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Super-Resolution for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images Based on the 3D Attention-SRGAN Network
Remote Sensing, 2020 Hyperspectral remote sensing images (HSIs) have a higher spectral resolution compared to multispectral remote sensing images, providing the possibility for more reasonable and effective analysis and processing of spectral data.
Xinyu Dou +3 more
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Economic Growth, Size of the Agricultural Sector, and Urbanization [PDF]
This paper exploits the significant positive response of the share of agricultural value added and GDP per capita growth to variations in the international prices for agricultural commodities and rainfall to construct instrumental variables estimates of ...
Markus Bruckner
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Environmental Research LettersIndia’s expanding road transport network has significantly improved connectivity but contributes 14% of energy-related emissions. Electrification is central to India’s net-zero target by 2070, but this transition will generate substantial electric ...
Poulomi Bhattacharya +4 more
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Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways
Nature Communications, 2020 Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) is a crucial scenario describing the potential of future socio-economic development. The authors here investigate long-term effects of various government policies suggested by different SSPs on urban land and reveal ...
Guangzhao Chen +10 more
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Urban robotics and responsible urban innovation [PDF]
Ethics and Information Technology, 2018 AbstractRobots are leaving factories and entering urban spaces. In this paper, I will explore how we can integrate robots of various types into the urban landscape. I will distinguish between two perspectives: (1) the responsible design and use of urban robots and (2) robots as part of responsible urban innovations. The first viewpoint considers issues
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Urbanization Process and Land Use Policy [PDF]
Within a framewaork of New Economic Geography (NEG) model, this paper intends to show that urbanization rate in an isolated region is determined as a synthetic rerult of rational behavior of each socio-economic agent.
Komei Sasaki, Xiang-chun Lu
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Urbanization and Expenditure Inequality in Indonesia: Testing the Kuznets Hypothesis with Provincial Panel Data [PDF]
, 2013 Focusing on Indonesia, this study analyzes the relationship between inequality and the process of urbanization. It performs a panel data regression analysis to test the Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis for urbanization based on a provincial panel data set ...
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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Communications Earth & EnvironmentExtreme heat and particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution are among the deadliest environmental hazards that threaten humans and ecosystems. Their co-occurrence, known as compound heat-pollution events, can amplify risks far beyond those posed by either ...
Ziwei Huang +4 more
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