Digital elevation models (DEMs), as the fundamental unit of terrain morphology, are crucial for understanding surface processes and for land use planning. However, automated classification faces challenges due to inefficient terrain feature extractio...
In the past decade, Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) has fundamentally changed our ability to remotely detect archaeological features and deepen our understanding of past human-environment interactions, settlement systems, agricultural practices,...
Remote sensing plays an increasingly key role in the determination of soil organic carbon (SOC) stored in agriculturally managed topsoils at the regional and field scales. Contemporary Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) carrying low-cost and lightweight m...
The article thoroughly investigates the relationships between terrain features and tree measurements derived from aerial laser scanning (ALS) data and field surveys in a 1067-hectare forested area. A digital elevation model (DEM) was generated from A...
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Topographic position indices (TPIs) measure essential impacts on ecosystem service supply capacity. The identification of changes in ecosystem services and value metrics under varying TPIs has become a topical subject of global change research. Multi...
Agricultural systems exhibit a large degree of within-field yield variability. We require a better understanding of the drivers of this variability in order to optimally manage croplands. We investigated drivers of sub-field spatial variability in yi...
An accurate geomorphometric description of the Iranian loess plateau landscape will further enhance our understanding of recent and past geomorphological processes in this strongly dissected landscape. Therefore, four different input datasets for fou...
Roughness can be used to characterize the morphologies of a lava flow. It can be used to identify lava flow features, provide insight into eruption conditions, and link roughness pattern across a lava flow to emplacement conditions. In this study, we...
The evaluation of ecological environment quality (EEQ) is an important method to determine regional eco-environment status, and topography, as one of the key factors affecting eco-environment, has an impact on the EEQ by influencing hydrothermal cond...
Error evaluation is essential for the improvement and application of the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) Version 06 daily precipitation estimates, including early-, late-, and final-run products...
Ravine forests are key to conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem processes in fragmented landscapes. Here, we evaluated the phenology of plant species in the Los Nogales Nature Sanctuary (Lo Barnechea, Chile) using Sentinel-2 images (2019&...
This case study focuses on the area of El Plateado near the city of Loja, Ecuador, where landslides with a high impact on infrastructures require monitoring and control. The main objectives of this work are the characterization of the landslide and t...
Identifying landslide boundaries and morphological features using traditional methods is labor-intensive, costly, and often limited—especially in areas altered by human activity or covered with dense vegetation. In such cases, modern remote sen...
Since the initial experiments nearly 50 years ago, techniques for detecting caves using airborne and spacecraft acquired thermal imagery have improved markedly. These advances are largely due to a combination of higher instrument sensitivity, modern...
The occurrence of landslide in the hilly region of South Korea is a matter of serious concern. This study tries to produce landslide susceptibility maps for Jumunjin Country in South Korea. Three machine learning algorithms, namely Logistic Regressio...
A UAV LiDAR dataset offers unparalleled possibilities for accurate topographic modeling and land suitability analysis in spatial planning. This study uses UAV LiDAR for high-resolution DSM and DTM modeling of the Goranci area in Bosnia and Herzegovin...
This study aims to analyze the dynamics of change in settlement models from the Roman, late antique, and Byzantine periods, focusing on how these transformations influenced the formation of Islamic societies in the rural landscapes of western Sicily....
A reliable estimation of Above Ground Biomass (AGB) in Tropical Mountain Forest (TMF) is still complicated, due to fast-changing climate and topographic conditions, which modifies the forest structure within fine scales. The variations in vertical an...
Check dams are widely used watershed management measures for reducing flood peak discharge and sediment transport, and increasing lag time and groundwater recharge throughout the world. However, identifying the best suitable sites for check dams with...
The application of modern technologies to increase the overall sustainability of forest operations is known as precision forest harvesting. Precision forest harvesting can be a very powerful tool; however, it requires modern forest machinery, which i...
The characterization of prehistoric human behavior in terms of habitation practices using GIS cartography methods is an important aspect of any modern geoarchaeological approach. Furthermore, using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveys to identify ar...
Flash floods are catastrophic phenomena that pose a serious risk to coastal infrastructures, towns, villages, and cities. This study assesses the risk of flash floods in the ungauged Mekkah province region based on specific and effective morphometric...
Flash flood hazard assessment is a critical component of disaster risk management, particularly in regions vulnerable to extreme rainfall and climatic events. This study focuses on evaluating the flash flood susceptibility of the Rabigh area, located...
Archaeological complexes are characterized by different degrees of damage related to both natural events and anthropogenic triggers. The damage may be assessed through direct observation or remotely acquired data. Here, we present a morphometric anal...
The main goal of this work was to identify the areas that are most susceptible to desertification in a part of the Algerian steppe, and to quantitatively assess the key factors that contribute to this desertification. In total, 139 desertified zones...
Cameron Highland is a popular tourist hub in the mountainous area of Peninsular Malaysia. Most communities in this area suffer frequent incidence of debris flow, especially during monsoon seasons. Despite the loss of lives and properties recorded ann...
Different natural environmental variables affect the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC), which has strong spatial heterogeneity and non-stationarity. Additionally, the soil organic carbon density (SOCD) has strong spatial varying relat...
Interferometry Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is an advanced remote sensing technique for studying the earth’s surface topography and deformations; it is used to generate high-quality Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). DEMs are a crucial and pr...
Mapping forest growth potential across varying environments is challenging, especially when field measurements are limited. In this study, we integrated Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) terrain derivatives and Sentinel-2 spectral indices to model Site I...
Differing levels of humidity, sunlight exposure or temperature in different areas of mountain ranges are fundamental to the existence of particular vegetation types. A better understanding of even local variability of trees may bring significant bene...
Geological lineaments are linear or curvilinear surfaces that are considered a superficial expression of discontinuities on the earth’s surface. The extraction of lineaments from remotely sensed satellite data is one of the most frequently used...
Based on Himawari-8 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data and the semi-automatic Topographic Position Index (TPI)-based mapping method, this study maps the significant coastal upwelling in the northern South China Sea (NSCS). The results show that the M...
An integrated geomorphological and geospatial study was performed in order to map fluvial landforms in a sector of Lama Lamasinata close to the town of Binetto in the Murge Basse karst (metropolitan area of Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy). This study d...
This study investigated the performances of different techniques, including random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), maximum entropy (maxENT), gradient-boosting machine (GBM), and logistic regression (LR), for landslide susceptibility mappin...
Forests are complex systems in which subtle variations in terrain can reveal much about plant community structure and interspecific interactions. Despite a wealth of studies focusing on broad-scale environmental gradients, the role of fine-scale topo...
The drainage basins of Greece are analyzed in terms of hierarchy and discussed in view of Tsallis Entropy. This concept has been successfully used in a variety of complex systems, where fractality, memory and long-range interactions are dominant. The...
For decades, the presence of a seasonal intrusion of the East Australian Current (EAC) has been disputed. In this study, with a Topographic Position Index (TPI)-based image processing technique, we use a 26-year satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST...
Monitoring groundwater pollution is an important issue in terms of analyzing threats to protected, environmentally valuable areas. The topographical and environmental characteristics of a given area are often mentioned among the factors affecting the...
Identifying the relationship between forest roads and wildfires in forest ecosystems is a crucial priority to integrate suppression and prevention within wildfire management. In various investigations, the interaction of these elements has been studi...
To address the challenge of obtaining high-spatiotemporal-resolution and high-precision temperature grids for agricultural meteorological monitoring, this research focuses on rice heat stress monitoring with the China Meteorological Administration La...
Evaluating and predicting the occurrence and spatial remarks of climate and rainfall-related destructive hazards is a big challenge. Periodically, Sinai Peninsula is suffering from natural risks that enthuse researchers to provide the area more atten...
This study is focused on developing an approach for spatial mapping of groundwater by considering four types of factors (geological, topographical, hydrological, and climatic factors), and by using different bivariate statistical models, such as freq...
The evolution of the coastal fringe is closely linked to the impact of climate change, specifically increases in sea level and storm intensity. The anthropic pressure that is inflicted on these fragile environments strengthens the risk. Therefore, nu...
Gully erosion poses severe problems for land degradation in several areas worldwide. This study aims to evaluate the accuracy and robustness of the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) method for assessing gully erosion susceptibility. We selected the catchment...
On the example of the Epembe carbonatite-hosted Nb-Ta-LREE deposit, we demonstrate the use of hyperspectral reflectance data and geomorphic indicators for improving the accuracy of remote sensing exploration data of structurally-controlled critical r...
Groundwater is one of the most important natural resources, as it regulates the earth’s hydrological system. The Damghan sedimentary plain area, located in the region of a semi-arid climate of Iran, has very critical conditions of groundwater d...
Landslides pose significant and serious geological threat disasters worldwide, threatening human lives and property; China is particularly susceptible to these disasters. This paper focuses on Pengyang County, which is situated in the Ningxia Hui Aut...
The landforms of the Earth’s surface ranging from large-scale features to local topography are factors that influence human behavior in terms of habitation practices. The ability to extract geomorphological settings using geoinformatic techniqu...
The increasing world population and the growing quantity of solid waste have become a challenging problem facing governments and policy makers because of the scarcity of suitable sites for new landfills and the negative perception of these sites by t...
In qualitative–quantitative assessment of geodiversity, geomorphology describes landscape forms suggesting specific locations as geosites. However, all digital elevation models (DEM) contain information only about altitude and coordinate systems, whi...
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