CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF A NOVEL AI BASED VISUAL MONITORING OF BEEHIVES IN ECOTOXICOLOGY AND FOR THE MONITORING OF LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES

Honey bees are valuable bioindicators.As such, they hold a vast potential to help shed light on the extent and interdependencies of factors influencing the decline in the number of insects.However, to date this potential has not yet been fully leveraged, as the production of reliable data requires large-scale study designs, which are very labour in

Gender equality is a matter for debate worldwide.In 2018, Portugal enacted legislation (Decree Law no.62/2017) to balance gender representation on the executive boards of listed and public sector organizations with measures similar to those causing controversies in other countries.Thus, in accordance with previous research, a study took place to ex

This article targets fast indoor positioning and 3D target detection for unmanned aerial vehicle read more (UAV) real-time task implementation.With the combined direct method and feature method, a method is proposed for fast and accurate position estimation of the UAV.The camera pose is estimated by the visual odometer via the photometric error bet

This paper presents a novel steering mechanism embedded in a point-the-bit rotary steerable system (RSS) for oilfield exploitation.The new steering mechanism adopts a set of universal joints to alleviate the high alternative strain on drilling mandrel and employs a specially designed planetary gear small tooth number difference (PGSTD) to achieve t