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1 Citations
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Research on Local Humidity Environment of Ground Parking Aircraft

  • Teng Zhang,
  • Sheng Zhang,
  • Yuting He,
  • Xu Du and
  • Binlin Ma

15 October 2018

Local humidity and temperature monitoring of ground parking aircraft were carried out in this study. Changes in the humidity of different bays and the relationship between local humidity and local temperature were investigated. Moreover, the concept...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
16,231 Views
23 Pages

Local Control of Audio Environment: A Review of Methods and Applications

  • Jussi Kuutti,
  • Juhana Leiwo and
  • Raimo E. Sepponen

10 February 2014

The concept of a local audio environment is to have sound playback locally restricted such that, ideally, adjacent regions of an indoor or outdoor space could exhibit their own individual audio content without interfering with each other. This would...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,051 Views
13 Pages

1 September 2022

This study examined the relationship between the perception of community environment, local government, and quality of life (QoL). Previous studies on QoL have not comprehensively analyzed factors related to community environments or local government...

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  • Open Access
2,102 Views
21 Pages

14 June 2023

This paper addresses the challenge of optimizing objective functions in engineering problems influenced by multiple environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity. Traditional modeling approaches often struggle to capture the complexities of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,663 Views
21 Pages

10 February 2025

Cultural heritage refers to the set of tangible and intangible assets that a society inherits from its ancestors and transmits to future generations. The training of future teachers in this subject is vital, as they will be responsible for using reso...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,425 Views
13 Pages

Social Capital of Banjarese for Peatland Fire Mitigation: Combining of Local Wisdom and Environment

  • Deasy Arisanty,
  • Ismi Rajiani,
  • Mutiani Mutiani,
  • Karunia Puji Hastuti and ,
  • Ersis Warmansyah Abbas,
  • Dedi Rosadi and
  • Muhammad Muhaimin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2023

Repeated fires cause peatlands to degrade. Fire management has been carried out, but fires continue to occur, especially during the dry season. Through social capital that exists in the community based on the local wisdom of the Banjar people in envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,060 Views
28 Pages

Recent European policies fostering sustainable mobility target urban proximity as a core strategy for a modal shift towards low-carbon modes. Urban proximity, as a characteristic of the built environment, can be studied as a sub-thread of a broad and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,376 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2023

Urban heat islands (UHIs) caused by urbanization have become a major issue affecting the sustainable development of the ecological environment. The distribution of UHIs is mainly affected by the reflection and transmission of heat radiation caused by...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,729 Views
20 Pages

11 November 2024

Background: In Korea, substantial disparities exist in physical environments across regions, exacerbating the polarization between metropolitan and provincial areas and urban and rural regions. Objectives: This study examines the differences in the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,285 Views
22 Pages

As an essential structural indicator of buildings, sky view factor (SVF) is one of the most critical factors affecting the urban thermal environment. However, the relationship between SVF and the thermal environment at the neighborhood scale has not...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Climate Change on Buildings and Urban Thermal Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,189 Views
18 Pages

Construction of Urban Thermal Environment Network Based on Land Surface Temperature Downscaling and Local Climate Zones

  • Xueling Zhang,
  • Alimujiang Kasimu,
  • Hongwu Liang,
  • Bohao Wei and ,
  • Yimuranzi Aizizi,
  • Yongyu Zhao and
  • Rukeya Reheman
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 February 2023

It has become undeniable that global land surface temperature (LST) has continued to rise in recent years. The threat of extreme heat to humans has become self-evident, especially in arid regions. Many studies have clarified the temperature rise/fall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Applications for Interaction between Urbanization and Eco-Environment)
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  • Open Access
254 Views
36 Pages

Evolution of Urban Spatial Structure and Its Impact on the Thermal Environment Based on Local Climate Zones (LCZ): A Case Study of Qingdao

  • Yanjun Wang,
  • Jiaxin Li,
  • Kaipeng Huo,
  • Jinqiao Ren and ,
  • Yi Bian,
  • Yan Gao and
  • Mingshuo Pan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 September 2026

Urban spatial structure represents a fundamental determinant of urban thermal dynamics; however, the nonlinear responses of different Local Climate Zones (LCZs) and their spatial extents to thermal environments remain insufficiently understood. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Design Guidelines for Climate Change (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,322 Views
24 Pages

Geographical Detection of Urban Thermal Environment Based on the Local Climate Zones: A Case Study in Wuhan, China

  • Renfeng Wang,
  • Mengmeng Wang,
  • Zhengjia Zhang,
  • Tian Hu and ,
  • Jiawen Xing,
  • Zhanjun He and
  • Xiuguo Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 February 2022

The urban morphology has impacts on the urban thermal environment, which has drawn extensive attention, especially in metropolitan regions with intensive populations and high building densities. This study explored the relationship between the urban...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Solutions Applied to Environmental Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,094 Views
27 Pages

10 December 2023

Thermal environment deterioration has seriously threatened urban habitat quality and urban sustainable development. The evolution of the urban built environment (UBE) is an important cause for urban thermal environment variation. However, the dynamic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Form and the Urban Heat Island Effect)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,025 Views
26 Pages

2 January 2025

In order to assess the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban thermal environment in Zhengzhou City to supplement climate adaptation design work, based on the Landsat 8–9 OLI/TIRS C2 L2 data for 12 periods from 2019–2023, combi...

(This article belongs to the Section Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,251 Views
22 Pages

Genotype by Environment Interaction and Selection Response for Milk Yield Traits and Conformation in a Local Cattle Breed Using a Reaction Norm Approach

  • Cristina Sartori,
  • Francesco Tiezzi,
  • Nadia Guzzo,
  • Enrico Mancin and ,
  • Beniamino Tuliozi and
  • Roberto Mantovani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 March 2022

Local breeds are often reared in various environmental conditions (EC), suggesting that genotype by environment interaction (GxE) could influence genetic progress. This study aimed at investigating GxE and response to selection (R) in Rendena cattle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling Genotype by Environment Interaction for Precision Farming and Improved Animal Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
18 Pages

1 March 2026

In current mobile networks, users’ identity privacy is threatened by long-term observation attacks. To resist such attacks, identity-anonymity technology has been proposed. However, existing anonymity schemes cannot adapt to diverse, dynamic bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Foundations in Public Key Cryptography and Privacy Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,700 Views
20 Pages

Local Thermal Comfort and Physiological Responses in Uniform Environments

  • Xianzhun Zhong,
  • Hang Yu,
  • Yin Tang,
  • Huice Mao and
  • Kege Zhang

24 December 2023

The thermal perception of different body parts can vary greatly throughout the human body and have different influences on overall thermal sensation and comfort. Various personal comfort systems (PCS) have been developed to stimulate local body parts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Built Environment Engineering: Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Heating Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,914 Views
22 Pages

4 March 2021

Localization for estimating the position and orientation of a robot in an asymmetrical environment has been solved by using various 2D laser rangefinder simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approaches. Laser-based SLAM generates an occupancy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Applications in Robotics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,848 Views
25 Pages

24 November 2023

The urban street is an important part of the urban form and serves as the primary medium for public activities within cities. The morphological characteristics of urban street space not only influence people’s spatial experience but also have a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Morphology: A Perspective from Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
593 Views
15 Pages

On-Site Localization of Unmanned Vehicles in Large-Scale Outdoor Environments

  • Jianbiao Yan,
  • Lizuo Xin,
  • Hongjin Fang and
  • Hanxiao Zhou

This paper proposes a method for the on-site localization of autonomous vehicles in large-scale outdoor environments, where a single sensor cannot achieve the high precision for localization. The method is based on an improved Kalman filter by fusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
447 Views
13 Pages

29 August 2026

In this paper, we propose a receiver deployment optimization method that ensures robust localization performance under Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation errors arising in practical environments. The proposed method accounts for DoA estimation err...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,552 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2024

The thermal comfort of local body parts is the essential factor that affects people’s health and comfort as well as a buildings’ energy. This study aims to (1) investigate the characteristics of the local thermal comfort of different body...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Comfort in Built Environment: Challenges and Research Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,689 Views
21 Pages

17 May 2024

Reverberation in real environments is an important factor affecting the high resolution of target sound source localization (SSL) methods. Broadband low-frequency signals are common in real environments. This study focuses on the localization of this...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors and Systems for Indoor Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,343 Views
20 Pages

A Robust PDR/UWB Integrated Indoor Localization Approach for Pedestrians in Harsh Environments

  • Haibin Tong,
  • Ning Xin,
  • Xianli Su,
  • Tengfeng Chen and
  • Jingjing Wu

29 December 2019

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been widely used in industrial, construction, and other fields. In recent years, demands for pedestrian localization have been increasing rapidly. In most cases, these applications...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Localization in Indoor Wireless Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,226 Views
22 Pages

Reliable and Fast Localization in Ambiguous Environments Using Ambiguity Grid Map

  • Gen Li,
  • Jie Meng,
  • Yuanlong Xie,
  • Xiaolong Zhang and ,
  • Yu Huang,
  • Liquan Jiang and
  • Chao Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 July 2019

In real-world robotic navigation, some ambiguous environments contain symmetrical or featureless areas that may cause the perceptual aliasing of external sensors. As a result of that, the uncorrected localization errors will accumulate during the loc...

(This article belongs to the Collection Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,347 Views
21 Pages

FIM-JFF: Lightweight and Fine-Grained Visual UAV Localization Algorithms in Complex Urban Electromagnetic Environments

  • Faming Gong,
  • Junjie Hao,
  • Chengze Du,
  • Hao Wang and ,
  • Yanpu Zhao,
  • Yi Yu and
  • Xiaofeng Ji
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a key driver of the low-altitude economy, where precise localization is critical for autonomous flight and complex task execution. However, conventional global positioning system (GPS) methods suffer from signal in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,185 Views
13 Pages

11 August 2021

The problem of estimating the indoor position of a person or an object, also known as indoor localization, has gained a lot of interest in the last decades. Actually, this feature would be valuable in many application contexts, from logistics to robo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Indoor Localization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,060 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2024

Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds in drivable areas is very important for unmanned vehicles. Due to the imbalance between the size of various outdoor scene objects and the sample size, the object boundaries are not clear, and small sample feat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
158 Views
25 Pages

26 October 2026

Received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based positioning with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is widely used for indoor localization, and weighted centroid localization (WCL) is among the most common methods because of its simplicity and low computatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart, Autonomous, and Assistive Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,126 Views
23 Pages

14 February 2022

The precise localization of an underground mine environment is key to achieving unmanned and intelligent underground mining. However, in an underground environment, GPS is unavailable, there are variable and often poor lighting conditions, there is v...

(This article belongs to the Collection 3D/4D Optical Imaging Sensors for Surface Measurement, Processing and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,818 Views
18 Pages

20 May 2023

When performing indoor tasks, miniature swarm robots are suffered from their small size, poor on-board computing power, and electromagnetic shielding of buildings, which means that some traditional localization methods, such as global positioning sys...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Systems and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,459 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2023

Accurate localization of robots in unstructured environments poses challenges due to low localization accuracy and local trajectory oscillation caused by complex feature points when using Euclidean-based filtering methods. In this study, we propose a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,535 Views
42 Pages

A Hierarchical Absolute Visual Localization System for Low-Altitude Drones in GNSS-Denied Environments

  • Qing Zhou,
  • Haochen Tang,
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang,
  • Yuelei Xu and ,
  • Feng Xiao and
  • Yulong Jia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 October 2025

Current drone navigation systems primarily rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), but their signals are susceptible to interference, spoofing, or suppression in complex environments, leading to degraded positioning performance or even f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Detection, Recognition, Tracking, and Positioning Using Remote Sensing and AI Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,505 Views
14 Pages

Fibrinogen and Fibrin Differentially Regulate the Local Hydrodynamic Environment in Neutrophil–Tumor Cell–Endothelial Cell Adhesion System

  • Yi Fu,
  • Ang Li,
  • Jie Wu,
  • Robert F. Kunz and ,
  • Ren Sun,
  • Zurong Ding,
  • Jianhua Wu and
  • Cheng Dong
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 December 2020

As cancer is one of the major fatal diseases for human beings worldwide, the metastasis of tumor cells (TCs) from a blood vessel to an adjacent organ has become a focus of research. A tumor metastasis theory named the “two-step theory” po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microfluidics in Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,443 Views
32 Pages

Accurate and scalable indoor localization is a key enabler of intelligent automation in smart environments and industrial systems. In this paper, we present SelfLoc, a self-supervised indoor localization system that combines IEEE 802.11az Round Trip...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,261 Views
26 Pages

Master Mix Localization Algorithm for Autonomous Systems in Indoor Environments

  • Zakaryae Ezzouine,
  • Adil Salbi,
  • Mohamed Abouzahir,
  • Ilham Elmourabit and ,
  • Adil Brouri and
  • Sébastien Roy
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 August 2026

Reliable navigation in GPS-denied environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in complex indoor and urban settings. GPS-based localization systems often fail under these conditions, highlighting the need for...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,367 Views
13 Pages

15 January 2024

Palladium–bismuth nanomaterials are used in various chemical applications such detectors, electrodes, and catalysts. Pd-Bi catalysts are attracting widespread interest because these catalysts enable the production of valuable products quickly a...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanostructured Catalysts)
  • Review
  • Open Access
940 Views
29 Pages

Supporting Healthier, Sustainable and Equitable Food Environments: A Rapid Review of Australian Local Government Action

  • Carmen Vargas,
  • Steven Allender,
  • Miranda R. Blake,
  • Neha Lalchandani and
  • Cindy Needham

10 August 2026

Objective: To synthesise contemporary Australian evidence on how local governments act to support healthier, sustainable and equitable food environments, and to examine the governance arrangements, policy and planning levers, monitoring practices, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Associations Between Diet and Chronic Disease: Creating Supportive Environments for Healthy Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,498 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2024

This work proposes an innovative approach to enhance the localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. The methodology integrates a sophisticated object-tracking algorithm to augment the established simultaneous localizatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Vision with Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,093 Views
25 Pages

Passive Vector Sensing for Non-Cooperative Emitter Localization in Indoor Environments

  • Donald L. Hall,
  • Ram M. Narayanan,
  • Erik H. Lenzing and
  • David M. Jenkins

15 December 2018

Indoor emitter localization is a topic of continued interest for improving wireless security as wireless technologies continue to become more advanced. Conventional methods have focused on the localization of devices relative to multi-sensor systems...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,970 Views
24 Pages

12 March 2025

The accurate and reliable localization and tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are essential for the success of various underwater missions, such as environmental monitoring, subsea resource exploration, and military operations. long-ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomy of Underwater Vehicles (AUVs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
991 Views
21 Pages

Formation-Constrained Cooperative Localization for UAV Swarms in GNSS-Denied Environments

  • Qin Li,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Xiaochun Li,
  • Jieyong Zhang and ,
  • Ying Luo,
  • Wangsheng Yu and
  • Haiyan Cheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 March 2026

Cooperative localization is critical for UAV swarm operations in GNSS-denied environments. The backbone-listener scheme, using a small subset of agents as active backbone nodes and others as passive listeners, offers notable advantages in reducing co...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,804 Views
18 Pages

Neural Network-Based SLAM/GNSS Fusion Localization Algorithm for Agricultural Robots in Orchard GNSS-Degraded or Denied Environments

  • Huixiang Zhou,
  • Jingting Wang,
  • Yuqi Chen,
  • Lian Hu and ,
  • Zihao Li,
  • Fuming Xie,
  • Jie He and
  • Pei Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

To address the issue of agricultural robot loss of control caused by GNSS signal degradation or loss in complex agricultural environments such as farmland and orchards, this study proposes a neural network-based SLAM/GNSS fusion localization algorith...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,860 Views
17 Pages

Do Local Landscape Elements Enhance Individuals’ Place Attachment to New Environments? A Cross-Regional Comparative Study in China

  • Qunyue Liu,
  • Weicong Fu,
  • Cecil C. Konijnendijk Van den Bosch,
  • Yiheng Xiao and ,
  • Zhipeng Zhu,
  • Da You,
  • Nanyan Zhu,
  • Qitang Huang and
  • Siren Lan
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2018

Globalization and urbanization have made many Chinese cities lose their distinct characteristics and have led to emotional sense of loss for individuals. Place attachment, as encompassing place dependence and place identity, is the positive emotion t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Views
19 Pages

1 November 2026

With the growing demand for smart-city electromagnetic monitoring, radiation source localization based on received signal strength indication (RSSI) remains challenging in complex urban environments because RSSI measurements are affected by non-line-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,305 Views
16 Pages

UAV-Assisted Localization of Ground Nodes in Urban Environments Using Path Loss Measurements

  • Yaser Bakhuraisa,
  • Heng Siong Lim,
  • Yee Kit Chan and
  • Muhammad Hilman

19 June 2025

This paper proposes a distance estimation error reduction framework to improve ground node localization accuracy in urban environments using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and path loss measurements. The primary goal of the framework is to bound di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,838 Views
21 Pages

Text-MCL: Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization in Similar Environment Using Text-Level Semantic Information

  • Gengyu Ge,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Qin Jiang and ,
  • Lihe Hu and
  • Yang Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 February 2022

Localization is one of the most important issues in mobile robotics, especially when an autonomous mobile robot performs a navigation task. The current and popular occupancy grid map, based on 2D LiDar simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), is...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
17,269 Views
16 Pages

Design of UAV-Embedded Microphone Array System for Sound Source Localization in Outdoor Environments

  • Kotaro Hoshiba,
  • Kai Washizaki,
  • Mizuho Wakabayashi,
  • Takahiro Ishiki and ,
  • Makoto Kumon,
  • Yoshiaki Bando,
  • Daniel Gabriel,
  • Kazuhiro Nakadai and
  • Hiroshi G. Okuno
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

3 November 2017

In search and rescue activities, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) should exploit sound information to compensate for poor visual information. This paper describes the design and implementation of a UAV-embedded microphone array system for sound source...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV or Drones for Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Views
37 Pages

13 October 2026

EnergyPlus AirflowNetwork (EP-AFN) calculates external node pressure using opening height wind speeds, whereas wind pressure coefficients based on a fixed-reference wind speed (Cpr) are commonly used in building energy simulations. To address this in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Sustainable Design: Toward Human-Centered and High-Performance Built Environments)

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