**
**Enabled**
**Mobile **
**Client**

**Operator**
**Server**

**Control Plane**

**Standards**
**Signaling**
**(IS-801,etc)**

**User Plane**

**Wired TCP/IP**

**Wireless TCP/IP**

***Internet***

**Data Services**
**AGPS Data**
**Map Data**
**GIS Data**
**LBS **
**Realtime Traffic**
# Presentation: 333443

## DØ Status5/7/01

- Significant progress being made in finishing off the remaining work inside the detector
- SMT  Plan to complete inside the detector by the end of this shutdown
- South side low mass cable connection completed & 80 conductor cables redressed
- Readout verification in progress
- Removal of some jumper cables remains to be done
- North side 80 conductor cable redressing on CC face completed
- Low mass cable connection in progress  Expect either today or tomorrow
- 80 conductor cable redressing to IB to follow
- All IB readout infrastructure completed
- North side Sequencer infrastructure work in progress
- CFT
- A pair of prototype-AFE boards will be installed and be reading out complementary to the existing Stereo boards
- Track trigger systems being installed to exploit the AFE read out
- West Cryostat loaded with VLPC cassettes  Remaining East (~15)cassettes to follow

## CFT w/ AFE prototypes

**5 axial layer hits**
**1 stereo layer hit**
**All CPS**

**7 axial layer hits**
**1 stereo layer hit**
**All CPS**

## DØ Status cont’d

- Calorimeter
- Trigger summers for all CC implemented  Ready for beam
- All but one EC BLS crate ready  No trigger yet
- Inter-cryostat detectors, FPS and ICD, and cables being installed
- South face FPS completed  ICD to follow
- North West ICD installed
- North west face FPS completed  Dictated by the progress of SMT-N
- Muon systems:
- Central PDT CoBo installed in progress
- Both central and forward trigger counter calibration in progress
- Minor Forward MDT work in progress but essentially ready for beam
- L1 muon cable connection being made
- Some production boards being implemented
- Solenoid under cryo-operation beginning last Wednesday.
- Bus work in progress  Plan to turn on both Solenoid and Toroid after the shut down
- The detector will be CLOSED after the shutdown

## DØ SMT+CFT During 36x36

## First DØ Global Track in SMT+CFT

**First DØ Global Track in SMT+CFT**

**Axial**

**Stereo**

**3D**

## There are multiple track events too

**There are multiple track events too**

## DØ Vertex Distributions5/7/01

- Analysis of one of the runs in 36x36

**X****vtx****=+0.274cm**
**Y****vtx****=+0.315cm**
**Z****vtx****=+7.036cm**

## Conclusions

- Everyone is working very hard to complete the installation work inside the detector  To allow closing the detector
- Absolutely necessary for DØ commissioning benefit
- For the first time we could turn on magnets  Never know what will happen
- Minimize background from accelerator
- Need to get at electronics racks under the detector
- Data analyses of the 1x8 and 36x36 running continue
- We just took the first steps
- Still have a lot to understand
- But we certainly are making progress
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## Pharmaceutical Production  -- Batch Processes

- Quality Control ***today*** made after batch completion;
- 	Upsets are found too late
- 	No correction is possible
- _Real Time Quality Control_ made during batch evolution
- 	Upsets found earlier
- 	Corrections  possible
- Based on summarizing ***adequate data*** measured on a representative set of ***good*** batches;
- 	control limits based on   average batch trace ± 3

**(measured properties)**

- batch.ppt

## Real Time Quality Control	(Batch monitoring)

- Models the evolution of representative good batches
- Take all the variables and their correlation into account
- Use control charts for display, with limits computed from traces of good batches
- New batches monitored as they are evolving
- Problems detected and interpreted on the fly
- Culprit variables in problem batches clearly identified
- Quality of the whole batches predicted as it is evolving and at completion
- Based on multidimensional informative data  measured during the batch evolution   **+**  multivariate analysis

- batch.ppt

## Batch Control Charts of a mixing process (pharm)Two summary traces of good batch (green) ± 3 (red)

- Good batches must evolve inside these limits

- batch.ppt

## Monitoring the evolution of new Batches (On line)

- Bad batch (black) as it is evolving, seen outside the limits
- Deviations are interpreted with Contribution Plots

- Bad batch

- batch.ppt

## Control chart of the culprit variable

- batch.ppt

## Benefits	      B-SPC; same principles as MSPC

- Multivariate batch modeling
- 	brings the analysis of 3-way batch data
- 	to the same framework as continuous process data
- Allows interference as batch is evolving,
- 		and prediction of final quality
- Applies to
- 		evolving batches (individual observations),
- 		and whole batches as units
- Results shown as easily interpretable control charts
- Makes batch quality control more reliable, and faster
- Facilitates compliance inspection

- batch.ppt
# Presentation: 196449

## Fast offline dE/dx calibrations 

- Y. Fisyak
- 11/07/02

##  Calibration procedure

**Applying pad correction obtained from pulser data **
**For good clusters (used in track fit, no overlaps) **
**For good global tracks (No. fit points ****≥ 30, Track length in TPC > 40 cm)**
**Z =log[(dE/dx)****measured****/(dE/dx)****predicted for ****π****]**

**Fit Z-distribution with Gauss(****μ****,****σ****)**** + pol3 in +/-3****σ**** range. It is supposed that we have ~80% ****π**** and ****μ**** corresponds to ****π****.**
**μ**** should not depend on****	**
**Time, ****Pressure**
**Sector, row**
**Drift distance**
**...****	**

## Corrections

- ADC” nonlinearity
- 		dER = PolN(dEU), where
-       		dEU – uncorrected dE (from tcl),
- 			PolN – polynomial,
- 			N = 3 for Inner and = 5 for Outer sectors

## Corrections (cont.)

- Variations with sector / row still exist after pulser correction and are different for different pulser correction periods.
- Time dependence is accounted by
- Correction versus drift distance accounting time variation of O2 contamination taken from slow control
- Pressure        - ditto -
- After these correction there is no gain time dependence

## Corrections (cont.)

- dX correction

**fit by ****φ****(****μ****+(1+****σ****)z), where  ****φ****(z) is Bichsel shape and **
**z = log(dE/dE****mostprobable****);**

**μ**

**σ**

- Bichsel predicts increasing most probable value         (**μ**** ↑ dX**) with dX and decreasing width (**σ****↓dX**)
- I see (**μ**** ↓ dX**)  and (**σ****↑dX**).
- It would be interesting to check this with PAI model.

## Slide 6

## March 02 : σ = 8.2%(@76cm) 

**March 02 : ****σ**** = ****8.2%(@76cm)**

**σ**** ****CDR****  =  6.8% (@ 76 cm)**

## Very preliminary results of Olga Barannikova’s analysis 

- pT

## Calibration tables

- dE/dx corrections:                table names (**new****, ****used****, ****not used**)
- R “ADC” nonlinearity => “TpcAdcCorrection”
- Z Drift distance     					    		=>“TpcDriftDistOxygen”,“TpcZCorrection”
- Pressure:                   => “tpcPressure”
- Time                           => “TpcTimeGain”
- SecRow                      => “TpcSecRowB” 			has to be redone after Fabrice’s pulser corrections
- dX correction              => “TpcdXCorrection”
- TPC track length        => “TpcLengthCorrection”

## Conclusion

**In present dE/dx calibration model:**
**Only Sector/Row correction has to be updated after pulser correction update.**
**The model has to checked => Test Productions**
**It is important to understand reason for “ADC” nonlinearity:**
**Pulser (for ADC itself)**
**Detailed simulation of cluster finder**
**Time dependence is taken out by Pressure and Drift corrections.**
**To make dE/dx calibration in fast offline it is necessary to have:****	**
- Access to monitoring tables (tpcGas and might be tpcGainMonitor)
- A reasonable measurement of track momenta in [0.4,0.5]GeV/c range
- Statistics : precision ~1% => 24*10K good track (~50%) in momentum range [0.4,0.5] GeV/c (~20%) => 2.4 M tracks. (Now I am using statistics ~50M tracks)
# Presentation: 516427

## RFC Backup Operations and Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned

**Annual Interagency Water Resource Meeting**
**Southwestern Division**
**March 27-28, 2007**
**Ft. Worth, Texas**

## Backup Overview

- 4 Laptops
- Portable – Can be used anywhere with internet access
- Data retrieved from SRH/NWS website
- Data sent through another SR RFC

## Katrina Lessons Learned

- Needed more than 3 forecasters to run backup
- Needed updated laptops. Existing ones too slow.
- Needed to update RFC webpages.
- Needed ability to send binary files to support FFMP.

## Backup Improvements Complete

- Updated new laptops. Run as fast as operational system.
- Ability to send forecasts to the webpage.
- Ability to send binary files across AWIPS.
- LMRFC will send at least 5 forecasters to backup RFC if hurricane threatens.

## Improvements still needed

- A more reliable way for data ingest.
- Way keep communications with external users/customers.
- Nationally supported RFC backup.
# Presentation: 547341

## Upcoming Landsat Products

**9 January 2007**
**Rachel Kurtz, PhD**
**Landsat Data Acquisition Manager**

## ASPRS Survey Results

**Future of Land Imaging **
**PE&RS, January 2007**
**72%: Landsat is a primary, critical dataset **
**$935M of economic impact in the U.S. per year**
**78%: Landsat does not meet needs due to L7 SLC failure**

## ASPRS Survey Results

**Future of Land Imaging **
**PE&RS, January 2007**
**72%: Landsat is a primary, critical dataset **
**$935M of economic impact in the U.S. per year**
**78%: Landsat does not meet needs due to L7 SLC failure**

## L7 SLC-off Gap-Fill

| Gap-Fill Type
 | Landscape Pattern | Same-Day Radiometry |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interpolation |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-on |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-off |  |  |
| Segment-based |  |  |

## L7 SLC-off Gap-Fill

| Gap-Fill Type
 | Landscape Pattern | Same-Day Radiometry |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interpolation |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-on |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-off |  |  |
| Segment-based |  |  |

## L7 SLC-off Gap-Fill

| Gap-Fill Type
 | Landscape Pattern | Same-Day Radiometry |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interpolation |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-on |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-off |  |  |
| Segment-based |  |  |

## L7 SLC-off Gap-Fill

| Gap-Fill Type
 | Landscape Pattern | Same-Day Radiometry |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Interpolation |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-on |  |  |
| SLC-off & SLC-off |  |  |
| Segment-based |  |  |

## Segment-Based Gap Fill

## Segment-Based Gap Fill

- Segments

- Segmentation

## Segment-Based Gap Fill

- SLC-off

- Segments

- Segmentation

## Closeup of Gap-Fill

- Adapted from Maxwell *et al*., in print.

## 29 December 2004, L7

- Lat: 5 06 45.70
- Long: 95 20 38.38

**29 December 2004, L7**

- Filled

## 29 December 2004, L7

- Lat: 5 06 45.70
- Long: 95 20 38.38

**29 December 2004, L7**

- Filled

- SLC-off

## 12 June 2001, L7

- Lat: 5 06 45.70
- Long: 95 20 38.38

**12 June 2001, L7**

**29 December 2004, L7**

- Filled

- SLC-off

## Appropriate Uses: Scale Matters	

**Inappropriate for phenomena that could be lost in gaps or in regions with high rates of land change**
- Urban growth
- Timber harvest
**Can be used for some change analysis**
- Tsunami
**Must be interested in broad area information**
- Agriculture
- Phenological changes

## Slide 16

## Indian Ocean Campaign

**Indian Ocean Campaign**

## Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica

## New Products in GloVis

**Long-Term**
_**Archive**_
**MRLC**
**MTBS**
**Decadal Data**

## L7 Terrain-corrected Product

**Terrain-corrected product (L1T)**
**Required for Segment-based gap-fill product**
**Allow for Standard Product development**

## Looking to LDCM: Standard Product

**Processed product ****(unlike other archive holdings)**
**Automatically generated **
- Predetermined parameters
- e.g., Terrain-corrected, GeoTIFF
**Available via FTP**
**Pilot Dataset**
- US only – includes Alaska and Hawaii
- L7 ETM+ SLC-off only – 2003 to present (and ongoing)
- < 10% cloud cover, 9 quality
- *Policy resolution required prior to implementation*
# Presentation: 737092

## AESDirectThe Internet - Based AES    Filing Option

## AESDirect

**AES*****Direct*** is the Census Bureau’s free, internet-based system for the filing of Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED) information to the Automated Export System (AES).  It is the electronic alternative to the paper SED and can be used by exporters, forwarders, or       anyone else responsible for filing               an SED.

## Purpose 

- Provide a new, easy-to-use internet filing methodology for existing AES options.
- Remove cost as an issue to AES participation.
- Eliminate  paper SEDs.
- Another option to replace AERP.
- Increase participation in AES.

## AESDirect -  Filing Option Details

- On-line interactive application and batch.
- Capture and edit shippers export info.
- Transmit to AES at Customs error free.
- Messages back to the filer.
- Retain, store and provide access to transactions.
- Report generation capabilities.
- Filing options 2 and 4.

## Other Provisions

- Operational 24 hours/day, 7 days a week.
- Extensive tutorial.
- On-line help facility.
- Help desk 12 hours/day, 7 days a week.
- On-line registration.

## Cost to Users

- Access to and use will be free.
- Census Bureau will pay.
- Does not include other services provided by this or other contractors.
- Can be linked to from other sites.
- Available to exporters, freight forwarders, and carriers for SEDs - no manifests.

## Current Participation

- AES*Direct* went into production 10/4/99
- Number of companies registered and which have passed the tutorial - 68
- Number of companies filing - 14
- Number of SEDs submitted -  522

## Demonstration of AESDirect

- Bob Foley, Flagship Customs Services, Inc.
- Sales demo
- Registration process
- Tutorial
- Data security
- Completing a Shipper’s Export Dec

## Where to find us.

**AES*****Direct***
- www.aesdirect.gov
**AES Help Line**
- 1-800-549-0595
**Chuck Woods**
- (301) 457-2200
**FTD Internet site**
- www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/
# Presentation: 667804

## Recent Investigations Towards Achieving a One Centimeter Geoid

- Daniel R. Roman & Dru A. Smith
- U.S. National Geodetic Survey

- GGG 2000, Session 9
- The Challenge of the cm-geoid

- August 4, 2000
-  12:10-12:30

## OUTLINE

- G99SSS/GEOID99 processing stream
- Refinements of hybrid methodology
- Development of a direct Helmert approach
- Other future developments

## G99SSS/GEOID99 Processing Stream

- Use of Faye anomalies in G99SSS is same as approach taken for G96SSS (GEOID96)
- Higher resolution DEM in PNW increased calculated terrain correction (TC) signal
- TC’s calculated in much narrower bands
- More GPS on BM data improved regions previously under-represented (Midwest & Plains States) in GEOID96

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Refinements of Hybrid Methodology

- G99SSS & GPS on BM residuals were modeled both by minimum curvature with a 300-km low-pass filter and by iterative LSC at 550 & 33 km correlation lengths
- Forthcoming models will be based on single-pass LSC using a 33 km correlation length and use of non-uniform sigma values based on  GPS network accuracies

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Development of a Direct Helmert Approach

- Terrain Effects broken into inner ( <4 degrees) and outer ( >4 degrees) zones
- Outer zone is being modeled using FFT’s
- Inner zone will be modeled in spherical coordinates in the space domain
- Merging will be with an equivalent taper applied in both space & frequency domains
- Downward continuation consistent with terrain effects is being explored

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Other Future Developments

- Development of a North American geoid
- Impending satellite gravity missions
- Anticipated improvements to observations and DEM’s

## Development of North American Geoid

- Joint (U.S., Canadian, Mexico, etc.) effort
- Anticipated scope is from the North Pole to the Equator including Greenland & Alaska
- Next NAG subcomm. meeting possibly in Mexico, Central America or Caribbean
- Largest obstacle remaining: Data gaps in Central America and Cuba

## Impending Satellite Gravity Missions

- GRACE, CHAMP, & GOCE
- Expect cm-level commission errors for the resulting degree 120-250 harmonic models
- Combining these models with surface gravity observations should produce high-resolution geoid at the cm-level
- May eliminate the need for hybrid geoids and permit analysis of leveling networks

## Anticipated Improvements to Observations and DEM’s

- National Adjustment of CORS Network in 2004 will create more cohesive GPS-derived ellipsoidal heights at bench marks
- Increased DEM resolution (1 arc-second for all of CONUS) will improve determination of 3D masses beneath gravity observations

## Conclusion

- Ongoing research will improve current approach (near term) and develop avenues for more rigorous solutions (far term)
- Expected quality and quantity of future DEM and satellite gravity data sets should complement the theoretical  improvements
- Development of a joint regional gravimetric geoid will enhance international studies
# Presentation: 782225

## Since February...Agricultural Exports Raised $1.5 Billion to $60.5 BillionImports Raised $0.5 Billion to a Record $58.5 BillionAgTrade Surplus at $2 Billion

**FY 2005 Export Forecasts for**
**Ag, Fishery & Solid Wood Products**

- USDA’s “Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade”
- were released on May 24, 2005 at 4pm EST
- Prepared by Foreign Agricultural Service/USDA

## U.S. Agricultural Trade

**U.S. Agricultural Trade**

***Exports***

***Imports***

***Trade Balance   ***

- In 2005, exports drop as lower bulk commodity prices and increased competition are partially offset by record horticultural, pork & dairy sales; imports continue rapid rise on strong demand and weak dollar.

**58.5**

- Record

**62.3**

**2.0**

**60.5**

## Export Outlook for Grain & Feed Products

**Export Outlook for Grain & Feed Products**

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast:     $200 Million to $15.3 Billion

- Includes corn gluten feed/meal

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast
*Key Developments*
-  Rice volume up 300,000 tons; vol & unit value increases raise value
-  Wheat/corn export value unchanged, but increased Argentina & China competition lower U.S corn volume

## Export Outlook for Oilseeds & Products

**Export Outlook for Oilseeds & Products**

- Excludes corn gluten feed/meal

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast:     $800 Million to $10.8 Billion

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast
*Key Developments*
-  Higher export unit values and increased soybean shipments raise soybean exports $800 million to $6.9 billion
-  Large downward revision in Brazilian soybean crop size

## Export Outlook for Cotton & Linters

**Export Outlook for Cotton & Linters**

- Note:  FY ’04 and prior years based on U.S Census data; FY ’05 forecast based on WASDE MY forecast.

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast:     $200 Million to $3.6 Billion

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast
*Key Developments*
-  Census data tracking exports more closely
-  Strengthening demand outside of China
-  Some China import demand shifted until next year

## Export Outlook for Dairy, Livestock & Poultry

**Export Outlook for Dairy, Livestock & Poultry**

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast:     $300 Million to $11.8 Billion

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast
*Key Developments*
-  Pork sets records: 858,000 MT valued at $2.3 bil due to strong overseas demand & weak dollar
-  Broiler export vol lowered, partly due to Russia’s quota & licensing scheme
-  Beef variety meat export growth to Mexico and Poland

## Export Outlook for Horticultural Products

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast:   Unchanged at $14.5 Billion

- Record

- Revised FY 2005 Forecast
*Key Developments*
-  Total forecast unchanged
-  Rising value of tree nuts as well as wine, beer and other misc. products offsets slight declines in fruit & vegetable export value
*Initial FY 2006 Projections*
*Upside Developments*
-  Export values continue upward trend based on higher unit values
-  Continued weakness of dollar helps exports; U.S. products remain price competitive
*Wild Cards*
-  Crop sizes
-  Global economy
# Presentation: 115011

## Appropriation Recasts to be Completed in FY 2007

- March 22, 2007
- Barbara Harbell
- 301-903-3774
- barbara.harbell@hq.doe.gov

## Appropriation Recasts

**In FY 2004, all of 89X0242 was to have been recast to other TAFS**
**In FY 2006, all of 89X0215, 89X0249, and 89X0250 were to be recast to other TAFS**
**DOE has remaining balances in all four TAFS that need to be recast in FY 2007**
**Balances are small**
**Few transactions**
**OMB interest**
**Need to Complete in FY 2007**
**Each PO with balances needs to be reviewed**

## Crosswalk of Funds to be Recast – FY 2004

| Old TAFS | Old Fund | New TAFS | New Fund |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 89X0242 | 01000 | 89X0251 | 01250 |
| 89X0242 | 01000 | 89X0243 | 01050 |
| 89X0242 | 01000 | 89X0315 | 01751 |
| 89X0242 | 01006 | 89X0251 | 01254 |

## Crosswalk of Funds to be Recast – FY 2006

| Old TAFS | Old Fund | New TAFS | New Fund |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 89X0215 | 00250
00257
00258
00259
00260 | 89X0224 | 00550
00566
00567
00568
00569 |
| 89X0249 | 01150 | 89X0251 | 01250 |
| 89X0250 | 01200 | 89X0315 | 01751 |

## Appropriation Recasts

- Guidance Issued in FY 2006 is to be Followed
- Following Balances should be recast
**Undelivered Orders (SGL 48010000)**
**Accounts Payable (SGL 49010000)**
**Prepaid Obligations (SGL 48020000)**
**Cleanup data errors first**
**Coordinate recast entries with OFO**
**Disbursements (SGL 49020000)**

## Normal Appropriation Recast Process (to be completed in same period)

- Transfer-out (old fund)
- FO – De-cost
- FO – De-obligate
- FO – De-allocate
- HQ – De-allot
- HQ – De-apportion
- HQ – De-appropriate
- FO – Direct GL Entry
- Dr 49310000/48310000
- 	Cr 49010000/48010000

- Transfer-in (new fund)
- 	HQ – Appropriate
- 	HQ – Apportion
- 	HQ – Allot
- 	FO – Allocate
- 	FO – Obligate
- 	FO – Cost
- 	FO – Direct GL Entry
- 	    Dr 49010000/48010000
- 		 Cr 49310000/48310000

## Appropriation Recasts

-  FY 2007 Complications
**Disbursements made out of the old TAFS must be recast**
**Refunds recorded in FY 2007 should be recorded in new fund**
**Zero pay transactions in old TAFS**
**Abnormal Balances in old TAFS**
**May require “reverse” recast to correct**
**May be eliminated with data cleanup**
**May need to be recast and cleaned up in the new TAFS**

## Appropriation Recasts

- HQ contact points:
- Bethany Williams
- 301-903-9715
- Bethany.Williams@hq.doe.gov
- Barbara Harbell
- 301-903-3774
- Barbara.Harbell@hq.doe.gov
# Presentation: 921354

## Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research

***Experimental Program to****** ******Stimulate Competitive Research***

**Building National Science & Technology Capability**

**B. Jane Harrington, EPSCoR Program Director**

## DOE/NSF

**DOE/NSF**
*** ******EPSCOR Conference 2004***

***Fostering collaboration ***
***   ******- success through synergism***

## EPSCoR’s Origins at NSF

**In 1978, Congressional concerns about inequities in the geographic distribution of federal R&D funds resulted in the adoption of a National Science Board resolution (NSB 78-12) in support of what became EPSCoR’s objective.**
***    “******To improve the quality of science and increase the ability of scientists in eligible states to compete successfully for federal funds.”***

## Six other agencies 

**Department of Energy - FY 1991**
**Environmental Protection Agency - FY 1991 **
**National Aeronautics & Space Administration**
**  ****-FY 1991**
**Department of Agriculture  - FY 1992**
**National Institutes of Health  - FY 1993 **
** ****NIH program is ****IDeA ****(Institutional Development Award)**

_***Six other agencies ***_
***    ***_***with EPSCoR-like programs:***_

## Slide 5

## DOE/NSF

**DOE/NSF**
*** ******EPSCOR Conference 2004***

***Fostering collaboration ***
***   ******- success through synergism***

##  Synergism “Co-operative action of discrete agencies 

**	****	****     ****such that the total effect is greater than ****	****	****     the sum of the two effects taken ****	****	****	****	****     independently.”**

** ****Shared resources/facilities**
** ****Shared ideas/energy through collaboration**
** ****Shared responsibility **
**	****for inspiring and training the next**
**	****generation of science, math, and **
**	****engineering researchers**

## Federal Science and Engineering Funding for the EPSCoR States

**Note: **Data available up to FY 2001;  **Source:** NSF Survey of Federal Science and Engineering Support to
- Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions: Funding from all Federal Agencies

***Federal Science and Engineering Funding for the EPSCoR States***

## Stimulate Competitive 

***Experimental Program to ***
***Stimulate Competitive ***
***Research***

**Building National Science & Technology Capability**

## Experimental Program to 

***Experimental Program to ***
***Stimulate Competitive ***
***Research***

***an Entry Program to ***
***Successful Competition for ***
***Other Resources ***
# Presentation: 200386

## Ocean properties from polar orbit (Aerosol/Cloud/Ecosystem ACE)

- What are the priority science uses of the new measurements?
- Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere (SOLAS) science, foci 1 and 3
- 		=> examples (see next slide)
- _[http://www.solas-int.org/aboutsolas/organisationaandstructure/](http://www.solas-int.org/aboutsolas/organisationaandstructure/)_** sciplanimpstrategy/sciplanis.html**
**http://www.us-solas.org:8080/Plone/science-implementation-strategy**
- Aquatic photochemistry -> CO2, CO, VOC => add UV bands
- Photo-oxydation of DOM may be as large a source of CO2 as photosynthesis
- Emphasis on global and regional processes
- Specific geographic regions: e.g., Arabian Sea; strato-cumulus cloud-dominated areas
- Coupling between carbon and water/energy cycles
- Capability to measure fluorescence => nutrient limitation
- Functional groups => additional spectral bands

- 2008 NASA Carbon focus area science meeting, Adelphi, MD

## & Chemistry

- Clouds

- Aerosols

- Illumination
- Precipitation/Fe deposition
- Precipitation/MLD

- DMS, halogens & VOC production
- (for aerosol particle formation)
- CO2, N2O release
- Photochemistry (cDOM, CO2, CO, COS production, DMS loss)

- Fe deposition
- N deposition
- Dust-borne contagion
- Gas-to-particle conversion

- Cloud formation/suppression
- Precipitation influences

- Aerosol removal

- 2008 NASA Carbon focus area science meeting, Adelphi, MD

## Ocean properties from polar orbit (Aerosol/Cloud/Ecosystem ACE)

- What do we need to do scientifically to use these new measurements and/or to get ready for the mission?
- Coordinate the 3 ocean missions (ACE, GEO-CAPE, HyspIRI):
- Capacity development needed, i.e., enough scientists and infrastructure to support all
- In case of ocean color gap:
- International collaborations established soon (with appropriate agreements on data exchange, calibration, & validation)
- Define science program (field & modeling studies) that maintain community focus on data continuity and mission foundations
- Ensure ocean instrument is scoped for enhanced capability, beyond currently available products

- 2008 NASA Carbon focus area science meeting, Adelphi, MD

## Ocean properties from polar orbit (Aerosol/Cloud/Ecosystem ACE)

- Are there any major issues to be resolved before this science is enabled, and if so, what are they and what needs to be done?
- New, single atmospheric correction for ocean color and aerosols
- New observations in UV and SWIR => new in situ instrumentation and calibration sources/methodologies
- Comprehensive cal/val, incl. vicarious calibration strategy
- Possible solutions for a data gap:
- Biological/geochemical/optical time series at multiple ocean locations for scientific reasons, e.g., HOT, BATS, other
- Radiometric long term time series at single marine location
- Merge both options above at a single site

- 2008 NASA Carbon focus area science meeting, Adelphi, MD
# Presentation: 120354

## Areas of Space-Related Health Research

**Using the National Center for Toxicology Research (NCTR) Operant Test Battery (OTB) to evaluate effects of motion sickness on mental-spatial tasks, and the effects of therapeutics on these tasks (collaboration with NASA-funded investigators)**
** ****Evaluating physical characteristics of single- and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (NCTR collaboration utilizing NASA physical/chemical instrumentation and scientific expertise)**
**NASA/NCTR “fingerprinting” collaborations, utilizing NASA proprietary software to develop a NCTR PC-based, parallel-distributed artificial neural network capable of identifying complex patterns of potential use:**
**To identify pathogens in food matrices or bioterrorism incidents, using advanced instrumentation**
**To analyze digital data from diagnostic medical imaging experiments**

***Presenter: Lewis K. Schrager, MD***
***Agency/Organization: FDA/Office of the Commissioner***

## Promising Areas for Space-Related Health Research Collaborations and Leveraging

**Research leveraging the NCTR Operant Test Battery**** **
**Evaluate physical/cognitive skills and effectiveness of therapeutic regimens during simulated motion sickness **
**NCTR OTB = an ideal platform for translational research**
**For comprehensive evaluation of the efficacy of drugs for treatment of motion sickness**
**For studying the effects of therapeutics expected for use in space flight on mental and coordination skills**
**Research leveraging NASA physical-chemical and IT capabilities to advance FDA capabilities**
**To develop high-throughput analysis of pathogens**
**To determine the potential for developing *****in silico***** diagnostics to improve disease detection (e.g., for breast and neurological cancer)**
**To develop innovative drug delivery systems**
# Presentation: 384565

## Proton Driver elliptical cavity design.

- 1. How many different .
- 1.1  =1.0. Existing TTF type or new optimized ILC design.
- 1.2  =0.8. Existing scaled SNS 6 cell cavity not efficient. New design with 8-9 cells under consideration.
- 1.3  =0.6. May be not used. Preferable 3-spoke cavity? But design should be prepared.
- 2. HOM couplers. Existing TTF HOM couplers applicable. For new cavity designs should be done HOM modes analysis.
- 3. Main coupler. Existing TTF coupler applicable up to 0.3 MWt input power.
- 4. Helium vessels. Length depend on  and number of cells per cavity. Tuners are identical.

## Number of cells per cavity.

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Beta=1 cavity different design.

- TTF

- ILC low loss

- ILC re-entrant

## Mid cell shape optimization.

## Red line – magnetic field along surface. Blue line – electric field along surface.

- Red line – magnetic field along surface. Blue line – electric field along surface.

## =0.8 mid cell shape optimization.

- =0.8 mid cell shape optimization.

## Lorentz force detuning coefficient acceptable.

- TTF 1.3 GHz cavity KL=0.74 Hz/(MV/m)^2 SNS 0.8 GHz cavity KL=0.7 Hz/(MV/m)^2

- Deformation, no ring.

- Stress, with ring.

## Slide 10
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## Fluctuations of the weed seedbank

**Fluctuations of the weed seedbank**
** ****at the long-term **
**Beltsville Farming Systems Project**

**	****John R. Teasdale**
**	****Ruth W. Mangum**
**	****Jay Radhakrishnan**
**	****Michel A. Cavigelli**
**	****	****USDA-ARS**
**	****	****Beltsville, Maryland, USA**

## Farming Systems Project

** ****Recommended inputs****	****– Two year Corn-Wheat/Soybean**
** ****Reduced inputs****	****– Two year Corn-Wheat/Soybean**
** ****Organic – Two year****	****Corn-Soybean (CS)**
** ****Organic – Three year****	****Corn-Soybean-Wheat/fallow (CSW)**
** ****Organic – Four year****	****Corn-Soybean-Wheat/Hay-Hay (CSWH)**

**Farming Systems Project**
**1996-2002**

## Multiple Regression Model

**D = b****0**** + b****c****C + b****c2****C****2**** + b****n****N + b****n2****N****2**** + b****cn****CN**
**where****	****D = annual seedbank change**
**	****C = percent weed cover at maturity**
**	****N = seedbank in spring**

## Amaranthus hybridus annual seedbank change

**Amaranthus hybridus annual seedbank change**

** ****High weed cover leads to large seedbank increase at low initial seedbank.**
** ****High initial seedbank leads to potential large seedbank decrease.**
** ****Equilibrium defined by horizontal plane through seedbank=0.**

## Conditions with no annual seedbank change

**Conditions with no annual seedbank change**
**(intersection between response surface and plane at seedbank=0)**

## Annual weed seedbank dynamics at FSP

**Extreme drought in 1999**
**No seed production**

**Poor control**
**High seed production**

_**Implication:**_
**Seedbank can be reduced rapidly by management if no seed production**

## Seedbank of Major Weed Species

**Seedbank of Major Weed Species**

**Longer, more phenologically diverse organic rotations reduced the weed seedbank**

## Lowering the seedbank by using more diverse rotations can improve weed control in organic corn

**Lowering the seedbank by using more diverse rotations can improve weed control in organic corn**

## Relation between weed cover at maturity and spring seedbank for major species in corn

**Relation between weed cover at maturity and spring seedbank for major species in corn**

## Role of Sequence:

**Role of Sequence:**

**Three Rotations - All starting Corn-Soybean**
**Rotation had little influence when start with corn**

## Role of Sequence:

**Role of Sequence:**

**Four Year Rotation – Different starting crops**
**Starting rotation with hay reduced seedbank**

## Seedbanks in organic systems

** ****Fluctuated according to level of seed inputs**
** ****Rapid decline with no seed inputs suggests can reduce seedbank quickly through management**
** ****Rotations with higher **_**phenological diversity **_**can reduce seedbank**
** ****Rotation sequences beginning with hay are better than sequences beginning with corn**
** ****Lower initial seedbank can increase success of weed control in corn**