Prospecting for in situ mineral resources is essential for establishing settlements on the Moon and Mars. To reduce human effort and risk, it is desirable to build robotic systems to perform this prospecting. An important issue in designing such systems is the sampling strategy: how do the robots choose where to prospect next? This paper argues that a strategy called Adaptive Cluster Sampling (...

The piezoelectric and seismo-electrokinetic phenomena are manifested by electrical and electromagnetic processes that occur in rocks under the influence of elastic oscillations triggered by shots or mechanical impacts. Differences in piezoelectric properties between the studied targets and host media determine the possibilities of the piezoelectric/seismoelectric method application. Over a long...

This writing will focus on the impact of oil and gas development landscape, surface water groundwater Niger Delta – while also assessing various means remediation in use. Geologically, petroleum systems consist Lower Cretaceous , Upper Cretaceous–lower Paleocene Tertiary. When Nigeria became an independent nation 1 October 1960, Shell–BP began to relinquish its acreage exploration licenses were...

China’s reemergence among the world’s leading economic and political powers has been one of most defining changes in international order since end Cold War. Underpinning ascent were reforms instituted across late 1970s early 1980s that opened its economy to foreign direct investments. Preceding these ambitions entertained for continental shelf, optimistically forecasting it as nothing less than...

Climate change has been observed worldwide in recent decades, posing challenges to the coastal and offshore oil gas infrastructure. It is crucial identify how climate affects these infrastructures associated spill risk. This paper provides an analysis of vulnerability infrastructure response change. The examines incidents addresses change’s possible influences on Moreover, available modeling de...