Kaon and Phi Production in Pion-Nucleus Reactions at 1.7 GeV/c

The production and properties of K+, K− and ϕ in nuclear reactions π− + A (A = C,W) at a beam momentum of 1:7 GeV/c has been studied with the HADES setup at SIS18/GSI. Of particular interest is the K− absorption in nuclear matter which should be driven by strangeness exchange processes on one (K−N → Yπ) or more nucleons (K−NN → YNπ). In this context, also the ϕ has to be taken into account, since ϕ decays into K+K− pairs may substantially affect the measured K− abundance. A solid reference is needed to evaluate the K− absorption with in the nucleus and in this work we discuss the determination of this reference. A double ratio of K−=K+(W)=K−=K+(C) is measured within the acceptance and compared to the reference.

Evaluation of synthetic rainfall application with respect to the flow volume at upstream Brantas watershed, East Java Province of Indonesia

Indonesian Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) of Synthetic Rainfall has modified climate by generating synthetic rainfall from 9th May until 4th June 2013. This unit has cooperated with the Department of Technological Study and Application (BPPT) of Indonesia and Perum Jasa Tirta I and TNI AU Lanud Abdulrachman Saleh. This study intended to increase reservoirs water level in upstream Brantas watershed, one of them is Sutami reservoir. Successive grade evaluation of synthetic rainfall used the method of Double Ratio and Flow Discharge. The target area is upstream Brantas watershed that is represented by 12 rainfall stations and the control area is in the distance of ±30 km from the boundary of upstream Brantas watershed and is represented by 5 rainfall stations. Results show rainfall increasing by 152.05% according to the Double Ratio method and the increase of flow discharge from Sutami reservoir by 74.19% according to the Flow Discharge method.

Analysis and comparison of vegetation indices of winter wheat crop areas, calculated on the basis of Sentinel-2 and fieldspec spectroradiometer data

Ten vegetation indices (VIs) were analyzed, which were calculated simultaneously based on Sentine-l2 data and on results of ground spectrometric survey by ASD FieldSpec® 3FR for the identically geographical sites of the production crops of winter wheat of two cultivars Bohdana and Skagen. The values of the most studied VIs on Sentinel-2 satellite data are similar by quantity to the same indices, calculated on the narrow spectral channels of ASD FieldSpec® 3FR, except for DRICI (Double ratio index for chlorophyll index) and СІ green (ratio green chlorophyll index), the satellite values of which are much lower than those received by spectroradiometer. It was shown that the differences of VIs received by Sentinel-2 and ASD FieldSpec® 3FR depend on the growth stages of winter wheat: during vegetation season the correlation coefficients between them increase for crop areas of both studied cultivars.