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11 Citations
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A Seabed Terrain Feature Extraction Transformer for the Super-Resolution of the Digital Bathymetric Model

  • Wuxu Cai,
  • Yanxiong Liu,
  • Yilan Chen,
  • Zhipeng Dong,
  • Hanxiao Yuan and
  • Ningning Li

11 October 2023

The acquisition of high-resolution (HR) digital bathymetric models (DBMs) is crucial for oceanic research activities. However, obtaining HR DBM data is challenging, which has led to the use of super-resolution (SR) methods to improve the DBM’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,044 Views
21 Pages

14 February 2023

The scale of digital elevation models (DEMs) is vital for terrain analysis, surface simulation, and other geographic applications. Compared to traditional super-resolution (SR) methods, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great succe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,553 Views
16 Pages

The study provides a methodology for 3D model processing of historic mining landscape, and its features as mining digital cultural heritage with the possibility of using new visualization means in mining tourism. Historic mining landscapes around the...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,928 Views
27 Pages

17 October 2024

This paper examines the multi-scale super-resolution challenge of digital elevation models in remote sensing. A dual-domain multi-scale attention fusion network is proposed, which reconstructs digital elevation image details step-by-step using cascad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,932 Views
28 Pages

27 August 2021

The power amplifier (PA) is the most critical subsystem in terms of linearity and power efficiency. Digital predistortion (DPD) is commonly used to mitigate nonlinearities while the PA operates at levels close to saturation, where the device presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,965 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2021

In the design and operation scenarios driven by Digital Twins, large computer-aided design (CAD) models of production line equipment can limit the real-time performance and fidelity of the interaction between digital and physical entities. Digital CA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,440 Views
30 Pages

16 May 2025

In recent years, great progress has been made in the field of super-resolution (SR) reconstruction based on deep learning techniques. Although image SR techniques show strong potential in image reconstruction, the effective application of these techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,003 Views
17 Pages

3D Quantitative Characterization of Fractures and Cavities in Digital Outcrop Texture Model Based on Lidar

  • Bo Liang,
  • Yuangang Liu,
  • Yanlin Shao,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Naidan Zhang and
  • Shaohua Li

22 February 2022

The combination of lidar and digital photography provides a new technology for creating a high-resolution 3D digital outcrop model. The digital outcrop model can accurately and conveniently depict the surface 3D properties of an outcrop profile, maki...

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  • Open Access
1,103 Views
24 Pages

1 November 2025

Acquiring high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) over across extensive regions remains challenging due to high costs and insufficient detail, creating demand for super-resolution (SR) techniques. However, existing DEM SR methods still rely o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,933 Views
21 Pages

Three-Dimensional Wheat Modelling Based on Leaf Morphological Features and Mesh Deformation

  • Chenxi Zheng,
  • Weiliang Wen,
  • Xianju Lu,
  • Wushuai Chang,
  • Bo Chen,
  • Qiang Wu,
  • Zhiwei Xiang,
  • Xinyu Guo and
  • Chunjiang Zhao

7 February 2022

The three-dimensional (3D) morphological structure of wheat directly reflects the interrelationship among genetics, environments, and cropping systems. However, the morphological complexity of wheat limits its rapid and accurate 3D modelling. We have...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,567 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2023

Geomorphological surveys and terrain analysis are essential for geomorphology, hydrology, and geographic information systems (GIS). Terrain characterization parameters are fundamental for comprehending geomorphological processes, delineating landform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,176 Views
22 Pages

Retrieving Surface Deformation of Mining Areas Using ZY-3 Stereo Imagery and DSMs

  • Wenmin Hu,
  • Jiaxing Xu,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Jiatao Zhao and
  • Haokun Zhou

1 September 2023

Measuring surface deformation is crucial for a better understanding of spatial-temporal evolution and the mechanism of mining-induced deformation, thus effectively assessing the mining-related geohazards, such as landslides or damage to surface infra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,961 Views
16 Pages

Toponymic entity recognition is currently a critical research hotspot in knowledge graphs. Under the guidance of the national ancient book protection policy and the promotion of the wave of digital humanities research, this paper proposes a toponymic...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,015 Views
18 Pages

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images (RSI) plays a significant role in urban management and land cover classification. Due to the richer spatial information in the RSI, existing convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods cannot segmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,140 Views
14 Pages

A Dual Blind Watermarking Method for 3D Models Based on Normal Features

  • Qijian Tang,
  • Yanfei Li,
  • Qilei Wang,
  • Wenqi He and
  • Xiang Peng

22 September 2023

Digital watermarking technology is an important means to effectively protect three-dimensional (3D) model data. Among them, “blind detection” and “robustness” are key and difficult points in the current research of digital wat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,144 Views
19 Pages

12 May 2021

The use of digital elevation models (DEMs) that use airborne-based light detection and the ranging technique (airborne-based LiDAR) to understand large-scale geological structures has become important in geological surveying and mapping. Taking the D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,258 Views
18 Pages

Classification Predictive Model for Air Leak Detection in Endoworm Enteroscopy System

  • Roberto Zazo-Manzaneque,
  • Vicente Pons-Beltrán,
  • Ana Vidaurre,
  • Alberto Santonja and
  • Carlos Sánchez-Díaz

12 July 2022

Current enteroscopy techniques present complications that are intended to be improved with the development of a new semi-automatic device called Endoworm. It consists of two different types of inflatable cavities. For its correct operation, it is ess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,106 Views
26 Pages

Fine Resolution Mapping of Forest Soil Organic Carbon Based on Feature Selection and Machine Learning Algorithm

  • Yanan Li,
  • Jing Li,
  • Jun Tan,
  • Tianyue Ma,
  • Xingguang Yan,
  • Zongyang Chen and
  • Kunheng Li

10 June 2025

An accurate forest soil organic carbon (SOC) assessment aids in the ecological restoration of forest mining areas, enabling dynamic monitoring of carbon sink accounting and informed land reclamation decisions. Digital soil mapping (DSM) has enhanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,765 Views
15 Pages

A Micro-Topography Enhancement Method for DEMs: Advancing Geological Hazard Identification

  • Qiulin He,
  • Xiujun Dong,
  • Haoliang Li,
  • Bo Deng and
  • Jingsong Sima

5 March 2025

Geological hazards in densely vegetated mountainous regions are challenging to detect due to terrain concealment and the limitations of traditional visualization methods. This study introduces the LiDAR image highlighting algorithm (LIHA), a novel ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,445 Views
14 Pages

An Approach for Estimating Solar Photovoltaic Potential Based on Rooftop Retrieval from Remote Sensing Images

  • Xiaoyang Song,
  • Yaohuan Huang,
  • Chuanpeng Zhao,
  • Yuxin Liu,
  • Yanguo Lu,
  • Yongguo Chang and
  • Jie Yang

15 November 2018

Solar energy is the most clean renewable energy source and has good prospects for future sustainable development. Installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on building rooftops has been the most widely applied method for using solar energy reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
646 Views
14 Pages

Deep learning has shown significant advantages over traditional spatial interpolation methods in single image super-resolution (SISR). Recently, many studies have applied super-resolution (SR) methods to generate high-resolution (HR) digital bathymet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,115 Views
22 Pages

A Feature-Reinforced Ensemble Learning Framework for Space-Based DEM Correction

  • Zidu Ouyang,
  • Cui Zhou,
  • Di Zhang,
  • Zhiwei Liu,
  • Jianjun Zhu and
  • Jian Xie

9 April 2025

Near-global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) products generated through space-based radar techniques have become a basic data source for a variety range of applications. However, these DEM products often contain typical errors such as vegetation bias an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
531 Views
19 Pages

Accurate Extraction Method for Continental Margin FOS Line Considering Terrain Continuity

  • Dong Wang,
  • Jian Dong,
  • Zhiqiang Zhang,
  • Tian Xie,
  • Xiaodong Ma and
  • Tianyue Wang

10 September 2025

This paper addresses the limitations and low efficiency of current methods for precise identification of continental margin break points in the delimitation of the outer continental shelf. From a three-dimensional perspective, it proposes a novel met...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
251 Views
17 Pages

Transformer-Based Multi-Modal Fusion for Martian Impact Crater Classification

  • Chen Yang,
  • Yinghong Wu,
  • Haishi Zhao and
  • Minghao Zhao

14 February 2026

Impact craters, as key geomorphic features on Mars, provide important insights into surface processes and geological evolution. However, automatic classification of crater morphologies remains challenging due to substantial variations in size, degrad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,021 Views
29 Pages

Detection and Analysis of Degree of Maize Lodging Using UAV-RGB Image Multi-Feature Factors and Various Classification Methods

  • Zixu Wang,
  • Chenwei Nie,
  • Hongwu Wang,
  • Yong Ao,
  • Xiuliang Jin,
  • Xun Yu,
  • Yi Bai,
  • Yadong Liu,
  • Mingchao Shao and
  • Nuremanguli Tuohuti
  • + 3 authors

Maize (Zea mays L.), one of the most important agricultural crops in the world, which can be devastated by lodging, which can strike maize during its growing season. Maize lodging affects not only the yield but also the quality of its kernels. The id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
321 Views
27 Pages

A Robust DEM Registration Method via Physically Consistent Image Rendering

  • Yunchou Li,
  • Niangang Jiao,
  • Feng Wang and
  • Hongjian You

26 January 2026

Digital elevation models (DEMs) play a critical role in geospatial analysis and surface modeling. However, due to differences in data collection payload, data processing methodology, and data reference baseline, DEMs acquired from various sources oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,775 Views
17 Pages

Flood Damage Analysis: First Floor Elevation Uncertainty Resulting from LiDAR-Derived Digital Surface Models

  • José María Bodoque,
  • Carolina Guardiola-Albert,
  • Estefanía Aroca-Jiménez,
  • Miguel Ángel Eguibar and
  • María Lorena Martínez-Chenoll

19 July 2016

The use of high resolution ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) datasets provides spatial density and vertical precision for obtaining highly accurate Digital Surface Models (DSMs). As a result, the reliability of flood damage analysis ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,348 Views
16 Pages

Building Change Detection from Bi-Temporal Dense-Matching Point Clouds and Aerial Images

  • Shiyan Pang,
  • Xiangyun Hu,
  • Zhongliang Cai,
  • Jinqi Gong and
  • Mi Zhang

24 March 2018

In this work, a novel building change detection method from bi-temporal dense-matching point clouds and aerial images is proposed to address two major problems, namely, the robust acquisition of the changed objects above ground and the automatic clas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,289 Views
28 Pages

30 August 2020

Detection of terrain features (ridges, spurs, cliffs, and peaks) is a basic research topic in digital elevation model (DEM) analysis and is essential for learning about factors that influence terrain surfaces, such as geologic structures and geomorph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,015 Views
23 Pages

4 January 2025

In this paper, the application is investigated of fast Fourier transform filtering (FFT-FR) to high spatial resolution digital terrain models (HR-DTM) derived from LiDAR sensors, assessing its efficacy in identifying genuine relief elements, includin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,737 Views
22 Pages

An Integrated Algorithm for Extracting Terrain Feature-Point Clusters Based on DEM Data

  • Jinlong Hu,
  • Mingliang Luo,
  • Leichao Bai,
  • Jinliang Duan and
  • Bing Yu

9 June 2022

Terrain feature points, such as the peaks and saddles, are the basic framework of surface topography and its undulations, which significantly affect the spatial distribution of surface topography. In the past, terrain feature points were extracted se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,891 Views
20 Pages

Computer-aided detection (CADe) of masses in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is crucial for early breast cancer diagnosis. However, the variability in the size and morphology of breast masses and their resemblance to surrounding tissues present si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,353 Views
22 Pages

20 October 2021

Alpine topography is formed by a complex series of geomorphological processes that result in a vast number of different landforms. The youngest and most diverse landforms are various Quaternary sedimentary bodies, each characterised by its unique lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,135 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2024

Addressing the limitations of current multi-scale seabed terrain construction methods for a Digital Depth Model (DDM) and the low computational efficiency of automatic generalization algorithms, this paper draws on the concept of curvature simplifica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,165 Views
26 Pages

Determining the flow accumulation threshold (FAT) is a key task in the extraction of river networks from digital elevation models (DEMs). Several methods have been developed to extract river networks from Digital Elevation Models. However, few studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,816 Views
18 Pages

High-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) and its derivatives (e.g., curvature, slope, aspect) offer a great possibility of representing the details of Earth’s surface in three-dimensional space. Previous research investigations concernin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,110 Views
22 Pages

Neural Network-Based Fusion of InSAR and Optical Digital Elevation Models with Consideration of Local Terrain Features

  • Rong Gui,
  • Yuanjun Qin,
  • Zhi Hu,
  • Jiazhen Dong,
  • Qian Sun,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Yibo Yuan and
  • Zhiwei Mo

25 September 2024

InSAR and optical techniques represent two principal approaches for the generation of large-scale Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). Due to the inherent limitations of each technology, a single data source is insufficient to produce high-quality DEM pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,111 Views
25 Pages

A Robust InSAR-DEM Block Adjustment Method Based on Affine and Polynomial Models for Geometric Distortion

  • Zhonghua Hong,
  • Ziyuan He,
  • Haiyan Pan,
  • Zhihao Tang,
  • Ruyan Zhou,
  • Yun Zhang,
  • Yanling Han and
  • Jiang Tao

10 April 2025

DEMs derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery are frequently influenced by multiple factors, resulting in systematic horizontal and elevation inaccuracies that affect their applicability in large-scale scenarios. To mitig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,825 Views
23 Pages

19 October 2022

The detection and counting of lunar impact craters are crucial for the selection of detector landing sites and the estimation of the age of the Moon. However, traditional crater detection methods are based on machine learning and image processing tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,818 Views
12 Pages

1 November 2022

The success of deep learning and the segmentation of remote sensing images (RSIs) has improved semantic segmentation in recent years. However, existing RSI segmentation methods have two inherent problems: (1) detecting objects of various scales in RS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,666 Views
12 Pages

10 November 2022

The detection of edges in images is a pressing issue in the field of image processing. This technique has found widespread application in image pattern recognition, machine vision, and a variety of other areas. The feasibility and effectiveness of gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,408 Views
22 Pages

Metaverse Applications in Bioinformatics: A Machine Learning Framework for the Discrimination of Anti-Cancer Peptides

  • Sufyan Danish,
  • Asfandyar Khan,
  • L. Minh Dang,
  • Mohammed Alonazi,
  • Sultan Alanazi,
  • Hyoung-Kyu Song and
  • Hyeonjoon Moon

15 January 2024

Bioinformatics and genomics are driving a healthcare revolution, particularly in the domain of drug discovery for anticancer peptides (ACPs). The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed healthcare, enabling personalized and immers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,468 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2023

The increasing interest in digital twin technology, the digitalization of worn-out social overhead capital (SOC), and disaster management services has augmented the usage of 3D spatial models and information to manage infrastructure. In this study, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,078 Views
26 Pages

Integration of Vessel-Based Hyperspectral Scanning and 3D-Photogrammetry for Mobile Mapping of Steep Coastal Cliffs in the Arctic

  • Sara Salehi,
  • Sandra Lorenz,
  • Erik Vest Sørensen,
  • Robert Zimmermann,
  • Rasmus Fensholt,
  • Bjørn Henning Heincke,
  • Moritz Kirsch and
  • Richard Gloaguen

26 January 2018

Remote and extreme regions such as in the Arctic remain a challenging ground for geological mapping and mineral exploration. Coastal cliffs are often the only major well-exposed outcrops, but are mostly not observable by air/spaceborne nadir remote s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,449 Views
25 Pages

Synthesis of Common Arabic Handwritings to Aid Optical Character Recognition Research

  • Laslo Dinges,
  • Ayoub Al-Hamadi,
  • Moftah Elzobi and
  • Sherif El-etriby

11 March 2016

Document analysis tasks such as pattern recognition, word spotting or segmentation, require comprehensive databases for training and validation. Not only variations in writing style but also the used list of words is of importance in the case that tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,988 Views
15 Pages

4 February 2021

This work presents a new approach based on a spiking neural network for sound preprocessing and classification. The proposed approach is biologically inspired by the biological neuron’s characteristic using spiking neurons, and Spike-Timing-Dependent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
12,467 Views
21 Pages

Airborne LiDAR-Derived Digital Elevation Model for Archaeology

  • Benjamin Štular,
  • Edisa Lozić and
  • Stefan Eichert

10 May 2021

The use of topographic airborne LiDAR data has become an essential part of archaeological prospection, and the need for an archaeology-specific data processing workflow is well known. It is therefore surprising that little attention has been paid to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,143 Views
22 Pages

19 September 2024

Satellite multi-view stereo (MVS) is a fundamental task in large-scale Earth surface reconstruction. Recently, learning-based multi-view stereo methods have shown promising results in this field. However, these methods are mainly developed by transfe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
693 Views
34 Pages

This study examines the pricing dynamics of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in the secondary market using advanced machine-learning techniques. We construct a large dataset of Ethereum-based NFT transactions initially comprising over 500,000 raw blockchai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
19 Pages

Machine Learning-Driven SPAD Estimation from RGB Images via Color–Texture Fusion and Its Correlation with Potassium Levels in Walnut Seedlings

  • Jiahui Qi,
  • Qiuhao Xia,
  • Jiaxing Chen,
  • Yerhazi Yerzati,
  • Yangyang Ding,
  • Miaomiao Zhao,
  • Jingyu Zhao,
  • Kai Qiang,
  • Zhongzhong Guo and
  • Rui Zhang

28 February 2026

Rapid, non-destructive estimation of leaf chlorophyll content (SPAD) is crucial for assessing plant photosynthetic health and nutrient status. However, conventional methods rely on specialized instruments (e.g., SPAD meters and hyperspectral sensors)...

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