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Micro-Detail Detections and Their Seemingly Unrelated Scientific Inquiries
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Remote Sensing, Micro-detection and tracking, land monitoring, multi-disciplinary studies, satellite imagery, simulation modeling, wood quality.
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This is an introduction of the initial publication of the new Special Section of the MCFNS journal on micro-detail detection and tracking problems and various related interdisciplinary studies in other disciplines, which are deemed to be synergistic or relevant to detection and tracking problems.  The initial selection of publications presented here arose from the Smolensk Conference held on Oct.~22, 2012, in Warsaw, Poland.  This Special Section originated out of a collaboration between the MCFNS editors and the organizers of the Smolensk Conference, but the submissions of the presented here manuscripts was independent from this organization; all authors submitted their manuscripts independently of each other.  This issue contains four of the papers related to the conference.  In what follows, I briefly review the background behind the creation of this Special Section series and introduce the papers contained herein.
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\section{Background}
Since its inception the journal of \textit{Mathematical and Computational Forestry {\&} Natural-Resource Sciences} has always upheld the tradition of
publishing Special Sections related to scientific events rooted in various
natural-resource sciences with any mathematical and computational aspects of
their research. The nature of these sciences is evolving, especially due to
computer technology, which is becoming ever more prominent in research and
day-to-day activities alike. The forestry profession conceptually started
centuries ago with mathematical theory of space and time orders, while at
the same time, this profession used to depend strictly on operationally
extensive on-ground human presence. However, modern forestry has been
evolving for decades towards hi-tech implementation of new technologies
relying on satellite imagery and communications for land management and
monitoring, on Internet technology for communications and distributed
computing, and on computer technology for scheduling optimization,
sustainability analysis simulations and for all major operational decision
making. Contemporary forester is more likely to look for insects, dead or
stolen trees, ground water or draught damage, illegal dumping, or permit
regulated building activities, on satellite imagery than on the ground. With
this evolution of the technological profile of the forest, management and
natural resource sciences, there are ever growing needs and opportunities for
interdisciplinary studies of various related problems that can be identified
from space over vast areas.

The Smolensk incident represents a prime example of how various scientists
in diverse disciplines might be interested in conducting complementary
studies related to one common event. The incident was the crash of the
Polish Air Force One TU-154M plane near the Smolensk military airport. The
data used by different scientists in various disciplines for the related
analyses came from public, commercial, and private sources. From the
forestry profession perspective the incident relates to two major topics:
satellite imagery analysis and wood quality studies, but these two venues
are merely the beginning of the studies that go way beyond them. The
organizers of the Smolensk conference comprised 100 scientists from
different disciplines at various universities around the world. The most
frequently represented disciplines were by far Physics and Mathematics.
Other represented disciplines included: chemistry, biochemistry, various
engineering fields, and forest biometrics. The conference took place in
Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 22, 2012 and 18 papers were presented. All the
presentations were broadcast real-time on the internet and recorded.
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The recorded presentations are currently available on the Internet on the
official conference WebSite at \href {http://konferencjasmolenska.pl/}{http://konferencjasmolenska.pl\ldots},
on the WebSite at \href {http://smolenskcrash.com/index.php/2012/2012}{http://smolenskcrash.com\ldots},
and on YouTube site dedicated to the conference at \href{http://www.youtube.com/user/smolenskconference}{http://www.youtube.com\ldots}.

Some of the conference papers were submitted to the MCFNS journal for
publication in this Special Section, and those that have passed the
peer-review process are presented here. This Special Section consists of
four papers, one of which is a monograph comprising three presentation
papers from the conference. A short summary of the presented here papers
follows below.

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\section{Contents of the Special Section}
The included here four papers from the Smolensk Conference describe studies
in the following areas:

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\item satellite imagery analysis,
\item computer simulations of mathematical modeling,
\item analysis of electrical systems and related experimental studies, and
\item wood quality analysis.
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All four papers included here describe research and analysis related to the
various studies of different aspects of the common incident of the Polish
Air Force One TU-154M plane crash on Apr. 10, 2010, in Smolensk, Russia. The
first paper by \cite{CieszewskiEtAl13a} describes analysis of satellite
imagery from various dates preceding and following the incident. Using the
assumption of micro-detail land monitoring and disturbance detection, the
authors compare patterns and spatial distributions of plane debris on
different images and they compare their observations against published
information on relevant subjects. The authors used various image analysis
techniques and image correlation analysis to enhance the readability of
high-resolution imagery for better illustration of various observations. The
study reveals temporal changes in the debris patterns and calls into
question official accounts of the subject published by the Polish and
Russian governments.

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The second paper by \cite{ZhangEtAl13} describes computer simulation
studies of a detailed finite element mathematical model of the plane
collision with a large birch tree. Simulations are based on models developed
by the US Department of transportation LS-DYNA and ANSYS CFX. The authors
tested several material models, which they verified using leading-edge bird
strike and wood bending experiments. Using multiple scenarios and different
parameter values the model simulations in this study showed that in all
cases the plane wing would break the tree and not vice versa.

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The third paper in this section by \cite{Gieras} consists of three parts, focusing on the
Tu-154M power electric system and various aspects of the plane crash related
to its electrical installations. In the first part, the author analyzes the
electric system and wiring of the Tu-154 M. In the second part, the author
analyses the fuel system and the possibility of an explosion of the fuel
vapors in the left wing of the plane due to arcing and/or static
electricity. In the third part, the author describes a comparative analysis
of hypothetical collision of the subject plane with the large birch tree,
and compares the data on this event against other data from full-scale
dynamic crash tests of a Douglas DC-7 and a Lockheed Constellation 1649.

The collection of the papers in this Special Section is concluded with the
article by \cite{CieszewskiEtAl13b}, which describes a wood quality study
related to the large birch tree, which was allegedly impacted by the Tu-154M
plane on Apr. 10, 2010. The authors use a sample of wood from the very tree
branch to estimate the wood properties of tree trunk. In addition to the
wood sample from the branch the authors use auxiliary wood samples from
other trees of a similar species and tabular data from published wood
quality tables for other species. The authors also analyze the proportion of
knots on the subject tree, so that they can more realistically estimate the
tree wood quality parameters, which could be used in other studies.


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\bibitem[Cieszewski et al.(2013a)]{CieszewskiEtAl13a} Cieszewski, C.J., F. Antony, P. Bettinger, J. Dahlen, R.C. Lowe, M. Strub. 2013. Wood quality assessment of tree trunk from the tree branch sample and auxiliary data based on NIR Spectroscopy and SilviScan. Math.\ Comput.\ For. Nat.-Res.\ Sci.\ (MCFNS), 5(1): 86--111. Last accessed online on Mar.~30, 2013, at: \href{http://mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/155}{http://mcfns.com}.

\bibitem[Cieszewski et al.(2013b)]{CieszewskiEtAl13b} Cieszewski, C.J., R.C. Lowe, P. Bettinger, A. Kumar. 2013. Micro-detail comparative forest site analysis using high-resolution satellite imagery. Math.\ Comput.\ For. Nat.-Res.\ Sci.\ (MCFNS), 5(1):16--37. Last accessed online on Mar.~30, 2013, at: \href{http://mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/154}{http://mcfns.com}.

\bibitem[Gieras(2013)]{Gieras} Gieras, J.F. 2013. Selected technical aspects of tu-154m smolensk air crash on April 10, 2010. Math.\ Comput.\ For. Nat.-Res.\ Sci.\ (MCFNS), 5(1):38--70. Last accessed online on Mar.~30, 2013, at: \href{http://mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/147}{http://mcfns.com}.

\bibitem[Zhang et al.(2013)]{ZhangEtAl13} Zhang, C., Binienda, W., Horvat, F., {\&} Wang, W. 2013. Application of Numerical Methods for Crashworthiness Investigation of a Large Aircraft Wing Impact with a Tree. Math.\ Comput.\ For. Nat.-Res.\ Sci.\ (MCFNS), 5(1):75--85. Last accessed online on Mar.~30, 2013, at: \href{http://mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/153}{http://mcfns.com}.

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