Engineering

Real-Time Data in Urban Sustainability

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This editorial explores the role of distributed sensors and real-time data in improving urban management, addressing sustainability issues through proactive strategies, digital twins, and inclusive frameworks, drawing on worldwide experiences to inform better decision-making and equitable outcomes. Urban Challenges: The Need for Better Environmental Data Integration Cities are confronting growing pressures from climate change, air […]

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Analyzing Landslide-Bridge Interactions Through InSAR and Numerical Modeling

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This study integrates InSAR satellite monitoring with three-dimensional numerical modeling to examine the effects of a landslide on a bridge, addressing the one-dimensional limitations of InSAR through modeling-derived displacement directions and validating simulations with observed surface deformations for improved understanding of infrastructure vulnerabilities in geologically unstable regions. Understanding the Challenge: Landslides and Infrastructure Risks Landslides

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Structural Health Monitoring throught enhanced MT-InSAR

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This research introduces a structural-based inverse approach that integrates MT-InSAR characteristics with numerical simulations of damage mechanisms, enabling the identification of the minimum number and optimal placement of persistent scatterers to assess surface displacements’ representativeness for specific infrastructure monitoring needs, surpassing traditional density-based evaluations in precision and reliability. The Challenge in Infrastructure Monitoring A significant

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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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Bidirectional LSTM Networks Enable High-Resolution Railway Track Stiffness Monitoring from Drive-By Vibrations

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TU Delft researchers present an LSTM-BiLSTM architecture that combines sleeper-level framing of axle-box acceleration signals with LSTM-based temporal feature extraction and bidirectional processing to deliver accurate, simultaneous estimation of railpad and ballast stiffness at individual sleeper resolution — even under realistic measurement noise. The Critical Need for Accurate Track Stiffness Monitoring Railway track stiffness is

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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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Bamboo Solutions for Mangrove Restoration

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In Demak, Indonesia, a pilot deployment of bamboo and PVC permeable structures paired with systematic low-cost monitoring uncovers detailed seabed dynamics on a subsiding coast, highlighting both challenges and opportunities for nature-based mangrove restoration in complex coastal environments. Coastal Erosion and Subsidence: The Urgent Need for Effective Mangrove Restoration Mangroves provide essential coastal protection against

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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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