Geomatics

The Comprehensive Global Building Dataset: GlobalBuildingAtlas

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GlobalBuildingAtlas introduces an open dataset with global coverage of 2.75 billion building polygons, 3 m resolution height maps, and LoD1 3D models, derived from satellite imagery, offering enhanced detail for urban analysis, planning, and monitoring progress toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The Need for Detailed Global Building Information Buildings serve as the foundation of […]

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Why Are Some Watersheds More Sediment-Productive Than Others? An Explainable AI Approach

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High-frequency turbidity sensors from 134 USGS stations, paired with RUSLE erosion estimates and explainable random forest models, map sediment yield and delivery ratios across the contiguous United States, revealing that human-modified landscapes dominate sediment transport efficiency while natural factors control total production, and highlighting priority sub-basins for targeted management in the Upper Mississippi and Chesapeake

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Machine Learning for Iceberg Stability: Ground Imagery and Logistic Regression Offer New Practical Insights

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Analyzing thousands of icebergs captured in time-lapse footage from Alaska and Greenland, this research demonstrates that logistic regression applied to visible width and height can help estimate the probability of instability providing engineers with a foundational, field-derived method for assessing capsize risk in Arctic coastal environments. The Challenge of Iceberg Capsize in Arctic Waters Iceberg

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Monitoring Amsterdams Bridges with InSAR

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A structured Delft–Amsterdam research collaboration integrates bridge typologies, expected failure mechanisms, and satellite viewing geometry to translate one-dimensional MT-InSAR measurements into practical damage indicators, demonstrating how regional-scale millimetre-level displacement data can support systematic structural evaluation of urban bridge networks. The Urban Bridge Monitoring Dilemma Across Europe and beyond, bridge networks are aging under increasing traffic

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Low-Cost SFCW Radar Platform Advances Sub-Daily Environmental Monitoring

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Researchers have developed an affordable tower-mounted SFCW radar built around a compact SDR-based VNA and enhanced RF front end. Operating in L- and C-bands with dual polarization, the system captures high-temporal-resolution microwave data on soil, vegetation, and snow processes—directly addressing the temporal gaps that limit satellite observations of rapid Earth system dynamics. The Challenge of

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UAV Airspeed Estimation using Propeller Feedback

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Researchers at Delft University of Technology have developed an analytical model that estimates fixed-wing UAV airspeed using only propeller power and rotational speed feedback from standard electronic speed controllers. This computationally efficient, model-free solution provides a practical alternative or redundancy to conventional Pitot tubes, achieving strong accuracy on real flight data.  The Challenge of Reliable

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Volumetric Disentanglement: A Practical Path to Object-Level Editing in NeRF Scenes

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have changed how engineers think about 3D capture. With a modest set of photos, you can reconstruct impressively photorealistic 3D scenes. For many teams, that alone feels like magic. But then comes the real-world question: How do you edit those scenes? Remove a chair. Enlarge a TV. Swap out a tree

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Machine Learning Meets Soil Dynamics

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A data-driven review shows how modern machine-learning models consistently outperform traditional empirical equations in predicting soil shear modulus and damping ratio, offering geotechnical engineers a clearer, more efficient path to characterizing dynamic soil behavior while highlighting practical limitations, data requirements, and future research needs. Why Soil Dynamics Still Challenge Engineers Accurate characterization of soil dynamic

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Advancing 3D Land Administration with Point Clouds

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Discover how researchers are transforming urban land administration by integrating cadastral floor plans with nationwide airborne LiDAR to create detailed 3D point clouds, offering a cost-effective alternative to BIM for visualizing legal property boundaries in complex vertical structures—paving the way for scalable digital twins. The Challenge of Vertical Urbanization in Land Administration Urban areas are

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Shanghai’s 30-Year Land Subsidence Evolution

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Dive into Shanghai’s sinking secrets: This study fuses 30 years of multi-sensor satellite data with AI modeling to map subsidence shifts from urban cores to coastal zones, revealing how groundwater management curbs rates and offers strategies for flood-resilient cities. The Subsidence Challenge Land subsidence in coastal megacities like Shanghai endangers infrastructure, increases flood risks, and

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