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Eric D. Swain, James E. Landmeyer, Michael A. Singletary and Shannon E. Provenzano
Past waste-disposal activities at Naval Air Station Whiting Field (NASWF) have led to elevated concentrations of contaminants in the underlying sand and gravel aquifer. Contaminants include two of the most commonly detected chemicals in groundwater in ma...
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Qiufang Dai, Ziwei Chen, Guanfa Wu, Zhen Li, Shilei Lv and Weicheng Huang
Agricultural environments are usually characterized by height differences and tree shading, which pose challenges for communication in smart agriculture. This study focuses on optimizing the packet loss rate and power consumption of LoRa?s practical comm...
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Vicky Garcia Rodriguez, Layton Vandestroet, Vinura C. Abeysekara, Kim Ominski, Emmanuel W. Bumunang, Tim McAllister, Stephanie Terry, Luis Alberto Miranda-Romero and Kim Stanford
In Canada, approximately 11.2 million metric tons of avoidable food waste (FW) is produced per year. Preservation of a greater proportion of this FW for use as livestock feed would have significant environmental and socioeconomic benefits. Therefore, thi...
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Ana Corceiro, Nuno Pereira, Khadijeh Alibabaei and Pedro D. Gaspar
The global population?s rapid growth necessitates a 70% increase in agricultural production, posing challenges exacerbated by weed infestation and herbicide drawbacks. To address this, machine learning (ML) models, particularly convolutional neural netwo...
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Yong Li, Ruichen Wang, Dongxu Gao and Zhiyong Liu
Unmanned surface vehicle (USV)-based floating-waste detection presents significant challenges. Due to the water surface?s high reflectivity, there are often light spots and reflections in images captured by USVs. Furthermore, floating waste often consist...
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Owen Tamin, Ervin Gubin Moung, Jamal Ahmad Dargham, Farashazillah Yahya, Ali Farzamnia, Florence Sia, Nur Faraha Mohd Naim and Lorita Angeline
Plastic waste is a growing environmental concern that poses a significant threat to onshore ecosystems, human health, and wildlife. The accumulation of plastic waste in oceans has reached a staggering estimate of over eight million tons annually, leading...
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Enoc Tapia-Mendez, Irving A. Cruz-Albarran, Saul Tovar-Arriaga and Luis A. Morales-Hernandez
Food waste is a global concern and is the focus of this research. Currently, no method in the state of the art classifies multiple fruits and vegetables and their level of ripening. The objective of the study is to design and develop an intelligent syste...
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Ali Hachem, Giuliano Vox and Fabiana Convertino
Agricultural activities have been positively affected by the use of plastic products, but this has resulted in the production of plastic waste and led to an increase in environmental pollution. To continue benefiting from the use of plastics but addressi...
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Yulong Lu, Jialuo Tao, Chuanghua Cao, Hanlin Liu, Yang Liu and Zhengbin Ge
Leakage in the impervious layer of a domestic waste landfill seriously pollutes the soil and groundwater. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out rapid nondestructive leakage location detection. In this research, the electrical resistivity tomography (ER...
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Shengping Wen, Yue Yuan and Jingfu Chen
The preliminary sorting of plastic products is a necessary step to improve the utilization of waste resources. To improve the quality and efficiency of sorting, a plastic detection scheme based on deep learning is proposed in this paper for a waste plast...
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