The rest of the trip was pretty ordinary, except when we finally got to that rest stop, we had a touch football game and Larry’s team kept flooding my zone because he knew my ankles were sore from the hornet bites and I wasn’t fully mobile. Only fair, I suppose — I would have ...
Tom Whitlock, the songwriter and lyricist for “Danger Zone” and “Take My Breath Away” fromTop Gun, died on Feb. 23 at the age of 68. (He had reportedly been battling Alzheimer's for several years.) Whitlock's earliest work appeared in films likeScarface,FlashdanceandBeverly Hills Cop...
The isolated bright spots or continuous bright regions that emerge in the marine radar images is caused by fixed targets, as shown in Figure 1a. Too many fixed targets will not only obscure certain radar image features but will also enhance the mean value of the radar echo strength throughout...