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Papers by Mohamed Haleem

Socioeconomic Assessment and Monitoring for Vidathaltivu, Mannar District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, 2015

Execu5ve Summary This is a report of the Community based Socioeconomic Monitoring program carried... more Execu5ve Summary
This is a report of the Community based Socioeconomic Monitoring program carried out in Vidathativu village from March to June 2015 under the Mangrove Conservation and Management Project supported by GEF Small grants Programme and the SocMon capacity building program supported by BOBLME. The program was initiated with the premise that long term sustainability for coastal
ecosystem management and monitoring programs can be ensured, if the local community
participate and feel a sense of ownership in the program.
An additional benefit of this program is that it serves as both a capacity building and an
awareness building program for the local communities who are directly involved in using
the ecosystem goods and services and those who are involved in monitoring them. The project was carried out in partnership with a civil society group called the Community Aid Foundation and the SOCMON Mannar group. By monitoring the Vidathaltivu community’s dependence on the ecosystem goods and services, and their perceptions on the current status of the ecosystem goods and services, we are able to arrive at a comprehensive mapping of coastal ecosystem related
activities of the Vidathathivu fishermen and derive several types of information:
a) Livelihood dependence on ecosystem goods and services
b) Poverty and dependence on ecosystem goods and services
c) Conflicts/ co-operation for using the same space and anthropogenic stress on the
various lagoon habitats
d) Perception of the stakeholders regarding resource status, conservation and MPA’s.
Where possible the socioeconomic monitoring information has been supplemented with biophysical monitoring information, as available from the CCD and IUCN reports.Management advice has been provided on the basis of our findings. This report is divided into 8 chapters.
Chapter 1, introduces the reader to the Mannar district and the goals and objectives of this project Chapter 2 explains how the project was carried out and the methods used for data collection.!8Chapter 3 contains a short history of the Vidathalthivu village, the displacement and migration of the people and its social and ecological profile .Chapter 4: describes the infrastructure services available in the village, business developmentstrategies of the community and their perception of wealth and poverty statusand household demography. Chapter 5: describes the coastal and marine activities of the Vidathalthivu community and describes the seasonality of resource use in a seasonal calendar and resource-activity maps developed by the stakeholders themselves, place names for fishing grounds and explains the perceptions of the local people on the state of the fishing grounds, it also includes a fisher stakeholder analysis and describes the market chain.Chapter 6: presents the community perceptions towards they ecological resources and their management.Chapter 7: Introduces the reader to the Management body that governs resource use in the coastal areas. It lists all the community and government institutions that influence
the way coastal goods and services are used and managed.
Chapter 8: presents the key learnings, conclusions and insights gleaned from the data analysis. It assesses the strengths and weakness of the exercise and offers advice that can be used for adaptive Management.
The report has been prepared for the people of Vidathaltivu to enable them to continue with the dialogue for the need for Management of the ecosystem goods and services of their coastal resources. It provides Management advice to the authorities concerned within the Mannar, District Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
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The statistical behavior of sidelobe-ambiguity arising in location estimation in distributed cohe... more The statistical behavior of sidelobe-ambiguity arising in location estimation in distributed coherent MIMO radar is studied in this paper. A model is developed for analyzing the statistics of the localization metric under random sensor locations. Closed form expressions are obtained for the mean and variance of the localization metric. It is shown that the mean is independent of the number of sensors and its sidelobes decrease with the squared distance from the coherence point of the MIMO array. With M transmit sensors and N receive sensors, the variance behaves as 1/MN for locations beyond the vicinity of the target being observed. When all N sensors function as transceivers, the variance approaches 2/N2. Except in the vicinity of the target, the side lobe levels have equal distribution at every location. The study is extended to derive the statistics of the peak sidelobe level and a simple expression is obtained relating the required number of sensors for a tolerated level of peak sidelobes and a desired confidence level.

In the conventional method of discrete-time control, the control-input is held constant across ea... more In the conventional method of discrete-time control, the control-input is held constant across each sampling interval; i.e., “zero-order hold” type control. In this paper a previously introduced generalization of the conventional discrete-time control method, in which the control is allowed to vary with time (open-loop fashion) across each sampling interval is considered and applied to the optimal linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem. This generalization of discrete-time control, called “discrete-continuous control”, leads to significant performance improvements compared to conventional discrete-time control. An important special case of discrete-continuous control where control variations are constrained to be linear-in-time across each sampling-interval, is examined in detail and a new general LQR theory is developed for that special case. These latter results are illustrated by a worked numerical example with simulation plots that clearly demonstrate the LQR performance improvements obtained by (linear-in-time) discrete-continuous control

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2006

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2005

Journal of Vlsi Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology, 2002

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2002

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2007

IEEE Communications Letters, 2004

Recently, a generalization of the conventional (ZOH) discrete time control method called “discret... more Recently, a generalization of the conventional (ZOH) discrete time control method called “discrete continuous (D/C) control”, was introduced in the control literature. In that generalization the discrete time control is allowed to vary continuously with time in an open loop fashion, across each sampling interval tk&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;t&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;t k+1. The discrete continuous control method was applied to the discrete time linear quadratic

Books by Mohamed Haleem

Socioeconomic Assessment and Monitoring for Vidathaltivu, Mannar District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, 2020

This is a report of the Community based Socioeconomic Monitoring program carried out in Vidathati... more This is a report of the Community based Socioeconomic Monitoring program carried out
in Vidathativu village from March to June 2015 under the Mangrove Conservation and
Management Project supported by GEF Small grants Programme and the SocMon capacity
building program supported by BOBLME.
The program was initiated with the premise that long term sustainability for coastal
ecosystem management and monitoring programs can be ensured, if the local community
participate and feel a sense of ownership in the program.
An additional benefit of this program is that it serves as both a capacity building and an
awareness building program for the local communities who are directly involved in using
the ecosystem goods and services and those who are involved in monitoring them.
The project was carried out in partnership with a civil society group called the Community
Aid Foundation and the SOCMON Mannar group.
By monitoring the Vidathaltivu community’s dependence on the ecosystem goods and
services, and their perceptions on the current status of the ecosystem goods and services,
we are able to arrive at a comprehensive mapping of coastal ecosystem related
activities of the Vidathathivu fishermen and derive several types of information:
a) Livelihood dependence on ecosystem goods and services
b) Poverty and dependence on ecosystem goods and services
c) Conflicts/ co-operation for using the same space and anthropogenic stress on the
various lagoon habitats
d) Perception of the stakeholders regarding resource status, conservation and MPA’s.
Where possible the socioeconomic monitoring information has been supplemented with
biophysical monitoring information, as available from the CCD and IUCN reports.Management
advice has been provided on the basis of our findings.
This report is divided into 8 chapters.
Chapter 1, introduces the reader to the Mannar district and the goals and objectives of
this project
Chapter 2 explains how the project was carried out and the methods used for data collection.
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Chapter 3 contains a short history of the Vidathalthivu village, the displacement and migration
of the people and its social and ecological profile .
Chapter 4: describes the infrastructure services available in the village, business development
strategies of the community and their perception of wealth and poverty status
and household demography.
Chapter 5: describes the coastal and marine activities of the Vidathalthivu community
and describes the seasonality of resource use in a seasonal calendar and resource-activity
maps developed by the stakeholders themselves, place names for fishing grounds
and explains the perceptions of the local people on the state of the fishing grounds, it
also includes a fisher stakeholder analysis and describes the market chain.
Chapter 6: presents the community perceptions towards they ecological resources and
their management.
Chapter 7: Introduces the reader to the Management body that governs resource use in
the coastal areas. It lists all the community and government institutions that influence
the way coastal goods and services are used and managed.
Chapter 8: presents the key learnings, conclusions and insights gleaned from the data
analysis. It assesses the strengths and weakness of the exercise and offers advice that
can be used for adaptive Management.
The report has been prepared for the people of Vidathaltivu to enable them to continue
with the dialogue for the need for Management of the ecosystem goods and services of
their coastal resources. It provides Management advice to the authorities concerned
within the Mannar, District Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
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