12 research outputs found
Satellite Remote Sensing for Coastal Management: a Review of Successful Applications
Management of coastal and marine natural resources presents a number of challenges as a growing global population and a changing climate require us to find better strategies to conserve the resources on which our health, economy, and overall well-being depend. To evaluate the status and trends in changing coastal resources over larger areas, managers in government agencies and private stakeholders around the world have increasingly turned to remote sensing technologies. A surge in collaborative and innovative efforts between resource managers, academic researchers, and industry partners is becoming increasingly vital to keep pace with evolving changes of our natural resources. Synoptic capabilities of remote sensing techniques allow assessments that are impossible to do with traditional methods. Sixty years of remote sensing research have paved the way for resource management applications, but uncertainties regarding the use of this technology have hampered its use in management fields. Here we review examples of remote sensing applications in the sectors of coral reefs, wetlands, water quality, public health, and fisheries and aquaculture that have successfully contributed to management and decision-making goals
Search for the standard model Higgs boson in e+ e- collisions at s**(1/2) approximately = 192-GeV - 209-GeV
A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson has been performed with the OPAL
detector at LEP based on the full data sample collected at sqrt(s) = 192-209
GeV in 1999 and 2000, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of
approximately 426 pb-1. The data are examined for their consistency with the
background-only hypothesis and various Higgs boson mass hypotheses. A lower
bound of 109.7 GeV is obtained on the Higgs boson mass at the 95% confidence
level. At higher masses, the data are consistent with both the background and
the signal-plus-background hypotheses.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by Physics Letters