A method including operating a vehicle in a medium. The vehicle is subject to advection due to movement of the medium. The method also includes measuring, using a navigation system, positions of a vehicle over time. The method also includes measuring, using a directional sensor, a course-through-medium over the time. The method also includes calculating, using the positions and the course-through-medium, a variation of a speed-over-ground of the vehicle over the time as a function of the course-through-medium over the time. The method also includes concurrently estimating, using the variation, 1) an average speed-through-medium for the vehicle over the time, and 2) an advection rate of the medium, and 3) an advection direction of the medium.

A sensor system includes a tilt sensor including an accelerometer configured to measure an angle of tilt of a vertical structure, and a wind sensor configured to determine at least one of wind speed or wind direction. The tilt sensor can also include a communication interface configured to transmit a sensor signal including the angle of tilt of the vertical structure, and at least one of the wind speed or the wind direction. The sensor system can also include a controller for receiving the sensor signal, and a cloud computing network that allows for various alerts to be presented to a user device.

A wind detection device with a flexible enclosure, and opening, and a dispensing tube, filled with powder or liquid and designed to be attached to hunting equipment, headgear, or clothing, wherein pressing on the outside of the device causes a puff of powder or vapor to be dispensed into the air, allowing the user to determine wind direction.

A visualization device for a flow field includes a chamber, a power supply, at least one pair of electrodes, and at least one flow field observation module. The flow field observation module includes a high-speed camera, a light detecting component, and a light filter component. The power supply outputs a voltage to generate a plasma, and the pair of electrodes is disposed in the chamber. The flow field observation module is disposed outside the chamber and captures an image of a fluid particle excited by the plasma toward the chamber. The light filter component is disposed between the high-speed camera and the chamber. The light detecting component obtains a light information within the chamber and sends the light information to the light filter component.

A wind detection device with a flexible enclosure, and opening, and a dispensing tube, filled with powder or liquid and designed to be attached to hunting equipment, headgear, or clothing, wherein pressing on the outside of the device causes a puff of powder or vapor to be dispensed into the air, allowing the user to determine wind direction.

An airflow measurement system includes a plurality of communication modules and an information processing apparatus. The communication module includes an airflow sensor, and a body portion including a communication unit configured to acquire data output from the airflow sensor and transmit the data to outside by wireless communication. The information processing apparatus includes a data collection unit configured to collect the data output from the airflow sensor of the plurality of communication modules, and an output unit configured to output the collected data.

An apparatus indicates the presence of a threshold directional differential pressure between separated adjacent spaces. A conduit contains a movable element that indicates whether the pressure difference between the two spaces is at least as high as a threshold pressure difference. The apparatus is adjustable to have different threshold set points by adjusting the conduit inclination. The conduit may be rotatable about an axis of rotation which is transverse to a barrier, and the conduit may be rotatable along a plane. The apparatus may include a pitch level configured to indicate whether the apparatus is oriented correctly with respect to pitch.

A water treatment system protects chlorine generator electrodes from miming dry. The system includes a water detection electrode (222) disposed above the chlorine generator electrode (223), and an outlet (12) at a height similar to the water detection electrode (222). If enough water is displaced from the housing (1) of the water treatment system by bubbles (4) generated by the energized chlorine generator, the water detection electrode (222) will cease to be bathed in water and will emit a signal indicative of this “dry” condition. The signal can be used to interrupt electrical power to the chlorine generator, thereby ensuring that the chlorine generator will not displace the water bathing it and therefore will not run dry.

A measurement method for visualizing the flow of a fluid that includes: a preparation process where a photochromic compound, whose amount of absorption of light changes upon irradiation with transformation-inducing light, is dissolved in the fluid; a transformation-inducing irradiation process where the fluid is irradiated with transformation-inducing light that causes photochromism; and a post-transformation imaging process where an image of the fluid is taken after irradiation by the transformation-inducing light. During the post-transformation imaging process, a first image is generated by taking an image of the fluid by using first light in the first wavelength range in which the amount of absorption of light changes upon irradiation with transformation-inducing light.

This application relates to a measurement system for measuring a behavior of an ejection liquid, which is ejected into an object from an ejection device, within the object. The system includes a container part formed of a resin material. The system also includes an imaging device disposed to image, across the object, a tip surface of the container part having an ejection port formed therein and being in contact with the object from a back side of the object in a predetermined state in which the ejection port is positioned from a front side of the object. The system further includes a first emission device that emits first near infrared light to the tip surface. In such a configuration, the behavior of the ejection liquid when the ejection liquid is ejected into the object from the ejection device can be imaged and measured by the imaging device.