In pharmaceutical manufacturing, the reliability of machines and utility assets is critical to ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted operations. Traditional Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM) models quantify asset criticality u...
Precision agriculture (PA) utilizes spatial and temporal variability to improve the sustainability and efficiency of farming practices. This study used high-resolution imagery from UAS to evaluate maize yield variability across three fields in Ghana:...
A scientific and comprehensive effectiveness evaluation is a prerequisite for clarifying the guiding direction of rural socio-economic development and environmental protection. By using the VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR)...
Coastal zones are very dynamic natural systems that experience short-term and long-term morphological changes. Their highly dynamic behavior requires frequent monitoring. Tidal flat topography for a large spatial coverage has been generated mainly by...
River channels are fundamental geomorphological and hydrological features that play a critical role in regulating the Earth’s water cycle and ecosystems and influencing human activities. This study utilized Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data an...
Objective: To examine the differences between quota-based and field-derived CO2 emissions from highway subgrade earthworks while assessing the robustness of procedure attribution. Methods: Quota workdays were compared with equipment CO2 concentration...
Gastrodia elata has been a valuable medicinal resource in the East for approximately 3000 years. In South Korea, G. elata is cultivated in open-fields or greenhouses near residential areas. However, due to severe continuous damage, cultivation sites...
Flood simulations are vital to gain insight into possible dangers and damages for effective emergency planning. With flexible and natural ways of visualizing water flow, more precise evaluation of the study area is achieved. In this study, we describ...
The sulphur dioxide (SO2) concentration can be monitored via its absorbance in the ultraviolet (UV) region. To address the absence of a systematic study on the UV absorbance of varying SO2 concentrations, a multispectral imaging method was implemente...
The river border positioning is an important part of river surveys, which is crucial for water conservation project development, water resource use, water disasters, river regime monitoring, and many other applications related to water resources. Cur...
This study examines territorial transformations in five rural parishes of the Metropolitan District of Quito induced by the Ruta Viva expressway (inaugurated in 2013). Using census tracts for 2011, 2017, 2021, and 2024 and four variables—urban...
This paper examines the relationship between pedestrian density and space syntax measures in a university campus using ordinal logistic regression analysis. The pedestrian density assumed as the dependent variable of regression analysis was categoris...
Tangible cultural heritage is vulnerable to various risks, particularly those stemming from criminal activity. Through analyzing the distribution and flow of crime risks from a spatial perspective based on quantitative methods, risks can be better ma...
The aim of this study was to identify the areas with different levels of riverine flood potential (RFP) in the Nitra river basin, Slovakia, using multi-criteria evaluation (MCE)-analytical hierarchical process (AHP), geographic information systems (G...
Ecotourism is becoming more and more significant because it aids in environmental protection and maintaining the sustainable growth of a region. Mizoram is known for its potentially varied landscapes, which draw visitors from many nations and territo...
Rural tourism in China is advancing rapidly, with cultural and tourism integration (CTI) becoming a vital pathway for sustainability. Mountain–water towns, given their special geographical conditions, face numerous challenges in CTI development...
Accurate behavioral segmentation of vessel trajectories from Automatic Identification System (AIS) is essential for maritime safety and traffic management. Existing methods often rely on predefined thresholds or emphasize geometric criteria and offer...
Understanding luxury tourists required a more comprehensive approach than traditional expenditure-based segmentation, which often overlooked travelers’ financial capacity. This study therefore aimed to develop and validate a new typology of lux...
Zoning is crucial for controlling animal infectious diseases and movement plays a major role in disease transmission. However, movement-based zoning has received little research attention. This study aimed to identify biosecurity zones divided by adm...
Ecological environment evaluation is of great significance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promote the harmonious development of economy, society, and environment. To evaluate environmental SDGs, single environmental indicator...
Bridges are critical nodes in freight networks, yet limited funding prevents agencies from maintaining all structures in good condition. This creates the need for a transparent and scalable method to identify which bridges pose the greatest risk to s...
Environmental factors play a crucial role in shaping human development. This study explores an extension of the United Nations Planetary pressure-adjusted Human Development Index (
With rapid urbanization, the development of Urban Underground Space (UUS) has become essential to addressing various urban challenges. However, the accelerated expansion of UUS has also introduced problems such as duplicated infrastructure, functiona...
This study developed a deep learning–based water level recognition model using Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) footage. The model focuses on real-time water level recognition in agricultural reservoirs that lack automated water level gauges, w...
This study presents a novel ensemble deep-learning framework integrating Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), self-attention mechanisms, and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, designed to generate high-resolution drought susceptibility maps for...
Floods are natural disasters that cause significant socioeconomic and environmental losses in both urban and rural areas. Within the framework of spatial planning, precautionary measures against flood hazards can be developed using analytical approac...
As the world’s largest developing country, China has actively implemented the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable development of urban human settlements is the result of localization and the deepening of sustainable development theor...
In recent years, with the rapid development of urban transportation network in China, many problems have been exposed, especially in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region. Under the call of sustainable development, it is of great significance to eva...
This study focuses on the Dongting Lake region in China and evaluates ecological vulnerability using the Sensitivity–Resilience–Pressure (SRP) framework, integrated with Spatial Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) to calculate the Ecological Vulnerab...
Permafrost subgrades along the Qinghai–Tibet Highway exhibit pronounced spatial variability in seasonal freeze–thaw deformation under the combined effects of complex permafrost conditions, climate change, and engineering disturbances. Foc...
This observation-based and explainable approach demonstrates the applicability of multi-source remote sensing for flood assessment in data-scarce regions, offering a robust scientific basis for flood management and spatial planning in monsoon-affecte...
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Economic globalization and the internet economy have resulted in a dramatic increase in freight transportation. Traffic crashes involving trucks usually result in severe losses and casualties. The fatality and injury rates for heavy truck accidents h...
This study develops a multi-criteria decision-support approach that integrates spatial, functional, and managerial dimensions to assess the suitability potential of accommodation facilities in Istanbul for building-integrated greenhouse applications...
As population growth and urbanization continue to accelerate, city dwellers are increasingly conscious of the demand for urban green space (UGS) and the ecosystem services (ESs) it provides. Great efforts are made for the supply of certain ESs in UGS...
Land consolidation (LC) is a sustainability-oriented policy tool designed to address land fragmentation, inefficient spatial organization, and ecological degradation in rural areas. This research proposes a Production–Living–Ecological (P...
The site selection process for a building entails evaluating a variety of factors with varying degrees of importance or percentage influence. In order to ensure that critical site selection factors are not overlooked, a methodology for calculating a...
Urban environmental monitoring increasingly requires methods that translate Earth observation (EO) data into spatial units relevant to ecosystem-service assessment and planning. This study develops a landscape-unit framework for smart monitoring of u...
Accurate and objective color grading is essential for quality control in the plastics industry. However, conventional visual inspection is subjective, while commercial color measurement instruments may be limited by measurement geometry, sample dimen...
The interaction between atmospheric moisture condensation (AMC) on leaf surfaces and vegetation health is an emerging area of research, particularly relevant for advancing our understanding of water–vegetation dynamics in the contexts of remote...
Human activity combined with the dynamics of severe climate conditions are accepted the main drivers of wildfire events in the Mediterranean region. This fact is urging for further comprehensive research focusing on the wildland-urban interface (WUI)...
Gully erosion has become one of the major environmental issues, due to the severity of its impact in many parts of the world. Gully erosion directly and indirectly affects agriculture and infrastructural development. The Golestan Dam basin, where soi...