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Between 2008 and 2010, the number of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the military increased by 330% in support of operations throughout the Middle East (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, etc.). The Pentagon has developed numerous initiatives to enhance the overall performance of UASs,…

Over the past thirty years, extensive research has been conducted with the objective of reducing wind damage to structures. Wind tunnel simulations of wind loads have been the major source of building codes. However, a simple comparison of pressure coefficients measured in wind …

The past decades have witnessed a remarkable emergence of new spaceborne and ground-based sources of multiscale remotely sensed geophysical data. Apart from applications related to the study of short-term climatic shifts, availability of these sources of information has improved…