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Application of GIS for assessing human vulnerability to cyclone in India
This paper presents the use of GIS to assess human vulnerability due to cyclonic storm in India. Human vulnerability is conceptualized here as the exposure to hazard by external activity (e.g. cyclone) and coping capacity of the people to reduce the risk. The assessment looks at the potential exposure to people impacted by cyclonic activity in 32 Indian states and locates the vulnerable population
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Sheik M. Nazmul Hossain, Ashbindu Singh
A flood early warning system for southern Africa
Sizeable areas of the Southern African Region experienced widespread flooding in 2000. Deployment of hydrologic models can help reduce the human and economic losses in the regions by providing improved monitoring and forecast information to guide relief activities. In this study, we describe a hydrologic model developed for wide-area flood risk monitoring for the Southern African region. The model
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Guleid A. Artan, Miguel Restrepo, Kwabena Asante, James Verdin
Application of decision-tree techniques to forest group and basal area mapping using satellite imagery and forest inventory data
Accurate, current, and cost-effective fire fuel data are required by management and fire science communities for use in reducing wildland fire hazards over large areas. In this paper we present results of applying decision-tree techniques to mapping vegetation parameters (such as vegetation types and canopy structure classification) required for fire fuel characterization. Specifically, we present
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George Z. Xian, Zhiliang Zhu, Michael Hoppus, Michael Fleming
Integrating satellite and climate data for U.S. drought mapping and monitoring: First steps
Although droughts are normal, recurring climate phenomena, they challenge our current ability to plan, predict, monitor, and provide relief to drought stricken areas. Because of the spatial and temporal variability of droughts, we need to improve the tools available to map and monitor them on many scales from local to national. A team of researchers from the US Geological Survey’s EROS Data Center
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Jesslyn F. Brown, Tsegaye Tadesse, Bradley C. Reed
A prototype drought monitoring system integrating climate and satellite data
Droughts are natural hazards with varying patterns in space, time, and intensity. Their dynamic character challenges our ability in planning, predicting, monitoring, and providing relief to affected areas. Because of the spatial and temporal variability and multiple impacts of droughts, we need to improve the tools and data available for mapping and monitoring this phenomenon on all scales. A team
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Jesslyn F. Brown, Bradley C. Reed, Michael J. Hayes, Donald A. Wilhite, Kenneth G. Hubbard
Is it More Important to Characterize Heterogeneity or Differences in Hydraulic Conductivity Measurements?
As a first step toward understanding the role of sedimentary structures in flow and transport through porous media, this work deterministically examines how transport simulations compare to observed transport through simple, artificial structures in a laboratory experiment. Small-scale laboratory-measured values of hydraulic conductivity were used to simulate transport in an intermediate-scale (10
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G. Barth, Mary C. Hill, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Harihar Rajaram
Depositional sequences and facies in the Torok Formation, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska (NPRA)
Brookian turbidites (Cretaceous through Tertiary) have become oil exploration objectives on the NorthSlope of Alaska during the past decade, and it is likely this focus will extend into the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA). A regional grid of 2-D seismic data, sparse well control, and field work in the Brooks Range foothills provide constraints for an ongoing effort to establish a sequence
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David W. Houseknecht, Christopher J. Schenk
Engineering history and impacts of the Bonneville landslide, Columbia River Gorge, Washington-Oregon, U.S.A
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R. L. Schuster, P. T. Pringle
Usoi landslide dam, southeastern Tajikistan
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Effects of water use diversion regulation and conservation on sediemtn transport with comparisons from the United States
Too much sediment and too little water are related problems in China’s Yellow River Basin. Sediment yield in the basin averages about 2,100 t/(km2·a), greatest is of the world’s large rivers although the Yellow River ranks 31st in mean flow. A quarter of the sediment deposited in the 780-km lower reach, causing bed levels to rise an average of a meter per decade wang and other. Sediment aggradatio
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J. R. Gray, W. R. Osterkamp, Xu Jianhua
Watershed restoration for anadromous rainbow trout in Washington's Wind River, USA
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P.J. Connolly, B. Bair
11 things a geologist thinks an engineer should know about carbonate beaches
This is a review of the geological aspects of carbonate beaches that a geologist thinks may be useful for an engineer. Classical geologic problems of carbonate beaches, for example how ancient examples are recognized in rock sequences, are of little interest to engineers. Geologists not involved in engineering problems may find it difficult to know what an engineer should understand about carbonat
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Robert B. Halley