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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Impact of Digital Infrastructure on Farm Households’ Scale Management

  • Yangbin Liu,
  • Gaoyan Liu,
  • Longjunjiang Huang,
  • Hui Xiao and
  • Xiaojin Liu

25 July 2025

The construction and development of digital infrastructure have emerged as a crucial indicator of national competitiveness, which holds significant importance in driving the sustained growth of the national economy and the comprehensive advancement o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,930 Views
18 Pages

20 March 2025

Vehicle-infrastructure cooperative perception enhances the perception capabilities of autonomous vehicles by facilitating the exchange of complementary information between vehicles and infrastructure. However, real-world environments often present ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,959 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2021

The construction of green and smart cities is an important approach to enhancing the level of high-quality development and modern governance, in which infrastructure construction is the antecedent condition. From the perspective of green total factor...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,768 Views
30 Pages

9 October 2024

As the earliest discussed concept of Green Infrastructure (GI), Landscape-scale GI, in the form of an ecological network capable of balancing development and conservation, has received widespread attention. Its multifunctionality is one of the import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
477 Views
23 Pages

10 January 2026

Rapid urbanization and increasingly frequent extreme rainfall events have intensified stormwater challenges, underscoring the need for watershed-scale strategies that integrate blue-green infrastructure (BGI). This study evaluates the stormwater cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,162 Views
22 Pages

2 November 2018

Existing structural safety diagnosis methods are time-consuming due to personnel-oriented measurement methods and have a limitation that it is difficult to obtain consistent research results. In order to overcome these limitations, this study propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,365 Views
14 Pages

26 December 2023

The extraction of community-scale green infrastructure (CSGI) poses challenges due to limited training data and the diverse scales of the targets. In this paper, we reannotate a training dataset of CSGI and propose a three-stage transfer learning met...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,853 Views
24 Pages

9 April 2025

This study introduces a novel multi-scale framework for analyzing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions across Illinois from a landscape infrastructure perspective. By integrating county-level, census tract, and high-resolution (30 ×...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,058 Views
17 Pages

14 April 2019

Conventional triangular weirs have been originally developed to measure, divert, and control surface water. However, a special application of these weirs, such as for low flow measurements in full-scale monitoring of Green Infrastructure (GI), is not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,079 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2022

Clustered urban development has caused increasing fragmentation and islanding of regional ecological spaces. Creating a green infrastructure network (GIN) is a practical method of ensuring regional ecological security. This study proposed a method of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,049 Views
32 Pages

28 May 2025

In recent years, landscape-scale green infrastructure (LGI) has evolved from academic discussions into a critical approach to achieving sustainable development in national strategies in many countries. Since 2014, Japan has proactively integrated LGI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,830 Views
17 Pages

23 April 2022

A surprising aspect of the agglomeration economy is the lack of attention to the impact on the physical environment. Even in the field of spatial planning, road infrastructure has been built in situations where the consideration of the agglomeration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,126 Views
18 Pages

The Development of the Athens Water Supply System and Inferences for Optimizing the Scale of Water Infrastructures

  • G.-Fivos Sargentis,
  • Romanos Ioannidis,
  • Georgios Karakatsanis,
  • Stavroula Sigourou,
  • Nikos D. Lagaros and
  • Demetris Koutsoyiannis

Modern organized societies require robust infrastructures, among which hydraulic projects, such as water supply and drainage systems, are most important, particularly in water-scarce areas. Athens is a unique example because it is a big city (populat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,621 Views
25 Pages

7 April 2022

Energy system integration enables raising operational synergies by coupling the energy infrastructures for electricity, methane, and hydrogen. However, this coupling reinforces the infrastructure interdependencies, increasing the need for integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,284 Views
20 Pages

Stochastic Evaluation of the Investment Risk by the Scale of Water Infrastructures—Case Study: The Municipality of West Mani (Greece)

  • David Markantonis,
  • G.-Fivos Sargentis,
  • Panayiotis Dimitriadis,
  • Theano Iliopoulou,
  • Aimilia Siganou,
  • Konstantina Moraiti,
  • Maria Nikolinakou,
  • Ilias Taygetos Meletopoulos,
  • Nikos Mamassis and
  • Demetris Koutsoyiannis

3 January 2023

Social structure is based on the availability of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. To cover these needs of society, several solutions of different scales of infrastructures coexist. The construction of infrastructure is capital-intensive; therefore, inves...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

The electrification of mobility increases the need for efficient local distribution and charging infrastructures. In this context, direct current (DC) architectures may reduce conversion stages, transmission losses, and material demand compared with...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,575 Views
22 Pages

Water Oriented City—A ‘5 Scales’ System of Blue and Green Infrastructure in Sponge Cities Supporting the Retention of the Urban Fabric

  • Anna Zaręba,
  • Alicja Krzemińska,
  • Mariusz Adynkiewicz-Piragas,
  • Krzysztof Widawski,
  • Dan van der Horst,
  • Francisco Grijalva and
  • Rogelio Monreal

13 December 2022

The article presented methods of urban development in terms of the application of the ‘sponge city’ concept, as well as the possibility of introducing different hydro-engineering solutions into the urban fabric that allow infiltration and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,578 Views
23 Pages

12 March 2025

In recent years, the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development of transport infrastructure have been examined mainly from an economic, ecological, and social perspective. However, an essential aspect of the sustainability of the Trans-Eu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,775 Views
20 Pages

6 January 2022

This study builds a measurement framework of project governance for mega-infrastructure considering the institutional situation of mega-infrastructure projects in China, including contractual governance, relational governance, and governmental govern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,189 Views
18 Pages

Practical Implementation of a Blockchain-Enabled SDN for Large-Scale Infrastructure Networks

  • Rudolf Kovacs,
  • Sorin Buzura,
  • Bogdan Iancu,
  • Vasile Dadarlat,
  • Adrian Peculea and
  • Emil Cebuc

26 February 2024

The network function virtualization (NFV) feature lies at the core of modern networking, and it allows on-demand real-time integration of new network functions, which is a great benefit for large-scale infrastructure networks. In contrast to the func...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,622 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2020

Green infrastructure has acquired greater importance in recent years in relation to climate change adaptation. Green infrastructure planning has been identified as a new and innovative means of land planning that can contribute to preventing the impa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,523 Views
12 Pages

24 December 2020

This article deals with the partial outputs of large-scale infrastructure project risk assessment, specifically in the field of road and motorway construction. The Department of Transport spends a large amount of funds on project preparation and impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,529 Views
19 Pages

9 January 2022

Internet of Things (IoT) provides large-scale solutions for efficient resource monitoring and management. As such, the technology has been heavily integrated into domains such as manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and utilities, which led to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,370 Views
22 Pages

The monitoring and maintenance of existing civil infrastructure has recently received worldwide attention. Several structural health monitoring methods have been developed, including time-, frequency-, and time–frequency domain methods of modal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
477 Views
29 Pages

16 January 2026

Security design for large-scale infrastructure systems requires substantial effort and often causes development delays. In line with NIST guidance, such systems should consider security design throughout a system development lifecycle. Nevertheless,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
17,053 Views
27 Pages

TerraBrasilis: A Spatial Data Analytics Infrastructure for Large-Scale Thematic Mapping

  • Luiz Fernando F. G. Assis,
  • Karine Reis Ferreira,
  • Lubia Vinhas,
  • Luis Maurano,
  • Claudio Almeida,
  • Andre Carvalho,
  • Jether Rodrigues,
  • Adeline Maciel and
  • Claudinei Camargo

The physical phenomena derived from an analysis of remotely sensed imagery provide a clearer understanding of the spectral variations of a large number of land use and cover (LUC) classes. The creation of LUC maps have corroborated this view by enabl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,168 Views
21 Pages

5 August 2022

As cities are facing environmental and societal challenges, including climate change, rapid urbanization, and the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars and policymakers have recognized the potential of small-scale urban green infrastructures (UGI), such as rai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,093 Views
28 Pages

KRID: A Large-Scale Nationwide Korean Road Infrastructure Dataset for Comprehensive Road Facility Recognition

  • Hyeongbok Kim,
  • Eunbi Kim,
  • Sanghoon Ahn,
  • Beomjin Kim,
  • Sung Jin Kim,
  • Tae Kyung Sung,
  • Lingling Zhao,
  • Xiaohong Su and
  • Gilmu Dong

14 March 2025

Comprehensive datasets are crucial for developing advanced AI solutions in road infrastructure, yet most existing resources focus narrowly on vehicles or a limited set of object categories. To address this gap, we introduce the Korean Road Infrastruc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
216 Views
27 Pages

Defining Infrastructure Feasibility for Hub-Scale Offshore Atlantic Carbon Storage in the Northeastern United States

  • Joel Sminchak,
  • Stuart Skopec,
  • Brigitte Petras,
  • Neeraj Gupta,
  • Javier Albert,
  • William John Schmelz,
  • Ken Miller and
  • Kristen Bachand

17 March 2026

In the Northeast U.S., deep rock formations along the Atlantic outer continental shelf may have the potential to sequester 150–1136 million metric tons of CO2. However, the design and infrastructure necessary to develop offshore carbon storage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
323 Views
23 Pages

Transportation infrastructure is vital for sustaining communities and fostering economic development. Urbanization and climate change have led to the rapid deterioration of road transport systems, posing significant challenges for future sustainabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Views
42 Pages

National-Scale Fast-Charging Infrastructure Planning Integrating Geospatial Analysis, MCDM, and Power System Constraints

  • Carmen Selva-López,
  • Rebeca Solís-Ortega,
  • Gustavo Adolfo Gómez-Ramírez,
  • Oscar Núñez-Mata and
  • Fausto Calderón-Obaldía

16 February 2026

Electromobility is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone of sustainable transport, yet its adoption remains uneven across regions. This study develops an integrated framework that combines geospatial analysis, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,841 Views
30 Pages

Indoor Large-Scale MIMO-Based RSSI Localization with Low-Complexity RFID Infrastructure

  • Mohammed El-Absi,
  • Feng Zheng,
  • Ashraf Abuelhaija,
  • Ali Al-haj Abbas,
  • Klaus Solbach and
  • Thomas Kaiser

15 July 2020

Indoor localization based on unsynchronized, low-complexity, passive radio frequency identification (RFID) using the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) has a wide potential for a variety of internet of things (IoTs) applications due to their e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
759 Views
24 Pages

This study proposes a simplified, mechanics-based methodology for assessing the seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC) churches, particularly those with basilica plans and cathedral portal frames such as a repetitive inclined-beam portal f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,619 Views
22 Pages

Joint Behavior of Full-Scale Precast Concrete Pipe Infrastructure: Experimental and Numerical Analysis

  • Abdul Basit,
  • Safeer Abbas,
  • Muhammad Mubashir Ajmal,
  • Ubaid Ahmad Mughal,
  • Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi and
  • Muhammad Junaid Munir

This study undertakes a comprehensive experimental and numerical analysis of the structural integrity of buried RC sewerage pipes, focusing on the performance of two distinct jointing materials: cement mortar and non-shrinkage grout. Through joint sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,108 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2020

Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), a sustainable engineering design approach for managing urban stormwater runoff, has long been recommended as an alternative to conventional conveyance-based stormwater management strategies to mitigate the adver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,349 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2021

In promoting biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service capacity, landscape connectivity is considered a critical feature to counteract the negative effects of fragmentation. Under a Green Infrastructure (GI) perspective, this is especially true...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,900 Views
17 Pages

24 June 2025

Climate change, urbanization, and extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall and drought present major challenges for urban water management. This paper proposes a framework to evaluate the effectiveness of blue–green infrastructure (BGI) as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,025 Views
20 Pages

There is an increasing impetus for the use of digital city models and sensor network data to understand the current demand for utility resources and inform future infrastructure service planning across a range of spatial scales. Achieving this requir...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,657 Views
17 Pages

OpenHi.net: A Synergistically Built, National-Scale Infrastructure for Monitoring the Surface Waters of Greece

  • Nikos Mamassis,
  • Katerina Mazi,
  • Elias Dimitriou,
  • Demetris Kalogeras,
  • Nikolaos Malamos,
  • Spyridon Lykoudis,
  • Antonis Koukouvinos,
  • Ioannis Tsirogiannis,
  • Ino Papageorgaki and
  • Antonis D. Koussis
  • + 12 authors

7 October 2021

The large-scale surface-water monitoring infrastructure for Greece Open Hydrosystem Information Network (Openhi.net) is presented in this paper. Openhi.net provides free access to water data, incorporating existing networks that manage their own data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,417 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2023

Green infrastructure is a nature-based solution that supports sustainable development and restores urban, suburban, and peri-urban environments. Using a multi-scale evaluation, this study explores the impact of the application of green infrastructure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
14,504 Views
20 Pages

11 December 2013

Green infrastructure (GI) design is advocated as a new paradigm for stormwater management, whereas current knowledge of GI design is mostly based on isolated design strategies used at small-scale sites. This study presents empirical findings from two...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,366 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2024

This systematic review explores the role of urban green infrastructure (UGI) in enhancing climate resilience, focusing mainly on heat mitigation modelling and its application at both urban and building scales. The study analyses 207 articles publishe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
939 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Scale Sponge Capacity Trading and SLSQP for Stormwater Management Optimization

  • An-Kang Liu,
  • Qing Xu,
  • Wen-Jin Zhu,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • De-Long Huang,
  • Qing-Hai Xie,
  • Chun-Bo Jiang and
  • Hai-Ruo Wang

19 May 2025

Low-impact development (LID) facilities serve as a fundamental approach in urban stormwater management. However, significant variations in land use among different plots lead to discrepancies in runoff reduction demands, frequently leading to either...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,846 Views
16 Pages

5 December 2024

The growing demand for high-accuracy mapping and 3D modeling using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has accelerated advancements in flight dynamics, positioning accuracy, and imaging technology. Structure from motion (SfM), a computer vision-based app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,698 Views
25 Pages

ETAFHrNet: A Transformer-Based Multi-Scale Network for Asymmetric Pavement Crack Segmentation

  • Chao Tan,
  • Jiaqi Liu,
  • Zhedong Zhao,
  • Rufei Liu,
  • Peng Tan,
  • Aishu Yao,
  • Shoudao Pan and
  • Jingyi Dong

30 May 2025

Accurate segmentation of pavement cracks from high-resolution remote sensing imagery plays a crucial role in automated road condition assessment and infrastructure maintenance. However, crack structures often exhibit asymmetry, irregular morphology,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,519 Views
17 Pages

Flooded Infrastructure Change Detection in Deeply Supervised Networks Based on Multi-Attention-Constrained Multi-Scale Feature Fusion

  • Gang Qin,
  • Shixin Wang,
  • Futao Wang,
  • Suju Li,
  • Zhenqing Wang,
  • Jinfeng Zhu,
  • Ming Liu,
  • Changjun Gu and
  • Qing Zhao

20 November 2024

Flood disasters are frequent, sudden, and have significant chain effects, seriously damaging infrastructure. Remote sensing images provide a means for timely flood emergency monitoring. When floods occur, emergency management agencies need to respond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,587 Views
17 Pages

A growing number of local green roof niches across the globe are transitioning into the mainstream domain. Guidelines are key to this process, as they define technological environments and set the criteria for best practices in a given socio-technica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,378 Views
14 Pages

The scope of the paper is to report an investigation on durability of infrastructure concrete for roads and bridges by creating a size and shape-designed pore systems in concrete in order to improve it, especially in terms of freeze–thaw resistance....

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,117 Views
14 Pages

Cyber security is nowadays synonymous with the reliability of elements connected to the internet. Better control of factories, security systems or even individual sensors is possible through the use of Internet of Things technology. The security of t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,319 Views
7 Pages

Small-scale hydrokinetic (HK) energy systems is a renewable energy source which has never before been explored in South Africa, mainly due to the abundance of low-cost coal-powered electricity. A HK pilot project was implemented in an applicable sect...

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