TY  - CHAP
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
T1  - Biophysical and Engineering Contributions to Plant Research
N2  - Tests with palm tree leaves have just started yet and scan data are in the process to be analyzed. The final goal of future project for palm tree gender and species recognition will be to develop optical scanning technology to be applied to date palm tree leaves for in–situ screening purposes. Depending on the software used and the particular requirements of the users the technology potentially shall be able to identify palm tree diseases, palm tree gender, and species of young date palm trees by scanning leaves.
KW  - Pflanzenphysiologie
KW  - Dattel
KW  - Pflanzenscanner
KW  - plant scanner
KW  - date palm tree
Y1  - 2011
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Mikucki, Jill A.
A1  - Tulaczyk, Slawek
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Feldmann, Marco
A1  - Espe, Clemens
A1  - Plescher, Engelbert
A1  - Xu, Changsheng
T1  - IceMole - a maneuverable probe for clean in-situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial aquatic ecosystems : extended abstract / SCAR Open Science Conference 2012, Session 29: Advancing Clean Technologies for Exploration of Glacial Aquatic Ecosystems
N2  - The ”IceMole“ is a novel maneuverable subsurface ice probe for clean in-situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial water/brine. It is developed and build at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences’ Astronautical Laboratory. A first prototype was successfully tested on the Swiss Morteratsch glacier in 2010. Clean sampling is achieved with a hollow ice screw (as it is used in mountaineering) at the tip of the probe. Maneuverability is achieved with a differentially heated melting head. Funded by the German Space Agency (DLR), a consortium led by FH Aachen currently develops a much more advanced IceMole probe, which includes a sophisticated system for obstacle avoidance, target detection, and navigation in the ice. We intend to use this probe for taking clean samples of subglacial brine at the Blood Falls (McMurdo Dry Valleys, East Antarctica) for chemical and microbiological analysis. In our conference contribution, we 1) describe the IceMole design, 2) report the results of the field tests of the first prototype on the Morteratsch glacier, 3) discuss the probe’s potential for the clean in-situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial liquids, and 4) outline the way ahead in the development of this technology.
KW  - Eisschicht
KW  - Sonde
KW  - subsurface ice
KW  - subglacial aquatic ecosystems
Y1  - 2012
ER  -