Ground reflectance measurement techniques: a comparison.
The relative accuracies of reflectance factor measurement methods involving the simultaneous, as compared to the sequential, measurement of irradiance on and radiance reflected from the target are discussed. Data are presented to support a statistical demonstration that the simultaneous measurement technique is the more accurate.
Simultaneous measurement of irradiance and reflected radiance in field determination of special reflectance.
The effects of irradiation fluctuations on measured reflectance values have been determined to evaluate whether data collected in sunny or partly cloudy conditions are sufficiently in agreement that they may be used for remote or satellite sensing data collection (e.g. op discuss quantification). Simultaneous measurements were obtained of irradiance and reflected radiance using two Exotech GTR 100 mode Landsat ground-truth radiometers. (AIP)
Design of a low power viterbi decoder for wireless communication applications
In this paper, a novel low-power Viterbi decoder with soft decision is proposed. For the branch metric of the Viterbi decoder, our design employs a soft-decision method to improve its correction capability. In order to find the survivor path efficiently, we modify the classical Viterbi decoding algorithm into a new one. This new algorithm is similar to the register-exchange method with lower latency, but using RAM instead of register banks for recording the output bit-stream of the survivor path. Hence, our design can provide a low-power design. Finally, the chip of this design consumes about 28.6K gates using TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The power consumption of our chip is about 19.5mW at 100MHz.