Science-based restoration monitoring of coastal habitats, Volume Two: Tools for monitoring coastal habitats

Healthy coastal habitats are not only important ecologically; they also support healthy coastal communities and improve the quality of people’s lives. Despite their many benefits and values, coastal habitats have been systematically modified, degraded, and destroyed throughout the United States and its protectorates beginning with European colonization in the 1600’s (Dahl 1990). As a result, many coastal habitats around the United States are in desperate need of restoration. The monitoring of restoration projects, the focus of this document, is necessary to ensure that restoration efforts are successful, to further the science, and to increase the efficiency of future restoration efforts

Переклад термінології у галузі електроніки, електротехніки та енергетики з англійської на українську мову

У посібнику подано аутентичні матеріали та вправи з письмового та усного перекладу в галузі електротехніки, електроніки та енергетики; тексти для самостійної роботи, контрольні завдання з перекладу, а також англо-український та українсько-англійський словник термінів та понять електротехніки, електроніки та енергетики. Розраховано на студентів спеціальності "Переклад (англійська мова)" і аспірантів технічних спеціальностей.The book presents authentic materials and exercises in written and oral translation in the field of electronics, electrical engineering and power engineering; texts for independent home translation, English–Ukrainian and Ukrainian-English vocabularies of specific terms. For the students of "Translation and Interpreting" departments and post-graduate students of technical specialities

Town of Durham, New Hampshire 2017 annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Méthodes d'analyse de texture pour la cartographie d'occupations du sol par télédetection très haute résolution : application à la fôret, la vigne et les parcs ostréicoles

The prime objective of this thesis is to evaluate the potential of multivariate probabilistic models applied on wavelet subbands for the classification of very high resolution remote sensing optical data. Three main applications are investigated in this study: the differentiation of age classes of maritime pine forest stands, the detection of vineyards and the detection of oyster fields. One main contribution includes the proposal of an original supervised and object-oriented classification scheme based on similarity measurements adapted to the context of probabilistic modeling. This scheme involves the creation of a database of texture patches for the learning step and a pre-segmentation of the image to classify. The tested multivariate models were first evaluated in an image retrieval framework. The best models identified in this procedure were then applied in the proposed image processing scheme. In the three proposed thematic applications, multivariate models revealed remarkable abilities to represent the texture and reached higher classification accuracies than the method based on co-occurrence matrices. These results confirm the interest of the multi-scale and multi-orientation representation of textures through the wavelet transform, as well as the relevance of the multivariate modeling of wavelet coefficientsLe travail présenté dans cette thèse a pour objectif d’évaluer le potentiel de modèles probabilistes multivariés appliqués sur les sous-bandes d’une décomposition en ondelettes pour la classification d’images de télédétection optiques à très haute résolution spatiale. Trois thématiques principales ont été investiguées dans ce travail : la différenciation de classes d’âge de peuplements de pins maritimes, la détection de parcelles viticoles et la détection de parcs ostréicoles. Une contribution originale concerne la proposition d’une chaîne traitement pour une classification supervisée orientée objet se basant sur des mesures de similarité adaptées au contexte de modélisation probabiliste. Celle-ci implique la création d’une base de données de patchs de texture pour l’apprentissage et l’utilisation d’une pré-segmentation de l’image à classifier. Les modèles probabilistes multivariés testés ont tout d’abord été évalués dans une procédure d’indexation d’images. Les modèles les plus performants identifiés par cette procédure ont été ensuite appliqués dans la chaîne de traitement proposée. Dans les trois thématiques explorées, les modèles multivariés ont révélé des capacités remarquables de représentation de la texture et ont permis d’obtenir une qualité de classification supérieure à celle obtenue par la méthode des matrices de co-occurrence. Ces résultats démontrent l’intérêt de la représentation multi-échelles et multi-orientations de la texture dans l’espace transformé en ondelettes et la pertinence de la modélisation multivariée des coefficients d’ondelettes issus de cette décomposition

The Pacifican, October 9,1981

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Travel Writing Sampler: Thailand

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1999"Travel Writing Sampler: Thailand" is a collection of articles and essays employing three different approaches to travel writing: straightforward overview of a place; information-oriented travel article; and personal essay travel narrative. The thematic focus of this collection is travel experiences in Thailand. Part One examines the evolution of the genre of travel writing. Part Two gives the reader an overview of Thailand. Part Three includes four information-oriented articles. Part Four offers examples of personal essay travel narratives. After a review of the literature in this field, I have concluded that successful travel writers balance elements of the information-oriented article and the personal essay travel narrative. Effective, lively travel writing combines the place being written about and the self--of the writer and traveler. <p

Technologies in Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture. Final Report of and Papers Presented to the On-Site Training on Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture, Hai Phong City, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 19-30 April 1999

This document contains the final report of and papers presented as lecture materials, to the On-Site Training on Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture held in Hai Phong City, Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 19 to 30 April 1999. This document replaces the Advance Copy of the Report issued in May 1999. Fourteen experts on mangroves and aquaculture served as lecturers and resource persons. Technologies in Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture, in general were introduced, taking into consideration the results of the Workshop on Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture, 11-15 January 1999, Iloilo City, Philippines. The On-Site Training was participated in by 25 participants; 20 from Vietnam and 5 from Cambodia. The conduct of the On-Site draining was an offshoot of the Project SD/AQ99-CM01 with the SEAFDEC Secretariat which also allocated the necessary funds from the Japanese Trust Fund. The Canada-ASEAN Centre based in Singapore provided funds for the participation of the trainees from the Kingdom of Cambodia.AQD is specifically grateful to the Government of Japan for the allocation of special funds for the on-site training and especially for promoting the conservation of mangrove resources in the region; to the SEAFDEC Council for considering the implementation of the on-site training in particular, and AQD’s mangrove-friendly aquaculture program, in general; the Government of Canada through the Canada-ASEAN Centre and its ASEAN Canada Fund for supporting the Cambodian representatives to the on-site training; the ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Fisheries and the ASEAN Secretariat for their support; and the Government of Vietnam through the Research Institute of Marine Products (RIMP) for hosting the training and providing technical and administrative support, and also through the Ministry of Fisheries for providing the Vietnamese resource persons, and the Vietnamese representatives to the training