A processing chain for estimating crop biophysical parameters using temporal Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar data in cloud computing framework

Biophysical parameters are descriptors of crop growth and production estimates. Retrieval of these biophysical parameters from synthetic aperture radar sensors at operational scales is highly interesting given the increase in access to data from radar missions. Vegetation backscattering can be simulated using the water cloud model (WCM). Crop...

State of the Art

This chapter studies the existing research and solutions in using TCP/IP on low data-rate and high delay networks like NFC. It concludes that the problem on hand, i.e., using TCP/IP on time-slotted NFC in the cordless kitchen appliances, is unique and hence new novel methods are needed in this case.

Introduction

This chapter gives an introduction to the Cordless Kitchen concept, benefits and use cases. It throws light on the benefits of connecting cordless kitchen to the Internet and highlights the challenges involved in enabling Internet connectivity. A few possible solutions are also proposed.

Adapting TCP for the Bridge Architecture

This chapter explains the Bridge Architecture for internet connectivity in detail. It describes the experimental setup used to study the architecture, discusses the two main challenges that this architecture presents and proposes solutions.

Evaluation of the Bridge Architecture

This chapter discusses the comprehensive experimental evaluation of the Bridge Architecture by analyzing its performance based on latency, throughput, packet retransmissions, NFC bandwidth utilization, etc. for different NFC bit rates and data sizes. It also provides some recommendations for implementing this architecture.

Architectures for Internet Connectivity

This chapter discusses two possible architectures to connect the cordless kitchen appliances to the Internet. Design, advantages and disadvantages of both these architectures are covered in detail.

Conclusion

This research focused on enabling Internet connectivity to a new generation of smart kitchen appliances that work on wireless power technology. In order to provide efficient and seamless communication with the appliances, the possibilities of utilizing the NFC channel for Internet connectivity were explored.

Parametric Analysis of the Bridge Architecture

This chapter evaluates the effects of our solution on important TCP parameters such as TCP MSS, TCP CWND, NFC BER and other NFC channel characteristics using simulations and theoretical calculations.