Vegetation is the most important component of the terrestrial ecosystem. Scientific and quantitative analysis of changes in vegetation quality is of great significance to the realization of ecosystem sustainability. Based on data of remote sensing an...
The Grain for Green Project (GGP) is an essential ecological system protection and restoration measure which can effectively improve the ecological environment. Constructing ecological monitoring system and obtaining ecological parameters can scienti...
The Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS) is a web application that provides free access to solar radiation and temperature data, typical meteorological year (TMY) data, and to photovoltaic performance assessment tools for any place in...
As the second largest power source in the world, hydropower plays a crucial role in the operation of power systems. This paper focuses on the key issues of regulating hydropower stations participating in the spot market. It aims at the core challenge...
Antarctica’s aerodynamic roughness length (z0m) is crucial for surface energy exchange and atmospheric modeling, but its remote sensing estimation remains challenging due to complex ice-surface conditions and limited observations. To address th...
During the 1995 Kobe earthquake, damages were observed in the Daikai subway station and adjacent tunnels. It was the first large-scale underground structure that failed under the earthquake excitation. Numerical and experimental analyses have been co...
Gasoline evaporation is a significant source of urban volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this study, we selected Nanjing, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta of China, and developed a high-resolution (1 km × 1 km) gridded VOC species emi...
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been promoted and implemented worldwide through the efficient integration of rail transit stations and land use. However, the interactions between stations and the surrounding catchment areas (CAs) are character...
Currently, the performance analysis of positioning algorithms and optimization of ground station deployment schemes are predominantly based on pure TOA or TDOA measurement information, and the relevant theoretical analysis is primarily the geometric...
It is difficult to adapt the traditional section margin distribution method to the power system with a high proportion of renewable energy generation (REG). This paper proposes a section margin allocation method of REG clusters considering the random...
Sustainable development is an important trend for railway stations, and public facilities are essential parts of railway stations. With the sustainable development of railway station construction, the aesthetic design of public facilities is a proble...
Air pollution by particulate matter (PM) is recognized as a one of the most important environmental issue. A particular attention is being paid to fine PM fraction (PM2.5, PM1.0) due to its detrimental impact on human health and long-term persistence...
Solar energy technology is now a mature and environmentally friendly solution. Long-term and credible solar radiation data are required for energy assessments of solar applications. Due to the lack of a typical year and accurate, long-term global sol...
This study proposes a new method for predicting air quality in major industrialized cities around the world. In some big cities, multiple air quality measurement stations are deployed at different locations to monitor air pollutants, such as NO2, CO,...
Multipath is one of the most challenging factors to model and/or characterize in the GNSS observation error budget. In the case of ground stations, code phase static multipath is typically the largest contributor of local observation errors. Current...
From 15 to 20 September 2016, precipitation extremes occurred in the middle and lower reaches of the Jinsha River, causing immense direct economic losses due to floods. The current research on extreme climate characteristics and the relationship betw...
Of particular interest within fifth generation (5G) cellular networks are the typical levels of radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted by ‘small cells’, low-power base stations, which are installed such that both worker...
The problem of the quality of electric energy in the utilization of petroleum gas is considered. The article presents the results of the development of a mathematical description of power supply systems with gas turbine power stations based on two-sh...
Large-scale hydro–wind–solar systems require scenario sets that represent cross-resource dependence without losing station-level and intra-day characteristics. A remaining challenge is to connect cluster-level joint modeling with station...
Metro stations serve as critical hubs for passenger gathering and scattering. Under disturbing scenarios, a station’s ability to respond to disturbances, named resilience, fundamentally governs the operational stability, sustainability and emer...
The superheater and re-heater piping components in supercritical thermal power units are prone to creep and fatigue failure fracture after extensive use due to the high pressure and temperature environment. Therefore, safety assessment for superheate...
Elevated stations serve as critical hubs in urban rail transit engineering. The structure of multi-line “building-bridge integrated” elevated stations is unique, with intricate force transfer paths and challenges to clarify dynamic coupli...
Numerical weather prediction models require an accurate parametrization of the energy budget at the air-ground interface, that can be obtained only through long-term atmospheric boundary layer measurements at different spatial and temporal scales. De...
The technological triangle is a non-mathematical representation of the relationship between the characteristics of transport infrastructure, modes of transport, and the operational concept in a specific region. It is only through the synergistic effe...
The trend of global warming remains severe. As one of the major sources of carbon emissions, the construction industry still requires large-scale and effective transformations. This study, grounded in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) theory, carbon emissi...
Taking two typical subway stations in Xi’an as the research objects, the thermal environment and human thermal comfort of the station in summer were studied based on field measurements and a questionnaire survey. Based on the relative warmth in...
Soil moisture (SM) measurements from ground stations are often after quality control (QC) in the operational system, but the QC flags may not be reliable in some cases when precipitation events or manual watering happen. This study applies the triple...
In recent years, several authors have highlighted the merits of the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA), e.g., compared to Cost-Benefits Analysis (CBA), particularly for small projects appraisal (e.g., revamping or extraordinary maintenance interventio...
Thanks to IoT, Internet access, and low-cost sensors, it has become possible to increase the number of weather measuring points; hence, the density of the deployment of sources that provide weather data for the needs of large recipients, for example,...
High-quality rainfall data are crucial for accurately forecasting flash floods and runoff simulations. However, traditional correction methods often overlook errors in rainfall-monitoring data. We established a screening system to identify anomalous...
To effectively and objectively evaluate the spatial efficiency of rail transit station areas, seventeen typical rail station areas in Xi’an were selected as the research object. An evaluation system for spatial efficiency was constructed based...
Electric vehicles have emerged as one of the top environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. The development of a comprehensive charging infrastructure, particularly determining the optimal locations for...
This article deals with the major challenge of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in urban areas—installing as many fast charging stations as necessary and using them as efficiently as possible, while considering grid level power limitati...
With the rapid development of the hydrogen energy industry, hydrogen refueling stations have become a critical component of hydrogen infrastructure, and the operational performance of their core compression equipment directly affects the safety and r...
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While the fear of theft is common and is known to lead to lower satisfaction with life and subjective well-being, current literature regards the fear of theft as a stable psychological state and ignores discrepancies based on location and their influ...
Passive Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectral imaging technology is easily affected by complex background radiation for leakage monitoring at natural gas stations, leading to low gas identification sensitivity, poor detection accuracy and a high...
This paper presents a new model based on the Monte Carlo simulation method for considering the uncertainty of electric vehicles’ charging station’s load in a day-ahead operation optimization of a smart micro-grid. In the proposed model, s...
In order to obtain reliable energy simulation results, it is essential to have accurate climate files corresponding to specific geographical locations. The present work describes a selection process of the Typical Meteorological Months (TMM) that wil...
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been recognised as a sustainable planning approach and that is typically designed for a whole city. Individual land use characteristics and the causations have often been ignored. Therefore, the primary objectiv...
Data for solar radiation resources play a pivotal role in assessing the energy yield capability of solar applications. A nationwide database for the typical meteorological year from the 30 weather stations of the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) in Taiwa...
Building energy simulations are normally run through Typical Weather Years (TWYs) that reflect the average trend of local long-term weather data. This paper presents a research aimed at generating updated typical weather files for the city of Catania...
The effective delineation of fire station response zones is critical for urban public safety planning, yet traditional methods often fail to account for dynamic traffic conditions, leading to suboptimal resource allocation. This study proposes a nove...
The placement of electric vehicle charging stations is typically accomplished using mathematical optimization methods or by calculating average distances. However, this design approach is not suitable for mountainous roads in the Andes Mountain range...
Under the “dual carbon” goals, enhancing the energy supply for communication base stations is crucial for energy conservation and emission reduction. An individual base station with wind/photovoltaic (PV)/storage system exhibits limited s...
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely adopted in urban planning to alleviate traffic congestion, urban sprawl, and other problems. The TOD metro station area, as a dynamic and open spatial system, presents typical complex features. To im...
Accurate short-term PM10 forecasting is difficult because pollutant dynamics vary across monitoring locations, while sufficient target-station history is not always available due to new deployments, sensor outages, or quality-control filtering. Spati...
The development of electric vehicles has significant value for the sustainable utilization of energy resources. However, the unreasonable construction of charging stations causes problems such as low user satisfaction, waste of land resources, unstab...
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning is currently a common practice thanks to the development of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The possibility to obtain raw GNSS measurements, such as pseudoranges and carrier-phase,...
With the rapid development of hydrogen vehicle technology and large scale fuel cell vehicle (FCV) demonstration project worldwide, more hydrogen refueling stations need to be built. Safety distances of hydrogen refueling stations have always been a p...
Under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, renewable energy projects gradually receive due attention, among which the photovoltaic power stations in Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park represents the most typical power stations in Pakistan. The constructi...
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