Automated generation of environmental reports - a case study
A variety of documents generated within the scope of environmental reporting are based on similar and partly overlapping information. However, in the majority of cases information collected for a particular environmental document cannot be reused for other objectives and if then only with huge additional work input. Data need to be updated on a regular basis, e.g. according to the report period. Therefore computer aided and automated reporting would make good sense. This paper introduces an approach of partly automated environmental reporting. The focus thereby lies on automated conversion of environmental assessment data to XML (Extensible Markup Language) format and integration into environmental reports, which will be shown with the software tool Umberto.
Environmental engineering & facility management of Berlin's public buildings
Berlin is one of the major European capitals with an extensive network of public services. To provide these services Berlin operates a number of public buildings ranging from small community centers and police stations to court buildings and police training polygons. Overall office space is approx. 20 000 m2. In 2003 the Berlin Senate founded the “Landesbetrieb fur Gebaudebewirtschaftung” (LfG) as astate-owned enterprise that is responsible for all facility management activities related to state-owned real estates. In 2005 the LfG started a joint research project with the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) with the aim of introducing novel information technologies (IT) and environmental engineering applications to better support these activities. This paper presents three aspects of this research project: (i) the overall approach that we used to gather and assess requirements for environmental engineering technologies, (ii) the system architecture that includes a distributed computing environment, mobile clients, and centralized processing systems which integrate ERP applications, and (iii) a description of several environmental engineering application scenarios and how they are supported by the IT infrastructure.
Research on Control and Planning of Soft-Wing UAV for Haze Removal
The existence of fog and haze has caused great pollution to the environment. The research of removing haze is a hot topic in recent years. In this paper, a special haze removal algorithm based on Soft- Wing UAVis proposed. In this algorithm, two track control strategies are designed based on the Soft-Wing UAV model transfer function. A SIMULINK platform based mathematical model of Soft-Wing UAV is built to testified effectiveness of the two track control strategies. An autonomous ergodic-planning algorithm with greedy strategy and foldback algorithm for Soft-Wing UAV is designed. Within the algorithm, the haze regional has been modelled, the cost matrix is constructed, and the planning and ergodic strategy is proposed. Finally, the experimental results validates the reliability of the algorithm in the application of haze removal with the proposed evaluation Index.