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1 Citations
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18 June 2026

Air quality forecasting and environmental health research at urban and regional scales depend on the combination of measurements from heterogeneous sensor networks, yet the construction of integrated multi-source datasets is rarely described or relea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensor Systems for Atmospheric and Environmental Pollution Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,774 Views
24 Pages

28 July 2025

With the increasing scale of industrial devices and the growing complexity of multi-source heterogeneous sensor data, traditional methods struggle to address challenges in fault detection, data security, and trustworthiness. Ensuring tamper-proof dat...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,056 Views
47 Pages

Heterogeneous Iris One-to-One Certification with Universal Sensors Based On Quality Fuzzy Inference and Multi-Feature Fusion Lightweight Neural Network

  • Liu Shuai,
  • Liu Yuanning,
  • Zhu Xiaodong,
  • Huo Guang and ,
  • Wu Zukang,
  • Li Xinlong,
  • Wang Chaoqun and
  • Cui Jingwei
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 March 2020

Due to the unsteady morphology of heterogeneous irises generated by a variety of different devices and environments, the traditional processing methods of statistical learning or cognitive learning for a single iris source are not effective. Traditio...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
42 Pages

16 October 2026

Future Internet ecosystems increasingly rely on distributed and intelligent data infrastructures, yet evidence of their evolution is fragmented across scholarly publications, patents, open-source repositories, and technology news. This study proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Smart Environments and Digital Twin Technologies—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
539 Views
27 Pages

Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Stacking Ensemble Learning for Vineyard Mapping and Inventory Updating in Arid Xinjiang

  • Leiting Yi,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Zhi Pu,
  • Lei Luo and ,
  • Siyu Zhou and
  • Shipeng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Accurate vineyard mapping is important for agricultural resource monitoring, land-use management, and inventory updating in arid regions. However, vineyard identification in Xinjiang, China, is challenged by fragmented parcels, exposed soil backgroun...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,805 Views
25 Pages

20 March 2025

In view of the challenges brought by a complex environment, diverse data sources and urban development needs, our study comprehensively reviews the application of algorithms in urban residential vacancy rate observation. First, we explore the definit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Smart Cities (2nd Edition))
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,866 Views
24 Pages

Management Control and Integration Technology of Intelligent Production Line for Multi-Variety and Complex Aerospace Ring Forgings: A Review

  • Huijuan Ma,
  • Xiang Huang,
  • Xuhua Cui,
  • Peiliao Wang and ,
  • Yizhe Chen,
  • Zhili Hu and
  • Lin Hua
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2022

Large and complex ring forgings are key structural parts of the aerospace field, and their quality is closely related to the reliability of aerospace vehicles. However, high-quality production of aerospace ring forgings faces many problems, such as t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Rolling, Heat Treatment and Electromagnetic Processing Technology of High Performance Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,532 Views
15 Pages

Research on the Digital Twin System of the Centring Process for High-Precision Lens

  • Zexiang Chen,
  • Yanyan Li,
  • Guannan Ma,
  • Yaman Wang and
  • Botao Qin

5 December 2023

In the manufacturing process of optical lenses, the lack of monitoring and detection of the central processing process leads to low processing efficiency and difficulty in ensuring product consistency. We propose a digital twin system for alignment p...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,901 Views
27 Pages

A Decision-Making Algorithm for Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Arch Bridge Maintenance Based on Structural Health Monitoring

  • Chengzhong Gui,
  • Weiwei Lin,
  • Zuwei Huang,
  • Guangtao Xin and ,
  • Jun Xiao and
  • Liuxin Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 October 2022

This study focuses on establishing a novel heuristic algorithm for life-cycle performance evaluation. Special attention is given to decision-making algorithms for concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) arch bridge maintenance. The main procedure is dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Testing of Materials and Elements in Civil Engineering (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,059 Views
18 Pages

Fine spatiotemporal mapping of PM2.5 concentration in urban areas is of great significance in epidemiologic research. However, both the diversity and the complex nonlinear relationships of PM2.5 influencing factors pose challenges for accurate mappin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,422 Views
24 Pages

26 January 2026

Current mainstream remote sensing approaches to forest age estimation frequently neglect interspecific differences in functional traits, which may limit the accurate representation of species-specific tree growth strategies. This study develops and v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,209 Views
24 Pages

19 September 2025

Accurate path travel time prediction is often hindered by sparse and heterogeneous traffic data. This paper proposes FusionODE-TT, a novel model designed to address these challenges by modeling traffic as a continuous-time process. The model features...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,919 Views
31 Pages

Concrete Material Variability and Machine Learning Model Performance: A Comprehensive Review

  • Hadi Bahmani,
  • Hasan Mostafaei,
  • Paulo Santos and
  • Daniel Ferrández

29 January 2026

Machine learning (ML) has become an increasingly important tool in concrete engineering which has significantly altered the method of prediction and optimization of concrete properties, enabling more efficient, accurate, and sustainable processes. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Enhancing Properties of Concrete, Mortar, Gypsum, and Plaster Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,052 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Relationships between Tradeoffs and Synergies among Island Ecosystem Service Bundles: A Study on Zhoushan Archipelago Located on the Southeast Coast of China

  • Yang Xiao,
  • Huan Zhang,
  • Ke Ma,
  • Hadinnapola Appuhamilage Chintha Crishanthi Perera and ,
  • Muhammad Zahir Ramli and
  • Yuncheng Deng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 January 2024

Due to the rapid rise of China’s coastal economic zone, the urbanization of the surrounding islands has accelerated. Intensive disturbance caused by human activities and frequent changes in land types have resulted in the continuous erosion of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Horizons: The Future of Sustainable Islands)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,547 Views
24 Pages

3 June 2022

Integrated logistics support (ILS) is of great significance for maintaining equipment operational capability in the whole lifecycle. Numerous segments and complex product objects exist in the process of equipment ILS, which gives ILS data multi-sourc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data Science and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,261 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2022

The digital twin (DT) approach has risen in popularity for applications in many industrial process managements. By applying the “Shipyard 4.0” digital transformation trend, the ship industry is developing techniques able to reduce risks b...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,668 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Monitoring and Change Analysis of Lake Area on the Inner-Mongolian Plateau over the Past 22 Years

  • Naichen Xing,
  • Fuping Gan,
  • Bokun Yan,
  • Juan Bai and ,
  • Yi Guo,
  • Yue Zhuo and
  • Ruoyi Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2024

Lakes are essential components of the terrestrial water cycle. Their size and quantity reflect natural climate change and anthropogenic activities in time. Lakes on the Inner-Mongolian Plateau (IMP) have experienced significant changes in recent deca...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,537 Views
18 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Graph-Based Research on Agro-Meteorological Disaster Monitoring

  • Wenyue Zhang,
  • Ling Peng,
  • Xingtong Ge,
  • Lina Yang and ,
  • Luanjie Chen and
  • Weichao Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 September 2023

Currently, there is a wealth of data and expert knowledge available on monitoring agro-meteorological disasters. However, there is still a lack of technical means to organically integrate and analyze heterogeneous data sources in a collaborative mann...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Temporal Resolution, a Key Factor in Environmental Risk Assessment II - Integrating Data from Multiple Data Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
863 Views
34 Pages

12 December 2025

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a key technology in metal additive manufacturing (AM), but the widespread presence of porosity defects in fabricated parts significantly degrades mechanical performance and limits practical applications. Machine learn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing and Microstructure Characteristics of Metallic Material)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
835 Views
30 Pages

Multi-source heterogeneous data in discrete manufacturing shop floors, including vibration signals, equipment logs, visual monitoring data, and handwritten production reports, exhibit significant differences in modality and semantic representation. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,820 Views
22 Pages

20 April 2025

To address the technical limitations of traditional pavement performance prediction models in capturing temporal features and analyzing multi-factor coupling, this study proposes a Bayesian Optimization Dual-Layer Feature Fusion Model (BO-DLFF). The...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
842 Views
25 Pages

12 May 2026

Land surface temperature (LST) and its diurnal variation are critical for understanding the surface energy balance and water cycle processes. Traditional diurnal temperature cycle (DTC) models are widely used to reconstruct continuous temperature seq...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
11,358 Views
24 Pages

29 March 2023

Knowledge graph (KG) technology is a newly emerged knowledge representation method in the field of artificial intelligence. Knowledge graphs can form logical mappings from cluttered data and establish triadic relationships between entities. Accurate...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,118 Views
30 Pages

26 May 2022

To excavate adequately the rich information contained in multisource remote sensing data, feature extraction as basic yet important research has two typical applications: one of which is to extract complementary information of multisource data to imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
863 Views
19 Pages

Integrated Exploitation of Sentinel-1 Backscatter, Interferometric Coherence, and Texture Features for Digital Mapping of Soil Total Nitrogen Across the Iberian Peninsula

  • Dongxu Dai,
  • Hongmin Zhang,
  • Yajun Geng,
  • Tao Zhou and ,
  • Huijie Li,
  • Junming Liu,
  • Tingting Liu,
  • Angela Lausch and
  • Bingcheng Si
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

1 April 2026

Accurate mapping of soil total nitrogen (STN) is fundamental for advancing sustainable and precision soil management. While digital soil mapping (DSM) has increasingly relied on Earth observation (EO) data, the potential of various synthetic aperture...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,141 Views
16 Pages

Modeling and Spatiotemporal Analysis of Actual Evapotranspiration in a Desert Steppe Based on SEBS

  • Yanlin Feng,
  • Lixia Wang,
  • Chunwei Liu,
  • Baozhong Zhang and ,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Pei Zhang and
  • Ranghui Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Accurate estimation of actual evapotranspiration (ET) is critical for understanding hydrothermal cycles and ecosystem functioning in arid regions, where water scarcity governs ecological resilience. To address persistent gaps in ET quantification, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Processes and Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,412 Views
23 Pages

A 33-Year NPP Monitoring Study in Southwest China by the Fusion of Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Station Data

  • Xiaobin Guan,
  • Huanfeng Shen,
  • Wenxia Gan,
  • Gang Yang and ,
  • Lunche Wang,
  • Xinghua Li and
  • Liangpei Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 October 2017

Knowledge of regional net primary productivity (NPP) is important for the systematic understanding of the global carbon cycle. In this study, multi-source data were employed to conduct a regional NPP study in southwest China, with a 33-year time span...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,851 Views
22 Pages

Intelligent Monitoring Applications of Landslide Disaster Knowledge Graphs Based on ChatGLM2

  • Zhengrong Wu,
  • Haibo Yang,
  • Yingchun Cai,
  • Bo Yu and ,
  • Chuangheng Liang,
  • Zheng Duan and
  • Qiuhua Liang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 October 2024

Over the years, the field of landslide disaster research has amassed a wealth of data and specialized knowledge. However, these resources originate from a wide array of sources and often feature complex data structures, highlighting a persistent lack...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Temporal Resolution, a Key Factor in Environmental Risk Assessment II - Integrating Data from Multiple Data Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,000 Views
28 Pages

16 January 2026

The response of Arctic vegetation to climate warming exhibits pronounced spatial heterogeneity, driven partly by widespread permafrost degradation. However, the role of thermokarst lake development in mediating vegetation-climate interactions remains...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,452 Views
29 Pages

Smart cities generate vast, heterogeneous data streams from transportation networks, energy grids, environmental sensors, and public services, yet the semantic fragmentation of these data silos prevents urban operators from deriving actionable, cross...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,668 Views
30 Pages

Development of a Drought Monitoring System for Winter Wheat in the Huang-Huai-Hai Region, China, Utilizing a Machine Learning–Physical Process Hybrid Model

  • Qianchuan Mi,
  • Zhiguo Huo,
  • Meixuan Li,
  • Lei Zhang and ,
  • Rui Kong,
  • Fengyin Zhang,
  • Yi Wang and
  • Yuxin Huo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 March 2025

Droughts, intensified by climate change and human activities, pose a significant threat to winter wheat cultivation in the Huang-Huai-Hai (HHH) region. Soil moisture drought indices are crucial for monitoring agricultural droughts, while challenges s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crop Production in the Era of Climate Change)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,003 Views
7 Pages

8 September 2025

The integration of the industrial Internet and big data analytics is reshaping enterprise decision-making models and providing new momentum for the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries. In this study, a decision suppor...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,339 Views
17 Pages

Storm surges are catastrophic marine disasters that pose severe threats to coastal populations, making the rapid extraction of key information from multi-source texts critical for effective emergency response. However, existing extraction methods oft...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Data Science and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,683 Views
26 Pages

8 January 2025

The rational development of urban underground space resources (UUSRs) is especially crucial for alleviating “urban diseases”, and it is of great significance for exploring the appropriateness of urban underground space (UUS) development u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Applications in Digital Earth)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,348 Views
29 Pages

7 October 2025

Stricter requirements on nutrient removal in wastewater treatment are being imposed by rapid urbanization and tightening water-quality standards. Despite their excellent solid–liquid separation and effective biological treatment, MBRs in conven...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and the Circular Economy—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2026

Riverine dissolved oxygen (DO) dynamics are critical to aquatic ecosystem health, yet global understanding has long been constrained by sparse, temporally discontinuous, and heterogeneous monitoring data. Conventional statistical and process-based ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Machine Learning in Hydrologic Sciences, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,003 Views
16 Pages

A Blockchain-Based Traceability Model for Grain and Oil Food Supply Chain

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Xuyang Wu,
  • Hongyi Ge,
  • Yuying Jiang and ,
  • Zhenyu Sun,
  • Xiaodi Ji,
  • Zhiyuan Jia and
  • Guangyuan Cui
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2023

The structure of the grain-and-oil-food-supply chain has the characteristics of complexity, cross-regionality, a long cycle, and numerous participants, making it difficult to maintain the safety of supply. In recent years, some phenomena have emerged...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
590 Views
21 Pages

10 April 2026

Feature selection is essential for high-dimensional multi-source feature analysis, particularly in Internet of Things (IoT) environments characterized by data heterogeneity, redundancy, and noise. To address the need to balance classification perform...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,943 Views
16 Pages

Structural damage is a prevalent issue in long-term operations of harbor terminals. Addressing the lack of transparency in terminal infrastructure components, the limited integration of sensor monitoring data, and the insufficient support for feedbac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Ships and Waterways: Design, Operation and Advanced Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
998 Views
33 Pages

Temporal Gap Filling and Model-Based Spatial Downscaling of GRACE-Based Groundwater-Storage Anomalies Using Gaussian Process and Random Forest Models

  • Keke Xu,
  • Yongzhen Zhu,
  • Xianglei Liu,
  • Wei Zheng and ,
  • Huanxu Li,
  • Jiaqi Zhao and
  • Mengchao Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2026

Groundwater-storage anomalies (GWSA) derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission provide valuable information for regional groundwater monitoring. Improving the spatial representation and temporal continuity of GRACE-deri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,678 Views
23 Pages

30 November 2022

Integrating complementary information from many available technologies is a question of growing interest among the Cultural Heritage community, due to the complexity of the cultural assets under study and of their contexts. Recently, this need has pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,156 Views
21 Pages

Information Traceability Model for the Grain and Oil Food Supply Chain Based on Trusted Identification and Trusted Blockchain

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Yue Li,
  • Xiangzhen Peng,
  • Zhiyao Zhao and ,
  • Jiaqi Han and
  • Jiping Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The grain and oil food supply chain has a complex structure, long turnover cycles, and many stakeholders, so it is challenging to maintain the security of this supply chain. A reliable traceability system for the whole grain and oil food supply chain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,847 Views
20 Pages

Integrating Geovisual Analytics with Machine Learning for Human Mobility Pattern Discovery

  • Tong Zhang,
  • Jianlong Wang,
  • Chenrong Cui,
  • Yicong Li and ,
  • Wei He,
  • Yonghua Lu and
  • Qinghua Qiao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Understanding human movement patterns is of fundamental importance in transportation planning and management. We propose to examine complex public transit travel patterns over a large-scale transit network, which is challenging since it involves thou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Computing for Geospatial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,091 Views
19 Pages

Correlation among Composition, Microstructure and Hardness of 7xxx Aluminum Alloy Using Original Statistical Spatial-Mapping Method

  • Bing Han,
  • Dandan Sun,
  • Weihao Wan,
  • Caichang Dong and ,
  • Dongling Li,
  • Lei Zhao and
  • Haizhou Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2022

The quantitative study of the relationship between material composition, microstructure and properties is of great importance for the improvement in material properties. In this study, the continuous data of elemental composition, recrystallization,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
680 Views
19 Pages

6 April 2026

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is essential for ecosystem stability and long-term carbon storage in alpine grasslands, yet the relative importance and interactions of hydrothermal and biotic controls remain poorly understood at regional scales. In this st...

(This article belongs to the Section Soil Conservation and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,761 Views
17 Pages

Assessing the Utility of Satellite Embedding Features for Biomass Prediction in Subtropical Forests with Machine Learning

  • Chao Jin,
  • Xiaodong Jiang,
  • Lina Wen,
  • Chuping Wu and ,
  • Xia Xu and
  • Jiejie Jiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 January 2026

Spatial predictions of forest biomass at regional scale in forests are critical to evaluate the effects of management practices across environmental gradients. Although multi-source remote sensing combined with machine learning has been widely applie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Applications for Forest Ecosystem Monitoring and Spatial Modeling (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,563 Views
14 Pages

MEAHNE: miRNA–Disease Association Prediction Based on Semantic Information in a Heterogeneous Network

  • Chen Huang,
  • Keliang Cen,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Bo Liu and ,
  • Yadong Wang and
  • Junyi Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 October 2022

Correct prediction of potential miRNA–disease pairs can considerably accelerate the experimental process in biomedical research. However, many methods cannot effectively learn the complex information contained in multisource data, limiting the...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,702 Views
26 Pages

A CML-ECA Chaotic Image Encryption System Based on Multi-Source Perturbation Mechanism and Dynamic DNA Encoding

  • Xin Xie,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Bing Zheng,
  • Hao Ning and ,
  • Yu Zhou,
  • Qi Peng and
  • Zhengyu Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 July 2025

To meet the growing demand for secure and reliable image protection in digital communication, this paper proposes a novel image encryption framework that addresses the challenges of high plaintext sensitivity, resistance to statistical attacks, and k...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
400 Views
42 Pages

AI Cloud Platform for Smart City Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Using Multi-Dimensional Big Data and Deep Learning Models

  • Ling Zhao,
  • Jerry Gao,
  • Yukta Mehta,
  • Aishwarya Ashok and ,
  • Deepthi Desharaju,
  • Padhmavathy Cebolu Srinivasan and
  • Sowmya Manchikanti
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Rapid urbanization and persistent road-safety challenges have increased the demand for intelligent traffic management systems capable of supporting traffic monitoring, incident analysis, and short-term forecasting. Existing artificial intelligence so...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,241 Views
51 Pages

21 July 2026

Soil water models are increasingly required to support irrigation, drought assessment and sustainable water management, yet physical, artificial intelligence (AI)-based and hybrid approaches differ in process representation, data demand and transfera...

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