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Leveraging Principal Component Analysis for Data-Driven and Objective Weight Assignment in Spatial Decision-Making Framework for Qanat-Induced Subsidence Susceptibility Assessment in Railway Networks

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Railway networks are highly susceptible to land subsidence, which can undermine their functional stability and safety, resulting in recurring failures and vulnerabilities. This paper aims to evaluate the susceptibility of the railway network due to Qanat
Farzaneh Naeimiasl   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Efficiency assessment of the environmental variables in the Qanat systems based on major hydrological basins in Iran

open access: yesApplied Water Science, 2023
Qanat system, as a great human heritage, contributes to the sustainable management of groundwater in the arid and semiarid regions of the world. The main aim of this paper was to efficiency assessment of the environmental variables in the construction of
M. R. Mansouri Daneshvar   +2 more
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Comprehensive classification and categorization of Qanat features: an interdisciplinary exploration using landscape infrastructure concept and semi-systematic review

open access: yesEnvironmental Systems Research, 2023
Qanats, as traditional and intelligent water infrastructures, have garnered attention across various scientific disciplines. However, a comprehensive, holistic view of Qanats remains elusive. This study aims to identify and present a thorough perspective
Samira Abedi   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Deep Learning in Archaeological Remote Sensing: Automated Qanat Detection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
In this paper, we report the results of our work on automated detection of qanat shafts on the Cold War-era CORONA Satellite Imagery. The increasing quantity of air and space-borne imagery available to archaeologists and the advances in computational ...
Mehrnoush Soroush   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Reconstructing the Classical and Post‐Classical Agricultural Landscape of the Udhruh Qanat in Wādī al‐Fiqai, Southern Jordan

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
The cities of Petra and Udhruh were administrative and cultural centers in southern Jordan from Nabataean through Roman and Byzantine times into the early Islamic periods (first century BCE to eighth century CE ).
M. R. Hoosbeek   +4 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

An Early-Middle Islamic Waterscape in the Hejaz? A Newly Discovered Qanat Network in the Vicinity of Qurḥ (al-Mābiyāt)

open access: yesOpen Quaternary
The al-Ula Cultural Oasis Project (UCOP) led by Archaïos, funded and steered by the French Agency for AlUla Development (AFALULA) on behalf of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), is investigating since 2021 a hitherto unknown network of qanats ...
Alexia Rosak   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The first emerging records of a dragonfly in the dark zone of subterranean ecosystems: Exuviae and newly emerged adults of Hyrcanian Goldenring, Cordulegaster vanbrinkae in Danial Cave, northern Iran. [PDF]

open access: yesEcol Evol
The paper is about the first emerging records of an Odonata species in the dark zones of subterranean ecosystems. According to the scientific literature, the records are new for the order Odonata. Also, the study considered some behaviors of Hyrcanian Goldenring, Cordulegaster vanbrinkae in darkness.
Ghelich Khani P, Kiany M, Qashqaei AT.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Locating Suitable Sites for Bandsar Construction with BWM and GIS [PDF]

open access: yesWater Harvesting Research, 2023
Bandsar is a traditional large plot, which is built by creating an embankment on the level lines in the plains around ephemeral rivers, or is built across the waterways like small dams in the hill region, and directing and maintaining the flood or runoff
Seyed Mehdi Kheslati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Territorial Cooperation for Exploitation of Qanat through Grounded Theory Method (Case Study: Qanat of Hasan Abad – Yazd Province) [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Rūstāyī, 2019
This paper takes up the qanat of Hassan Abad and its special peculiarities which made it eligible to be nominated as UNESCO World Heritage in 2015. Hasan Abad originates from Ebrahim Abad valley near the town of Mehriz and travels 40 kilometers to Yazd ...
Majid Labbaf Khaneiki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the effectiveness of education with the aim of developing participatory communication in conservation: A study of Qanat water supply system in Khezrabad, Yazd [PDF]

open access: yesعلوم محیطی, 2021
Introduction: Effective participatory management in natural resources and the environment depends on improving the level of knowledge, skills, insights of actors, and developing their participatory behavior.
Iman Islami   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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