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Sotiris Valkaniotis, George Papathanassiou, Vassilis Marinos, Charalampos Saroglou, Dimitrios Zekkos, Vasileios Kallimogiannis, Efstratios Karantanellis, Ioannis Farmakis, Georgios Zalachoris, John Manousakis and Olga-Joan Ktenidou
Medicanes, a type of strong hurricanes/cyclones occurring in the Mediterranean, can be the source of major geohazard events in Mediterranean coastal and inland areas. Medicane Ianos that hit Greece during 17?19 September 2020 caused widespread damage, wi...
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Dimitrios Trigkakis, George Petrakis, Achilleas Tripolitsiotis and Panagiotis Partsinevelos
GNSS positioning accuracy can be degraded in areas where the surrounding object geometry and morphology interacts with the GNSS signals. Specifically, urban environments pose challenges to precise GNSS positioning because of signal interference or interr...
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Damian Wierzbicki and Marcin Nienaltowski
In the last few years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with compact digital cameras, have become a cheap and efficient alternative to classic aerial photogrammetry and close-range photogrammetry. Low-altitude photogrammetry has great potential n...
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Ahmed Yosri, Maysara Ghaith, Mohamed Ismaiel Ahmed and Wael El-Dakhakhni
The efficient management and remediation of contaminated fractured aquifers necessitate an accurate prediction of the spatial distribution of contaminant concentration within the system. Related existing analytical solutions are only applicable to single...
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Qiang Chen, Cuiping Zhong, Changfeng Jing, Yuanyuan Li, Beilei Cao and Qianhao Cheng
In order to achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to green spaces, monitoring dynamic urban green spaces (UGSs) in cities around the world is crucial. Continuous dynamic UGS mapping is challenged by large computatio...
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Ilyas Yalcin, Sultan Kocaman and Candan Gokceoglu
Nowadays several scientific disciplines utilize Citizen Science (CitSci) as a research approach. Natural hazard research and disaster management also benefit from CitSci since people can provide geodata and the relevant attributes using their mobile devi...
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Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Constantin Cazacu and Mihai Adamescu
Long-term ecological research (LTER) sites need a periodic assessment of the state of their ecosystems and services in order to monitor trends and prevent irreversible changes. The ecological integrity (EI) framework opens the door to evaluate any ecosys...
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Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Constantin Cazacu and Mihai Adamescu
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Jan Cromwijk, Carolina Mateo-Cecilia, Cristina Jareño-Escudero, Veronika Schröpfer and Peter Op?t Veld
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Daniel Hein, Thomas Kraft, Jörg Brauchle and Ralf Berger
Security applications such as management of natural disasters and man-made incidents crucially depend on the rapid availability of a situation picture of the affected area. UAV-based remote sensing systems may constitute an essential tool for capturing a...
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Wen Jiang, True Miller, Troy Barlow, Nathan Boyle and Rusi P. Taleyarkhan
A novel solid-state neutron and gamma radiation monitor-dosimeter based on biopolymer polylactic acid (PLA) is presented. The resulting detector (PLAD) technology takes advantage of property changes of the renewable PLA resin when subject to ionizing nuc...
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Yi Lin Tew, Mou Leong Tan, Liew Juneng, Kwok Pan Chun, Mohamad Hafiz bin Hassan, Sazali bin Osman, Narimah Samat, Chun Kiat Chang and Muhammad Humayun Kabir
The 2021?2022 flood is one of the most serious flood events in Malaysian history, with approximately 70,000 victims evacuated daily, 54 killed and total losses up to MYR 6.1 billion. From this devastating event, we realized the lack of extreme precipitat...
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Antonio Annis and Fernando Nardi
Hydrologic/hydraulic models for flood risk assessment, forecasting and hindcasting have been greatly supported by the rising availability of increasingly accurate and high-resolution Earth Observation (EO) data. EO-based topographic and hydrologic open g...
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Nina Stark, Brendan Green, Nick Brilli, Emily Eidam, Kevin W. Franke and Kaleb Markert
Geotechnical data are increasingly utilized to aid investigations of coastal erosion and the development of coastal morphological models; however, measurement techniques are still challenged by environmental conditions and accessibility in coastal areas,...
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Raffaele Albano, Leonardo Mancusi, Jan Adamowski, Andrea Cantisani and Aurelia Sole
Mapping the delineation of areas that are flooded due to water control infrastructure failure is a critical issue. Practical difficulties often present challenges to the accurate and effective analysis of dam-break hazard areas. Such studies are expensiv...
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Kheir Al-Kodmany
As cities cope with rapid population growth?adding 2.5 billion dwellers by 2050?and grapple with expansive sprawl, politicians, planners, and architects have become increasingly interested in the vertical city paradigm. This paper reviews and examines sh...
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Zhen Gao and Dan Zhang
The development of a new parallel mechanism based on simulation driven design is a rapid approach to discover the unique features or advantages of a conceptual model. In this research, one novel parallel mechanism which can generate three degrees-of-free...
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Qinna Feng, Heng Luo, Zijian Li, Jiarong Liang, Gege Li and Yan Yi
The last decade has witnessed the rapid development of immersive virtual reality (IVR) and its application in various contexts. However, its application in supporting real-time virtual collaboration has been quite rare due to technical barriers and the l...
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Feifei Tao, Yanling Pi, Meng Zhang, Chi Yuan and Menghua Deng
With the rapid development of water conservancy engineering and infrastructure construction, there are many safety hazards in the construction process of water conservancy engineering, so it is of great significance to study the potential hazards in the ...
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Diego Rubiales, Eleonora Barilli and Nicolas Rispail
Pea (Pisum sativum) stands out as one of the most significant and productive cool-season pulse crops cultivated worldwide. Dealing with biotic stresses remains a critical challenge in fully harnessing pea?s potential productivity. As such, dedicated rese...
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