In recent years, land subsidence has become a crucial factor affecting urban safety and sustainable development, especially in Wan’an Town. To accurately monitor and analyze the land subsidence in Wan’an Town, this study uses the PS-InSAR...
Spatial interpolation techniques play an important role in hydrology, as many point observations need to be interpolated to create continuous surfaces. Despite the availability of several tools and methods for interpolating data, not all of them work...
The comprehensive and accurate assessment of the indoor air quality (IAQ) in large spaces, such as offices or multipurpose facilities, is essential for IAQ management. It is widely recognized that various IAQ factors affect the well-being, health, an...
Natural rubber (NR), with its excellent mechanical properties, has been attracting considerable scientific and technological attention. Through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the effects of key structural factors on tensile stress at the molecu...
ArcticDEM provides the public with an unprecedented opportunity to access very high-spatial resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) covering the pan-Arctic surfaces. As it is generated from stereo-pairs of optical satellite imagery, ArcticDEM repr...
Mineral reserve estimation and mining design depend on a precise modeling of the mineralized deposit. A multi-step interpolation algorithm, including 1D biharmonic spline estimator for interpolating floor altitudes, 2D nearest neighbor, linear, natur...
As an efficient clean backup energy source, natural gas hydrates have received high attention from countries around the world, and it is very important to establish models to predict the total amount of regional resources. In response to the complexi...
In this contribution, interpolation methods were assessed to build the bathymetry of 200 km of the Odra River in South Poland. The River Bed Mapping (RBM) was carried out surveying the depth of several reaches of the canalized part of the river using...
Groundwater Arsenic (As) data are often sparse and location-specific, making them insufficient to represent the heterogeneity in groundwater quality status at unsampled locations. Interpolation techniques have been used to map groundwater As data at...
Recently, UWB-based technology providing centimeter-level accuracy has been developed and widely utilized in indoor real-time location tracking systems. However, location accuracy varies due to factors such as frequency interference, collisions, refl...
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The primary aim of this work is to assess the accuracy of the methods for spatial interpolation applied for the reconstruction of the spatial distribution of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The one-month version called SPI-1 is chosen for...
In the domain of supervised learning, interpolation and extrapolation serve as crucial methodologies for predicting data points within and beyond the confines of a given dataset, respectively. The efficacy of these methods is closely linked to the na...
Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) datasets with a large volume pose a great challenge to the traditional interpolation methods for the production of digital terrain models (DTMs). Thus, a fast, global interpolation method based on thin pla...
Analyzing geological profiles is of great importance for various applications such as natural resource management, environmental assessment, and mining engineering projects. This study presents a novel geostatistical approach for subsurface geologica...
Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanning is a commonly used technology for representing the topographic terrain. As LiDAR point clouds include all surface features present in the terrain, one of the key elements for generating a digital...
The inherent multiscale nature of objects poses a fundamental challenge in remote sensing object detection. To address this, feature pyramids have been widely adopted as a key architectural component. However, the effectiveness of these pyramids crit...
To overcome the huge volume problem of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for the derivation of digital terrain models (DTMs), a least squares compactly supported radial basis function (CSRBF) interpolation method is proposed in this paper. The...
Geodetic mass changes in the Svalbard glaciers Austre Lovénbreen and Pedersenbreen were studied via high-precision real-time kinematic (RTK)-global positioning system (GPS) measurements from 2013 to 2015. To evaluate the elevation changes of t...
The need to design structures and structural elements that are more efficient in terms of performance is a key aspect of engineering. For a given material to be used at its maximum capacity, considering non-linear characteristics is mandatory. The no...
Forest canopy height is one of the most important spatial characteristics for forest resource inventories and forest ecosystem modeling. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) can be used to accurately detect canopy surface and terrain information from...
Accurate coastal bathymetry is critical for navigation, environmental monitoring, and marine resource management. This study presents a deep learning-based approach that fuses Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery with airborne hyperspectral-derived refer...
Due to their complex morphology, karst terrains are particularly more fragile and vulnerable to environmental damage compared to most natural systems. Their hydraulic properties, such as their transmissivity (T) and spatial variability, can be releva...
In an actual concrete dam construction, the efficiency of thermal field reconstruction directly affects the timeliness of temperature control measures. Therefore, using lightweight methods to obtain real-time, accurate thermal fields is crucial for c...
This paper describes how the quantitative analytical tools of CMEIAS image analysis software can be used to investigate in situ microbial interactions involving cell-to-cell communication within biofilms. Various spatial pattern analyses applied to t...
Atmospheric methane (CH4) concentrations have increased to 2.5 times their pre-industrial levels, with a marked acceleration in recent decades. CH4 is responsible for approximately 30% of the global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. T...
This work investigates fracture characteristics of a marble semi-circular bend (SCB) specimen with a pre-defined crack under a compressive loading condition. It aims at evaluating how the fracture toughness can be affected by the crack and span lengt...
Remote-sensing-derived elevation data sets often suffer from noise and outliers due to various reasons, such as the physical limitations of sensors, multiple reflectance, occlusions and low contrast of texture. Outliers generally have a seriously neg...
Spatial resolution of metabolic imaging with hyperpolarized 13C-labeled substrates is limited owing to the multidimensional nature of spectroscopic imaging and the transient characteristics of dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization. In this study,...
A digital surface model (DSM) is an important geospatial infrastructure used in various fields. In this paper, we deal with how to improve the quality of DSMs generated from stereo image matching. During stereo image matching, there are outliers due...
Ensuring the healthy growth of eggplants requires the precise detection of leaf diseases, which can significantly boost yield and economic income. Improving the efficiency of plant disease identification in natural scenes is currently a crucial issue...
On 21 May 2021 (UT), Yangbi Ms6.4 and Maduo Ms7.4 earthquakes occurred in mainland China. This paper analyzed the ionospheric perturbations possibly related to the earthquake, based on global positioning system (GPS) total electron content (TEC) and...
The plum is a kind of delicious and common fruit with high edible value and nutritional value. The accurate and effective detection of plum fruit is the key to fruit number counting and pest and disease early warning. However, the actual plum orchard...
Data pits commonly appear in lidar-derived canopy height models (CHMs) owing to the penetration ability of airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) into tree crowns. They have a seriously negative effect on the quality of tree detection and subse...