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Analysis of canopy gap present in tropical dry forests using Airborne LiDAR System (ALS) at the Santa Rosa Environmental Monitoring Super Site, Costa Rica
DownloadSpring 2024
This thesis is divided into three sections: Introduction, Chapter 2, and Conclusion. The Introduction provides the research background for the study. Tropical areas play an important role in the whole ecological environment, but their survival status is worrying. As an important part of it, the...
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Assessing The Benefits Of Cost-Effective Monitoring Technology On Unstable Slopes Sensitive To Weather
DownloadFall 2021
Across Canada, the presence of ground hazards, such as rock falls, rock slides, or earth slides, next to transportation corridors, is a potential risk to transport system users, the infrastructure, and traffic operations. Monitoring instrumentation systems tracking unstable slopes are a key...
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Fall 2018
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are receiving increasing interest from industry and academia due to their wide application in search and rescue, infrastructure inspection, and surveillance. This thesis focuses on research in the area of nonlinear control for rotary wing UAVs. Throughout this...
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Fall 2021
Motion control of multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is an area of research which continues to generate significant interest in the community. Being able to accurately follow a broad class of trajectories clearly improves the mission capabilities of the vehicle. Model uncertainty and...
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Spring 2018
In recent years rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are seeing more uses in applications such as transmission line inspection, event filming, parcel delivery, and search-and-rescue missions. Recent improvements in embedded systems have lead to more research for improving unmanned aerial...
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Enhanced Model Tree Application Framework for Developing Interpretable AI in Construction Engineering
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The construction industry has been and continues to be overflown with data. Scholars have no problems dealing with this phenomenon through the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) methods like neural networks or random forests. However, when the time comes to practical application, the...
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Fall 2019
Object detection is an image processing technology to detection different classes of objects using computer vision, i.e. putting bounding boxes over objects from a camera video feed. A landmark detection method was the Viola-Jones Algorithm introduced in 2001. The object classifier in this...
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Spring 2010
As the demand for oil and gas resources increases pipeline construction pushes further into the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Consequently, these buried pipelines suffer much harsh environmental and complex loading conditions. Moreover, to increase the transporting efficiency, larger size pipes...
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Fall 2023
Unique challenges arise when attempting to navigate unknown GPS-denied subterranean environments. To successfully explore these environments a vehicle much be able to reconcile the nonlinear dynamics of motion, accommodate for diverse terrain, adjust to static and moving obstacles, combat...