Application of genetic algorithms to the design of airfoil pressure distributions

NLR participates in the ECARF (European Computation Aerodynamics Research Project) "Optimum Design" project, developing an algorithm for multi-point airfoil design. Within the ECARP project a test case has been defined for two-point design with the aid of well-specified target pressure distributions. It appears that optimization of pressure...

Development of the demonstration monitoring system (DEMON)

A new approach towards assessment and monitoring has been presented in previous work [1, 2]. This approach, the monitoring concept, has been taken as the basis to develop DEMON, the DEmonstration MONitoring system. DEMON will demonstrate the monitoring concept for two fields of applications: (i) tropical forest monitoring and (ii) military...

Het monitoring concept in relatie tot inventarisatie binnen de context aardobservatie

A mathematical monitoring concept in an earth observation framework

In a multidisciplinary field like earth observation, not only assessment but also the monitoring of processes is important. Assessment is defined as the arrangement of objects in classes through characteristic attributes at a certain moment in time, whereas monitoring is defined as the detection of changes of objects explicitely using existing...