It is acknowledged that various types of thematic maps emphasize different aspects of mapped phenomena and thus support different map users’ tasks. To provide empirical evidence, a user study with 366 participants was carried out comparing three map...
Ecosystem state can be characterized by a set of attributes that are related to the ecosystem functionality, which is a relevant issue in understanding the quality and quantity of ecosystem services and goods, adaptive capacity and resilience to pert...
This paper is dedicated to the memory of the esteemed Serbian mathematician Slaviša B. Prešić (1933–2008). The primary aim of this survey paper is to compile articles on Prešić-type mappings published since 1965....
Fuel mapping is key to fire propagation risk assessment and regeneration potential. Previous studies have mapped fuel types using remote sensing data, mainly at local-regional scales, while at smaller scales fuel mapping has been based on general-pur...
In this paper, we study submanifolds in a Euclidean space with a generalized 1-type Gauss map. The Gauss map, G, of a submanifold in the n-dimensional Euclidean space,
The itinerary computation approach for the N-type map is proposed. Based on this itinerary approach, the topological conjugation between the N-type map and the shift map on the three-symbol space is proven. Additionally, the calculation of periodic p...
We present the concept of multivalued mappings in generalized modular metric spaces (GMMS). In addition, we give Caristi and Feng-Liu fixed point results for this type of mappings in GMMS. Then, we obtain an application for final outcomes in the sens...
Forest type maps require periodic revision, yet field inspection of every stand is impractical. This study tested whether stand-level disagreement between a Sentinel-2 U-Net classifier and the Republic of Korea’s forest type map could support s...
In the paper, we show that some results related to Reich and Chatterjea type nonexpansive mappings are still valid if we relax or remove some hypotheses.
Up-to-date information about the type and spatial distribution of forests is an essential element in both sustainable forest management and environmental monitoring and modelling. The OpenStreetMap (OSM) database contains vast amounts of spatial info...
In this study, constant angle ruled surfaces with a pointwise 1-type Gauss map, which is very useful in the classification of surfaces, are investigated in terms of the Frenet elements of the base curves of the ruled surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. In...
In the paper, we consider canonical almost geodesic mappings of type
We study Geraghty-type non-self mappings within the framework of best proximity point theory. By introducing auxiliary functions with subsequential convergence, we establish general conditions ensuring the existence and uniqueness of best proximity p...
When multiple robots are involved in the process of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), a global map should be constructed by merging the local maps built by individual robots, so as to provide a better representation of the environment. He...
For voice analysis, much work has been undertaken with a multitude of acoustic and electroglottographic metrics. However, few of these have proven to be robustly correlated with physical and physiological phenomena. In particular, all metrics are aff...
In this paper, we establish some existence of fixed-point results for some asymptotically regular multivalued mappings satisfying Kannan-type contractive condition without assuming compactness of the underlying metric space or continuity of the mapping.
Accurate and timely crop type mapping and rotation monitoring play a critical role in crop yield estimation, soil management, and food supplies. To date, to our knowledge, accurate mapping of crop types remains challenging due to the intra-class vari...
Soil mapping plays a crucial role in optimizing agricultural production by providing spatially explicit information on soil types and properties, which supports decision-making in precision fertilization, irrigation, and crop selection. Traditional s...
We present fixed points results of multivalued Prešić type k-step iterative mappings satisfying generalized weakly contraction conditions in metric spaces. An example is presented to support the main result proved herein. The stability of fixe...
Fixed point theory is a significant area of mathematical analysis with applications across various fields such as differential equations, optimization, and dynamical systems. Recently, multivalued mappings have gained attention due to their ability t...
High resolution satellite imagery and modern machine learning methods hold the potential to fill existing data gaps in where crops are grown around the world at a sub-field level. However, high resolution crop type maps have remained challenging to c...
In this paper, we introduce two new classes of mappings known as
To improve crop yields and incomes, farmers consistently adapt their practices to climate and market fluctuations, resulting in highly variable crop field distribution and coverage in space and time. As these dynamics illustrate farmers’ challe...
The purpose of the paper is to establish a sufficient condition for the existence of a solution to the equation
Timely and accurate crop type mapping is a critical prerequisite for the estimation of water availability and environmental carrying capacity. This research proposed a method to integrate time series Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) data for crop...
In this study, we utilize the notion of triple controlled metric type space that preserves the symmetry property, which is a generalization of b-metric-type spaces, to prove new fixed-point results. We introduce (
This paper focuses on the study of quadric surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space that satisfy the finite II-type Gauss map condition, a concept introduced firstly by B.-Y. Chen in its first fundamental form; later it was applied by other rese...
Crop type mapping at high resolution is crucial for various purposes related to agriculture and food security, including the monitoring of crop yields, evaluating the potential effects of natural disasters on agricultural production, analyzing the po...
High-resolution crop type mapping is of importance for site-specific agricultural management and food security in smallholder farming regions, but is challenging due to limited data availability and the need for image-based algorithms. In this paper,...
Forest fires constitute a natural disturbance factor and an agent of environmental change with local to global impacts on Earth’s processes and functions. Accurate knowledge of forest fuel extent and properties can be an effective component for asses...
The rapid mapping and characterization of specific porphyry vein types in geological samples represent a challenge for the mineral exploration and mining industry. In this paper, a methodology to integrate mineralogical and structural data extracted...
Regional maps of vegetation structure are necessary for delineating species habitats and for supporting conservation and ecological analyses. A systematic approach that can discriminate a wide range of meaningful and detailed vegetation classes is st...
An important limitation in the simulation of forest fires is the correct characterisation of the surface vegetation documented in land cover maps. Unfortunately, these maps are not always available, or there is a lack of accuracy due to the dilated u...
Suppose that in a real Hilbert space H, the variational inequality problem with Lipschitzian and pseudomonotone mapping A and the common fixed-point problem of a finite family of nonexpansive mappings and a quasi-nonexpansive mapping with a demiclose...
Appropriate crop type mapping to monitor and control land management is very important in developing countries. It can be very useful where digital cadaster maps are not available or usage of Remote Sensing (RS) data is not utilized in the process of...
Lorenz-type systems are dissipative dynamical systems that are described by three nonlinear equations with derivatives of the first order and are capable of exhibiting chaotic behavior. The generalization of Lorenz-type equations by using general fra...
Wildland fires are one of the factors causing the deepest disturbances on the natural environment and severely threatening many ecosystems, as well as economic welfare and public health. Having accurate and up-to-date fuel type maps is essential to p...
Ecosystem maps are foundational tools that support multi-disciplinary study design and applications including wildlife habitat assessment, monitoring and Earth-system modeling. Here, we present continuous-field cover maps for tundra plant functional...
This article intends to initiate the study of Pompeiu–Hausdorff distance induced by an M-metric. The Nadler and Kannan type fixed point theorems for set-valued mappings are also established in the said spaces. Moreover, the discussion is suppor...
In the paper we consider almost geodesic mappings of the first type of spaces with affine connections onto generalized 2-Ricci-symmetric spaces, generalized 3-Ricci-symmetric spaces, and generalized m-Ricci-symmetric spaces. In either case the main e...
In this research, drone-based photogrammetry was utilized for mapping geology with the objective of mineral exploration in the Shahzadeh Abbas Cu deposit, Kerman province, Iran. Cu mineralization is of vein-type and follows geological structures. A l...
In the present work, the concept of
Crop area extent estimates and crop type maps provide crucial information for agricultural monitoring and management. Remote sensing imagery in general and, more specifically, high temporal and high spatial resolution data as the ones which will be a...
Wildland fuel distribution and characteristics are critical components for the development of a national integrated wildfire management strategy. This study presents a methodological framework for the mapping of fuels in Mediterranean ecosystems in t...
In this article, we establish a new Mann-type method combining both inertial terms and errors to find a fixed point of a nonexpansive mapping in a Hilbert space. We show strong convergence of the iterate under some appropriate assumptions in order to...
In this paper, we introduce and study a modified Mann-type algorithm that combines inertial terms for solving common fixed point problems of two countable families of nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces. Under appropriate assumptions on the seque...
By using the contemporary theory of inequalities, this study is devoted to proposing a number of refinements inequalities for the Hermite-Hadamard’s type inequality and conclude explicit bounds for two new definitions of
Accurate crop type maps play an important role in food security due to their widespread applicability. Optical time series data (TSD) have proven to be significant for crop type mapping. However, filling in missing information due to clouds in optica...
Many Caribbean low-latitude small island states lack wind maps tailored to capture their wind features at high resolutions. However, high-resolution mesoscale modeling is computationally expensive. This study proposes a statistical–dynamical do...
Large-scale crop mapping is of fundamental importance to tackle food security problems. SAR remote sensing has lately received great attention for crop type mapping due to its stability in the revisit cycle and is not hindered by cloud cover. However...
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