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Derrick Reeves,Mark Coleman,Deborah Page-Dumroese
Many public land management agencies monitor forest soils for levels of disturbance related to management activities. Although several soil disturbance monitoring protocols based on visual observation have been developed to assess the amount and types of...
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Chuck Bulmer,Shannon Berch,Mike Curran,Bill Chapman,Marty Kranabetter,Stephane Dube,Graeme Hope,Paul Courtin,Richard Kabzems
In British Columbia and elsewhere, governments are evaluating the sustainability of forest practices. This requires the development of sensitive and reliable indicators and their monitoring over time. Conserving soil productivity and hydrologic function ...
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Julian Oeser, Dirk Pflugmacher, Cornelius Senf, Marco Heurich and Patrick Hostert
The attribution of forest disturbances to disturbance agents is a critical challenge for remote sensing-based forest monitoring, promising important insights into drivers and impacts of forest disturbances. Previous studies have used spectral-temporal me...
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Cong Nie, Dongming Zhang, Linghan Ouyang, Xu Huang, Bo Zhang and Yue Tong
Undercrossing construction can cause severe structural deformation of the above existing tunnel in operation. The induced longitudinal differential settlement between the segments can pose a huge risk to running subways, hence it is of great importance t...
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Elizabeth Brunton, Jessica Bolin, Javier Leon and Scott Burnett
Drones are often considered an unobtrusive method of monitoring terrestrial wildlife; however research into whether drones disturb wildlife is in its early stages. This research investigated the potential impacts of drone monitoring on a large terrestria...
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Pamela Wright
Within protected areas, the impacts of climate change have been the subject of discussion for over two decades. Reported impacts included changes to species and habitat distributions, sea level rise, glaciation and snow packs, hydrologic processes, and d...
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Xigui Wang, Jian Zhang, Yongmei Wang and Chen Li
An improved Self-Turbulent Flow (STF) algorithm is proposed. A mathematical model of the Electrohydraulic Servo (EHS) control system for Lubricating Oil Static Pressure (LOSP) acquisition is presented, and the STF controller is designed for numerical ana...
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Robert Treuhaft, Yang Lei, Fabio Gonçalves, Michael Keller, João Roberto dos Santos, Maxim Neumann and André Almeida
Changes in tropical-forest structure and aboveground biomass (AGB) contribute directly to atmospheric changes in CO 2 , which, in turn, bear on global climate. This paper demonstrates the capability of radar-interferometric phase-height time series at...
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Gang Cheng, Zhenxue Wang, Ye Wang, Bin Shi, Tianbin Li, Jinghong Wu, Haoyu Zhang and Qinliang You
In recent years, with the superposition of extreme climate, earthquakes, engineering disturbance and other effects, global landslide disasters occur frequently. Due to reservoir landslides being mostly in a multi-field coupling environment, the temperatu...
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Dengqun Wang, Shuaihua Ye and Liangliang Xin
This study aims to apply performance-based safety-assessment methods to the monitoring and numerical simulation of excavation engineering projects in order to comprehensively enhance engineering risk management and decision support. In this paper, a deep...
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Zhe Wang, Weihao Feng, Shuwei Wu, Pengfei Wu, Sifa Xu, Zewei Yao and Jiuchun Sun
Recently, many studies have been conducted on the stratum deformation induced by earth pressure balance (EPB) shield tunneling in soft soil and sand. Movement laws vary largely among different strata. However, at present, relevant research mainly focuses...
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Dede Aulia Rahman, Andre Bonardo Yonathan Sitorus and Aryo Adhi Condro
Biodiversity monitoring is crucial in tackling defaunation in the Anthropocene, particularly in tropical ecosystems. However, field surveys are often limited by habitat complexity, logistical constraints, financing and detectability. Hence, leveraging dr...
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Ricardo Díaz-Delgado and Sander Mücher
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Conservation. Managers, owners, companies and sc...
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Oskar Natan, Agus Indra Gunawan, Bima Sena Bayu Dewantara
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Maintaining the water quality of a pond is one of the main issues on aquaculture management. Water quality represents the condition of a pond based on several water parameters such as dissolved oxygen (DO), temperature, pH, and salinity. All of these par...
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Asier R. Larrinaga and Lluis Brotons
During recent years unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used for research and application in both agriculture and forestry. Nevertheless, most of this work has been devoted to improving accuracy and explanatory power, often at the cost...
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Astika Bhugeloo, Kabir Peerbhay, Syd Ramdhani and Sershen
Natural and human-induced disturbances influence the biodiversity and functionality of forest ecosystems. Regular, repeated assessments of canopy intactness are essential to map site-specific forest disturbance and recovery patterns, an essential require...
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Darius Kavaliauskas, Barbara Fussi, Marjana Westergren, Filippos Aravanopoulos, Domen Finzgar, Roland Baier, Paraskevi Alizoti, Gregor Bozic, Evangelia Avramidou, Monika Konnert and Hojka Kraigher
The conservation and sustainable use of forests and forest genetic resources (FGR) is a challenging task for scientists and foresters. Forest management practices can affect diversity on various levels: genetic, species, and ecosystem. Understanding past...
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Jose M. Bernal-de-Lázaro
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This article summarizes the main contributions of the PhD thesis titled: "Application of learning techniques based on kernel methods for the fault diagnosis in Industrial processes". This thesis focuses on the analysis and design of fault diagnosis syste...
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Ninghao Shi, Yingze Zhao, Baixuan Zhao, Kaifeng Zheng, Yupeng Chen, Yuxin Qin, Weibiao Wang, Jinguang Lv and Jingqiu Liang
Infrared multispectral imaging technology can achieve the long-distance, wide-ranging and fast detection of target gas, and has been widely used in the fields of dangerous-gas detection and environmental monitoring. However, due to the difficulty in acqu...
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Gianpietro Di Rito, Romain Kovel, Marco Nardeschi, Nicola Borgarelli and Benedetto Luciano
The work deals with the model-based characterization of the failure transients of a fail-safe rotary EMA developed by Umbragroup (Italy) for the flap movables of the RACER helicopter-plane by Airbus Helicopters (France). Since the reference application r...
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