1. introduction flood is one of natural hazard which ranks the most one just like earthquake and drought according to the report of the natural hazard program of the united nations. besides physical factors, and lack proper management will increase the flood potential. therefore, in order to prevent flood damage it seems to be necessary to provide essential requirements before physical expansio...

seismic waves travelling through inelastic media are attenuated by the conversion of elastic energy into heat. upon being attenuated, the travelling wave changes: amplitude is reduced, travelling waveform is modified due to high-frequency content absorption, and phase is delayed. attenuation is usually quantified through the quality factor q: the ratio between the energy stored and lost in each...

The aim of the study is to analyze and discuss possible climate change impacts on flood damages in Germany. The study was initiated and supported by the German insurance sector whereby the main goal was to identify general climate-related trends in flood hazard and damages and to explore sensitivity of results to climate scenario uncertainty. The study makes use of climate scenarios regionalize...

We consider the performance analysis of natural frequency-based radar target recognition in the frequency domain. Based on the probability density function (PDF) of some quantity consisting of the projections of the frequency response onto the column spaces of the matrices constructed using the natural frequencies of the specific targets, we propose to analytically calculate the probability of ...

Considering characteristics of high river density, special underlying surface in plain river network region, and municipal drainage system function, river network drainage unit model is proposed, which is defined as a region surrounded by main river or embankment. Flood storage variety and control projects regulation of small rivers in each unit is simulated. With drainage catchment as an objec...

Channel flow routing provides information on the movement of flood wave as it travels downstream. From the flood forecast viewpoint, it is desirable to have some knowledge about the expected arrival time of peak flow. However, many parameters involved in the flow routing model, in reality, can not be quantified with certainty. In this paper, a probabilistic analysis using the Mellin transform i...

we prove a novel result using the higher-order stationary phase approximation: we show convergence of the normalized power spectrum (squared magnitude of the Fourier transform) of the wave function to the density function of the distance transform gradients as the free parameter τ → 0. In colloquial terms, spatial frequencies are gradient histogram bins. Since distance transform gradients carry...

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events. It is therefore of major importance to identify the community attributes that confer stability in ecological communities during such events. In June 2013, a flood event affected a plant diversity experiment in Central Europe (Jena, Germany). We assessed the effects of plant species richness, functional...

visual servoing is generally contained of control and feature tracking. study of previous methods shows that no attempt has been made to optimize these two parts together. in kernel based visual servoing method, the main objective is to combine and optimize these two parts together and to make an entire control loop. this main target is accomplished by using lyapanov theory. a lyapanov candidat...