Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) represents the interaction between human societies and the natural environment. Studies of LUCC simulation allow for the analysis of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) patterns in a given region. Moreover, these stud...
Accurate simulation of pollution load at basin scale is very important for controlling pollution. Although data-driven models are increasingly popular in water environment studies, they are not extensively utilized in the simulation of pollution load...
Land use/cover change (LUCC) refers to the phenomenon of changes in the Earth’s surface over time. Accurate prediction of LUCC is crucial for guiding policy formulation and resource management, contributing to the sustainable use of land, and m...
The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has been widely applied for flooding mapping based on change detection approaches. However, errors in the mapping result are expected since not all land-cover changes are flood-induced, and those changes are...
Lightning-induced forest fires frequently inflict substantial damage on forest ecosystems, with the Daxing’anling region in northern China recognized as a high-incidence region for such phenomena. To elucidate the occurrence patterns of forest...
Oasis regions in arid northwestern China represent critical interfaces for watershed ecological security and rural sustainable development. However, under escalating resource constraints and intensifying human–land conflicts, the disorderly exp...
The system subject, resilience capacity, and factor endowment are the core elements of resilient city construction. A rational assessment of urban resilience is crucial for transforming the urban governance paradigm. This study develops an analytical...
As an important ecological hinterland in Hunan Province, the Dongting Lake area has an irreplaceable role in regional socioeconomic development. However, owing to rapid environmental changes and complex land use relationships, land use/land cover (LU...
The ecological health of Hebei Province is critical to the sustainable development of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. However, the increasing intensity of land use in recent years has placed significant pressure on local ecosystems, mak...
As a core city in central China and a key node of the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan (CZT) Metropolitan Area, Changsha has experienced profound territorial space restructuring amid rapid urbanization and high-quality development. This study fo...
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The prevention and control of dengue are great public health challenges for many countries, particularly since 2015, as other arboviruses have been observed to interact significantly with dengue virus. Different approaches and methodologies have been...
Dynamic visual simulation of flood risk is crucial for scientific and intelligent emergency management of flood disasters, in which data quality, availability, visualization, and interoperability are important. Here, a seamless integration of a spati...
It is important to carry out timely scientific assessments of surface subsidence in coal resource cities for ecological environmental protection. Traditional subsidence simulation methods cannot quantitatively describe the driving factors that contri...
The issue of geotechnical hazards induced by excavation in soft soil areas has become increasingly prominent. However, the retaining structure and surface settlement deformation induced by the creep of soft soil and spatial effect of the excavation s...
Mangrove forests are important woody plant communities that grow in the intertidal zone between land and sea. They provide important social, ecological and economic services to coastal areas. In recent years, the growth environment of mangrove forest...
As an important component of the global carbon cycle, the variation patterns and driving mechanisms of the productivity and carbon sink capacity of subtropical forest ecosystems urgently need in-depth research. In this study, taking the forest ecosys...
Human movements in urban areas are essential to understand human–environment interactions. However, activities and associated movements are full of uncertainties due to the complexity of a city. In this paper, we propose a novel sensor-based ap...
The middle reaches of the Yangtze River are important bases for high-tech, advanced manufacturing, and modern service industries in China, as well as a demonstration area for the coordination of economic and ecological construction, which plays an im...
Researches on agricultural land use would help the stakeholders to make better decisions about agricultural resources. However, studies on agricultural land have been lacking. In this context, Xiangxi was chosen as a typical region, and five indicato...
This study aimed to simulate the spatiotemporal variation in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) growth and lint yield using a remote sensing-integrated crop model (RSCM) for cotton. The developed modeling scheme incorporated proximal sensing data and sat...
Cultivated land plays a crucial role as the basis of grain production, and it is essential to effectively manage the unregulated expansion of non-grain production (NGP) on cultivated land in order to safeguard food security. The study of NGP has garn...
Mine safety is of primary concern in the underground coal mining system. At present, there is a lack of an efficient platform to manage the numerical simulation procedure and inherent spatiotemporal data for coal mine disasters. This necessitates the...
The carbon cycle of forest ecosystems is a component of the global terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle, and the productivity of forest ecosystems is significantly influenced by vegetation phenology. In this investigation, we simulated the spatiotempor...
As a prominent forest pest on international quarantine lists, pine wilt disease (PWD) is characterized by its ease of transmission, rapid onset, high mortality rate, and the complexity of its prevention and control. The disease inflicts devastating d...
To obtain high-precision precipitation simulation results, different types of rainfall events in the Ili Region are simulated by using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with different physical parameterization schemes. According to the...
As climate change intensifies, extreme drought events have become more frequent, and investigating the mechanisms of watershed drought has become highly significant for basin water resource management. This study utilizes the WRF-Hydro model in conju...
The WRF model often struggles to accurately replicate specific characteristics of the atmospheric boundary layer, particularly under highly stable conditions. In this study, we reconstructed an OBS-nudging module using meteorological data with high s...
Subtropical forests have great potential as carbon sinks; however, the relationship between net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and climate change is still unclear. This study took Zhejiang Province, a subtropical region, as an example. Based on remote...
Land use/land cover changes (LULCC) have been affected by ecological processes as well as socioeconomic and human activities, resulting in several environmental problems. The study of the human–environment system combined with land use/land cover dyn...
Deep foundation excavation in water-rich sand strata presents complex deformation characteristics driven by fluid–solid interaction, which distinguishes it from excavations in cohesive soft clay. This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolu...
Simulating spatiotemporal land use and land cover change (LUCC) data precisely under future climate scenarios is an important basis for revealing the carbon cycle response of forest ecosystems to LUCC. In this paper, a coupling model consisting of a...
The processes of land use and cover change (LUCC) are highly diverse and complex, being heavily influenced by natural factors, economic factors, and other related factors. These changes have a significant impact on ecological environments and landsca...
Route choice is a complex issue in simulating individual behaviors and reproducing collective phenomena during evacuations. A growing concern has been given to the individual cognitive mechanism to investigate how routing decisions are made in specif...
Cropland is crucial for food production, food security, and economic stability, especially in high-altitude Tibetan regions where it is limited. This study investigates the spatiotemporal changes and driving factors of cropland in the Yarlung Zangbo...
Early-age cracking remains a major durability challenge for concrete. It is primarily caused by internal restraint stresses induced by humidity and temperature gradients during hydration. Conventional approaches often fail to capture the coupled and...
Represention and modeling the dynamic landslide scenes is essential for gaining a comprehensive understanding and managing them effectively. Existing models, which focus on a single scale make it difficult to fully express the complex, multi-scale sp...
Most simulation-based noise maps are important for official noise assessment but lack local noise characteristics. The main reasons for this lack of information are that official noise simulations only provide information about expected noise levels,...
The spring flowering of tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) not only attract tens of million tourists every year, but it can also serve as a bio-indicator of climate change. Examining climate-associated spatiotemporal changes in peony flowering can con...
A predictive model for the spatiotemporal distribution of electric vehicle (EV) charging load is proposed in this paper, considering multimodal travel behavior and microscopic traffic simulation. Firstly, the characteristic variables of travel time a...
Slow waves (SWs) are spatio-temporal patterns of cortical activity that occur both during natural sleep and anesthesia and are preserved across species. Even though electrophysiological recordings have been largely used to characterize brain states,...
Physical simulations aim at modeling and computing spatio-temporal phenomena. As the simulations depend on initial conditions and/or parameter settings whose impact is to be investigated, a larger number of simulation runs is commonly executed. Analy...
Natural environmental factors and human activity intensity factors, the two main factors that affect the spatial and temporal distribution of PM2.5 concentration near the surface, have different mechanisms of action on PM2.5 concentration. In this pa...
The unreasonable development of land use and use of landscape patterns are the primary causes of the unsustainable growth of tourism cities. Dawa District, a well-known tourist destination in China, was chosen as the research object in order to scien...
Analysis of urban area function is crucial for urban development. Urban area function features can help to conduct better urban planning and transportation planning. With development of urbanization, urban area function becomes complex. In order to a...
As typical dynamic loads, electric vehicles (EVs) introduce significant uncertainty into distribution network operations due to the randomness of their travel behavior and charging demand. To achieve precise spatiotemporal forecasting of charging loa...
Ground deformation is a major geohazard in many urban areas, requiring reliable monitoring and forecasting for hazard mitigation. Although Multi-Temporal InSAR enables high-resolution deformation monitoring, most prediction approaches rely on single-...
The temporal evolution of individual grip force profiles of a novice using a robotic system for minimally invasive endoscopic surgery is analyzed on the basis of thousands of individual sensor data recorded in real time through a wearable wireless se...
To investigate the spatiotemporal distribution of early-age hydration heat-induced temperature fields, this study integrates distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technology with a thermal parameter finite element model (FEM). First, a high-precisio...
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Land use and land cover change is driven by multiple influential factors from environmental and social dimensions in a land system. Land use practices of human decision-makers modify the landscape of the land system, possibly leading to landscape fra...
In pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), land cover change (LCC) has been utilized to explore different dynamic processes such as farmland abandonment and urban expansion. The study proposed a multi-scale spatiotemporal pattern analysis an...
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