Infrared imaging theory is an important theoretical basis for the design of infrared imaging systems, but there is no research on infrared imaging theory for designing thermal microscope imaging systems. Therefore, we studied the performance evaluati...
In this study, projected changes in climate extreme indices defined by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices were investigated over Middle East and North Africa. Changes in the daily maximum and minimum temperature- and precipitatio...
Gas detection based on infrared thermal imaging is applied in many areas, but it is generally applied as a qualitative detection method to observe the target area; on the other hand, quantitative research on gas concentration is less common, the meas...
Background/Objectives: Infrared thermography (IRT) is an imaging technique used in clinical practice to detect changes in skin temperature caused by several dysfunctions, including breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). Thus, the present study aime...
This paper presents a study on the evolution of extreme temperatures in the Marche region, Central Italy. To this end, a complete dataset compiled using data collected from available thermometric stations over the years 1957–2019 based on minim...
Sufficient evidence is currently available to demonstrate the reality of the warming of our planet’s climate system. Global warming has different effects on climate at the regional and local levels. The detection of changes in extreme events us...
Rainfall and air temperature variability pose the greatest risk to environmental change. Past trends in rainfall and air temperature facilitate projecting future climate changes for informed policy responses. We used a combination of the normalised d...
Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in wildfire detection. Methods using the brightness and temperature difference of remote sensing images to determine if a wildfire has occurred are one of the main research directions of forest fire mo...
The characteristics of convective clouds on infrared brightness temperature (BTIR) and brightness temperature difference (BTD) image were analyzed using successive Infrared and Visible Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) data of FY-2, and an integrated dete...
The effect of urbanization of Metro Manila, particularly on the amount of sensible heat flux, rainfall and temperature of selected urban and rural areas, was investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting Version 3.4.1 (WRFV3.4.1) model. Nat...
In this study, we analyze the accuracy of the stellar occultation technique to detect the oxygen number density and temperature in near space. Based on the validation of the algorithm related to stellar occultation using a single wavelength of 762 nm...
This study evaluates the performance of Global Climate Models (GCMs) in simulating extreme climate in three northeastern provinces of China (TNPC). A total of 23 GCMs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) were selected and co...
Forest fire is an ecosystem regulating factor and affects the stability, renewal, and succession of forest ecosystems. However, uncontrolled forest fires can be harmful to the forest ecosystem and to the public at large. Although Yunnan, China is reg...
In this paper, a new type of multifunctional device is realized by designing a filtering dielectric resonator antenna (FDRA) with liquid crystal (LC). The LC is encapsulated by glass plates and placed between the feeding network and the ground. First...
The measurement accuracy of trace gas detection based on infrared absorption spectroscopy is influenced by the overlap of absorption lines. A method for correcting the interference of overlapping absorption lines using second harmonic spectral recons...
A colloidal gold immunochromatographic assay (GICA) was developed for rapid detection of chloramphenicol (CAP) residues in aquatic products. A nitrocellulose (NC) membrane was used as the carrier, and the polyclonal CAP antibody was used as the marke...
A THz-to-IR converter can be an effective solution for the detection of low-IR-signature targets by combining the advantages of mature IR detection mechanisms with high atmospheric transmittance in the THz region. A metallic metasurface (MS)-based ab...
Forests are valuable natural resources, beneficial for the storage of carbon, production of oxygen, protection of soil and controlling the water cycle. Despite forests providing different services to the environment, they are being destroyed at an al...
Facial temperature distribution in healthy people shows contralateral symmetry, which is generally disrupted by facial paralysis. This study aims to develop a quantitative thermal asymmetry analysis method for early diagnosis of facial paralysis in i...
The present study offers a comprehensive evaluation of the monthly rainfall and temperature patterns across nine stations and fifty-nine points in North-Eastern Nigeria using NASA’s Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources data, spanning four d...
In this paper, we use terahertz combined with metamaterial technology as a powerful tool to identify analytes at different concentrations. Combined with the microfluidic chip, the experimental measurement can be performed with a small amount of analy...
Understanding long-term changes in precipitation and temperature patterns is important in the detection and characterization of climate change, as is understanding the implications of climate change when performing impact assessments. This study uses...
The objective in the present study was to assess the ventral tail base surface temperature (ST) for the early detection of Japanese Black calves with fever. This study collected data from a backgrounding operation in Miyazaki, Japan, that included 15...
Background/Objectives: Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) is a chronic condition that has early diagnosis as a critical component for proper treatment. Thermography, a non-invasive imaging method, is considered a promising complementary tool for...
The techniques of concrete crack detection, as well as assessments based on thermography coupled with ultrasound, have been presented in many works; however, they have generally needed an additional source of thermal infrared (TIR) radiance and have...
This research was carried out to analyze variations in indoor and outdoor ozone concentrations and their health impact on local communities of megacities in Pakistan. For indoor ozone measurements, industrial units of an economic zone, Hattar Industr...
Structural damage detection is an important issue in conservation. In this research, principal component analysis (PCA) has been applied to the temporal variation of modal frequencies obtained from a dynamic test of a scaled steel structure subjected...
Pacific islands have always been at the front of the great challenge of climate change. In this study, Mann–Kendall’s tau-based slope estimator was implemented to detect statistical trends in daily maximum and minimum temperatures of 2 st...
An integrated multifunction micro-sensor for three-dimensional micro-force precision measurement under different pressure and temperature conditions is introduced in this paper. The integrated sensor consists of three kinds of sensors: a three-dimens...
Thermography is a non-invasive diagnostic method commonly used to monitor changes of the body surface temperature potentially induced by different conditions such as fever, inflammation, trauma, or changes of tissue perfusion. Capacitive-resistive di...
The study was undertaken to illustrate a wide range of application of a gradient thermal probe in thermal characterisation of water reservoirs on the example of Lake Morskie Oko whose water temperature has been measured since 2006. For analysis, the...
Pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) is a highly destructive invasive species, causing extensive economic and ecological losses across Eurasia. It has recently invaded mid-temperate zone of northern China, threating large areas of coniferou...
A novel nano/micro-structured pesticide detection card was developed by combining electrospinning and hydrophilic modification, and its feasibility for detecting different pesticides was investigated. Here, the plain and hydrophilic-modified poly(ε-c...
The (Pt/YSZ)/YSZ sensor unit is the basic component of the NOx sensor, which can detect the emission of nitrogen oxides in exhaust fumes and optimize the fuel combustion process. In this work, the effect of sintering temperature on adhesion property...
Land surface temperature (LST) and land surface albedo (LSA) are the two key regional and global climate-controlling parameters; assessing their behavior would likely result in a better understanding of the appropriate adaptation strategies to mitiga...
With the widespread application of infrared thermal imagers in various fields, the demand for thermal imagers and their performance parameter testing equipment has increased significantly. There are particularly high demands on the detection accuracy...
Today’s long-range infrared cameras (LRIRC) are used in many systems for the protection of critical infrastructure or national borders. The basic technical parameters of such systems are noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD); minimum resolva...
Preparation of a high-sensitive and uniform surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) active substrate structure usually faces complex processes and high costs. Here, porous Au–Ag composite nanostructures that are conventional fabricated by th...
Snow cover and runoff play an important role in the Arctic environment, which is increasingly affected by climate change. Over the past 30 years, winter temperatures in northern Sweden have risen by 2 °C, accompanied by an increase in precipitati...
The n-TiO2 nanoballs–sticks (TiO2 NBSs) were successfully deposited on p-lightly boron-doped diamond (LBDD) substrates by the hydrothermal method. The temperature-dependent optoelectronic properties and carrier transport behavior of the n-TiO2...
The acoustic temperature measurement method has a broad application prospect due to its advantages of high precision, non-contact, etc. It is expected to become a new method for hidden fire source detection in mines. The acoustic time of flight (TOF)...
The launch of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) satellites has led to the development of a series of L-band soil moisture retrieval algorithms. In these algorithms, many input parameters (such as leaf...
Lactate is an important organic molecule that is produced in excess during anaerobic metabolism when oxygen is absent in the human organism. The concentration of this substance in the body can be related to several medical conditions, such as hemorrh...
Understanding the dynamics of vegetation autumn phenology (i.e., the end of growing season, EOS) is crucial for evaluating impacts of climate change on vegetation growth. Nevertheless, responses of the EOS to climatic factors were unclear at the regi...
This study evaluates the impact of high ambient temperature (HT) on milk production in Tunisian local goats using both fixed and random regression models with quadratic and cubic Legendre polynomials. Daily minimum (Tmin), maximum (Tmax), and average...
Real-time sensing of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) at room temperature is important to ensure the safety of humans and the environment. Four kinds of different nanocomposites, such as MXene Ti3C2Tx, Ti3AlC2, WS2, and MoSe2/NiCo2O4, were synthesized using th...
One of the most important and perhaps most used applications of forensic entomology concerns the estimation of the minimum post-mortem interval (minPMI), defined as the time interval between death and the actual finding of a corpse. Some Diptera spec...
Recent studies have shown the importance of small-scale climate diversification and climate microrefugia for organisms to escape or suffer less from the impact of current climate change. These situations are common in topographically complex terrains...
Different percentages of an elastomeric phase of styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) were added to a polystyrene (PS) matrix to evaluate its nucleating effect in PS foams. It has been demonstrated that a minimum quantity of SEBS produces a high...
Clay minerals have been detected on Mars to outcrop mainly as alteration of ancient bedrock, and secondarily, as deposition from aqueous environments or interlayered with evaporitic deposits on Mars. In order to better constrain the alteration enviro...
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