The Wenchuan earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, China, on May 12, 2008, and caused a large number of secondary geological disasters such as collapses, debris flows, and landslides, as well ... Read More

Urban thermal environment issues have become a potential threat to the urban ecosystem and residents’ health. Thermal environment issues in Changsha are becoming more serious with the expansion ... Read More

The aim of this study is to develop a system for geospatial feature extraction from images to be obtained from CAS500-1/2 satellites currently being developed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastruct ... Read More

High-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multi-spectral sensor images can provide valuable information for mapping forest areas that have recently been burned. In this study, we investigate ... Read More

Forest microclimates have unique characteristics, which depend on various factors, such as slope, direction, altitude, and vegetation type. We analyzed the characteristics of the microclimate in ... Read More

Landslide damage has occurred in many countries, and research on landslide susceptibility assessment is being actively conducted in response. In Gyeongsangnam-do (Gyeongnam), Republic of Korea (R ... Read More

To understand the terrestrial ecosystem and track whether it is influenced by any external factors, an accurate assessment of vegetation phenology at the regional to global scale is needed. Becau ... Read More

The deterioration of the urban thermal environment poses multiple threats to residents’ health and the ecological environment. The impact of the local environment on the water cooling island (W ... Read More

The damage caused by landslides is increasing worldwide due to climate change. In Korea, damage from landslides occurs frequently, making it necessary to develop effective response strategies. Pr ... Read More

The forest industry is facing many challenges, including lack of labor and low operational efficiency. In South Korea, the small-scale forest industry has hindered the development of advanced-lev ... Read More

In physically based landslide modeling, to improve the accuracy of source area prediction, it is important to not only use high-resolution terrain information but also apply field-based soil prop ... Read More

Cable yarding operations on steep terrain have always been a challenge with respect to safety as they are mostly undertaken by manual laborers, particularly in South Korea. Steep slopes are assoc ... Read More

The use of renewable energy has increased markedly with growing global efforts to reduce fossil carbon emissions. Among various renewable energy sources, forest residues produced from timber harv ... Read More

The purpose of this study was to apply the random forest (RF), XGBoost, and LightGBM machine learning (ML) algorithms to land cover classification, and to present the model tuning process for eac ... Read More