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ABSTRACT: Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) has been leading an Ocean Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) resulting in zoning of the state's coastal water to accommodate offshore wind farms. The wind farm siting issue has been previously considered as an optimization problem ...
ABSTRACT: To monitor the sea ice dynamic changes using the SAR imagery in polar region, we proposed an oriented-object regional segmentation and dynamic objects identification method. This method included the sea ice and open water discrimination, sea ice types classification, sea ice objects identification ...
ABSTRACT: Recently, fishery products have been decreased in the Seto Inland Sea located at the western part of Japan. One of these reasons is decrease of seagrass and seaweed beds such as Zostera marina, Sargassum and so on. The valuable marine resources are using Zostera marina beds as spawning and ...
ABSTRACT: In the case of rearing some kinds of fishes that have hiding behavior in the floating aquaculture preserves, a number of fish decreases due to the stress from irregular movement of floating preserves caused by the irregular and continuous ocean waves. Therefore, we developed one method that ...
ABSTRACT: Seasonal sand accumulation problem in Kirinda fishery harbour is well known problem among the harbours in Sri Lanka. To elucidate the possible sand transport patterns close to the harbour area, wave climate study was carried out using SWAN modeling system. After analyzing global reanalysis ...
ABSTRACT: In order to improve water quality in the harbor together with the wave absorption, the slit type breakwater and seawall were developed. Laboratory experiments have been performed to investigate the weak reflection of regular and random water waves over a train of protruded permeable shore ...
ABSTRACT: This paper presents a numerical experiment of single low-density sphere falling into the water from the air. A sphere with initial speed in the air was released above the water surface, splashes and waves will be generated when it touched the water; after that, it jumped above water because ...
ABSTRACT: In 2009, a typhoon named Morakot moved onto Taiwan and brought torrential rains that washed down huge amount of driftwood into the sea and accumulation at the coastal areas. By the analysis of satellite images, it is found that 83.2% coastlines of Taiwan were occupied by driftwood after Morakot. ...
ABSTRACT: Ice management using icebreakers to reduce floe size ahead of a stationary drilling vessel will be a key component of offshore Arctic exploration and development drilling. Selection of the management vessels and fleet deployment configuration is critical to insure the ability to (1) maintain ...
ABSTRACT: Distortion is unavoidable in all stage of ship building starting from the thermal cutting process followed by the sub-assembly, the assembly of blocks and the block final assembly. In this report, the longitudinal bending deformation of a ship during the block assembly is investigated using ...
ABSTRACT: The international focus for development of wave and tidal energy technologies has been principally on large-scale (MW) devices and grid-connected utility-scale arrays. However, the Pacific Islands present many opportunities for smaller-scale (kW) stand-alone developments. Potential sites ...
ABSTRACT: After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, early tsunami warning systems started being developed in many regions as a worthy measure to save lives. Some people do run to high ground after they watch a tsunami approaching the coast or hear the sound of a striking tsunami, but a key to successful ...
ABSTRACT: There're many semi enclosed bay in Seto Inland Sea, Japan and the highest fisheries productive area in the world. On the other hand, red tide and oxygen depleted water have occurred frequently and harmful affect against processes of biological production. Therefore we developed one structure ...
ABSTRACT: The Inclusive Impact Index "Triple I" is a metric developed to assess environmental sustainability and economic feasibility of ocean utilization technologies to predict their public acceptance. Ecological footprint and environmental risk assessment, which are the basis of the Triple I, are ...
ABSTRACT: GPS Comprehensive Oceanographic Monitoring System (GCOMS) using buoy platform has been developed since 1997. GCOMS technology has already been applied to the nationwide GPS Wave Gauges to monitor 15 locations around the Japanese coast. On the basis of the GCOMS technology, new types of monitoring ...
ABSTRACT: To discover sites suitable for ocean current power generation, we conducted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) and conductivity temperature- depth (CTD) measurements from 31/8/2010 to 2/9/2010 at Miyake Island. Strong ocean current is expected at Miyake Island, which is located approximately ...
ABSTRACT: The discharge of deep ocean water, which is low water temperature and high nutrient concentration, may restore seaweed bed from barren ground condition. The purpose of this research is to estimate the effects of seaweed bed restoration using deep ocean water discharge with an enclosed structure ...
ABSTRACT: Coastlines have particularly valuable renewable energy resources in the form of tides, currents, waves and offshore wind. Due to the environmental sensitivity of coastal environments, the selection of the most adequate location for these systems is a critical factor. Multicriteria analysis ...
ABSTRACT: Beach erosion in most of Thailand became significant in some many years ago. The causes of this change are considered to be the combination of human induced development and big waves. Though people tried to respond to it mainly by building seawall, there are many inappropriate elements in ...
ABSTRACT: Most marine accidents related to vessels are the results of human error, such as mis-detection, mis-judgment and mis-operation. A particular example is the frequent collisions that occur between fishing vessels and cargo vessels in the waters off Japan that often result in the loss of life. ...