Hydro-Morphological Characterization of Coral Reefs for Wave Runup Prediction

Many coral reef-lined coasts are low-lying with elevations <4 m above mean sea level. Climate-change-driven sea-level rise, coral reef degradation, and changes in storm wave climate will lead to greater occurrence and impacts of wave-driven flooding. This poses a significant threat to their coastal communities. While greatly at risk, the...

A comparative study of the influence of socio-environmental characteristics on psychosocial factors that trigger adoption of household water treatment in developing countries

Household water treatment (HWT) is a simple technology to tackle this issue of non-potable drinking water at household level. Unfortunately, studies have showed that people do not use it regularly which diminishes the impact of HWT on health.

The spatial distribution and frequency of street, plot and building types across five European cities

Typologies have always played an important role in urban planning and design practice and formal studies have been central to the field of urban morphology. These studies have predominantly been of a historical-qualitative nature and do not support quantitative comparisons between urban areas and between different cities, nor offer the precise...

Approaches towards a Probabilistic Assessment of Geotechnical Parameter Distributions Relying on Geophysical Imaging

Geophysical imaging techniques, such as seismic crosshole tomographic methods, provide spatially continuous information about physical parameter variations in the ground. This physical parameter information, e.g., distribution of seismic velocities, is frequently used to estimate spatial distributions of geotechnical target parameters that could...

Relationship between breakwater spatial arrangement and large-scale species distribution

Cluster analysis of 30 species of invertebrates in the neighbourhood of breakwaters.

Image data reduction with splines and segmentation with emphasis on earth observation

This report describes the results of a feasibility study on image data compression using spline approximation and image segmentation, with emphasis on earth observation applications. The main subjects dealt with, are: the data compression method, implementation aspects, the test software and test results. It appears that a reduction factor of 5...