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Bridge Detection in Autonomous Shipping: A YOLOv8 Approach with Autodistill and GroundedSAM

open access: yesJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Inland waterway transportation remains a crucial and cost-effective mode of global transport despite challenges such as skilled personnel shortages, increasing competition, and ecological impacts.
Ruben Schlonsak   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advancing Climate Change Research and Hydrocarbon Leak Detection : by Combining Dissolved Carbon Dioxide and Methane Measurements with ADCP Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
With the emergence of largescale, comprehensive environmental monitoring projects, there is an increased need to combine state-of-the art technologies to address complicated problems such as ocean acidifi cation and hydrocarbon leak ...
Devine, Paul, Fietzek, Peer
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“One Country, Two Systems,” Three Law Families, and Four Legal Regions: The Emerging Inter-Regional Conflicts of Law in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
With accumulation of sovereign debt in many large OECD countries it seems that attention is heightened on how to manage public resources more effectively.
Huang, Jin, Qian, Andrew Xuefeng
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Identifying critical risk influencing factors for autonomous ship navigation in winter conditions

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
The shipping industry’s transition towards greener and more autonomous solutions is crucial for achieving maritime sustainability and enhancing operational performance.
Raheleh Farokhi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Indicators for Arctic Mining [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper reviews and assesses the state of the data to describe and monitor mining trends in the pan-Arctic. It constructs a mining index and discusses its value as a social impact indicator and discusses drivers of change in Arctic mining.
Crow, Andrew   +4 more
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Optimizing Berth Allocation for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASSs) in the Context of Mixed Operation Scenarios

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering
This study deals with berth allocation for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASSs) in the context of the mixed operation of MASSs and manned vessels from the perspective of port-shipping companies’ collaboration. Two berth allocation strategies, namely
Lixin Shen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

spotlight europe 2007/08, November 2007: Europe's Finances - The old system at its limits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The current system of EU revenues is opaque, complicated and unfair. That is the reason why it ought to be changed. The forthcoming budget review therefore offers the opportunity for a significant reform.
Schüssel, Wolfgang.
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Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper analyzes how a herd of feral cattle emerged in the core zone of Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve and why it still exists despite numerous challenges to the legality of its presence there.
Richardson, Tanya
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e-Navigation and Electronic Charting: Implications for Hydrographic Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
e-Navigation is a recent IMO initiative that aims to integrate existing/new shipboard and shore-based navigational tools into an “all embracing” system. Defined as: “...
Alexander, Lee
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Currents of Liberty, Seas of Change: Black Sailors as Subversive Agents of Freedom in the Early Republic

open access: yes, 2007
Years after being kidnapped from his native Ibo village as a young boy, Olaudah Equiano vividly recalled his wonder at seeing a European ship for the first time.
Montgomery, Skye
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