The rapidly increasing amount of 3D content that is generated through geometry acquisition, simulation, and modeling tools, demands methods that produce efficient data representations. This thesis is concerned with the approximation of two different kinds of densely sampled data sets. Firstly, surfaces from geometry processing in computer graphics, and secondly, observational data in numerical ...

Conventional vision systems are designed to perform in clear weather. However, any outdoor vision system is incomplete without mechanisms that guarantee satisfactory performance under poor weather conditions. It is known that the atmosphere can significantly alter light energy reaching an observer. Therefore, atmospheric scattering models must be used to make vision systems robust in bad weathe...

The aim of the article was to explore pet welfare in Municipal Adaptation Plans (MAPs), based on a literature review and case studies 40 MAPs accepted Poland as part “Let’s Feel Climate” project, supported by Polish Ministry Environment 2017–2019. study summarizes concept climate change importance adaptation measures with particular emphasis urban heat islands stress, acknowledged literature, o...

The world is undergoing rapid changes in its climate, environment, and ecosystems due to increasing population growth, urbanization, and industrialization. Numerical simulation is becoming an important vehicle to enhance the understanding of these changes and their impacts, with regional and global simulation models producing vast amounts of data. Comprehending these multidimensional data and f...

ain has fallen on the explosive wildfire that ripped through the Fort McMurray region of Canada last month, but the inferno is likely to burn until the snow falls later in the year. The raging fire was a true force of nature. It sent out embers that skipped natural barriers such as the Athabasca River, hundreds of metres wide, and created its own weather system: pyrocumulus clouds that generate...

This study compares how well general aviation (GA) pilots detect convective weather in flight with different weather information sources. A flight test was conducted in which GA pilot test subjects were given different in-flight weather information cues and flown toward convective weather of moderate or greater intensity. The test subjects were not actually flying the aircraft, but were given p...

The Biblical quotation above is an ancient example of attempting to make meteorological predictions based on empirical observations. The idea it contains tends to work as a forecasting scheme, and it has been expressed in many different ways in the subsequent 2,000 years. it is one of many sayings and rhymes of folklore that provide a qualitative description of the weather. In the 17th century,...

Ground-based weather radar data plays an essential role in monitoring severe convective weather. The detection of such systems time is critical for saving people’s lives and property. However, the limited spatial coverage radars over ocean mountainous regions greatly limits their effective application. In this study, we propose a novel framework deep learning-based model to retrieve composite r...