River discharge is of great significance in the development of water resources and ecological protection. There are several large ungauged catchments around the word still lacking sufficient hydrological data. Obtaining accurate hydrological informat...
In order to study the distribution pattern of hydrocarbons in the shallow layer of the slope area outside of the source in the hydrocarbon-bearing basin, we built a method to predict the favorable site of the fault that adjusts hydrocarbon to the sha...
Most geotechnical engineers focus on ground strength and stability. However, when determining stability by analyzing the exact strength of the ground, the failure surface is essential. Nevertheless, limited studies have been conducted on the methods...
In recent years, much research has been conducted on time series based human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors. Most existing work for HAR is based on the manual labeling. However, the complete time serial signals not only contain dif...
Every year, many countries carry out landslide susceptibility analyses to establish and manage countermeasures and reduce the damage caused by landslides. Because increases in the areas of landslides lead to new landslides, there is a growing need fo...
Slope failures pose a substantial threat to mining activity due to their destructive potential and high probability of occurrence on steep slopes close to limit equilibrium conditions, which are often found both in open pits and in waste and tailing...
Coal mining in mountainous areas is general in China, especially in Shanxi Province. Under the influence of topography in mountainous areas, surface collapses and landslides caused by underground mining happen at a certain frequency and threaten huma...
Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR), due to its high precision, high resolution, and real-time capabilities, is widely used in the detection of slope deformations. However, the weak scattering coefficient in low-coherence areas poses a gre...
Autonomous tractors have been shown to possess the capability to ensure a high degree of operational precision during seeding activities on flat terrain. However, in topographically challenging environments characterised by significant elevations and...
The aim of the topographic normalization of remotely sensed imagery is to reduce reflectance variability caused by steep terrain and thus improve further processing of images. A process of topographic correction was applied to Landsat imagery in a mo...
Landslides are one of the critical natural hazards that cause human, infrastructure, and economic losses. Risk of catastrophic losses due to landslides is significant given sprawled urban development near steep slopes and the increasing proximity of...
Surface deformation triggered by coal extraction activities, together with the consequent development of unstable slopes within rugged mountainous landscapes, constitutes a critical focus for geological risk assessment and mitigation strategies. Conv...
The accurate assessment of discharge in vegetated floodplains during floods is a persistent challenge in river engineering due to the difficulty of acquiring hydraulic data, the variability in vegetation roughness, and the limitations of on-site vege...
Drainage difficulties in the waterlogged areas of sloping cropland not only impede crop development but also facilitate the formation of erosion gullies, resulting in significant soil and water loss. Investigating the distribution of these waterlogge...
The mapping of soil movement was examined by comparing an extension of the deterministic Soil Stability Index Mapping (SINMAP) method, and an overlay method with trigger parameters of soil movement. The SINMAP model used soil parameters in the form o...
Black soil areas are strongly affected by rill erosion due to the geomorphic characteristics of flood plains and heavy rainfall. To study the problem of rill erosion in black soil areas and achieve ecological restoration, based on the method of artif...
The storm water management model (SWMM) is widely used in urban rainfall runoff simulations, but there are no clear rules for the division of its sub catchment areas. At present, the popular sub catchment area division method takes the average slope...
The accurate prediction of surface subsidence is a significant foundation for the damage assessment of coal seam mining and ecological environment reclamation in loess donga. However, conventional models are very problematic, and the reliability of p...
In engineering blasting, the slope surfaces in the blasting area exert various effects on the blast vibration velocity. For example, the slope effect and the whipping effect are generated in the slope area, which will influence the blast vibration ve...
Slope-related geological disasters occur frequently in various countries, posing significant threats to surrounding infrastructure, ecosystems, and human lives and property. Traditional manual monitoring methods for slope hazards are inefficient and...
This study proposes a design method for near-slope roads along multi-level slopes that integrates excavation requirements and post-construction ecological restoration through sprayed eco-protection. Firstly, the design principles and procedural steps...
The long-term stability of slopes in areas with strong earthquakes not only is very important for people’s lives and the safety of property, but also it enables restoration of the ecological environment in the landslide areas, which is very imp...
During the production of open-pit mines, the stability of slopes can be affected by various factors such as structural surfaces, production blasting vibrations, and mining areas. In this study, the researchers focused on the slope of the open-pit min...
Topographic factors such as slope and aspect are essential parameters in depicting the structure and morphology of a terrain surface. We study the effect of the number of points in the neighbourhood of a digital elevation model (DEM) interpolation me...
The mountainous region of Greater Sochi, including the Olympic ski-jump complex area, located in the northern Caucasus, is always subjected to landslides. The weathered mudstone of low strength and potential high-intensity earthquakes are considered...
As an effective technology for the rapid treatment of soft-soil foundations, geosynthetic encased stone column (GESC) composite foundations are commonly used in various embankment engineerings, including those situated on sloped soft foundations. Nev...
In recent years, geological disasters have frequently occurred on basarlt highway slopes. Studying the stability of highway slopes in this type of area is of great significance for traffic safety. However, due to the high cost and low efficiency of t...
Debris flow events often pose significant damage and are a threat to infrastructure and even livelihoods. Recent studies have mainly focused on determining the susceptibility of debris flow using deterministic or heuristic/probabilistic models. Howev...
Slope failures occur when parts of a slope collapse abruptly under the influence of gravity, often triggered by a rainfall event or earthquake. The resulting slope failures often cause problems in mountainous or hilly regions, and the detection of sl...
A slope unit is commonly used as calculation unit for regional landslide analysis. However, the capacity of the slope unit to reflect the geomorphological features of actual landslides still needs to be verified. This is because such accurate represe...
Slope has obvious scale-dependent characteristics and it changes with the change in DEM resolution, which brings uncertainty to the evaluation process of regional resource and environment. In this paper, one typical county in each of the six water er...
Though danger prediction and countermeasures for landslides are important, it is fundamentally difficult to take preventive measures in all areas susceptible to dangerous landslides. Therefore, it is necessary to perform landslide susceptibility mapp...
Geotechnical engineering works in deep-incised valleys or open-pit mining areas often encounter high-steep scarp slopes with a slope angle greater than 75°. This type of slope directly threatens the safety of construction personnel, so assessing...
Ground-based synthetic aperture radar interferometry (GB-InSAR) is a valuable tool for deformation monitoring. The 2D interferograms obtained by GB-InSAR can be integrated with a 3D terrain model to visually and accurately locate deformed areas. The...
With the introduction of mechanization in agriculture, the area of terraced slopes has increased. However, in most cases, the planning of terracing in practice remains experience-based, which is no longer effective from an agricultural, geological, a...
GIS-based kinematic stability analysis in rock slopes is a rare practice in geological engineering despite its immense potential to delineate unstable zones in a mountainous region. In this article, we have used a GIS-based modified technique to asse...
In recent years, applications and analyses based on slope units have become increasingly widespread. Compared with grid units, slope units can better represent terrain features and boundaries and allow a more complete view of the morphology of the Ea...
The assessment of slope stability plays a critical role in the prevention and management of slope disasters. Evaluating the condition and stability of hazardous rock masses is essential for predicting potential collapses and assessing treatment effec...
The existing slope stability research, which is based on the fluid–solid coupling theory, is mainly focused on the slopes of central and eastern China. The impact of rainfall on the stability of the dump slope has often been ignored. It is wort...
The Longzi River Basin in Tibet is located along the edge of the Himalaya Mountains and is characterized by complex geological conditions and numerous landslides. To evaluate the susceptibility of landslide disasters in this area, eight basic factors...
To study the landslide risk of high-altitude and cold stope slopes, the slope deformation index and landslide risk standards at home and abroad for many years were analyzed and summarized. Using the unascertained measurement model, combined with the...
In many mountainous areas of China, frequent geological disasters pose a serious threat to human life and property. The Luding “9.5” earthquake triggered a large number of landslide disasters, causing serious loss of life and property. Th...
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Landslide spatial probability and size are two essential components of landslide susceptibility. However, in existing slope-unit-based landslide susceptibility assessment methods, landslide size has not been explicitly considered. This paper develope...
Landslide susceptibility evaluation is critical for landslide prevention and risk management. Based on the slope unit, this study uses the information value method- random forest (IV-RF) model to evaluate the landslide susceptibility in the deep vall...
The Civilian Access Control Zone (CACZ), south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, has functioned as a unique bio-reserve owing to restrictions on human use. However, it is now increasingly threatened by damaged land and...
With the gradual expansion of mining scale in open-pit coal mines, slope safety problems are increasingly diversified and complicated. In order to reduce the potential loss caused by slope sliding and reduce the major threat to the safety of life and...
The generation of map units is a fundamental step for an appropriate assessment of landslide susceptibility. Recent studies have indicated that the terrain relief-based slope units perform better in homogeneity compared with the grid units. However,...
The use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is becoming more and more common in different landscape exploration domains such as archaeology or geomorphology. In order to allow the detection of features of interest, visualization filters have to be...
Guyots are a special type of seamount with a flat top and are widely distributed in the global ocean. In this paper, a geomorphologic classification method for guyots based on multibeam bathymetry data is proposed. By studying typical guyots, namely,...
Based on limit-equilibrium theory, a calculation method for the surrounding rock pressure of shallow-buried variable-slope arch tunnels is proposed. A calculation model for surrounding rock pressure of variable-slope surfaces is established according...
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