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Past and future land use/land cover, and climate change impacts on environmental sustainability in Vea catchment, Ghana

Geocarto International, 2023
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 environmental sustainability in the Vea catchment of Ghana.
Gemechu Fufa Arfasa, Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Dzigbodi Adzo Doke   +2 more
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Analysis of desertification and the driving factors over the Loess Plateau

Geocarto International, 2023
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: Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), kernel Normalized Difference ...
Xu Zhang, Ling Han, Liangzhi Li, Zongfan Bai   +3 more
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Machine learning for sinkhole risk mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy

Geocarto International, 2022
This work presents a sinkhole susceptibility and risk assessment mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Italy), a travertine sinkhole-prone area where sudden occurrences of sinkholes have happened in past and recent times.
Silvia Bianchini, Pierluigi Confuorto, Emanuele Intrieri, Paolo Sbarra, Diego Di Martire, Domenico Calcaterra, Riccardo Fanti   +6 more
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Enhanced shuffle attention network based on visual working mechanism for high-resolution remote sensing image classification

Geocarto International, 2022
High-resolution remote sensing images provide complete and detailed ground scenes. However, these complex and diverse details make it difficult to interpret large area objects and their small area details at a single granularity.
Ming Cong, Jianjun Cui, Siliang Chen, Yihui Wang, Ling Han, Jiangbo Xi, Junkai Gu, Qingfang Zhang, Yiting Tao, Zhiye Wang, Miaozhong Xu, Hong Deng   +11 more
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Optimal road design using genetic algorithm to improve biodiversity and risk of soil loss

Geocarto International, 2022
Roads have provided convenience to mankind, but much natural destruction occurs when roads are constructed adjacent to mountains. Route selection was based on a qualitative methodology of expert judgment, and the road was planned with the operator's ...
Shin-woo Kim, Zhenggang Piao, Dong-Kun Lee   +2 more
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Comparative framework for spatially explicit urban growth modeling for monitoring urban land-use efficiency and sustainable urban development (SDG 11.3.1): a study on Kolkata metropolitan area, India

Geocarto International, 2022
The present study attempts to model the spatiotemporal urban growth of the Kolkata metropolitan area (KMA), India, in a comparative modeling framework using three (remote sensing and geographic information system) RS-GIS integrated techniques, namely ...
Sk Mithun, Mehebub Sahana, Subrata Chattopadhyay, Soumendu Chatterjee, Jaidul Islam, Romulus Costache   +5 more
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An integrated approach based earthquake risk assessment of a seismically active and rapidly urbanizing area in Northern Pakistan

Geocarto International, 2022
Earthquake risk in urban areas has recently taken quite a lot of attention. Risk is a cross-cutting combination of vulnerability and hazard. Abbottabad district, a rapidly growing district, is an earthquake-prone area in the north of Pakistan.
Ahsen Maqsoom, Bilal Aslam, Umer Khalil, Muhammad Asad Mehmood, Hassan Ashraf, Ali Siddique   +5 more
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From an atomistic study of olivine under pressure to the understanding of the macroscopic energy release in earthquakes

Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2023
We present a multi-disciplinary study of the rupture process of deep- and intermediate-depth earthquakes in the subducting slab that develops beneath the Peruvian-Brazilian region.
Maurizio Mattesini, Carolina López Sánchez, Elisa Buforn, Agustín Udías, Jaime de la Serna Valdés, Hernando Tavera, Carmen Pro   +6 more
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U-Pb zircon geochronology of volcaniclastics and encasing sandstones from the Chhoti Khatu section: Bearing on the Neoproterozoic Marwar Supergroup stratigraphy and its global implications

Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2023
An isolated ∼40 m thick outcrop section, namely the Chhoti Khatu section, containing an embedded volcaniclastic layer, in the southeast of the Marwar Basin, western India (erstwhile stratigraphically correlated with the Jodhpur Group of the Marwar ...
Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Rajesh Sharma, Kaushik Das, Aditi Sharma, Subhojit Saha   +4 more
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Paleoclimate evolution of the North Pacific Ocean during the late Quaternary: Progress and challenges

Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2023
High- and low-latitude climatic processes in the North Pacific Ocean are important components of the global climate system. For example, the interplay among North Pacific atmospheric circulation, ocean circulation, and biological productivity affects ...
Yi Zhong, Zhengyao Lu, David J. Wilson, Debo Zhao, Yanguang Liu, Ting Chen, Congcong Gai, Xun Gong, Zhaoxia Jiang, Jiabo Liu, Qingsong Liu   +10 more
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