快速成型技术（RP技术）对产品开发的影响

快速成型技术是目前工业领域内一门崭新的技术，为产品开发过程开辟了一个截然不同的新思路。本文首先介绍RP技术的发展及常用的几种RP处理系统；通过RP技术生成的试件原型在开发过程中的作用，说明RP技术对产品开发的影响；文章最后提出RP技术应用的前提条件。     

“自由伊拉克作战”检讨报告——轮式车与无人载具

虽然“自由伊拉克作战”（Operation Iraqi Freedom）已经告一段落，但是美军在伊拉克所面对的问题却是有增无减，其中又以伊拉克反美武装所实施的攻击为甚，虽然美军、联军和伊拉克过渡政府的保安部队坐拥15万兵力，但是却无法避免伊拉克反美武装对美军接二连三攻击所造成的有生力量伤亡，截至2005年2月18日为止，美军总计有1462名官士兵阵亡（含军方雇员），10968人负伤，换言之，美军在2003年5月15日结束“自由伊拉克作战”之后，在作战行动中阵亡的官兵仅仅只有109名，但是在战后因为伊拉克伊拉克反美武装攻击而阵亡的官士兵却已经堂堂突破1000大关，足足是作战阵亡人数的10倍，更不用提上万名的负伤者。[编者按]     

Radar target identification using the bispectrum: a comparativestudy

Radar target identification is performed using time-domain bispectral features. The classification performance is compared with the performance of other classifiers that use either the impulse response or frequency domain response of the unknown target. The classification algorithms developed here are based on the spectral or the bispectral energy of the received backscatter signal. Classification results are obtained using simulated radar returns derived from measured scattering data from real radar targets. The performance of classifiers in the presence of additive Gaussian (colored or white), exponential noise, and Weibull noise are considered, along with cases where the azimuth position of the target is unknown. Finally, the effect on classification performance of responses horn extraneous point scatterers is investigated     

Ulysses solar wind observations to 56° south

In the 25 months since Jupiter flyby, the Ulysses spacecraft has climbed southward to a heliolatitude of 56°. This transit has been marked by an evolution from slow, dense coronal streamer belt solar wind through two regions where the rotation of the Sun carried Ulysses back and forth between streamer belt and polar coronal hole flows, and finally into a region of essentially continuous fast, low density solar wind from the southern polar coronal hole. Throughout these large changes, the momentum flux normalized to 1 AU displays very little systematic variation. In addition, the bulk properties of the polar coronal hole solar wind are quite similar to those observed in high speed streams in the ecliptic plane at 1 AU. Coronal mass ejections and forward and reverse shocks associated with corotating interaction regions have also been observed at higher heliolatitudes, however they are seen less frequently with increasing southern heliolatitude. Ulysses has thus far collected data from 20° of nearly contiguous solar wind flows from the polar coronal hole. We examine these data for characteristic variations with heliolatitude and find that the bulk properties in general show very little systematic variation across the southern polar coronal hole so far.     

A high performance automotive radar for automatic AICC

The paper describes a recent effort to design, build, and test a 77 GHz radar to be used for “intelligent” cruise control of automobiles. An analysis of requirements is given, design trade-offs are accounted for, and main features of prototypes in manufacturing are detailed. The radar has been thoroughly tested and evaluated both under “controlled” conditions and on roads, also in dense traffic. Results so far are very promising     

ATE enabling technologies

A discussion of the current and emerging core technologies and philosophies that will enable Air Force personnel to quickly, accurately and intuitively diagnose faults in increasingly complex systems     

Ultra-wideband ground-penetrating radar for the detection of buriedmetallic mines

The suitability of ultra-wideband ground-penetrating radar as a tool for the detection of buried metallic mines is explored in this paper. The analysis centers around a 200-800 MHz, dual-polarized ground penetrating radar (GPR) designed and built by SRI International. The analysis consisted of fusing the images from the dual polarizations into a single image to enhance the target objects and suppress clutter. Results are shown for several variations of a Mahalanobis-based fusion technique, and “soft decision” minefield detection results based upon Monte Carlo statistical techniques are also presented. Although relatively few scenes were analyzed, these results show that the dual-polarized GPR is potentially very effective at finding buried mines and minefields     

田捷砚凌空飞撷西部大地之美

应该感谢摄影家田捷砚数年数以百次不知倦怠的艰辛西部航拍之旅，以及他在某种高度上忘我创作的数以万张的精彩图片，让我们心驰神往的境界变成可观可感的实际图像。[编按]