Natural Disasters, When Will They Reach Me?
Wijesundera, Isuri; Halgamuge, Malka N.; Nanayakkara, Thrishantha; Nirmalathas, Thas
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Hardback. Series: Springer Natural Hazards. Num Pages: 146 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 37 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBWL; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 391.
The expected time of impact, also known as the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach failure, is a critical metric in the management of natural disasters. The complexity of the dynamics governing natural disasters lead to stochastic behaviour. This book shows that state transitions of many such systems translate into random walks on their respective state spaces, biased and shaped by environmental inhomogeneity. Thus the probabilistic treatment of those random walks gives valuable insights of expected behaviour. A comprehensive case study of predicting cyclone induced flood is followed by a discussion of generic methods that predict MFPT addressing directional bias. This ... Read more
The expected time of impact, also known as the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach failure, is a critical metric in the management of natural disasters. The complexity of the dynamics governing natural disasters lead to stochastic behaviour. This book shows that state transitions of many such systems translate into random walks on their respective state spaces, biased and shaped by environmental inhomogeneity. Thus the probabilistic treatment of those random walks gives valuable insights of expected behaviour. A comprehensive case study of predicting cyclone induced flood is followed by a discussion of generic methods that predict MFPT addressing directional bias. This ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
Series
Springer Natural Hazards
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811011115
SKU
V9789811011115
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About Wijesundera, Isuri; Halgamuge, Malka N.; Nanayakkara, Thrishantha; Nirmalathas, Thas
Isuri Wijesundera completed her PhD in engineering at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and received her BSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2007. She previously worked as a Telecommunications Engineer in Sri Lanka (2007-10) and is currently attached to the Big-Data unit at Telstra, Australia. Her recent work focused on ... Read more
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