The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by plants grown in a field can more accurately be estimated based on environmental information of the field. A plurality of types of mutually-differing environmental information are measured regarding an installation field. For the plurality of types of environmental information, the correspondence relationship between each type of environmental information and a carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) absorption amount is stored. A plurality of CO.sub.2 absorption amounts are acquired by referring to the respective correspondence relationship for each type of measured environmental information. The acquired plurality of CO.sub.2 absorption amounts are compared with each other and the minimum value thereof is selected as the estimated value. Information regarding the selected estimated value is displayed.

A method and system is presented for short to long-term flood forecasting. At the core of the method is a neural network-based flood forecasting model. The method and system performs the steps to implement and use the neural network-based flood forecasting model comprising obtaining historical data from the region, including but not limited to climate and water level data; sampling and structuring the historical data in conjunction with data queried from a GIS (geographic information system) into a dataset; dividing the dataset into pre-processed training and validation partitions; configuring the neural network and training hyperparameters; training the neural network-based flood forecasting model on the pre-processed training partition; performing validation on the neural network-based flood forecasting model with the pre-processed validation partition. Embodiments of the invention are capable of performing flood forecasting over a region in short to long-term time intervals.

An automated global weather notification system is provided. The automated global weather notification system is capable of obtaining observational weather data, including data form of forecast grids, and applying business rules and conditional variables to that data. Based on the business rules and conditional variables, notifications are generated. Relevant users are identified in particular geographic areas and notifications are delivered to those users via, for example, SMS, MMS, email, or other methods of electronic information delivery.

An evaluation method for evaluating a precipitation-induced landslide disaster loss under climate change is provided. The evaluation method belongs to the technical field of geological disaster prevention and treatment. The evaluation method uses a physical process based model, in considering of spatial heterogeneity of land-surface features of grids in the area, to obtain precipitation thresholds corresponding to the respective grids in the area having the spatial heterogeneity. Historical data and climate model data are taken in combination to select suitable climate models, and the model then is used to simulate landslide prone zones and possible influence zones caused by landslides. An influence zones simulated by the evaluation method can better match disaster loss grid data, which can solve the problem that climate change scenarios and influence of landslide are difficult to be evaluated in landslide disaster evaluation.

An evaluation method for evaluating a precipitation-induced landslide disaster loss under climate change is provided. The evaluation method belongs to the technical field of geological disaster prevention and treatment. The evaluation method uses a physical process based model, in considering of spatial heterogeneity of land-surface features of grids in the area, to obtain precipitation thresholds corresponding to the respective grids in the area having the spatial heterogeneity. Historical data and climate model data are taken in combination to select suitable climate models, and the model then is used to simulate landslide prone zones and possible influence zones caused by landslides. An influence zones simulated by the evaluation method can better match disaster loss grid data, which can solve the problem that climate change scenarios and influence of landslide are difficult to be evaluated in landslide disaster evaluation.

A worksite control system includes a communication system configured to receive weather data corresponding to a worksite, a weather model generation logic configured to generate a weather model based on the weather data, a worksite action identification logic configured to identify a worksite action based on the weather model, and a control signal generator configured to generate a machine control signal that controls a machine associated with the worksite based on the identified worksite action.

A predictive real time and prospective environmental analysis and display system accessible by one or more client computing devices through a network to depict on the display surface of a computing device a graphical representation of a geographic environment which can be delimited into one or more two or three-dimensional zones in which visual indicators provide predicted current or prospective airflow speed or direction values associated with the geographic environment.

A predictive real time and prospective environmental analysis and display system accessible by one or more client computing devices through a network to depict on the display surface of a computing device a graphical representation of a geographic environment which can be delimited into one or more two or three-dimensional zones in which visual indicators provide predicted current or prospective airflow speed or direction values associated with the geographic environment.

A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a reduced visibility event warning are described herein. In the context of a method, a location corresponding with a reduced visibility event warning may be identified. Information regarding visibility at one or more stationary positions based upon the location of the reduced visibility event warning may be received from one or more remote devices (e.g., sensing apparatuses). The method may determine a reduced visibility event warning confidence for the location corresponding with a reduced visibility event warning based upon the information regarding visibility. The method may cause the reduced visibility event warning to be published in an instance in which the reduced visibility event warning confidence satisfies a confidence threshold.

The present disclosure provides a balloon system for mitigating solar radiation. The balloon system reflects solar radiation away from the earth. The balloon system includes at least one balloon having an outer surface for reflecting solar radiation. An orbital launching system launches the balloon to a set orbital location at which the balloon can orbit around earth in a path of solar radiation from the sun toward earth. At the set orbital location, the earth's gravitational force and solar pressure imparted on the balloon counterbalance the sun's gravitational force on the balloon. The set orbital location is spaced apart from a Lagrange stability point L1 in a direction toward the sun and away from the earth.