Observing Weather

Lightning Sensors for Observing, Tracking and Nowcasting Severe Weather

Severe and extreme weather is a major natural hazard all over the world, oftenresulting in major natural disasters such as hail storms, tornados, wind storms, flash floods,forest fires and lightning damages. While precipitation, wind, hail, tornados, turbulence,etc. can only be observed at close distances, lightning activity in these damaging stormscan be monitored at all spatial scales, from l...

Research Priorities in Observing and Modeling Urban Weather and Climate

Observing Processes

This paper discusses the sorts of observations of processes that are appropriate to capture priority. The standard denotational semantics for CSP are based around observations of traces and refusals. Choosing to record a little more detail allows extensions of CSP which describe some very general processes including those that include priority. A minimal set of observations yields a language an...

Observing Attention

Understanding whether an event attracted the audience’s attention and which moments were mostly enjoyable is a primary goal for sport and show business managers. OZ (Osservare l’attenZione – Observing attention) is an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods project that aims at developing a technology able to automatically detect at run time spectators’ attention level, via the integration of microsoc...

observing urban soilpollution usingmagnetic susceptibility

pollution of urban soils dramatically reduces life and environmental quality. the most commonpollutants are heavymetals and organic contaminants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinatedbiphenyl. main source of these pollutants is fossil fuels which are pervasive in urban and/or industrializedareas. identifying type and intensity of the pollution is essential to prepare an effec...