The response to a major oil spill can be challenging in temperate climates and with good weather conditions. By contrast, a major spill in or under ice and snow, presents a whole new series of challenges. This paper reviews detection technologies for...
In cold environments, ice formation poses significant risks to infrastructure such as transportation systems and power transmission. Yet, traditional de-icing methods are often time-consuming, hazardous, and inefficient. In this regard, unmanned aeri...
Aiming at the ice coating problem on medium-voltage overhead lines, this paper proposes a resonance de-icing device based on an improved YOLOv7 algorithm to achieve efficient and intelligent ice detection and removal. First, by introducing the SimAM...
In the context of improving aircraft safety, this work focuses on creating and testing a graphene-based ice detection system in an environmental chamber. This research is driven by the need for more accurate and efficient ice detection methods, which...
Icing phenomena occur on aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under extreme weather conditions. Ultrasonic detection technology is an effective method for measuring ice formation while maintaining the shape of the structure. However, current...
Line icings on the power transmission lines are dangerous risks that may lead to situations like structural damage or power outages. The current techniques used for identifying ice have certain drawbacks, particularly when used in complex environment...
Hundreds of people are killed or injured annually in the United States in accidents related to ice formation on roadways and bridge decks. In this paper, a novel embedded sensor system is proposed for the detection of black ice as well as wet, dry, a...
As the most similar planet to Earth in the solar system, Mars’ surface and subsurface water ice provide important clues for studying extraterrestrial life and planetary evolution. Since the 1960s, the exploration of Martian water ice has gradua...
Sea ice is an important component of the polar circle and influences atmospheric change. Global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) not only realizes time-continuous and wide-area sea ice detection, but also greatly reduces the cost of...
The presence of ice on transmission lines threatens their integrity. The thickness of ice is crucial with respect to the autonomous operation of de-icing robots. Therefore, we propose a Cross-Guide-UNet (CG-UNet) model for detecting the thickness of...
This study details the development and validation of a graphene-based ice detection system, designed to enhance flight safety by monitoring ice accumulation on aircraft surfaces. The system employs a semiconductive polymer (PEDOT:PSS) with graphene e...
Inhomogenities in the sea ice motion field cause deformation zones, such as leads, cracks and pressure ridges. Due to their long and often narrow shape, those structures are referred to as Linear Kinematic Features (LKFs). In this paper we specifical...
Scatterometers are dedicated to monitoring sea surface wind vectors, but they also provide valuable data for polar applications. As a new type of scatterometer, the rotating fan beam scatterometer delivers a higher diversity of incidence angles and m...
The deployment of traditional ground-penetrating radar (GPR) systems for ice detection on steep terrain presents substantial safety challenges for ground crews due to inaccessibility and hazardous working conditions. However, airborne GPR (AGPR) and...
Ice formation on critical infrastructure such as wind turbine blades can lead to severe performance degradation and safety hazards. This study investigates the use of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) combined with machine learning to detect and classify i...
Sea ice is an important meteorological factor affecting the global climate system, but it is difficult to observe in sea ice ground truth data because of its location mainly at high latitudes and in polar regions. Accordingly, sea-ice detection resea...
When wind turbine blades are icing, the output power of a wind turbine tends to reduce, thus informing the selection of two basic variables of wind speed and power. Then other features, such as the degree of power deviation from the power curve fitte...
Measurement of ice nucleation (IN) temperature of liquid solutions at sub-ambient temperatures has applications in atmospheric, water quality, food storage, protein crystallography and pharmaceutical sciences. Here we present details on the construct...
The automatic detection and analysis of ocean eddies in the marginal ice zone via remote sensing is a very challenging task but of critical importance for scientific applications and anthropogenic activities. Therefore, as one of the first steps towa...
Slip-resistant footwear can prevent fall-related injuries on icy surfaces. Winter footwear slip resistance can be measured by the Maximum Achievable Angle (MAA) test, which measures the steepest ice-covered incline that participants can walk up and d...
Sea ice plays a critical role in the Earth’s climate system, and its variations affect ecosystem stability. This study introduces a novel method for detecting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean using bidirectional radar reflections from the Global Nav...
The method for sea ice detection using the data from the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) onboard the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite data is suggested. The approach is based on the analysis of the shape of normalized radar c...
Arctic sea ice detection is very important in global climate research, Arctic ecosystem protection, ship navigation and human activities. In this paper, by combining the co-pol ratio (HH/VV) and two kinds of cross-pol ratio (HV/VV, HV/HH), a novel se...
The use of infrared (IR) sensors to detect clouds in different layers of the atmosphere is a big challenge, especially for ice clouds. This study aims to improve ice cloud detection using Lin’s algorithm and apply it to Atmospheric Infrared Sou...
Aircraft ground de-icing operations play a critical role in flight safety. However, to handle the aircraft de-icing, a considerable quantity of de-icing fluids is commonly employed. Moreover, some pre-flight inspections are carried out with engines r...
When unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) perform transmission line ice cover detection, it is often due to the variable shooting angle and complex background environment, which leads to difficulties such as poor ice-covering recognition accuracy and diff...
Satellite altimeters have been used to monitor Arctic sea ice thickness since the early 2000s. In order to estimate sea ice thickness from satellite altimeter data, leads (i.e., cracks between ice floes) should first be identified for the calculation...
Lake ice phenology (LIP), hiding information about lake energy and material exchange, serves as an important indicator of climate change. Utilizing an efficient technique to swiftly extract lake ice information is crucial in the field of lake ice res...
Icebergs and ice islands (large, tabular icebergs) are challenging targets to survey due to their size, mobility, remote locations, and potentially difficult environmental conditions. Here, we assess the precision and utility of aerial photography su...
This paper presents the first results of sea ice detection using the data of Ka- and Ku-band radars at low incidence angles. A classification method based on an unsupervised K-means approach is applied to the arrays of the data for the Arctic and Ant...
Icing detection is the premise and basis for the operation of aircraft icing protection system, and is the primary issue in flight safety assurance. At present, there is a lack of research methods and design reference for the layout optimization of i...
Structures vibrate with their natural frequencies when disturbed from their equilibrium position. These frequencies reduce when an additional mass accumulates on their structures, like ice accumulation on wind turbines installed in cold climate sites...
Transmission line icing poses a significant natural disaster threat to power grid security. This paper systematically reviews recent advances in the understanding of icing mechanisms, intelligent detection, and prevention technologies, while providin...
Icing on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can degrade aerodynamic performance, reduce flight capabilities, impair maneuverability and stability, and significantly impact flight safety. At present, most flight control methods for icing-affected aircra...
As more and more transmission lines need to pass through areas with heavy icing, the problem of transmission line faults caused by ice and snow disasters frequently occurs. Existing ice coverage monitoring methods have defects such as the use of a si...
Ice accretion poses a threat to fixed-wing aerial vehicles as it alters the wings’ shape and thus degrades the aerodynamic performance. In manned aircraft, the icing detection system assists the pilot and utilises dedicated sensors. However, in...
With continuing sea ice reductions in the Arctic, dynamic physical and ecological processes have more active roles compared to the ice-locked, isolated Arctic Ocean of previous decades. To better understand these changes, observations of high-resolut...
Ice accretion can significantly degrade aircraft performance and hinder its operational capacities. The ability to detect and characterize ice formation in real time is paramount for enabling timely mitigation strategies. Existing solutions for in-fl...
4,4′-dinitrocarbanilide (DNC) is a key component and marker residue of nicarbazin, which forms residues in edible tissue and then causes nephrotoxicity and hepatotoxicity in humans if used excessively. To simplify sample preparation and monitor...
Aircraft wing icing significantly threatens aviation safety, causing substantial losses to the aviation industry each year. High transparency and blurred edges of icing areas in wing images pose challenges to wing icing detection by machine vision. T...
For regional environmental studies it is important to know the location of the fast ice edge which affects the coastal processes in the Arctic. The aim of this study is to develop a new automated method for fast ice delineation from SAR imagery. The...
Onshore wind turbines are primarily installed in high-altitude areas with good wind energy resources. However, in winter, the blades are easy to ice, which will seriously impact their aerodynamic performance, as well as the power and service life of...
Even though deicing or airframe coating technologies continue to develop, aircraft icing is still one of the critical threats to aviation. While the detection of potential icing clouds has been conducted using geostationary satellite data in the US a...
Conventional methods for the online monitoring of icing conditions of composite insulators suffer from difficulties. To solve this issue, a novel method is first proposed to detect glaze icing load via embedding three optical fibers with fiber Bragg...
Icing detection of composite insulators is essential for the security and stability of power grids. As conventional methods have met difficulties in harsh weather, a 110 kV composite insulator with embedded Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) was proposed fo...
Blade icing is one of the main problems of wind turbines installed in cold climate regions, resulting in increasing power generation loss and maintenance costs. Traditional blade icing detection methods greatly rely on dedicated sensors, such as vibr...
Industrial control systems (ICSs) are increasingly interconnected with enterprise IT networks and remote services, which expands the attack surface of operational technology (OT) environments. However, collecting sufficient attack traffic from real O...
Oriented object detection in remote sensing images has achieved substantial progress, yet non-maximum suppression (NMS) remains vulnerable to angular variation when the overlap of high-aspect-ratio objects is measured with rotated bounding boxes. To...
Dataset quality significantly affects the effectiveness of a machine learning (ML) model in an intrusion detection system (IDS) for cyber-physical industrial control systems (CPS/ICS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Existing surveys compare...
This paper describes the adaptation of the Bayesian sea ice detection algorithm for the rotating fan-beam scatterometer CSCAT onboard the China–France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT). The algorithm was originally developed and applied for fixed...
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