Abstract Introduction: Determining the quality of water is particularly important in water resources management, and monitoring and zoning it are considered as a significant principle to be taken into account in planning. Schuller method is the commonest way to determine the quality of water. The present study was conducted in order to determine the quality of drinking water using Schuller mod...

In recent years, forest fires can be brought under control in line with the information obtained from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which play an important role determining progression of fires, detecting heat points and intervention locations. this study, if UAV detects fire by autonomously positioning area where is located, point reaches most intense temperature determined help thermal cam...

This article presents an in-depth case study analysis of a single rural telecentre located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The study embraces the sociotechnical research paradigm and uses a combination of hermeneutics and actor-network theory as the theoretical foundation with which to explore the mutual interaction between people and ICTs. The objective of the analysis is to gain...

The complex multi-purpose, multi-product character of batch manufacturing plants implies a major need to integrate information from operational activities in the plant and to gain more insight into the relative importance of every activity with respect to the main objective of the enterprise. At Delft University of Technology a management decision support tool is being developed which aims at a...

A function dependent on the solution of a set of differential equations containing adjust~ able parameters, can be minimized by systematic search procedures in parameter space. Such procedures can be implemented by a hybrid system consisting of a general purpose analog computer and a digital expansion providing parallel logic building blocks. Programming of such a system is illustrated for a si...

This paper presents TPDL* (extended temporal profile description language), a general-purpose language to observe and condition dynamic systems by means of temporal and logical expressions. It describes how time is modelled in TPDL*, gives an overview of the language through its basic types, primitives and conditional constructs, and its use in computer-aided design of digital systems. The pape...

Making a business case for GIS in local government is a complex task for two main reasons: first, a GIS implementation can range from a single, well-defined application in one department to a corporate multi-purpose GIS; and, second, local authorities are complex organisations currently facing major pressures for change considerable uncertainty about their future structure and role. The purpose...