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4 Citations
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27 October 2021

For irregular end milling cutters, the incomplete equality of the pitch angle and helix angle will lead to an uneven mass distribution. The problems of centroid distribution caused by this, and whether it would affect the dynamic characteristics of m...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,884 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Centroid Extraction Method for High-Dynamic Star Sensors Based on Projection Distribution of Star Trail

  • Xingyu Tang,
  • Qipeng Cao,
  • Zongqiang Fu,
  • Tingting Xu,
  • Rui Duan and
  • Xiubin Yang

13 January 2025

To improve the centroid extraction accuracy and efficiency of high-dynamic star sensors, this paper proposes a multi-centroid localization method based on the prior distribution of star trail projections. First, the mapping relationship between attit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,668 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2022

The clustering algorithms based on deep neural network perform clustering by obtaining the optimal feature representation. However, in the face of complex natural images, the cluster accuracy of existing clustering algorithms is still relatively low....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,819 Views
22 Pages

The distribution network is a crucial component of the power system as it directly connects to users and serves the purpose of distributing power and balancing the load. With the integration of new energy sources through distributed generation (DG),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,672 Views
18 Pages

Probability-Based Indoor Positioning Algorithm Using iBeacons

  • Tianli Wu,
  • Hao Xia,
  • Shuo Liu and
  • Yanyou Qiao

28 November 2019

High-precision indoor positioning is important for modern society. This paper proposes a way to achieve high positioning accuracy and obtain a trajectory close to the actual path in a common application scenario by smartphone without the use of a com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,639 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2022

The threat posed by poisonous weeds to grassland ecosystems may be exacerbated by climate change mainly driven by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Achnatherum inebrians is a common and poisonous grassland weed that is seriously endangering the sustain...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,981 Views
14 Pages

13 January 2023

Phoracantha semipunctata is a destructive invasive alien forest pest worldwide. It primarily damages the eucalyptus via adults, affecting almost all parts of the eucalyptus. Its larvae develop in almost all major tissues of the plant. Phoracantha sem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,248 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2024

Hydrocera triflora is a perennial herb found in southeastern and southern Asia. In China, it is only found in Hainan Province. With global climate change, studying the impact of climate change on the distribution of H. triflora can provide a theoreti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,650 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2024

It is usually hard to obtain adequate annotated data for delivering satisfactory scene classification results. Semi-supervised scene classification approaches can transfer the knowledge learned from previously annotated data to remote sensing images...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,033 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2023

Ecological fire prevention forest belts can effectively alleviate the spread of forest fires and reduce the harm caused by forest fires. Exploring the distribution and changes in suitable growth areas for fire-resistant forest species under the effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,782 Views
41 Pages

30 July 2025

Channels with three standard symmetrical sections and one asymmetric section are mounted as cantilever beams with the web oriented vertically. A classical solution to the analysis of stress in each thin-walled cantilever channel is provided using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
845 Views
25 Pages

Modeling the Habitat Suitability and Range Shift of Daphniphyllum macropodum in China Under Climate Change Using an Optimized MaxEnt Model

  • Yangzhou Xiang,
  • Suhang Li,
  • Qiong Yang,
  • Jiaojiao Liu,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Ling Zhao,
  • Hua Lin,
  • Yang Luo,
  • Jun Ren and
  • Hua Wang
  • + 1 author

3 October 2025

Climate change continues to threaten global biodiversity, making it essential to assess how keystone species may shift their distributions and to use these findings to inform conservation planning. This study evaluated the current and future habitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,211 Views
10 Pages

1 April 2018

In wireless sensor networks, accurate location information is important for precise tracking of targets. In order to satisfy hardware installation cost and localization accuracy requirements, a weighted centroid localization (WCL) algorithm, which is...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,597 Views
13 Pages

9 April 2025

L. chinensis is a National Grade II Protected Animal in China, and predicting its suitable habitats in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is crucial for developing effective conservation strategies. This study uses methods such as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
971 Views
16 Pages

Climate Change Drives the Adaptive Distribution of Arundinella setosa in China

  • Huayong Zhang,
  • Miao Zhou,
  • Shijia Zhang,
  • Zhongyu Wang and
  • Zhao Liu

17 March 2025

Arundinella setosa Trin. is a widely distributed species in tropical and subtropical regions, and global climate change has an important impact on its adaptive distribution pattern. In this paper, we predicted the distribution of A. setosa in four cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,101 Views
20 Pages

Research on the Relative Displacement Distribution of a Composite Plate with Built-In FBG Sensors

  • Aliya Kalizhanova,
  • Ainur Kozbakova,
  • Murat Kunelbayev,
  • Timur Kartbayev and
  • Gulzhan Kashaganova

The paper studies the distribution of relative displacement of a composite plate with integrated fiber Bragg gratings. The analysis of the methods for manufacturing composite plates with embedded optical fibers containing FBG sensors, as well as the...

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  • Open Access
932 Views
15 Pages

5 May 2025

Cupressus funebris forests grow relatively fast and have a strong natural regeneration ability, showing great potential in carbon sequestration. Global warming has already had a significant impact on its distribution pattern. This study used the Maxi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,314 Views
14 Pages

9 June 2024

Paederus fuscipes Curtis, 1826, belongs to the Coleoptera order, Staphylinidae family, and Paederus genus (Fabricius, 1775). It has a wide distribution and strong invasive and environmental adaptation capabilities. As a predatory natural enemy of agr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,954 Views
14 Pages

Predicted Spatial Patterns of Suitable Habitats for Troides aeacus Under Different Climate Scenarios

  • Biyu Liu,
  • Xinqi Deng,
  • Zhiqian Liu,
  • Xinju Wei,
  • Honghua Zhang,
  • Danping Xu and
  • Zhihang Zhuo

18 November 2024

Troides aeacus is the largest butterfly in China and is highly valued for its ornamental beauty. Due to T. aeacus being classified as a national second-class protected species in China, studying its spatial distribution is crucial for developing effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,907 Views
18 Pages

Projecting Current and Future Habitat Suitability of the Pepper Weevil, Anthonomus eugenii Cano, 1894 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in China: Implications for the Pepper Industry

  • Qisong Li,
  • Jianxiang Mao,
  • Weifeng Wang,
  • Ruijun Liu,
  • Qiufan Xie,
  • Shiyao Su,
  • Zhong Wang,
  • Yunzhe Song,
  • Yongcong Hong and
  • Pumo Cai

19 February 2025

The pepper weevil, Anthonomus eugenii Cano, 1894 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), poses a significant threat to pepper cultivation, causing extensive crop damage and economic losses. While numerous studies have addressed its occurrence, biology, and cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,459 Views
30 Pages

22 November 2024

The symmetric Kullback–Leibler centroid, also called the Jeffreys centroid, of a set of mutually absolutely continuous probability distributions on a measure space provides a notion of centrality which has proven useful in many tasks, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
12,293 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2021

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) point cloud has been widely used in the fields of ground powerline surveying, forest monitoring, urban modeling, and so on because of the great convenience it brings to people’s daily life. However, the sparsity an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,299 Views
15 Pages

6 January 2024

The expansion and intensification of coastal aquaculture around the Bohai Sea in China has reduced the tidal flats and damaged the coastal vegetation environment. However, there are few studies on the relationship between the evolution of coastal aqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,968 Views
25 Pages

Document Clustering Using K-Means with Term Weighting as Similarity-Based Constraints

  • Uraiwan Buatoom,
  • Waree Kongprawechnon and
  • Thanaruk Theeramunkong

6 June 2020

In similarity-based constrained clustering, there have been various approaches on how to define the similarity between documents to guide the grouping of similar documents together. This paper presents an approach to use term-distribution statistics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,618 Views
16 Pages

Impacts of Human Activity and Climate Change on the Suitable Habitats for Xanthium spinosum in China

  • Yabin Liu,
  • Yuyu Li,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Lizhu Guo,
  • Yu Ji,
  • Yihao Chen,
  • Lifen Hao and
  • Kejian Lin

21 January 2025

Xanthium spinosum (X. spinosum) is a highly invasive weed native to South America and distributed in 17 provinces (municipalities) of China. It has severely negative influences on ecosystems, agriculture, and husbandry. However, few studies have repo...

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  • Open Access
1,847 Views
13 Pages

22 October 2024

During the use of optical gun scopes, slight movements between the human eye and the instrument can cause the pupil to offset from the optical axis, resulting in a dynamic distortion effect. This affects the accuracy and stability of aiming. Based on...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,454 Views
23 Pages

25 July 2011

The star centroid estimation is the most important operation, which directly affects the precision of attitude determination for star sensors. This paper presents a theoretical study of the systematic error introduced by the star centroid estimation...

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  • Open Access
513 Views
16 Pages

The conventional Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) method treats large-scale facilities as single centroids, leading to systematic under- and overestimation of spatial accessibility measures. To address this limitation, this study proposes a G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,552 Views
15 Pages

Star Centroiding Based on Fast Gaussian Fitting for Star Sensors

  • Xiaowei Wan,
  • Gangyi Wang,
  • Xinguo Wei,
  • Jian Li and
  • Guangjun Zhang

28 August 2018

The most accurate star centroiding method for star sensors is the Gaussian fitting (GF) algorithm, because the intensity distribution of a star spot conforms to the Gaussian function, but the computational complexity of GF is too high for real-time a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,214 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Optical Fiber Parameters on the Speckle Pattern and Spectral Observation in Astronomy

  • Anzhi Wang,
  • Jiabin Wang,
  • Zhaoxv Gan,
  • Gang Yue,
  • Xvdong Chen,
  • Qi Yan,
  • Shengjia Wang,
  • Yunxiang Yan,
  • Tao Geng and
  • Weimin Sun
  • + 1 author

11 November 2024

Optical fibers serve as a bridge to transmit starlight into the spectrograph in fiber spectral surveys. Due to the interference between multiple modes supported within the fiber, a granular speckle pattern appears on the end of the fiber and leads to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
7,181 Views
21 Pages

28 January 2018

Accurate and detailed monitoring of population distribution and evolution is of great significance in formulating a population planning strategy in China. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) nighttime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,863 Views
28 Pages

21 March 2025

Star sensor is disturbed by strong straylight, which increases the gray level of the captured star map, and this leads to invalid detection of star points and affects the high-precision location of the centroid. To address this issue, we propose a st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,909 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2019

As an important error in star centroid location estimation, the systematic error greatly restricts the accuracy of the three-axis attitude supplied by a star sensor. In this paper, an analytical study about the behavior of the systematic error in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,040 Views
23 Pages

29 August 2022

In this paper, the effects of stroke amplitude and wing planform on the aerodynamics of hovering flapping wings are considered by numerically solving the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. The wing planform geometry is represented using a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,954 Views
34 Pages

19 December 2022

Automatic clustering problems require clustering algorithms to automatically estimate the number of clusters in a dataset. However, the classical K-means requires the specification of the required number of clusters a priori. To address this problem,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,202 Views
15 Pages

Changes in the Distribution Range of the Genus Cardiocrinum in China Under Climate Change and Human Activities

  • Yuxin Zhang,
  • Shujian Zhang,
  • Haiyan Xiao,
  • Heng Li,
  • Da Liao,
  • Yuxi Xue,
  • Xinyi Huang,
  • Qitao Su and
  • Yian Xiao

21 May 2025

Cardiocrinum are perennial herbaceous plants of the Liliaceae family with high ornamental, nutritional, and medicinal value. However, critical knowledge gaps remain regarding the following: (1) the fine-scale habitat preferences of Cardiocrinum; (2)...

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  • Open Access
4,201 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2024

This research applies the suggested photovoltaic solar system design to Jordan’s Al-Balqa Applied University. Twelve of the twenty-four college buildings are located on the main campus, while the remaining twelve remote colleges are dispersed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,441 Views
24 Pages

14 November 2020

The three-dimensional trajectory data of vehicles have important practical meaning for traffic behavior analysis. To solve the problems of narrow visual angle in single-camera scenes and lack of continuous trajectories in 3D space by current cross-ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
18,248 Views
24 Pages

16 February 2020

The Jensen–Shannon divergence is a renown bounded symmetrization of the Kullback–Leibler divergence which does not require probability densities to have matching supports. In this paper, we introduce a vector-skew generalization of the sc...

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  • Open Access
304 Views
24 Pages

2 March 2026

In order to achieve the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals in China’s transportation sector, this paper examines the regional data in transportation carbon emissions across China, investigates the shifting trends of the carbon emission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,623 Views
18 Pages

Modeling the Present and Future Geographical Distribution Potential of Dipteronia dyeriana, a Critically Endangered Species from China

  • Ming-Hui Yan,
  • Bin-Wen Liu,
  • Bashir B. Tiamiyu,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Wang-Yang Ning,
  • Jie-Ying Si,
  • Nian-Ci Dong and
  • Xin-Lan Lv

4 September 2024

Climate change will have various impacts on the survival and development of species, and it is important to explore whether plants can adapt to future climate conditions. Dipteronia dyeriana is an endangered species with a narrow distribution in Yunn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,246 Views
27 Pages

Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics Analysis of Color Steel Buildings in Lanzhou City

  • Wenda Wang,
  • Xiao Li,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Shaohua Wang,
  • Runqiao Wang,
  • Dachuan Xu and
  • Junyuan Zhou

With the continuous acceleration of China’s urbanization process, color steel plate, as a new type of building material, has been widely used in all kinds of temporary buildings and has become the spatial carrier of the specific development sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,299 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2020

A large-time Eulerian–Lagrangian stochastic approach is employed to: (1) estimate centroid position uncertainty of contaminant plumes that originate from instantaneous point sources in statistically stationary and isotropic porous formations; (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,146 Views
13 Pages

13 August 2022

This paper proposes an energy-barycenter-based waveform centroid algorithm (EWCA) for a high-precision Lidar ranging system. Firstly, the emission and echo pulse models of the pulse Lidar ranging system are established. Secondly, based on analyzing t...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,106 Views
17 Pages

A Floating Small Target Identification Method Based on Doppler Time Series Information

  • Hengli Yu,
  • Hao Ding,
  • Zheng Cao,
  • Ningbo Liu,
  • Guoqing Wang and
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang

28 January 2024

Traditional radar detection methods heavily rely on the signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR); a variety of feature-based detection methods have been proposed, providing a new way for radar detection and the recognition of weak targets. Existing feature-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,539 Views
26 Pages

13 May 2022

This study investigates the effect of wing planform shape on the aerodynamic performance of insect wings by numerically solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We define the wing planforms using a beta-function distribution and employ kin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,052 Views
21 Pages

Sieve Search Centroiding Algorithm for Star Sensors

  • Vivek Chandran Karaparambil,
  • Narayan Suresh Manjarekar and
  • Pravin Madanrao Singru

17 March 2023

The localization of the center of the star image formed on a sensor array directly affects attitude estimation accuracy. This paper proposes an intuitive self-evolving centroiding algorithm, termed the sieve search algorithm (SSA), which employs the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,396 Views
17 Pages

Aromia bungii Faldermann (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) is one of the most serious stem-boring pests that infests Rosaceae fruit trees and ornamental trees. This study, based on occurrence data for this species, employed the MaxEnt model and meta-analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,651 Views
13 Pages

18 June 2024

Exploring the geographical distribution of forestry pests is crucial for formulating pest management strategies. Cyrtotrachelus buqueti (Guer) stands out as one of the primary pests among China’s forestry hazards. This study employs the MaxEnt...

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