FROM FLOOD MITIGATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DISRUPTION: A CASE STUDY OF THE LANGUE DE BARBARIE SAND SPIT BREACH

From Flood Mitigation to Environmental and Socioeconomic Disruption: A Case Study of the Langue de Barbarie Sand Spit Breach

In October 2003, an artificial canal was dug across the Langue de Barbarie sand spit at the mouth of the Senegal River to prevent the city of Saint-Louis (Senegal) from being submerged by floods.This study aimed to explore the multiple facets of this sudden environmental change to provide a holistic overview of the situation and a better understand

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EMExplorer: an episodic memory enhanced autonomous exploration strategy with Voronoi domain conversion and invalid action masking

Abstract Autonomous exploration is a critical technology to realize robotic intelligence as it allows unsupervised preparation for future tasks and facilitates flexible deployment.In this paper, a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based autonomous exploration strategy is proposed to efficiently reduce the unknown area of the workspace and pro

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