In this paper we presents the data mining and integration of environmental applications in EU IST project ADMIRE. It briefly presents the project ADMIRE and data mining of spatio-temporal data in general. The application, originally targeting flood simulation and prediction is now being extended into the broader context of environmental studies. We describe several interesting scenarios, in whi...

Farid Katiraei – Principal Advisor, Renewable & Protection – Quanta Technology Juergen Holbach – Executive Advisor, Protection & Automation – Quanta Technology Tim Chang – Senior Engineer, Protection Engineering – Quanta Technology Wesley Johnson – Director of Policy and Research – Canadian Solar Industries Association David Wills – Technical working group co-chair – Canadian Solar Industries A...

This paper describes TerraHidro that is a distributed hydrologic modeling platform. TerraHidro is general purpose water resources system that presents a new concept to represent water flows based on graph structure, in the geographic information system (GIS) context. The drainage extractions and Amazonian basin delimitations using TerraHidro have been compared with ArcGis Hydro Tools regarding ...

CEA, ANDRA and EDF are jointly developing the software platform ALLIANCES which aim is to produce a tool for the simulation of nuclear waste storage and disposal repository. This type of simulations deals with highly coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical and chemical (T-H-M-C) processes. A key objective of Alliances is to give the capability for coupling algorithms development between existing codes....

Abstract. The small spatial and temporal scales at which flash floods occur make predicting events challenging, particularly in data-poor environments where high-resolution weather models may not be available. Additionally, the uptake of warnings hampered by difficulties translating scientific information to local context experiences. Here we use social science methods characterise knowledge fl...

The currently available treatments for Chagas disease show limited therapeutic potential and are associated with serious side effects. Attempting to find alternative drugs isolated from Nature as agents against Trypanosoma cruzi has been our goal. Recently, we have demonstrated the in vitro anti-T. cruzi activities of two secondary metabolites isolated from the hydro-ethanolic extract of the ae...

Southwest China’s Yunnan province is evolving into one of the world’s largest hydro-power-producing regions. It already rivals the world’s largest hydro-producing nations. However, five of Yunnan’s six basins are international and therefore its hydropower development is of great academic and geopolitical interest. While the implementation of large projects on Yunnan’s three large rivers (Jinsha...

Boom clay has been selected as a potential host rock formation for the geological disposal of radioactive waste in Belgium. In the present work, the hydro-mechanical behaviour of Boom clay samples from the borehole Essen-1 at a depth of 220-260 m and from HADES that is the underground rock laboratory at Mol in Belgium, at 223-m depth was investigated in the laboratory by performing low pressure...

The energy scenario in rural, remote and hilly areas of India is characterized by inadequate, poor and unreliable supply of energy services. In such regions, the load density is low and extension of grid system is totally uneconomical, hence the small hydropower schemes can provide a solution for the energy problems besides solar photovoltaic, which is not available throughout the day. The main...

Within the context of deep geological radioactive waste disposal, French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra) is conducting a research program including in-situ experiments at Meuse/Haute-Marne Underground Research Laboratory (MHM URL), which aims to demonstrate feasibility constructing and operating High Level (HLW) disposal facility in Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone formati...