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Land, Volume 14, Issue 12

December 2025 - 151 articles

Cover Story: Deep learning is increasingly shaping how landscapes are observed, classified, and interpreted, yet its application in wilderness remains conceptually and methodologically underexamined. This paper provides critical insights into the practical use of deep learning for wilderness analysis using Copernicus Sentinel-2 data. Focusing on realistic computational constraints, the study evaluates widely adopted architectures, batch sizes, and spectral configurations through image classification and semantic segmentation experiments on the AnthroProtect dataset in Fennoscandia. The findings challenge common assumptions about model complexity and transfer learning in Earth observation, and highlight the need for more context-aware and efficiency-driven design choices. The work provides a grounded perspective on how deep learning can be applied more effectively in wilderness monitoring practices. View this paper
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Articles (151)

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  • Open Access
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17 December 2025

Optimizing resource allocation is crucial for enhancing Total Factor Productivity (TFP). This study investigates the impact of differentiated industrial land supply (DILS) on industrial Total Factor Productivity (ITFP), a topic essential for optimizi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
484 Views
31 Pages

17 December 2025

The environmental crisis precipitated by climate change has accelerated the urgency of urban green and low-carbon transformation. In 2024, China’s Action Plan for the National Standardization Development Outline (2024–2025) stipulated req...

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  • Open Access
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17 Pages

17 December 2025

Public health emergencies (PHEs) test the crisis response capacity of grassroots organizations like China’s Residential Committees (RCs). While existing research attributes this capacity to factors like resource mobilization or state-society re...

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  • Open Access
369 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2025

Agricultural regions in humid tropical climates are often assumed to be water secure due to high annual rainfall, yet periodic drought remains a major constraint on production. This study demonstrates the application of the Normalized Difference Drou...

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  • Open Access
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Assessing the Quality of Public Spaces in Traditional Villages in Chongqing, Southwest China

  • Wei Wang,
  • Yiping Chen,
  • Yun Gao,
  • Lili Dong,
  • Jieying Zeng and
  • Lingfei Zhou

16 December 2025

In many traditional villages in China, substantial government investment has been directed toward reconstructing public spaces for tourism development. Yet, many of these newly built spaces remain underused, revealing a persistent mismatch between to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
318 Views
25 Pages

16 December 2025

To achieve effective coordination among planning, operation, and service in urban management, and based on the fundamental characteristic of urban spatial development expanding from points to areas, this paper proposes an approach for identifying hig...

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  • Open Access
259 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2025

Reducing farmland abandonment and improving land resource utilization efficiency are critical pathways for safeguarding national food security. This study aims to identify the mechanism through which Land Consolidation (LC) affects farmers’ aba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
352 Views
28 Pages

16 December 2025

Urban vitality is an important evaluation indicator for enhancing urban spatial efficiency and promoting sustainable development. However, few studies have systematically integrated steady-state and dynamic vitality perspectives. To address this gap,...

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  • Open Access
360 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2025

Innovation is the core driving force behind the high-quality development and global competitiveness of cities. The spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of innovation are of significant value in optimizing the allocation of inn...

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