Beni RAHARJO

Forest, Nature, Remote Sensing, GIS, and Technology

Kjofol, My Favourite MP3 Player in Window

Kjfol adalah MP3 Player (Window) favorite saya sejak saya pertama memiliki PC pertama berprosesor AMD-K62 tahun 1998 yang lalu. Saat itu saya mendengar lantunan musik menggunakan Kjofol di Pameran Komputer di Graha Sabha Pramana UGM. Satu hal yang sangat menarik saya adalah suara bass yang mantap. Apalagi saat itu digunakan Altec Lansing yang sedang tenar-tenarnya.

Irrigation: Its Problems, Benefits, and Efficiency

Introduction
As there is emerging water scarcity issue in Australia and worldwide, irrigated agricultural land as one of the biggest water users is challenged to be more water efficient. Some studies in several regions around the world also show many problems of irrigations project. This paper will discus irrigation and its benefits and problems in Australia [...]

Forest Concession and Conversion:A Cause of Forest Fire?

Forest fire is an annual event in Indonesia (Alfred, 2004; Zoumas). The most extensive forest fire occurred in 1997/1998 (Dauvergne, 1998), but actually low intensity fire takes place every year. This has become an international concern because the impact of forest fire affects neighbouring countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Fire not only sends [...]

Mangrove Forest in Tsunami Mitigation

A tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 which attacks some countries was one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded. After that event, some earthquakes and small tsunamis around the Indian and Pacific Firering increased concern about the probability of future earthquakes and tsunamis. When there are no satisfactory technologies to predict where [...]

Using Radar for Bathymetry

Water is good radar reflector. It reflects radar better than rock (Svitil 1997). Romeiser (2004) states that microwave (radar wavelength) has penetration in sea water only in the order of millimeter. Hence, water doesn’t pretty much absorb radar energy. Virtually, It will reflect the energy like mirror. How much percentage water reflects radar wave [...]

 
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