Hazard analysts and risk managers of natural perils, such as earthquakes, landslides and floods, need to access information from sensor networks surveying their regions of interest. However, currently information about these networks is difficult to obtain and is available in varying formats, thereby restricting accesses and consequently possibly leading to decision-making based on limited info...

Integrating geological concepts, such as relative positions and proportions of the different lithofacies, is of highest importance in order to render realistic geological patterns. The truncated plurigaussian simulation method provides a way of using both local and conceptual geological information to infer the distributions of the facies and then those of hydraulic parameters. The method (Le L...

the main rock mass classification systems make use of similar rock mass parameters. due to lack of comprehensive estimation systems, determining the real specifications of jointed rocks faces some difficulties. a vast number of parameters with various degrees of impact are involved in such definitions. combination impact of all the effective parameters is to be figured out in order to come up w...

sediment yield data, collected for most regions in iran has been insufficient and not so reliable and there is still not any sufficiently reliable methodology available for sediment yield assessment in the country as a whole. on the other hand, an attainment of reliable sediment yield data is a must and key requirement for the design of effective sediment management as well as control strategie...

Hypothesis: Geological events and their timing influence local climate, size and shape of fluvial habitats, isolating barriers, and different rates of speciation and extinction, which interact to create gradients of freshwater fish diversity at regional and continental scales. Organisms: Recent freshwater fishes of North America south to southern Mexico and Cenozoic fossil species of the famili...