The federal government collects, maintains, and uses geospatial information -- data linked to specific geographic locations -- to help support vari...

This book provides an overview of The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R(GOES-R) progr...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to geographic information systems (GIS). It explains the ideas and methodology behind GIS, and disc...

The GPS -- a space-based satellite system that provides positioning, navigation, and timing data to users worldwide -- has become an essential U.S....

There has been a remarkable upsurge in the importance of high power lasers in the past decade. This book presents an overall survey of recent advan...

There is the conjuncture that 2012 is a special year in the history of physics, that cannot go unobserved without celebration: 100 years of cosmic ...

There is the conjuncture that 2012 is a special year in the history of physics that cannot go unobserved without celebration: 100 years of cosmic r...

This book promotes a better understanding of how each person, and God, fit into a vast universe composed of billions of galaxies. The book explains...

NASA is undertaking a trio of closely-related programs to continue human space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit: the SLS vehicle; the Orion capsu...

Unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) is a collective term commonly used to describe autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, semi-sub...

The International Space Station (ISS) program began in 1993, with Russia joining the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Crews have occupied ...

The U.S. has spent almost $43 billion to develop, assemble, and operate the International Space Station (ISS) over the past two decades. The NASA A...

The International Space Station (ISS) celebrated 10 years of operations in November 2008. Today, it is more than a human outpost in low Earth orbit...

In 2014, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) major pr...

Due to their unique flexibility and high reproducibility, lasers have been traditionally used in processes such as cutting, drilling, machining, we...

Laser ablation is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser ...

This book considers some general laser-induced processes that are involved in laser-matter interactions. A brief review is presented about a very i...

This compilation titled "Laser Therapy: Types, Uses, and Safety" focuses on varied aspects of laser (photobiomodulation, PBM) therapy ranging from ...

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is at present one of the most interesting technique for thin film deposition. In the PLD process a film is formed by ...

Developments in lasers continue to enable progress in many areas such as eye surgery, the recording industry and dozens of others. This book presen...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they began doing in the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they began doing in the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields...