Section Guest Research Articles

Special Section Guest Editorial—Nanostructured Thin Films: Evolving Perspectives

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial—Nanostructured Thin Films: Evolving Perspectives” for JNP Vol. 9 Issue 01

Special Section Guest Editorial:Solid-State Lighting: Photonics and Technologies

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial:Solid-State Lighting: Photonics and Technologies” for JPE Vol. 5 Issue 01

Causal Control of Biological Systems with Light.

“Optogenetics” is the control of cellular biophysical properties by selective, genetically targeted expression of light-sensitive moieties. This strategy has rapidly become a widely pervasive tool in neuroscience, in large part because it arrived at a perfect historical moment to provide a logically essential but previously missing piece in controlling cellular activity, thereby testing how the in vivo brain works.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Complex Light

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Complex Light” for OE Vol. 54 Issue 11

Special Section Guest Editorial: Advances in Onboard Compression and Processing for Space Data Systems

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Advances in Onboard Compression and Processing for Space Data Systems” for JRS Vol. 9 Issue 01

Special Section Guest Editorial: Remote Sensing and Sensor Networks for Promoting Agro-Geoinformatics

Special Section Guest Editorial: Remote Sensing and Sensor Networks for Promoting Agro-Geoinformatics

Special Section Guest Editorial: Management and Analytics of Remotely Sensed Big Data

As we have entered the era of “big data,” the capability of Earth observations has been dramatically increased and reached an unprecedented level by widely accessible remotely sensed big data. The current remote sensing systems collect several terabytes of Earth observation data per day and enable the measurement of objects at the submeter level. Moreover, with the rapid development of imaging and earth observation technologies, the collected data volumes are predicted to be amplified quickly. Efficient management and analytics for such remotely sensed data are critical in the applications of Earth observations, but present great challenges due to data complexity, diversity, and volume. Actually, there exists great imbalance between the capacity of data management and analytics and the capacity of data acquisition in remote sensing. Thus, it is an urgent demand to develop effective data management tools and advanced analytical techniques for the best use of remotely sensed big data. Meanwhile, streaming and online real-time algorithms are required for quick and intelligent decision making.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Digital Photoelasticity: Advancements and Applications

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Digital Photoelasticity: Advancements and Applications” for OE Vol. 54 Issue 08

Special Section Guest Editorial: Control of IC Patterning Variance Part 1: Metrology, Process Monitoring, and Control of Critical Dimension

Special Section Guest Editorial: Control of IC Patterning Variance Part 1: Metrology, Process Monitoring, and Control of Critical Dimension

Special Section Guest Editorial: Laser Applications in Life Sciences

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Laser Applications in Life Sciences” for JBO Vol. 20 Issue 05

Special Section Guest Editorial: Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells

The <i>Journal of Photonics for Energy</i> (JPE) covers fundamental and applied research areas focused on the applications of photonics for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, monitoring, consumption, and efficient usage.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Nanophotonics and Plasmonics for Solar Energy Harvesting and Conversion

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Nanophotonics and Plasmonics for Solar Energy Harvesting and Conversion” for JPE Vol. 5 Issue 01

Special Section Guest Editorial: Continuation of Scaling with Optical and Complementary Lithography

The <i>Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology</i> (JM3) publishes peer-reviewed papers on the core enabling technologies that address the patterning needs of the electronics industry.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Computational Approaches to Imaging LADAR

This is the guest editorial for the Optical Engineering Special Section on Computational Approaches to Imaging LADAR.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Advances in Remote Sensing Applications for Locust Habitat Monitoring and Management

University of Wyoming, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, 1000 EastUniversity Avenue, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, United StatesLocusts(Orthoptera:Acrididae)are athreattofoodsecurityworldwide andtothelivelihoodsoffarmers in manycountries.According to the United Nations FoodandAgricultural Organization(FAO), the locust plague that started in April 2012 is threatening “the livelihoods of 13 millionpeople in Madagascar.”

Special Section Guest Editorial: Remote Sensing and Sensor Networks for Promoting Agro-Geoinformatics

The <i>Journal of Applied Remote Sensing</i> (JARS) is an online journal that optimizes the communication of concepts, information, and progress within the remote sensing community to improve the societal benefit for monitoring and management of natural disasters, weather forecasting, agricultural and urban land-use planning, environmental quality monitoring, ecological restoration, and numerous other commercial and scientific applications.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Fiber Lasers and Applications

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Fiber Lasers and Applications” for OE Vol. 54 Issue 01

Special Section Guest Editorial: High-Performance Computing in Applied Remote Sensing: Part 3

Part 3 of this Special Section on High-Performance Computing in Applied Remote Sensing continues to present the state-of-the-art research in incorporating high-performance computing facilities and algorithms for effective and efficient remote sensing applications. “Land cover classification in multispectral imagery using clustering of sparse approximations over learned feature dictionaries” by Moody et al. presents results from an ongoing effort to extend neuromimetic machine vision algorithms to multispectral data using adaptive signal processing combined with compressive sensing and machine learning techniques. “Graphics processor unit accelerated finite-difference time domain method for electromagnetic scattering from onedimensional large scale rough soil surface at low grazing incidence” by Jia et al. applies the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology to compute an electromagnetic scattering problem on GPUs and achieves significant speedup factors. “High-performance meshing processing of remote sensing data on large displays” by Hsieh et al. presents a technique that visualizes LIDAR point clouds on a tiled display wall, termed highly interactive-parallelized display (HIPerDisplay), which has twenty 24-inch liquid-crystal displays with a total resolution of 46 Mpixels. The results also showed that the HIPerDisplay offered superior performance for the processing of large LIDAR datasets. “Real-time implementation of optimized maximum noise fraction transform for feature extraction of hyperspectral images” by Wu et al. presents a parallel implementation of the optimized maximum noise fraction (G-OMNF) transform algorithm for feature extraction of hyperspectral images on commodity graphics processing units (GPUs). The proposed approach explored the algorithm data-level concurrency and optimized the computing flow. “Hyperspectral band selection based on parallel particle swarm optimization and impurity function band prioritization schemes” by Chang et al. presents a framework for band selection in hyperspectral imagery that uses two techniques, referred to as particle swarm optimization (PSO) band selection and the impurity function band prioritization (IFBP) method. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed PPSO/IFBP band selection method can not only improve computational speed but also offer a satisfactory classification performance. “Graphics processing unit implementation of the maximum likelihood solution to the inverse problem for retrieval of geophysical parameters from high-resolution sounder data” by Wei et al. explores the use of GPU in speedup of the maximum likelihood solution to an illposed retrieval problem. For the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer high-resolution sounder having 8641 channels, the use of GPU on maximum likelihood estimation shows a promising speedup of 1986× compared to a single-threaded native CPU version.

Pioneers in Medical Imaging: Honoring the Memory of Robert F. Wagner.

This PDF file contains the editorial “Special Section Guest Editorial: Pioneers in Medical Imaging: Honoring the Memory of Robert F. Wagner” for JMI Vol. 1 Issue 03

Special Section Guest Editorial: Nanophotonic Materials and Devices

Special Section Guest Editorial: Nanophotonic Materials and Devices