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Multivariate Curve Resolution (MCR) using Principal Components Inputs and Rigorous Equality and Inequality Constraints

This MATLAB pseudocode perform multivariate curve resolution (MCR) using PCA scores & loadings of data as inputs. It employs rigorous least squares equality and inequality constraints for all elements in the solution factor matrices. It also can be used to perform nonnegative matrix factorization. SAND2020-12650 M Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.

Van Benthem, Mark↗

Increased signal-to-noise ratios within experimental field trials by regressing spatially distributed soil properties as principal components

Environmental variability poses a major challenge to any field study. Researchers attempt to mitigate this challenge through replication. Thus, the ability to detect experimental signals is determined by the degree of replication and the amount of environmental variation, noise, within the experimental system. A major source of noise in field studies comes from the natural heterogeneity of soil properties which create microtreatments throughout the field. In addition, the variation within different soil properties is often nonrandomly distributed across a field. We explore this challenge through a sorghum field trial dataset with accompanying plant, microbiome, and soil property data. Diverse sorghum genotypes and two watering regimes were applied in a split-plot design. We describe a process of identifying, estimating, and controlling for the effects of spatially distributed soil properties on plant traits and microbial communities using minimal degrees of freedom. Importantly, this process provides a method with which sources of environmental variation in field data can be identified and adjusted, improving our ability to resolve effects of interest and to quantify subtle phenotypes.

60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES↗

Remote measurement of chlorophyll concentration and secchi-depth using the principal components of the ocean's color spectrum

Statistical results and conclusions are presented, based on direct comparisons of the ocean's color and chlorophyll concentration. The ocean color and ground truth data for this analysis were collected during Mission 140 of NASA's NP3A earth resources aircraft over the period from 6 through 14 August 1970. During this experiment, chlorophyll and light attenuation data were collected. All sets of comparative observations are simultaneous in the sense that the ship began sampling when the aircraft came overhead.

Mueller, J. L.↗

Principal components colour display of ERTS imagery

In the technique presented, colours are not derived from single bands, but rather from independent linear combinations of the bands. Using a simple model of the processing done by the visual system, three informationally independent linear combinations of the four ERTS bands are mapped onto the three visual colour dimensions of brightness, redness-greenness and blueness-yellowness. The technique permits user-specific transformations which enhance particular features, but this is not usually needed, since a single transformation provides a picture which conveys much of the information implicit in the ERTS data. Examples of experimental vector images with matched individual band images are shown.

Taylor, M. M.↗

Lunar polymict breccia 14321 - A compositional study of its principal components

Forty-nine sub-samples of the polymict breccia 14321,184 have been excavated from the rock and analyzed by instrumental activation analysis techniques, specially modified to allow examination of small samples. Two distinct types of microbreccia clasts were analysed. A mare-type basalt of unusual composition is present as several discrete clasts. Mixing models for the clastic components of the breccia illustrate that at least three stages of assembly may be distinguished on compositional grounds. The first was at a site such that KREEP-rich materials dominated the clastic rocks formed, although a variety of lithic fragments were apparently present. The second assembly stage may have been primarily that of comminution and mixing of the more primitive materials, with addition of mare-type basalt clasts. The third stage saw addition of clasts of 14321-type basalt. In the final assembly stage, the light matrix was apparently formed entirely by mutual abrasion of the pre-existing clasts, resulting in little or no change in bulk composition.

Duncan, A. R.↗

A closed-loop principal component analysis of a tetrahedral truss

A tetrahedral truss, representative of a fairly broad class of large space structures, is considered. A method, measuring the dynamical importance of each elastic mode when the structure is under feedback control, is presented. The main conclusion is that the closed-loop importance of each vibration mode depends on the robustness requirements. Also, there appears to be a conflict between precise control of a given node of the structure and stability margin, these two requirements leading to contradictory classifications of the modes by order of importance.

Jonckheere, E. A.↗

Passive microwave remote sensing of thin sea ice using principal component analysis

The possibility of developing a satellite-based sea-ice-concentration algorithm which solves for the presence of thinner ice is explored on the basis of time sequences of surface-based measurements of passive MW emission from growing saline ice reported by Wensnahan et al. (1993). It is shown that two classes of thinner ice can be distinguished from mixtures of open water, first-year ice, and multiyear ice. Newly formed ice appears to be optically thick at 37 and 90 GHz and has a relatively dry surface. The thin ice spectrum occurs when the ice is greater than 4 cm thick and appears to result from the accumulation of brine at the ice surface. Thin ice has a relatively stable spectrum characterized by high brightness temperatures, a near-zero spectral gradient at vertical polarization, and a large difference between vertical and horizontal polarizations. It is concluded that thin ice can be detected using satellite data.

Wensnahan, Mark↗

Principal Component Analysis for Biosignature Detection in Extraterrestrial Samples

Analysis of extraterrestrial samples for organic signatures of past or present life presents several problems. Chief among these is distinguishing bonafide extraterrestrial organic material from terrestrial contamination, either carried on a spacecraft or present in the terrestrial environment to which the sample is exposed. A related problem is separating biologically derived molecules from those produced by abiotic syntheses in the interstellar medium, on meteorite parent bodies, or in planetary atmospheres and oceans.

McDonald, G. D.↗

Real time on-chip sequential adaptive principal component analysis for data feature extraction and image compression

In this paper, we present a new, simple, and optimized hardware architecture sequential learning technique for adaptive Principle Component Analysis (PCA) which will help optimize the hardware implementation in VLSI and to overcome the difficulties of the traditional gradient descent in learning convergence and hardware implementation.

PCA feature extraction image compression real time↗