Telemetry with unrestrained animals.
Telemetry with unrestrained animals, discussing radio tracking of game animals and instrumentation requirements for studying green sea turtle goal finding ability
Baldwin, H. A.↗
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Control systems
Computationally feasible methods of large scale systems design applied to minimax algorithms and games strategies
Chen, C. I.↗
Research and education in management of large- scale technical programs Semiannual progress report, 1 Jan. - 30 Jun. 1970
Development and implementation of programs related to urban simulation games and decision making exercises for action research
Hagerty, W. W.↗
A pursuit and evasion problem with measurement uncertainty
Pursuit evasion game with uncertain state- dependent measurements, modifying Brown-Robinson algorithm for behavior strategies computation
Kashyap, R. L.↗
Control problems with functional restrictions
Unilateral and minimax control with functional restrictions, including pursuit and evasion games
Warga, J.↗
On a class of pursuit and evasion problems
Pursuit and evasion games, proving existence and approximation theorems
Warga, J.↗
Applications of remote sensor data by state and Federal user agencies in Arizona
The use of NASA high altitude aerial photography of south eastern Arizona to develop a natural resources information system for Federal lands is discussed. The data are to be used by local, State, and Federal agencies in connection with geologic mapping projects, water resources investigations, and land use studies to determine the alignment of a proposed major aqueduct. In addition, the data are used to confirm land ownership boundaries, detect changes in land use, and legislative reappointment mapping. Other applications include mapping vegetive cover, evaluation of changes in wildlife habitat, location of deer kills, and as a base for recording telemetry data from radio-collared big game animals.
Schumann, H. H.↗
Longer term consequences of the Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL) aircraft system
An assessment of the STOL aircraft and the various means of employing it are discussed in the light of a research study to evaluate the efficacy of such analyses. It was determined that current approaches to assessment are generally inadequate for investigating the full social consequences of implementing a new technology. It is stated that a meaningful methodology of technology assessment must reflect mechanisms underlying the relationship of technology to social change. Interrelated methods which are discussed are: (1) gaming and simulation as heurisitic approaches in analysis and inquiry, (2) long range planning and questions of the future, (3) planning theory as a background for critical analysis of policy planning, and (4) social theory, with particular emphasis on social change and systems theories.
Laporte, T. R.↗
A problem of collision avoidance
Collision avoidance between two vehicles of constant speed with limited turning radii, moving in a horizontal plane is investigated. Collision avoidance is viewed as a game by assuming that the operator of one vehicle has perfect knowledge of the state of the other, whereas the operator of the second vehicle is unaware of any impending danger. The situation envisioned is that of an encounter between a commercial aircraft and a small light aircraft. This worse case situation is examined to determine the conditions under which the commercial aircraft should execute a collision avoidance maneuver. Three different zones of vulnerability are defined and the boundaries, or barriers, between these zones are determined for a typical aircraft encounter. A discussion of the methods used to obtain the results as well as some of the salient features associated with the resultant barriers is included.
Vincent, T. L.↗
Remote sensing in Michigan for land resource management
This project to demonstrate the application of earth resource survey technology to current problems in Michigan was undertaken jointly by the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan and Michigan State University. Remote sensing techniques were employed to advantage in providing management information for the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area and preparing an impact assessment in advance of the projected construction of the M-14 freeway from Ann Arbor to Plymouth, Michigan. The project also assisted the state government in its current effort to develop and implement a state-wide land management plan.
Sattinger, I. J.↗
Concentration of Airline Operations at Individual Airports
It is shown that it is a natural property of air transportation networks for competitive airlines to concentrate their operations at individual airports serving a given market. This implies that a strategy of developing satellite airports is doomed to failure unless the competitives behavior of the airlines is restricted. The results are demonstrated by tracing out the implications of observed patterns of traveller behavior as regards choice of carrier on the optimal game strategy for any particular airline. Analytic results for a two airline, two airport situation are extrapolated to the more general case, and specific supportive evidence from current operations are cited.
Gelerman, W.↗
The applicability of ERTS-1 data covering the major landforms of Kenya
The author has identified the following significant results. Five investigators report on the applicability of ERTS-1 data covering the major landforms of Kenya. Deficiencies due to lack of equipment, repetitive coverage and interpretation know-how are also reported on. Revision of lake shorelines is an immediate benefit. Basement system metasediments are rapidly differentiated, but dune areas are not readily distinguishable from sandy soils. Forest, moorland, high altitude grass, tea, and conifer plantations are readily distinguished, with podocarpus forest especially distinguishable from podocarpus/juniperus forest. In the arid areas physiographic features, indicating the major soil types, are readily identified and mapped. Preliminary vegetation type analysis in the Mara Game Reserve indicates that in a typical savannah area about 36% of the vegetation types are distinguishable at a scale of 1:1 million as well as drainage patterns and terrain features.
Omino, J. H. O.↗
The community development workshop, appendix B.
The Community Development Workshop is the name given to a collection of techniques designed to implement participation in the planning process. It is an electric approach, making use of current work in the psychology of groups, mathematical modeling and systems analysis, simulation gaming, and other techniques. An outline is presented for a session of the workshop which indicates some of the psychological techniques employed, i.e. confrontation, synectics, and encounter micro-labs.
Brill, R.↗
Research on the application of satellite remote sensing to local, state, regional and national programs involved with resource management and environmental quality
A program designed to involve state, regional and local agency personnel in the application of remote sensing is reported. During this period fifteen applications projects were initiated in support of twenty-five separate state, county and municipal agencies or entities. Eight of the projects were completed with positive results which aided the agencies involved. These results included information which contributed to decisions on: (1) selection of a route for a scenic parkway, (2) policy development on open land use, (3) policy related to urban development, (4) a major reservoir project by a governor's staff, (5) control tactics and damage assessment during flooding conditions on the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and (6) initiating a program of habitat inventory by remote sensing by the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission.
Barr, B. G.↗
Advanced theoretical and experimental studies in automatic control and information systems
A series of research projects is briefly summarized which includes investigations in the following areas: (1) mathematical programming problems for large system and infinite-dimensional spaces, (2) bounded-input bounded-output stability, (3) non-parametric approximations, and (4) differential games. A list of reports and papers which were published over the ten year period of research is included.
Desoer, C. A.↗
A finite state, finite memory minimum principle, part 2
The development of the theory of the finite - state, finite - memory (FSFM) stochastic control problem is discussed. The sufficiency of the FSFM minimum principle (which is in general only a necessary condition) was investigated. By introducing the notion of a signaling strategy as defined in the literature on games, conditions under which the FSFM minimum principle is sufficient were determined. This result explicitly interconnects the information structure of the FSFM problem with its optimality conditions. The min-H algorithm for the FSFM problem was studied. It is demonstrated that a version of the algorithm always converges to a particular type of local minimum termed a person - by - person extremal.
Sandell, N. R., Jr.↗
Study of recreational land and open space using Skylab imagery
The author has identified the following significant results. A preliminary analysis of the Gratiot-Saginaw game area was conducted for the matrix probabilities of misclassification for both multispectral scanner signatures and the ERTS signatures. This analysis indicated that certain signatures of similar vegetation types had relatively high probabilities of misclassification and should logically be combined into a single signature for each major class. This would result in a single class of trees having a broad range of crown densities and two or three types of wetlands. It was clear that substantially different terrain classes could be reliably discriminated. It was also noted that areas of pine and regenerated aspen could be discriminated from other surface types.
Sattinger, I. J.↗
Study of recreational land and open space using Skylab imagery
The author has identified the following significant results. The data quality, production of photographic enlargements, and digital printout that displayed the Gratiot-Saginaw game area were assessed, using histogramming of each spectral channel. Results showed some dissimilarities in the ranges of data values for even and odd numbered SDO's in order to depict many of the major scene classes. Major cover types were identified and located on aerial photos and maps.
Sattinger, I. J.↗