The World Is Running Out of Sand—And Thieves Are Willing to Kill for It

A global shortage of construction-grade sand is reshaping coastlines, destabilizing ecosystems, and putting activists in the ...
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Scientists who modeled the lost canals of China's Liangzhu city confirmed a 5,000-year-old hydraulic system that rewrites early Chinese engineering

Water leaves a memory in the land. Even after thousands of years, it lingers as faint ridges and subtle curves that only ...
IEEE

Change Detection in Remote Sensing Optical Images Using a SPSA-Based Improved Random Forest Algorithm

Abstract: A precise change detection in the multi-temporal optical images is considered as a crucial task. Although a variety of machine learning-based change detection algorithms have been proposed ...
Frontiers

A Machine Learning and Remote Sensing Approach for Accurate Forest Sub-compartment Level Vegetation Cover Change Monitoring

1 Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China 2 Ecological Environment Monitoring Center, Sichuan Forestry and Grassland Survey and Planning Institute, CHENGDU, China The final, formatted version of ...
Frontiers

PRESCO: an online tool for predicting severe pulmonary complications and survival after cancer surgery

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Hunan Cancer Hospital, Changsha, China 2 Department of Intensive Care Unit, Hunan Cancer Hospital, Changsha, China Background: Severe pulmonary complications (SPCs) ...
IEEE

Random Forest Enhancement using Sequential Feature Selection for Machine Maintenance Prediction

Abstract: The use of advanced machine learning in various fields, such as ensemble learning, is increasing along with the advancement of civilization, including in the manufacturing industry.