Abstract: An autonomous station for providing accommodation of unmanned vehicles like unmanned air vehicles and/or unmanned underwater vehicles on water is provided. Accordingly, the subject matter station includes a floating platform; pluralities of accommodation mechanism for associating said unmanned vehicles provided in said floating platform in order to be charged and fixed; pluralities of movement items for providing movement of the floating platform on water; an energy supply which stores energy for providing electrical energy to said movement items and to the accommodation mechanisms; an energy generation unit for charging said energy supply; a processor unit connected to the movement item in a manner controlling the movement items; a communication unit for providing communication of the processor unit to a main control center.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and method for measuring flow rate of materials, for example the flow rate of agricultural products. The apparatus includes an x-ray generator positioned near flowing materials, a converter for converting the x-ray radiation which passes through the flowing materials into visible light, a camera for capturing images of the visible light, and a processor for processing the images to determine the flow rate. The invention may also include an image intensifier to intensify the images before being converted by the camera. The method directs x-rays through flowing material, converts the x-rays to visible light, records the intensity of the visible light and derives the flow rate from the intensity measures.