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Mmasabata Dolly Molekoa, Ram Avtar, Pankaj Kumar, Huynh Vuong Thu Minh and Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan
Despite being a finite resource, both the quality and quantity of groundwater are under tremendous pressure due to rapid global changes, viz. population growth, land-use/land-cover changes (LULC), and climate change. The 6th Sustainable Development Goal ...
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Vanessa de Arruda Souza, Débora Regina Roberti, Anderson Luis Ruhoff, Tamíres Zimmer, Daniela Santini Adamatti, Luis Gustavo G. de Gonçalves, Marcelo Bortoluzzi Diaz, Rita de Cássia Marques Alves and Osvaldo L. L. de Moraes
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the hydrological cycle. Understanding the ET process has become of fundamental importance given the scenario of global change and increasing water use, especially in the agricultural sector. Determinin...
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Mauro F. Pereira, Paula Santana and David S. Vale
Road network connectivity determines the accessibility of urban activities for pedestrians, while streetscape characteristics have an impact on route attractiveness. Methods used to measure the influence of connectivity and streetscape characteristics on...
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Giorgio Lazzarinetti, Riccardo Dondi, Sara Manzoni and Italo Zoppis
Solving combinatorial problems on complex networks represents a primary issue which, on a large scale, requires the use of heuristics and approximate algorithms. Recently, neural methods have been proposed in this context to find feasible solutions for r...
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Max Käding and Steffen Marx
Acoustic emission monitoring (AEM) has emerged as an effective technique for detecting wire breaks resulting from, e.g., stress corrosion cracking, and its application on prestressed concrete bridges is increasing. The success of this monitoring measure ...
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Shunli Zheng, Jinshou Wang, Haiwei Jiao, Rongke Xu, Yueming Yin, Changtan Fang and Xin Chen
The Qinghai?Tibet Plateau, abundant in mineral resources, is a treasure trove for geological explorers. However, exploration has been hindered by the presence of dense vegetation, weathering layers, and desert cover, particularly in the North Qaidam regi...
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Linfeng Wang, Shengbo Chen, Lei Chen, Zibo Wang, Bin Liu and Yucheng Xu
Accurately mapping urban built-up areas is critical for monitoring urbanization and development. Previous studies have shown that Night light (NTL) data is effective in characterizing the extent of human activity. But its inherently low spatial resolutio...
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Vasileios Moysiadis, Ilias Siniosoglou, Georgios Kokkonis, Vasileios Argyriou, Thomas Lagkas, Sotirios K. Goudos and Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Remote sensing stands out as one of the most widely used operations in the field. In this research area, UAVs offer full coverage of large cultivation areas in a few minutes and provide orthomosaic images with valuable information based on multispectral ...
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José Rato-Nunes, José Telo-da-Gama, David Peña, Luís Loures, Angel Albaran, Damian Fernández-Rodríguez, Luis Vicente and António López-Piñeiro
Olive orchards cover over 10 million hectares worldwide, with production techniques undergoing significant changes in the past three decades. The traditional rainfed approach, involving minimal inputs, has given way to irrigated super-intensive systems w...
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Defang Lu, Yuejun Zheng, Xianghui Cao, Jiaojiao Guan, Wenpeng Li and Kifayatullah Khan
In recent decades, the water cycle process in the Loess Plateau has undergone drastic changes under the influence of anthropogenic disturbance and climate variability. The Loess Plateau has been greatly affected by human activities and climate change, an...
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