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Vulnerability and tsunami disaster on the west coast Banten province, Indonesia Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Muzani Muzani, Ilham B Mataburu, Tafiati Tafiati
Indonesia is located at the confluence of the world’s tectonic plates, causing frequent tsunami disasters. An area in Indonesia prone to a tsunami is the Sunda Strait, which has an active underwate...
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Spatio-temporal study on coupling coordination between urbanization and eco-resilience in the Erhai Lake Basin Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Zhanting Deng, Yuhan Chen, Fengshan Jiang, Yangbin Zhang, Zhiqiang Xie, Yuning Zhang, Lei Zhao
Amidst the rapid urbanisation, the ecological environment of plateau lake basins faces significant challenges. To better coordinate the relationship between urbanisation development and ecological ...
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Impacts of climate and land use/cover changes on the sustainability of irrigation water in West Africa: a systematic review Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Gemechu Fufa Arfasa, Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Dzigbodi Adzo Doke, Justice Aygei Ampofo
Climate and LULC changes have a great influence on the hydrological processes which include evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, groundwater flow, and stream discharge regime. This stu...
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Radioactivity distributions and biohazard assessment of coastal marine environments of niger-delta, Nigeria Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Maxwell Omeje, Muyiwa M. Orosun, Godfrey U. Aimua, Olusegun O. Adewoyin, Soheil Sabri, Hitler Louis, Emmanuel S. Joel, Conrad A. Omohinmin, Eze F. Ahuekwe, Patrick O. Isibor, Mojisola R. Usikalu, Ifeanyi A. Oha, Nuradeen N. Garba, Terkaa V. Targema
The Unumherin community in Nigeria’s Niger Delta is home to coastal marine polluted zones, and this research examines the radioactivity distributions and biohazard in the coastal environment. The a...
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Topographic amplification of seismic ground motion at the broad rift zone of SW Ethiopia Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Anteneh Legesse, Tilahun Mammo
Topographic influences of the ground motions in 3D geological configurations have been addressed using Spectral Element Method as implemented in SPECFEM3D code developed to simulate seismic wave pr...
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Gully-type debris flow susceptibility assessment based on a multi-channel multi-scale residual network fusing multi-source data: a case study of Nujiang Prefecture Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Cunxi Liu, Baoyun Wang
In large-scale debris flow susceptibility assessments, there is often excessive manual intervention, low efficiency, and inadequate model accuracy. To address these issues, this paper integrates mu...
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Temperature and precipitation trend analysis using the CMIP6 model in the Upper East region of Ghana Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Gemechu Fufa Arfasa, Ebenezer Owusu Sekyere, Dzigbodi Adzo Doke
The aim of this study was to assess the historical and projected climate trend analysis in the Upper East Region, Ghana, using time series and modelled climate data under shared socio-economic path...
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Quantifying links between aerosol optical depth and rapid urbanisation induced land use changes, Hangzhou, China, 2000–2020 Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Zhifeng Yu, Zheyu Chen, Kun Sun, Bing Qi, Ben Wang, Haijian Liu, C.K. Shum, Wenshuang Guo, Huiyan Xu, Xiaohong Yuan, Bin Zhou
The decline in air quality is thought to be due to rapid land use/land cover (LULC) changes near metropolitan areas that are undergoing rapid urbanisation. Here, we quantify the characteristics and...
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Comparing the potentials of the different canola flower indices for canola mapping based on Landsat 9 images Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Haifeng Tian, Shuai Wang, Fangli Wu, Yaochen Qin, Xiwang Zhang, Li Wang, Jie Pei, Jiayi Liu, Mengdan Yang
Mastering the changes in the planting area of crops are critical for formulating sustainable agricultural development strategies. The Landsat 9 satellite provides continuous observational data for ...
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Movement and deformation of the Ordos basin and adjacent regions of North China Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Peng Ding, Yuanjin Pan, Hao Ding, Jiashuang Jiao
The Ordos block is an important active block in North China during the Cenozoic and modern tectonic activity. Based on a large amount of GPS observation data, an accurate and dense GPS velocity fie...
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Development of rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for the Fiji Islands: integrating TRMM-3B42 and measured gauge data with future projections Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Sanjana De Zoysa, Helani Perera, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, Upaka Rathnayake
This paper explores the utilisation of gauge rainfall and satellite-based precipitation product (SPP)-TRMM3B42, to develop IDF curves for the Fiji Islands. The study compares the application of rem...
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
Published in All Earth (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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Optimised weighted mean temperature model based on generalised regression neural network Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Junyu Li, Mingyun Hu, Lilong Liu, Chaolong Yao, Liangke Huang, Tengxu Zhang, Lv Zhou, Fade Chen
The weighted mean temperature (Tm) is a key parameter to calculate the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based precipitable water vapour (PWV). Data fusion provides a solution to depict the...
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Future prediction of existing glacial lake’s size in the Himalaya by Markov model and glacial surface topography Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Litan Mohanty, Vishal Pateswary, Sabyasachi Maiti, Debasis D Mohanty
Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are increasing in size and number at an alarming rate, with the majority of lakes concentrated in the eastern and central parts of the mountain range. This research f...
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Land use land cover (LULC) degradation intensity analysis of Guinea savannah and mosaic Forest savannah zones in Ghana Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Kueshi Sémanou Dahan, Raymond Abudu Kasei, Rikiatu Husseini
Ghana is increasingly affected by climate change, increased soil aridity, demographic problems, and unfavourable environmental factors. In the context of conservation, protection and sustainable ma...
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Urban subsidence in rapid economic development: the case of Luoyang city, Henan Province Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Yizhan Zhao, Lv Zhou, Heng Luo, Yan Li, Xinyi Li, Yuanjin Pan, Youju Huang
Rapid urban development has led to severe land subsidence in Luoyang, Henan Province in the past few years. The current research on subsidence in urban areas of Luoyang is relatively few and early,...
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Urban carbon stock estimation based on deep learning and UAV remote sensing: a case study in Southern China Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Zijian Wu, Mingfeng Jiang, Huaizhong Li, Yang Shen, Junfeng Song, Xuyang Zhong, Zhen Ye
Accurate carbon (C) stock estimation is crucial for C sequestration research, environmental protection, and policy formulation related to C management. Although research on C stock in forests, ocea...
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Spatial correlation of the maximum shear strain loading rate and the correlation dimension along the Sumatra subduction margin for potential earthquake and tsunami hazard study and analysis Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Wahyu Triyoso, Widjo Kongko, Gegar S. Prasetya, Dina A. Sarsito
The potential earthquake and tsunami hazard along the Sumatra subduction margin, especially around the coast of West Sumatra-Bengkulu, was investigated based on the availability of pre-seismic surf...
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Setting priorities for public–private collaborations in tourism disaster management planning Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Devi Roza K Kausar, Agustan Agustan, Sarojini Imran, Dini Rosmalia, Riza Firmansyah
This study aims to explore the relationships between public and private sectors in tourism disaster management and assess the criteria for the realisation of public and private collaborations in to...
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Metal source and the origin of the Darıderesi Pb-Zn (Ag) veins in the Balya Mining District, NW Türkiye: constraints from ore mineral chemistry, fluid inclusions and S-Pb isotopic signatures Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Tolga Oyman, Sercan Bozan, Mustafa Çiçek, Massimo Chiaradia, İ̇lkay Kuşcu
The Darıderesi mineralisation was recently discovered in the Balya district, which hosts Pb-Zn (Ag) deposits including Arı Mağara-Balya Main and Hastanetepe-Balya North. Darıderesi is a structurall...
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Earthquake-triggered landslides and Environmental Seismic Intensity: insights from the 2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake (Mw 7.5) Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Aadityan Sridharan, Maria Francesca Ferrario, Sundararaman Gopalan
ABSTRACT On the 25 February 2018, an earthquake of magnitude Mw7.5 struck the region of Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG), triggering numerous landslides. Planetscope images are used to derive a partial inventory of 2941 landslides in a cloud-free area of 2686 km2. The average area of landslides in the study area is 18,500 m2. We use the Environmental Seismic Intensity (ESI) scale to assess the damage
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The first sexaxial figure of the Earth Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 H. Bâki İz
ABSTRACT In this study, a sexaxial figure of the Earth was created using randomly distributed 6400 control points on the geoid, which was generated by the EGM2008 gravity model. The shape of the sexaxial ellipsoid is defined by its six orthogonal axes. To construct the new geometric figure, eight triaxial ellipsoids were fitted to the Cartesian coordinates of control points in each octant of the geoid
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The global change and response special project: using remote sensing data to monitor and invert key components in the cryosphere Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Aiguo Zhao, Lu An, Yinsheng Zhang, Hansheng Wang, Fei Li, Tiantian Feng, Tong Hao, Weifeng Hao, Yan He, Liming Jiang, Ping Lu, Xianglian Meng, Xiaolei Niu, Gang Qiao, Xiaochun Ren, Qiang Shen, Yunzhong Shen, Yixiang Tian, Yongjie Wang, Bin Xiao, Huan Xie, Shengkai Zhang, Fujun Zhou, Shiqiao Zhou, Rongxing Li
ABSTRACT It is critical to understand the mechanisms and impacts of global climate change in cryosphere and polar environment. Here we describe the design and progress of the remote sensing products we have developed to monitor these changes. We obtain datasets by combining multi-sensor remote sensing systems with field validation systems, and then develop a methodological system that combines multiple
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A novel GNSS precise point positioning method based on spherical harmonic expansion Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Yanchen Cao, Jinyun Guo, Hengyang Guo, Minghao Chang, Chunmei Zhao, Xin Liu
ABSTRACT The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) precise point positioning (PPP) from carrier-phase data is influenced by complex elements. The error sources are divided into two categories according to their relation to the signal propagation path. A new GNSS PPP algorithm based on spherical harmonic expansion (PPP-SH) is proposed, which expresses the error adjustments related to the signal
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Potential of rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars to mitigate methane emissions from irrigated systems in Latin America and the Caribbean Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Paul Abayomi Sobowale Soremi, Ngonidzashe Chirinda, Eduardo Graterol, Maria Fernanda Alvarez
ABSTRACT In irrigated rice fields, plant-mediated transfer of CH4 from submerged soils to the atmosphere raise the possibility of genotypic differences in CH4 emissions. Previous research has been contradictory, and varietal differences in rice CH4 emissions in Latin America have not been examined. A field experiment in Colombia tested whether irrigated rice emissions might be reduced using a breeding
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Evaluation of earthquake disaster recovery patterns and influencing factors: a case study of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Xiaolin Chen, Xue Li, Zhumei Liu
ABSTRACT Earthquakes will significantly impact the economic development of earthquake-affected areas and the regional post-earthquake economic recovery trajectory. We presented an explorative analysis of disaster resilience and introduced a quantitative framework to model recovery patterns of earthquake disasters. Four resilience metrics, namely instant disturbance, recovery rate, recovery time, and
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GPU based building footprint identification utilising self-attention multiresolution analysis Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Rizwan Ahmed Ansari, Akshat Ramachandran, Winnie Thomas
ABSTRACT Techniques for the semantic segmentation of remotely sensed imageries for building footprint identification have been widely studied and several supervised and unsupervised techniques have been proposed. The ability to perform online mapping and accurate segmentation on a large scale by taking into account the multifariousness inherent in aerial images has important implications. In this paper
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Evaluating the impacts of watershed rehabilitation and irrigation interventions on vegetation greenness and soil erosion using remote sensing and biophysical modelling in Feresmay watershed in Ethiopia Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Yared Bayissa, Yihun Dile, Raghavan Srinivasan, Claudia Ringler, Nicole Lefore, A. W. Worqlul
ABSTRACT Soil erosion and subsequent land degradation undermine efforts to ensure food security and environmental sustainability in Ethiopia. The government of Ethiopia has implemented extensive soil and water conservation (SWC) programs in severely degraded and food-insecure areas of the country, in some cases integrated with subsequent or parallel irrigation development. However, the effectiveness
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Do green technological innovation, financial development, economic policy uncertainty, and institutional quality matter for environmental sustainability? Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Kishwar Ali, Du Jianguo, Dervis Kirikkaleli, Judit Oláh, Mehmet Altuntaş
ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability is a pressing global concern that demands urgent attention from policymakers and researchers. The objective of our research is to investigate the influence of economic policy uncertainty (determined by the world uncertainty index) and financial development on carbon emissions, followed by green technological innovation, institutional quality, economic growth, foreign
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Spatial association and identification of carbon neutrality in Chinese tourism, based on social network analysis Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Hai Zhu, Liguo Wang
ABSTRACT Achieving tourism carbon neutrality is essential for sustainable tourism development. This paper uses the coupled coordination distance model, modified gravity model and social network analysis to attempt to construct a nationwide tourism carbon neutral spatial network to clarify the role of each province in the process of achieving China’s tourism carbon neutrality. The results show that:
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Seismic hazard estimation and medium-term earthquake precursor analysis of North East India: an assessment on large earthquake scenario Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Anshuman Phukan, Debasis D Mohanty
ABSTRACT The North-Eastern region of India has the distinction of being one of the most seismically active and tectonically complex regions in the world. The region has periodically jolted by a number of large earthquakes. The temporal and spatial frequency-magnitude distribution (FMD) of earthquakes in three major selected regions of North-East India, namely Shillong–Mikir Hills, Arunachal Himalaya
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Epistemic uncertainty in the kinematics of global mean sea-level rise since 1993 and its dire consequences Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 H. Bâki İz
ABSTRACT Recent studies reported an ambiguous global sea level acceleration during the satellite altimetry (SA) era (1993–2017). New SA data created an opportunity to resolve this issue. In this study, two competing kinematic models to represent global mean sea level anomalies are compared. The first model consists of an initial velocity and uniform acceleration. The second model replaces the initial
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Urgent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is needed to avoid irreversible tipping points: time is running out Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Ilan Stavi
ABSTRACT This essay addresses climate change and its main causes over the last three decades. Between 1992–2021, global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have risen continually. Specifically, the major socioeconomic sectors – including (1) energy, (2) industry, (3) land-use/land-use change/agriculture, (4) transportation, (5) building/construction, and (6) waste treatment/disposal – have emitted
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Our changing planet in a changing world Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Yeqiao Wang
Published in All Earth (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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Research trend of rice and greenhouse gases based on Web of Science: a bibliometric analysis Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Bao-Zhong Yuan, Jie Sun
ABSTRACT Based on the Web of Science core database and using bibliometric analysis method, this study analysed 2,680 papers on rice and greenhouse gas topic research till to 22 July 2022, which included 47 highly cited papers and one hot paper, mainly written in English and from 10,116 authors, 2,594 organisations and 111 countries or territories, published in 517 journals and four book series. The
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Long-term trends of river flow, sediment yield and crop productivity of Andit tid watershed, central highland of Ethiopia Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Ayele Woldemarim, Tilahun Getachew, Tilashwork Chanie
ABSTRACT Andit tid watershed is part of Blue Nile basin located in the central highlands of Ethiopia. The lack of data and information at watershed level resulted in different conclusions from trend studies of river flow, sediment yield and crop productivity at a basin scale. There is an opportunity to improve water and land if it can be underpinned by a better scientific understanding of trends of
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Land use land cover change analysis and detection of its drivers using geospatial techniques: a case of south-central Ethiopia Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Mehari Mariye, Li Jianhua, Melesse Maryo
ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of agriculture and human settlements has simplified natural ecosystems and harmed the earth’s biodiversity. The current study was conducted in south-central Ethiopia to identify LULC change dynamics, and analysis of their driving force using geospatial technology. A supervised maximum likelihood image classification method was employed in combination with the visual interpretation
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The seismic risk perception of emergency managers and first responders– a public survey in Greece Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Anna Fokaefs, Kalliopi Sapontzaki
ABSTRACT Understanding the seismic risk perceptions of emergency managers and first responders is fundamental to entrusting pre-disaster policy-making and emergency communication practices. Therefore, an online survey in Greece was conducted to assess the impact of knowledge, worry, experience, and other variables on seismic risk perceptions and to reveal emergency managers’ and first responders’ opinions
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Plio-Quaternary interaction between Adria and surrounding orogens: a Central-Northern Apennines perspective Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Paolo Pace, Fernando Calamita, Mario Boccaletti
ABSTRACT The active interaction of the foreland domain represented by the Adria Foreland Plate and the surrounding orogenic systems is discussed by taking a perspective from the Central-Northern Apennines. The present-day tectono-kinematic framework of the Adriatic and surrounding regions is considered with respect to structural setting of the Central-Northern Apennines, developed as a Pliocene lateral
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Targeting local orogenic gold mineralisation zones using data-driven evidential belief functions: the Godarsorkh area, Central Iran Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Mehdi Maleki, Shojaeddin Niroomand, Shahrokh Rajabpour, Amin Beiranvand Pour, Salahadin Ebrahimpour
ABSTRACT Using GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making techniques, i.e. mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM), specific spatial problems can be solved by combining information from different sources. Orogenic gold mineralisation shows weak exploration signals on the surface that can challenge exploration geologists. This study investigates the ability of a MPM method called evidential belief functions
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Proposing an easy-to-use tool for estimating landslide dimensions using a data-driven approach Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Minu Treesa Abraham, Neelima Satyam, Biswajeet Pradhan, Samuele Segoni
ABSTRACT The increase in population and urbanisation of hilly regions have increased the risk due to landslides. This manuscript presents a data-driven approach with a random forest algorithm to estimate the projected area, length, travel distance, and width of landslides, using elevation and slope information. The method is tested for two different study areas (Idukki and Wayanad), using three different
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InSAR-derived land subsidence in Wuhan between 2015 and 2020 Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Weiyu Lai, Qiang Shen, Hansheng Wang, C.K. Shum, Liming Jiang, Banghui Yang, Jinglong Dong, Fan Gao, Yingli Zhao, Tiantian Liu
ABSTRACT Land subsidence has become a challenging problem with urbanization and underground exploitation. The land subsidence in Wuhan, China, was inferred from 47 Sentinel-1A images acquired between June 2015 to October 2020 based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometric Point Target Analysis (IPTA) technology. Results show that significant subsidence mainly occurred in Houhu, Qinshan, Baishazhou
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The global mean sea level rise predicted by its causative budget components during 2018 – 2050 Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 H. Bâki Iz
ABSTRACT This study establishes a predictive empirical model, the first of its kind, which is innately a cause-and-effect representation of the observed global mean sea level over time. The model uses the trends of its observed budget components, including the temporal variations in mass of glaciers, Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets, terrestrial water storage, steric effect, and astronomical forcings
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Abundance, richness and use of medicinal plants under different land uses in the Guinea Savanna zone of Northern Ghana Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Samuel Owusu Yeboah, Isaac K. Amponsah, James S. Kaba, Akwasi A. Abunyewa
ABSTRACT Change in land use affects the conservation of medicinal plants. We assessed the abundance and richness of medicinal plants under different land-use systems in Ghana. The land-use types consisted of protected area (PA), Fallowed Land (FL) and Farmed area (FA). A total of 45 quadrats (30 m × 30 m) were laid randomly and medicinal plants identified. Soil samples (0–15 cm) were also collected
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Assessment of landslide susceptibility for Meghalaya (India) using bivariate (frequency ratio and Shannon entropy) and multi-criteria decision analysis (AHP and fuzzy-AHP) models Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Navdeep Agrawal, Jagabandhu Dixit
ABSTRACT The main goal of the present study is to generate the GIS-based landslide susceptibility map (LSM) of Meghalaya, India. For this purpose, two bivariate statistical (FR and SE) and multi-criteria decision analysis (AHP and Fuzzy-AHP) methods are utilised. The study area is situated over the Shillong Plateau in the North Eastern Region of India and is subjected to numerous landslides due to
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Identifying discrepant regions in urban mapping from historical and projected global urban extents Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Haowei Mu, Xuecao Li, Yuyu Zhou, Peng Gong, Jianxi Huang, Xiaoping Du, Jingchen Guo, Wenting Cao, Zhongchang Sun, Chen Xu, Donglie Liu
ABSTRACT Although several products of the global urban extent with fine resolutions (e.g. 30 m-38 m) have been developed, quantitative evaluations of these products across spaces and times are still missing, which is crucial to future urban growth modeling. Here, we analysed the discrepancy of six global fine resolution urban extent products across spaces and times. First, we measured the area variations
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A new index to assess soil sustainability based on temporal changes of soil measurements using geomatics – an example from El-Sharkia, Egypt Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Mohamed A. E. Abdelrahman, Bernard Engel, Mona S. M. Eid, Hesham M. Aboelsoud
ABSTRACT A Soil Sustainability Index (SSI) is developed based on integration of Soil Degradation Rate (SDR), Soil Fertility Index (SFI), Soil Quality Index (SQI) and Soil Resilience Rate (SRR). SDI, SRR, SQI, and SFI resemble in being measurable from soil attributes that reveal the soil-environment functionality. This approach index was calculated based on four vertices, which are represented by the
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A hierarchical Constrained Bayesian (ConBay) approach to jointly estimate water storage and Post-Glacial Rebound from GRACE(-FO) and GNSS data Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Ehsan Forootan, Nooshin Mehrnegar
ABSTRACT Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-On mission (GRACE-FO) have become an indispensable tool in monitoring global mass variations. However, separating GRACE(-FO) signals into its individual Terrestrial Water Storage Changes (TWSC) and surface deformation contributors, i.e. Post-Glacial Rebound (PGR), is desirable for many hydro-climatic and geophysical applications
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Assessment of spatiotemporal filtering methods towards optimising crustal movement observation network of China (CMONOC) GNSS data processing at different spatial scales Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Hao Wang, Wenhao Li, Chanfang Shu, C. K. Shum, Fei Li, Shengkai Zhang, Zikang Zhang
ABSTRACT Spatiotemporal filtering can effectively remove the common mode error (CME) which significantly affects the accuracy of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) coordinate time series. This contribution explores the performance of different spatiotemporal filtering methods applied to GNSS networks at different spatial scales. We selected small-scale (<500 km) and large-scale (>2000 km)
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Neogene basins in Eastern Rif of Morocco and their potential to host native sulphur Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Laila Boubkari, Mohammed Achalhi, Otmane Raji, Muhammad Ouabid, Jean-Louis Bodinier, Imad El Kati, Hicham El Messbahi
ABSTRACT Sediment-hosted sulphur deposits provide valuable information on sedimentary biogeochemical processes related to microbial activity and are paleoenvironmental proxy records. They are also used as markers for oil exploration and the largest ones may represent exploitable economic resources of sulphur. Biogenic sulphur occurrences associated with Neogene formations are found around the Western
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Validating predictability of a sea level rise at a tide gauge station Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 H. Bâki Iz
ABSTRACT Predicting coastal sea level rise during the 21st century is essential for risk assessments. It is, therefore, a central theme for numerous studies in predicting sea level rise at coastal regions using historical tide gauge measurements. However, these investigations rarely investigated if such an extrapolation of sea level rise at a coastal region is viable without evidence. This study proposes
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Hydrological variability and loading deformation in the Yangtze river basin based on modern geodetic means Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Ding Ren, Lilong Liu, Liangke Huang, Lv Zhou
ABSTRACT The complex process of water storage change in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) includes strong feedbacks and connections with global climate change. This study adopted Global Positioning System (GPS) observations and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and Follow-On (FO) data from 2002 to 2021, along with Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) model outputs and Satellite Altimetry
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Forecasting tropical ENSO-induced drought conditions using sea surface height in the Western Pacific Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 C. P. David, M. J. Custado, N. Sekhon, D. E. Ibarra
ABSTRACT The interannual variability of rainfall caused by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) results in significant changes in hydrologic conditions. Forecasting ENSO and its impacts are mainly based on Central Pacific Sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies which satisfactorily correlate with timing and, to a lesser extent, the intensity of drought conditions in the Philippines and the Western
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Geospatial assessment of active tectonics using SRTM DEM-based morphometric approach for Meghalaya, India Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Navdeep Agrawal, Laxmi Gupta, Jagabandhu Dixit
ABSTRACT Meghalaya, situated over the Shillong Plateau in the northeastern region of India, is considered a seismo-tectonically active region because of the Indian-Eurasian convergence and rising since the Cenozoic era. The present study aims to identify active deformation zones due to tectonic activity following a morphometric approach. Based on DEM data and GIS techniques, morphometry parameters
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The evolution of large-scale variations in globally averaged atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 1830 Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 H. Bâki iz
ABSTRACT The analyses of the cumulative sums of the observed yearly averaged atmospheric CO2 concentrations revealed unambiguously two change points during 0–2021. The first abrupt change that occurred during 1830 delineated the starting epoch of the pre-industrial era, which is marked by a linear increase in concentrations (0.24 ± 0.01 ppm/yr.) as described by the IPCC being driven by economic and
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A hybrid model for the forecasting of sea surface water temperature using the information of air temperature: a case study of the Baltic Sea Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Senlin Zhu, You Luo, Mariusz Ptak, Mariusz Sojka, Qingfeng Ji, Adam Choiński, Manman Kuang
ABSTRACT Sea surface temperature (SST) is an important indicator of marine system. In this study, the hybrid physically-statistically based air2water model was modified for the forecasting of SST. The hybrid model combines empiricism and theory, and balances the complexity and accuracy between the process-based physical models and statistical models. Daily observed SST data (2009–2019) from six stations
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Minimum record length for detecting a prospective uniform sea level acceleration at a tide gauge station Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 H. Bâki Iz, C. K. Shum
ABSTRACT The unambiguous detection of a uniform sea level acceleration at a tide gauge station is important under an increasingly warmer Earth for the long-term coastal risk assessments. Although the timescales needed for detecting mean sea level trends at tide gauges were well investigated in the past, very few studies addressed the same issue for the sea level accelerations in depth. In this study
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Human migration-induced impacts on noise in GNSS position time series Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Chaolong Yao, C.K. Shum, Chuzhu Wang, Yihang Ding
ABSTRACT The accuracy of (Global Navigation Satellite System) GNSS site coordinates is known have been impacted by human activities, especially for sites located in or near populated or urban areas. A better understanding of these human-originated noise sources would benefit GNSS research and applications. However, much less such studies have elucidated the error sources originated by human-induced
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Earth science research contributing to sustainability of our home planet Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Yeqiao Wang
(2022). Earth science research contributing to sustainability of our home planet. All Earth: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. (i)-(i).
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Lakes as sentinels of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau Geodin. Acta (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Guoqing Zhang, Shuiqiang Duan
ABSTRACT Weather station observations reveal that the Tibetan Plateau climate has been becoming warmer and wetter since the 1950s. However, the weather stations are dominantly located in the eastern plateau. The widespread and dense distribution of lakes over the Tibetan Plateau with negligible direct human influence can act as sentinels of climate change. The warmer climate can be sensed from higher