Regionally integrated energy system detailed spatial analysis: Groningen Province case study in the northern Netherlands

Regional level energy system analyses and corresponding integrated modeling is necessary to analyze the impact of national energy policies on a regional level, while considering regional constraints related to energy infrastructure, energy supply potentials, sectoral energy demands, and their interactions. Nevertheless, current literature on...

Regionally integrated energy system detailed spatial analysis: Groningen Province case study in the Northern Netherlands

Regional level energy system analyses and corresponding integrated modeling is necessary to analyze the impact of national energy policies on a regional level, while considering regional constraints related to energy infrastructure, energy supply potentials, sectoral energy demands, and their interactions. Nevertheless, current literature on...

A bottom-up dynamic building stock model for residential energy transition: A case study for the Netherlands

A review of the role of spatial resolution in energy systems modelling: lessons learned and applicability to the North Sea region

The importance of spatial resolution for energy modelling has increased in the last years. Incorporating more spatial resolution in energy models presents wide benefits, but it is not straightforward, as it might compromise their computational performance. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of spatial resolution in energy models,...

Correction to: Residential proximity to industrial combustion facilities and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case-control study

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the unit of the average emission metric (AEI). The AEI was incorrectly reported as nanograms (ng) toxic equivalency quotient (TEQ)/year in the abstract, methods, discussion, and Table 1. The correct unit is grams (g) TEQ/year. The authors apologize for this error.

Can thermal energy recovery from digestate make renewable gas from household waste more cost effective A case study for the Republic of Ireland

This article assesses the impact of energy recovery from digestate on the economics of biomethane produced from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste. Six waste-to-energy routes are investigated and assumed to be deployed in the regional context of the Republic of Ireland. Anaerobic digestion without energy recovery, and landspreading of...

Comparison of industrial emissions and carpet dust concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans in a multi-center U.S. study

Proximity to facilities emitting polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) has been associated with increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). There is limited information about whether proximity to industrial sources leads to indoor PCDD/F contamination of homes. We measured carpet dust concentrations (pg/g...

Disaster preparedness in humanitarian logistics A collaborative approach for resource management in floods

GIS and optimisation: Potential benefits for emergency facility location in humanitarian logistics

Floods are one of the most dangerous and common disasters worldwide, and these disasters are closely linked to the geography of the affected area. As a result, several papers in the academic field of humanitarian logistics have incorporated the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for disaster management. However, most of the...

Development of land use regression models for elemental, organic carbon, PAH, and hopanes/steranes in 10 ESCAPE/TRANSPHORM European study areas

Land use regression (LUR) models have been used to model concentrations of mainly traffic-related air pollutants (nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM) mass or absorbance). Few LUR models are published of PM composition, whereas the interest in health effects related to particle composition is increasing. The aim of our study was to...

The impact of CO2 pricing or biodiesel on container transport in and passing through the Netherlands

The paper analyses the impact of: 1) CO2 pricing; 2) using biodiesel on the multimodal freight transport system in and through the Netherlands taking the changes in the transport demands for road, rail, and inland waterway into account. Special attention is given to the impact on the market share of various barge classes in inland waterway...

Residential proximity to industrial combustion facilities and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: A case-control study

Background: Residence near municipal solid waste incinerators, a major historical source of dioxin emissions, has been associated with increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in European studies. The aim of our study was to evaluate residence near industrial combustion facilities and estimates of dioxin emissions in relation to NHL risk in...

Assessing European capacity for geological storage of carbon dioxide-the EU GeoCapacity project

The focus of the GeoCapacity project is GIS mapping of CO2 point sources, infrastructure and geological storage in Europe. The main objective is to assess the European capacity for geological storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers, oil and gas structures and coal beds. Other priorities are further development of methods for capacity assessment,...

An integrated GIS-MARKAL toolbox for designing a CO2 infrastructure network in the Netherlands

Large-scale implementation of carbon capture and storage needs a whole new infrastructure to transport and store CO2. Tools that can support planning and designing of such infrastructure require incorporation of both temporal and spatial aspects. Therefore, a toolbox that integrates ArcGIS, a geographical information system with elaborate...

Road Extraction and Network Building from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images using A-Priori Information

This paper describes a method for the extraction of road networks from radar images. Three phases can be distinguished: (1) detection of road lines, (2) network building, and (3) network fusion. The method has been demonstrated on two radar images, one urban and one rural. Despite the differences, the procedure was able to cover a large part of...

Retrieval of aerosol properties overland and water using (A)ATSR data

The retrieval of aerosol properties using multi-spectral data provided by satellite based radiometers, has been explored by TNO since 1995. Aerosol properties that are currently retrieved using (A)ATSR data are aerosol optical depth (AOD), the variation of AOD with the wavelength expressed by the Angstrom coefficient, and the dominant aerosol...

Dynamic management of geographic data in a virtual environment

In order to achieve true 3D user interaction with geographic information, an interface between a virtual environment system and a geographic information system has been designed and implemented. This VE/GIS interface is based on a loose coupling of the underlying geographic database and the virtual environment system via a dynamic data...