Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques are of great interest for the renewable energy field [...]

In Mexico, the economic and industrial development is in center north; this represents more than 50% of country’s total consumption. Data on population energy consumption will be obtained from following sources: National Institute Geography Statistics (INEGI), Energy Information System. Regarding meteorological data, two databases are used: Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) (for solar irradiance...

Mining subsided lakes are major obstacles for ecological restoration and resource reuse in mining regions. Transforming mining subsided lakes into artificial wetlands is an ecological restoration approach that has been attempted in China in recent years, but a value assessment of the approach still needs systematic research. This paper considers Jiuli Lake wetland, an artificial wetland derived...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a recent emerging area in computational science. There are several unexplored issues in the quality assessment of OSM. Firstly, researchers are using various established assessment methods by comparing OSM with authoritative dataset. However, these methods are unsuitable to assess OSM data quality in the case of the non-availability of authoritative data. In such a scenar...

A large number of chemicals are used on a regular basis in modern society. Thousands of new chemicals are added each year, many of which may have toxic properties constituting potential health hazards. Rapid assessment of the risk associated with the use of these chemicals is therefore essential to protect people from exposure to potentially harmful substances. Exposures to chemicals (and physi...