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Maffei, C. (author)Forest fires are a major ecosystem disturbance at global scale, put pressure on agencies in charge of citizens and infrastructure security and cause unvaluable human losses. Fires are controlled by multiple static and dynamic drivers related to topography, land cover, climate, weather, and anthropic activity. Among these, weather is an active...doctoral thesis 2022
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Kool, J.J. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)This study introduces a method for assessing the annual failure rate of levees based on information from historical floods, while also considering the return period of these past events. Also, an approach has been developed to quantify the influence of deviating conditions on failure rates. The presence of deviating conditions at failed and...journal article 2022
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Andriotis, C. (author), Papakonstantinou, K.G. (author)Inspection and maintenance (I&M) optimization entails many sources of computational complexity, among others, due to high-dimensional decision and state variables in multi-component systems, long planning horizons, stochasticity of objectives and constraints, and inherent uncertainties in measurements and models. This paper studies how the...conference paper 2022
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Martinez Lopez, V.A. (author), Žindžiūtė, U. (author), Ziar, H. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Irradiance variability is one of the main challenges for using photovoltaic energy. This variability affects the operation of maximum power point trackers (MPPT) causing energy losses. The logic of the Perturb-and-Observe MPPT algorithm is particularly sensitive to quick irradiance changes. We quantified the existing relation between irradiance...journal article 2022
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Hessels, T.M. (author), Davids, Jeffrey C. (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author)Strategic planning of water management at the river-basin scale requires (1) measurement and accounting of individual hydrological processes, (2) quantification of water resources, and (3) their optimal allocation. Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO) is an open-access parameterization enabling automated reporting of water...journal article 2022
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Zhou, Z. (author), Ge, Jianzhong (author), van Maren, D.S. (author), Gu, Jinghua (author), Ding, Pingxing (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)The Krone–Partheniades (K-P) framework has been used for decades to quantify and analyze the sediment exchange at a water–bed interface. Measuring the erosion and deposition parameters that are part of this framework requires time-consuming field observations. Additionally, the erosion parameters are measured independently of deposition...journal article 2022
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Pfeiffer, S.U. (author), Munaro, Veronica (author), Li, S. (author), Rizzo, Alessandro (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)Relative localization is a key capability for autonomous robot swarms, and it is a substantial challenge, especially for small flying robots, as they are extremely restricted in terms of sensors and processing while other robots may be located anywhere around them in three-dimensional space. In this article, we generalize wireless ranging...journal article 2022
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Tsurumoto, Kentaro (author), Ohnishi, Wataru (author), Koseki, Takafumi (author), Strijbosch, Nard (author), Oomen, T.A.E. (author)State-tracking Iterative Learning Control (ILC) yields perfect state-tracking performance at each n sample instances for systems that perform repetitive tasks, where n stands for the order of the system. By achieving perfect state-tracking, oscillatory intersample behavior often encountered in output-tracking ILC has been mitigated. However,...journal article 2022
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Blythe, Joseph S. (author), Thomaidou, Mia A. (author), Peerdeman, Kaya J. (author), van Laarhoven, Antoinette I.M. (author), van Schothorst, Myrthe M.E. (author), Veldhuijzen, Dieuwke S. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)Placebo effects, positive treatment outcomes that go beyond treatment processes, can alter sensations through learning mechanisms. Understanding how methodological factors contribute to the magnitude of placebo effects will help define the mechanisms by which these effects occur. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental...journal article 2022
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Gu, Yi (author), Han, Chao (author), Chen, Yuhan (author), Liu, Shenggang (author), Wang, X. (author)The last decades have witnessed a rapid increase of Earth observation satellites (EOSs), leading to the increasing complexity of EOSs scheduling. On account of the widespread applications of large region observation, this article aims to address the EOSs observation scheduling problem for large region targets. A rapid coverage calculation...journal article 2022
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de Roda Husman, S. (author), Hu, Zhongyang (author), Wouters, B. (author), Munneke, Peter Kuipers (author), Veldhuijsen, Sanne (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author)Surface melt is an important driver of ice shelf disintegration and its consequent mass loss over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Monitoring surface melt using satellite remote sensing can enhance our understanding of ice shelf stability. However, the sensors do not measure the actual physical process of surface melt, but rather observe the presence...journal article 2022
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Mirmohammadian, Farinaz (author), Asgari, Jamal (author), Verhagen, S. (author), Amiri Simkooei, A. (author)With the advancement of multi-constellation and multi-frequency global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), more observations are available for high precision positioning applications. Although there is a lot of progress in the GNSS world, achieving realistic precision of the solution (neither too optimistic nor too pessimistic) is still an...journal article 2022
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Liang, Peijie (author), Pan, Zhiliang (author), Tang, Liang (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), He, Siliang (author), Yan, Haidong (author)Based on molecular dynamics (MD), in this study, a model was established to simulate the initial coating morphology of silver paste by using a random algorithm, and the effects of different sizes of particles on sintering porosity were also analyzed. The MD result reveals that compared with the sintering process using large-scale silver...journal article 2022
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Bennour, Ali (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zheng, Chaolei (author), Zeng, Yelong (author), Barnieh, Beatrice Asenso (author), Jiang, Min (author)Model calibration and validation are challenging in poorly gauged basins. We developed and applied a new approach to calibrate hydrological models using distributed geospatial remote sensing data. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was calibrated using only twelve months of remote sensing data on actual evapotranspiration (ETa)...journal article 2022
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Lai, F. (author), Liu, Songyu (author), Li, Yaoliang (author), Sun, Yanxiao (author)The development of installation technologies of open caissons has been lagging behind increasingly complex construction conditions. For such purpose, a new installation technology of large diameter deeply-buried (LDDB) open caissons has been developed and then used for construction of twin LDDB caissons into undrained ground with stiff soils...journal article 2022
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Suau, M. (author), He, J. (author), Congeduti, E. (author), Starre, R.A.N. (author), Czechowski, A.T. (author), Oliehoek, F.A. (author)Due to its perceptual limitations, an agent may have too little information about the environment to act optimally. In such cases, it is important to keep track of the action-observation history to uncover hidden state information. Recent deep reinforcement learning methods use recurrent neural networks (RNN) to memorize past observations....journal article 2022
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Flor, Vinicius B.Braga (author), Filho, Milton B.Do Coutto (author), de Souza, Julio C.Stacchini (author), Vergara Barrios, P.P. (author)Intelligent electrical power grids, widely referred to as smart grids (SGs), rely on digital technology resources, especially communication and measurement devices, becoming a cyber-physical energy system. Massive data flow between grid elements makes smart grids more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Power system state estimation (SE) - an...journal article 2022
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De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J.M. (author), Bechtold, Michel (author), Albergel, Clément (author), Brocca, Luca (author), Calvet, Jean Christophe (author), Carrassi, Alberto (author), Crow, Wade T. (author), de Rosnay, Patricia (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author)The beginning of the 21<sup>st</sup> century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by...review 2022
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Babadi, Masoud (author), Iran Pour, Siavash (author), Roscher, Ribana (author), Amiri Simkooei, A. (author), Karimi, Hamed (author)Drought is one of the most complex and threatening disasters, defined as a period of drier-than-normal conditions which results in water-related problems. In addition to climate variation, human activities can cause or intensify drought through groundwater overextraction, unsupervised expansion of agricultural lands, etc. One prime example of...journal article 2022