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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,416 Views
10 Pages

13 April 2018

In this paper, a new model called Allan variance based semi-parameter model is put forward to improve the pointing precision for alt-az telescopes. As for electro-optical tracking systems, the precision of line-of-sight (LOS) pointing is seriously in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
11,613 Views
27 Pages

Generalized Hierarchical Model-Based Estimation for Aboveground Biomass Assessment Using GEDI and Landsat Data

  • Svetlana Saarela,
  • Sören Holm,
  • Sean P. Healey,
  • Hans-Erik Andersen,
  • Hans Petersson,
  • Wilmer Prentius,
  • Paul L. Patterson,
  • Erik Næsset,
  • Timothy G. Gregoire and
  • Göran Ståhl

19 November 2018

Recent developments in remote sensing (RS) technology have made several sources of auxiliary data available to support forest inventories. Thus, a pertinent question is how different sources of RS data should be combined with field data to make inven...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,128 Views
17 Pages

Comparing Empirical and Semi-Empirical Approaches to Forest Biomass Modelling in Different Biomes Using Airborne Laser Scanner Data

  • Endre H. Hansen,
  • Liviu T. Ene,
  • Ernest W. Mauya,
  • Zdeněk Patočka,
  • Tomáš Mikita,
  • Terje Gobakken and
  • Erik Næsset

16 May 2017

Airborne laser scanner (ALS) data are used operationally to support field inventories and enhance the accuracy of forest biomass estimates. Modelling the relationship between ALS and field data is a fundamental step of such applications and the quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,760 Views
17 Pages

20 November 2021

Combining auxiliary variables and field inventory data of forest parameters using the model-based approach is frequently used to produce synthetic estimates for small areas. These small areas arise when it may not be financially feasible to take grou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,970 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2022

This article studies the role of model uncertainties in sensitivity and probability analysis of reliability. The measure of reliability is failure probability. The failure probability is analysed using the Bernoulli distribution with binary outcomes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,045 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2018

To improve the dynamic random error compensation accuracy of the Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) gyroscope at different angular rates, an adaptive filtering approach based on the dynamic variance model was proposed. In this paper, experimental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,349 Views
14 Pages

This study examines the effect of baseline length on accuracy and precision in Network Real-Time Kinematic (NRTK) positioning and develops an experimental mathematical model to express this effect. The study also measures the performances of the Flae...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,790 Views
18 Pages

Towards a Model Based Sensor Measurement Variance Input for Extended Kalman Filter State Estimation

  • Harry A. G. Pointon,
  • Benjamin J. McLoughlin,
  • Christian Matthews and
  • Frederic A. Bezombes

14 February 2019

In this paper, we present an alternate method for the generation and implementation of the sensor measurement variance used in an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). Furthermore, it demonstrates the limitations of a conventional EKF implementation and post...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,535 Views
20 Pages

16 December 2022

Fundamental to most classical data collection sampling theory development is the random drawings assumption requiring that each targeted population member has a known sample selection (i.e., inclusion) probability. Frequently, however, unrestricted r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
1,895 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Power Consumption for Variance-Based Integration Model in Cellular 6G-IoT System

  • Prabhu Ramamoorthy,
  • Sumaya Sanober,
  • Luca Di Nunzio and
  • Gian Carlo Cardarilli

22 August 2023

With the emergence of the 5G network, the count of analysis papers associated with the 6G Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly increased due to the rising attention of researchers in next-generation technology, 6G networks and IoT techniques. Owing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,309 Views
26 Pages

A Comparison of Moment-Independent and Variance-Based Global Sensitivity Analysis Approaches for Wheat Yield Estimation with the Aquacrop-OS Model

  • Deepak Upreti,
  • Stefano Pignatti,
  • Simone Pascucci,
  • Massimo Tolomio,
  • Zhenhai Li,
  • Wenjiang Huang and
  • Raffaele Casa

24 April 2020

The present work reports the global sensitivity analysis of the Aquacrop Open Source (AOS) model, which is the open-source version of the original Aquacrop model developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Analysis for identifying the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
957 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2025

Different gas hydrate types, such as methane hydrate and carbon dioxide hydrate, exhibit distinct geomechanical responses and hydrate morphologies in gas-hydrate-bearing sediments (GHBSs). However, most constitutive models for GHBSs focus on methane-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,615 Views
15 Pages

8 August 2023

The power quality estimation for distribution network connected DG (distributed generation) is important in the power system. The significance testing for power quality indicator is less used in traditional power quality evaluation. However, the powe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,912 Views
17 Pages

Vibration Noise Modeling for Measurement While Drilling System Based on FOGs

  • Chunxi Zhang,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Shuang Gao,
  • Tie Lin and
  • Xianmu Li

17 October 2017

Aiming to improve survey accuracy of Measurement While Drilling (MWD) based on Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOGs) in the long period, the external aiding sources are fused into the inertial navigation by the Kalman filter (KF) method. The KF method needs...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
7,534 Views
16 Pages

The Dynamic Connectedness between Risk and Return in the Fintech Market of India: Evidence Using the GARCH-M Approach

  • Mukul Bhatnagar,
  • Ercan Özen,
  • Sanjay Taneja,
  • Simon Grima and
  • Ramona Rupeika-Apoga

3 November 2022

Fintech allows investors to explore previously unavailable investment opportunities; it provides new return opportunities while also introducing new risks. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between risk and return in the fintec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,501 Views
25 Pages

8 September 2021

The gas turbine engine is a widely used thermodynamic system for aircraft. The demand for quantifying the uncertainty of engine performance is increasing due to the expectation of reliable engine performance design. In this paper, a fast, accurate, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
768 Views
31 Pages

18 October 2025

Understanding the multidimensional sources and key drivers of differences in green transition performance (GTP) among resource-based cities is vital for accomplishing national sustainable development objectives and facilitating regional coordination....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,158 Views
25 Pages

27 April 2025

Many important practical problems connected to energy efficiency in buildings, ecology, metallurgy, the development of wireless communication systems, the optimization of radar technology, quantum computing, pharmacology, and seismology are described...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,875 Views
8 Pages

8 June 2020

(1) Background: Ranking traits are used commonly for breeding purposes in several equine populations; however, implementation is complex, because the position of a horse in a competition event is discontinuous and is influenced by the performance of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,272 Views
26 Pages

12 June 2024

Achieving measurable and unmeasurable parameter prediction is the key process in model-based control, for which an accurate onboard model is the most important part. However, neither nonlinear models like component level models or LPV models, nor lin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,006 Views
41 Pages

We show that three prominent consumption-based asset pricing models—the Bansal–Yaron, Campbell–Cochrane and Cecchetti–Lam–Mark models—cannot explain the dynamic properties of stock market returns. We show this by e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,108 Views
16 Pages

Portfolio optimization is a mathematical formulation whose objective is to maximize returns while minimizing risks. A great deal of improvement in portfolio optimization models has been made, including the addition of practical constraints. As the nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,907 Views
10 Pages

21 May 2025

Portfolio optimization is a fundamental problem in financial theory, aiming to balance risk and return in asset allocation. Traditional models, such as Mean–Variance optimization, are effective, but often fail to account for diversification ade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,465 Views
25 Pages

3 September 2025

The stochastic model in Precise Point Positioning (PPP) defines the statistical properties of observations and the dynamic behavior of parameters. An inaccurate stochastic model can degrade positioning accuracy, ambiguity resolution, and other aspect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,153 Views
18 Pages

Smoothing County-Level Sampling Variances to Improve Small Area Models’ Outputs

  • Lu Chen,
  • Luca Sartore,
  • Habtamu Benecha,
  • Valbona Bejleri and
  • Balgobin Nandram

11 September 2022

The use of hierarchical Bayesian small area models, which take survey estimates along with auxiliary data as input to produce official statistics, has increased in recent years. Survey estimates for small domains are usually unreliable due to small s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
7,244 Views
21 Pages

Estimating Forest Volume and Biomass and Their Changes Using Random Forests and Remotely Sensed Data

  • Jessica Esteban,
  • Ronald E. McRoberts,
  • Alfredo Fernández-Landa,
  • José Luis Tomé and
  • Erik Nӕsset

20 August 2019

Despite the popularity of random forests (RF) as a prediction algorithm, methods for constructing confidence intervals for population means using this technique are still only sparsely reported. For two regional study areas (Spain and Norway) RF was...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2,252 Views
13 Pages

An Adaptive Constant Acceleration Model for Maneuvering Target Tracking

  • Jieyu Huang,
  • Junwei Xie,
  • Haolong Zhai,
  • Zhengjie Li and
  • Weike Feng

28 February 2025

An adaptive constant acceleration (ACA) model is proposed for the maneuvering target tracking problem. Based on the Taylor series expansion of acceleration, we establish the relationship between the Jerk and the velocity as well as the acceleration s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,726 Views
15 Pages

The aim of this research is to develop an automated pallet inspection architecture with two key objectives: high performance with respect to defect classification and computational efficacy, i.e., lightweight footprint. As automated pallet racking vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,502 Views
21 Pages

Consumers’ Risk Perception of Triploid Food: Empirical Research Based on Variance Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling

  • Qi Qi,
  • Taoyang Cai,
  • Keyu Zhou,
  • Zhitao Hu,
  • Fanjie Hao,
  • Yutong Wei,
  • Shangjie Ge-Zhang and
  • Jingang Cui

With the advancement of new food processing technology, triploid technology has emerged as a viable option to enhance plant yield and improve crop stress resistance. However, like many emerging technologies, food produced using triploid technology ha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,517 Views
18 Pages

Sample surveys are an essential approach used in veterinary research and investigation. A sample obtained from a well-designed sampling process along with robust data analysis can provide valuable insight into the attributes of the target population....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,879 Views
8 Pages

Professional forecasters can rely on an econometric model to create their forecasts. It is usually unknown to what extent they adjust an econometric model-based forecast. In this paper we show, while making just two simple assumptions, that it is pos...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Views
47 Pages

31 January 2026

Quantifying geographic variation is crucial for policy evaluation, yet researchers often rely on complex national surveys not designed for sub-national inference. This design-analysis mismatch creates two challenges when decomposing variance across d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,819 Views
21 Pages

24 February 2022

In this paper, by considering a model-based approach for conditional moment estimation, a nonparametric test was performed to study the long-memory property of higher moments. We considered the daily returns of the stocks included in the S&P500 i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,070 Views
14 Pages

6 May 2024

The predominant approach for studying volatility is through various GARCH specifications, which are widely utilized in model-based analyses. This study focuses on assessing the predictive performance of specific GARCH models, particularly the Markov-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,447 Views
13 Pages

12 December 2022

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) is an important legume crop with immense potential for nutritional and food security, income generation, and livestock feed in Sub-Saharan Africa. The crop is highly tolerant to heat and drought stresses which mak...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,905 Views
9 Pages

3D X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is used in medicine and non-destructive testing (NDT) for industry to visualize the interior of a volume and control its healthiness. Compared to analytical reconstruction methods, model-based iterative reconstructio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,734 Views
20 Pages

21 January 2022

In this paper, we propose a model-based method for the reconstruction of not directly measured epidemiological data. To solve this task, we developed a generic optimization-based approach to compute unknown time-dependent quantities (such as states,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,689 Views
17 Pages

Sensitivity Analysis of Battery Aging for Model-Based PHEV Use Scenarios

  • Tejas-Dilipsing Patil,
  • Emmanuel Vinot,
  • Simone Ehrenberger,
  • Rochdi Trigui and
  • Eduardo Redondo-Iglesias

9 February 2023

Battery lifetime is an important parameter in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of a plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle (PHEV). This paper aims to study the impact of various parameters on the battery aging of a PHEV. For this purpose, model-based use cas...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,621 Views
10 Pages

20 March 2025

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) are among the basic concepts of functional fitness and quality assurance in modern manufacturing. The historical development of GD&T took place primarily in the ambit of subtractive manufacturing;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
424 Views
17 Pages

Background/Objectives: Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy is widely used to treat metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer. To investigate physiological determinants of treatment response, a mechanistic model was developed, formulated as a system of co...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access

7 November 2025

Currently, the recommendation system is a challenging task in the 21st centuries.The three main reasons and these are: the need for real-time user behavior analysis, the inability to explain why recommendations are made, and the difficulty handling n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,435 Views
27 Pages

14 April 2021

Validating remotely sensed sea surface temperature (SST) is a fundamental step in establishing reliable biological/physical models that can be used in different marine applications. Mapping SST using accurate models would assess in understanding crit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,310 Views
14 Pages

GaitSG: Gait Recognition with SMPLs in Graph Structure

  • Jiayi Yan,
  • Shaohui Wang,
  • Jing Lin,
  • Peihao Li,
  • Ruxin Zhang and
  • Haoqian Wang

22 October 2023

Gait recognition aims to identify a person based on his unique walking pattern. Compared with silhouettes and skeletons, skinned multi-person linear (SMPL) models can simultaneously provide human pose and shape information and are robust to viewpoint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,490 Views
14 Pages

Predicting Bulk Density for Agglomerated Raspberry Ketone via Integrating Morphological and Size Metrics Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Xiaomeng Zhou,
  • Shutian Xuanyuan,
  • Yang Ye,
  • Ying Sun,
  • Haowen Du,
  • Luguang Qi,
  • Chang Li and
  • Chuang Xie

29 April 2024

The bulk density of the particles, which is directly related to transportation and storage costs, is an important basic characteristic of products as well as an important parameter in many processing systems. This work quantified the relationship bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,839 Views
22 Pages

14 October 2022

In large-area forest inventories, a trade-off between the amount of data to be sampled and the corresponding collection costs is necessary. It is not always possible to have a very large data sample when dealing with sampling-based inventories. It is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
568 Views
23 Pages

Constructing Artificial Features with Grammatical Evolution for the Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease

  • Aimilios Psathas,
  • Ioannis G. Tsoulos,
  • Nikolaos Giannakeas,
  • Alexandros Tzallas and
  • Vasileios Charilogis

People with Parkinson’s disease often show changes in their movement abilities during the day, especially around the time they take medication. Being able to record these variations in an objective way can help doctors adapt treatment and follo...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,705 Views
7 Pages

Evaluation of Feature Selection Techniques in a Multifrequency Large Amplitude Pulse Voltammetric Electronic Tongue

  • Luis F. Villamil-Cubillos,
  • Jersson X. Leon-Medina,
  • Maribel Anaya and
  • Diego A. Tibaduiza

14 November 2020

An electronic tongue is a device composed of a sensor array that takes advantage of the cross sensitivity property of several sensors to perform classification and quantification in liquid substances. In practice, electronic tongues generate a large...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,558 Views
9 Pages

Intra- and Inter-Cultivar Variability of Lavandin (Lavandula × intermedia Emeric ex Loisel.) Landraces from the Island of Hvar, Croatia

  • Marija Jug-Dujaković,
  • Tonka Ninčević Runjić,
  • Martina Grdiša,
  • Zlatko Liber and
  • Zlatko Šatović

8 August 2022

Lavandin (Lavandula × intermedia Emeric ex Loisel.) was brought to the Island of Hvar (Croatia) in the 1920s, coinciding with the beginning of large-scale cultivation of lavandin in France. Although the cultivation of lavandin and the productio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,709 Views
20 Pages

30 July 2020

The fault detection and isolation are very important for the driving safety of autonomous vehicles. At present, scholars have conducted extensive research on model-based fault detection and isolation algorithms in vehicle systems, but few of them hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,089 Views
19 Pages

Genetic Diversity, Population Structure and Marker-Trait Association for 100-Seed Weight in International Safflower Panel Using SilicoDArT Marker Information

  • Fawad Ali,
  • Muhammad Azhar Nadeem,
  • Muzaffer Barut,
  • Ephrem Habyarimana,
  • Hassan Javed Chaudhary,
  • Iftikhar Hussain Khalil,
  • Ahmad Alsaleh,
  • Rüştü Hatipoğlu,
  • Tolga Karaköy and
  • Faheem Shehzad Baloch
  • + 6 authors

21 May 2020

Safflower is an important oilseed crop mainly grown in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The aim of this study was to explore phenotypic and genetic diversity, population structure, and marker-trait association for 100-seed weight in 94 sa...

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