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**-**a Ding
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Open AccessUnderstanding pedestrian movement using urban sensing technologies: the promise of audio-based sensors
While various sensors have been deployed to monitor vehicular flows, sensing pedestrian movement is still nascent. Yet walking is a significant mode of travel in many cities, especially those in Europe, Africa...
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Spatio-temporal characteristics of farmland occupation of construction land expansion and its spatial relationship with grain yield in China for 2000–2020
Construction land expansion is a key driver of urbanization and industrialization, yet it poses the risk of losing farmland and cascading impacts on food supply. The spatial characteristics of farmland occupie...
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Winter Wheat Yield Estimation Based on Sparrow Search Algorithm Combined with Random Forest: A Case Study in Henan Province, China
Precise and timely prediction of crop yields is crucial for food security and the development of agricultural policies. However, crop yield is influenced by multiple factors within complex growth environments....
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Industrial Carbon Emission Distribution and Regional Joint Emission Reduction: A Case Study of Cities in the Pearl River Basin, China
China’s low-carbon development path will make significant contributions to achieving global sustainable development goals. Due to the diverse natural and economic conditions across different regions in China, ...
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Detecting Landslides with Deformable Adaptive Focal YOLO: Enhanced Performance with Reduced False Detection
Landslide detection algorithms employing You Only Look Once (YOLO) often exhibit subpar performance in scenarios characterized by similar backgrounds and boundary blur, leading to high miss and false rates. To...
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Improving the accuracy of precipitation estimates in a typical inland arid region of China using a dynamic Bayesian model averaging approach
**njiang Uygur Autonomous Region is a typical inland arid region in China with a sparse and uneven distribution of meteorological stations, limited access to precipitation data, and significant water scarcity....
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Changes in the spatial distribution of mariculture in China over the past 20 years
China’s mariculture provides more than 60% of the world’s mariculture products and plays an important role in the world’s aquaculture and food supply. Research on changes in the spatial distribution pattern of...
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Monitoring vegetation drought in the nine major river basins of China based on a new developed Vegetation Drought Condition Index
The effect of global climate change on vegetation growth is variable. Timely and effective monitoring of vegetation drought is crucial for understanding its dynamics and mitigation, and even regional protectio...
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Open AccessLandscape values of large-scale civic infrastructure from visitors’ spatial perception: a content analysis
Many studies have investigated the improvement and evaluation of urban landscape development. However, only a few have discussed how to implement and align landscape values embedded in large-scale civic infras...
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Performance evaluation of resource-based city transformation: A case study of energy-enriched areas in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia
Resource-based cities are important bases for resources and energy in China. However, the world and the country’s sustainable development goals require them to undergo transformation. The complexity of this tr...
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Open AccessSolar energy for low carbon buildings: choice of systems for minimal installation area, cost, and environmental impact
Solar application in buildings is limited by available installation areas. The performance of photovoltaic (PV) and solar collectors are compared in meeting the heating and cooling demand of a residential hous...
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Influence Mechanism of New-type Urbanization on Urban Land Use Efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Rapid urbanization in China has led to inefficient use of urban land and spatial structure disorder, attracting attention from academia and society. Taking the Yangtze River Delta, China as an example, this st...
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Seasonal variations in glacier velocity in the High Mountain Asia region during 2015–2020
Velocity is an important component of glacier dynamics and directly reflects the response of glaciers to climate change. As a result, an accurate determination of seasonal variation in glacier velocity is very...
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Modern pollen assemblages and their relationships with vegetation and climate on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains, **njiang, China
The reconstruction of paleovegetation and paleoclimate requires an understanding of the relationships between surface pollen assemblages and modern vegetation and climate. Here, we analyzed the characteristics...
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Estimation of soil organic matter in the Ogan-Kuqa River Oasis, Northwest China, based on visible and near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning
Visible and near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy technique allows for fast and efficient determination of soil organic matter (SOM). However, a prior requirement for the vis-NIR spectroscopy technique to predi...
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Runoff characteristics and its sensitivity to climate factors in the Weihe River Basin from 2006 to 2018
Exploring the current runoff characteristics after the large-scale implementation of the Grain for Green (GFG) project and investigating its sensitivities to potential drivers are crucial for water resource pr...
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Open AccessA systematic framework for the complex system engineering of city data governance
The importance of data governance in the information age has become a deep consensus among all sectors. Under this context, data-driven urban governance has also become a key requirement for city development. ...
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Open AccessAssessment of ecological quality in Northwest China (2000–2020) using the Google Earth Engine platform: Climate factors and land use/land cover contribute to ecological quality
The ecological quality of inland areas is an important aspect of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The ecological environment of Northwest China is vulnerable to changes in climate an...
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Development of center pivot irrigation farmlands from 2009 to 2018 in the Mu Us dune field, China: Implication for land use planning
The Mu Us dune field in China has become a focal region for research of the prevention and control of desertification. Agricultural practices in this area have been modernized in recent years, evidenced by the...
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Urban Land Use Efficiency and Contributing Factors in the Yangtze River Delta Under Increasing Environmental Restrictions in China
Evaluating urban land use efficiency (ULUE) provides insights into the interactions between land use systems and their external environment. Specifically, changes in ULUE are important for monitoring urban tra...
