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Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Coastal Landscape Patterns Using the GEE Cloud Platform and Landsat Time Series

Chao Chen, Jintao Liang, Taohua Ren, Yi Wang et al. • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2024)

Owing to the rapid urbanization combined with global climate change, dramatic land-use change in coastal watersheds is occurred, which, in turn, cause the evolution of landscape patterns and threaten the valuable but fragile ecosystem. The ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3473937

Urban Flood Zoning Using an Integrated Hydrological-Hydraulic Watershed Modeling Approach, Case Study: Districts 21 and 22 of Tehran

Ali Nasiri, Esmaeil Salimi, Morteza Delfan Azari, Jafar Yazdi et al. • دانش پیشگیری و مدیریت بحران (2025)

Flood zoning has extensive applications in flood management and is considered one of the fundamental and critical pieces of information in flood risk management. Flood zoning in urban areas is much more challenging than modeling in floodpla...

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The Power of Environmental Observatories for Advancing Multidisciplinary Research, Outreach, and Decision Support: The Case of the Minnesota River Basin

K. B. Gran, C. Dolph, A. Baker, M. Bevis et al. • Water Resources Research (2019)

Abstract Observatory‐scale data collection efforts allow unprecedented opportunities for integrative, multidisciplinary investigations in large, complex watersheds, which can affect management decisions and policy. Through the National Scie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1029/2018WR024211

Hydrogeochemical Characterization and Appraisal of Groundwater Quality in Yisr River Catchment, Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia, by Using the GIS, WQI, and Statistical Techniques

Abebaw Demelash, Abunu Atlabachew, Muralitharan Jothimani, Abel Abebe • Journal of Chemistry (2023)

Groundwater is a primary drinking, agricultural, domestic, and nondomestic water source in Ethiopia’s Yisr River watershed of the Blue Nile River basin. There has been no systematic investigation of the hydrogeochemical properties of ground...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2023/8199000

Influence of check dams on water and sediment processes and deposition patterns under simulated rainfall conditions

Zhiwei Cui, Peng Li, Tian Wang, Shaobo Xue et al. • Geoderma (2024)

The Loess Plateau in China has the highest soil erosion and water loss rates in the world. Therefore, check dams, which are more useful engineering measures, have been established to improve soil and water conservation in small watershed. T...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116758

Critical Factors Affecting Water and Nitrogen Losses from Sloping Farmland during the Snowmelt Process

Qiang Zhao, Jifeng Zhang, Jingwei Wu, Chenyao Guo et al. • Agronomy (2023)

Water and nitrogen losses from farmland during the snowmelt process play a vital role in water and nitrogen management in cold regions. To explore the mechanisms and factors contributing to water and nitrogen loss from different sloping far...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13020350

Reefs under Siege—the Rise, Putative Drivers, and Consequences of Benthic Cyanobacterial Mats

Amanda K. Ford, Amanda K. Ford, Sonia Bejarano, Maggy M. Nugues et al. • Frontiers in Marine Science (2018)

Benthic cyanobacteria have commonly been a small but integral component of coral reef ecosystems, fulfilling the critical function of introducing bioavailable nitrogen to an inherently oligotrophic environment. Though surveys may have previ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00018

Prioritization of Surface Runoff Management Scenarios Using TOPSIS Method in Different Weighting Conditions (Case Study: Bojnord City)

Raziye Izanloo, Vahedberdi Sheikh • آب و فاضلاب (2019)

In the past decades, urban development and the increase in densely populated urban areas have led to expansion of the impervious surfaces. This resulted in an increase in the volume and peak discharge of runoff. To face the intensified urba...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22093/wwj.2017.81822.2381

Breeding birds in the largest historical urban park of Rome (Villa Doria Pamphilj): community structure and spatial patterns of species richness and occurrence

Corrado Battisti, Paolo Giampaoletti, Francesco Zullo • Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology (2026)

This study presents preliminary data obtained through intensive sampling using a spatial survey approach (breeding bird atlas) carried out in Rome’s largest historic urban park: Villa Doria Pamphilj (184 hectares). A total of 44 breeding bi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4081/rio.2026.932

Temperature orchestrates phytoplankton community and environment in mountain stream for enhancing resource use efficiency

Li Ji, Huayong Zhang, Huayong Zhang, Zhongyu Wang et al. • Frontiers in Marine Science (2025)

Warming is a key factor influencing the function of the structure and function of phytoplankton communities. However, the impacts of temperature on phytoplankton resource use efficiency (RUE) in mountain rivers remain poorly understood. Her...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1565858

Evaluating Urban–Rural Disparity of Public Facilities Provision in Chengdu–Chongqing: An Equity Index Approach with Multi-Source Data

Xuan Liu, Youxin Qian, Guohui Zhou, Guangyu Xu et al. • Systems (2026)

Urban–rural public facility disparity is a systemic challenge that reflects dysfunctional feedback loops within and across social and technical subsystems. Traditional administrative-unit-based analyses cannot capture such systemic alignmen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/systems14080903

Glimpse at EU–China relationships since 2008

Staburova Jelena, Bērziņa Una Aleksandra • Baltic Journal of European studies (2013)

United Europe-China relations have a long history. For many years they have developed successfully, but not along a simple course. The main thesis of this article is that the year 2008, which is associated primarily with the onset of the fi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2478/bjes-2013-0004

International Law and International Relations

Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Mark A. Pollack • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2012)

A casual observer might expect that international lawyers and international relations scholars would share overlapping research interests and scholarly agendas. In fact, for several decades prior to the Second World War, practitioners in bo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139107310.002

SnowMapPy: An automated GEE Python tool for snow cover mapping and monitoring in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

Haytam Elyoussfi, Hatim Bechri, Mostafa Bousbaa, Salwa Belaqziz et al. • SoftwareX (2026)

SnowMapPy is an open-source Python-based package developed to streamline the collection, processing, and analysis of MODIS snow cover data from Terra and Aqua satellites. By automating essential steps, including data clipping, reprojection,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2026.103006

An Integrative Remote Sensing Application of Stacked Autoencoder for Atmospheric Correction and Cyanobacteria Estimation Using Hyperspectral Imagery

JongCheol Pyo, Hongtao Duan, Mayzonee Ligaray, Minjeong Kim et al. • Remote Sensing (2020)

Hyperspectral image sensing can be used to effectively detect the distribution of harmful cyanobacteria. To accomplish this, physical- and/or model-based simulations have been conducted to perform an atmospheric correction (AC) and an estim...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs12071073