iosr-JCE   Volume-19 ~ Issue-5 ~ Sep-Oct 2017

Abstract: There has been a tremendous growth in data over the years. The question often lies in how the data is being used on a daily basis to predict the uncertainties. If we look at it from a climatic change perspective, though we have a lot of sources of data to be informed about the weather prediction and what if, a cost effective, simple and portable method is also available for the same. Hence the idea of "Open Environment System" is being proposed which is a prototype that will predict the possibility of the rainfall on a given day as well as can predict the minimum & maximum rainfall possible in that region on the particular month, based on the factors that cause rain along with the availability of the historical data .

[1] Tarun Agarwal,Temperature Sensor -Types, Working & Operation, EL-PRO-CUS (The Budding Electronic Engineers Knowledge
Space)
[2] SYHITECH SY-HS-220, Humidity Sensors, Electronic components Journal Papers:
[3] Ivan Simeonov, Hristo Killifarev and Raycho Ilarionov, Embedded System for Short Term Weather Forecasting", International
Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies,2006.
News Articles:
[4] Express News Service, Agency makes model to forecast for 20 days in advance every 5 days, Indianexpress.com,2015.
[5] Sakaal Times,New Weather forecasting system launched, Sakaaltimes.com,2013.

Abstract: Current flood mitigation approaches consist of responding aptly to flooding events with either upstream or downstream measures. Upstream factors such as precipitation and other hydrological factors are the major triggers of flooding events within our environments. In order to address this issue, a conceptual framework will be introduced in this paper to identify various spatio-temporal data required for an enhanced flooding analysis as well as the pertinent processes involved which are needed........

Keywords: Flood Analysis, Long-lead flood Analysis, Spatio-temporal Data, Upstream Flooding

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[3] Sang, J., Allen, P., Dunbar, J., & Hanson, G. (2014). Development of semi-physically based model to predict erosion rate of kaolinite clay under different moisture content. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 52(5), 577-586.
[4] Wanders, N., Karssenberg, D., Roo, A. D., De Jong, S. M., & Bierkens, M. F. P. (2014). The suitability of remotely sensed soil moisture for improving operational flood forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18(6), 2343-2357.
[5] Youssef, A. M., Pradhan, B., & Hassan, A. M. (2011). Flash flood risk estimation along the St. Katherine road, southern Sinai, Egypt using GIS based morphometry and satellite imagery. Environmental Earth Sciences, 62(3), 611-623..

Abstract: Processing of digital speech plays an important role in modern speech communication research and applications. The main propose of digital speech is communication which means transmission of messages between human and computer systems. The process of converting the written text into speech is called Text-to-Speech (TTS) and the generation of "synthetic" speech is known as Speech Synthesis. This paper discusses the development of Text-to-Speech system using festival framework for Punjabi language which is in Gurumukhi script. Since festival uses concatenation approach, diphone...............

Keywords: Concatenation Synthesis, Diphone, Festival, Punjabi, Speech synthesis.

[1] Mache Suhas R., Manasi R. Baheti, and C. Namrata Mahender, Review on Text-To-Speech Synthesizer, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering,4(8), 2015, 54-59.

[2] Gupta Shruti and Parteek Kumar, Comparative study of text to speech system for Indian Language, International Journal of Advances in Computing and Information Technology, 1(2), 2012, 199-209.
[3] Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton, Developments in Speech Synthesis (United Kingdom, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005).

[4] Paul Taylor, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, (University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009).
[5] Andrea Lynn Bowden, Punjabi Tonemics and the Gurmukhi Script: A Preliminary Study, Brigham Young University, United States of America, 2012.