in 2008, the organisation of gas exporting countries (ogec) was formally established with 11 members in doha, qatar. while having economic and business nature, the organisation is seen as the gas opec, having the potential for changing the geo-strategic and geopolitical structure of the world. therefore, it is regarded as a threat by europe and the us to the security of their energy supply. isl...

Spatially-detailed forest height data are useful to monitor local, regional and global carbon cycle. LiDAR remote sensing can measure three-dimensional forest features but generating spatially-contiguous forest height maps at a large scale (e.g., continental and global) is problematic because existing LiDAR instruments are still data-limited and expensive. This paper proposes a new approach bas...

Enriching user profiles using geo-social place semantics in geo-folksonomies Ehab ElGindy & Alia Abdelmoty To cite this article: Ehab ElGindy & Alia Abdelmoty (2014) Enriching user profiles using geosocial place semantics in geo-folksonomies, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28:7, 1439-1458, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.894194 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/1...

Methods to improve bearing capacity of footing resting of collapsing soil can, in fact, take two approaches, improving soil strength properties and intrusion of reinforcing sorces into soil. The footing is modeled by a square steel plate 0.1 by 0.1 m. The footing is loaded as to have a stress of 40 kPa and settlement is receded in dry and in soaking conditions. Two depths of the geo-mesh reinfo...

The Geoprocessing model on Coastal vulnerability index algorithm has been developed by integrating multiple geo-spatial parameters to identify the vulnerable zone along the South west coast of Tamil Nadu. Present study is to design the automatic executable geoprocessing model that can support to analysis the datasets such as geomorphology, coastal erosion and accretion, coastal slope, relative ...

Imagers on many of the current and future operational meteorological satellites in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) and lower Earth orbit (LEO) have enough spectral channels to derive cloud microphysical properties useful for a variety of applications. The products include cloud amount, phase, optical depth, temperature, height and pressure, thickness, effective particle size, and ice or liquid ...