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  • Automatic Image Registration Techniques
    Harshlata Vishwakarma / S. K. Katiyar
    This book deal with image registration, an essential pre-processing step for computer vision, remote sensing, and medical analysis applications. The automatic image registration process is divided into two main categories: area-based and feature-based methods. Three feature detectors (SURF, HARRIS and FAST) are applied for the feature detection of high-resolution satellite imag...
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    118,07 €

  • Shortage of wood fuel in Chadian cities
    Djangrang Man-na
    Far from the outdated image that we sometimes associate with it, wood energy is one of the few local renewable energy resources. The mobilization of this resource is likely to generate sustainable employment in both rural and urban areas, but in most cases contributes to the destructuring of rural landscapes and the surroundings of major cities in Chad. To remedy this new pheno...
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    86,77 €

  • CO2 flux under cerrado vegetation and in tillage areas
    Paulo Gonçalves
    The Cerrado biome is the second most important in Brazil, yet there is little understanding of its functioning, particularly in relation to the carbon cycle compared to agricultural systems. Recent research has shown the importance of soil carbon as a stock, source and potential CO2 sink. Nowadays, it is fundamental to produce with low carbon emission without expanding the agri...
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    54,90 €

  • Predictions of Extreme Events in Nature and Society
    Vladimir Keilis-Borok
    V. I. Keilis-Borok (1921-2013) is one of the founders of computational seismology and mathematical geophysics and a pioneer in advance predictions of extreme events in complex systems, including earthquakes, economic recessions, outcomes of elections, surges of unemployment, and crime waves.This book overviews over fifty years of work by V. I. Keilis-Borok and his group on deve...
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    37,66 €

  • Why Human Society Will Collapse Before 2100
    Ross E. Goodrich
    Our dream to reach higher states of civility, equity, security, peace, and good health fades with each passing day. A wealth of information shows resource depletion, overcrowding, environmental degradation, economic disruptions, and all their attendant crises are irreversible and intensifying. Soon, much too soon, we will face an experience we understand in the abstract but ign...
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    17,20 €

  • SYMO EXPERT
    A.N.D. Perera / M.D.E.K. Gunathilaka / P.B.A. Fernando
    Assigning symbols into Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) is a time-consuming operation that calls for professional cartographers to put in extended hours of work. A map can take several months to compile, according to experience. It is often believed that such labour-intensive tasks should be delegated to computers in order to be completed more uniformly, precisely, quickly...
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    85,53 €

  • The Jurassic-Cretaceous red layers of the Moroccan Central High Atlas
    Badre ESSAFRAOUI / Lahcen KABIRI / Mohamed EL OUALI
    This work presents a lithostratigraphic, sedimentological and structural-geodynamic study of the Jurassic-Cretaceous 'red beds' of the Moroccan Central High Atlas. Ten detailed sections taken in different regions of the domain show increasingly coarse deposits going from the center towards the edges of the basin. The total thicknesses of the series vary from 170 m in the west t...
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    87,10 €

  • Potential iron ore zones in the northern Congo Craton
    Constantin Mathieu Som Mbang
    Mining mapping in Cameroon is an important concern of public and private authorities in the evaluation of the potential of Cameroon’s subsoil for useful mineral substances. In order to increase the knowledge of Cameroon’s metalliferous resources, we undertook the mapping of potential iron mineralization zones of the northern edge of the Congo Craton (2°30’0'N - 3°30’0'N and 12°...
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    56,21 €

  • Rockhounding for Beginners
    Jim Sutton
    Do you have a fascination with rocks, minerals, and gemstones, but have yet to start your journey into the world of rock hounding due to a lack of information and guidance? Look no further! This book serves as your comprehensive guide to rock hounding, offering step-by-step instructions and support throughout your journey to mastering the art of identifying and collecting diffe...
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    25,84 €

  • Flood risk mapping
    Arens Miansosa
    This book presents the danger of floods in the city-province of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in particular in the downstream part of the N’djili watershed. It presents in a more or less precise way the distribution of hazards during extreme floods. With the phenomenon of climate change, floods will surely be experienced daily during rainy seasons. ...
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    56,27 €

  • Chemical analysis of rocks in the service of geology
    Henri BUSCAIL
    This book is the result of numerous analytical works carried out in connection with the very rich geology of the Massif Central (France). It aims to determine the nature and origin of certain rocks discovered in nature and presenting aspects or colors not explained to date. Particular attention was paid to the genesis of the aetites also called 'Stones of eagles'. This work als...
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    36,93 €

  • Hydrology and Water Resources
    C. P. Kumar
    Water is a precious resource that sustains life on Earth. Hydrology and water resources engineering are essential fields of study that help us understand and manage this vital resource. This book aims to provide a comprehensive collection of questions and answers related to hydrology, water resources, and related topics. The book covers a wide range of topics, including surface...
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    13,35 €

  • Coastal ocean dynamics in the Gulf of Guinea using 3D modelling
    Joseph Betsaleel Kouandji Bekoumb
    During the last decade, it has been observed that most of the large coastal cities in the Gulf of Guinea, in this case Douala, have a quasi-annual periodicity of flooding. Consequently, a haphazard management of the development of the cities could prove fatal. Based on this observation, this study, which focuses on coastal risk management, aims to contribute to a better adaptat...
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    37,92 €

  • Landslide analysis with the finite element method
    FAYSSAL Cheriet / Hosni Taleb
    This book is composed of two phases. The first phase deals with the generalities of landslides, their classifications and the different methods of landslide analysis. The second phase deals with a comparative study of landslides (Case of Parc Dounia Alger, ALGERIA), this comparison was made by two software (PLAXIS and GEOSLOP) with a different calculation basis. The first one i...
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    56,21 €

  • Land use/occupation dynamics and vulnerability
    Aminata Maguette Gueye
    The study of the evolution of land use and its changes is interesting in order to highlight environmental difficulties in general and important in order to determine the nature and mode of intervention of human communities that modify the forms of global land use according to the evolution of needs, which is not without consequences on the nearby environment. The research and a...
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    86,46 €

  • High-Pressure Physical and Chemical Behaviors of Minerals and Rocks
    The Key Laboratory of High-temperature and High-pressure Study of the Earth’s Interior belongs to the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. It is a unique and authoritative key laboratory at the provincial and ministerial levels. The Key High-Pressure Laboratory is primarily focused on the high-temperature and high-pressure experimental sciences, in com...
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    63,86 €

  • Territorial approach to development, avenues to explore
    Daouda Thiandoum
    This book is the fruit of a long reflection carried out during these last years. The author’s experiences in the para-public, private and public sectors give him a rather instructive taste of the areas covered. Therefore, it includes the condensation of articles published in several distribution channels with more than 100,000 readers. The themes that it relates, focus mainly o...
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    88,20 €

  • Analysis of environmental vulnerability of the Extrema River micro-basin
    Onaldo José Nunes Filho
    Today the greatest concern of society is linked to environmental issues, to know how and in what way we can develop and generate wealth without causing impact on the environment. With the growth and expansion of urban centres, industrial and economic activities, cities often grow in a disorderly manner, without planning land use, advancing into areas that should be protected, s...
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    56,21 €

  • Local Knowledge and its Use in Biodiversity Management
    Matias Parruque
    Local Knowledge and its Application to Biodiversity Management: The Case of Mussengue Locality. By Matias Parruque, Degree in History and Geography, Universidade Pedagogica, Maputo; Postgraduate degree in Planning, Economics and Finance, University of the Witswatersrand, Republic of South Africa, financed by GIZ; Master in Environmental Management, Universidade Pedagogica, Mapu...
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    56,21 €

  • Spatio-temporal dynamics of the Bassila classified forest in Benin
    Sakibou Biaou
    In a context of increasing anthropogenic pressures, the study of vegetation is a major imperative for the preservation and sustainable management of natural resources. The objective of the present research is to evaluate the spatio-temporal changes in land use over the last three decades. Remote sensing, land use mapping, vegetation inventories and socio-economic surveys were t...
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    94,86 €

  • Remote Sensing Based Building Extraction II
    Building extraction from remote sensing data plays an important role in geospatial applications such as urban planning, disaster management, navigation, and updating geographic databases. The rapid development of image processing techniques and the accessibility of very-high-resolution multispectral, hyperspectral, LiDAR, and SAR remote sensing images have further boosted resea...
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    80,84 €

  • Notion of modern city, clean urban lifestyle and development
    Bachir KERBOUA
    Today, all the changes in our way of life and our environment with our social and moral relationships have affected our urban way of life in its various structures and relationships. The distribution of work and functions, our land use, modes of transport, industrial and agricultural production, modes of consumption and waste production, certainly, human relations have been aff...
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    61,57 €

  • Flood and Drought Risk Mapping Profile
    Fanéké Dembélé
    Disaster risks (floods and droughts) have a direct impact on people’s access to basic social services and livelihoods. It is important to build resilience in two pilot communes, namely Touna in the Segou region and I in the Bamako district, through a tool that enables communities to prevent, mitigate, prepare for and respond to disaster risks. Thus, mapping facilitates the unde...
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    45,88 €

  • Geological booklet for civil engineers and technicians
    Yao Lamine G. Richard Dzotsi
    This pocket geology booklet for civil engineers and technicians is a collection of application courses and exercises in geology and geological engineering for civil engineers. There is no doubt that all civil construction is carried out on the ground, so it is important for the civil engineer to know and master the contribution of geology to his work in order to be able to use ...
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    56,21 €

  • Car culture as part of urban territorial organisation
    Diego Armando Céspedes Álvarez
    This research seeks to understand how the 'car culture' has directed the urban planning and the structure of cities, so that the individual transport becomes the protagonist, through discussions on sustainable mobility, qualitative and quantitative data surveys and observations carried out in large Latin American cities. The car is more than a means of transport, it is a motori...
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    110,35 €

  • Save the Ebrié Lagoon
    Ane Maurice Aka
    The estuarine part of the Ebrié Lagoon is under enormous anthropogenic pressures and seasonal natural forcings. A monitoring of the evolution of its hydrology during the year 2014 revealed that it is strongly influenced by the lagoon seasons. Thus, salinity, pH, dis-sub oxygen, temperature and transparency are higher in low water season especially in the vicinity of the Vridi c...
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    56,34 €

  • Morpobathymetry, characterization of lagoon and river environments
    Aka Ferdin Kouamé
    Recent advances in oceanography and geodesy and the application of International Hydrographic Organization (IHO, 2008) standards to bathymetric data are arguments for revising the mapping of the aquatic environments of Côte d’Ivoire. The main results of this study concern the dynamism of the river and lagoon channels; the quality control of the data; the mapping of the river an...
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    132,51 €

  • Evaluation of the forest management plan in Benin
    Kouta Sébastien
    In Benin, protected areas are the only places where the forestry services still maintain a minimum level of protection. It seems appropriate to evaluate the impact of the participatory management plan on the forest formations of the Monts Kouffé classified forest ten years after its implementation. To achieve this objective, a methodological approach was used that combined diac...
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    94,73 €

  • Geophysical characterisation of the aquifer’s salt wedge
    Louis-Marc Sognon
    Geophysical methods have the ability to characterise salt beads in complex geological context and in urban tropical environments. Since the results of direct (in situ) well water analysis are consistent with the results of geophysical measurements in ERT and EM, it can be concluded that geophysics is an extremely powerful tool for the localisation of salt intrusion, however it ...
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    56,21 €

  • Recent Advances and Contribution of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications for Agricultural Monitoring
    Following on from the Special Issue 'Recent Advances and Contribution of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications for Agricultural Monitoring', we concluded that SAR has now become a pivotal sensor for agricultural monitoring. In this Special Issue, you will find a variety of background material discussing SAR and its applications. Several papers focused on using machine lea...
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    66,96 €


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