environment

A Comprehensive Perception and Decision-making Pipeline for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Navigation in Aquatic Environments

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B3 L5 R5220

This talk addresses the challenges hindering widespread adoption of Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV), focusing on safety and robustness, and presents perception and decision-making frameworks, including LiDAR-based obstacle detection, adaptive collision avoidance, and ASV deployment for water quality monitoring, concluding with open problems for future research.

Challenges and opportunities for Satellite Spectrum/Orbit Access (ITU and the International Regulatory Environment)

Prof. Yvon Henri, International Telecom Union, Geneva, Switzerland

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KAUST

Noting that the trend of development and utilization of small satellite technologies is a global phenomenon, and it is expected to bring benefits to the entire world, including both developed and developing economies, this talk goes over different spectrum & orbit access issues related to the development and deployment of these small satellite networks.

The KAUST 2023 Workshop on Statistics

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B18 R4203

The workshop will feature the latest research on statistical methods and modeling to address real-world challenges in health, environment, and sustainability.

Simple statistics can be good enough

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Study of the mismatch between spatial environmental data and a commonly used statistical analysis suggests simpler statistics are sufficient in many cases.

Cutting datasets down to size

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A powerful statistical tool could significantly reduce the burden of analyzing very large datasets.

Remote sensing of toxic algal blooms

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Algal blooms in the Red Sea can be detected with a new method that accounts for dust storms and aerosols.

Wildfire simulation heats up

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Computational models capture the capricious behavior of forest fires.

Professor Bolin earns American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator Award

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Prof. David Bolin has been selected for the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator (ENVR) Award for his outstanding contributions to environmental statistics.