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Huiying Ren, Z. Jason Hou, Mark Wigmosta, Ying Liu and L. Ruby Leung
Changes in extreme precipitation events may require revisions of civil engineering standards to prevent water infrastructures from performing below the designated guidelines. Climate change may invalidate the intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) computatio...
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Pengyun Chen, Zhiru Li, Guangqing Liu, Ziyi Wang, Jiayu Chen, Shangyao Shi, Jian Shen and Lizhou Li
The positioning results of terrain matching in flat terrain areas will significantly deteriorate due to the influence of terrain nonlinearity and multibeam measurement noise. To tackle this problem, this study presents the Pulse-Coupled Neural Network (P...
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Adam Szabo, Daniel Karoly Doba, Szilard Aradi and Peter Kiss
The number of highly automated machines in the agricultural sector has increased rapidly in recent years. To reduce their fuel consumption, and thus their emission and operational cost, the performance of such machines must be optimized. The running gear...
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Daniel Soto-Guerrero, José Gabriel Ramírez-Torres and Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello
Insects are good examples of ground locomotion because they can adapt their gait pattern to propel them in any direction, over uneven terrain, in a stable manner. Nevertheless, replicating such locomotion skills to a legged robot is not a straightforward...
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Ge Yan, Guoan Tang, Dingyang Lu, Junfei Ma, Xin Yang and Fayuan Li
The intervalley plain is an important type of landform for mapping, and it has good connectivity for urban construction and development on the Loess Plateau. During the global landform mapping of the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Big Science Program, it ...
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Ivars Klavin?, Arta Bardule, Zane Klavina and Zane Libiete
Mercury (Hg) is a toxic contaminant that bioaccumulates in trophic chains in its organic form?methylmercury (MeHg). Hg methylation is driven by microorganisms in favourable conditions, stagnant water pools being among potential methylation hotspots. In t...
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Pavol Kurdel, Natália Gecejová, Marek Ce?kovic and Anna Yakovlieva
Unmanned aerial vehicle technology is the most advanced and helpful in almost every area of interest in human work. These devices become autonomous and can fulfil a variety of tasks, from simple imaging and obtaining data to search and rescue operations....
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Hao Hu, Yankun Liu, Jiankang Du, Rongqiong Liu, Banglei Wu and Qingwei Zeng
Both the renovation of rainwater pipes and the addition of sponge city facilities in the low-terrain residences of urban fringes were rarely systematically simulated using the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). With the waterlogging prevention project ...
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Mengjun Ku, Hao Jiang, Kai Jia, Xuemei Dai, Jianhui Xu, Dan Li, Chongyang Wang and Boxiong Qin
South China is dominated by mountainous agriculture and croplands that are at risk of flood disasters, posing a great threat to food security. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has the advantage of being all-weather, with the ability to penetrate clouds and...
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Aymane Ahajjam, Jaakko Putkonen, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka, Robert Chance and Timothy J. Pasch
Local weather forecasts in the Arctic outside of settlements are challenging due to the dearth of ground-level observation stations and high computational costs. During winter, these forecasts are critical to help prepare for potentially hazardous weathe...
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