Impact craters refer to the most salient features on the moon surface. They are of huge significance for analyzing the moon topography, selecting the lunar landing site and other lunar exploration missions, etc. However, existing methods of impact cr...
Impact craters are the most prominent features on the surface of the Moon, Mars, and Mercury. They play an essential role in constructing lunar bases, the dating of Mars and Mercury, and the surface exploration of other celestial bodies. The traditio...
China’s Chang’e lunar exploration project obtains digital orthophoto image (DOM) and digital elevation model (DEM) data covering the whole Moon, which are critical to lunar research. The DOM data have three resolutions (i.e., 7, 20 and 50 m), while t...
Detecting impact craters on the Martian surface is a critical component of studying Martian geomorphology and planetary evolution. Accurately determining impact crater boundaries, which are distinguishable geomorphic units, is important work in geolo...
Impact cratering process is the major geologic activity on the surface of the Moon, and the spatial distribution and size-frequency distribution of lunar craters are indicative to the bombardment history of the Solar System. The substantial efforts o...
Impact craters are extensively researched geological features that contribute to various aspects of lunar science, such as evaluating the model age, regolith thickness, etc. The method for identifying impact craters has gradually transitioned from ma...
The Chang’e-6 (CE-6) landing area on the far side of the Moon is located in the southern part of the Apollo basin within the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin. The statistical analysis of impact craters in this region is crucial for ensuring...
Impact craters are crucial for our understanding of planetary resources, geological ages, and the history of evolution. We designed a novel pseudo-spectral spatial feature extraction and enhanced fusion (PSEF) method with the YOLO network to address...
Two lunar flashes are reported and fully analyzed, with one of them fulfilling every criterion preconized in the literature for the characterization of an impact, including confirmation by two simultaneous observations. It happened at 07:13:46 UT on...
The detection and identification of impact craters on a planetary surface are crucially important for planetary studies and autonomous navigation. Crater detection refers to finding craters in a given image, whereas identification means to actually m...
Lunar craters and rilles are significant topographic features on the lunar surface that will play an essential role in future research on space energy resources and geological evolution. However, previous studies have shown low efficiency in detectin...
Impact craters, as the most distinct lunar structural unit and geological structure, are marked on the Moon’s surface. For over a decade, researchers have focused on identifying and exploring large- to medium-sized impact craters on the surface...
The study of impact craters is crucial for understanding planetary evolution and geological processes, particularly small craters, which are key to reconstructing the lunar impact history. Detecting small craters, with diameters ranging from 0.2 to 2...
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...
Lunar impact craters are important for studying lunar surface morphology because they are the most typical morphological units of the Moon. Impact crater descriptive indices can be used to describe morphological features and thus provide direct evide...
This study has compiled the first impact-crater dataset for Mercury with diameters greater than 400 m by a multimodal deep-learning pipeline. We present an enhanced deep learning framework for large-scale planetary crater detection, extending the YOL...
The impact crater detection offers a great scientific contribution in analyzing the geological processes, morphologies and physical properties of the celestial bodies and plays a crucial role in potential future landing sites. The huge amount of crat...
Automatic crater detection is crucial for planetary science, but still faces several long-standing challenges. The morphological characteristics of craters exhibit significant variability; combined with complex lighting conditions, this makes feature...
The identification of impact craters on the Moon and other planetary bodies is of great significance to studying and constraining the dynamical process and evolution of the Solar System. Traditionally, this has been performed through the visual exami...
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The study aims to investigate the impact of the earthquake on public health, in terms of hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in the Abruzzo region, focusing on the area damaged by the earthquake “Crater”. We collected data of hospit...
The lunar crater recognition plays a key role in lunar exploration. Traditional crater recognition methods are mainly based on the human observation that is usually combined with classical machine learning methods. These methods have some drawbacks,...
Panax notoginseng (P. notoginseng) is a valuable herbal medicine, as well as a dietary food supplement known for its satisfactory clinical efficacy in alleviating blood stasis, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. However, the ability of P. notogin...
Between 28 March and 1 April 2020, Stromboli volcano erupted, with overflows from the NE crater rim spreading along the barren Sciara del Fuoco slope and reaching the sea along the NW coast of the island. Poor weather conditions did not allow a detai...
The purpose of this study is to employ a remote sensing reconnaissance survey based on optimal segmentation parameters and an object-oriented random forest approach to the identification of possible terrestrial impact craters from the global 30-m res...
Lunar crater detection plays an important role in lunar exploration, while machine learning (ML) exhibits promising advantages in the field. However, previous ML works almost all used a single type of lunar map, such as an elevation map (DEM) or orth...
Across the world, cultural heritage is eradicated at an unprecedented rate by development, agriculture, and natural erosion. Remote sensing using airborne and satellite sensors is an essential tool for rapidly investigating human traces over large su...
On 9 October 2009, multiple telescopes were used in a coordinated international observing campaign to acquire ground-based time series imaging to monitor the evolution of the impact plume from NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satelli...
Impact cratering determined by collisions with meteorites and asteroids is considered one of the main natural processes in the Solar System, modifying the planets and their satellites surface during time. The Earth includes in its impact record a sma...
The first detection of gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity in the Gale Crater, Mars created a profound impact on planetary science and exploration. The unique capability of plasma spectroscopy, which involv...
On Earth, the deep subsurface biosphere of both the oceanic and the continental crust is well known for surviving harsh conditions and environments characterized by high temperatures, high pressures, extreme pHs, and the absence of sunlight. The micr...
Hypervelocity impact (HVI), ubiquitous in low Earth orbit with an impacting velocity in excess of 1 km/s, poses an immense threat to the safety of orbiting spacecraft. Upon penetration of the outer shielding layer of a typical two-layer shielding sys...
This study describes the performance of nanoscale multilayer TiN/NbN coatings deposited on CoCrMo medical-grade alloys by utilising novel mixed high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) and direct current unbalanced magnetron sputtering (UBM)...
Studying efficient and accurate soil heavy-metal detection technology is of great significance to establishing a modern system for monitoring soil pollution, early warning and risk assessment, which contributes to the continuous improvement of soil q...
Tagoro, the youngest submarine volcano of the Canary Islands, erupted in 2011 South of El Hierro Island. Pre-existing sea floor and inhabiting biological communities were buried by the newly erupted material, promoting the appearance of new habitats....
The field of applied wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is rapidly expanding due to rapidly increasing demand for parts made of hard-to-machine materials. Hard alloys composed of WC, TiC and Co are advanced cutting materials widely used in in...