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Flood susceptibility mapping using ANNs: a case study in model generalization and accuracy from Ontario, Canada Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Rahma Khalid, Usman T. Khan
Accurate flood susceptibility mapping (FSM) is critical for mitigating the environmental, social and economic consequences of floods. The influence of model generalizability onto new watersheds, an...
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Modeling of landslides susceptibility prediction using deep belief networks with optimized learning rate control Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Qiang Liu, Namkha Norbu
To overcome critical issues in landslide susceptibility modeling, a multifactor landslide susceptibility prediction model based on deep belief networks (DBN) with optimized learning rate control (L...
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Impact of land transformation processes in Eastern China on the long-term development of land surface temperatures Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tingting Chen, Shanyu Zhou, Ran Kang, Hermann Kaufmann, Yu Wang, Hang Chen
The purpose of the presented study is to evaluate the comprehensive impact of different land cover types on the temperature development in the entire Shandong Province by a 20-year-long (MODIS) LST...
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An urban-rural Fringe extraction method based on Combined Urban-rural Fringe Index (CUFI) Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hongrui Duan, Fuguang Du, Yajing Zhang, Xiaojun Jiang, Bo Chen
In this article, a multi-source data-based method for urban-rural fringe extraction is proposed to solve the problem of insufficiently accurate division of urban-rural fringe, which can convenientl...
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Landslide dynamic hazard prediction based on precipitation variation trend and backpropagation neural network Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Ruixuan Huang, Bin Zeng, Dong Ai, Jingjing Yuan, Huiyuan Xu
The assessment of landslide hazards is crucial for disaster prevention and mitigation, but it has not considered the dynamic influencing factors that trigger landslides. The timeliness and practica...
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Assessing the consistency and reliability of the line intercept transect method in coral cover estimation using structure from motion photogrammetry techniques Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Meng Wang, Simei Lian, Xiaofei Xiong, Jie Yang, Chenghao Chen, Xiaojun Shi
Appropriate coral reef monitoring methods and descriptors determine the effectiveness of ecosystem status assessment. We combined line intercept transect (LIT) and SfM technologies for image acquis...
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A method for robust estimation of snow seasonality metrics from Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series data over Atlas Mountains scale using Google Earth Engine Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Youssra El jabiri, Abdelghani Boudhar, Abdelaziz Htitiou, Eric A. Sproles, Mostafa Bousbaa, Hafsa Bouamri, Abdelghani Chehbouni
Seasonal snow cover provides the majority of freshwater supplies for human society and natural ecosystems especially in semi-arid regions. For water resource managers, precise data regarding the sp...
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Spatiotemporal characteristics of vegetation cover change in the Central Yunnan urban agglomeration from 2000 to 2020 based on Landsat data and its driving factors Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Rong Wang, Xue Ding, Bangjin Yi, Jinliang Wang
The study of dynamic changes in vegetation coverage has significant implications for urban clusters in terms of ecological environment protection, climate change research, water resource management...
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Assessment of optimal seasonal selection for RSEI construction: a case study of ecological environment quality assessment in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2001 to 2020 Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Shaodong Huang, Yujie Li, Haowen Hu, Pengcheng Xue, Jia Wang
Timely and objective assessment of the optimal season for the construction of remote sensing ecological index (RSEI) is of great significance for accurate and effective assessment of ecological env...
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Optimizing Sentinel-2 feature space for improved crop biophysical and biochemical variables retrieval using the novel spectral triad feature selection algorithm Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Mahlatse Kganyago, Clement Adjorlolo, Paidamwoyo Mhangara
This study presents a novel Spectral Triad feature selection (STfs) technique based on music theory and compares it to the entire Sentinel-2 feature space and Random Forest-Recursive Feature Elimin...
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Pine wood nematode disease area identification based on multi-temporal multi-source remote sensing images and BIT model Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Degao Wang, Zhangyu Sun, Xinxia Huang, Mingzhong Liu, Qingqing Zheng, Huailiang Zhang, Guanghe Zhang
Pine wood nematode (PWN) disease is a severe contagious disease in forests which endangers the health of forests, as it can rapidly kill trees. The detection of regions impacted by this disease pla...
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CMPF-UNet: a ConvNeXt multi-scale pyramid fusion U-shaped network for multi-category segmentation of remote sensing images Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ning Li, Xiaopeng Yu, Miao Yu
Most U-shaped convolutional neural network (CNN) methods have the problems of insufficient feature extraction and fail to fully utilize global/multi-scale context information, which makes it diffic...
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Groundwater potential zone mapping using GIS and Remote Sensing based models for sustainable groundwater management Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Abdur Rehman, Fakhrul Islam, Aqil Tariq, Ijaz Ul Islam, Davis Brian J, Tehmina Bibi, Waqar Ahmad, Liaqat Ali Waseem, Shankar Karuppannan, Saad Al-Ahmadi
The present research is conducted in the southern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to identify groundwater potential zones (GWPZ). We used three models including Weight of Evidence (WOE), Fr...
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Soil erosion and sediment yield estimation in a tropical monsoon dominated river basin using GIS-based models Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Biplab Sarkar, Abdur Rahman, Aznarul Islam, Atiqur Rahman, Sk. Mafizul Haque, Swapan Talukdar, Abu Reza Md Towfiqul Islam, Subodh Chandra Pal, Chaitanya B. Pande, Edris Alam, Alireza Arabameri
The increasing soil erosion (SE) and the associated problems for society, economy, and environment sparked a lot of interest in estimating and mapping SE at different basin scales. The estimation o...
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Assessment of groundwater potential zones in data-scarce regions using GIS-based multicriteria decision making approach Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kishor Dandapat, Uday Chatterjee, Sandipan Das, Arpita Patra, Harekrishna Manna, Anitabha Ghosh, Subodh Chandra Pal, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Romulus Costache, Edris Alam, Md Kamrul Islam
Groundwater is an essential natural resource that sustains numerous ecological systems and human lifestyles. The Jhargram district is facing persistent groundwater development issues, requiring com...
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Quantification of surface water extent and volume in the Inner Niger Delta (IND) over 2000–2022 using multispectral imagery and radar altimetry Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Cassandra Normandin, Frédéric Frappart, Luc Bourrel, Adama Telly Diepkilé, Eric Mougin, Leo Zwarts, Fabien Blarel, Flavien Egon, Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Spatio-temporal dynamics of surface water reservoirs at regional and global scales remain poorly understood. Using satellite remote sensing provides a unique opportunity to address this problem. Th...
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Determining the optimal generalization operators for building footprints using an improved graph neural network model Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Xinyu Niu, Haizhong Qian, Xiao Wang, Limin Xie, Longfei Cui
Determining the optimal generalization operators of city buildings is a crucial step during the building generalization process and an important aspect of realizing cross-scale updating of map data...
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Urban land surface temperature forecasting: a data-driven approach using regression and neural network models Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Nimish Gupta, Bharath Haridas Aithal
The insinuations of the ailments associated with the unrestrained and disorganized proliferation of artificial impervious materials over natural surfaces are prevalent among city dwellers. These im...
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SBHSR: single-band super-resolution method for hyperspectral images based on blind degradation and fusion of auxiliary band Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Lijing Bu, Xi Xiao, Zhengpeng Zhang, Deng Mingjun
Despite natural image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved great success, super-resolution methods for hyperspectral image (HSI) with rich spectral features are still a very challenging task...
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Coupling coordination spatial pattern between natural attractions and tourism potential with study travel implications: China case Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Xiaojun Wang, Yan Xiong, Guangxu Liu, Shuyuan Lai, Aicun Xiang, Lihong Meng
Jiangxi has superior natural environmental conditions, but tourism development is insufficient. This study analysed the distribution characteristics of natural tourism resources in Jiangxi Province...
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Crop field extraction from high resolution remote sensing images based on semantic edges and spatial structure map Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Liegang Xia, Ruiyan Liu, Yishao Su, Shulin Mi, Dezhi Yang, Jun Chen, Zhanfeng Shen
Crop field boundary extraction is crucial to remote sensing images attained to support agricultural production and planning. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained s...
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Estimation of active surface deformation using PSInSAR technique of the Central Himalayan region Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Girish Ch. Kothyari, Rakesh K. Dumka, Khayingshing Luirei, Raj Sunil Kandregula, Ajay Kumar Taloor, Kapil Malik, Achla Joshi, Atul K. Patidar, Uday Bhan
The Kumaun Himalaya is considered as the most active part of the Central Seismic gap in the Indian Sub-continent. In this paper, we presented active surface deformation rates of the Kumaun region f...
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Assessment of urban growth in relation to urban sprawl using landscape metrics and Shannon’s entropy model in Jalpaiguri urban agglomeration, West Bengal, India Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sanjoy Barman, Dipesh Roy, Bipul Chandra Sarkar, Hussein Almohamad, Hazem Ghassan Abdo
The rapid urban growth and anthropogenic activities have posed a threat to the local environment and ecosystem around the world. This situation has become a hindrance to planners and policy makers ...
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of methane concentration and its association to climatic and vegetation parameters: a case study of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Nosiseko Mashiyi, Lerato Shikwambana, Mahlatse Kganyago
Methane (CH4) is the second most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2), accounting for about 20% of global emissions. CH4 anthropogenic emission sources include landfills...
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Quantifying influence of rainfall events on outdoor thermal comfort in subtropical dense urban areas Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Chih-Hong Huang, Ching-Hsun Wang, Shih-Han Chen
Existing research on outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas focuses on meteorological factors such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and radiation on sunny or cloudy days. However, cli...
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Identification of coffee agroforestry systems using remote sensing data: a review of methods and sensor data Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Agustín Escobar-López, Miguel Ángel Castillo-Santiago, Jean F. Mas, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni, Jorge Omar López-Martínez
Coffee is one of the most important agricultural commodities. Agroforestry systems (AFS) are increasingly used in coffee cultivation because of environmental benefits, adaptability of the systems, ...
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Hyperspectral estimation of mercury content of soil in Oasis city in arid zones of China Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Qing Zhong, Mamattursun Eziz, Mireguli Ainiwaer, Rukeya Sawut, Maorui Hou
Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metals to the human body. Conventional methods for measuring Hg content in soil are time-consuming and expensive. In order to select a high-effective met...
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Potential impact of future land use/cover dynamics on the habitat quality of the Yayo Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve, southwestern Ethiopia Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Gemeda Terfassa Fida, Bernard Nuoleyeng Baatuuwie, Hamza Issifu
Human activities, including agricultural expansion, urbanization, and industrial advancement, have led to land use/cover change (LULCC). These changes have had negative consequences, such as the lo...
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A classification model for power corridors based on the improved PointNet++ network Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Li Bo, Liu Siyuan, Wang Fengxiang, Zou Cunyu
Aiming at the existing deep learning classification model for power corridor point cloud still need to improve the classification efficiency and the robustness of the classification model to meet t...
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Spatial-Land use planning system data model proposal for edition II of LADM Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Okan Yılmaz, Hicret Gürsoy Sürmeneli, Mehmet Alkan
Spatial plan decisions guide both the future use of the lands and many activities from protection to construction and permit. Due to its functions, spatial plan decisions play a key role in land ad...
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A new method for orthographic video map construction based on video and GIS Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Xingguo Zhang, Qize Li, Xiaodi Li, Xinyu Shi, Haoge Li
For the problem that the non-ground plane and dynamic object areas in surveillance videos have large deformation after geographic mapping, a new method for orthographic video map construction (OVMC...
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Modeling the forest fire risk by incorporating a new human activity factor from nighttime light data Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Ming Chen, Yongqian Wang, Zhong Zheng, Xingyue You, Yaoqiang Zeng
Fire was a serious natural disturbance to forest ecosystems. In this study, a national-scale forest fire risk model (RF_NTL) was proposed in mainland China by incorporating a new human activity fac...
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Application of the New Assessment Framework in the Identification of Key Areas for Ecological Protection: A Case Study of the Yellow River Source Area on the Tibetan Plateau Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Haoxiang Zhang, Qian Song, Jianyun Zhao, Peijia Liu, Zhibo Lu, Shiru Wang
The importance of ecological protection cannot be overlooked. Starting from the source area of the Yellow River, this study adopts a new
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Graph neural network-based identification of ditch matching patterns across multi-scale geospatial data Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Zhekun Huang, Haizhong Qian, Xiao Wang, Defu Lin, Junwei Wang, Limin Xie
Ditches are vital to water system data. To ease the task of matching multi-scale ditch data and enhance accuracy (Acc), it is essential to discern ditch data matching patterns. Despite its importan...
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Spatial-temporal behaviour of hikers in the southeastern margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: insights from volunteered geographic information Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Ouyi Zhao, Jiaxue Wang
Understanding the macroscopic spatial-temporal behaviour of hikers plays an important role in targeted planning, marketing and management for regional hiking tourism development. The southeastern m...
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Correction Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-22
Published in Geocarto International (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)
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Potential of the satellite-based Dynamic Habitat Index (DHI) to capture changes in soil properties and drought conditions across Land Use/Land Cover types in a Central European landscape Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Mojdeh Safaei, Till Kleinebecker, André Große-Stoltenberg
This study evaluates the sensitivity of the Dynamic Habitat Index (DHI), utilizing multitemporal Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data, to changing environmental conditions across Land...
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Flood hazard mapping using GIS-based statistical model in vulnerable riparian regions of sub-tropical environment Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Anitabha Ghosh, Uday Chatterjee, Subodh Chandra Pal, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Edris Alam, Md Kamrul Islam
Floods are a recurrent natural calamity that presents substantial hazards to human lives and infrastructure. The study indicates that a significant proportion of the study area, specifically 27.05%...
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Landslide susceptibility mapping with feature fusion transformer and machine learning classifiers incorporating displacement velocity along Karakoram highway Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Yulong Zhou, Muhammad Afaq Hussain, Zhanlong Chen
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is a pivotal gateway within the framework of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Nevertheless, its distinct and intricate geographical characteristics make it suscepti...
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Past and future land use/land cover, and climate change impacts on environmental sustainability in Vea catchment, Ghana Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Gemechu Fufa Arfasa, Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Dzigbodi Adzo Doke
LULC and climate change are the two most common manifestations of global environmental change. The objective of this study was to quantify past and future LULC and climate change impacts on environ...
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Analysis of desertification and the driving factors over the Loess Plateau Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Xu Zhang, Ling Han, Liangzhi Li, Zongfan Bai
Land desertification poses a severe global ecological threat. Loess Plateau, a typical region, was extensively studied. This study conducted a fitting analysis between the Vegetation Index: Enhance...
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Mapping high marsh and salt pannes/flats along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Nicholas M. Enwright, Wyatt C. Cheney, Kristine O. Evans, Hana R. Thurman, Mark S. Woodrey, Auriel M. V. Fournier, Jena A. Moon, Heather E. Levy, James A. Cox, Peter J. Kappes, John A. Nyman, Jonathan L. Pitchford
Coastal wetlands are predicted to undergo extensive transformation due to climate and land use change. Baseline maps of coastal wetlands can be used to help assess changes. Found in the upper porti...
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Research on land use pattern change and its influencing factors based on the coupling model: evidence from Zhongshan, China Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jingzhao Feng, Yile Chen, Senyu Lou, Jianqiang Yin
The change in the land spatial structure affects regional development and stability. In the context of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, studying the spatial struc...
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Validating MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 burned area mapping in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Yongsheng Huang, Yaozhong Pan, Xingsheng Xia, Qiang Zhou, Qiong Chen, Shengpeng Zhang
As an alpine area, surface fires significantly affect the fragile ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). However, no studies on the accuracy of any remote sensing burned area (BA) product...
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Are public green spaces distributed fairly? A nationwide analysis based on remote sensing, OpenStreetMap and census data Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Matthias Weigand, Michael Wurm, Ariane Droin, Thomas Stark, Jeroen Staab, Jürgen Rauh, Hannes Taubenböck
Green space (GS) is a crucial resource in urban areas, but not spatially uniformly distributed. We compare the availability of GS on a national scale using green land cover (GLC) and public green s...
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Mapping and monitoring of vegetation regeneration and fuel under major transmission power lines through image and photogrammetric analysis of drone-derived data Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Joshua Sos, Kim Penglase, Tom Lewis, Prashant K. Srivastava, Harikesh Singh, Sanjeev K. Srivastava
The use of drones and remote sensing in combination with geospatial analysis is a cost-efficient way to monitor energy distribution networks, especially those in fire-prone areas. This study invest...
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Future changes of summer monsoon rainfall and temperature over Bangladesh using 27 CMIP6 models Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Arnob Bhattacharjee, S. M. Quamrul Hassan, Papri Hazra, Tapos Kormoker, Shahana Islam, Edris Alam, Md Kamrul Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam
This research aims to investigate the future changes in summer monsoon rainfall and temperature in Bangladesh. The study revealed that INM-CM5-0 is the best model for projecting temperature, while ...
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A method for stitching remote sensing images with Delaunay triangle feature constraints Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Weibo Zeng, Qiuyan Deng, Xingyue Zhao, Dehua Li, Xinran Min
The process of synthesizing multiple images into a seamless panoramic image is referred to as remote sensing image stitching. Existing studies focus less on the influence of topography on the appea...
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HRRSODN: high-Resolution remote sensing object detection network fusion of road-adjacent relationships Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Liegang Xia, Yishao Su, Ruiyan Liu, Shulin Mi, Dezhi Yang
Application of deep learning technology in remote sensing image target detection(RSITD)has made remarkable progress in recent years. However, existing methods usually fuse spatial context informati...
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A review of fusion framework using optical sensors and Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery to detect and map land degradation and sustainable land management in the semi-arid regions Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 David Sengani, Abel Ramoelo, Emma Archer
This paper examines a feature-level fusion framework for detecting and mapping land degradation (LD) and enabling sustainable land management (SLM) in semi-arid areas using optical sensors and Synt...
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Spatial differentiation characteristics and driving factors of urban polycentricity in the Yangtze River Delta region based on a geographic detector Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Cheng Wang, Jingyuan Chen, Dan Li, Yunbin Zhang, Meng Zhu, Fang Rong, Zhiqiang Gan
Exploring the driving factors behind urban polycentricity is of paramount significance for advancing the implementation of urban polycentric strategies. In this, paper takes 41 cities in the China’...
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A method for measuring geometric information content of area cartographic objects based on discrepancy degree of shape points Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Kang Qiankun, Zhou Xiaoguang, Hou Dongyang, Ali Nawaz, Luo Silong, Zhao Shaoxuan
In order to improve the comparability between the geometric information content of vector area objects, this article proposes a method for measuring the geometric information content of area object...
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The impact of earth fissures on flood hazard extent for the Northern part of the Qaa’Jahran Basin, Dhamar, Yemen Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Ahmed M. Al-Areeq, Abdulnoor A. J. Ghanim, Hatim O. Sharif, Shakhawat Chowdhury, Nabil M. Al-Areeq, Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman, Mohammed S. Al-Suwaiyan
This study addresses a crucial gap in our understanding of flooding in the predominantly agricultural Qaa’Jahran watershed in Yemen, where urbanization, though currently limited in extent, is rapid...
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Evaluating the performances of gridded satellite/reanalysis products in representing the rainfall climatology of Ethiopia Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Endeg Aniley, Temesgen Gashaw, Tesfalem Abraham, Sintayehu Fetene Demessie, Haimanote Kebede Bayabil, Abeyou W. Worqlul, Pieter R. van Oel, Yihun T. Dile, Abebe Demissie Chukalla, Amare Haileslassie, Gizachew Belay Wubaye
This study evaluated performances of the Climate Hazard Group Infrared Precipitation with stations version 2.0 (CHIRPS v2.0) and Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation version 2.8 (MSWEP v2.8...
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The impact of land use land cover on groundwater level and quality in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE: an integration approach using remote sensing and hydrological data Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Samy I. Elmahdy, Mohamed M. Mohamed
Groundwater contamination is a serious health problem affected by land use/land cover (LULC) changes. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impacts of LULC on groundwater levels and quality...
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Pluvial flood susceptibility mapping for data-scarce urban areas using graph attention network and basic flood conditioning factors Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ze Wang, Heng Lyu, Chi Zhang
Pluvial floods are destructive natural disasters in cities. With high computational efficiency, machine learning models are increasingly used for flood susceptibility mapping. However, limited floo...
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Spatial prediction of groundwater potential by various novel boosting-based ensemble learning models in mountainous areas Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Hanxiang Xiong, Xu Guo, Yuzhou Wang, Ruihan Xiong, Xiaofan Gui, Xiaojing Hu, Yonggang Li, Yang Qiu, Jiayao Tan, Chuanming Ma
This study makes a significant contribution to the field of groundwater potential mapping (GWPM) by exploring the application of ensemble learning models (ELMs), specifically boosting ensemble mode...
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Recognition of building shape in maps using deep graph filter neural network Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Junkui Xu, Hao Zhang, Chun Liu, Jianzhong Guo
Shape is one of the core features of the buildings which are the main elements of the map. The building shape recognition is widely used in many spatial applications. Due to the irregularity of the...
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Identification of sustainable urban settlement sites using interrelationship based multi-influencing factor technique and GIS Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Nitin Liladhar Rane, Anand Achari, Ali Hashemizadeh, Samruddhi Phalak, Chaitanya B. Pande, Monica Giduturi, Mohd Yawar Ali Khan, Abebe Debele Tolche, Nissren Tamam, Mohamed Abbas, Krishna Kumar Yadav
Evaluation of a site suitability for sustainable urban settlement growth is crucial. A system for evaluating an interaction between the factors must be established to assure that critical site sele...
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Correction Geocarto Int. (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-26
Published in Geocarto International (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)