River network routing’s significance in reach-level flood forecasting over extensive domains is growing, requiring considerable computational resources for modeling networks comprising thousands to millions of reaches. Parallel computation play...
Accurate simulations of river stages during typhoon events are critically important for flood control and are necessary for disaster prevention and water resources management in Taiwan. This study applies two artificial neural network (ANN) models, i...
This study provides a comprehensive overview of watershed hydrology and mathematical models, focusing on its hydrological features and the implementation of hydrological modeling for effective water resource modeling and assessment, planning, and man...
This paper discusses the Muskingum model as a novel parameter estimation method. Sixty representative floods over the past four decades serve as research objects; a linear Muskingum model and Pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO) algorithm are used to o...
The middle and lower Ganges Valley constitute an important part of the Asian economic and cultural corridor. Multicultural exchanges have had a profound impact on the development of historic cities and towns in the region. Considering the towns and c...
Route planning considering terrain information is useful for the navigation of autonomous ground vehicles (AGV) on complicated terrain surfaces, such as mountains with rivers. For instance, an AGV in mountains cannot cross a river or a valley that is...
The surrounding landscape of ancient Pergamon is characterized by several mountain ranges, the Bakırçay Valley and River and the Aegean coastline. The accessibility of this region was vital for the city since it provided food and resources as...
Wastewater treatment plants represent relevant point sources of environmental-adverse pharmaceuticals in river systems. Extensive monitoring and substance-routing models are crucial for environmental risk assessment and river planning. However, most...
Although the impact of spatial resolution on river flow simulation has been examined in several studies, unresolved uncertainties remain regarding parameter sensitivity and the applicability of different routing models. This study investigated the re...
This study assesses the effectiveness and limitations of publicly accessible runoff and river discharge reanalysis datasets through an intercomparison in the Upper Jinsha River, an alpine region with substantial hydropower potential on the eastern ed...
Underwater wireless sensor networks are currently seeing broad research in various applications for human benefits. Large numbers of sensor nodes are being deployed in rivers and oceans to monitor the underwater environment. In the paper, we propose...
The article concerns the assessment of the energy consumption of inland waterway freight transport on river sections in the context of environmental management. The research question was: Does the choice of the route determine the total energy consum...
From the geomorphological cartography, the geometric and spatial distribution of the quaternary forms and deposits are analyzed, with special relevance to the fluvial terraces that allow obtaining the chronology of the successive landscape changes of...
To solve the multimodal transport route optimization problem considering carbon emission, the vehicle speed has time-varying characteristics, and the customer has a time window limit. The carbon emission of multimodal transport system is affected by...
Studies that use rivers in a last-mile delivery context are scarce. This research considers the first multimodal alternative based on a barge for parcel delivery activities. It proposes two sustainable network designs for a two-echelon distribution....
Communications from remote areas that may be of interest is still a problem. Many innovative projects applied to remote sites face communications difficulties. The GOLDFISH project was an EU-funded project for river pollution monitoring in developing...
Due to the complexity of terrain and climate in the mountain–plain transition zone, it is difficult to simulate and forecast the flow discharge of river basins accurately. The poor regularity of the river thus leads to uncertain flood control s...
Many grid-based spatial hydrological models suffer from the complexity of setting up a coherent spatial structure to calibrate such a complex, highly parameterized system. There are essential aspects of model-building to be taken into account: spatia...
The flow routing process plays a crucial role in underpinning the execution of real-time operations within interbasin water transfer projects (IWTPs). However, the water transfer process within the supplying area is significantly affected by the time...
This study aimed to examine the spatial structure of the tourist attraction cooperation network in the Yangtze River Delta, from the perspective of tourist flow. This study conducted spatial and social network analyses of 470 popular tourist attracti...
To create an autonomously moving vessel, it is necessary to know exactly how to determine the current coordinates of the vessel in the selected coordinate system, determine the actual trajectory of the vessel, estimate the motion trend to predict the...
A hybrid rainfall-runoff model was developed in this study by integrating the variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model with artificial neural networks (ANNs). In the proposed model, the prediction interval of the ANN replaces separate, individual s...
This work presents a wireless sensor network (WSN) system able to determine the water quality of rivers. Particularly, we consider the Tahuando River from Ibarra, Ecuador, as a case study. The main goal of this research is to determine the river&rsqu...
Obstacle detection for autonomous navigation through semantic image segmentation using neural networks has grown in popularity for use in unmanned ground and surface vehicles because of its ability to rapidly create a highly accurate pixel-wise class...
The Amazon region has the largest hydrographic basin in the world. The rivers act as roads, and boats serve as vehicles for transporting passengers and cargo to large urban centers, municipalities, riverside communities, villages, and settlements. Th...
Vector based shortest path analysis in geographic information system (GIS) is well established for road networks. Even though these network algorithms can be applied to river layers, they do not generally consider the direction of flow. This paper pr...
Topographic depressions in Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) have been traditionally seen as a feature to be removed as no outward flow direction is available to route and accumulate flows. Therefore, to simplify hydrologic analysis for practical purpo...
In recent years, the underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) has received a significant interest among research communities for several applications, such as disaster management, water quality prediction, environmental observance, underwater naviga...
We propose a multi-time generalized Nash equilibrium problem and prove its equivalence with a multi-time quasi-variational inequality problem. Then, we establish the existence of equilibria. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our multi-time generalized...
Monitoring river ice is crucial for planning safe navigation routes, with ice–water classification being one of the most important tasks in ice mapping. While high-resolutions satellite imagery, such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), is well-s...
At present, people’s growing need for a beautiful ecological environment needs to be met. As a high-quality ecological product, greenways help improve the living environment and promote green and coordinated development. How to scientifically a...
The subject of this study is an approximately 300 km long Middle Danube River reach that spans from river kilometer (rkm) 1581 in Hungary to (rkm) 1255 in Serbia. The observed drying of floodplains in Hungary some thirty years ago initiated the hydro...
Solid waste management represents a challenge for municipalities, particularly at the collection stage. The high costs involved in its operation make it difficult to provide the service in all its communities, which results in bad practices (burning,...
Efficiency challenges of the hinterland connectivity, along with growing green concerns necessitate the integration of economic goals and environmental considerations, for port-hinterland logistics problems. This study focused on innovative modeling,...
Renewable, green, and safe natural biopolymer-derived materials are highly desired for the purification of pollutants, but significantly improving their performance without the introduction of additional harmful chemicals remains a huge challenge. Ba...
This study’s purpose was to analyze the network structural characteristics, nodal roles, spatial structure, and evolution laws from the dual network perspective, and apply the Quadratic Assignment Procedure (QAP) to conduct correlation analysis...
In the face of global climate change and rapid urbanization, the Pearl River Delta is confronted with frequent river floods and heavy rainfall, which leads to substantial economic losses and casualties. Enhancing the role of blue-green space in rain-...
This study presented a comprehensive analysis of the microbial ecology in water diversion rivers (WDRs) in the source area of the East Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (ER-SNWDP) in China across various water periods. Proteobacteri...
Rail transportation of hazardous material (Hazmat) involves low-probability, and high-consequence risks, requiring strategies that mitigate extreme accident impacts while ensuring fair risk distribution. To address this, we introduce conditional valu...
Water covers a greater part of the Earth’s surface. However, little knowledge has been achieved regarding the underwater world as most parts of it remain unexplored. Oceans, including other water bodies, hold substantial natural resources and a...
Maritime transport plays an important role in global economic development but also inevitably faces increasing pressures from all sides, such as ship operating cost reduction and environmental protection. An ideal innovation to address these pressure...
An increase in energy-efficient transportation is one way that cities try to mitigate climate change. In coastal cities, public water transit is also undergoing transitions. A small zero-emission autonomous ferry seems to be a cutting-edge technology...
The inefficiency of Brazil’s logistics system to handle the outflow of farm products impairs the sector’s performance. From the economic perspective, the high freight rates put the country’s agricultural sector at a competitive disa...
Annual river discharge is a critical variable for water resources planning and management. Tree rings are widely used to reconstruct annual discharge, but errors can be large when tree growth fails to respond commensurately to hydrologically importan...
The determination of the appropriate traffic signal timing plans for no-notice evacuations in densely populated areas is a noteworthy challenge. The objective of this study was to evaluate alternatives that could optimize evacuee traffic flow in a no...
The real-time derivation of the concentration, area, and velocity of river surface ice based on camera imagery is essential for predicting the potential risks related to ice blockages in water routes. The key lies in the continuous tracking and veloc...
Sites of geo-cultural interest are often included in areas where multicultural contexts (geo and non geo) are present. Cultural heritage dissemination is sometimes mono-contextual, paying little attention to the possibility of inclusion in a wider mu...
Continued advancements in microprocessors, electronics, and communication technology have led to the design and development of sensing devices with increased functionalities, smaller sizes, larger processing, storage, and communication capabilities,...
Regional Distributed Hydrological models are being adopted around the world for prediction of streamflow fluctuations and floods. However, the details of the hydraulic geometry of the channels in the river network (cross sectional geometry, slope, dr...
Research on fish skin artefacts’ dyeing practices among the Nivkh, Nanai, Ulchi, Udegei, Oroch, and Negidal Indigenous Peoples of the Amur River basin remains scarce. These fishing communities traditionally crafted fish skin garments, essential...
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