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Younghun Jung, Dongkyun Kim, Dongwook Kim, Munmo Kim and Seung Oh Lee
This study suggests an approach to obtain flood extent boundaries using spatial analysis based on Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper imageries and the digital elevation model. The suggested approach firstly extracts the flood inundation areas using the ISODATA im...
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Yafeng Wang, Eryuan Liang, Shalik Ram Sigdel, Bo Liu and J. Julio Camarero
Little is known about the relationships between treeline elevation and climate at regional and local scales. It is compelling to fill this research gap with data from the Tibetan Plateau where some of the highest alpine treelines in the world are found. ...
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Alphonse Kayiranga, Felix Ndayisaba, Lamek Nahayo, Fidele Karamage, Jean Baptiste Nsengiyumva, Christophe Mupenzi and Enan Muhire Nyesheja
This paper aimed to investigate the influence of climatic and topographic factors on the distribution of vegetation in the Virunga Volcanoes Massif using GIS and remote sensing techniques. The climatic variables considered were precipitation, Land Surfac...
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Alphonse Kayiranga, Felix Ndayisaba, Lamek Nahayo, Fidele Karamage, Jean Baptiste Nsengiyumva, Christophe Mupenzi and Enan Muhire Nyesheja
This paper aimed to investigate the influence of climatic and topographic factors on the distribution of vegetation in the Virunga Volcanoes Massif using GIS and remote sensing techniques. The climatic variables considered were precipitation, Land Surfac...
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Zain Nawaz, Xin Li, Yingying Chen, Yanlong Guo, Xufeng Wang and Naima Nawaz
Identifying the changes in precipitation and temperature at a regional scale is of great importance for the quantification of climate change. This research investigates the changes in precipitation and surface air temperature indices in the seven irrigat...
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Mintesinot Taye, Belay Simane, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Shimelis Setegn and Yihenew G. Selassie
The association between elevation (agro-climatic zones, ACZs) and the mean annual total rainfall (MATRF) is not straightforward in different parts of the world. This study sought to estimate the amount of MATRF across four elevation zones of Jema watersh...
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Zhaoqi Wang, Xiang Liu, Hao Wang, Kai Zheng, Honglin Li, Gaini Wang and Zhifang An
The Three-River Source Region (TRSR) is vital to the ecological security of China. However, the impact of global warming on the dynamics of vegetation along the elevation gradient in the TRSR remains unclear. Accordingly, we used multi-source remote sens...
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Miroslaw Kaminski
The paper discusses the impact that the quality of the digital elevation model (DEM) has on the final result of landslide susceptibility modeling (LSM). The landslide map was developed on the basis of the analysis of archival geological maps and the Ligh...
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Dingfang Chen, Mei Yu, Grizelle González, Xiaoming Zou and Qiong Gao
Tropical forests play an important role in regulating the global climate and the carbon cycle. With the changing temperature and moisture along the elevation gradient, the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Northeastern Puerto Rico provides a natural approa...
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Yan Li, Julian R. Thompson, Hengpeng Li
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Sparse climatic observations represent a major challenge for hydrological modeling of mountain catchments with implications for decision-making in water resources management. Employing elevation bands in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool-Sequential Unce...
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Yan Li, Julian R. Thompson and Hengpeng Li
Sparse climatic observations represent a major challenge for hydrological modeling of mountain catchments with implications for decision-making in water resources management. Employing elevation bands in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool-Sequential Unce...
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Serge Riazanoff, Axel Corseaux, Clément Albinet, Peter A. Strobl, Carlos López-Vázquez, Peter L. Guth and Takeo Tadono
In recent decades, an important number of regional and global digital elevation models (DEMs) have been released publicly. As a consequence, researchers need to choose between several of these models to perform their studies and to use these DEMs as thir...
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Ge Yan, Guoan Tang, Dingyang Lu, Junfei Ma, Xin Yang and Fayuan Li
The intervalley plain is an important type of landform for mapping, and it has good connectivity for urban construction and development on the Loess Plateau. During the global landform mapping of the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Big Science Program, it ...
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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Dong-Min Seo, Hyun-Jung Woo, Won-Hwa Hong, Hyuncheol Seo and Wook-Jung Na
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been employed to perform aerial surveys in many industries owing to their versatility, relatively low cost, and efficiency. Ground control points (GCPs) are used for georeferencing to ensure orthophoto geolocation/pos...
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Marisa Marques Gouveia, Natasha Nonemacher Magni, Carina Lurdes Lopes, Américo Soares Ribeiro, João Miguel Dias and Helena Silva
Salt marshes are among the most valuable ecosystems on earth; however, previous research has reported global losses in their extent accompanied by an impairment of their ecological processes. Nonetheless, investigations on salt marsh vegetation ecology a...
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Uk-Jae Lee, Dong-Hui Ko and Hong-Yeon Cho
In this study, a smoothing method was applied to improve the accuracy of peak wave period estimation using water surface elevation data collected from two oceanographic and meteorological observation towers situated on the western coast of the Korean Pen...
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Hoyong Kim, Chanil Jeon, Kiwon Kim and Jeonghwa Seo
The present study suggests a methodology for acquiring wave elevation fields using a depth camera sensor, with assessment results for the test uncertainty. The depth camera module of an Azure Kinect is calibrated using marker arrays on the optic table, t...
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Manuel Antonio Ureña-Cámara and Antonio Tomás Mozas-Calvache
This study describes a new algorithm developed to detect local cells of minimum or maximum heights in grid Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). DEMs have a low variance in digital levels due to the spatial continuity of the data. Traditional algorithms, such...
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Yusef Ahsini, Pablo Díaz-Masa, Belén Inglés, Ana Rubio, Alba Martínez, Aina Magraner and J. Alberto Conejero
With the increasing demand for online shopping and home delivery services, optimizing the routing of electric delivery vehicles in urban areas is crucial to reduce environmental pollution and improve operational efficiency. To address this opportunity, w...
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