Due to the expected climate change driven increase of extreme weather events, damage risks for infrastructure and buildings are rising. Hence spatial decision-support material is necessary to enhance risk management and planning strategies. The presented study contributes to this topic by means of an analysis of cloud-to-ground lightning patterns and their impact on structural facilities using ...

An accurate digital elevation model (DEM) is a critical data set for characterizing the natural landscape, monitoring natural hazards, and georeferencing satellite imagery. The ideal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) configuration for DEM production is a single-pass two-antenna system. Repeat-pass single-antenna satellite InSAR imagery, however, also can be used to produce useful...

Trucking has been classified as one of the highest-risk occupations in the United States. Occupational stress is even greater for long-haul truckers who are away from home, family, friends, and other support networks for several days or weeks at a time. Occupational stressors and the mental health of truckers was studied using data collected as part of a large multisite ethno-epidemiological st...

The disaster that low temperature and spare sunlight occurred in North China is a major weather hazards to the sunlight greenhouse vegetable growing. The establishment of disaster warning system of low temperature and spare sunlight for greenhouse is of great significance to the disaster mitigation and prevention. According to the climate characteristics of Hebei Province and regional distribut...

Work-zone safety continues to be a priority and a concern for the Federal Highway Association as well as most state departments of transportation. The main objective of this study is to uncover work-zone freeway crash characteristics to help develop countermeasures that limit work-zones’ hazards. The Florida Crash Records Database for years 2002, 2003, and 2004 was utilized for this study. Cond...

Time series prediction finds various applications in medicine, stock market, meteorology, geology, astronomy, chemistry, biometrics and robotics. In this paper we give a review on various modeling techniques in soft computing for various weather applications in presence of chaos if any. There are various prediction models which enhance the ability to reduce the after effects of the hazards crea...

With weather-related natural hazards increasing in number and severity, it is more important than ever for communities to prepare all types of hazards. However, the literature does not reveal what such preparedness looks like – how much preparation enough and, conversely, low levels can be easily recognised by emergency agencies. This study maps Australian agency understanding competencies that...

The satellite image based applications are highly utilized nowadays from simple purposes like vehicle navigation to complex surveillance and virtual environment modeling projects. On increased population rate, the depletion of natural resources is highly unavoidable and it leads to increased threats on natural hazards. In order to protect and overcome the physical losses on devastation of prope...

The association between meteorologic temperature and sudden infant death syndrome was investigated in the 1982-1983 North Carolina birth cohort. Maximum daily temperatures recorded at weather stations in the subject's county of residence for each day of the first year of life were entered into hazards models as time-dependent covariates. Risk ratios for a maximum temperature of < or = 53 degree...