A Land Imaging Architecture Scorecard to Support Decision-Making

Author(s):  
Carolyn Vadnais ◽  
Erin Dale ◽  
Zhuoting Wu

<p>Investment decisions on land imaging data buys, partnering opportunities, technologies, and system acquisition are becoming increasingly complex as the number of Earth-observing satellites increases rapidly, aircraft sensors and unmanned aerial system platforms improve, the community of data providers and users grows, and the pace of technology development, computing, and data storage expansion accelerates. Building on a growing foundation of user needs, the USGS is developing an architecture scorecard system comparing capabilities to user needs to meet the following objectives:  (1) help identify gaps in meeting needs, (2) evaluate proposed and notional land imaging architectures, and (3) study the evolution of enterprise-wide land imaging capability as existing systems reach end of life and new systems become available over timescales of years to a decade. This flexible evaluation system can adapt to changing land imaging needs and capabilities and will evolve from an early, basic capacity to support near-term decisions to increasingly higher fidelity to enable more comprehensive and precise assessments under conditions of increasing complexity. The system will support the evaluation of land imaging systems as standalone capabilities or as suites of capabilities, beginning with a core architecture and expanding to supporting and proposed capabilities. It will be easily adaptable to different evaluative frameworks such as societal benefit areas, organizations, departmental strategic goals and objectives, and technologies (e.g., lidar, radar, optical, satellite, or aircraft).</p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
N.L. Solovieva ◽  
◽  
I.V. Chudinovskikh ◽  

The article discusses the management of sustainable development of organizations using standardization as one of the tools of the quality economy. Particular attention is paid to the existing practice of Russian and international companies building strategic goals and objectives in accordance with the UN SDGs. The connection between standardization and sustainable development of the organization, in particular organizations of the social services sector, is shown.


Author(s):  
Larysa Teodorovych ◽  
Mariia Lushchyk

This article describes the advantages and infrastructural features of the resort of Truskavets - the most developed spa resort in Ukraine. It is emphasized that this resort has a developed network of different types of accommodation: hotels, sanatoriums, boarding houses, villas, which have more than 26,550 beds. A wide range of medical and health services is provided. The marketing strategy of development of the city which includes formation of a tourist brand is developed. Based on the data of the SWOT-analysis, the operational goals and objectives for achieving the strategic goals of the resort development were determined. Comparing the goals and real changes, the achievements and problems of the resort were identified to achieve the strategic goal: "Truskavets is the capital of health. The leader among the balneological resorts of the world with the unique healing water Naftusya. Western Ukrainian Center for Medical and Cultural Tourism, Sports, Beauty and Longevity, with a developed infrastructure, high social and economic standards. " Many tasks have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused significant economic damage to the city. In addition, the development of the resort is hampered by negative factors related to the solution of issues at the legislative and administrative levels. The modern logo of Truskavets indicates that the uniqueness of the brand is based on water resources, but it does not fully represent the tourist and recreational potential of the city. In the minds of potential consumers, the city is perceived only as a place where you can improve your health. Mostly middle-aged and older people are interested in it, the city does not attract young people. In Truskavets, the range of services of the sanatorium-resort complex is expanding and the quality of service is improving. But, despite the developed system of accommodation facilities, the development of territorial tourist products is slow. The potential of the subregion and the surrounding centers of culture and tourism is not fully used. The material and technical base of Truskavets, in addition to medical and health tourism, allows to develop business, excursion, cultural and educational, entertainment, sports and other types of tourism.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alifian Sukma ◽  
Badruz Zaman ◽  
Endah Purwanti

Along with the rapid advancement of technology development led to the amount of information available is also increasingly abundant. The aim of this study was to determine how the implementation of information retrieval system in the classification of the journal by using the cosine similarity and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN).The data used as many as 160 documents with categories such as Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Science, Health Science, and Social Sciences and Humanities. Construction stage begins with the use of text mining processing, the weighting of each token by using the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), calculate the degree of similarity of each document by using the cosine similarity and classification using k-Nearest Neighbor.Evaluation is done by using the testing documents as much as 20 documents, with a value of k = {37, 41, 43}. Evaluation system shows the level of success in classifying documents on the value of k = 43 with a value precision of 0501. System test results showed that 20 document testing used can be classified according to the actual category


Author(s):  
Hridin O.

The article is devoted to the study of the features, as well as the establishment and analysis of factors for the formation and imple-mentation of an effective personnel policy of enterprises, including the agricultural sector of the economy. The parameters that affect the effectiveness of the company's personnel policy are defined. The basic principles of personnel policy implementation are summarized and expanded. It is established that the implementation of the personnel policy of the enterprise and the achievement of maximum use of its human resources potential should be based on the creation of equal employment opportunities and career growth of employees. It is proved that the personnel policy of an enterprise is formed under the influence of the external environment, namely socio-political, demographic and socio-economic processes, while adapting through the prism of strategic goals and objectives into a unique manage-ment model for each individual business entity, the main purpose of which is to maximize the full disclosure and use of its own personnel potential. A set of strategic tasks is outlined that should ensure the constant preservation of the numerical and qualitative composition of employees through its periodic restoration and maximum use of human resources in order to constantly improve the efficiency of person-nel work. Various approaches to the interpretation of the content of the concept of «personnel policy» are studied and generalized. The industry features of enterprises operating in the agricultural sector of the national economy are established and cause specific problems in creating a model of personnel policy. It is established that the effectiveness of the personnel policy of agricultural enterprises depends not only on the chosen corporate governance model, which is based on a system of strategic goals and objectives, but is also directly influenced by a complex of factors specific to this sphere of the economy. It is noted that the personnel policy should be formalized as much as possible and clearly, while at the same time remaining flexible and open to continuous improvement. It is noted that when form-ing and actually implementing the personnel policy, it is important for an enterprise to achieve a certain balance of interests of interested parties – the enterprise itself and its employees.Keywords: personnel policy, human resources potential, enterprise personnel, Personnel Management, labor activity, personnel development, agricultural sector of the economy. Статтю присвячено дослідженню особливостей, а також установленню й аналізуванню чинників формування та реалізації ефективної кадрової політики підприємств, зокрема аграрної сфери економіки. Визначено параметри, що впливають на ефек-тивність кадрової політики підприємства. Узагальнено і розширено базові принципи реалізації кадрової політики. Установлено, що реалізація кадрової політики підприємства і досягнення максимального використання його кадрового потенціалу мають ба-зуватися на створенні рівних можливостей зайнятості та кар’єрного зростання працівників. Окреслено комплекс стратегічних завдань, що мають забезпечувати постійне збереження чисельного та якісного складу працівників через його періодичне віднов-лення і максимальне використання кадрового потенціалу. Вивчено та узагальнено різноманітні підходи до трактування змісту по-няття «кадрова політика». Установлено галузеві особливості підприємств, що діють в аграрному секторі національної економіки і зумовлюють виникнення специфічних проблем створення моделі кадрової політики. Установлено, що ефективність кадрової політики підприємств аграрної сфери залежить не лише від вибраної моделі корпоративного управління, а й знаходиться під безпосереднім впливом комплексу специфічних для цієї сфери економіки чинників.Ключові слова: кадрова політика, кадровий потенціал, персонал підприємства, управління персоналом, трудова діяльність, розвиток персоналу, аграрна сфера економіки.


Author(s):  
Elias Z. K. Ioup ◽  
John T. Sample

Granularity is often ignored when designing geospatial Web services. Choices relating to granularity affect service interfaces, data storage and organization, and XML format design. This chapter highlights the importance of analyzing usage and performance requirements when deciding on granularity choices in the design of geospatial Web services. Often, instead of making design decisions based on these requirements, geospatial services are implemented using default, commonly used techniques which may reduce performance, increase complexity, or fail to fully meet user needs. This chapter discusses the importance of granularity in designing and implementing geospatial Web services and provides common examples that highlight the different approaches to granularity which are available.


Author(s):  
David Noble ◽  
David Wu ◽  
Benjamin Emerson ◽  
Scott Sheppard ◽  
Tim Lieuwen ◽  
...  

Abstract A confluence of technology development, policy support, and industry investment trends are accelerating the pace of Hydrogen (H2) technology demonstrations, increasing the likelihood of power sector impacts. In preparation for a largescale power sector shift toward decarbonization for a low-carbon future, several major power equipment manufacturers are developing gas turbines that can operate on a high H2-volume fuel. Many have H2 capable systems now that range from 5 to 100% H2. Units with 100% H2 capabilities are either using a diffusion burner or some version of a wet low emissions (WLE) burner. Most dry low emission/dry low NOx (DLE/DLN) technologies are currently limited to ~60% H2 or less. Therefore, research is currently underway to develop low NOx gas turbine combustion systems with improved Hydrogen capability. This paper provides an overview of the technical challenges of Hydrogen combustion and the probable technologies with which the manufacturers will respond.


Author(s):  
Allen M. Quail ◽  
Y. Gene Liao ◽  
Rodrigo Gonzalez ◽  
Molly O’Malley ◽  
Tai H. Duong ◽  
...  

This paper reports the planning efforts on reducing fuel consumption rate in the current fleet of medium-duty tactical truck. A strategic plan was developed through investigation of current and future technology offerings from original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket suppliers. Research efforts consisted of an initial phase where a broad range of integration candidates were collected and a secondary phase where in-depth analysis was conducted to target those to consider for inclusion in the strategic plan. Each product was evaluated on its technical merits with consideration given to the needs and strategic goals of government agencies. The strategic plan lays out the integrated technologies in the near-term including hydrogen injection and auxiliary electrification of engine cooling fan. For the mid-term timeframe, the plan involves implementing an engine stop/start system and electrifying other auxiliaries. The final step in the plan is the development and implementation of a full (strong) hybrid population.


2013 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Paulson ◽  
Ryan P. Starkey

Complex system acquisition and its associated technology development have a troubled recent history. The modern acquisition timeline consists of conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design followed by system test and production. The evolving nature of the estimates of system performance, cost, and schedule during this extended process may be a significant contribution to recent issues. The recently proposed multistage reliability-based design optimization (MSRBDO) method promises improvements over reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) in achieved objective function value. In addition, its problem formulation more closely resembles the evolutionary nature of epistemic design uncertainties inherent in system design during early system acquisition. Our goal is to establish the modeling basis necessary for applying this new method to the engineering of early conceptual/preliminary design. We present corrections in the derivation and solutions to the single numerical example problem published by the original authors, Nam and Mavris, and examine the error introduced under the reduced-order reliability sampling used in the original publication. MSRBDO improvements over the RBDO solution of 10–36% for the objective function after first-stage optimization are shown for the original second-stage example problem. A larger 26–40% improvement over the RBDO solution is shown when an alternative comparison method is used than in the original. The specific implications of extending the method to arbitrary m-stage problems are presented, together with a solution for a three-stage numerical example. Several approaches are demonstrated to mitigate the computational cost increase of MSRBDO over RBDO, resulting in a net decrease in calculation time of 94% from an initial MSRBDO baseline algorithm.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document