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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2015 Seasonally inundated areas and water-saturated soils are common features of lowland Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost environments. With the onset of snow melt, and water percolation down through the snowpack, a principal factor controlling stream channel
Anna Maria Trofaier, W Gareth Rees
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Construction of high-precision DEMs for urban plots
Annals of GIS, 2023 High-precision digital elevation models (DEMs) are the basic data for constructing digital cities. With the acceleration of urbanization, the topography of urban plots is constantly transformed by human activities, so that surface morphology shows the ...
Min Li +4 more
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Comparison of three modelling approaches of potential natural forest habitats in Bavaria, Germany [PDF]
, 2005 In the context of the EU Habitats Directive, which contains the obligation of environmental monitoring, nature conservation authorities face a growing demand for effective and competitive methods to survey protected habitats.
Förster, Michael +2 more
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang +4 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds +2 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Game engines are not only capable of creating virtual worlds or providing entertainment, but also of modelling actual geographical space and producing solutions that support the process of social participation.
Robert Olszewski +3 more
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Slope stability and rockfall assessment of volcanic tuffs using RPAS with 2-D FEM slope modelling [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 Steep, hardly accessible cliffs of rhyolite tuff in NE Hungary are prone to rockfalls, endangering visitors of a castle. Remote sensing techniques were employed to obtain data on terrain morphology and to provide slope geometry for assessing the ...
Á. Török +5 more
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Application of a Three-Dimensional Unstructured-Mesh Finite-Element Flooding Model and Comparison with Two-Dimensional Approaches [PDF]
, 2016 Urban flood modelling plays a key role in assessment of flood risk in urban areas by providing detailed information of the flooding process (e.g. location, depth and velocity of flooding).
Bates, Paul D +3 more
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Optimisation of LiDAR derived terrain models for river flow modelling [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2009 Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) combines cost efficiency, high degree of automation, high point density of typically 1–10 points per m<sup>2</sup> and height accuracy of better than ±15 cm.
G. Mandlburger +4 more
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Rockfall Modelling in Forested Areas: The Role of Digital Terrain Model Grid Cell Size
Applied Sciences, 2021 This article examines how digital terrain model (DTM) grid cell size influences rockfall modelling using a probabilistic process-based model, Rockyfor3D, while taking into account the effect of forest on rockfall propagation and runout area. Two rockfall
Barbara Žabota +2 more
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