Essays about: "Urban Computing"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 essays containing the words Urban Computing.

  1. 6. Impact of Carbon Sinks on Urban Heat Island Effects : Assessment Using Satellite Data in Water Scarce Region of the Thesis

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för byggnadsteknik, energisystem och miljövetenskap

    Author : Nadine Macauley; [2020]
    Keywords : Urban Heat Island; Carbon Sinks; Qatar; Satellite Remote Sensing; Al Bayt Stadium; Energy Systems; Energy Use; Sustainability; LST; Hot Arid Climate;

    Abstract : Urbanization modifies the thermal characteristics of the land and makes way for a succession of transformations in the urban environmental system. This phenomenon, known as Urban Heat Island (UHI), is characterized by elevated temperatures in urban areas that negatively impact on the quality of life and environment in urban areas including, increased emissions of Green House Gases (GHGs) and rising energy consumption. READ MORE

  3. 7. Web Based Cloud Interaction and Visualization of Air Pollution Data

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Melodi Nergis Damirag; [2019]
    Keywords : Internet of Things; Green IoT; environmental sensing; air quality monitoring; data visualization; cloud computing; wireless sensor network; application programming interface;

    Abstract : According to World Health Organization, around 7 million people die every year due to diseases caused by air pollution. With the improvements in Internet of Things in the recent years, environmental sensing systems has started to gain importance. READ MORE

  4. 8. Hydrological and hydrogeological consequences of rapid and large-scale urbanization

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Väg- och vattenbyggnad (CI); Lunds universitet/Teknisk geologi

    Author : Archana Ema Akhilesh; [2018]
    Keywords : Rapid and large-scale urbanization; ArcGIS; HEC-HMS; surface runoff; surface infiltration.; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Urbanization is a process where rural population move to urban places for better job opportunities and facilities. This is a natural process and more or less unavoidable. But when this process takes place rapidly and at large -scale, the urban cities will undergo various changes that will impact the environment. READ MORE

  5. 9. Feature Extraction and FeatureSelection for Object-based LandCover Classification : Optimisation of Support Vector Machines in aCloud Computing Environment

    University essay from KTH/Geoinformatik

    Author : Oliver Stromann; [2018]
    Keywords : Feature Extraction; Feature Selection; Dimensionality Reduction; Supervised Object-Based Land Cover Classification; Google Earth Engine;

    Abstract : Mapping the Earth’s surface and its rapid changes with remotely sensed data is a crucial tool to un-derstand the impact of an increasingly urban world population on the environment. However, the impressive amount of freely available Copernicus data is only marginally exploited in common clas-sifications. READ MORE

  6. 10. Block Diagonalization Based Beamforming

    University essay from KTH/Teknisk informationsvetenskap

    Author : Darshan Patil; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : With increasing mobile penetration multi-user multi-antenna wireless communication systems are needed. This is to ensure higher per-user data rates along with higher system capacities by exploiting the excess degree of freedom due to additional antennas at the receiver with spatial multiplexing. READ MORE