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6 Citations
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Sugarcane-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv8 Model for Accurate Identification of Sugarcane Seed Sprouts

  • Fujie Zhang,
  • Defeng Dong,
  • Xiaoyi Jia,
  • Jiawen Guo and
  • Xiaoning Yu

18 October 2024

Sugarcane is a crop that propagates through seed sprouts on nodes. Accurate identification of sugarcane seed sprouts is crucial for sugarcane planting and the development of intelligent sprout-cutting equipment. This paper proposes a sugarcane seed s...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,789 Views
23 Pages

GLU-YOLOv8: An Improved Pest and Disease Target Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv8

  • Guangbo Yue,
  • Yaqiu Liu,
  • Tong Niu,
  • Lina Liu,
  • Limin An,
  • Zhengyuan Wang and
  • Mingyu Duan

24 August 2024

In the contemporary context, pest detection is progressively moving toward automation and intelligence. However, current pest detection algorithms still face challenges, such as lower accuracy and slower operation speed in detecting small objects. To...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,307 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2025

Small object detection remains a challenge in the remote sensing field due to feature loss during downsampling and interference from complex backgrounds. A novel network, termed SEMA-YOLO, is proposed in this paper as an enhanced YOLOv11-based framew...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,204 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2023

Small object detection has long been one of the most formidable challenges in computer vision due to the poor visual features and high noise of surroundings behind them. However, small targets in traffic scenes encompass a multitude of complex visual...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,033 Views
21 Pages

3 April 2025

Cigarette detection is a crucial component of public safety management. However, detecting such small objects poses significant challenges due to their size and limited feature points. To enhance the accuracy of small target detection, we propose a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,237 Views
24 Pages

AID-YOLO: An Efficient and Lightweight Network Method for Small Target Detector in Aerial Images

  • Yuwen Li,
  • Jiashuo Zheng,
  • Shaokun Li,
  • Chunxi Wang,
  • Zimu Zhang and
  • Xiujian Zhang

8 September 2024

The progress of object detection technology is crucial for obtaining extensive scene information from aerial perspectives based on computer vision. However, aerial image detection presents many challenges, such as large image background sizes, small...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,848 Views
19 Pages

Research on Seamless Fabric Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8n

  • Qin Sun,
  • Bernd Noche,
  • Zongyi Xie and
  • Bingqiang Huang

4 March 2025

An improved YOLOv8n seamless fabric defect detection model is proposed to solve the current issues in seamless fabric defects in factories in this paper. The improvement in this paper first introduces the SPPF_LSKA module, which not only optimizes th...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,354 Views
22 Pages

Detection of Pine Wilt Disease Using Drone Remote Sensing Imagery and Improved YOLOv8 Algorithm: A Case Study in Weihai, China

  • Shikuan Wang,
  • Xingwen Cao,
  • Mengquan Wu,
  • Changbo Yi,
  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Hang Fei,
  • Hongwei Zheng,
  • Haoran Jiang,
  • Yanchun Jiang and
  • Pengsen Yang
  • + 2 authors

13 October 2023

Pine Wilt Disease (PWD) is a devastating global forest disease that spreads rapidly and causes severe ecological and economic losses. Drone remote sensing imaging technology is an effective way to detect PWD and control its spread. However, the exist...

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  • Open Access
520 Views
34 Pages

3 December 2025

The die bonding process significantly impacts the yield and quality of IC packaging, and its quality detection is also a critical image sensing technology. With the advancement of machine automation and increased operating speeds, the misclassificati...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,699 Views
25 Pages

Reverse Difference Network for Highlighting Small Objects in Aerial Images

  • Huan Ni,
  • Jocelyn Chanussot,
  • Xiaonan Niu,
  • Hong Tang and
  • Haiyan Guan

The large-scale variation issue in high-resolution aerial images significantly lowers the accuracy of segmenting small objects. For a deep-learning-based semantic segmentation model, the main reason is that the deeper layers generate high-level seman...

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  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,069 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2023

This study aimed to address the problems of low detection accuracy and inaccurate positioning of small-object detection in remote sensing images. An improved architecture based on the Swin Transformer and YOLOv5 is proposed. First, Complete-IOU (CIOU...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,163 Views
26 Pages

ECAN-Detector: An Efficient Context-Aggregation Network for Small-Object Detection

  • Gaofeng Xing,
  • Zhikang Xu,
  • Yulong He,
  • Hailong Ning,
  • Menghao Sun and
  • Chunmei Wang

Over the past decade, the field of object detection has advanced remarkably, especially in the accurate recognition of medium- and large-sized objects. Nevertheless, detecting small objects is still difficult because their low-resolution appearance p...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,579 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2024

As a typical component of remote sensing signals, remote sensing image (RSI) information plays a strong role in showing macro, dynamic and accurate information on the earth’s surface and environment, which is critical to many application fields...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,756 Views
15 Pages

YOLOv3_ReSAM: A Small-Target Detection Method

  • Bailin Liu,
  • Huan Luo,
  • Haotong Wang and
  • Shaoxu Wang

Small targets in long-distance aerial photography have the problems of small size and blurry appearance, and traditional object detection algorithms face great challenges in the field of small-object detection. With the collection of massive data in...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,697 Views
22 Pages

NGD-YOLO: An Improved Real-Time Steel Surface Defect Detection Algorithm

  • Bingyi Li,
  • Andong Xiao,
  • Xing Hu,
  • Sisi Zhu,
  • Gang Wan,
  • Kunlun Qi and
  • Pengfei Shi

Steel surface defect detection is a crucial step in ensuring industrial production quality. However, due to significant variations in scale and irregular geometric morphology of steel surface defects, existing detection algorithms show notable defici...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,308 Views
19 Pages

7 April 2022

Farming areas are made up of diverse land use types, such as arable lands, grasslands, woodlands, water bodies, and other surrounding agricultural architectures. They possess imperative economic value, and are considerably valued in terms of farmers&...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,750 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2024

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China and plays a significant ecological role. Deep-learning-based video surveillance can effectively monitor bird species on the lake, contributing to the local biodiversity preservation. To address the...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,047 Views
14 Pages

SSD-TSEFFM: New SSD Using Trident Feature and Squeeze and Extraction Feature Fusion

  • Young-Joon Hwang,
  • Jin-Gu Lee,
  • Un-Chul Moon and
  • Ho-Hyun Park

28 June 2020

The single shot multi-box detector (SSD) exhibits low accuracy in small-object detection; this is because it does not consider the scale contextual information between its layers, and the shallow layers lack adequate semantic information. To improve...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,391 Views
30 Pages

18 May 2025

This paper addresses the challenge of small-object detection in traffic surveillance by proposing a hybrid network architecture that combines attention mechanisms with convolutional layers. The network introduces an innovative attention mechanism int...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,187 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2025

To mitigate the technical challenges associated with small-object detection, feature degradation, and spatial-contextual misalignment in UAV-acquired imagery, this paper proposes UAV-DETR, an enhanced Transformer-based object detection model designed...

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  • Open Access
340 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2025

To address the demand for high-precision multi-object real-time detection in factory safety production scenarios, this paper proposes an improved real-time visual detection model. The model is built upon YOLOv8 and introduces the MAStar module to rep...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,827 Views
16 Pages

Improved Object Detection Method Utilizing YOLOv7-Tiny for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photographic Imagery

  • Linhua Zhang,
  • Ning Xiong,
  • Xinghao Pan,
  • Xiaodong Yue,
  • Peng Wu and
  • Caiping Guo

14 November 2023

In unmanned aerial vehicle photographs, object detection algorithms encounter challenges in enhancing both speed and accuracy for objects of different sizes, primarily due to complex backgrounds and small objects. This study introduces the PDWT-YOLO...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,550 Views
15 Pages

LWS-YOLOv7: A Lightweight Water-Surface Object-Detection Model

  • Zhengzhong Li,
  • Hongxiang Ren,
  • Xiao Yang,
  • Delong Wang and
  • Jian Sun

In inland waterways, there is a high density of various objects, with a predominance of small objects, which can easily affect navigation safety. To improve the navigation safety of inland ships, this paper proposes a new lightweight water-surface ob...

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  • Open Access
67 Citations
15,439 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2024

Performing low-latency, high-precision object detection on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with vision sensors holds significant importance. However, the current limitations of embedded UAV devices present challenges in balancing accuracy an...

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  • Open Access
147 Views
30 Pages

Hierarchical Topology Knowledge Extraction for Five-Prevention Wiring Diagrams in Substations

  • Hui You,
  • Dong Yang,
  • Tian Wu,
  • Qing He,
  • Wenyu Zhu,
  • Xiang Ren and
  • Jia Liu

21 January 2026

Five prevention is an important technical means to prevent maloperations in substations, and knowledge extraction from wiring diagrams is the key to intelligent “five prevention logic verification”. To address the error accumulation cause...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,680 Views
24 Pages

20 December 2024

Currently, embedded unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems face significant challenges in balancing detection accuracy and computational efficiency when processing remote sensing images with complex backgrounds, small objects, and occlusions. This pap...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,049 Views
17 Pages

A New Semantic Segmentation Method for Remote Sensing Images Integrating Coordinate Attention and SPD-Conv

  • Zimeng Yang,
  • Qiulan Wu,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Xueshen Zhang,
  • Xuefei Chen and
  • Yue Gao

8 May 2023

Semantic segmentation is an important task for the interpretation of remote sensing images. Remote sensing images are large in size, contain substantial spatial semantic information, and generally exhibit strong symmetry, resulting in images exhibiti...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,754 Views
19 Pages

An Insulator Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multi-Mechanism Optimization YOLOv8

  • Chuang Gong,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Dehua Zou,
  • Weiwei Weng and
  • Hongjun Li

28 September 2024

Aiming at the problem that insulator image backgrounds are complex and fault types are diverse, which makes it difficult for existing deep learning algorithms to achieve accurate insulator fault diagnosis, an insulator fault diagnosis method based on...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,154 Views
22 Pages

DAU-YOLO: A Lightweight and Effective Method for Small Object Detection in UAV Images

  • Zeyu Wan,
  • Yizhou Lan,
  • Zhuodong Xu,
  • Ke Shang and
  • Feizhou Zhang

19 May 2025

Drone object detection serves as a fundamental task for more advanced applications. However, drone images typically exhibit challenges such as small object sizes, dense distributions, and high levels of overlap. Traditional object detection networks...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,072 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Target Detection Algorithm for Fusion Images Based on an Attention Mechanism

  • Zhenge Qu,
  • Zhuoning Dong,
  • Yuxin Guo,
  • Hui Ren and
  • Hongyang Fu

23 June 2025

Due to the inherent limitations of visible-light sensors, monitoring systems that rely solely on single-modal visible-light images exhibit reduced accuracy, posing safety concerns in applications such as autonomous driving. Infrared and visible-light...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,628 Views
26 Pages

16 August 2024

Object detection algorithms for open water aerial images present challenges such as small object size, unsatisfactory detection accuracy, numerous network parameters, and enormous computational demands. Current detection algorithms struggle to meet t...

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  • Open Access
404 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2025

Counting small, densely clustered objects from low-altitude aerial views is challenging due to large scale variations, complex backgrounds, and severe occlusion, which often degrade the performance of fully supervised or density-regression methods. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,054 Views
21 Pages

Real-Time Lightweight Vehicle Object Detection via Layer-Adaptive Model Pruning

  • Yu Zhang,
  • Junhui Zhang,
  • Feng Du,
  • Wenjie Kang,
  • Cen Wang and
  • Guofei Li

23 October 2025

With the rapid advancement in autonomous driving technology, vehicle object detection has become a crucial component of perception systems, where accuracy and inference speed directly influence driving safety. To address the limitations of existing l...

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  • Open Access
1,092 Views
20 Pages

YOLO-AR: An Improved Artificial Reef Segmentation Algorithm Based on YOLOv11

  • Yuxiang Wu,
  • Tingchen Jiang,
  • Zhi Xi,
  • Fei Yin and
  • Xiuping Wang

2 September 2025

Artificial reefs serve as a crucial measure for preventing habitat degradation, enhancing primary productivity in marine areas, and restoring and increasing fishery resources, making them an essential component of marine ranching development. Accurat...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,461 Views
17 Pages

Detecting defects in transmission line insulators is crucial to prevent power grid failures as power systems continue to expand. This study introduces YOL011n-SSA, an enhanced insulator defect detection technique method that addresses the challenges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
855 Views
20 Pages

Pedestrian detection under low illumination and complex environments remains a significant challenge for vision-based systems, particularly in safety-critical applications such as urban rail transit. To address the limitations of single-modality dete...

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  • Open Access
1,105 Views
25 Pages

To address the challenges of real-time monitoring via highway vehicle-mounted cameras—specifically, the difficulty in detecting distant pedestrians and vehicles in real time—this study proposes an enhanced object detection algorithm, YOLO...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,897 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient and Accurate Quality Inspection Model for Steel Scraps Based on Dense Small-Target Detection

  • Pengcheng Xiao,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Liguang Zhu,
  • Wenguang Xu,
  • Yuxin Jin and
  • Rong Zhu

14 August 2024

Scrap steel serves as the primary alternative raw material to iron ore, exerting a significant impact on production costs for steel enterprises. With the annual growth in scrap resources, concerns regarding traditional manual inspection methods, incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,806 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Segformer for Semantic Segmentation of UAV-Based Mine Restoration Scenes

  • Feng Wang,
  • Lizhuo Zhang,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Zhuqi Li,
  • Wangyu Wu and
  • Yingchun Kuang

19 June 2025

Mine ecological restoration is a critical process for promoting the sustainable development of resource-dependent regions, yet existing monitoring methods remain limited in accuracy and adaptability. To address challenges such as small-object recogni...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,494 Views
22 Pages

17 July 2024

In foggy weather, outdoor safety helmet detection often suffers from low visibility and unclear objects, hindering optimal detector performance. Moreover, safety helmets typically appear as small objects at construction sites, prone to occlusion and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,243 Views
20 Pages

Two Novel Models for Traffic Sign Detection Based on YOLOv5s

  • Wei Bai,
  • Jingyi Zhao,
  • Chenxu Dai,
  • Haiyang Zhang,
  • Li Zhao,
  • Zhanlin Ji and
  • Ivan Ganchev

3 February 2023

Object detection and image recognition are some of the most significant and challenging branches in the field of computer vision. The prosperous development of unmanned driving technology has made the detection and recognition of traffic signs crucia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
991 Views
18 Pages

SRW-YOLO: A Detection Model for Environmental Risk Factors During the Grid Construction Phase

  • Yu Zhao,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Qiang He,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Xiaohu Sun and
  • Jiyong Zhang

24 July 2025

With the rapid advancement of UAV-based remote sensing and image recognition techniques, identifying environmental risk factors from aerial imagery has emerged as a focal point in intelligent inspection during the power transmission and distribution...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,978 Views
17 Pages

CaLiJD: Camera and LiDAR Joint Contender for 3D Object Detection

  • Jiahang Lyu,
  • Yongze Qi,
  • Suilian You,
  • Jin Meng,
  • Xin Meng,
  • Sarath Kodagoda and
  • Shifeng Wang

6 December 2024

Three-dimensional object detection has been a key area of research in recent years because of its rich spatial information and superior performance in addressing occlusion issues. However, the performance of 3D object detection still lags significant...

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  • Open Access
257 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2026

Accurate and quantitative detection of boar sperm heads is essential for breeding selection and reproductive management. Manual microscopic counting is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to subjective bias, while existing computer-based algor...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,345 Views
16 Pages

Litchi Detection in a Complex Natural Environment Using the YOLOv5-Litchi Model

  • Jiaxing Xie,
  • Jiajun Peng,
  • Jiaxin Wang,
  • Binhan Chen,
  • Tingwei Jing,
  • Daozong Sun,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Weixing Wang,
  • Jianqiang Lu and
  • Jun Li
  • + 1 author

2 December 2022

Detecting litchis in a complex natural environment is important for yield estimation and provides reliable support to litchi-picking robots. This paper proposes an improved litchi detection model named YOLOv5-litchi for litchi detection in complex na...

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  • Open Access
294 Views
23 Pages

SCOPE-YOLO: An Integrated Super-Resolution and Detection Framework for Power Transmission Tower Monitoring in Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Dachuan Xu,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Shijie Li,
  • Yuhao Ge,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Cheng Su,
  • Zixuan Zhao and
  • Shaohua Wang

6 February 2026

Reliable knowledge of power transmission tower locations is fundamental for large-scale inspection and asset management in modern power grids. However, in satellite and aerial remote sensing imagery, towers typically appear as small, slender structur...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,261 Views
17 Pages

Hazelnut Yield Estimation: A Vision-Based Approach for Automated Counting of Hazelnut Female Flowers

  • Nicola Giulietti,
  • Sergio Tombesi,
  • Michele Bedodi,
  • Carol Sergenti,
  • Marco Carnevale and
  • Hermes Giberti

20 May 2025

Accurate estimation of hazelnut yield is crucial for optimizing resource management and harvest planning. Although the number of female flowers on a flowering plant is a reliable indicator of annual production, counting them remains difficult because...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,964 Views
22 Pages

22 August 2025

Durian is a major tropical crop in Southeast Asia, but its yield and quality are severely impacted by a range of pests and diseases. Manual inspection remains the dominant detection method but suffers from high labor intensity, low accuracy, and diff...

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  • Open Access
749 Views
22 Pages

An Improved YOLOv11-Based Method for Defect Detection in Lyophilized Vial

  • Dengbiao Jiang,
  • Kelong Zhu,
  • Nian Tao and
  • Xingwei Ren

19 November 2025

Lyophilized Vial is the primary packaging form for injectable pharmaceuticals. However, conventional vision-based inspection methods have shown limited effectiveness in detecting Lyophilized Vial defects. Because the defect regions in Lyophilized Via...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,187 Views
15 Pages

Fire Detection and Notification Method in Ship Areas Using Deep Learning and Computer Vision Approaches

  • Kuldoshbay Avazov,
  • Muhammad Kafeel Jamil,
  • Bahodir Muminov,
  • Akmalbek Bobomirzaevich Abdusalomov and
  • Young-Im Cho

10 August 2023

Fire incidents occurring onboard ships cause significant consequences that result in substantial effects. Fires on ships can have extensive and severe wide-ranging impacts on matters such as the safety of the crew, cargo, the environment, finances, r...

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