Articles

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Algorithms for Sensor Chip Alignment to Blind Datums, Journal of Electronic Imaging (2006)

The sensor element of an imaging system should be mounted into its housing in such...

 

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Modern Spectral Climate Patterns in Rhythmically Deposited Argillites of the Gowganda Formation (Early Proterozoic), Southern Ontario, Canada (with Robert Giegengack and Haralambos N. Kritikos), Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2003)

Rhythmically deposited argillites of the Gowganda Formation (ca. 2.0–2.5 Ga) probably formed in a glacial...

 

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Extensive Forest Leaf Area Survey Aiming at Detection of Vegetation Change in Subarctic-Boreal Zone (with Tomoko Kusakabe, Hayato Tsuzuki, and Tatsuo Sweda), Polar Bioscience (2000)

The warming resulting from increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses is expected to...

 

Patents

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Automated Systems and Methods for Testing Infrared Cameras, United States Patent Number: 8,004,564 (2011)

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide automated testing on infrared image data to...

 

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Fabrication Method for Adhesive Pressure Bonding Two Components Together with Closed-Loop Control (with James P. McDonald, Arthur V. Schweidler, and Lloyd D. Ingle), United States Patent Number: 6,802,918 (2004)

Two components are bonded together in a bonding apparatus using a bonding medium of malleable...

 

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Electrical Feedthrough and Its Preparation (with Leonard E. Peck, Timothy S. Romano, Tom K. Evans, and Karl H. Neumann), United States Patent Number: 6,156,978 (2000)

An electrical feedthrough (34) is prepared by furnishing an aluminum oxide feedthrough plate (70) and...

 

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Preparation of gold-coated molybdenum articles and articles prepared thereby (with Timothy S. Romano, Tom K. Evans, and Karl H. Neumann), United States Patent Number: 5,750,202 (1998)

A gold-coated molybdenum article (30) is made by furnishing a substrate (32) made of pure...

 

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Semi-permanent vacuum closure with multiple retubulation capability (with Arthur A. Eneim, Tom K. Evans, and Timothy S. Romano), United States Patent Number: 5,713,610 (1998)

A vacuum system (20) includes an enclosure (22) having a vacuum-tight wall (26) and an...

 

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Brazed Lower Vacuum Housing for a Dewar (with Timothy S. Romano, Tom K. Evans, and Karl H. Neumann), United States Patent Number: 5,598,966 (1997)

A lower vacuum housing (34) of a sensor dewar (26) is fabricated in a single...

 

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Feedthrough pin and process for its preparation, and electrical feedthrough made therewith (with Timothy S. Romano, Tom K. Evans, and Karl H. Neumann), United States Patent Number: 5,595,514 (1997)

A feedthrough (34) is formed of a feedthrough plate (44) having at least one bore...

 

Conference Proceedings

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Additional Algorithms for Sensor Chip Alignment to Blind Datums, Proceedings of SPIE (2006)

Alignment of the sensor focal plane array (FPA) to optical components is a critical design...

 

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Improvements To and Status of the Data Quality Health and Status System (with K. Kehoe, K. Sonntag, R. Peppler, B. Burkholder, C. Shafer, M. Zaman, T. Thompson, S. Moore, and K. Doty), Fifteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Daytona Beach, FL (2005)

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Quality Office (DQO) has made a number of improvements...

 

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Instrument Cross-Comparisons and Automated Quality Control of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data (with S. Moore), Fifteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Daytona Beach, FL (2005)

Within the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) instrument network, several different systems often measure the same...

 

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Latest Tools for Viewing and Quality Checking ARM Data (with S. Moore), Fourteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Albuquerque, NM (2004)

The DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program has acquired an incredibly large quantity of data...

 

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Numeric issues in test software correctness (with Robert G. Hayes, Phillip M. Dorin, and Raymond J. Toal), Proceedings of Autotestcon 2002 (2002)

Test system designers are comfortable with the concepts of precision and accuracy with regard to...

 

Book Chapters

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Sclerosponges: Potential High-Resolution Recorders of Marine Paleotemperatures (with Charles W. Thayer), Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change (2001)

Sclerosponges have great potential as seawater temperature recorders. These animals precipitate their skeletons in carbon...

 

Unpublished Papers

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Calculating Ellipse Overlap Areas (with Mohcine Chraibi), Statistics (2011)

We present a general algorithm for finding the overlap area between two ellipses. The algorithm...

 

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Radiometric Clocks, Statistics (2008)

This paper provides and introduction to radioactivity, and how geologists exploit radioactive decay to determine...

 

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Puerto Rico Rainfall, Statistics (1999)

In Earth science research, climatic conditions can have significant effects on dynamic processes. For example,...