Samuel Van Ackere

Digitaal Vlaanderen

Without adaptation, 0.2 to 4.6% of the global population may be flooded annually in 2100 with scenarios of 0.25 till 1.23 m global mean sea level rise. Therefore, it is necessary that local governments engage and educate the local community in order to adapt to the impacts of sea level rise. To this point, we developed a comprehensive four-dimensio...

Low elevation coastal areas are vulnerable to the effects of sea level rise and to an increase in the frequency and severity of storm surge events due to climate change. Coastal urban areas are at risk because coastal flooding causes extensive damage to energy and transportation infrastructure, disruptions to the delivery of services, devastating t...

Floods cause major disruptions to energy supply and transportation facilities and lead to significant impacts on the society, economy, and environment. As a result, there is a compelling need for resilience and adaptation against extreme flood events under a changing climate. An accurate focal priority analysis of how societies can adapt to these c...

Floods can cause damage to transportation and energy infrastructure, disrupt the delivery of services, and take a toll on public health, sometimes even causing significant loss of life. Although scientists widely stress the compelling need for resilience against extreme events under a changing climate, tools for dealing with expected hazards lag be...

Worldwide, flood events frequently have a dramatic impact on urban societies. Time is key during a flood event in order to evacuate vulnerable people at risk, minimize the socioeconomic , ecologic and cultural impact of the event and restore a society from this hazard as quickly as possible. Therefore, detecting a flood in near real-time and assess...

Objective: Vehicular lane-changing is one of the riskiest driving maneuvers. Since vehicular automation is quickly becoming a reality, it is crucial to be able to identify when such a maneuver can turn into a risky situation. Recently, it has been shown that a qualitative approach: the Point Descriptor Precedence (PDP) representation, is able to do...

There are many sensors and measuring methods for detecting moving objects, each with its advantages and disadvantages. In active tracking methods (based on e.g. GNSS technology), the user is informed and actively participates, for instance by installing a smartphone app. These methods typically have the problem that only a limited part of the movin...

Floods can cause damage to transportation and energy infrastructure, disrupt the delivery of services, and take a toll on public health, sometimes even causing loss of life. Although scientists widely stress the compelling need for resilience against extreme events under a changing climate, tools for dealing with expected hazards lag behind. Not on...

Increasing urbanisation, changes in land use (e.g., more impervious area) and climate change have all led to an increasing frequency and severity of flood events and increased socio-economic impact. In order to deploy an urban flood disaster and risk management system, it is necessary to know what the consequences of a specific urban flood event ar...

The flood impact assessment tool is developed to calculate the socio-economic impact due to floods. An analysis is made for the casualties and economic damage caused by floods with a variety of return periods for the current situation and for the projected situation in the future. In the future, cultural and ecological vulnerability calculation are...

The knowledge of the submerged cultural heritage in the North Sea is rather limited. The Belgian North Sea is being used for a lot of different purposes, such as fishing, aggregate extraction, wind farms, dredging, etc. Due to these increasing economic activities, the underwater archive is in danger. In the context of the UNESCO Convention on the P...

Natural hazards do not only affect millions of people, but also cause material damages up to 300 billion USD per year worldwide. The SIDS (Small Island Developing States) are characterized by an extremely high vulnerability to these hazards, due to their low-lying, densely populated cities and their fragile economy. To limit the consequences of the...

Surveys demonstrated that 3D visualisations have an enormous added value because they are more vivid and therefore more understandable and make it easier to imagine the consequences of a flood than 2D visualisations. In this research, the WebGIS will be created using Ol3-Cesium and open layers to visualise a flood event by dynamic layers in a 2D/3D...

Energy saving, reduction of greenhouse gasses and increased use of renewables are key policies to achieve the European 2020 targets. In particular, distributed renewable energy sources, integrated with spatial planning, require novel methods to optimise supply and demand. In contrast with large scale wind turbines, small and medium wind turbines (S...

Het project Windkracht 13 is gericht op het openbreken van de markt voor kleine en middelgrote windturbines (KMWT). Dit wordt gefundeerd door het uitvoeren van een JERTS-studie (Juridisch, Economisch, Ruimtelijk, Technisch, Sociaal) die de bestaande barrières duidelijk in kaart brengt en aan de hand hiervan ook aanbevelingen doet voor het verlagen...

Energy saving, reduction of greenhouse gasses and increased use of renewables are key policies to achieve the European 2020 targets. In particular, distributed renewable energy sources, integrated with spatial planning, require novel methods to optimise supply and demand. In contrast with large scale wind turbines, small and medium wind turbines (S...

Energy saving, reduction of greenhouse gasses and increased use of renewables are key policies to achieve the European 2020 targets. In particular, distributed renewable energy sources, integrated with spatial planning, require novel methods to optimise supply and demand. In contrast with large scale wind turbines, small and medium wind turbines (S...

In tegenstelling tot fotovoltaïsche systemen van gelijkaardige grootte, maken kleine en middelgrote windturbines in Vlaanderen nog geen deel uit van het vertrouwde energielandschap. Aan de hand van het demo-disseminatieproject Windkracht 13 wil de Universiteit Gent, in samenwerking met Tecnolec en met de steun van het Agentschap Ondernemen, de barr...