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for their enthusiasm, support and advice during the realization of this thesis. Furthermore I would like to thank the staff members of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Delft University of Technology for their assistance while building the experimental setup and their support during the data processing. I would also like to thank Martijn Henriquez for his overall advice. Abstract Artificial sur...

Abstract— We have developed a retrieval scheme of surface wave parameters (wave height and wave propagation direction) from ERS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image mode data in coastal seas around Japan. In this study, we investigated the energy of simulated SAR spectrum at different wind speed using nonlinear wave-SAR imaging mechanism, derived the criteria to differentiate swell from wind wa...

This study was conducted to investigate the potential benefits of using geogrids in mitigating pavement defects notably roughness and longitudinal cracking on pavements built over expansive soils. The seasonal changes soils (periodic wetting drying) cause detrimental effects overlying road pavements. Such behavior simulated a controlled laboratory environment through allowing cyclic drying an s...

GPS has been used widely for many real-time, high precision kinematic applications in the last few years. Such applications cover a wide spectrum of platforms, which take advantage of the very high sampling rates of modern GPS receivers (10-20Hz). These include the "GPS sea swell gauge" and the "GPS seismometer". At the University of New South Wales (UNSW) a number of fast RTK (real-time kinema...