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  1. Article ; Online: Modeling Soil CO 2 Efflux in a Subtropical Forest by Combining Fused Remote Sensing Images with Linear Mixed Effect Models

    Xarapat Ablat / Chong Huang / Guoping Tang / Nurmemet Erkin / Rukeya Sawut

    Remote Sensing, Vol 15, Iss 1415, p

    2023  Volume 1415

    Abstract: Monitoring tropical and subtropical forest soil CO 2 emission efflux ( FSCO 2 ) is crucial for understanding the global carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem respiration. In this study, we addressed the challenge of low spatiotemporal resolution in FSCO ...

    Abstract Monitoring tropical and subtropical forest soil CO 2 emission efflux ( FSCO 2 ) is crucial for understanding the global carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem respiration. In this study, we addressed the challenge of low spatiotemporal resolution in FSCO 2 monitoring by combining data fusion and model methods to improve the accuracy of quantitative inversion. We used time series Landsat 8 LST and MODIS LST fusion images and a linear mixed effect model to estimate FSCO 2 at watershed scale. Our results show that modeling without random factors, and the use of Fusion LST as the fixed predictor, resulted in 47% (marginal R 2 = 0.47) of FSCO 2 variability in the Monthly random effect model, while it only accounted for 19% of FSCO 2 variability in the Daily random effect model and 7% in the Seasonally random effect model. However, the inclusion of random effects in the model’s parameterization improved the performance of both models. The Monthly random effect model that performed optimally had an explanation rate of 55.3% (conditional R 2 = 0.55 and t value > 1.9) for FSCO 2 variability and yielded the smallest deviation from observed FSCO 2 . Our study highlights the importance of incorporating random effects and using Fusion LST as a fixed predictor to improve the accuracy of FSCO 2 monitoring in tropical and subtropical forests.
    Keywords forest soil carbon emission ; multisource remote sensing fusion ; land-atmosphere interactions ; regional earth system simulation ; tropical and subtropical forests ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: Mapping Heat-Health Vulnerability Based on Remote Sensing

    Xilin Wu / Qingsheng Liu / Chong Huang / He Li

    Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 1590, p

    A Case Study in Karachi

    2022  Volume 1590

    Abstract: As a result of global climate change, the frequency and intensity of heat waves have increased significantly. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), extreme temperatures in southwestern Pakistan have exceeded 54 °C in successive years. ...

    Abstract As a result of global climate change, the frequency and intensity of heat waves have increased significantly. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), extreme temperatures in southwestern Pakistan have exceeded 54 °C in successive years. The identification and assessment of heat-health vulnerability (HHV) are important for controlling heat-related diseases and mortality. At present, heat waves have many definitions. To better describe the heat wave mortality risk, we redefine the heat wave by regarding the most frequent temperature (MFT) as the minimum temperature threshold for HHV for the first time. In addition, different indicators that serve as relevant evaluation factors of exposure, sensitivity and adaptability are selected to conduct a kilometre-level HHV assessment. The hesitant analytic hierarchy process (H-AHP) method is used to evaluate each index weight. Finally, we incorporate the weights into the data layers to establish the final HHV assessment model. The vulnerability in the study area is divided into five levels, high, middle-high, medium, middle-low and low, with proportions of 3.06%, 46.55%, 41.85%, 8.53% and 0%, respectively. Health facilities and urbanization were found to provide advantages for vulnerability reduction. Our study improved the resolution to describe the spatial heterogeneity of HHV, which provided a reference for more detailed model construction. It can help local government formulate more targeted control measures to reduce morbidity and mortality during heat waves.
    Keywords heat wave ; heat health vulnerability ; H-AHP ; MFT ; model construction ; Karachi ; Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Regional Differences and Convergence of Inter-Provincial Green Total Factor Productivity in China under Technological Heterogeneity

    Chong Huang / Kedong Yin / Hongbo Guo / Benshuo Yang

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 19, Iss 5688, p

    2022  Volume 5688

    Abstract: Green development is an effective way to reconcile the main contradictions between resources, environment, and regional development. Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an important index to measure green development; an undesirable output-oriented ...

    Abstract Green development is an effective way to reconcile the main contradictions between resources, environment, and regional development. Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an important index to measure green development; an undesirable output-oriented SBM-DEA model and GML model can be used to calculate GTFP. China’s 30 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) are divided into three groups: eastern, central, and western. The common frontier function and group frontier function are established, respectively, to deeply explore the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics and center of gravity shift of inter-provincial green total factor productivity (GTFP) in China, and test the convergence under group frontier, to compare the convergence problems under different regions. This study aims to point out the differences in economic growth in different regions of China, foster regional coordination and orderly progress, promote China’s green development process, and improve the high-quality economic development level. According to the results, the efficiency of green development is more reasonable under the frontier groups. The average TGR in the eastern region was 0.993, indicating that it reached 99.3% of the meta-frontier green development efficiency technology. The inter-provincial GTFP in China gradually increased, with an average value of 1.043, which means China’s green development and ecological civilization construction have achieved remarkable results and the three regions showed significant differences. Judging from the shift path of the spatial center of gravity, the spatial distribution pattern of inter-provincial GTFP in China tends to be concentrated and stable as a whole. Moreover, σ convergence only exists in the western region, while absolute β convergence and conditional β convergence exist in eastern, central, and western regions, indicating that the GTFP of different regions will converge to their stable states over time. The results provide a basis for improving the efficiency of ...
    Keywords green total factor productivity ; SBM-GML Index Model ; cluster cutting-edge ; gravity-standard deviational ellipse ; convergence ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 950
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Modeling of Direct Economic Losses of Storm Surge Disasters Based on a Novel Hybrid Forecasting System

    Hongbo Guo / Kedong Yin / Chong Huang

    Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol

    2022  Volume 8

    Abstract: Modeling the direct economic losses of storm surge disasters can assess the disaster situation in a timely manner and improve the efficiency of post-disaster management in practice, which is acknowledged as one of the most significant issues in clean ... ...

    Abstract Modeling the direct economic losses of storm surge disasters can assess the disaster situation in a timely manner and improve the efficiency of post-disaster management in practice, which is acknowledged as one of the most significant issues in clean production. However, improving the forecasting accuracy of direct economic losses caused by storm surge disasters remains challenging, which is also a major concern in the field of disaster risk management. In particular, most of the previous studies have mainly focused on individual models, which ignored the significance of reduction and optimization. Therefore, a novel direct economic loss forecasting system for storm surge disasters is proposed in this study, which includes reduction, forecasting, and evaluation modules. In this system, a forecasting module based on an improved machine learning technique is proposed, which improves the generalization ability and robustness of the system. In addition, the key attributes and samples are selected by the proposed reduction module to further improve the forecasting performance from the two innovative perspectives. Moreover, an evaluation module is incorporated to comprehensively evaluate the superiority of the developed forecasting system. Data on the storm surge disasters from three typical provinces are utilized to conduct a case study, and the performance of the proposed forecasting system is analyzed and compared with eight comparison models. The experimental results show that the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) predicted by the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) model was 16.5293%, and the MAPE predicted by the proposed system was 1.0313%. Overall, the results show that the performance of the proposed forecasting system is superior compared to other models, and it is suitable for the forecasting of direct economic losses resulting from storm surge disasters.
    Keywords storm surge ; hybrid forecasting ; forecasting ; optimization algorithm ; economic losses ; Science ; Q ; General. Including nature conservation ; geographical distribution ; QH1-199.5
    Subject code 006 ; 330
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Article ; Online: Comparison of Deep Learning Methods for Detecting and Counting Sorghum Heads in UAV Imagery

    He Li / Peng Wang / Chong Huang

    Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 3143, p

    2022  Volume 3143

    Abstract: With the rapid development of remote sensing with small, lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), efficient and accurate crop spike counting, and yield estimation methods based on deep learning (DL) methods have begun to emerge, greatly reducing labor ...

    Abstract With the rapid development of remote sensing with small, lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), efficient and accurate crop spike counting, and yield estimation methods based on deep learning (DL) methods have begun to emerge, greatly reducing labor costs and enabling fast and accurate counting of sorghum spikes. However, there has not been a systematic, comprehensive evaluation of their applicability in cereal crop spike identification in UAV images, especially in sorghum head counting. To this end, this paper conducts a comparative study of the performance of three common DL algorithms, EfficientDet, Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD), and You Only Look Once (YOLOv4), for sorghum head detection based on lightweight UAV remote sensing data. The paper explores the effects of overlap ratio, confidence, and intersection over union (IoU) parameters, using the evaluation metrics of precision P, recall R, average precision AP, F1 score, computational efficiency, and the number of detected positive/negative samples (Objects detected consistent/inconsistent with real samples). The experiment results show the following. (1) The detection results of the three methods under dense coverage conditions were better than those under medium and sparse conditions. YOLOv4 had the most accurate detection under different coverage conditions; on the contrary, EfficientDet was the worst. While SSD obtained better detection results under dense conditions, the number of over-detections was larger. (2) It was concluded that although EfficientDet had a good positive sample detection rate, it detected the fewest samples, had the smallest R and F1, and its actual precision was poor, while its training time, although medium, had the lowest detection efficiency, and the detection time per image was 2.82-times that of SSD. SSD had medium values for P, AP, and the number of detected samples, but had the highest training and detection efficiency. YOLOv4 detected the largest number of positive samples, and its values for R, AP, and F1 were ...
    Keywords unmanned aerial vehicle ; deep learning ; EfficientDet ; SSD ; YOLOv4 ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 630
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Integrating Point-of-Interest Density and Spatial Heterogeneity to Identify Urban Functional Areas

    Chong Huang / Chaoliang Xiao / Lishan Rong

    Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 4201, p

    2022  Volume 4201

    Abstract: Accurately identifying and delineating urban functional areas has seen increasing demand in smart urban planning, landscape design, and resource allocation. Recently, POI (point of interest) data have been increasingly applied to identify urban ... ...

    Abstract Accurately identifying and delineating urban functional areas has seen increasing demand in smart urban planning, landscape design, and resource allocation. Recently, POI (point of interest) data have been increasingly applied to identify urban functional areas. However, heterogeneity in urban spaces or the corresponding POI data has not been fully considered in previous studies. In this study, we proposed a new scheme for urban-functional-area identification by combining POI data, OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets, and high-resolution remote-sensing imagery. A function-intensity index that integrates the quantitative-density index and average-nearest-neighbor index (ANNI) of POIs was built for representing the urban function. The results show that the proposed function-intensity index can balance the impact of the spatial heterogeneity of each type of POI on determining the functional characteristics of the urban units. In Futian District, Shenzhen, China, the method was effective in distinguishing functional areas with fewer POI amounts but high ANNIs from those functional areas with dense POIs. The overall accuracy of the proposed method is about 11% higher than that of the method using the POI density only. This paper argues for considering both the quantitative density and spatial heterogeneity of POIs to improve urban-functional-area identification.
    Keywords points of interest (POIs) ; functional-zone identification ; remote sensing ; average-nearest-neighbor index ; urban functional area ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 710
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Spatial and Temporal Differences in the Green Efficiency of Water Resources in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Their Influencing Factors

    Chong Huang / Kedong Yin / Zhe Liu / Tonggang Cao

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 3101, p

    2021  Volume 3101

    Abstract: Using panel data from 11 regions (9 provinces and two cities) in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) during 2002–2017, the regional differences in and spatial characteristics of the green efficiency of water resources along the YREB were analyzed. The ...

    Abstract Using panel data from 11 regions (9 provinces and two cities) in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) during 2002–2017, the regional differences in and spatial characteristics of the green efficiency of water resources along the YREB were analyzed. The undesirable outputs slacks-based measure-data envelopment analysis, Malmquist index, and social network analysis models were employed. A dynamic panel using a system generalized method of moments model was established to empirically examine the main factors influencing green efficiency. The results show the following. First, temporally, green efficiency fluctuates while showing an overall decreasing trend; spatially, green efficiency generally decreases in this order: downstream, upstream, then midstream. Second, the change in the total factor productivity (TFP) index shows an overall increasing trend, with TFP improvement mainly attributable to technology. Third, green efficiency shows a significant spatial correlation. All provinces are in the spatial correlation network, and the network, as a whole, has strong stability. Finally, water resource endowment, water prices, government environmental control strength, and the water resources utilization structure have a significant impact on green efficiency.
    Keywords Yangtze River Economic Belt ; green efficiency of water resources ; SBM-DEA model ; Malmquist index ; social network analysis ; system GMM model ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  8. Article ; Online: Collaborative Extraction of Paddy Planting Areas with Multi-Source Information Based on Google Earth Engine

    Junmei Kang / Xiaomei Yang / Zhihua Wang / Chong Huang / Jun Wang

    Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 1823, p

    A Case Study of Cambodia

    2022  Volume 1823

    Abstract: High-precision spatial mapping of paddy planting areas is very important for food security risk assessment and agricultural monitoring. Previous studies have mainly been based on multi-source satellite imagery, the fusion of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ...

    Abstract High-precision spatial mapping of paddy planting areas is very important for food security risk assessment and agricultural monitoring. Previous studies have mainly been based on multi-source satellite imagery, the fusion of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with optical data, and the combined use of multi-scale and multi-source sensors. However, there have been few studies on paddy spatial mapping using collaborative multi-source remote sensing product information, especially in tropical regions such as Southeast Asia. Therefore, based on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, in this study, Cambodia, which is dominated by agriculture, was taken as the study area, and an extraction scheme for paddy planting areas was developed from collaborative multi-source information, including multi-source remote sensing images (Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2), multi-source remote sensing land cover products (GFSAD30SEACE, GLC_FCS30-2015, FROM_GLC2015, SERVIR MEKONG, and GUF), paddy phenology information, and topographic features. Evaluation and analysis of the extraction results and the SERVIR MEKONG and ESACCI-LC paddy products revealed that the accuracy of the paddy planting areas extracted using the proposed method is the highest, with an overall accuracy of 89.90%. The results of the proposed method are better than those of the other products in terms of the outline of the paddy planting areas and the description of the road information. The results of this study provide a reference for future high-precision paddy mapping.
    Keywords GEE ; multi-source information ; paddy extraction ; Sentinel-1/2 ; Cambodia ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: Spatiotemporal Variation Analysis of the Fine-Scale Heat Wave Risk along the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia

    Xin Dai / Qingsheng Liu / Chong Huang / He Li

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 12153, p

    2021  Volume 12153

    Abstract: As a highly important meteorological hazard, heat waves notably impact human health and socioeconomics, and accurate heat wave risk identification and assessment are effective ways to address this issue. The current spatial scale of heat wave risk ... ...

    Abstract As a highly important meteorological hazard, heat waves notably impact human health and socioeconomics, and accurate heat wave risk identification and assessment are effective ways to address this issue. The current spatial scale of heat wave risk assessment is relatively coarse, hardly meeting fine-scale heat wave risk assessment requirements. Therefore, based on multi-source fine-scale remote sensing data and socioeconomic data, this paper evaluates the heat wave risk along the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, obtains the spatial distribution of heat wave risk in 2005, 2014 and 2019, and analyzes spatiotemporal risk variations over the past 15 years. The results show that most high-risk areas were affected by high-temperature hazards. Over time, the hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk levels increased by 25.82%, 3.31%, 14.82% and 6.97%, respectively, from 2005–2019. Spatially, the higher risk in the northwest is mainly distributed in Jakarta. Additionally, a comparative analysis was conducted on the risk results, and the results showed that the 100-m scale showed more spatial differences than the kilometer scale. The research results in this paper can provide scientific advice on heat wave risk prevention considering the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway construction and regional economic and social development.
    Keywords heat waves ; hazard ; exposure ; vulnerability ; remote sensing ; Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  10. Article ; Online: BiLSTM-I

    Chuanjie Xie / Chong Huang / Deqiang Zhang / Wei He

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 10321, p

    A Deep Learning-Based Long Interval Gap-Filling Method for Meteorological Observation Data

    2021  Volume 10321

    Abstract: Complete and high-resolution temperature observation data are important input parameters for agrometeorological disaster monitoring and ecosystem modelling. Due to the limitation of field meteorological observation conditions, observation data are ... ...

    Abstract Complete and high-resolution temperature observation data are important input parameters for agrometeorological disaster monitoring and ecosystem modelling. Due to the limitation of field meteorological observation conditions, observation data are commonly missing, and an appropriate data imputation method is necessary in meteorological data applications. In this paper, we focus on filling long gaps in meteorological observation data at field sites. A deep learning-based model, BiLSTM-I, is proposed to impute missing half-hourly temperature observations with high accuracy by considering temperature observations obtained manually at a low frequency. An encoder-decoder structure is adopted by BiLSTM-I, which is conducive to fully learning the potential distribution pattern of data. In addition, the BiLSTM-I model error function incorporates the difference between the final estimates and true observations. Therefore, the error function evaluates the imputation results more directly, and the model convergence error and the imputation accuracy are directly related, thus ensuring that the imputation error can be minimized at the time the model converges. The experimental analysis results show that the BiLSTM-I model designed in this paper is superior to other methods. For a test set with a time interval gap of 30 days, or a time interval gap of 60 days, the root mean square errors (RMSEs) remain stable, indicating the model’s excellent generalization ability for different missing value gaps. Although the model is only applied to temperature data imputation in this study, it also has the potential to be applied to other meteorological dataset-filling scenarios.
    Keywords time series ; data imputation ; deep learning ; meteorological observation data ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 310
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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