Smart Phones for a Smart City: Requirements for Context Aware Mobile Application for Landscape and Urban Planning

Technologies collecting location-based data in the real world have advantages<br/>over traditional methods for landscape perception research. The<br/>possibility to relate geo-referenced responses of inhabitants to the physical<br/>and social data in expert GIS databases can lead to new insights into the<br/>difference between laymen and expert...

Nature in the metropolis: Mapping biodiversity using metropolitan landscape characterization tools

Cities can be planned and designed to reduce their effect on biodiversity loss and may even be able to sustain biodiversity levels in some instances, due to ‘beta-diversity’. The heterogeneity of metropolitan regions can be expected to have a strong impact on beta-diversity. Tools such as landscape characterization can assist in the...

The Effect of a Dual Draft Hull on the Motion Behaviour of a Pipelay/Heavy-Lift Vessel

The Elarged Ship Concept applied to a Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat

Enlarged Ship Concept applied to a fully planing SAR Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat