They embrace Scotland and Wales but, geographically, their heart is in England as they move rapidly and easily between the Westminster court, Eastcheap taverns, border battlefields and the Gloucestershire and Kent countryside.
Each week brings a new set of subpoenas or a new hearing or a draft opinion from the state ethics director, and each new development seems to cloud rather than clarify the borders of the battlefield.
In the corresponding applications such as environmental monitoring, battlefield surveillance, border protection, target searching and tracking, a number of sensors and actors work cooperatively to monitor a specific area and track a target of interest.
Surveillance drones, from tiny insectlike probes to giant Global Hawk aircraft, have become ubiquitous over battlefields and border areas, but relatively few are armed.
Within the county's borders are Cowpens National Battlefield and a portion of Kings Mountain National Military Park, the sites of decisive 1780 81 colonial victories over Tory and British soldiers in the U.S. War of Independence.
Securing surveillance wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in hostile environments such as borders, perimeters and battlefields during Base Station (BS) failure is challenging.
Smart-dust proponents envision such sensors being used to monitor forests for fire, warn soldiers of dangerous substances on the battlefield and alert border guards to activity in remote areas.
A US military physicist assigned to clean up the Gulf war battlefield across the border in Kuwait said, "Each round fired by an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft carried over 4,500 grams of solid uranium.
The wireless sensor networks have a broad spectrum applications ranging from wild life monitoring and battlefield surveillance to border control and disaster relief and have attracted significant interests from both academy and industry.
As a sales representative from a military surveillance company told me, "we are bringing the battlefield to the border".
