Port infrastructure monitoring (Madeira Island, Portugal) through GNSS, inertial systems and physical and numeric models.

Port infrastructures as breakwaters, are specially designed to be exposed to the most adverse and extreme conditions. Actions such as wind, waves, tides, sediment dynamics and ships anchoring are factors that can weaken these infrastructures over time. The present work focuses on the control of the...

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Main Authors: Mário Pereira, Ana Teodoro, Fernando Veloso-Gomes, Maria Joao Henriques
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00165/full