96 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Artificial Intelligence for the Automated Creation of Multi-scale Digital Twins of the Built World—AI4TWINNING
The AI4TWINNING project aims at the automated generation of a system of inter-related digital twins of the built environment spanning multiple resolution scales providing rich semantics and coherent geometry. ...
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Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Americas
American drylands account for circa 20% of the global drylands and form a critical part of the global ecosystems. This study comprehensively assessed the ecology and socio-economic status of American drylands ...
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Changes in Global Drylands
Drylands are a pivotal component of Earth’s biosphere and provide essential ecosystem services to mankind. Over the past several decades, with rapid population growth, global drylands have been experiencing qu...
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Element Geochemical Characteristics and Their Implications for Paleosalinity in the Paleogene Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin
The Lishui Sag in the East China Sea Shelf Basin has great oil and gas exploration potential but its research level is relatively low. In order to understand the geological background and sedimentary environme...
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Travel Behavior of Residents in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Neighborhoods: A Study of Two Neighborhoods in Shenzhen, China
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely considered an effective urban development strategy and transportation planning instrument to , land-use segregation, traffic congestion, and environmental de...
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Interactions of Geography with Other Natural and Social Sciences and the Humanities
Geography has historically enjoyed strong interactions with other disciplines in addressing major challenges related to social, economic, and environmental issues and in contributing overall to sustainability....
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Spatial Distributions and Interactions of Different Erosion Processes
This chapter first describes the spatial distributions of mass movements, gullies, and tunnels within the Wangjiagou (WJG) watershed; then, the spatial relations between gully development and mass movement, tu...
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Simulation Modeling of Hydrological and Erosion Processes
This chapter first describes the major categories of soil erosion models, and then presents Topog and Erode that are examples of simulating hydrological and erosion processes in the Yangdaogou (YDG) catchment....
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Watershed Characteristics
This chapter describes the physiographic conditions of the Loess Plateau and the study watershed of Wangjiagou (WJG), including climate, topographic feature, lithology, soil, and land-use conditions. Special a...
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Industrial Heritage Conservation and Reuse of Traditional Textile Industry Facilities in Shanghai, Qingdao and Tian**
In the current stage of industrial transformation and upgrading, the advantages of traditional industries no longer exist. However, most of them are still important components of national economic development....
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In the Global Village of Our Time Oriental Wisdom Is Timeless
Today, at a time of economic globalization, there are enormous challenges for humanity: achieving reasonable and dialectic relationships in the midst of paradoxes and contradictions; seeking an integrated view...
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Introduction
Soil erosion is one of the major environmental problems in the world. It leads to significant degradation of soil fertility on land and causes sedimentation and water quality degradation in water body. This ch...
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Sheet and Rill Erosion
In this chapter, multiple sets of data collected from both closed (with artificial boundaries) and open plots (without artificial boundaries) are used to investigate soil and water loss caused by sheet and ril...
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Mass Movement
This chapter investigates the frequency and magnitude, causal factors, susceptibility, and sediment production of mass movement in the Wangjiagou (WJG) watershed. It is found that about 90% of the mass movemen...
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Spatial Data Uncertainty and Quality Control
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Virtual Geographical Environment
The concept of the virtual geographic environment (VGE) was proposed just 10 years, but it has become one of the most dynamic and creative research fields in cartography and has drawn wide attention and discus...
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Gully Erosion
This chapter presents the classification and geomorphic features of gullies, spatial variability of soil shear strength within the gullies, major erosion processes and controlling factors of gully development,...
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Tunnel Erosion
This chapter presents a study on tunnel erosion in the WJG watershed over the past 30 years, which represents the longest and most comprehensive study on soil pi**/tunnel erosion anywhere in the world, with ...
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Soil and Water Loss and Its Control at the Different Spatial Scales
This chapter examines soil and water loss and its controls at different spatial scales by using the data collected by the Shanxi Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (SISWC). First, soil and water loss as ...
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Soil Erosion and Control: A Retrospective Study on the Loess Plateau of China
This chapter presents a retrospective study on soil erosion and control in the representative small watersheds of the Loess Plateau, the Jiuyuangou Catchment and Nanxiaohegou Catchment. No close relationship w...
