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Geological hazards and disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2001A geological disaster occurs when natural geological processes impact on our activities, either through loss of life or injury or through economic loss. A geological hazard is a potential disaster. Geological hazard in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador was studied by archival research using a variety of sources to document the historical ...
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Geological hazards, disasters and the media: The Italian case study
Quaternary International, 2007Abstract The present work illustrates the outcomes of a research focusing on the print media's accounts of the natural catastrophic events that took place in Italy from September 2002 to April 2003, and the relevant hazard-related issues. Purpose of the research was to assess the quality of the coverage by means of key indicators such as accuracy ...
PASQUARE' MARIOTTO, FEDERICO ALIGI +1 more
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Multi-objective Emergency Scheduling for Geological Disasters
Natural Hazards, 2021Because of the specific time and distance constraints, emergency management departments usually build multiple depots (resource centers) to serve the widely dispersed customers (disaster areas), to more effectively fulfill customer demand, and deal with the changing road conditions in real time.
Wan Fang +4 more
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Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Kainozoic: a Geological Disaster
Geological Magazine, 1944In all modern textbooks of stratigraphy the fundamental basis of the classification is the division of the rocks of the earth's crust into four great groups, each of which carries a variety of names but all agree in a hard and fast demarcation of the stratigraphical column.
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The Review and Prospects of the Study on Chinese Geological Disaster
Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2012Based on plenty of references, such as monograph, journal, thesis and other document, this paper summarized the present research situation of Chinese geological disaster. Although geological disaster research has made some achievements in forecasting, monitoring and early warning, risk assessment, disaster prevention and other aspects, it still has ...
Jun Wang +3 more
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The Application of Airborne LiDAR System in Geological Disasters
Advanced Materials Research, 2013Airborne LiDAR System is a laser detection and ranging system for quickly obtaining high-precision, high-density three-dimensional coordinate data. The target information after the geological disasters can be victimized for disaster assessment and decision analysis to provide effective support, LiDAR provides a new technical means for disaster ...
Peng Tong, Hong Cheng Liu, Shuai Hua Gao
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Study of Geological Disaster Risk Assessment
2010 Second International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications, 2010Geological environment is defined as the combination of all kinds of geology factors, which influences on human survival and development in lithosphere. An original methodology was used for obtaining the information to reply to questions in the paper.
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Early Warning for Geological Disasters
2014The past years have seen new technologies that could be utilized for early warning and real-time loss estimation. They include self-organizing sensor networks, new satellite imagery with high resolution, multi-sensor observational capacities, and crowd sourcing.
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Spatial Correlation Analysis of Geological Disaster and Geological Background in Liaoning Region
Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2015Liaoning Province is located in the southern part of northeast China,and within two first degree tectonic units,that is,Sino-Korean quasi-platform and Tianshan-Xingmeng geosynclinals fold system,it has complex geological environment,strong natural variability and frequent geological disasters.
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Evaluation of Geological Disaster with Extenics Based on Entropy Method*
2010A new evaluation method of geological disaster combining extenics and entropy is presented. According to the data of geological disaster monitoring in Jilin province, based on matter element theory, extension set and dependent function, the classical domain and section field of geological disaster is decided, the weights of the evaluation indexes are ...
Xinmin Wang, Zhansheng Tao, Xiwen Qin
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