Author: Klaus Froehlich
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: processes, radioactivity, environment, terrestrial, timers, radionuclides, volume, tracers, environmental
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-11-05
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0080438733
ISBN-13: 9780080438733

The book presents a state of the art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth’s environment. It is conceived as a companion to the two volumes of this series which deal with isotopes as tracers in the marine environment (Livingston "Marine Radioactivity") and with the radioecology of natural and man-made terrestrial systems (Shaw, "Radioactivity in Terrestrial Ecosystems"). Although the book focuses on natural and anthopogenic radionuclides (radioactive isotopes), it also refers to stable environmental isotopes,

Author: Peter Stavroulakis
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: tool, signals, communication, technology, security, global, trunked, radio, tetra, terrestrial
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2007-07-31
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540711902
ISBN-13: 9783540711902

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) has become the tool to design any type of public security systems, in particular due to the strongly increased security demands for mobile systems. In this book, the authors show how TETRA can be strongly improved and these improvements will most probably be part of future TETRA standards. The areas examined include channel assignment and multiple access techniques, video transmission, wireless LAN integration, and the establishment of multiple wireless mesh networks. Since the requirements for these networks is security, the authors show that innovative techn

Authors:J.M. Shull, Harley A. Thronson Jr., S. Alan Stern,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: techniques, technology, planets, terrestrial, extra, solar, search
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1997-03-31
List price: $132.00
ISBN-10: 079234474X
ISBN-13: 9780792344742

This book contains the invited talks from the 1995 Boulder conference on the Search for Extra-Solar Planets. It describes the scientific basis, technological options, and programmatic implications of large-scale efforts to find and study Earth-like planets outside the Solar System, and is targeted at astronomers, planetary scientists, engineers, and graduate students. These are among the first papers in this rapidly expanding field, driven by the first discoveries of planetary companions to nearby stars and providing the current status of the search for extra-solar planets. What sort of object

Authors:Todd E. Dawson, Rolf Siegwolf,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: volume, terrestrial, ecology, change, ecological, isotopes, indicators, stable
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2007-09-05
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 0123736277
ISBN-13: 9780123736277

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth’s history. For the first time, this special volume brings together a wide range of perspectives and data that speak directly to the issues of ecological change using stable isotope tracers. The information presented originates from a range of biological and geochemical sources and from research fields within biological, climatological and physical disciplines covering time-scales from days to centuries. Unlike any other reference, editors discuss where isoto

Authors:Klaus Zimmermann, Igor Zeidis, Carsten Behn,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: pedal, motion, systems, non, focus, terrestrial, locomotion, mechanics
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 2009-05-27
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3540888403
ISBN-13: 9783540888406

This book covers the specific aspects of mechanics and control theory that are applied in terrestrial locomotion systems. In addition to the theoretical basics and applications, exercises are provided. The solutions can be found at "www.springer.com/978-3-540-88840-6" as well as on - video files regarding prototypes of wheeled and worm-like locomotion systems; - e-learning software on the mechanical background; - MAPLE and MATLAB programs for the dynamic simulation of locomotion systems.

Author: Lars-Ingemar Lundstrom
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: cable, broadband, terrestrial, distribution, satellite, systems, digital, television, introduction, dvb, understanding
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-09-13
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0240809068
ISBN-13: 9780240809069

With the milestones of Digital TV and HDTV, there arelots of questions to be asked about television of today...Understanding Digital Television explains complex technical systems and solutions in an easyto comprehend manner along with visual 3D graphics. It helps non-technical individuals such asmanagers, executives, general media professionals, as well as TV and home cinema enthusiastsgain a practical understanding of the equipment, technical aspects of digital television, and variousways of distributing. Most examples are from a European perspective, but also include comparisonswith North Am

Authors:Kathryn E. Fishbaugh, Phillipe Lognonné, François Ra
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sciences, series, issi, space, planets, habitability, terrestrial, geology
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2007-11-28
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387742875
ISBN-13: 9780387742878