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Watershed development interventions for rural water safety, security, and sustainability in semi-arid region of Western-India
Devising effective strategies to retard the negative impacts of extreme climatic events on water security in general and environmental water balance in specific is imperative, especially in semi-arid rural-Wes...
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Open AccessInvestigating a hybrid extreme learning machine coupled with Dingo Optimization Algorithm for modeling liquefaction triggering in sand-silt mixtures
Liquefaction is a devastating consequence of earthquakes that occurs in loose, saturated soil deposits, resulting in catastrophic ground failure. Accurate prediction of such geotechnical parameter is crucial f...
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Daily suspended sediment yield estimation using soft-computing algorithms for hilly watersheds in a data-scarce situation: a case study of Bino watershed, Uttarakhand
Water erosion creates adverse impacts on agricultural production, infrastructure, and water quality across the world, especially in hilly areas. Regional-scale water erosion assessment is essential, but existi...
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Open AccessCharacterizing land use/land cover change dynamics by an enhanced random forest machine learning model: a Google Earth Engine implementation
Land use and land cover (LULC) analysis is crucial for understanding societal development and assessing changes during the Anthropocene era. Conventional LULC map** faces challenges in capturing changes unde...
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Evaluation of CatBoost Method for Predicting Weekly Pan Evaporation in Subtropical and Sub-Humid Regions
Pan evaporation modeling and forecasting are needed to provide timely, continuous, and valuable information to support water management. This study aimed to overcome the constraints identified in traditional r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation of Edge Computing Model for the Processing of Data in Mines
Mining is one of the most dangerous industries. The risk factor involved in underground mining is exponentially higher than in other forms of mining, with the risk of mine collapse, hazardous gases, ventilatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigating Spatio-Temporal Trends and Anomalies in Long-Term Meteorological Variables to Determine If Maharashtra is an Emerging Warming State in India
This paper offers a comprehensive investigation of crucial meteorological variables [rainfall (P), surface temperature (T), and relative humidity (RH)] for Maharashtra (307,690 km2 area), a dry-arid state in the ...
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Prediction of Irrigation Water Quality Indices Using Random Committee, Discretization Regression, REPTree, and Additive Regression
This study aims to evaluate the performance of four ensemble machine learning methods, i.e., Random Committee, Discretization Regression, Reduced Error Pruning Tree, and Additive Regression, to estimate water ...
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Open AccessImproving PM2.5 prediction in New Delhi using a hybrid extreme learning machine coupled with snake optimization algorithm
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a significant air pollutant that drives the most chronic health problems and premature mortality in big metropolitans such as Delhi. In such a context, accurate prediction of PM
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Approach for Sink Route in Wireless Sensor Network
In a wireless sensor network, sensor hubs have obliged power. Thus, the battery force of the sensor hubs should be monitored. It will blast the life expectancy of the remote sensor organization. A sensor hub i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identification of the Issues in IoT Devices with HSTS Not Enforced and Their Exploitation
An emerging paradigm that brings with it an approach that is responsible for translation of traditional style of living into a high tech life, that’s IoT. The rapid development of IoT is accompanied with the c...
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Smart Geometric Design of Highways Using HTML Programming for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Cities
Conventional practice for geometric highway design using engineering drawing techniques and mathematical approaches demands heavy iterative manual efforts amidst numerous calculations, which is cumbersome and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding Declining Storage Capacity of Tank Cascade System of Madurai: Potential for Better Water Management for Rural, Peri-Urban, and Urban Catchments
Historically, the surface water holding structures have been a primary water source for the people of Madurai, a South-Indian city in Tamil Nadu, India. Since the 1990s, the city has been experiencing rapid ur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tank Cascade System in Southern India as a Traditional Surface Water Infrastructure: A Review
The vast semi-arid Southern peninsular region of India is irrigated using a traditional surface water infrastructure called Tank Cascade Systems (TCS). The TCS is a common-property resource that was constructed a...
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Nanohertz gravitational wave astronomy during SKA era: An InPTA perspective
Decades long monitoring of millisecond pulsars, which exhibit highly stable rotational periods in pulsar timing array experiments is on the threshold of discovering nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave back...
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Open AccessData intelligence and hybrid metaheuristic algorithms-based estimation of reference evapotranspiration
For develo** countries, scarcity of climatic data is the biggest challenge, and model development with limited meteorological input is of critical importance. In this study, five data intelligent and hybrid ...
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Assessing Global-Scale Synergy Between Adaptation, Mitigation, and Sustainable Development for Projected Climate Change
The theoretical idea of a “greenhouse effect” has existed for centuries; however, the human influence via greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is realized post-mid-twentieth century. The resultant – “global warming”...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Develo** a Web Application-Based Water Budget Calculator: Attaining Water Security in Rural-Nashik, India
The villages located in arid and semi-arid climate zones experience erratic rainfall patterns along with the issues of water scarcity and water insecurity due to spatial non-uniformity in water distribution. K...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessing Groundwater Depletion in Southern India as a Function of Urbanization and Change in Hydrology: A Threat to Tank Irrigation in Madurai City
The comprehensive understanding of the impacts of urbanization on surface water-groundwater security in rapidly urbanizing cities is of paramount importance, especially in the era of climate change. This study...
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Open AccessInvestigating impact of land-use and land cover changes on hydro-ecological balance using GIS: insights from IIT Bombay, India
The present study, for the first time, examined land-use land cover (LULC), changes using GIS, between 2000 and 2018 for the IIT Bombay campus, India. Objective was to evaluate hydro-ecological balance inside ...
