Accurately assessing rooftop photovoltaic (PV) potential requires precise identification of rooftop areas and availability. Current deep learning approaches using aerial imagery are faced with two challenges: inconsistent rooftop appearances caused b...
Three different algorithms that can be used to estimate the available power of a wind turbine are investigated and validated in this study. The first method is the simplest and using the power curve with the measured nacelle wind speed. The other two...
Using electric vehicles (EVs) for grid support requires reliable flexibility estimates and effective voltage control from limited online information. We propose a behavior-informed interacting multiple-model estimator (BIMM) and an availability-aware...
This study estimated availability of an air compression system and a nitrogen generation system in liquefied natural gas—floating production storage and offloading unit (LNG-FPSO) with different design stages to investigate the gap between the...
Green water is vital for the terrestrial ecosystem, but water resource assessment often focuses on blue water. In this study, we estimated green water availability for major crops (i.e., corn, soybean, and wheat) and all other users (e.g., forest, gr...
Sodium availability and food sources in 2018–2019 were estimated and trends analyzed for 15 years (2004–2019) in Costa Rica. Food purchase records from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH) 2018–2019 were conv...
Leaf chlorophyll content (LCC), leaf area index (LAI), and above-ground biomass (AGB) are important growth parameters for characterizing potato growth and predicting yield. While deep learning has demonstrated remarkable advancements in estimating cr...
In this paper, a co-estimation scheme of the state of charge (SOC) and available capacity is proposed for lithium–ion batteries based on the adaptive model-based algorithm. A three-dimensional response surface (TDRS) in terms of the open circui...
Satellite-based models have been widely used to estimate gross primary production (GPP) of terrestrial ecosystems. Although they have many advantages for mapping spatiotemporal variations of regional or global GPP, the performance in agroecosystems i...
To compare and validate wind speed estimation algorithms applied to wind turbines, wind speed estimators were designed in this study, based on two methods presented in the literature, and their performance was validated using the NREL 5MW model. The...
In this study, we aimed to assess the availability and environmental impact of a selection of widespread agro-industrial by-products in Europe and their potential to reduce the environmental impact of small ruminant diets by replacing conventional fe...
This work stems from the worldwide increasing need to precisely consider, in the design phase of an HVDC project, the availability of the HVDC system. In this paper, an overview of the availability assessment methods for HVDC-VSC transmission systems...
Current parking systems employ a single gateway-centered solution (i.e., cloud) for data processing which leads to the possibility of a single point of failure, data loss, and high delays. Moreover, the parking-spot selection process considers criter...
The paper examines the impacts of prices, resources, technology, education, public investments, climatic variables and agroecology on Food Availability (FA) from domestic agriculture in Bangladesh using a panel data of 17 regions covering a 61-year p...
Small-scale reservoirs located in river estuaries are a significant water resource supporting agricultural and industrial activities; however, they face annual challenges of eutrophication and algal bloom occurrences due to excessive nutrient accumul...
This research proposes the utilization of Peltier modules to convert electrical energy from thermal energy to show its potential as a renewable energy source for residential and commercial application. The study, whose results are presented in this m...
Meat loss and waste are estimated at each stage along the food chain, but the methods used are complex, and the data needed are often fragmented. We, therefore, evaluated the feasibility of estimating meat loss and waste using a simpler method compar...
Recent literature has suggested 3D surface imaging to be a potential method of estimating body composition. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of commercially available 3D surface imaging systems that provide body composition estimates....
This study presents a regional assessment of future blue water availability in Europe under different assumptions. The baseline period (1960 to 1999) is compared to the near future (2020 to 2059) and the long-term future (2060 to 2099). Blue water av...
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are an emerging energy storage technology with higher performance than lithium-ion batteries in terms of specific capacity and energy density. However, several scientific and technological gaps need to be filled before...
In 2012, Costa Rica launched a program to reduce salt and sodium consumption to prevent cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors, but little was known about the level of sodium consumption or its sources. Our aim was to estimate the magnitu...
Smart cities and smart buildings must provide their customers with many services, including those associated with health, productivity, and energy efficiency, among others. Short-range wireless systems can provide all of these services, but the signi...
Temperature has an important effect on the battery model. A dual-polarization equivalent circuit model considering temperature is established to quantify the effect of temperature, and the initial parameters of the model are identified through experi...
The available sight distance (ASD) is that part of the roadway ahead which is visible to the driver, and should be of sufficient length to allow a vehicle traveling at the designated speed to stop before reaching a stationary object in its path. It i...
Advanced driver assist systems are being promoted with the expectation that enhanced driver support will mitigate road trauma. While these technologies are optimised for certain road and traffic conditions, not all roads across Australasia are equipp...
The energy available via microbial sulfate reduction was estimated for a Quaternary aquifer in northern Japan that is a candidate site for low temperature aquifer thermal energy storage. In evaluating whether microbial sulfate reduction proceeded or...
Rising platemeters are commonly used in Ireland and New Zealand for managing intensive pastures. To assess the applicability of a commercial rising platemeter operating with a microsonic sensor to estimate herbage mass with its own equation, the obje...
The use of quinoa could be a strategy for the nutritional improvement of bakery products. The inclusion of this pseudocereal, with its suitable balance of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and minerals, could contribute to attaining the adequate intake...
Water flows in the hydrosphere through a tangled and tortuous labyrinth of ways that is the hydrological cycle. Flow separation models are an attempt to group such complexity of paths into a few components of flow and storage so as to reflect the ove...
To meet the desired standard, it is important to monitor and analyze different engineering processes to obtain the desired output. The bivariate distributions have received a significant amount of attention in recent years due to their ability to des...
This paper develops a probabilistic Available Transfer Capability (ATC) framework that quantifies export headroom for renewables across transmission-distribution interfaces under time-varying uncertainty. Static transmission reliability margins can u...
The caregiver support ratio (CSR) is defined as the number of potential caregivers aged 45–64 years, the most common caregiving age range, for each person aged 80+, the subgroup of older adults most at risk of needing long-term services and sup...
Understanding vessel energy demand requires knowledge of vessel motion relative to the surrounding water, rather than motion relative to the Earth’s surface. However, direct measurements of speed through water (STW) are rarely accessible beyond...
Ground-source heat pumps with borehole heat exchangers (BHE) are an efficient and sustainable option to heat and cool buildings. The design and performance of BHEs strongly depend on the thermal conductivity of the subsurface. Thus, the first step in...
The increasing deployment of renewable energy sources (RESs) reduces the inertia levels of modern power systems, raising frequency stability issues. Therefore, it becomes crucial, for power-system operators, to monitor system inertia, in order to act...
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One of the major contributors of malaria-related deaths in Sub-Saharan African countries is the limited accessibility to quality care. In these countries, malaria control activities are implemented at the health-district level (operational entity of...
Remote sensing methods are known to provide estimates of berry quality. However, previous studies have shown that the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) failed to predict berry quality attributes in rain-fed vineyards. This study explores...
The LiFePO4 (LFP) battery tends to underperform in low temperature: the available energy drops, while the state of charge (SOC) and residual available energy (RAE) estimation error increase dramatically compared to the result under room temperature,...
We recently proposed a simple method for estimating total nitrogen content in paddy soil. In this method, soil is extracted with a commercial 3% hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution at 25 °C for 40 h, and electrical conductivity (EC (H2O2)) of the e...
Transition towards plant-based diets is advocated to reduce the climate footprint. Health implications of a diet composed of meat substitutes are currently unknown, and there are knowledge gaps in their nutritional composition and quality. Samples of...
Operational assessment of forest structure is an on-going challenge for land managers, particularly over large, remote or inaccessible areas. Here, we present an easily adopted method for generating a continuous map of canopy height at a 30 m resolut...
The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), as a major, global cash crop providing beverages, is facing major challenges from droughts and water shortages due to climate change. The accurate estimation of the actual evapotranspiration (ETa) of tea plants is e...
Cultural heritage tourism is a multidimensional tourist activity because, apart from the advantages associated with practicing tourist activity, it is particularly associated with cognitive motives when it comes to practicing it, and even with discov...
Populated coastal areas are exposed to emissions from harbour-related activities (ship traffic, loading/unloading, and internal vehicular traffic), posing public health issues and environmental pressures on climate. Due to the strategic geographical...
Renewable energy power generation systems such as photovoltaic and wind power have characteristics of intermittency and volatility, which can cause disturbances to the grid frequency. The battery system of electric vehicles (EVs) is a mobile energy s...
There are approximately 200,000 unwanted horses annually in the United States. This study aimed to better understand the potential homes for horses that need to be re-homed. Using an independent survey company through an Omnibus telephone (land and c...
Optical multi-band (OMB) systems exploit the low-loss spectrum of the single mode fiber (SMF) and are key enablers to increase the transportation capacity and node connectivity of already deployed systems. The realization of OMB systems is mainly bas...
Soil phosphorus (P) is a vital but limited element which is usually leached from the soil via the drainage process. Soil phosphorus as a soluble substance can be delivered through agricultural fields by runoff or soil loss. It is one of the most esse...
Ammonia (NH3) has been receiving the attention of researchers as an alternative promising green fuel to replace fossil sources for energy production. However, the high NOx emissions are one of the drawbacks and restrictions of using NH3 on a broad sc...
Urban form is an important factor affecting urban energy. However, the design of urban form and energy mostly belong to two separate disciplines and fields, and urban energy planning research rarely considers their mutual relationship. The available...
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