Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a widely used data source in various fields and services, such as environmental monitoring, disaster and crisis management, SDI, and mapping. Quality is a critical factor for the usability of VGI. This stud...
16 April 2020
Background: The importance of assessing “food literacy” since youth has been highlighted and, to this purpose, valid and consistent instruments are needed. This study aimed to assess the validity and internal consistency of the preschool-...
The research on land cover and its changing value to the ecology environment and ecosystem service is of great importance. Understanding the landscape patterns and accuracy in remote sensing land cover data from multiple sources under eco-regionaliza...
The Sanjiangyuan Region (SJYR), located in the core of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, is a key ecological barrier where grasslands, the dominant land cover, are undergoing continuous degradation due to climate change and human activities. Accurate...
With advancements in cloud computing and machine learning algorithms, an increasing number of cropland datasets have been developed, including the China land-cover dataset (CLCD) and GlobeLand30 (GLC). The unique climatic conditions of the Tibetan Pl...
20 November 2025
Objectives: An objective evaluation of balance abilities is crucial in research, rehabilitation, sport, and daily life. With ongoing technical advancements, the number of innovative evaluation tools is continuously increasing. This study assessed the...
The accuracy assessment of cropland products is a critical prerequisite for agricultural planning and food security evaluations. Current accuracy assessments of remote sensing-based cropland products focused on the consistency of spatial patterns for...
Over the past decades, benefiting from the development of computing capacity and the free access to Landsat and Sentinel imagery, several fine-resolution global land cover (GLC) products (with a resolution of 10 m or 30 m) have been developed (GlobeL...
4 September 2017
To reflect the initiative design and initiative of human security management and safety warning, ecological safety assessment is of great value. In the comprehensive evaluation of regional ecological security with the participation of experts, the ex...
Landslide susceptibility is crucial for assessing the probability and severity of landslide disasters in a region. Previous studies have focused on static landslide susceptibility, using landslide assessment factor data from varying years, making it...
One technique employed to enhance road safety involves assessing the alignment’s consistency. A prevalent measure of consistency is evaluating speed variations along the alignment. A key consideration in this assessment is determining the speed...
Accurate and up-to-date forest monitoring plays a significant role in the country’s society and economy. Many open-access global forest datasets can be used to analyze the forest profile of countries around the world. However, discrepancies exi...
We present HGC-Net, a hybrid pipeline for assessing geometric consistency between stereo image pairs. Our method integrates classical epipolar geometry with deep learning components to compute an interpretable scalar score A, reflecting the degree of...
Universities strive to ensure quality education focused on the diversity of the student body. According to experiential learning theory, students display different learning preferences. This study has a three-fold objective: to compare learning style...
This study presents a large-scale empirical comparison of operational efficiency metrics derived from the IMO Data Collection System (DCS) and the EU Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework. Paired non-parametric tests, effect size est...
With the increase in remote learning, the efficient implementation of distant knowledge assessments has become an essential topic. New challenges have arisen that have had to be adequately addressed and successfully solved. As a response, we introduc...
This study focuses on examining the psychometric properties of the DIFER test, a widely used assessment tool for measuring school readiness. DIFER, which stands for Diagnostic Assessment Systems for Development, has gained prominence in Hungary and s...
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors onboard the Terra and Aqua spacecraft have been in orbit for over 24 and 22 years, respectively, providing continuous observations of the Earth’s surface. Among the instrument’...
Two MODIS sensors onboard the Terra and Aqua spacecraft have been successfully operating for over twenty-three and twenty-one years, respectively, providing the worldwide user community with high-quality imagery and radiometric Earth observations of...
Land-cover plays an important role in the Earth’s energy balance, the hydrological cycle, and the carbon cycle. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the current global land-cover (GLC) products and to understand the differences between these...
The accuracy of brightness temperature (BT) from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite and NOAA-20 is estimated using the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosp...
Background/Objectives: The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire is a widely employed self-report tool for assessing upper extremity function. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Serbian v...
5 June 2025
University entrance examinations (EBAU in Spanish) are a nationwide program for assessing student achievement levels in Spain and determining access to public undergraduate degrees. Considering the need to measure the progress of rater performance, t...
Modern power systems are rapidly transitioning towards a fully digital substation paradigm. Based on the IEC 61850, a common communication protocol between the different intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) promises a significant enhancement in term...
When examinees are classified into groups based on scores from educational assessment, two indices are widely used to gauge the psychometric quality of the classifications: accuracy and consistency. The two indices take correct classifications into c...
Rocky desertification is one of the most critical ecological and environmental problems in areas underlain by carbonate rocks globally. Land cover and land use in the region affects large-scale ecosystem processes on a global scale, and many Earth sy...
Arid regions are considered to be among the most ecologically fragile and highly sensitive to environmental change globally, and land use and land cover conditions in the region directly influence large-scale ecosystem processes. Currently, thanks to...
An accurate assessment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) requires understanding both renal morphology and functional decline, yet most deep learning approaches treat segmentation and eGFR prediction as separate tasks. This paper proposes the Functional...
The iliopsoas muscle (IPM) is a flexor of the hip joint in dogs that is vulnerable to injury. Intraobserver and interobserver reliability of musculoskeletal ultrasound when evaluating the tendon of insertion of the IPM was studied. The IPM tendons of...
Currently, many globally accessible forest mapping products can be utilized to monitor and assess the status of and changes in forests. However, substantial disparities exist among these products due to variations in forest definitions, classificatio...
The preoperative assessment of difficult airways is of great significance in the practice of anesthesia intubation. In recent years, although a large number of difficult airway recognition algorithms have been investigated, defects such as low recogn...
The Positive Mental Health Questionnaire (PMHQ) has been validated across various populations but has displayed diverse psychometric structures depending on the procedures used. The original version of the PMHQ includes 39 items organized into 6 fact...
The sustainability evaluation of engineering processes and structures is a multifaceted challenge requiring the integration of diverse and often conflicting criteria. To address this challenge, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods have emerg...
This paper focuses on the consequences of assuming a wrong model for multinomial data when using minimum penalized -divergence, also known as minimum penalized disparity estimators, to estimate the model parameters. These estimators are shown t...
Cognitive warfare is a hybrid threat that combines information manipulation with psychological influence, often amplified by digital platforms and synthetic media. Conventional cybersecurity tooling is optimized for technical intrusion and offers lim...
Smartphones have become an inevitable part of every facet of modern society. The selection of a particular smartphone brand from multiple options that are available is a complex and dynamic decision-making problem, involving multiple conflicting crit...
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) region contains maximal alpine grassland ecology at the mid-latitudes. This region is also recognized as an ecologically fragile and sensitive area under the effects of global warming. Regional climate modeling and ecosystem...
This work presents a regridding procedure applied to the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) tropospheric column data, derived from the Copernicus Sentinel 5 Precursor Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (S5P/TROPOMI). The regridding has been performed to provide...
In the aftermath of a natural hazard, rapid and accurate building damage assessment from remote sensing imagery is crucial for disaster response and rescue operations. Although recent deep learning-based studies have made considerable improvements in...
With the development of remote sensing technology, a number of fine-resolution (30-m) global/national land cover (LC) products have been developed. However, accuracy assessments for the developed LC products are commonly conducted at global and natio...
Selection of the most appropriate contractor for the installation of solar panels is essential to maximizing the benefit of this renewable, sustainable energy source. Solar energy is one of the 100% renewable energy sources, but implementation may no...
Genomic selection is an effective method for accelerating the enhancement of plant agronomic traits. Currently, genotype acquisition mainly depends on resequencing and chip technology, and the cost and efficiency are still the key factors restricting...
The earthquakes that impacted Kahramanmaraş on 6 February 2023, caused multidimensional destruction across the southeastern provinces of Türkiye and incurred severe business losses. This study provides a comparative assessment of four heavi...
Background: Although the Profile of Mood States has been proposed by the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) to measure emotional functioning in chronic pain patients, it has not yet been validated in...
This paper addresses the challenges of calibrating low-cost electrochemical sensor systems for air quality monitoring. The proliferation of pollutants in the atmosphere necessitates efficient monitoring systems, and low-cost sensors offer a promising...
There is a clear trend toward the use of higher spatial resolution satellite sensors. Due to the low revisit time of these sensors and frequent cloud coverage, many applications require data from different sensors to be combined in order to have more...
Accurate forest cover maps are essential for forest conservation and sustainable development. Numerous global forest cover products have emerged in recent years; however, most tend to neglect sparsely forested arid and semi-arid areas, such as the Th...
In 2015, U.K. newborn screening (NBS) laboratory guidelines were introduced to standardize dried blood spot (DBS) specimen quality acceptance and specify a minimum acceptable DBS diameter of ≥7 mm. The UK ‘acceptable’ avoidable repeat...
The range-dependence on polarization distortion of spaceborne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) affects the accuracy of wide-swath polarization applications, such as environmental monitoring, sea ice classification and ocean wave inversion....
Accurate and reliable estimation of actual evapotranspiration (AET) is essential for various hydrological studies, including drought prediction, water resource management, and the analysis of atmospheric–terrestrial carbon exchanges. Gridded AE...
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