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Delineating individual alluvial fans and morphological analysis based on digital elevation models featured image

Delineating individual alluvial fans and morphological analysis based on digital elevation models

We proposed a novel method for delineating individual alluvial fans based on free digital elevation models. This method incorporated multi-directional hillshades to accurately …

Xingyu Zhou
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Assessing the influence of geo-environmental factors on discontinuous gully erosion at regional scales: A case study of spoon gullies on the loess plateau of China featured image

Assessing the influence of geo-environmental factors on discontinuous gully erosion at regional scales: A case study of spoon gullies on the loess plateau of China

Spoon gullies, characterized by fat heads and thin tails, are a typical type of discontinuous hillslope gully found extensively on the Loess Plateau of China. This study explores …

Chenrui Li
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Is 3D building morphology really related to land surface temperature? Insights from a new homogeneous unit featured image

Is 3D building morphology really related to land surface temperature? Insights from a new homogeneous unit

This study places special emphasis on proposing a new spatial unit, the Homogenous Unit of Building Morphology (HUBM), to re-describe building morphology and re-analyze its effect …

Ling Yang
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DEM-based sand dune analysis: Identification and morphological regionalization in the Grand Erg Oriental featured image

DEM-based sand dune analysis: Identification and morphological regionalization in the Grand Erg Oriental

Sand dunes are predominantly distributed in arid regions. Automatic mapping and regionalization of sand dunes in large-scale areas are crucial to understanding the evolution trends …

Hui Zhu
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Refining urban morphology: An explainable machine learning method for estimating footprint-level building height featured image

Refining urban morphology: An explainable machine learning method for estimating footprint-level building height

This study bridged this gap by using random forest models to integrate the elevation, geometry and shape attributes of individual buildings, further refining those with spatial …

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Yang Chen
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A new hierarchical analysis framework of building heights: Towards a more intuitive understanding of 3D urban structure featured image

A new hierarchical analysis framework of building heights: Towards a more intuitive understanding of 3D urban structure

This article proposes a new framework to uncover the 3D urban structure. Firstly, kernel density is employed to reveal the hierarchical spatial structure of buildings and the …

Ling Yang
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An Automatic Approach to Extracting Large-Scale Three-Dimensional Road Networks Using Open-Source Data featured image

An Automatic Approach to Extracting Large-Scale Three-Dimensional Road Networks Using Open-Source Data

We proposed a novel approach to extract large-scale 3D road networks, integrating terrain correction and road engineering rule constraint, by using the Advanced Land Observing …

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Yang Chen
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