CSIR South Africa mobile LIDAR—First scientific results: comparison with satellite, sun photometer and model simulations by M. Tesfaye, W. Alemu, D. Moema, A. Sharma, C. Bollig, G. Mengistu, V. Sivakumar

“…The LIDAR results are compared with aerosol extinction measurements from the Stratosphere Aerosol Gas Experiment (SAGE) II, optical depth derived from sun photometers employed under the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) and backscatter coefficients simulated from weather balloon humidity measurements.…”
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Research on Acoustic Field Correction Vector-Coherent Total Focusing Imaging Method Based on Coarse-Grained Elastic Anisotropic Material Properties by Tianwei Zhao, Ziyu Liu, Donghui Zhang, Junlong Wang, Guowen Peng

“…The phase coherence weighting coefficients were calculated, followed by image reconstruction. …”
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Cross-validations of the Aeolus aerosol products and new developments with airborne high-spectral-resolution lidar measurements above the tropical Atlantic during JATAC by D. Trapon, H. Baars, A. A. Floutsi, S. Bley, M. Haarig, A. Lacour, A. Lacour, T. Flament, T. Flament, A. Dabas, A. R. Nehrir, F. Ehlers, F. Ehlers, D. Huber

“…For the first time, the optical properties of particles (i.e. backscatter, extinction, attenuated backscatter coefficients, and depolarization ratios) have been measured for extended tropospheric sections collocated with the Aeolus satellite overpasses with limited geolocation and time offsets. …”
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Determination of Flood Subsidy (2023/2024) Based on SAR Images for Agricultural Land in Lower Saxony, Germany by C.-H. Yang, C. Stemmler, C. Röttger, C. Büker

“…The workflow is designed to integrate modules from SNAP and custom algorithms on a cloud-computing platform, generating backscatter coefficients to distinguish flooded and non-flooded areas. …”
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Evaluation on pipeline steel adaptability for extended hydrogen-contacting service by Yuanxing NING, Cuiwei LIU, Yuxing LI, Ming SONG, Huimin ZHANG, Qu'er CHEN, Mengze ZHU, Shiyao PENG, Junwen CHEN

“…Due to minimal pressure fluctuations and the insignificant effect of alternating loads, no flaw waves were detected in the pipeline segment, and no internal surface or buried cracks were found. …”
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Dust Aerosol Classification in Northwest China Using CALIPSO Data and an Enhanced 1D U-Net Network by Xin Gong, Delong Xiu, Xiaoling Sun, Ruizhao Zhang, Jiandong Mao, Hu Zhao, Zhimin Rao

“…Using CALIPSO Level 1B and Level 2 Vertical Feature Mask (VFM) data from 2015 to 2020, the model processed backscatter coefficients, polarization characteristics, and color ratios at 532 nm and 1064 nm to classify aerosol types. …”
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