<p>The atmosphere acts like an optical filter that affects visual, infrared, and millimeter wave propagation.  The atmospheric filter decreases image contrast and resolution, and reduces laser, high frequency radar, and non-imaging/radiometer system range and sensitivity. The effects of atmospheric filter sources depend on spectral band and the kind of sensor used to acquire data. They impact sensor design, data acquisition, interpretation, and meteorological measurements' supporting remote imaging of the earth's surface or optically probing the atmosphere.Scientists, engineers, meteorologists, technicians and students will find this book a wealth of useful information.   Volume II describes the effects and measurement of atmospheric filter sources resulting from meteorological conditions. Meteorological conditions determine the dynamics and spatial variability of atmospheric filter sources. These conditions are characterized by solar position, cloud cover, visual range, spectral transmittance, wind, natural radiation, and atmospheric stability. Natural radiation affects visual and infrared system performance differently. Passive remote sensor models include visual band imaging systems, the human eye, and thermal band imaging systems. The human observer's perception is quite different than other remote sensor outputs. What you can see is not necessarily the same as what you measure. Both active and passive systems are explained in detail. Models for transmissometers and LIDAR systems are presented.Volume I introduces the atmospheric filter concept. It provides descriptions of atmospheric filter sources such as gases, aerosols, dusts, precipitation, fogs, and refractive turbulence and their measurement.</p>

The Atmospheric Filter, Volume 2, Effects

W. Michael Farmer

JCD Publishing

Hombrecito's Search

<p>The thrilling, provocative sequel to Hombrecito's War Hombrecito, raised to be a warrior, thinks only of revenge until his friend Rufus Pike is killed helping him avenge his father's murder. Fearing discovery, Hombrecito and Yellow Boy vanish into the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico with Sac Langeford, a young woman they save from an Apache raid. Helping Sac recover her little brother stolen by the raiders, Hombrecito begins an odyssey across the Sierra Madre into battles with deadly enemies and to love found and lost.and, years later, found again. Hombrecito's Search is an odyssey of self-discovery, revelation, and the life known by those who came of age in a hard, unforgiving land, where to make a mistake is to die and the promise of tomorrow is what you make it. It is the kind of myth lived by many, but survived by few living on the last western frontier, a frontier that lasted into the third decade of the twentieth century. About the Author: W. Michael Farmer, finalist for the West</p>

Literature & Fiction

Llumina Press

The thrilling, provocative sequel to Hombrecito's War Hombrecito, raised to be a warrior, thinks only of revenge until his friend Rufus Pike is killed helping him avenge his father's murder. Fearing discovery, Hombrecito and Yellow Boy vanish into the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico with Sac Langeford, a young woman they save from an Apache raid. Helping Sac recover her little brother stolen by the raiders, Hombrecito begins an odyssey across the Sierra Madre into battles with deadly enemies and to love found and lost.and, years later, found again. Hombrecito's Search is an odyssey of self-discovery, revelation, and the life known by those who came of age in a hard, unforgiving land, where to make a mistake is to die and the promise of tomorrow is what you make it. It is the kind of myth lived by many, but survived by few living on the last western frontier, a frontier that lasted into the third decade of the twentieth century. About the Author: W. Michael Farmer, finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best First Novel in 2006, has lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico for fifteen years and studied the region's rich history, lived its culture, and traveled its deserts and mountains. He now lives in Tidewater, Virginia.

Short historical  Maud Wright, a true historical character, was kidnapped by a Pancho Villa patrol on its way to raid Columbus, New Mexico. She was made to abandon her little son with a Mexican family, saw her husband and friend led off to a firing squad, and rode day and night with Villa s army for nine days with little water and only parched corn to eat. Escaping after the raid, she returned to Columbus determined to find her son. Her story, as told by the fictional character, Dr. Henry Grace, is a triumph of courage and a mother s love.   To learn more, read the thrilling, provocative story of Henry Grace as he comes to terms with a friendship betrayed in Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, The Betrayals of Pancho Villa, from Treble Heart Books.

Maud Wright

Genre Fiction

Treble Heart Books

Hombrcito's Search, Vol 2. (The Vanishing)

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The Atmospheric Filter, Volume 2, Effects

Hombrecito's Search

Hombrecito's Search

Maud Wright

Hombrcito's Search, Vol 2. (The Vanishing)