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NIST Pubs

Time and Frequency Users Manual

Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi
This book is for the person who needs information about making time and frequency measurements. It is written at a level that will satisfy those with a casual

Uncertainty calculation for spectral-responsivity measurements

Author(s)
John H. Lehman, Chih-Ming Wang, Marla L. Dowell, Joshua A. Hadler
This paper discusses a procedure for measuring the absolute spectral responsivity of optical-fiber power meters and computation of the calibration uncertainty

Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Measurements and Models

Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, David W. Matolak
This document reports on wireless channel measurements and models for outdoor to indoor propagation environments. Although there have been a number of

FIRE FACTS

Author(s)
James R. Lawson
Fire Facts gives the reader an ordered series of temperature and heat flux values that may be associated to fire growth conditions and relates these exposure

The ABCs oF Standards Activities

Author(s)
Maureen A. Breitenberg
This report is an introduction to standardization and the U.S. standards system for readers that are not familiar with this topic. It highlights some of the

Assessing Face Overlay

Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard, Ross J. Micheals, Yee-Yin Choong, John W. Wydler II, Kevin C. Mangold, Michelle P. Steves, Emile L. Morse
The United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology's (US-VISIT) has embarked on an effort to improve the quality of facial images captured at

Use of ISO/IEC 24727

Author(s)
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Teresa T. Schwarzhoff, William I. MacGregor, Hung Dang, Ketan Mehta
This document describes the use of ISO/IEC 24727 in enabling client-applications to access identity credentials issued by different credential issuers.

Visualization of Structural Behavior under Fire

Author(s)
Dilip K. Banerjee, William J. Hess, Thomas M. Olano, Judith E. Terrill, John L. Gross
An integrated environment was created to study the interaction among fire, heat transfer, and structural deformation from a typical room fire. The fire, thermal

Measurements to Support Public Safety Communications: Attenuation and Variability of 750 MHz Radio Wave Signals in Four Large Building Structures: NIST Technical Note 1552

Author(s)
William F. Young, Kate Remley, John M. Ladbury, Christopher L. Holloway, Chriss A. Grosvenor, Galen H. Koepke, Sander Floris, Wouter Numan, Andrea Garuti
In this report, we investigate radio communication problems faced by emergency responders (firefighters, police, and emergency medical personnel) in disaster
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