A technique for detection of building images in real-world video sequences is presented. The proposed technique uses information extracted from video features to improve precision in classification results. It combines fuzzy rule-based classification with a method for changing region detection in outdoor environments, which is invariant to extreme illumination changes and severe weather conditi...

The effects of weather are manifested in an organism-environment relationship through the mediu m of thermal or h eat exchange_ Meteorological param eters alone may be quite meaningless when used in interpreting animal responses because weather instruments do not respond to the thermal regime of the atmosphere in the same way that a living organism does _ Further, weather instruments are often ...

this article studies the effects of weather on road accidents in saqqez - sanandaj road. saqqez- sanandaj road’s length is 187 km and it is one of the main hazardous roads of the area. in this study, the distribution map of road accidents and the probability of accidents were prepared under every climatic condition (i.e., snowy, frozen, rainy, foggy, and sunny). a database of road accidents o...

Future fire weather conditions under climate change were investigated based on the Fire Weather Index (FWI), Initial Spread (ISI) and threshold-specific indicators in Greece. The indices calculated from datasets derived high-resolution validated simulations of 5 km. dynamical downscaled with WRF model driven by EC-Earth output for historical (1980–2004) future periods, two Representative Concen...

SUMTIME-MOUSAM is a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system that produces textual weather forecasts for offshore oilrigs from Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) data. It has been used for the past year by Weathernews (UK) Ltd for producing 150 draft forecasts per day, which are then post-edited by forecasters before being released to end-users. In this paper, we describe how the system works, ...

The livestock production system is considered equally sensitive to climate change as that of core agriculture system and at the same time livestock itself is also contributing to the phenomenon. The present paper attempts to analyze the sensitivity of livestock productivity in rainfed regions to climatic variability, significance of climate change with respect to Indian livestock and mitigation...

Facultative, partially migratory animals provide a contemporary window into the evolution of migration, offering rare opportunities to examine the life-history trade-offs associated with migration. For the first time, to our knowledge, we describe the nature of these trade-offs, using a lek-breeding tropical bird, the white-ruffed manakin (Corapipo altera). Previous evidence indicated that weat...