A number of hedonic property pricing studies of flood risk indicate that properties within a designated higher flood risk zone sell for a lower price than an equivalent property outside of it. However, often the homes most at flood risk are also the most desirable in terms of their proximity to the water, and this concurrent existence of positive water-related amenities and negative flood risk ...

Connectivity is crucial for the persistence and resilience of marine species, the establishment of networks of marine protected areas and the delineation of fishery management units. In the marine environment, understanding connectivity is still a major challenge, due to the technical difficulties of tracking larvae. Recently, parentage analysis has provided a means to address this question eff...

This paper describes the development and test in simulation of a coast line following preview controller for the DELFIMx autonomous surface craft (ASC) that takes into account the reference characteristics ahead of the vehicle. The presented solution is based on the definition of an error vector to be driven to zero by the path-following controller. The proposed methodology for controller desig...

A total of 59 categories of litter items were found at 20 beaches (13 mechanically cleaned, 7 non-cleaned) in the Cádiz tourist environment, Spain. Cluster Analysis and Principal Components Analysis were used to highlight similarities and contrasts between sites and/or associations between litter categories. Multivariate analyses separated beaches according to the total numbers of litter items ...

In a recent issue of the Proceedings, Jennings & Smyth (1990) investigated a critical aspect of the Holocene coastal evolution of much of Britain; namely gravel (or shingle) sediment supply and beach morphodynamics through time. Their study area is the coastline of East Sussex, and it should be noted that it is only a component of the larger coastal unit (or 'master cell') between Selsey Bill a...

A proper understanding of the risk associated with sea-level change can only be attained by adherence to accurate terminology. In particular, it is vital to recognize the distinction between changes in eustatic sea-level, which correspond to changes in a notional world-wide average, and changes in local relative sea-level (LRSL), which correspond to changes in actual sea-levels at real and part...

Applying 4-levels grid nested WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model to predict meteorological elements of wind farm field, and employing WRF model outputs and SCADA data of wind turbines to construct wind power forecast models by using the APLSR (Adapting Partial Least Square Regression) method, this paper has conducted wind power forecast in 24 hours ahead, at Wenling wind farm which lo...

Polarimetric SAR imagery can provide detailed level of information both to detect the border line and to classify an immediately close area regarding to urban areas, ports infrastructures and vegetation. Compact-pol features are derived from Radarsat-2 full-pol data and their combination is applied both to edge detection and to coast classification in Sardegna’s South Coast Italy. Initialy, coa...