[PDF] Top 20 Evaluating scale and roughness effects in urban flood modelling using terrestrial LIDAR data

... looking terrestrial laser scanners rather than nadir pointing airborne Li- DAR systems is that small scale features such as kerbs and walls are much better re- ...airborne LiDAR resolutions ... See full document

... inundation modelling. Previous research on LiDAR applications to river hydraulics has addressed not only the influence of mesh resolution of processed laser data but that of the characteristic ... See full document

... precise and detailed surface morphology is of broad interest in engineering geology and rock ...weathering and material classification using relative reflectance, and ... See full document

... the urban flood prone area is represented by a system of related storage cells is here adopted, thus avoiding the need of intrinsically uncertain de- termination of the roughness map and of ... See full document

... events; and (iii), the Flood Assistance Mitigation (FMA) grant program, focused on reducing the number of NFIP claims ...[12]. In 2013, FEMA announced national grant opportunities for PDM and ... See full document

... urbanism using the project of the Albufeira city river ...solutions and by implementing a green and blue rather than a grey infrastructure to reduce the risks of climate change, such as heat island ... See full document

... values in six classes shows that nearly 62 % of the occurrences lie in the ...shown in Fig. 6a. Values below 0.3 are not coincident with occurrences and these ones are present resid- ually ... See full document

... movies and become acquainted with the new ...times in order to master some specific features of a tool, experience shows that this is preferred to a classroom demonstration of a new ...question and ... See full document

... particularly in free formed tunnel linings or retaining walls, sprayed concrete can be applied on the exposed surfaces immediately after excavation for shotcreting rock ...outcrops. In these situations, ... See full document

... employed in the study in the PDS format and also compared with the AMS ...Here in the present case only L-moment method of parameter estimation has been ...of data available but is a ... See full document

... or lidar data ...interest in various disciplines. For instance, roads in remote sensing data represent ...line-networks. In medical data neurons and vessels can be ... See full document

... interest in the process-based morphology of bedrock channels has led to the creation of a number of mor- phological classification models for steep mountain streams (Wohl and Merritt, ...Montgomery ... See full document

... represents in general drier climatic conditions rela- tive to the northwest, with rainfall occurring between Oc- tober and May and a sharp climatic gradient that changes from Mediterranean climate ... See full document

... k-times, and v(o) refers to the surface function (which returns the total height of the non-zero pixels and the volume of ...shown in Figure 3 (a), the value of  S n , increases as the size of the ... See full document

... of urban air pollution, evaluating blood pressure and heart ...showed in- creased blood pressure and decreased heart rate vari- ability during the highest polluted ...are in ... See full document

... 2008 and 2009 prior to salmon ...middle, and lower zones of the clam bed spanning the vertical width of the clam bed (Fig ...outlets and adjacent to the main channel within each estuary tidal ... See full document

... photos in order to discover and summarize city ...[Nister and Stewenius, 2006] to gen- erate the content descriptor of ...“scene-view”, using textual clustering to aggregate “views” into ... See full document

... open-ness and heterogeneity – at first sight an A type [Battersea] system [Figure ...the scale [Figure ...element in the currency of communication between hosts and Nigerians is prostitution; ... See full document

... ellipsoid. Terrestrial laser scanning is much more likely to encounter various shapes of objects showing the different orientation of their ...example in the areas of the rock overhangs and thanks ... See full document

... capacity and system’s resiliency, as a whole, and not nec- essarily on its unaltered natural potential” (Mendiondo, 1999; Mendiondo, 2000a, ...achievable and measurable than to have vague, idealistic ... See full document