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How Useful Is Gsv As An Environmental Observation Tool? An Analysis Of The Evidence So Far., Katherine Nesse, Leah Airt
How Useful Is Gsv As An Environmental Observation Tool? An Analysis Of The Evidence So Far., Katherine Nesse, Leah Airt
SPU Works
Researchers in many disciplines have turned to Google Street View to replace pedestrian- or carbased in-person observation of streetscapes. It is most prevalent within the research literature on the relationship between neighborhood environments and public health but has been used as diverse as disaster recovery, ecology and wildlife habitat, and urban design. Evaluations of the tool have found that the results of GSV-based observation are similar to the results from in-person observation although the similarity depends on the type of characteristic being observed. Larger, permanent and discrete features showed more consistency between the two methods and smaller, transient and judgmental …
Developing Ict Skills Of Stem Teachers In Mexico: The Key Role Of The Tutorial Function, Alexander N. Chen, David Mccalman, Mark E. Mcmurtrey, J. Gabriel Domínguez Castillo, Víctor Manuel Cab Pech
Developing Ict Skills Of Stem Teachers In Mexico: The Key Role Of The Tutorial Function, Alexander N. Chen, David Mccalman, Mark E. Mcmurtrey, J. Gabriel Domínguez Castillo, Víctor Manuel Cab Pech
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
It is well documented in distance education literature that one of the factors that are considered essential to the success of an online course is the tutorial function. The role of counselor consists of assisting and encouraging students, building learning activities, and developing support strategies for the use of technology. The tutor thus was assessed as one element of great importance in on-line education, and, to some, an essential feature of this mode. In this paper, the importance of the tutorial function and its effect on the development of skills for using information and communication technology (ICT) in science, technology, …
A Location-Aware Middleware Framework For Collaborative Visual Information Discovery And Retrieval, Andrew J.M. Compton
A Location-Aware Middleware Framework For Collaborative Visual Information Discovery And Retrieval, Andrew J.M. Compton
Theses and Dissertations
This work addresses the problem of scalable location-aware distributed indexing to enable the leveraging of collaborative effort for the construction and maintenance of world-scale visual maps and models which could support numerous activities including navigation, visual localization, persistent surveillance, structure from motion, and hazard or disaster detection. Current distributed approaches to mapping and modeling fail to incorporate global geospatial addressing and are limited in their functionality to customize search. Our solution is a peer-to-peer middleware framework based on XOR distance routing which employs a Hilbert Space curve addressing scheme in a novel distributed geographic index. This allows for a universal …
Computer-Aided Detection Of Pathologically Enlarged Lymph Nodes On Non-Contrast Ct In Cervical Cancer Patients For Low-Resource Settings, Brian M. Anderson, Laurence E. Court, Ann Klopp, Stephen F. Kry, Jennifer Johnson, Erik Cressman, Arvind Rao, Jinzhong Yang
Computer-Aided Detection Of Pathologically Enlarged Lymph Nodes On Non-Contrast Ct In Cervical Cancer Patients For Low-Resource Settings, Brian M. Anderson, Laurence E. Court, Ann Klopp, Stephen F. Kry, Jennifer Johnson, Erik Cressman, Arvind Rao, Jinzhong Yang
Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)
The mortality rate of cervical cancer is approximately 266,000 people each year, and 70% of the burden occurs in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs). Radiation therapy is the primary modality for treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer cases. In the absence of high quality diagnostic imaging needed to identify nodal metastasis, many LMIC sites treat standard pelvic fields, failing to include node metastasis outside of the field and/or to boost lymph nodes in the abdomen and pelvis. The first goal of this project was to create a program which automatically identifies positive cervical cancer lymph nodes on non-contrast daily …
Low Cost Sms-Enabled Ekg For Use In Developing Countries, Gabriel Christ, Shachi Kakkar, Michael Mcelroy, Augustus Boling
Low Cost Sms-Enabled Ekg For Use In Developing Countries, Gabriel Christ, Shachi Kakkar, Michael Mcelroy, Augustus Boling
Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses
According to official estimates, cardiovascular disease will become the leading cause of death in the developing world by 2020 [1]. This makes regular screening and early detection a priority for these regions. At present, such screening relies on stationary electrocardiogram (ECG) machines, but this technology has several drawbacks. Most machines are costly, stationary, and require a physician onsite to collect and interpret the data; as a result many isolated rural communities lack access to basic heart disease screening. In order to better meet the screening needs of these populations, we propose a twopart solution involving a simplified, inexpensive ECG device …
Taking Afrobarometer Data Everywhere, Christen Nguyen, Sean Thomas, Adrienne Tina
Taking Afrobarometer Data Everywhere, Christen Nguyen, Sean Thomas, Adrienne Tina
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
According to statistics gathered by research group Afrobarometer, many countries in Africa lack infrastructure and basic necessities. In fact, Afrobarometer knows the specific rates of need and availability sampled across thirty-six countries but more prosperous African countries do not know these numbers. These more developed countries are in a position to help their less fortunate neighbors if only made aware of the social and economic climate in the respective areas. Our partnership with Afrobarometer will allow us to advertise these statistics through the use of a mobile application. The data will be displayed in a way that is easy for …
Efficient Revocable Id-Based Signature With Cloud Revocation Server, Xiaoying Jia, Debiao He, Sherali Zeadally, Li Li
Efficient Revocable Id-Based Signature With Cloud Revocation Server, Xiaoying Jia, Debiao He, Sherali Zeadally, Li Li
Information Science Faculty Publications
Over the last few years, identity-based cryptosystem (IBC) has attracted widespread attention because it avoids the high overheads associated with public key certificate management. However, an unsolved but critical issue about IBC is how to revoke a misbehaving user. There are some revocable identity-based encryption schemes that have been proposed recently, but little work on the revocation problem of identity-based signature has been undertaken so far. One approach for revocation in identity-based settings is to update users' private keys periodically, which is usually done by the key generation center (KGC). But with this approach, the load on the KGC will …
When Machines Decide: Creating Justice.Exe, Randy Dryer, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Austin Anderson, Abigail Busath, Logan Cox, Morgan Cox, Logan Erickson, Zachary Grena, Joseph Hutchins, Skyler Jayson, Andrew Yang
When Machines Decide: Creating Justice.Exe, Randy Dryer, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Austin Anderson, Abigail Busath, Logan Cox, Morgan Cox, Logan Erickson, Zachary Grena, Joseph Hutchins, Skyler Jayson, Andrew Yang
Law School Historical Documents
Our Praxis Lab centered on the increasingly important need for algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight, particularly in the context of the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system. Accordingly, we (1) designed an educational simulation to illustrate the function of algorithms in the context of criminal sentencing; (2) created several pre-packaged course modules that faculty in a variety of disciplines could integrate into their existing curriculum to educate students about algorithms and their increasing role in modern society; and (3) curated a set of best practices designed to promote the transparency and oversight of algorithmic systems.
A Novel Direct Torque Control Using Second Order Continuous Sliding Mode Of A Doubly Fed Induction Generator For A Wind Energy Conversion System, Zinelaabidine Boudjema, Rachid Taleb, Youcef Djeriri, Adil Yahdou
A Novel Direct Torque Control Using Second Order Continuous Sliding Mode Of A Doubly Fed Induction Generator For A Wind Energy Conversion System, Zinelaabidine Boudjema, Rachid Taleb, Youcef Djeriri, Adil Yahdou
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
In this paper a new robust direct torque control strategy based on second order continuous sliding mode and space vector modulation of a doubly fed induction generator integrated in a wind energy conversion system is presented. The conventional direct torque control (C-DTC) with hysteresis regulators has significant flux and torque ripples at steady-state operation and also the switching frequency varies in a wide range. The proposed DTC technique based on second order continuous sliding mode control reduces flux, current, and torque ripples. It also narrows down the switching frequency variations in induction machine control. Two different sliding surfaces such as …
Application Of Artificial Intelligence For Detecting Computing Derived Viruses, Jonathan Blackledge, Omotayo Asiru, Moses Dlamini
Application Of Artificial Intelligence For Detecting Computing Derived Viruses, Jonathan Blackledge, Omotayo Asiru, Moses Dlamini
Conference papers
Computer viruses have become complex and operates in a stealth mode to avoid detection. New viruses are argued to be created each and every day. However, most of these supposedly ‘new’ viruses are not completely new. Most of the supposedly ‘new’ viruses are not necessarily created from scratch with completely new (something novel that has never been seen before) mechanisms. For example, most of these viruses just change their form and signatures to avoid detection. But their operation and the way they infect files and systems is still the same. Hence, such viruses cannot be argued to be new. In …
Periodic Control For The Cart Pendulum System With Structured Uncertainty, Arindam Chakraborty, Jayati Dey
Periodic Control For The Cart Pendulum System With Structured Uncertainty, Arindam Chakraborty, Jayati Dey
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The robust stabilization of the cart pendulum system was studied under structured uncertainty with a continuous-time periodic controller. The cart pendulum system was considered here as the test set-up as it is a well-known example of an unstable nonminimum phase system. The uncertainty in the system rose due to measurement error or dry friction in it. In this paper, the robust stability of the periodic controller in the presence of uncertainty was examined. The gain margin and delay margin endow with the periodic controller were superior to those obtained in the case of linear time invariant (LTI) control even in …
A Measurement Study Of Internet Exchange Points (Ixps): History And Future Prediction, Mohammad Masoud, Yousef Jaradat, Ismael Jannoud
A Measurement Study Of Internet Exchange Points (Ixps): History And Future Prediction, Mohammad Masoud, Yousef Jaradat, Ismael Jannoud
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Internet exchange points (IXPs) emerged to remedy the deficiency of peering connections among autonomous systems (ASes). IXPs play an important role in reducing the cost of transit connections over the Internet. This work attempts to study the popularity of IXPs over the Internet. This work consists of two main parts. The first part is a measurement study of multihistorical snapshots of IXPs. These historical data have been harvested for different European IXPs with emphasis on Amsterdam (AMS-IX) IXP. In the second part, two nonlinear autoregressive exogenous (NARX) back-propagation neural network models (BPNN) have been implemented to predict the following: the …
Error Sources And Measurement Uncertainties In Outdoor Testing Of Bipv Modules, Kivanç Başaran
Error Sources And Measurement Uncertainties In Outdoor Testing Of Bipv Modules, Kivanç Başaran
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Although building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems have great potential, investment in this field is not at the desired level. There are two main reasons for this: the lack of technical analysis and economic reasons. Manufacturers and investors utilize datasheets of modules to determine the systems performance, which is determined at standard test conditions (STCs). However, there are apparent differences between STCs and outdoor measurements. Most studies in the field of BIPV system analysis have only focused on long-term outdoor measurements. Besides that, uncertainty of measurements is necessary to achieve scientific results. The aim of this study is to emphasize the importance …
Safety-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks Under A Polyphase Spreading Sequences Scenario, Poonam Goyal, Brahmjit Singh
Safety-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks Under A Polyphase Spreading Sequences Scenario, Poonam Goyal, Brahmjit Singh
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Reliable communication is a vital issue for safety- and mission-critical wireless sensor network environments such as industrial monitoring, medical care, and battlefield surveillance. These networks require highly accurate and delay-intolerant wireless communications. Under such critical conditions, the chip sequences used in these networks become vulnerable because of channel impairments and other interferences, thereby significantly decreasing overall system performance. In this paper, polyphase sequences are employed at the physical layer of IEEE Standard 802.15.4 to enhance the communication reliability of wireless sensor networks. Through an extensive simulation, it is found that upon applying polyphase sequences, the chip errors are reduced to …
Cyber Security, Threat Intelligence: Defending The Digital Platform, Emmnauel U. Opara Dr, Mohammed T. Hussein Dr
Cyber Security, Threat Intelligence: Defending The Digital Platform, Emmnauel U. Opara Dr, Mohammed T. Hussein Dr
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
Network breaches are happening at a phenomenal scale. The unabated exponential level is forcing enterprise systems to scramble for solutions since the world is so interconnected and digitized and the internet knows no boundaries. Due to big data explosion, the platform for attackers to work continues to grow. Most breached entities are not aware that they have been compromised for weeks but finds out after an external audit or a third party notifies the organizations. Since most networks will be breached at some point, it is proper to note that legacy platforms will no longer stand a chance to defend …
Implementation Of A Web-Based Service For Mobile Application Risk Assessment, Asim Si̇nan Yüksel, Mehmet Erkan Yüksel, Ahmet Sertbaş, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m
Implementation Of A Web-Based Service For Mobile Application Risk Assessment, Asim Si̇nan Yüksel, Mehmet Erkan Yüksel, Ahmet Sertbaş, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The Android operating system has increased in popularity and has been increasing its shares in the smart phone market. Users can carry out their daily work such as paying bills, being social, and sharing photos through mobile applications. These applications have access to sensitive information about the user, such as location, contacts, call logs, and SMS messages. However, the users have no knowledge of the applications or the personal information these applications have access to. Even if an application is not malware or does not have malicious behavior, it can compromise the security and privacy of the user by accessing …
การคัดแยกไวรัสคอมพิวเตอร์จากรหัสฐานสอง, ประสิทธิ์ อุษาฟ้าพนัส
การคัดแยกไวรัสคอมพิวเตอร์จากรหัสฐานสอง, ประสิทธิ์ อุษาฟ้าพนัส
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
งานวิจัยนี้นำเสนอการใช้การเรียนรู้แบบมีผู้สอนเพื่อตรวจจับไฟล์ไวรัสคอมพิวเตอร์ที่ไม่เคยพบมาก่อนแบบ static ผู้วิจัยได้ทดสอบกับตัวแยกประเภทจำนวน 3 แบบ คือ random forest, multilayer perceptron และ extreme gradient boosting ชุดข้อมูลประกอบด้วย 6319 ไฟล์ executable แต่ละไฟล์ถูกสกัดด้วย objdump แล้วจัดเรียงตามคะแนน TF-IDF เพื่อหา feature ที่เหมาะสม ผลลัพธ์เปรียบเทียบด้วย F1-score คือ สามารถใช้ตัวแยกประเภทแบบ random forest ร่วมกับข้อมูลที่มี 20 attribute ได้ 0.937 F1-score ซึ่งมากกว่าบรรทัดฐานอยู่ 0.031 F1-score และ สามารถใช้ตัวแยกประเภทแบบ extreme gradient boosting ร่วมกับข้อมูลที่มี 500 attribute ได้ 0.962 F1-score ซึ่งมากกว่าบรรทัดฐานอยู่ 0.041 F1-score จึงสรุปได้ว่าวิธีการในงานวิจัยนี้สามารถเพิ่ม precision และ recall ของการแยกประเภทได้
Why Mobile Money Users Keep Increasing? Investigating The Continuance Usage Of Mobile Money Services In Tanzania, Daniel Koloseni, Herman Mandari
Why Mobile Money Users Keep Increasing? Investigating The Continuance Usage Of Mobile Money Services In Tanzania, Daniel Koloseni, Herman Mandari
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
This study examined factors that affect continuance usage of mobile money services in Tanzania. The Theory of Planned Behavior was adopted as a theoretical foundation of the study. The theory was further extended by including the constructs of perceived cost, perceived trust and satisfaction as determinants of mobile money service continuance usage behaviour. A total of 309 valid and reliable responses collected using questionnaires were used for data analysis. The data were analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The findings depict that perceived trust, attitude and perceived behavioral control have significant influence on continuance behavioral intention while perceived trust, …
Safety Airway For Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using A Gas Particles Behavior Analogy, Pablo Rangel
Safety Airway For Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using A Gas Particles Behavior Analogy, Pablo Rangel
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented the Part 107 legislation to allow the flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for commercial use (i.e. package deliveries, power transmission line inspections, etc.) in the National Airspace System (NAS). As a consequence of the newly introduced rules, there is an increased risk for accidents involving injured bystanders or damaged to property. The work within this document defines a UAV to UAV safety distance model that acts as a range sensor enabled "elastic bubble". The length of the UAV safety bubble contracts and expands upon changing airway wind speed conditions. It also …
Violating Of Individual Privacy: Moroccan Perceptions Of The Ban Of Voip Services, Tyler Delhees
Violating Of Individual Privacy: Moroccan Perceptions Of The Ban Of Voip Services, Tyler Delhees
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
On January 6, 2016, the Moroccan telecommunications regulatory agency, the ANRT, announced a ban onVoice Over Internet Protocol(VoIP) calling services such as Skype, WhatsApp, and Viber. The ban triggered sweeping opposition among the Moroccan public, opening discussion of digital rights, censorship, and Internet governance. Considering liberal democratic rights in the 2011 Moroccan Constitution and a history of censorship, this study analyzes the official justification of the ANRT alongside additional explanations involving business interests and the security services. The purpose of this study is to gauge the perceptions of Moroccans on the decision of the ANRT and provide a holistic explanation. …
Real-Time Monitoring Of Sand And Dust Storm Winds Using Wireless Sensor Technology, Hana Mohammed Mujlid
Real-Time Monitoring Of Sand And Dust Storm Winds Using Wireless Sensor Technology, Hana Mohammed Mujlid
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation proposes an empirical model for prediction of the radio path loss in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The model applies to WSNs that are deployed in environments with dust and sand storms. It is developed as a result of statistical analysis of the measured data collected during dust and sand storms. The measured data were obtained at 2.4GHz and for different levels of the storm severity. For the purpose of data collection a custom measurement system based on Xbee air interface was developed. The proposed model shows a very good agreement with the measured data. It is also demonstrated …
A Study Of Applications Of 3d Animation For Emergency Medicine Pedagogy, Huilong Zheng
A Study Of Applications Of 3d Animation For Emergency Medicine Pedagogy, Huilong Zheng
Open Access Theses
There is ample precedent for the use of 3D animation in education, though little research on specific applications in the field of medicine. An experiment was carried out to assess the suitability of 3D animation for educational purposes in emergency medicine courses. Two groups of experimental participants were assessed on their ability to respond to three emergency medical situations in simulated test scenarios. Both groups received equivalent information on how to treat the three different medical emergencies. The control group received the information in traditional lecture format. The experimental group instead received the information from a set of 3D animations. …
E3.Pt – An E3 Portabledyme Model For Portugal, Anett Großmann, Frank Hohmann
E3.Pt – An E3 Portabledyme Model For Portugal, Anett Großmann, Frank Hohmann
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
E3 models are environmentally extended economic models. They are extensively used for impact assessment of energy, climate and resource policies at national and international level. E3 models have proven to be suitable tools for quantifying effects on the economy, environment and energy system. Usually, the structure and documentation of such models are only accessible by the model builders. They are facing the allegation to be a "black box" meaning that only their creators are able to operate and fully understand the model system. Decision makers are often only engaged at the end of the model building process to discuss the …
A Framework For Decision-Making In Cases Of Invasive Species, Peter A. Khaiter, Marina G. Erechtchoukova, Sina Roushan
A Framework For Decision-Making In Cases Of Invasive Species, Peter A. Khaiter, Marina G. Erechtchoukova, Sina Roushan
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Invasion of nonindigenous species is one of the most pressing global challenges, causing substantial environmental, economic and social harm. Invasion of alien species alters the composition, structure and functioning of invaded ecosystems as well as the services they generated before the invasion. Decisions about the management of invasive cases are inherently difficult because of the multifactorial and multiattribute scope of the problem. In particular, the resilience limits of invaded ecosystems to fully recover original, pre-invaded states remain unclear. To facilitate management efforts, decision-makers and environmental practitioners require a framework integrating relevant knowledge and acting as a supporting expert system. The …
Simulating Spatial Changes In Vegetation-Livestock Interactions Under Different Landscape Structures: A Multi-Agent System Applied To Agro-Pastoral Territories, Mamadou Sané, Jonathan Vayssières, Myriam Grillot, Alassane Bah, Alexandre Ickowicz
Simulating Spatial Changes In Vegetation-Livestock Interactions Under Different Landscape Structures: A Multi-Agent System Applied To Agro-Pastoral Territories, Mamadou Sané, Jonathan Vayssières, Myriam Grillot, Alassane Bah, Alexandre Ickowicz
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Free-range and common-grazing ruminants play a major role in the functioning and the provision of ecosystem services by agro- and silvo-pastoral ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa. To assess how landscape structure affects the nature of environment-herd-services interactions, this paper describes a Multi-Agent System (MAS) that simulates daily herd movements in a dynamic environment. The model is used to study how the overall productivity of an agricultural territory is affected by the spatial organization of its different landscape units. The originality of this model lies in fine representation, in hourly time steps, of a herd’s movements and activities over the seasons depending …
Evapotranspiration Mapping Using Sebal Algorithms To Account For Agricultural Water Uses In The Upper Pangani, Tanzania, Anna Msigwa, Ann Van Griensven, Hans C. Komakech, Boud Verbeiren, Tim Hessels, Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen
Evapotranspiration Mapping Using Sebal Algorithms To Account For Agricultural Water Uses In The Upper Pangani, Tanzania, Anna Msigwa, Ann Van Griensven, Hans C. Komakech, Boud Verbeiren, Tim Hessels, Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
To make informed decisions, river basin managers requires information on demands and actual usage from different sectors in the basin. Such water use information has to be adequate in terms of quantities used per sector, where and when. However, because of high costs of maintaining equipment for monitoring use, it is very difficult to obtain this information in developing arid and semi- arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. The use of proxy method such as calculation of evapotranspiration is proposed as a cheaper means for such data acquisition. Water consumption through crop evapotranspiration (ET) is a major component of water withdrawal, …
Up In The Air: Understanding Vulnerability When Toilets Fly, Amy Krakowka Richmond, Suzanne Pierce, Sethi Gautam
Up In The Air: Understanding Vulnerability When Toilets Fly, Amy Krakowka Richmond, Suzanne Pierce, Sethi Gautam
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Across sub-Saharan Africa, both natural and social factors contribute to household level vulnerability. This case study focuses specifically on Uganda, which has made progress towards meeting the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, most notably halving the proportion of the population that is below the poverty line. Despite these impressive achievements, many households remain vulnerable to multiple social and environmental stressors. A better understanding of the drivers of household level vulnerability will assist stakeholders and policy-makers in determining what drives vulnerability at a household level, where vulnerable populations are, and suggest what type of aid to target specific locations to be …
Hindcasting The Dynamics Of An Eastern Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Under The Impacts Of Multiple And Cumulative Stressors, X. Corrales, M. Coll, E. Ofir, M. Goren, D. Edelist, J. J. Heymans, G. Gal
Hindcasting The Dynamics Of An Eastern Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Under The Impacts Of Multiple And Cumulative Stressors, X. Corrales, M. Coll, E. Ofir, M. Goren, D. Edelist, J. J. Heymans, G. Gal
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
An important challenge for conserving and managing marine ecosystems is to advance our understanding of how multiple human stressors, environmental factors and marine resources interact and influence each other. The ecosystems of the Israeli Mediterranean coast have undergone significant ecological changes in recent decades caused primarily by the introduction of invasive species through the Suez Canal, intense fishing activities and the effects of climate change. An Ecopath model representing the continental shelf of the Israeli Mediterranean coast was calibrated and fitted to the available time series from early 1990’s to 2010 using the Ecosim temporal dynamic modeling approach. The model …
Application Of The Swat Model To Investigate Surface Runoff And Nitrate Flux Towards The Mediterranean Sea: Case Of The Tafna Catchment (North-West Of Africa), Amin Zettam, Amina Taleb, Sabine Sauvage, José Miguel Sanchez-Perez, Laurie Boithias, Nouria Belaidi
Application Of The Swat Model To Investigate Surface Runoff And Nitrate Flux Towards The Mediterranean Sea: Case Of The Tafna Catchment (North-West Of Africa), Amin Zettam, Amina Taleb, Sabine Sauvage, José Miguel Sanchez-Perez, Laurie Boithias, Nouria Belaidi
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Water in North-West of Africa is an increasingly valuable resource due to high competition between agriculture, industry and drinking water supply, accentuated by frequent drought conditions in a semi-arid climate. For a few decades, the demographic explosion, the development of agriculture and industry, and the building of water infrastructures (dams) have modified the water fluxes and the biogeochemical cycle of nitrogen towards an increased production of nitrates in waters. The objectives of this study are to propose a modelling approach to quantify the contribution of the Tafna coastal watershed (North-West of Africa) to the flux of nitrates into the Mediterranean …