This paper explores the social and spatial implications of drinking water infrastructures in rural southern Bihar. Hardiya, a multi-caste multi-religion village, has complex arrangement. village consists original households, households resettled due to dam construction, excessive fluoride contamination groundwater. Excessive produces incidences fluorosis among historically, have low access clea...

Virtual 3D city models provide important information for different aspects of disaster management. In order to ensure the unambiguous interpretation of the represented objects, an ontology in the sense of a common information model for urban and regional structures has to be defined. Furthermore, up-to-dateness of and flexible access to 3D city models are of utmost importance. Spatial Data Infr...

An increasing number of applications rely on 3D geoinformation. In addition to 3D geometry, these applications particularly require complex semantic information. In the context of spatial data infrastructures the needed data are drawn from distributed sources and often are thematically and spatially fragmented. Straight forward joining of 3D objects would inevitably lead to geometrical inconsis...

INTRODUCTION On 26 December 2003, a catastrophic earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale devastated large areas of the city of Bam in southeastern Iran. More than 40,000 people died, tens of thousands were injured, and almost 20,000 homes were destroyed. Many national and international search-and-rescue teams were dispatched to the area to provide medical and health services and assist in...

Technological advances have enabled multiple countries to consider implementing Smart City Infrastructure provide in-depth insights into different data points and enhance the lives of citizens. Unfortunately, these new technological implementations also entice adversaries cybercriminals execute cyber-attacks commit criminal acts on modern infrastructures. Given borderless nature cyber attacks, ...

In recent years, Smart City Infrastructures (SCI) have become familiar whereas intelligent models been designed to improve the quality of living in smart cities. Simultaneously, anomaly detection SCI has a hot research topic and is widely explored enhance safety pedestrians. The increasing popularity video surveillance system drastic increase amount collected videos make conventional physical i...

The WHO European Healthy Cities project developed city health profiles (CHPs) to provide the evidence base for health planning. A CHP is a public health report that brings together key pieces of information on health and its determinants in the city and interprets and analyses the information. This CHP would then form the basis of a city health development plan that would set out strategies and...

this interdisciplinary paper aims at guangzhou’s development and its effects on surface andgroundwater quality taking the new city axis as an example. qualitative morphological analyses, field mappings, interviews and water sampling of standard in-situ and various hydrochemical parameters were conducted between 2007 and 2009 in order to examine the following research questions: which types of l...