Mineral evolution, the study of the diversity and temporal distribution of Earth’s crystalline phases, posits that mineral species have diversified over the past 4.5 billion years as a result of varied physical, chemical, and biological processes. The complementary field of mineral ecology is the study of the diversity and spatial distribution of mineral species on Earth and other terrestrial…
High precision and reliable wind speed forecasting is a challenge for meteorologists. We used multiple nonparametric tree-based machine learning techniques, for predicting the maximum wind speed at 10 m using selected convective weather variables. Analysis is based on 127 convective storms from 2005 to 2013. The study evaluated two error models - the Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) …
A numerical technique is applied to solve a biharmonic equation problem of a steady-state seepage flow of water through a thin layer of soil, under an impermeable dam. Due to the existence of a point boundary singularity and particular boundary conditions in the problem of the present study, the biharmonic equation is selected to be the governing equation. The potential function of the problem …
One important property of oil and gas reservoirs is permeability, which has proven to be difficult to predict. Empirical and regression models are the current industrial practice for predicting permeability due to high cost and time consumption associated with laboratory measurement. In recent times, machine learning algorithms have been employed for the prediction of permeability due to their …
This study addresses the challenge of oil spill detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery, employing deep learning techniques to improve accuracy and efficiency. We investigated the effectiveness of various neural network architectures and encoders for this task, focusing on scenarios with limited training data. The research problem centered on enhancing feature extractio…
Accurate individual tree locations enable efficient forest inventory management and automation, support precise forest surveys, management decisions and future individual-tree harvesting plans. In this paper, we compared and analyzed in detail the performance of an ultra-wideband (UWB) data-driven method for mapping individual tree locations in boreal forest sample plots of varying complexity. …
The rotation of a vector around the origin and in a plane constitutes a minimal rotation. Such a rotation is of vital importance in many applications. Examples are the re-orientation of spacecraft or antennas with minimal effort, the smooth interpolation between sensor poses, and the drawing of circular arcs in 2D and 3D. In numerical linear algebra, minimal rotations in different planes are us…
After more than twenty years of commercial use, laser scanners have reached technical maturity and consequently became a standard tool for 3D-data acquisition across various fields of application. Yet, meaningful stochastic information regarding the achieved metric quality of recorded points remains an open research question. Recent research demonstrated that raw intensity values can be deploye…
In recent years, transformer-based deep learning networks have gained popularity in Hyperspectral (HS) unmixing applications due to their superior performance. Most of these networks use an Endmember Extraction Algorithm(EEA) for the initialization of their network. As EEAs performance depends on the environment, single initialization does not ensure optimum performance. Also, only a few networ…
Crop type and crop extent are critical information that helps policymakers make informed decisions on food security. As the economic growth of Bhutan has increased at an annual rate of 7.5% over the last three decades, there is a need to provide geospatial products that can be leveraged by local experts to support decision-making in the context of economic and population growth effects and impa…