The principal aim of this paper is to present the capabilities of newly developed GIS tools for measurement analysis of urban spatial layouts, using the square grid method. The study of urban morphology and metrology is a multistage process, which in...
Most nations are shifting towards renewable energy sources to reduce energy-related emissions and achieve their net zero emissions targets by mid-century. Consequently, many attempts have been made to invest in clean, accessible, inexpensive, sustain...
Selecting an appropriate wind farm location must be specific to a particular administrative region, which involves restrictions balance and trade-offs. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and GIS are widely used in wind energy planning, but have fa...
The rapid expansion of solar photovoltaics is intensifying competition for land and highlighting the need for scalable energy solutions that can be integrated into existing power systems without displacing agricultural activity. Once the technical an...
The estimation of the solar resource on certain surfaces of the planet is a key factor in deciding where to establish solar energy collection systems. This research uses a mathematical model based on easy-access geographic and meteorological informat...
This research proposes an approach to estimate the number of different types of electric vehicles for a vast area or an entire country, which can be divided into a large number of small areas such as a subdistrict scale. The estimation methodology ex...
The spatial distribution of population is closely related to land use and land cover (LULC) patterns on both regional and global scales. Population can be redistributed onto geo-referenced square grids according to this relation. In the past decades,...
The effects of wildfire on the power grid are a recurring concern for utility companies who need reliable information about where to prioritize infrastructure hardening. Though there are existing data layers that provide measures of burn probability,...
This study assessed suitable smart grid areas for power generation and distribution from solar and small hydro energy resources in Western Uganda by employing the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) based on geographic information system (GIS) dat...
The United States (U.S.) electric infrastructure urgently needs renovation, as highlighted by recent major outages in California, New York, Texas, and Florida. The media has discussed the aging power infrastructure, and the Public Utilities Commissio...
Power grid models are important in relation to several topics and applications, especially the modelling, optimisation and extension of electrical grids. The significance of grid models is heightened by the increase in renewable energy generation and...
The purpose of this study is to propose a GIS-based mechanism for diagnosing karst rocky desertification (KRD) ecosystem health. Using the Huajiang Demonstration Area in Guizhou Province as a case study, this research offers a multi-factor indicator...
Renewable energy sources offer a promising future, backed by mature technologies and a viable pathway toward sustainable energy systems. However, careful planning is necessary to efficiently utilize these resources, especially during site selection....
With the increasing use and complexity of urban natural gas pipelines, the occurrence of accidents owing to leakage, fire, explosion, etc., has increased. Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) models and Geographic Information System (GIS) techno...
The U.S. electric-power infrastructure urgently needs renovation. Recent major power outages in California, New York, Texas, and Florida have highlighted U.S. electric-power unreliability. The media have discussed the U.S. aging power infrastructure...
Recent growth in the use of photovoltaic technology and a rapid reduction in its cost confirms the potential of solar power on a large scale. In this context, planning for the deployment of smart grids is among the most important challenges to suppor...
This paper presents a new control structure to improve the performance of LCL grid-connected inverters. First, the conventional linear extended state observer (LESO) has difficulty rejecting periodic disturbances, so the proposed method adds an inter...
Transition to electric vehicles has accelerated in diverse consumer sectors all over the world. Electric School Buses (ESBs) are a particular area of interest due to their environmental and financial potential benefits, including Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G...
Conventional coal mine reserve estimation methods are misaligned with modern production. This study develops a lifecycle, production-oriented framework for dynamic reserve accounting, including a strip inversion algorithm for mined faces and an impro...
Heat demand of buildings and related CO2 emissions caused by energy supply contribute to global climate change. Spatial data-based heat planning enables municipalities to reorganize local heating sectors towards efficient use of regional renewable en...
This paper presents innovative research on power grid reliability, which is essential for the overall sustainability of energy systems in the emerging age of electricity. The research primarily analyzes the profound methodological disparities between...
The construction of digital twin cities is a current research hotspot; GIS technology and BIM technology are widely used in the field of digital twin cities. However, BIM is still subject to major limitations in its applications, mainly due to huge a...
Historical geographic data play an important supporting role in the study of long-term geographic studies, such as climate change, urban expansion and land-use and land-cover change. These data vary in source, format and accuracy and are widely found...
Geological conditions fundamentally constrain land-use suitability, terrain stability, and long-term sustainability, yet they remain underutilized in urban planning frameworks. This study presents a GIS-based geological suitability assessment model,...
On-site partial discharge (PD) measurements have turned out to be a very efficient technique for determining the insulation condition in high-voltage electrical grids (AIS, cable systems, GIS, HVDC converters, etc.); however, there is not any standar...
Predicting trends in land use/cover change (LUCC) and assessing future ecological security (ES) can help effectively balance regional ecological conservation and economic development. In this study, a land use simulation model was used to predict the...
A geographic information system (GIS) is a technical system which is supported by computer software and hardware systems. It focuses on the geographical information related to the whole or part of the earth’s surface. It is used for collecting,...
A flexible mesh hydrodynamic model was developed to simulate flooding of the LaHave River watershed in Nova Scotia, Canada, from the combined effects of fluvial discharge and ocean tide and surge conditions. The analysis incorporated high-resolution...
Some 630 million people representing two-thirds of all Africans have no access to electricity, which is identified as a key barrier towards further development. Three main electrification options are considered within our work: grid extensions, mini-...
Suburbanization is a phase of the development of cities that consists in the growth of the suburban zone at the expense of the city center, which becomes gradually depopulated. The phenomenon of uncontrolled suburbanization (urban sprawl) causes infr...
This work proposed a base method for automated assessment of Small Hydro-Power (SHP) potential for a run-of-river (RoR) scheme using geographic information systems (GIS). The hydro-power potential (HP) was represented through a comprehensive methodol...
A geodiversity assessment is one of the basic steps in the development of geoprotection activities. It is important to establish parameters that quantify the elements and locations of abiotic nature. Here, the focus is on those who are richer than th...
Seamount cobalt-rich crusts are rich in cobalt resources and are sought after worldwide. Among different affecting parameters, crust thickness is the most important in evaluating cobalt-rich crust resources in seamounts. Generally, there are two chal...
The indoor environment is typically a complex time-varying environment. At present, the problem of indoor modeling is still a hot research topic for scholars at home and abroad. This paper primarily studies indoor time-varying space. On the basis of...
Cultural heritage is a very important element affecting the sustainable development. To analyze the various forms of spatial management inscribed into sustainable development, information on the location of objects and their concentration at specific...
The Gaza Strip forms a transition zone between the semi-humid coastal zone in the north, the semi-arid zone in the east, and the Sinai desert in the south. Groundwater is the only water source for 1.94 million inhabitants, where the only fresh replen...
The rapid transformation from UTM (Universal Transverse Mecator) projection to Lambert projection helps to realize timely merging, inversion, and analysis of high-frequency partitioned remote sensing images. In this study, the transformation error an...
Drought is a recurrent hazard in the Chi River Basin, northeastern Thailand, causing agricultural losses despite its low-lying floodplain setting. This study developed a machine learning framework integrating Sentinel-2 indices (SMI, NDVI, MNDWI, VCI...
The Longzi River Basin in Tibet is located along the edge of the Himalaya Mountains and is characterized by complex geological conditions and numerous landslides. To evaluate the susceptibility of landslide disasters in this area, eight basic factors...
The construction and application of an indoor spatial data model is an important prerequisite to meet the requirements of diversified indoor spatial location services. The traditional indoor spatial topology model focuses on the construction of topol...
Flooding is a significant natural hazard in arid regions, particularly in Saudi Arabia, where intense rainfall events pose serious risks to both infrastructure and public safety. Bahrah City, situated between Jeddah and Makkah, has experienced recurr...
Environmental monitoring applications are designed for supplying derived and often integrated information by tracking and analyzing phenomena. To determine the condition of a target place, they employ a geosensor network to get the heterogeneous sens...
The operational control of medium-voltage (MV) distribution networks has conventionally relied on a tightly integrated, multi-platform architecture comprising a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, an Advanced Distribution Managem...
Archived distribution studies are difficult to reuse when source calculations, public asset records, processed outputs, and proprietary model files support different levels of inference. This study develops a claim-specific audit for incomplete distr...
Rapid urbanization and unplanned land development have transformed Dhaka into one of the most densely built metropolitan areas in South Asia, leading to increased surface heat accumulation and growing pressure on urban energy systems. Numerous studie...
Federal and state governments in the United States (US) are promoting the transition from traditional Diesel School Buses to Electric School Buses (ESBs). This would prevent the emission of deleterious air pollutants that affect students and communit...
The growing awareness of environmental issues, climate policies, and rapidly developing technologies is contributing to the increasing number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) around the world. A key requirement for their widespread implementation...
The transition to electric vehicles is an important strategy to curb climate change and reduce air pollution. However, the adoption of this new technology has been slower than required to reach the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. This research...
Battery swapping stations (BSSs) can help shorten the refueling time for electric vehicles (EVs), but their widespread deployment will need decisions on station placement, battery availability, the number of chargers, photovoltaic (PV) capacity, grid...
Geospatial data analysis often requires the computing of a distance transform for a given vector feature. For instance, in wildfire management, it is helpful to find the distance of all points in an area from the wildfire’s boundary. Computing...
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