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Showing 1 to 20 of 475 for “"Environmental monitoring"”.
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Acoustic wireless sensing for environmental monitoring
The European House Borer (EHB) is a timber pest which attacks dead timber. This pest can cause large scale damage to wooden structures and has already spread throughout many parts of the world. The larvae usually remains undetected for many years while it busily inflicts irrevocable and substantial …
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Ocean sensors - for marine environmental monitoring
… new in-situ micro sensor technology for marine environmental monitoring.<br/><br/>Nitrite and nitrate are two forms of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in sea water and their availability is a key factor in the regulation of primary productivity in the sea. The in-situ determination of nitrite and …
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Laser Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring
… laser remote sensing and their applications in environmental monitoring, as documented in several published papers. The environment where the human being live is degrading with an accelerating speed. Quantitative monitoring characterizes the quality of the environment and offers possibilities to …
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Multi-Robot Coordination for Hazardous Environmental Monitoring
… this thesis, we propose algorithms designed for monitoring hazardous agents. Because hazardous environmental monitoring is either tedious or dangerous for human operators, we seek a fully automated robotic system that can help humans. However, there are still many challenges from hardware design …
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Evaluation of new biorecognition elements for environmental monitoring
To date, environmental monitoring is mainly focused on traditional chemical techniques, or on the assessment of specific biomarkers. However, these analyses are affected by several limitations: mainly, they are expensive, spot-sampling and time-consuming. In order to overcome these drawbacks, new …
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Environmental Monitoring - using diode-laser-based spectroscopic techniques
Monitoring of environmental gases is necessary to understand the complex processes governing global warming and the impact of pollutant emissions related to human activity. Diode-laser-based spectroscopic techniques, being robust and affordable, have a great potential to become an industrially …
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Water surface platform for internet-based environmental monitoring system
Currently, environmental monitoring plays such an important role in human life. This research work was carried out to monitor the environment of air and water quality that displayed the data through the mobile phone or computer. This is due to several challenges while monitoring the environment …
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Dense, low-power environmental monitoring for smart energy profiling
… of dense sensor networks can provide real-time monitoring of a building's airflow and thermal management systems without the need for computationally-intensive theoretical models, and can use this data to inform and advance these models. Sensor networks can provide an accurate picture of the …
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Metagenomics-Based Environmental Monitoring of Antibiotic Resistance: Towards Standardization
… Coordinated surveillance within the environmental sector is largely underdeveloped in current National Action Plans to combat the spread of AR, and a lack of effective study approaches and standard analytical methods have led to a dearth of impactful environmental monitoring data on …
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Marine Aggregate Dredging: A New Regional Approach to Environmental Monitoring
… and specifically the approach taken to the monitoring of environmental effects on the seabed. The thesis forms the evidence required to allow the author to be examined for a PhD by Publication, and comprises of a list of the author’s publications, a confirmation of the author’s contribution …
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Urban Sound and Environmental Monitoring using Distributed IoT Sensor Nodes
Urban sound and environmental monitoring are essential in urban planning, noise pollution control, and public safety. By collecting and analysing urban data, cities can make proper decisions to improve the quality of life for their residents. This research proposes a scalable, flexible, and …
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To the Window, To the Wall: Improving Environmental Monitoring Protocols
<p>Detecting microorganisms on environmental surfaces via an environmental monitoring (EM) program is part of a preventive food safety culture. Environmental monitoring should 1) verify that food safety plans are reducing cross-contamination risk from surfaces to food, 2) pinpoint microbial niches, …
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Classification Analysis for Environmental Monitoring: Combining Information across Multiple Studies
Environmental studies often employ data collected over large spatial regions. Although it is convenient, the conventional single model approach may fail to accurately describe the relationships between variables. Two alternative modeling approaches are available: one applies separate models for …
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Neural networks applied to ocean colour remote sensing for environmental monitoring
Autotrophic algal organisms that perform photosynthesis are the basis of the marine food web and absorb up to 30% of the anthropogenic emitted CO2 (Gruber et al., 2007). The algal concentration can be measured by retrieving their chlorophyll a concentration from remote sensing. The light signal …
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AOMDV-E: energy aware event-based routing protocol for environmental monitoring
… rapid changes in climatic conditions worldwide, environmental monitoring has become one of the greatest concerns in the last few years. With the advancement in the wireless sensing technology, it is now possible to monitor and track fine-grained changes in different environments. Wireless sensor …
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Bridge to digital converters for environmental monitoring in edge IoT devices
Continuous air monitoring is crucial for maintaining safe and comfortable home and work environments, particularly in industries that handle flammable or toxic gases, which pose serious health risks. Consequently, there is an increasing focus on developing wearable gas sensors to protect workers in …
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Advancing generative AI for enhanced analytics in urban and environmental monitoring
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Immersion cooled environmental monitoring and prediction system for the meerKAT imager
… tested. This prototyped system was called the Environmental Monitoring System (EMS), and it monitors humidity and temperature of the oil-cooled environment. In this study, discrete temperature data gathered by the thermal management system is used to build a prediction program that we called …
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Development of software architecture for environmental monitoring using wireless sensor networks
… of the software architecture for temperature monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The goal of the software is to provide a means to remotely monitor and analyze temperature data in a closed environment. This architecture forms a building block to achieve the larger aim of energy …
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