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Joaquim Miguel, Pedro Mendonça, Agnelo Quelhas, João M. L. P. Caldeira and Vasco N. G. J. Soares
Hiking and cycling have become popular activities for promoting well-being and physical activity. Portugal has been investing in hiking and cycling trail infrastructures to boost sustainable tourism. However, the lack of reliable data on the use of these...
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Arun A. Ravindran
The falling cost of IoT cameras, the advancement of AI-based computer vision algorithms, and powerful hardware accelerators for deep learning have enabled the widespread deployment of surveillance cameras with the ability to automatically analyze streami...
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Eduardo S. Guimarães, Ronaldo C. D. Gabriel, Artur A. Sá, Rafael C. Soares, Paulo Felipe R. Bandeira, Isabella Hevily S. Torquato, Helena Moreira, Michel M. Marques and Jaqueliny R. S. Guimarães
In this investigation, we formulated the Ecosystem?s Health Provision Spectrum and its centrality indicators, based on the identification of the Ecosystem Health Potentials and Opportunities on the trails of Santo Sepulcro and Riacho do Meio in the Arari...
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Shiou Yih Lee, Chengju Du, Zhihui Chen, Hao Wu, Kailang Guan, Yirong Liu, Yongjie Cui, Wenyan Li, Qiang Fan and Wenbo Liao
Hiking is a popular recreational activity and to cater to public demand, it is apt to increase the number of hiking trails. Various methodologies have been proposed to evaluate the suitability of forest trails to be constructed as hiking trails, but they...
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Wenyu Sun, Qiong Hu, Shiliang Hu, Jia Su, Jie Xu, Jinfang Wei and Guofu Huang
Accurate prediction of the self-propulsion performance is one of the most important factors for the energy-efficient design of a ship. In general, the hydrodynamic performance of a full-scale ship could be achieved by model-scale simulation or towing tan...
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Ivis García and Jeni Crookston
This article explores concepts related to connectivity and usership of the Jordan River Parkway Trail (JRPT) and the North Temple corridor?two locations or nodes that link together in a larger transportation network along the west side of Salt Lake City,...
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Guðrún Helgadóttir and Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir
The geological aspects of tourism are much more extensive than just places to be viewed and/or experienced. The terrain traveled is also a geological phenomenon and an attraction in itself. For a hiker or a rider the type of trail is important. Features ...
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Eric R. Labelle, Gaetan Pelletier and Michel Soucy
Variations in species composition, diameter and height distributions, and quality make the management of hardwood-dominated stands difficult, particularly when considering mechanized forest operations. This study aimed to develop and field test a tool de...
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Adam H. Love and Andy Zdon
Estimating groundwater recharge in arid or semiarid regions can be a difficult and complex task, since it is dependent on a highly variable set of spatial and temporal hydrologic parameters and processes that are dependent on the local climate, the land ...
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Xinyi Wu, Spencer A. Wood, David Fisher, Greg Lindsey
Decision makers need information on the use of, and demand for, public recreation and transportation facilities. Innovations in monitoring technologies and diffusion of social media enable new approaches to estimation of demand. We assess the feasibility...
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Julian J. Zemke
Forestry operations can significantly alter hydrological and erosional processes in a catchment. In the course of developing timberland, a network of persistent roads and skid trails causing soil compaction is usually established. Hereby, the infiltratio...
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Lindsay Nolan, Wallace M. Aust, Scott M. Barrett, Michael C. Bolding, Kristopher Brown and Kevin McGuire
Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used for protection of water quality at forest stream crossings, yet effects and costs for gradients of BMPs are not well documented. We evaluated forty-two truck road and skid trail stream crossings using th...
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John R. Ottensmann, Greg Lindsey
The standard Hansen measure of accessibility is extended to provide a use-based measure of accessibility reflecting the elasticity of use with respect to the level of provision of facilities. This is further extended to provide a measure of accessibility...
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Erich Gams,Karl Rehrl,Daniel Kaschl
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Asking other people the way has always been a widespread social wayfinding technique. In recent years wayfinding in unknown spatial environments has increasingly been supported by electronic navigation assistants. However, the social aspects of wayfindin...
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Steven Bouma, Christophe Hurter and Alexandru Telea
Creating simplified visualizations of large 3D trail sets with limited occlusion and preservation of the main structures in the data is challenging. We address this challenge for the specific context of 3D fiber trails created by DTI tractography. For th...
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Rémi Chevallier, Marc Shapiro, Zebediah Engberg, Manuel Soler and Daniel Delahaye
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Julian J. Zemke, Michel Enderling, Alexander Klein and Marc Skubski
This study discusses the influence of soil compaction on runoff generation with a special focus on forested Andosol sites. Because of their typical soil physical characteristics (low bulk density, high pore volumes) and the existent land use, these areas...
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Deborah Lee,Stephen G. Hosking,Mario du Preez
AbstractMany valuations have been made of changes to in-estuary attributes, but few have been made of out-of-estuary attributes. From a recreation perspective, an important type of out-of-estuary attribute is the availability of public paths by which to ...
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Samuel Teague and Javaan Chahl
Strapdown celestial imaging sensors provide a compact, lightweight alternative to their gimbaled counterparts. Strapdown imaging systems typically require a wider field of view, and consequently longer exposure intervals, leading to significant motion bl...
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Nikola Ivkovic, Robert Kudelic and Marin Golub
Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a well-known class of swarm intelligence algorithms suitable for solving many NP-hard problems. An important component of such algorithms is a record of pheromone trails that reflect colonies? experiences with previously ...
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