Environmental radiation monitoring technology: capabilities and needs

Needs and Capabilities

How should actions to redress absolute human deprivation be framed? Current international coordinated actions on absolute poverty are framed by human rights or by goals such as the Millennium Development Goals. But appropriate, effective and sustained responses to needs require localized participation in the definition of those rights/goals/needs and in measures taken to redress them. Human rig...

Linking Capabilities to Needs

Social network analysis is an established field with a wealth of theory, method, and tools for handling network or relational data. Recent advances have expanded this repertoire to include larger scale more dynamic networks under conditions of uncertainty. This moves the field closer to the needs of the defense department and intelligence agencies. However, the needs are not completely met. Thi...

Overview of Sensors and Needs for Environmental Monitoring

This paper surveys the needs associated with environmental monitoring and longterm environmental stewardship. Emerging sensor technologies are reviewed to identify compatible technologies for various environmental monitoring applications. The contaminants that are considered in this report are grouped into the following categories: (1) metals, (2) radioisotopes, (3) volatile organic compounds, ...

Sensor Web Technology Application for Environmental Monitoring

Pollution of the environment is a problem of the modern age. The technology developed and used over the past decades has left serious consequences on human environment and implied the need for resolving them. Preserving quality of water, air and soil are quite common issues in many countries. This paper presents one way of dealing with these challenges, based on sensor networks and the Sensor W...

\"Internet of Things\": An Emerging Real-Time Technology for Environmental Health Monitoring