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Under the auspices of the Department of Transportation Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is...
NIST Special Publication 800-73 (http://piv.nist.gov) provides technical specifications for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards. However, it does not...
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...
John A. Horst, Anthony J. Barbera, Craig I. Schlenoff, David Aha
A key challenge when applying architectures to real-time intelligent control problems is defining the hardware requirements for their sensory processing tasks...
The Independent Measurement System (IMS) is a general-purpose measurement system designed for collecting and analyzing data needed for evaluation of intelligent...
David G. Holmberg, William D. Davis, Stephen J. Treado, K A. Reed
The present work has as its vision that there should be a standard means of collecting and transporting building information (and most importantly real-time...
This NIST Internal Report deals with Release 2.0 of a software package, Forensic Software Testing Support Tools (FS-TST 2.0), developed to aid the testing of...
Eswaran Subrahmanian, Sudarsan Rachuri, A Bouras, Steven J. Fenves, Sebti Foufou, Ram D. Sriram
A major challenge of any product engineering project is to support the creation, exchange, management and archival of information about product, process, people...
This document provides guidelines for establishing the requirements and mechanisms for the exchange of facilities information among parties, from project...
David E. Gilsinn, Geraldine S. Cheok, Christoph J. Witzgall, Alan M. Lytle
Laser Scanning devices (LADAR for Laser Detection and Ranging) are used in construction projects to capture as-built data. They can rapidly generate large...
The APEX method is a non-iterative, single frame, direct blind deconvolution technique that can sharpen certain kinds of high resolution images in quasi real...
This report designs and applies a comparative life-cycle cost analysis on two basic types of sprinkler system designs allowed by NFPA 13D a stand-alone...
This report documents a study undertaken to estimate the thermal environment of the Caldecott Tunnel during a gasoline spill fire in April 1982. A numerical...
The FY 2005 Programs and Accomplishments Report is a summary of the technical activities of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL). This volume...
Minimization of free energy is used to calculate the equilibrium shapes of sessile liquid drops under different wetting conditions and under the influence of a...
John R. Kucklick, Rebecca S. Pugh, Paul R. Becker, Michele M. Schantz, Stephen A. Wise, T K. Rowles
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s Marine Mammal Health and...
For fingerprint dataset, which in many cases may exceed a million samples, the underlying distribution function with respect to similarity scores is unknown...