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Environmental Sciences
Tao Yu, Guli Jiapaer, Anming Bao, Guoxiong Zheng, Liangliang Jiang, Ye Yuan, Xiaoran Huang
Summary: The research establishes a Salinized Land Degradation Index (SDI) by integrating various indicators and applies it to analyze the land degradation in the Central Asia Amu Darya delta from 1990 to 2019. The results show an increase in extreme and strong land degradation areas in the downstream and peripheral regions of the ADD during this period. The study provides valuable insights into land degradation monitoring and management in similar salinized delta regions globally.
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Environmental Sciences
Libing Wang, Bo Zhang, Qian Shen, Yue Yao, Shengyin Zhang, Huaidong Wei, Rongpeng Yao, Yaowen Zhang
Summary: This study evaluated the performance of hyperspectral data in estimating soil salt content, showing that satellite hyperspectral data was superior to laboratory spectral data. In the modeling process, raw spectra performed the best, with high R-2 values and low errors in estimating sodium ion and salt content, while first derivative analysis and principal component analysis performed better in estimating chloride and sulfate content.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Summary: The relationship between biodiversity and spectral diversity is influenced by scale and temporal variation in leaf traits and canopy structure. Using measurements of leaf pigments and reflectance throughout a growing season, this study investigates the effects of phenology on the scale dependence of the spectral biodiversity - biodiversity relationship.
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shuping Zhang, Anna Rutgersson, Petra Philipson, Marcus B. Wallin
Summary: This study analyzed the variable importance for the sea surface pCO(2) estimation in the Baltic Sea and found that photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) was the most important variable for the pCO(2) estimation across the entire Baltic Sea. Additionally, the importance of variables for pCO(2) estimation varied between seasons and sub-basins.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Brandon Hobley, Michal Mackiewicz, Julie Bremner, Tony Dolphin, Riccardo Arosio
Summary: This article assessed the reliability of crowdsourced labels for estuarine vegetation and unvegetated sediment, and found that the accuracy of the labels was influenced by the expertise and familiarity of the participants. The results also confirmed that biases in participant annotation were propagated in the performance of the deep learning models. Additionally, it was shown that combining in situ and crowdsourced labels improved the performance of the models compared to using only in situ labels.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhenhua Wu, Mingliang Che, Shutao Zhang, Linghua Duo, Shaogang Lei, Qingqing Lu, Qingwu Yan
Summary: This study focused on the problem of soil salinization in the Shengli Coalfield in Xilinhot City, China. By using remote sensing data and statistical models, the researchers analyzed the status, changes, and driving factors of soil salinization in the area. The results showed that coal exploitation and town expansion were the main causes of increased soil salinization.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Yuxiang Yan, Xianwen Yu, Fengyang Long, Yanfeng Dong
Summary: This study evaluated the urban ecological environment of Shanghai using remote sensing technology and a projection pursuit model, showing an improvement in the overall ecological environment in the past five years. Districts like Hongkou, Jingan, and Huangpu have lower ecological quality and need more effort in improvement.
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2021)
Article
Management
Hayri A. Arslan, Necati Tereyagoglu, Ovunc Yilmaz
Summary: This study examines the effects of variable pricing on ticket sales in the primary and resale markets using data from the National Football League. The findings suggest that adopting variable pricing increases ticket sales in the primary market, especially for less attractive games. In addition, the minimum resale prices for more attractive games also increase after the switch to variable pricing. The study further reveals that variable pricing is more effective in team hometowns with lower income levels and higher income diversity, and creating more game tiers leads to higher sales.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhijie Liu, Pengju Guo, Heng Liu, Pan Fan, Pengzong Zeng, Xiangyang Liu, Ce Feng, Wang Wang, Fuzeng Yang
Summary: The study successfully predicted the leaf area index of different types of apple trees using multispectral remote-sensing data collected with drones and field measurements. Models of support vector regression (SVR) and gradient-boosting decision trees (GBDT) were trained, with the GBDT model demonstrating the best performance in terms of accuracy.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Abduldaem S. Alqasemi, Majed Ibrahim, Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Hakim Saibi, A'kif Al-Fugara, Gordana Kaplan
Summary: This study successfully estimated the level of soil salinity in Abu Dhabi using a combination of remote sensing techniques and field measurements, and developed a model for detecting and mapping soil salinity variations. The results showed that 31% of the soil in the study area is moderately saline and 46% is highly saline. Additionally, the normalized difference vegetation index and bare soil index exhibited moderate correlations, contributing to the development of successful soil salinity prediction models.
Article
Statistics & Probability
Lixiang Zhang, Lin Lin, Jia Li
Summary: This paper introduces a novel neural network VtNet, which utilizes a tree structure to control the significance scores of variables and enhance classification accuracy by removing variables with low scores through training.
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Benjamin Mahieu, El Mostafa Qannari, Benoit Jaillais
Summary: This paper introduces how to evaluate the relative importance of variables in predicting the response using the VIP index in partial least squares (PLS) regression, and proposes a permutation test to assess the significance of the VIP values of a given subset of variables. A fast variable selection procedure is also presented.
CHEMOMETRICS AND INTELLIGENT LABORATORY SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shiwan Li, Yanling Li, Xiang Lu, Zhenyu Wu, Liang Pei, Kexin Liu
Summary: The article introduces a new spatial model for repairing dam monitoring data, which can consider the effects of environmental variables and has high precision and strong applicability in engineering applications. The model uses the variable importance for projection method and cokriging, which can better expand the monitoring effect variable to the whole area of the dam space.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Remote Sensing
Shouhang Du, Jianghe Xing, Shihong Du, Ximin Cui, Xiongwu Xiao, Wei Li, Shaoyu Wang
Summary: In this study, we propose a deep learning approach for height estimation from a single remote sensing image. Our proposed method, SM-EDNet, utilizes a spatial enhanced and multi-scale aggregated encoder-decoder network to extract low-level and deep features, aggregate multi-scale context information, and enhance sensitivity to differences in geometric shapes. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the outstanding performance of our method compared with state-of-the-art networks.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Integrative & Complementary Medicine
Rui Zheng, Zhao Chen, Zhiyue Guan, Chen Zhao, Herong Cui, Hongcai Shang
Summary: Using the variable importance for projection (VIP) method, this study analyzed risk factors contributing to the severity of adverse events (AEs) associated with Xiyanping injection (XYP). The results showed that age and herb-drug combinations were the main factors affecting the severity of XYP's AEs.