Introduction Hundreds of thousands of Canadians regularly sustain soft tissue injuries best suited for physiotherapy intervention, but many of these Canadians live in rural areas—away from the urban centres where most physiotherapists practice. This chapter describes two threads of work to address this problem: first, explorations of teleconferencing technologies to enable physiotherapy “visits...

As a provider of geological advice to industry, academia and the public, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has recognised the need to change the way it presents geoscientific information, resulting in the construction of attributed 3D geological models. The need to deliver 3D modelling solutions is of great importance in urban areas, where geological factors play a major role in supporting gr...

With the development of computer technology and geological modeling study of the gradual maturity, 3D for the engineering geological modeling and information visualization analysis system of opportunities and challenges brought about. Have carried on the detailed introduction to the three dimensional geological modeling tool and the method. Summarized the three dimensional geological modeling b...

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the value of the proposed Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) instrument for geological mapping applications. HyspIRI-like data were collected as part of the HyspIRI airborne campaign that covered large regions of California, USA, over multiple seasons. This work focused on a Southern California area, which encompasses Imperial Valley, the Salton...

This paper analyzes and summarizes the numerous types of variations of groundwater pressures (heads), mid-oceanic ridge borehole temperatures and microseismicity in response to tidal forcing in coastal aquifers and deep sea sediments. Tidally related data obtained from various sources were filtered and processed by means of classical harmonic analysis to extract the amplitudes of pressure and t...

Deep sea exploration and exploitation are of an increasingly interest to human beings in the 21 century. Manned and unmanned deep submergence vehicles are necessary means for deep sea explorations. In order to fulfill the requirements of deep sea explorations of COMRA (China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association), a deep manned submersible is developed in China and it is now named “Harmony”. ...