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Thermodynamically constrained retrieval algorithm to estimate subpixel fire properties Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-21 Chenchong Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Wang, Amber Soja, Emily Gargulinski, David Peterson, Olga Kalashnikova, Bin Zhao, Yafang Cheng, Fangjun Li, Rajan Chakrabarty
Satellite-based measurements have been widely used for estimating fire-emitted pollutants based on the parameters of either burned area or fire radiative power (FRP). Fire-related remote sensing additionally requires information on active fire areas and fire temperature at a subpixel scale, as well as the combustion phases (i.e., smoldering and flaming) to infer the plume injection height and to understand
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Charting green growth and environmental sustainability in emerging economies: Do sectoral energy intensity, green finance, and green technology innovation matter? Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-21 Puspanjali Behera, Litu Sethi, Priyanka Pradhan, Sanhita Sucharita, Narayan Sethi
Emerging economies face the dual challenges of enhancing green growth while limiting carbon emissions. Therefore, the study investigates the impact of sectoral energy intensity, renewable energy, green technological innovations, and green finance on green growth and carbon footprint in selected 13 emerging economies from 2000 to 2022. This study employed Driscoll- Kraay and three-stage least squares
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Millimeter ground deformation retrieving from high-resolution PAZ SAR images with a combined correction of unwrapping and long-wavelength errors: A case study in Alcoy, Spain Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Xiaojie Liu, Roberto Tomás, Chaoying Zhao, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Zhangfeng Ma
PAZ mission is an X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite launched by Spain in February 2018, capable of routinely acquiring images with high spatio-temporal resolution. In this paper, we explore the potential of spotlight-mode (HS) PAZ images for monitoring small-scale ground deformation with millimeter-level accuracy, utilizing 21 HS PAZ images acquired over the Alcoy basin (SE Spain) between
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Large-scale mapping of water bodies across sensors using unsupervised deep learning Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Ji Zhao, Pu Xiao, Yuting Dong, Christian Geiß, Yanfei Zhong, Hannes Taubenböck
Rapid and accurate monitoring of surface water is critical for water resource management, environmental protection, sustainable urban development, among other issues. Landsat and Sentinel data are publicly available optical data with high spatial and temporal resolution, providing the possibility for large-scale surface water mapping. However, traditional threshold-based or supervised classification-based
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Gondwana Research: Two decades of publishing partnership Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Andrea Festa, Darren Lingley
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Review of geochemical processes in CCUS: Mechanisms, processes, and implications Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Shuaiyi Lu, Pan Jiang, Lianghan Cong, Tianqi Zheng, Yankai Hao, Xiaoshu Lü
The emission of greenhouse gases has resulted in the deterioration of the global climate, leading nations worldwide to adopt measures to mitigate the environmental impact of carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is an emerging large-scale greenhouse gas emission reduction technology with the potential to become an important means of mitigating the greenhouse effect
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Constraining the Baltic Sea sediment chronology using tephrochronology Geology (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Daniela J.M. Müller, Ina Neugebauer, Rebecca J. Kearney, Markus J. Schwab, Oona Appelt, Markus Czymzik, Jérôme Kaiser, Helge W. Arz, Achim Brauer
Precise and accurate sediment chronologies are essential for studies of past climate change. In the brackish-marine environment of the Baltic Sea, radiocarbon dating is complicated by varying influx of old carbon and reservoir age changes, challenging the construction of a robust age model. One approach to overcome the problem is well-dated isochronous tie-points like tephra. Here, we present for the
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Bridging the gap between laboratory VNIR-SWIR spectra and Landsat-8 bare soil composite image for soil organic carbon prediction Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Yongsheng Hong, Yiyun Chen, Songchao Chen, Yanyu Wang, Wenyou Hu, Su Ye, Xiaodong Song, Feng Liu, Yongcun Zhao, José A.M. Demattê, Liangsheng Shi, Huanfeng Shen, Zhou Shi, Ganlin Zhang, Yaolin Liu
International interest is focusing on how to better manage soil organic carbon (SOC) to increase resilience to climate change and reinforce food security. Remote sensing imagery and visible, near-infrared, and short-wave infrared (VNIR-SWIR) spectroscopy combined with advanced modeling algorithms can monitor SOC in an efficient, low-cost, and environmentally friendly manner. However, the limited bands
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Accurately detecting nocturnal cloud over land using next-generation geostationary satellite imagery: A case study using advanced Himawari imager data for Australia Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Yi Qin, Tim R. McVicar, Randall J. Donohue
Cloud detection is a requisite step of almost all terrestrial applications using optical remote sensing imagery, as many applications are sensitive to cloud contamination. In this research, a new algorithm has been developed to detect nocturnal cloud (from sunset to sunrise) in Himawari-8/9 AHI (Advanced Himawari Imager) imagery over land, with simultaneous aims of maximising accuracy, simplicity and
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Experimental and numerical investigation on grout in geotechnical two-dimensional random fracture network of rock mass Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Cheng Cao, Donglai Chen, Zengguang Xu, Junrui Chai, Yanlong Li, Han Fu
Grouting of fractured rock is an effective method for controlling water hazards in underground engineering. However, the diffusion process and mechanism of slurry flow within fractured rock masses remain unclear due to the concealed nature of subsurface structures. In this study, a two-dimensional random fracture network was generated, and both visual grouting experiments and two-phase flow numerical
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Probabilistic analysis of three different internal erosion mechanisms - Application to a real earth dam Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Fengdong Chi, Claudio Carvajal, Laurent Peyras, Pierre Breul
Accident statistics for embankment dams show that internal erosion is a major cause of incidents involving these structures. However, internal erosion is a complex process and remains difficult to assess probabilistically.
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Preface to the special issue on “Marine Engineering Geology in Developing Ocean Resources and Energy” Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Xiaolei Liu, Dong-Sheng Jeng, Vicki Moon, Thorsten Stoesser, Lulu Zhang
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Analysis of dynamic models of bio-mediated loess slaking under slaking residual column assumption Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Zhiming Huang, Weixing Bao, Zhiyong Zhang
Engineering loess is often unstable during extreme rainfall events due to its high erodibility and low water stability. Bio-mediated stabilization has garnered increasing attention as an eco-friendly soil reinforcement method in recent years. The slaking dynamics model quantitatively characterizes soil erosion resistance. To develop slaking dynamics models for bio-mediated loess with varying cementation
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Discussion of “Quantitative investigation of temperature-dependent bound water degeneration in bentonite clays” by Nilufar Chowdhury and Omid Ghasemi-Fare [Engineering Geology 342 (2024) 107737] Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Zhongtao Wang, Zilin Yuan, Hao Wang
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Evidence of solid bitumen and hydrocarbons in low thermal maturity Menilite shales from the Polish part of the outer carpathians Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 M. Waliczek, A. Zakrzewski, G. Machowski, G. Ząbek
This study presents the results of microscopic and geochemical analyses of the Menilite Formation from the Polish part of the Outer Carpathians. Twelve Oligocene shales from the Central Carpathian Synclinorium of the Silesian Nappe were examined to evaluate the petrological characterization of the solid bitumen and other organic matter (OM), identify the hydrocarbon evidence in the analyzed samples
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Fluvial architectural style and stacking patterns in a high-accommodation coal-bearing succession: the upper Permian Newcastle Coal Measures, eastern Australia Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Christopher R. Fielding, Stephen McLoughlin, Chris Mays, Allen P. Tevyaw, Tracy D. Frank
The upper Permian Newcastle Coal Measures (NCM) host world-class coal resources in coastal New South Wales, Australia. They formed close to the foredeep axis of a developing retroarc foreland basin associated with the Hunter-Bowen contractional event. In addition to the typical coal-bearing lithological suite of mudrocks, heteroliths, sandstones, and coals (with several beds of volcanic ash), the NCM
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Investigating detrital apatite from the Castlemaine Group, central Victoria, to unravel sources and multi-cycle sedimentation Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Luke Tylkowski, Caroline Tiddy, David Giles, Ross Cayley, Adrienne Brotodewo, Robert Thorne, Wess Edgar
Detrital mineral studies have been largely undertaken using zircon, a resilient mineral to weathering, that accumulates in sediments through multiple cycles of sedimentation preserving information from early cratons and provinces. The greater susceptibility of apatite to weathering offers a specific advantage to apatite geochemistry and geochronology over zircon: an insight into first-cycle sedimentation
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Cavity characteristics in marble mass from digital drilling process monitoring (DPM) technique in hydraulic rotary drilling Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Siyuan Wu, Wei Gao, Aiguo Li, Zhongqi Quentin Yue
Cavity detection is a significant yet challenging issue of site investigation, especially in urban karst underground, where unpredictable cavities can lead to geological hazards and substantial economic impact during tunnelling and underground construction. This paper presents an innovative methodology to accurately and quantitatively detect and characterize cavities with different scales and infilling
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Effective stress-based nonlinear ground response analysis of Holocene deposits of Kolkata, India Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Shiladitya Mandal, Kaustav Das, Debangsu Mistry, Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, G.R. Dodagoudar
This study presents a comprehensive approach to site-specific one-dimensional (1-D) nonlinear ground response analysis (GRA) incorporating a porewater pressure (PWP) generation model for the Holocene deposits of Kolkata, India. In-situ Dilatometer Marchetti Test (DMT) and seismic DMT have been performed adjacent to borehole locations in the study area to obtain the strength parameters of the subsoil
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Full-scale rockfall impact testing on untreated logs from protective mixed forests in the Pyrenees Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Paula Gómez-García, Francisco Arriaga, José Carlos Robredo Sánchez, Eduardo Fernández Parkin, Santiago Fábregas Reigosa, Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas
Rockfalls represent a significant hazard in high-mountain regions of the Pyrenees, threatening transportation routes, infrastructure, and local communities. Protective forests naturally mitigate the impact of hazards, which can be further enhanced using engineering solutions. Here, we evaluate, close to real-scale conditions, the effectiveness of nature-based engineering solutions against rockfalls
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A 100-meter-resolution site-condition map of China based on surface geology and bedrock depth Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Kewei Li, Junju Xie, Xiaojun Li, Wenxiang Jiang, Chuanbin Zhu, Yong Zhang
Accurate site classification maps are essential for updating the seismic ground motion parameter zoning map, as they account for the site effects. When field investigations are impractical, proxy-based methods (e.g., geological or topographic proxies) are commonly adopted to estimate VS30, a key parameter for characterizing site conditions. In this study, we compiled a nationwide borehole database
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RESTORE-DiT: Reliable satellite image time series reconstruction by multimodal sequential diffusion transformer Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Qidi Shu, Xiaolin Zhu, Shuai Xu, Yan Wang, Denghong Liu
Repetitive optical observations from satellites are crucial for monitoring earth surface dynamics over time. However, optical satellite image time series is severely affected by frequent data gaps due to clouds and shadows. While synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides cloud-penetrating capabilities to complement missing optical data, recent advancements in time series reconstruction have shifted focus
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Phanerozoic evolution of Fennoscandia: Evidence from apatite fission track, fluid flow and geodynamic data in Finland and Estonia Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Ilmo T. Kukkonen, Barry Kohn, Kalle Kirsimäe, Argo Jõeleht, Ling Chung, Malcolm McMillan, Samuel Boone, Andy Gleadow
New apatite fission track (AFT) data from Estonia together with previously published data from Finland, all from crystalline basement drill core, constrain the Phanerozoic thermal history. Models show a consistent pattern of heating from Cambrian to end-Carboniferous, with peak paleotemperatures of 60 ± 10 °C when sediment cover was ∼ 0.5 km thicker in the Baltic Paleobasin and ∼ 1.5 km over Precambrian
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Experimental and numerical investigations of seismic behavior of slopes reinforced with sheet pile walls: Role of retaining sheet Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Ning Bao, Jianfeng Chen, Gonghui Wang, Rui Sun, Kongming Yan
A thorough analysis of the pile-soil-sheet interaction is essential to understanding the load-transfer mechanism and reliable structural design of sheet pile walls in slope stabilizations. However, the stabilizing contribution of retaining sheet still remains unclear to date. In this paper, a series of shaking table tests were conducted on a deposit slope reinforced with sheet pile walls by considering
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Rock moisture dynamics in sandstone caves responsible for weathering: Field observations and numerical modeling Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Ran Niu, Xiao-Wei Jiang, Kaigao Ouyang, Xi Yang, Xu-Sheng Wang, Ji-Zhong Huang, Hong-Bing Yan, Li Wan
Rock moisture, a hidden component of the water cycle, is responsible for deterioration of rocks. In caves shielded from rainfall, rock moisture dynamics remain insufficiently known. In the Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in China, we employ the frequency domain reflectometry to monitor the apparent rock water content (RWC) at the horizontal depth of 5 cm of a rock wall, and transform
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A complex function model for foundation pit slope excavation, incorporating stress interaction among densely karst caves in the underground space Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Zhen Liu, Jin Liao, Yongtao Wu, Chunxiu Lin, Liang Zeng, Cuiying Zhou
Excavating foundation pits in karst areas faces challenges from stress interactions between densely distributed caves. Current methods (e.g., FEM) often yield high safety factors, leading to increased excavation costs. We develop a complex function model incorporating Riemann mapping to derive analytical stress solutions for arbitrary cave geometries. Stability criteria for different failure modes
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Deformation dynamics and hazard of slow-moving landslides: The 2023 Joshimath event, Uttarakhand Himalaya Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Prohelika Dalal, Manoj Hari, Yuankun Xu, Batakrushna Senapati, Param Gautam, Deepak Kumar Tiwari, Roland Bürgmann, Bhaskar Kundu
In early 2023, the Joshimath town in Uttarakhand Himalaya, India, became a major concern due to widespread ground deformation and building damage. As a densely populated town on a slow-moving landslide (SML), it is crucial to assess the ground movement patterns and associated risks. Towards this objective, this study integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) time-series data (2017–2023)
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Centrifuge model investigation on the initiation mechanisms of rock-ice slide: Insights from the Yigong landslide and Chamoli rock-ice avalanche Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-16 Ye Li, Xuanmei Fan, Tao Ni, Wensong Wang, Qianpeng Wang, Xinxin Zhang, Q. Pan
Climate change has intensified the occurrence of rock-ice avalanches, heightening risks to communities and infrastructure in alpine regions. However, their abrupt onset and remote locations have limited investigations into their initiation mechanisms. This study addresses that gap through centrifuge experiments based on two major events: the 2000 Yigong landslide in China and the 2021 Chamoli rock-ice
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Assessing discrepancies in global aerosol trends from satellites, models and reanalyses Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Ruben Urraca, Fabrizio Cappucci, Christian Lanconelli, Nadine Gobron
Aerosols, which offset a third of the greenhouse gas forcing, remain the primary source of uncertainty in climate monitoring. Satellite products, models, or reanalyses provide time series of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), each with distinct strengths and weaknesses. This study evaluates the temporal stability of these datasets from 2003 to 2022 using spatially representative long-term AERONET measurements
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Behavior and mechanical characteristics anisotropy of Weathered Shale, Sandstone, and composite specimens under unconfined and confined compressive stress Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Hasan Ali Abbas, Zainab Mohamed, Sakhiah Binti Abdul Kudus, Duaa Al-Jeznawi, Saif M. Hassan Al-Riahi
The mechanical behavior of weathered interbedded rocks, such as the Kenny Hill Formation, is highly anisotropic due to bedding and joint orientations. This study investigates the compressive strength, failure modes, and stress-strain behavior of weathered shale, sandstone, and composite specimens under unconfined and confined stress conditions, with bedding and joint orientation angles ranging from
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An innovative and efficient approach for slope reliability analysis: Machine learning based surrogate modeling with advanced attention mechanisms Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Nenghao Huang, Yu Han, Weiwei Xie, Rui Hu, Hao Peng, Guanxian Song, Menglan Wu, Menglong Zhu, Hua Wei, Ming Liang
Slope stability analysis in spatially variable soils poses significant computational challenges for traditional methods. While surrogate models offer potential solutions, they face limitations in handling high-dimensional data of random fields and lack interpretability. This study introduces a novel LeNet5-CBAM surrogate model that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (LeNet5 base) with Convolutional
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Hydro-mechanical behavior of compacted GMZ bentonite blocks with a vertical technological void Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Jing Ma, Yong-gui Chen, Yu-jun Cui, Wei-min Ye, Qiong Wang
In the deep geological repository for high-level radioactive waste (HLW), technological voids are inevitably generated during the construction, which may influence the bentonite-based barrier performance. To well understand the self-sealing/healing mechanisms, simultaneous morphology-hydromechanical tests were performed on compacted GMZ bentonite blocks with vertical technological void, and the overall
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Evolution of velocity and temperature profiles in very dense granular flows: Insights from ring-shear experiments Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Yi Ge, Wei Hu, Gonghui Wang, Yan Li, Li Zhou, Yangshuai Zheng
Dense granular flows play a critical role in various geological hazards, including landslides, fault slip zones, debris flows, and rock avalanches, yet the coupled thermo-mechanical behavior governing their evolution remains poorly understood. In this study, we conducted ring shear experiments under high normal stress using nearly crush-resistant glass beads to investigate the evolution of velocity
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Enhancing containment performance of geosynthetic clay liner to bauxite liquor via composite polymer amendment Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Xian-Lei Fu, Zhe-Yuan Jiang, Min Wang, Hao Ni, Yan-Jun Du
Polymer amended geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) have exhibited substantial semipermeable membrane behavior in singe-species salt solution. However, very few studies have evaluated the membrane and diffusion behavior of polymer amended GCLs in multi-species leachates. This study investigated the membrane and diffusion behavior of novel composite polymer amended GCL (referred to as PHGCL) using diluted
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Modeling the spatial distribution of REEs and Li within two coal ash impoundments Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-06-15 Kalyn J. Tew, Rona J. Donahoe, Ibrahim G. Okunlola
Historical and newly acquired data are used to model the spatial variability of rare earth elements (REE), Sc, Y, and Li concentrations in two coal ash impoundments. Samples were collected using a limited sampling scheme and modeled in ArcGIS Pro for total REYSc, Ce, La, Sc, Y, Nd, and Li using 3-dimensional empirical Bayesian Kriging (EBK 3D). Although a higher sample density was modeled at Site 1
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A cloud-regulated land surface warming model to reconstruct daytime surface temperatures under cloudy conditions Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Fei Xu, Xiaolin Zhu
Daytime land surface temperature (D-LST) plays a pivotal role in regulating net ecosystem exchanges and is characterized by rapid fluctuations. Thermal infrared satellite remote sensing (TIRS) is widely used to acquire D-LST data owing to its global coverage and high-frequency observations. However, the presence of cloud cover impedes the TIRS technique by obstructing ground thermal emissions. A prevalent
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Modeling diurnal gross primary production in East Asia using Himawari-8/9 geostationary satellite data Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Yuhei Yamamoto, Kazuhito Ichii, Wei Yang, Yui Shikakura, Youngryel Ryu, Minseok Kang, Shohei Murayama, Su-Jin Kim, Yuta Takao, Masahito Ueyama, Tomoko Kawaguchi Akitsu, Hiroki Iwata, Hojin Lee, Junghwa Chun, Atsushi Higuchi, Takashi Hirano, AReum Kim, Hyun Seok Kim, Kenzo Kitamura, Yuji Kominami, Kazuho Matsumoto, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Satoru Takanashi, Hideaki Takenaka,
Gross primary production (GPP) is a key indicator of plant growth and ecosystem health, and accurately capturing its diurnal variation is crucial for understanding vegetation responses to extreme heat and drought. However, the applicability of satellite-based semi-empirical models to diurnal GPP estimation remains limited. This study refined diurnal GPP estimation in humid temperate climates by leveraging
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Hedgerow mapping with high resolution satellite imagery to support policy initiatives at national level Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Javier Muro, Lukas Blickensdörfer, Axel Don, Anna Köber, Sarah Asam, Marcel Schwieder, Stefan Erasmi
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Paleoproterozoic to Cambro-Ordovician crustal evolution in the northern Indian margin: Evidence from whole-rock geochemical, zircon U–Pb, Hf and O isotope signatures in the granitoids of Arunachal Himalaya, Northeast India Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Bidyananda Maibam, Waikhom Nongdon, Pankaj Kumar, Yoann Gréau, Jasper Berndt, Stephen Foley, Atul Kumar Singh, Deeksha Khandelwal
The northern margin of the Indian continental plate had undergone multiple tectonic events associated with the supercontinent assemblies and breakups before the Cenozoic collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. Whole-rock geochemical, zircon U–Pb geochronology, Lu–Hf and O isotopic study of the granites and granite gneisses exposed in the west Kameng and Subansiri regions of Arunachal Himalaya
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Detection of overburden stress based on dynamic pressure differential index of hydraulic support Eng. Geol. (IF 8.4) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Like Wei, Deyi Jiang, Yulong Chen
Problems such as roof collapse and support crushing are frequently encountered in the working face and threatened safety of the working face. Therefore, understanding the overburden stress is crucial to hazard detection and mitigation in deep coal mining. The hydraulic support is in direct contact with the roof of the working face in the working space of the shearers, which can most comprehensively
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Reconstructing the trophic structure of Maastrichtian elasmobranch communities in Morocco using calcium isotopes Gondwana Res. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Assemat Alexandre, Adnet Sylvain, E.Martin Jeremy
The diversification of elasmobranchs through time is accompanied by an incredible diversity of feeding ecologies reflecting every trophic position and placing elasmobranchs as cornerstone organisms of the marine food webs. Quantifying their trophic ecology in the fossil record brings precious insights about their successes and the evolution of trophic structure through deep time. Here we quantitatively
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Paleogeography of microcontinents in northeastern China in view of macroplant Leclercqia (Lycopsida) records during Middle to Late Devonian Gondwana Res. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-06-14 Yu-Jin Zhang, Bing-Cai Liu, De-Jun Zhang, Kai Wang, Hong-He Xu
Paleogeography of the microcontinents in northeastern China is essential to understanding tectonic and dynamic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Studies using a variety of scientific and technical means have been carried out on materials ranging from the Late Neoproterozoic to the early Mesozoic of the CAOB. However, evidence from macroplant fossils is rare, and its Devonian-related
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Comparison of snowmelt timing estimates from Sentinel-1 SAR and surface observations in British Columbia, Canada Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Sara E. Darychuk, Joseph M. Shea, Chris Derksen
Snowmelt provides critical water resources that impact ecosystem health and hazard frequency; however, the timing of melt is difficult to infer across large spatial scales. While Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been used to detect snowmelt onset, the accuracy of different methodological approaches requires evaluation. We use Sentinel-1 SAR observations to estimate snowmelt timing at automated snow
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Smoke absorption retrieval algorithm using critical reflectance method with geostationary satellite over North America Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Roshan Kumar Mishra, Yingxi Shi, Zhibo Zhang, J. Vanderlei Martins, Lorraine A. Remer, Robert C. Levy
In recent years, increasing wildfire activity in the western United States has led to significant emissions of smoke aerosols, impacting the atmospheric energy balance through their absorption and scattering properties. Single scattering albedo (SSA) is a key parameter that governs these radiative effects, but accurately retrieving SSA from satellites remains challenging due to limitations in sensor
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Thermal sentinel: Low-earth orbit infrared intelligent system for flying civil aircraft safety Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Liyuan Li, Xiaoxuan Zhou, Wencong Zhang, Yifan Zhong, Long Gao, Jianing Yu, Xiaoyan Li, Fansheng Chen
The surveillance and detection of civil aircraft over a wide area has long been a technical challenge, with no available datasets and complete detection methods yet. The first global space-based three-channels thermal infrared flying civil aircraft dataset (TIFAD.v1) is established by this paper, covering 17 months, six continents, with 21,004 aircraft and 1252 contrail aircraft, integrating ADS-B
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Refinement of gross dry matter productivity (GDMP) product from Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS): An ecophysiological assessment of Mediterranean Evergreen forests Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Wafa Chebbi, Eva Rubio, Nikos Markos, Dan Yakir, Francisco Antonio García-Morote, Manuela Andrés-Abellán, Rocío Arquero-Escañuela, Marta Isabel Picazo-Córdoba, Eyal Rotenberg, Kalliopi Radoglou, Francisco Ramón López-Serrano
The impacts of climate change pose significant challenges to global forest ecosystems, particularly in Mediterranean evergreen forests dominated by Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.). Since the CLMS 10-daily Gross Dry Matter Productivity (GDMP) product represents the potential productivity and, by definition, does not account for water stress, this study aims to evaluate and improve the Gross Primary
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Coupled retrieval of turbulent heat fluxes and gross primary productivity via the assimilation of land surface temperature data from geostationary satellites Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Zongbin Xu, Tongren Xu, Xinlei He, Jingfeng Xiao, Sayed M. Bateni, Changhyun Jun, Gangqiang Zhang, Wenting Ming, Shaomin Liu
Compared with those provided by polar-orbiting satellites/sensors (e.g., Landsat/MODIS), new-generation geostationary satellites, such as Himawari-8 and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R), offer temporally continuous and much more frequent observations of the land surface over the course of the diurnal cycle. In this study, Himawari-8 land surface temperature (LST)
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Divergent subduction of a tearing slab controls deep carbon recycling efficiency: Helium and carbon isotopic evidence from the southeast Tibetan Plateau Gondwana Res. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Yingchun Wang, Xiaocheng Zhou, Jiao Tian, Pengfei Chen, Miao He, Yucong Yan, Bingyu Yao, Zhongping Li, Chunhui Cao, Hikaru Iwamori
Variations of helium isotopic compositions across tectonic belts and at regional scales provide critical insights into crust–mantle interactions and the transport of heat and volatiles from the Earth’s interior. In this study, we report geochemical data from 26 thermal springs, including 51 newly analyzed samples, and integrate a broader dataset comprising 854 samples from 350 sites distributed along
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On the hotspot-Sun angular offset in urban thermal anisotropy Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-12 Wenfeng Zhan, Lu Jiang, Guanwen Chen, Jian Hang, Pan Dong, Shasha Wang, Long Li, Huilin Du
The hotspot-sun angular offset (the spherical circular angle between hotspot and sun positions, termed ΔCA) in urban thermal anisotropy (UTA) plays a pivotal role in advancing remote sensing of urban climates. However, its diurnal and monthly variations across scenarios influenced by sun position, urban morphology, and thermal inertia remain largely unknown. Here we filled this knowledge gap based
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A novel hyperspectral index for quantifying chlorophyll-a concentration in productive waters Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-12 Huaxin Yao, Junsheng Li, Yaming Zhou, Yao Liu, Dalin Jiang, Shoujing Yin, Xuezhu Jiang, Fangfang Zhang, Shenglei Wang, Bing Zhang
Hyperspectral remote sensing has great potential for monitoring chlorophyll-a concentration (Chla) in optically complex waters. However, various hyperspectral indices currently used for retrieving Chla in productive waters exhibit drawbacks due to interference from other water parameters, imperfect atmospheric correction, and the constraints imposed by discrete spectral bands. To address these issues
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Methodology and potential applications of ice/snow surface temperature over polar regions using SDGSAT-1 satellite Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-12 Chenlie Shi, Ninglian Wang, Yuwei Wu, Quan Zhang, Zhenxiang Fang
High spatial resolution Ice/snow Surface Temperature (IST) data provides prominent advantages for polar research, such as identification of sea ice lead, monitoring of surface melting on ice shelves and variations of polynyas. As the first satellite dedicated to sustainable development goals, SDGSAT-1 is equipped with 30 m thermal infrared bands, making it highly promising for monitoring fine scale
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Molybdenum isotope records of the Chilpi Group, Bastar Craton, India: Implications on atmospheric and shallow-seawater oxygen content in the Orosirian period Gondwana Res. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-06-12 Prasanta Kumar Mishra, Sarada Prasad Mohanty, Kosuke T. Goto, Susanta Kumar Mishra
The Chilpi Group (2050 – 1850 Ma), central India, preserves iron formations of the Paleoproterozoic Era. The PO2 value of 10-3 – 10-5 times the present atmospheric level (PAL) during deposition of the Chilpi Group was reported from the analyses of the geothermometry and oxygen fugacity variations using the mineral chemistry of the rare association of magnetite-greenalite-cronstedtite-siderite in the
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Arctic and Antarctic Surface Temperatures from AVHRR thermal Infrared satellite sensors 1982–2023 Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Wiebke Margitta Kolbe, Gorm Dybkjær, Rasmus T. Tonboe, Steinar Eastwood, Pia Nielsen-Englyst, Jacob Høyer, André Toft Jensen, Magnus Barfod Suhr
42-years of Arctic and Antarctic Surface Temperatures from thermal Infrared satellite radiometers (AASTI) are presented as the Copernicus Climate Change Service Ice surface temperature record v1.1 dataset (C3S IST). It covers snow, ice and ocean surfaces with mean and max–min daily temperatures poleward of 50 degrees North and South, for the period 1982–2023. The C3S IST is provided as a Level 3 (L3)
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CELNet: A comprehensive efficient learning network for atmospheric plume identification from remotely sensed methane concentration images Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Fang Chen, Robert J. Parker, Harjinder Sembhi, Ashiq Anjum, Heiko Balzter
Methane is an important greenhouse gas contributing to global warming and climate change. The effective identification of atmospheric plumes in spatial images of methane concentration data retrieved from remote sensing is a critical step in quantifying emissions and ultimately helping to mitigate climate change by reducing large methane emission sources. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive efficient
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Challenges in remote sensing of night lights – a research agenda for the next decade Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Noam Levin
In recent years new sensors and products have been developed to advance our capabilities in assessing human activities based on the remote sensing of night lights. Correctly understanding patterns in human activity and land use based on night lights, is key to gauge our advancement in reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In this paper I focus on five challenges in remote sensing
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Paleoenvironmental implications of Deccan volcanism relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction: evidence from the ‘red bole’ record Gondwana Res. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Nikhil Sharma, Thierry Adatte, Torsten Vennemann, Blair Schoene, Gerta Keller, Syed F.R. Khadri
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) have been widely investigated for their potential role in mass extinction events. High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Deccan Traps indicates that peak eruptive activity began approximately 250 kyr before the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary and persisted into the early Danian, suggesting a causal link between Deccan volcanism and the K-Pg mass extinction
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Reconstructing ocean surface current vector field from SAR doppler shift measurements Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-10 Shengren Fan, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Yury Yurovsky, Biao Zhang
The Doppler shift observed by single-beam synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been widely used to retrieve the radial velocity of ocean surface currents. However, operational marine forecasting centers require full surface current vector fields for data assimilation and forecast validation. To address this need, we propose a method to reconstruct the two-dimensional surface current vector from SAR Doppler
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A TCN-Transformer Parallel model for reconstruction of a global, daily, spatially seamless FY-3B soil moisture dataset Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-10 Qunming Wang, Yanling You, Haoxuan Yang, Ronghan Xu, Hankui K. Zhang, Ping Lu, Xiaohua Tong
Soil moisture (SM) is a critical variable in land-atmosphere interactions. As an important passive microwave remote sensing dataset, the Fengyun-3B (FY-3B) SM has been applied in a variety of scientific studies and applications. However, due to the discontinuous coverage of satellite revisit orbits, the FY-3B SM contains a large range of data gaps, which greatly limit the applicability. To solve this
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A framework for mapping conservation agricultural fields using optical and radar time series imagery Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2025-06-10 Yue Zhou, Manon S. Ferdinand, Jelle van Wesemael, Klara Dvorakova, Philippe V. Baret, Kristof Van Oost, Bas van Wesemael
The importance of conservation agriculture (CA) is undeniable, both for improving soil health and offering a viable path towards achieving carbon neutrality. However, to date, survey statistics on the extent of conservation agriculture were based on farmer declarations or field inspections. This is a major impediment to the promotion or monitoring of conservation agriculture. Here, we collected the