Abstract Heating at the high-voltage end has become one of most frequent defects on polymeric insulators in service, particularly humid and hot regions. Recent case surveys show that some highly overheated sample survive almost all standardized lab tests, which could not be fully explained by common related heating factors, including fracture defects, superficial wet pollution, water absorption...

Distance sampling surveys are commonly used to estimate animal abundance (N). The choice of survey design has only recently received attention in the line-transect research literature, which tended focus more on violation assumptions. In this study, simulation methods were assess effect line placement accuracy and precision a for estimating dolphin abundance. 1998, vessel-based Hector’s (Cephal...

coastal zone of sri lanka is a key to sustainable development of the country. the erosion of country’s coastal zone has been identified as a long standing problem. therefore, coastal sediment dynamics around the country has to be identified to develop an appropriate coastal zone management plan. remote sensing and gis techniques can be used for quantitative and qualitative analyses of coastal p...

the “driving force - pressure - state - impact – response” modeling framework isadopted to consider the formation mechanisms of environmental risks and the requirements ofecological environment protection. moreover, a systematical index system and evaluation model forthe measurement of the coastal ecological security level is put forward in this paper to assess thestate of coastal ecological en...

The Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista – COSIPA is an integrated steel plant of the Usiminas System located in the municipality of Cubatão, in the coastal region of the São Paulo state, Brazil. This works produces 4.5 millions tons of steel per year; 1.0 million tons of this output are delivered as rolled plates, which meet a wide range of uses, such as those in agricultural implements, industrial ...

methods to derive wind speed and the sea state from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data are presented and applied for use in high resolution numerical modeling for coastal application. The new radar satellite TerraSAR-X (TS-X) images the sea surface with a high resolution up to 1m. So not only the wind field and integrated sea state parameters but also individual ocean waves with wave...

Problem statement: For a number of geological reasons a proportion of the present coastal plains in the Malay Peninsula were inundated by seawater in the past when pyrite in some of the soils is believed to have been mineralized. Random survey of these sites showed a unique distribution and depth of pyritic layer in the soils along the coastal plains. A study was conducted in order to explain t...

Often the first step in a remote sensing change detection study investigating coastal dynamics is to delineate the actual coastline from theavailable images. This can often be a difficult task, partly because of the uncertainty over what is and is not the coastline. Whilst it may appear to be common sense to use the water line (where sea meets land) as the best indicator it may not be that easy...

We report on a coastal experiment to study GPS L1 reflections. The campaign was carried out at the Barcelona Port breaker and dedicated to the development of sea-state retrieval algorithms. An experimental system built for this purpose collected and processed GPS data to automatically generate a times series of the interferometric complex field (ICF). The ICF was analyzed off line and compared ...