Hasil untuk "River, lake, and water-supply engineering (General)"

Dariusz Błażejczak, Marek Śnieg, Magdalena Sobolewska et al.

The aim of the present paper was to verify the hypothesis that a single application of specific dose of ash from biomass combustion and/or gypsum has a positive effect on physical properties of sandy soil and that the said effect disappears over the following years. The following were determined in the layer of 5–10 cm: penetration resistance (PR), vane shear resistance (Ss), gravimetric moisture content (ww), dry bulk density (BD), moisture content (WpF2) and air-filed porosity (PApF2) at water potential pF2. At pF2, susceptibility to soil compaction was analysed i.e., unit stress required to cause soil deformation of an assumed value of 1.0 mm (P1) or 2.0 mm (P2). Fertilisation with ash and/or gypsum at doses of 15 and 3 Mg∙ha−1 respectively, affects the physical properties of soil particularly in the first year following the application and that the said fertilisation is to be conducted every two years. It was found that fertilisation with ash has a particularly positive effect on ww. The loosening effect of fertilisation with ash, measured with BD, was poorly pronounced. A decrease in PR and Ss values was observed particularly in the first year. The analyses at water potential pF2 showed that fertilisation with ash or ash with the addition of gypsum has a positive effect on the properties under analysis. The effect of fertilisation with gypsum at a dose of 3 Mg∙ha−1 on the analysed properties was inconclusive.

Justus Bogner, Roberto Verdecchia

From its early foundations in the 1970s, empirical software engineering (ESE) has evolved into a mature research discipline that embraces a plethora of different topics, methodologies, and industrial practices. Despite its remarkable progress, the ESE research field still needs to keep evolving, as new impediments, shortcoming, and technologies emerge. Research reproducibility, limited external validity, subjectivity of reviews, and porting research results to industrial practices are just some examples of the drivers for improvements to ESE research. Additionally, several facets of ESE research are not documented very explicitly, which makes it difficult for newcomers to pick them up. With this new regular ACM SIGSOFT SEN column (SEN-ESE), we introduce a venue for discussing meta-aspects of ESE research, ranging from general topics such as the nature and best practices for replication packages, to more nuanced themes such as statistical methods, interview transcription tools, and publishing interdisciplinary research. Our aim for the column is to be a place where we can regularly spark conversations on ESE topics that might not often be touched upon or are left implicit. Contributions to this column will be grounded in expert interviews, focus groups, surveys, and position pieces, with the goal of encouraging reflection and improvement in how we conduct, communicate, teach, and ultimately improve ESE research. Finally, we invite feedback from the ESE community on challenging, controversial, or underexplored topics, as well as suggestions for voices you would like to hear from. While we cannot promise to act on every idea, we aim to shape this column around the community interests and are grateful for all contributions.

Edward Holmberg, Pujan Pokhrel, Maximilian Zoch et al.

Physics-based solvers like HEC-RAS provide high-fidelity river forecasts but are too computationally intensive for on-the-fly decision-making during flood events. The central challenge is to accelerate these simulations without sacrificing accuracy. This paper introduces a deep learning surrogate that treats HEC-RAS not as a solver but as a data-generation engine. We propose a hybrid, auto-regressive architecture that combines a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) to capture short-term temporal dynamics with a Geometry-Aware Fourier Neural Operator (Geo-FNO) to model long-range spatial dependencies along a river reach. The model learns underlying physics implicitly from a minimal eight-channel feature vector encoding dynamic state, static geometry, and boundary forcings extracted directly from native HEC-RAS files. Trained on 67 reaches of the Mississippi River Basin, the surrogate was evaluated on a year-long, unseen hold-out simulation. Results show the model achieves a strong predictive accuracy, with a median absolute stage error of 0.31 feet. Critically, for a full 67-reach ensemble forecast, our surrogate reduces the required wall-clock time from 139 minutes to 40 minutes, a speedup of nearly 3.5 times over the traditional solver. The success of this data-driven approach demonstrates that robust feature engineering can produce a viable, high-speed replacement for conventional hydraulic models, improving the computational feasibility of large-scale ensemble flood forecasting.

Mohamad Hakam Shams Eddin, Yikui Zhang, Stefan Kollet et al.

Recent deep learning approaches for river discharge forecasting have improved the accuracy and efficiency in flood forecasting, enabling more reliable early warning systems for risk management. Nevertheless, existing deep learning approaches in hydrology remain largely confined to local-scale applications and do not leverage the inherent spatial connections of bodies of water. Thus, there is a strong need for new deep learning methodologies that are capable of modeling spatio-temporal relations to improve river discharge and flood forecasting for scientific and operational applications. To address this, we present RiverMamba, a novel deep learning model that is pretrained with long-term reanalysis data and that can forecast global river discharge and floods on a $0.05^\circ$ grid up to $7$ days lead time, which is of high relevance in early warning. To achieve this, RiverMamba leverages efficient Mamba blocks that enable the model to capture spatio-temporal relations in very large river networks and enhance its forecast capability for longer lead times. The forecast blocks integrate ECMWF HRES meteorological forecasts, while accounting for their inaccuracies through spatio-temporal modeling. Our analysis demonstrates that RiverMamba provides reliable predictions of river discharge across various flood return periods, including extreme floods, and lead times, surpassing both AI- and physics-based models. The source code and datasets are publicly available at the project page https://hakamshams.github.io/RiverMamba.

Claudio Di Sipio, Riccardo Rubei, Juri Di Rocco et al.

Software engineering (SE) activities have been revolutionized by the advent of pre-trained models (PTMs), defined as large machine learning (ML) models that can be fine-tuned to perform specific SE tasks. However, users with limited expertise may need help to select the appropriate model for their current task. To tackle the issue, the Hugging Face (HF) platform simplifies the use of PTMs by collecting, storing, and curating several models. Nevertheless, the platform currently lacks a comprehensive categorization of PTMs designed specifically for SE, i.e., the existing tags are more suited to generic ML categories. This paper introduces an approach to address this gap by enabling the automatic classification of PTMs for SE tasks. First, we utilize a public dump of HF to extract PTMs information, including model documentation and associated tags. Then, we employ a semi-automated method to identify SE tasks and their corresponding PTMs from existing literature. The approach involves creating an initial mapping between HF tags and specific SE tasks, using a similarity-based strategy to identify PTMs with relevant tags. The evaluation shows that model cards are informative enough to classify PTMs considering the pipeline tag. Moreover, we provide a mapping between SE tasks and stored PTMs by relying on model names.

Julio Alberto Silva Dias

Hydroelectric power generation is a critical component of the global energy matrix, particularly in countries like Brazil, where it represents the majority of the energy supply. However, its strong dependence on river discharges, which are inherently uncertain due to climate variability, poses significant challenges. River discharges are linked to precipitation patterns, making the development of accurate probabilistic forecasting models crucial for improving operational planning in systems heavily reliant on this resource. Traditionally, statistical models have been used to represent river discharges in energy optimization. Yet, these models are increasingly unable to produce realistic scenarios due to structural shifts in climate behavior. Changes in precipitation patterns have altered discharge dynamics, which traditional approaches struggle to capture. Machine learning methods, while effective as universal predictors for time series, often focus solely on historical data, ignoring key external factors such as meteorological and climatic conditions. Furthermore, these methods typically lack a probabilistic framework, which is vital for representing the inherent variability of hydrological processes. The limited availability of historical discharge data further complicates the application of large-scale deep learning models to this domain. To address these challenges, we propose a framework based on a modified recurrent neural network architecture. This model generates parameterized probability distributions conditioned on projections from global circulation models, effectively accounting for the stochastic nature of river discharges. Additionally, the architecture incorporates enhancements to improve its generalization capabilities. We validate this framework within the Brazilian Interconnected System, using projections from the SEAS5-ECMWF system as conditional variables.

Jia-Qian Jiang, Shaoqing Zhang, Michael Petri et al.

Occurrence of micropollutants in water and their potential impact on the environment and human health are arising concerns. The micropollutants are not removed efficiently by current wastewater treatment and a small amount of them get released into receiving waters accompanying the discharging of the treated wastewater effluents. Therefore, it is useful to investigate an advanced or alternative technology to remove traces of micropollutants in Lake Constance water during drinking water treatment. Among various oxidation processes, ferrate(VI) has received extensive attentions due to its superior dual properties of oxidation and coagulation. The work in this communication is the first trial using ferrate(VI) in comparison with FeCl3/ozonation to treat lake water and to remove micropollutants in the region. The results of pilot-scale trials showed that 10% of metformin, benzotriazole and acesulfam can be removed by ferrate(VI) at a dose of 0.1 mg L−1 from raw water, but FeCl3 with or without pre-ozonation cannot achieve the same performance. The degradability of three additional micropollutants by ferrate(VI) oxidation followed the sequences of bisphenol-S (BS) > azithromycin (AZM) > imidacloprid (IMP) was evaluated, and 100% concentration reduction of BS was achieved. The work suggests that ferrate(VI) is a potential alternative to the existing treatment processes for drinking water treatment.

WANG Haifei, LIN Zhihong, ZHU Wanhu

Junjie Wang, Xiao Pu, Ruining Zhang et al.

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is indicative of water quality in drinking source water and has an impact on drinking water treatment. Exploring occurrence of DOC in drinking source water is of great significance for the drinking water safety in Beijing. This study elucidated spatial-temporal DOC dynamics in the Miyun section of Chaobai River in Beijing of China and identified sources of DOC based on DOC fluorescent spectral characteristics. Results showed that the average riverine DOC concentration was 30.60 mg/L. DOC concentrations in the Miyun section of the Chaobai River were 30.40, 30.24, and 31.09 mg/L in spring, summer and autumn, respectively. DOC concentrations at the three segments of the Miyun section of the Chaobai River (the Chaohe River, the Baihe River and the Chaobai River) were 29.93, 30.29 and 32.57 mg/L, respectively. Land use contributed to DOC variations rather than season and river segment. Significant increases in DOC concentration were observed in river water flowing through farmland and urban areas, and DOC concentration presented the highest after flowing through the farmland area. The results of FI, HIX and BIX showed that DOC mainly came from endogenous sources such as aquatic biological activities, and was less affected by terrestrial inputs. Special attentions ought to be paid on prevention and control of endogenous DOC inputs.

Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

Software engineering capabilities are increasingly important to the success of economic and political blocs. This paper analyzes quantity and quality of software engineering research output originating from the US, Europe, and China over time. The results indicate that the quantity of research is increasing across the board with Europe leading the field. Depending of the scope of the analysis, either the US or China come in second. Regarding research quality, Europe appears to be lagging the other blocs, with China having caught up to and even having overtaken the US over time.

Rogerio Rossi, Kechi Hirama

Analytics corresponds to a relevant and challenging phase of Big Data. The generation of knowledge from extensive data sets (petabyte era) of varying types, occurring at a speed able to serve decision makers, is practiced using multiple areas of knowledge, such as computing, statistics, data mining, among others. In the Big Data domain, Analytics is also considered as a process capable of adding value to the organizations. Besides the demonstration of value, Analytics should also consider operational tools and models to support decision making. To adding value, Analytics is also presented as part of some Big Data value chains, such the Information Value Chain presented by NIST among others, which are detailed in this article. As well, some maturity models are presented, since they represent important structures to favor continuous implementation of Analytics for Big Data, using specific technologies, techniques and methods. Hence, through an in-depth research, using specific literature references and use cases, we seeks to outline an approach to determine the Analytical Engineering for Big Data Analytics considering four pillars: Data, Models, Tools and People; and three process groups: Acquisition, Retention and Revision; in order to make feasible and to define an organization, possibly designated as an Analytics Organization, responsible for generating knowledge from the data in the field of Big Data Analytics.

YU Zibo, XIANG Yan, MENG Ying et al.

To study the risk of sequential dam break of cascade reservoirs,and to simulate and analyze the flood routing process,by constructing a Bayesian network model for the sequential dam break of double reservoirs under the action of extra standard floods and piping,and combining the dam break and flood routing simulation of Breach dam-break numerical model and two-dimensional HEC-RAS hydrodynamic model,this paper calculates the probability of dam break,evaluates the risk of sequential dam break,and simulates the flood routing process,taking Hanconggou Reservoir and Dingguoshan Reservoir as examples.The calculation results show that:Through Bayesian-based backward inference of the known dam break of Dingguoshan Reservoir,the probability of “Hancongou Reservoir dam break” increased from 3% to 87%;while through Bayesian-based backward inference of the known dam break of Hancongou Reservoir,the probability of “Hancongou Reservoir piping” increased from 16% to 87%.Under extra standard flood and piping conditions,due to the sequential dam break of the two reservoirs,the time for the flood to reach the section CS1—CS6 is 0.8~3.0 h;under the flood conditions that occurred once in 1 000 years,the Hancongou Reservoir was opened for flood discharge but the dam was not broken.Only the Dingguoshan Reservoir was over-topped with dam break,and the flood reached the section CS1—CS6 in 21.5~26.5 h.This study can provide scientific reference for reducing dam break risk,and making emergency plan and disaster prevention & mitigation plan.

Karol Mikula, Martin Ambroz, Renata Mokosova

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for map registration and apply it to transformation of the river Ister from Strabo's map of the World to the current map in the World Geodetic System. This transformation leads to the surprising but convincing result that Strabo's river Ister best coincides with the nowadays Tauernbach-Isel-Drava-Danube course and not with the Danube river what is commonly assumed. Such a result is supported by carefully designed mathematical measurements and it resolves all related controversies otherwise appearing in understanding and translation of Strabo's original text. Based on this result we also show that {\it Strabo's Suevi in the Hercynian Forest} corresponds to the Slavic people in the Carpathian-Alpine basin and thus that the compact Slavic settlement was there already at the beginning of the first millennium AD.

Michael Timothy Bennett, Yoshihiro Maruyama

We attempt to define what is necessary to construct an Artificial Scientist, explore and evaluate several approaches to artificial general intelligence (AGI) which may facilitate this, conclude that a unified or hybrid approach is necessary and explore two theories that satisfy this requirement to some degree.

Zhangchi Chen

The lakes of Wada are three disjoint simply connected domains in $S^2$ with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary. The common boundary is a indecomposable continuum. In this article we calculated the Minkowski dimension of such boundaries. The lakes constructed in the standard Cantor way has $\ln(6)/\ln(3)\approx 1.6309$-dimensional boundary, while in general, for any number in $[1,2]$ we can construct lakes with such dimensional boundaries.

Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno, Daniel Strüber

Sharing research artifacts is known to help people to build upon existing knowledge, adopt novel contributions in practice, and increase the chances of papers receiving attention. In Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), openly providing research artifacts plays a key role, even more so as the community targets a broader use of AI techniques, which can only become feasible if large open datasets and confidence measures for their quality are available. However, the current lack of common discipline-specific guidelines for research data sharing opens the opportunity for misunderstandings about the true potential of research artifacts and subjective expectations regarding artifact quality. To address this issue, we introduce a set of guidelines for artifact sharing specifically tailored to MDE research. To design this guidelines set, we systematically analyzed general-purpose artifact sharing practices of major computer science venues and tailored them to the MDE domain. Subsequently, we conducted an online survey with 90 researchers and practitioners with expertise in MDE. We investigated our participants' experiences in developing and sharing artifacts in MDE research and the challenges encountered while doing so. We then asked them to prioritize each of our guidelines as essential, desirable, or unnecessary. Finally, we asked them to evaluate our guidelines with respect to clarity, completeness, and relevance. In each of these dimensions, our guidelines were assessed positively by more than 92\% of the participants. To foster the reproducibility and reusability of our results, we make the full set of generated artifacts available in an open repository at \texttt{\url{https://mdeartifacts.github.io/}}.

P. Maurya, F.E. Christensen, M. Kass et al.

Abstract. Imagining geological layers beneath lakes, rivers, and shallow seawater provides detailed information critical for hydrological modelling, geologic studies, contaminant mapping, and more. However, significant engineering and interpretation challenges have limited the applications, preventing widespread adoption in aquatic environments. We have developed a towed transient electromagnetic (tTEM) system to a new, easily configurable floating, transient electromagnetic instrument (FloaTEM) capable of imaging the subsurface beneath both fresh and saltwater water bodies. Based on the terrestrial tTEM instrument, the FloaTEM system utilizes a similar philosophy of a lightweight towed transmitter with a trailing, offset receiver, pulled by a small boat. The FloaTEM system is tailored to the specific fresh or saltwater application as necessary, allowing investigations down to 100 m in freshwater environments, and up to 20 m on saline waters. Through synthetic analysis we show how the depth of investigation of the FloaTEM system greatly depends on the resistivity and thickness of the water column. The system has been successfully deployed in Denmark for a variety of hydrologic investigations, improving the ability to understand and model processes beneath water bodies. We present two freshwater applications and a saltwater application. Imaging results reveal significant heterogeneities in the sediment types below the freshwater lakes. The saline water example demonstrates that the system is capable to identify and distinguish clay and sand layers below the saline water column.

K. Feng, Juncang Tian

Statement of Retraction We, the Editor and Publisher of the journal European Journal of Remote Sensing, have retracted the following articles that were published in the Special Issue titled “Remote Sensing in Water Management and Hydrology”: Marimuthu Karuppiah, Xiong Li & Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry (2021) Guest editorial of the special issue “remote sensing in water management and hydrology”, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 1-5, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2021.1892335 Jian Sheng, Shiyi Jiang, Cunzhu Li, Quanfeng Liu & Hongyan Zhang (2021) Fluid-induced high seismicity in Songliao Basin of China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 6-10, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1720525 Guohua Wang, Jun Tan & Lingui Wang (2021) Numerical simulation of temperature field and temperature stress of thermal jet for water measurement, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 11-20, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1743956 Le Wang, Guancheng Jiang & Xianmin Zhang (2021) Modeling and molecular simulation of natural gas hydrate stabilizers, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 21-32, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1738901 Tianyi Chen, Lu Bao, Liu Bao Zhu, Yu Tian, Qing Xu & Yuandong Hu (2021) The diversity of birds in typical urban lake-wetlands and its response to the landscape heterogeneity in the buffer zone based on GIS and field investigation in Daqing, China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 33-41, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1738902 Zhiyong Wang (2021) Research on desert water management and desert control, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 42-54, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1736953 Ji-Tao Li & Yong-Quan Liang (2021) Research on mesoscale eddy-tracking algorithm of Kalman filtering under density clustering on time scale, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 55-64, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1740894 Wei Wang, R. Dinesh Jackson Samuel & Ching-Hsien Hsu (2021) Prediction architecture of deep learning assisted short long term neural network for advanced traffic critical prediction system using remote sensing data, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 65-76, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1755998 Yan Chen, Ming Tan, Jiahua Wan, Thomas Weise & Zhize Wu (2021) Effectiveness evaluation of the coupled LIDs from the watershed scale based on remote sensing image processing and SWMM simulation, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 77-91, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1758962 Ke Deng & Ming Chen (2021) Blasting excavation and stability control technology for ultra-high steep rock slope of hydropower engineering in China: a review, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 92-106, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1752811 Yufa He, Xiaoqiang Guo, Jun Liu, Hongliang Zhao, Guorong Wang & Zhao Shu (2021) Dynamic boundary of floating platform and its influence on the deepwater testing tube, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 107-116, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1762246 Kai Peng, Yunfeng Zhang, Wenfeng Gao & Zhen Lu (2021) Evaluation of human activity intensity in geological environment problems of Ji’nan City, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 117-121, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1771214 Wei Zhu, XiaoSi Su & Qiang Liu (2021) Analysis of the relationships between the thermophysical properties of rocks in the Dandong Area of China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 122-131, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1763205 Yu Liu, Wen Hu, Shanwei Wang & Lingyun Sun (2021) Eco-environmental effects of urban expansion in Xinjiang and the corresponding mechanisms, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 132-144, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1803768 Peng Qin & Zhihui Zhang (2021) Evolution of wetland landscape disturbance in Jiaozhou Gulf between 1973 and 2018 based on remote sensing, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 145-154, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1758963 Mingyi Jin & Hongyan Zhang (2021) Investigating urban land dynamic change and its spatial determinants in Harbin city, China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 155-166, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1758964 Balaji L. & Muthukannan M. (2021) Investigation into valuation of land using remote sensing and GIS in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 167-175, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1772118 Xiaoyan Shi, Jianghui Song, Haijiang Wang & Xin Lv (2021) Monitoring soil salinization in Manas River Basin, Northwestern China based on multi-spectral index group, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 176-188, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1762247 GN Vivekananda, R Swathi & AVLN Sujith (2021) Multi-temporal image analysis for LULC classification and change detection, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 189-199, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1771215 Yiting Wang, Xianghui Liu & Weijie Hu (2021) The research on landscape restoration design of watercourse in mountainous city based on comprehensive management of water environment, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 200-210, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1763206 Bao Qian, Cong Tang, Yu Yang & Xiao Xiao (2021) Pollution characteristics and risk assessment of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Dongting Lake water system during normal water period, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 211-221, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1763207 Jin Zuo, Lei Meng, Chen Li, Heng Zhang, Yun Zeng & Jing Dong (2021) Construction of community life circle database based on high-resolution remote sensing technology and multi-source data fusion, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 222-237, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1763208 Zilong Wang, Lu Yang, Ping Cheng, Youyi Yu, Zhigang Zhang & Hong Li (2021) Adsorption, degradation and leaching migration characteristics of chlorothalonil in different soils, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 238-247, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1771216 R. Vijaya Geetha & S. Kalaivani (2021) A feature based change detection approach using multi-scale orientation for multi-temporal SAR images, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 248-264, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1759457 LianJun Chen, BalaAnand Muthu & Sivaparthipan cb (2021) Estimating snow depth Inversion Model Assisted Vector Analysis based on temperature brightness for North Xinjiang region of China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 265-274, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1771217 Yajuan Zhang, Cuixia Li & Shuai Yao (2021) Spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of China’s cold chain logistics resources and agricultural product using remote sensing perspective, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 275-283, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1765202 Guangping Liu, Jingmei Wei, BalaAnand Muthu & R. Dinesh Jackson Samuel (2021) Chlorophyll-a concentration in the hailing bay using remote sensing assisted sparse statistical modelling, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 284-295, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1771774 Yishu Qiu, Zhenmin Zhu, Heping Huang & Zhenhua Bing (2021) Study on the evolution of B&Bs spatial distribution based on exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and its influencing factors—with Yangtze River Delta as an example, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 296-308, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1785950 Liang Li & Kangning Xiong (2021) Study on peak cluster-depression rocky desertification landscape evolution and human activity-influence in South of China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 309-317, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1777588 Juan Xu, Mengsheng Yang, Chaoping Hou, Ziliang Lu & Dan Liu (2021) Distribution of rural tourism development in geographical space: a case study of 323 traditional villages in Shaanxi, China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 318-333, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1788993 Lin Guo, Xiaojing Guo, Binghua Wu, Po Yang, Yafei Kou, Na Li & Hui Tang (2021) Geo-environmental suitability assessment for tunnel in sub-deep layer in Zhengzhou, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 334-340, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1788994 Hui Zhou, Cheng Zhu, Li Wu, Chaogui Zheng, Xiaoling Sun, Qingchun Guo & Shuguang Lu (2021) Organic carbon isotope record since the Late Glacial period from peat in the North Bank of the Yangtze River, China, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 341-347, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1795728 Chengyuan Hao, Linlin Song & Wei Zhao (2021) HYSPLIT-based demarcation of regions affected by water vapors from the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 348-355, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1795730 Wei Chong, Zhang Lin-Jing, Wu Qing, Cao Lian-Hai, Zhang Lu, Yao Lun-Guang, Zhu Yun-Xian & Yang Feng (2021) Estimation of landscape pattern change on stream flow using SWAT-VRR, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 356-362, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1790994 Kepeng Feng & Juncang Tian (2021) Forecasting reference evapotranspiration using data mining and limited climatic data, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 363-371, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1801355 Kepeng Feng, Yang Hong, Juncang Tian, Xiangyu Luo, Guoqiang Tang & Guangyuan Kan (2021) Evaluating applicability of multi-source precipitation datasets for runoff simulation of small watersheds: a case study in the United States, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 372-382, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1819169 Xiaowei Xu, Yinrong Chen, Junfeng Zhang, Yu Chen, Prathik Anandhan & Adhiyaman Manickam (2021) A novel approach for scene classification from remote sensing images using deep learning methods, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 383-395, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1790995 Shanshan Hu, Zhaogang Fu, R. Dinesh Jackson Samuel & Prathik Anandhan (2021) Application of active remote sensing in confirmation rights and identification of mortgage supply-demand subjects of rural land in Guangdong Province, European Journal of Remote Sensing, 54:sup2, 396-404, DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2020.1790996 Chen Qiwei, Xiong Kangning & Zhao Rong (2021)

XIA Zuwei, RONG Lihui

In the demarcation of rivers, lakes and water conservancy projects, whenthe airborne lidar point cloud data is used alone to automatically filter andclassify, low vegetation points are easily misclassified and misjudged as groundpoints,affected by the dense distribution of vegetation in the measured area, thusresulting in the failture of accurately extracting interest elevation featurelines. Combining the characteristics of rich spectral information and high groundresolution of orthophotos, this paper proposes a method of accurate extraction ofmanagement and protection range lines fusing point cloud and orthophotos, andapplies it to the Nanwan Reservoir project. The results show that the method isfeasible for river chiefssystem management and protection range line extraction,which can greatly shorten the production cycle and save production costs, so it isof good practical promotion value.

Manu Tom, Melanie Suetterlin, Damien Bouffard et al.

Various lake observables, including lake ice, are related to climate and climate change and provide a good opportunity for long-term monitoring. Lakes (and as part of them lake ice) is therefore considered an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Following the need for an integrated multi-temporal monitoring of lake ice in Switzerland, MeteoSwiss in the framework of GCOS Switzerland supported this 2-year project to explore not only the use of satellite images but also the possibilities of Webcams and in-situ measurements. The aim of this project is to monitor some target lakes and detect the extent of ice and especially the ice-on/off dates, with focus on the integration of various input data and processing methods. The target lakes are: St. Moritz, Silvaplana, Sils, Sihl, Greifen and Aegeri, whereby only the first four were mainly frozen during the observation period and thus processed. The observation period was mainly the winter 2016-17. During the project, various approaches were developed, implemented, tested and compared. Firstly, low spatial resolution (250 - 1000 m) but high temporal resolution (1 day) satellite images from the optical sensors MODIS and VIIRS were used. Secondly, and as a pilot project, the use of existing public Webcams was investigated for (a) validation of results from satellite data, and (b) independent estimation of lake ice, especially for small lakes like St. Moritz, that could not be possibly monitored in the satellite images. Thirdly, in-situ measurements were made in order to characterize the development of the temperature profiles and partly pressure before freezing and under the ice-cover until melting. This report presents the results of the project work.