Watering the Semiarid: Designing a Wetness Retention Landscape in Jaguaribara, Brazil

Since the earliest records, the Brazilian semiarid, in the northeast of the country, has suffered from water scarcity and recurrent droughts. To mitigate the effects of high variability and low availability of water in the region, governments have been investing, since the 1960s, in the construction of dams to stop the loss of water to the ocean...

TE integrated facade: Design of an integrated facade for a typical office building in the semi-arid climate of Tehran using thermoelectric technology powered by PV panels for space heating and cooling

Building industry consumes around 50% of the world’s electricity consumption and space heating and cooling plays an important role in ozone depletion and global warming potential. Solar cooling technologies promise more sustainable approaches with reliance on solar energy as a renewable energy source. Thermoelectric technology is a promising...

SHELL-T_Temporary House Design

A shelter design for refugee after earthquake in semi-arid climate, the design focus on the aspect of the settlement planning, physical and psycological living quality of refugee, material use, assembling techniques, and also the development possibilities of the units and the community.

Monitoring of irrigation schemes by remote sensing: Phenology versus retrieval of biophysical variables

The appraisal of crop water requirements (CWR) is crucial for the management of water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid regions where irrigation represents the largest consumer of water, such as the Doukkala area, western Morocco. Simple and (semi) empirical approaches have been applied to estimate CWR: the first one is called Kc-NDVI...