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Khosravi Y, Homayouni S, St-Hilaire A. An integrated dryness index based on geographically weighted regression and satellite earth observations. Sci Total Environ 2024; 911:168807. [PMID: 38000741 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
Abstract
Drought, characterized by the limited water availability in the atmosphere and hydrological systems, is one of the most destructive natural calamities. Defining droughts based on a single variable/index (e.g., precipitation, temperature, TCI, VCI) may not be sufficient for describing intricate conditions, impacts, and decision-making. Therefore, an integrated set of variables and indices is necessary to capture various aspects of intricate drought conditions. This paper has developed an Integrated Geographically Weighted Dryness Index (IGWDI) to model the drought. In this index, climatic parameters (CP) (i.e., precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration) and remote-sensing-based drought indices (RSDI) (i.e., PCI, VCI, TCI, SMCI) were inputted into a GWR (Geographically Weighted Regression) model to predict the TVDI as independent variables in two distinct models, IGWDI-CP and IGWDI-RSDI, respectively. In this study, the proposed IGWDI is utilized to characterize the drought conditions in the Iranian plateau on a monthly scale from April to September over 20 years, including 2003-2022. According to adjusted R2 and AICc values, the findings revealed that IGWDI-CP is the best-fitting model for drought monitoring in all months. The IGWDI-CP model demonstrated that over the 20 years, from April to September, nearly 90 % of the examined study area experienced a range of drought severity levels. The warmest month, July, stood out, with approximately 71 % of the regions facing severe and extreme drought conditions. These adverse conditions were predominantly observed in scattered locations within Iran's middle and southern regions. Overlay, throughout all studied months, the southwestern regions of Iran emerged as the focal point for the most severe drought conditions. In most regions, an inverse relationship was discovered between TVDI and precipitation and evapotranspiration, while a positive correlation was observed between TVDI and temperature. This study employed the GWR model to combine several crucial climatic parameters and remote sensing-based indices to derive a novel index for monitoring a wider range of droughts. Consequently, these findings benefit decision-makers and authorities responsible for environmental sustainability, agriculture, and addressing the consequences of climate change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Younes Khosravi
- Environmental Science Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, 45371-38791 Zanjan, Iran; Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebe, QC G1K 9A9 Quebec, Canada.
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebe, QC G1K 9A9 Quebec, Canada
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- Canada Research Chair in Statistical Hydro-Climatology, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, INRS-ETE, 490 De la Couronne, Qu'ebec City, QC, Canada
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Dehghani-Dehcheshmeh S, Akhoondzadeh M, Homayouni S. Oil spills detection from SAR Earth observations based on a hybrid CNN transformer networks. Mar Pollut Bull 2023; 190:114834. [PMID: 36934487 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Oil spills are the main threats to marine and coastal environments. Due to the increase in the marine transportation and shipping industry, oil spills have increased in recent years. Moreover, the rapid spread of oil spills in open waters seriously affects the fragile marine ecosystem and creates environmental concerns. Effective monitoring, quick identification, and estimation of the volume of oil spills are the first and most crucial steps for a successful cleanup operation and crisis management. Remote Sensing observations, especially from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors, are a very suitable choice for this purpose due to their ability to collect data regardless of the weather and illumination conditions and over far and large areas of the Earth. Owing to the relatively complex nature of SAR observations, machine learning (ML) based algorithms play an important role in accurately detecting and monitoring oil spills and can significantly help experts in faster and more accurate detection. This paper uses SAR images from ESA's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite to detect and locate oil spills in open waters under different environmental conditions. To this end, a deep learning framework has been presented to identify oil spills automatically. The SAR images were segmented into two classes, the oil slick and the background, using convolutional neural networks (CNN) and vision transformers (ViT). Various scenarios for the proposed architecture were designed by placing ViT networks in different parts of the CNN backbone. An extensive dataset of oil spill events in various regions across the globe was used to train and assess the performance of the proposed framework. After the detection performance assessments, the F1-score values for the standard DeepLabV3+, FC-DenseNet, and U-Net networks were 75.08 %, 73.94 %, and 60.85, respectively. In the combined networks models (combination of CNN and ViT), the best F1-score results were obtained as 78.48 %. Our results showed that these hybrid models could improve detection accuracy and have a high ability to distinguish oil spill borders even in noisy images. Evaluation metrics are increased in all the combined networks compared to the original CNN networks.
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- School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran.
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- School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran; Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec City, Canada
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Khorsandi M, Homayouni S, van Oel P. The edge of the petri dish for a nation: Water resources carrying capacity assessment for Iran. Sci Total Environ 2022; 817:153038. [PMID: 35016923 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Different methods have been proposed in population dynamics to estimate carrying capacity (K). This study estimates K for Iran, using three novel methods by integrating land and water limits into assessments based on Human Appropriated Net Primary Production (HANPP). The first method uses land suitability as the limiting resource. It gives theoretical estimates for K. The second method which is based on the first method, uses land suitability and water resources availability as limiting resources assuming highly efficient agriculture, also resulting in theoretical estimates for K. The third method is based on the second method assuming a lower, more realistic agricultural efficiency. The third therefore results in more realistic estimates. Four spatial hydrological scale levels were considered to estimate food production. Also, nine scenarios were defined: a reference one reflecting the current situation, five others for the first method, two for the second method, and finally, one scenario for the third method. Results show severe limitations on food production by the availability of suitable land, water availability, and crop productivity for agriculture. We estimated theoretical values for K using land and water limiting resources separately. Two realistic scenarios considering realistic agricultural productivity and water use at national and local levels were assessed, resulting in 35.5 and 20 million people, respectively. These are alarming values compared to the current population of Iran (84 million). Moreover, our conservative estimations are still higher than any assessment when considering social, economic, or political barriers. This research provides a systematic analysis of carrying capacity in Iran, showing the importance of food import on Iranians' lives, relevant to land, water, and food policies.
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- Mostafa Khorsandi
- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, 490 rue de la Couronne Street, Québec G1K 9A9, Québec, Canada; Water Resources Management Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47 6700AA, Wageningen, Netherlands.
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, 490 rue de la Couronne Street, Québec G1K 9A9, Québec, Canada
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- Water Resources Management Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47 6700AA, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Touati C, Ratsimbazafy T, Poulin J, Bernier M, Homayouni S, Ludwig R. Landscape Freeze/Thaw Mapping from Active and Passive Microwave Earth Observations over the Tursujuq National Park, Quebec, Canada. Écoscience 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2021.1969790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Cheima Touati
- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Canada
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Canada
- Centre d’études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Canada
- Centre d’études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Canada
- Centre d’études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Canada
- Centre d’études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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- Centre d’études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
- Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
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Mohammadi A, Karimzadeh S, Jalal SJ, Kamran KV, Shahabi H, Homayouni S, Al-Ansari N. A Multi-Sensor Comparative Analysis on the Suitability of Generated DEM from Sentinel-1 SAR Interferometry Using Statistical and Hydrological Models. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20247214. [PMID: 33339435 PMCID: PMC7767291 DOI: 10.3390/s20247214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Digital elevation model (DEM) plays a vital role in hydrological modelling and environmental studies. Many essential layers can be extracted from this land surface information, including slope, aspect, rivers, and curvature. Therefore, DEM quality and accuracy will affect the extracted features and the whole process of modeling. Despite freely available DEMs from various sources, many researchers generate this information for their areas from various observations. Sentinal-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are among the best Earth observations for DEM generation thanks to their availabilities, high-resolution, and C-band sensitivity to surface structure. This paper presents a comparative study, from a hydrological point of view, on the quality and reliability of the DEMs generated from Sentinel-1 data and DEMs from other sources such as AIRSAR, ALOS-PALSAR, TanDEM-X, and SRTM. To this end, pair of Sentinel-1 data were acquired and processed using the SAR interferometry technique to produce a DEM for two different study areas of a part of the Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia, a part of Sanandaj, Iran. Based on the estimated linear regression and standard errors, generating DEM from Sentinel-1 did not yield promising results. The river streams for all DEMs were extracted using geospatial analysis tool in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. The results indicated that because of the higher spatial resolution (compared to SRTM and TanDEM-X), more stream orders were delineated from AIRSAR and Sentinel-1 DEMs. Due to the shorter perpendicular baseline, the phase decorrelation in the created DEM resulted in a lot of noise. At the same time, results from ground control points (GCPs) showed that the created DEM from Sentinel-1 is not promising. Therefore, other DEMs’ performance, such as 90-meters’ TanDEM-X and 30-meters’ SRTM, are better than Sentinel-1 DEM (with a better spatial resolution).
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- Ayub Mohammadi
- Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 5166616471, Iran; (A.M.); (S.K.); (K.V.K.)
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- Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 5166616471, Iran; (A.M.); (S.K.); (K.V.K.)
- Institute of Environment, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 5166616471, Iran
- Department of Architecture and Building Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
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- College of Engineering, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani 46001, Iraq;
- Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia
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- Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 5166616471, Iran; (A.M.); (S.K.); (K.V.K.)
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- Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617715175, Iran
- Department of Zrebar Lake Environmental Research, Kurdistan Studies Institute, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617715175, Iran
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (N.A.-A.)
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- Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, QC G1K 9A9, Canada;
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, 971 87 Lulea, Sweden
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (N.A.-A.)
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Eisavi V, Homayouni S, Yazdi AM, Alimohammadi A. Land cover mapping based on random forest classification of multitemporal spectral and thermal images. Environ Monit Assess 2015; 187:291. [PMID: 25910718 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4489-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Thematic mapping of complex landscapes, with various phenological patterns from satellite imagery, is a particularly challenging task. However, supplementary information, such as multitemporal data and/or land surface temperature (LST), has the potential to improve the land cover classification accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, in order to map land covers, we evaluated the potential of multitemporal Landsat 8's spectral and thermal imageries using a random forest (RF) classifier. We used a grid search approach based on the out-of-bag (OOB) estimate of error to optimize the RF parameters. Four different scenarios were considered in this research: (1) RF classification of multitemporal spectral images, (2) RF classification of multitemporal LST images, (3) RF classification of all multitemporal LST and spectral images, and (4) RF classification of selected important or optimum features. The study area in this research was Naghadeh city and its surrounding region, located in West Azerbaijan Province, northwest of Iran. The overall accuracies of first, second, third, and fourth scenarios were equal to 86.48, 82.26, 90.63, and 91.82%, respectively. The quantitative assessments of the results demonstrated that the most important or optimum features increase the class separability, while the spectral and thermal features produced a more moderate increase in the land cover mapping accuracy. In addition, the contribution of the multitemporal thermal information led to a considerable increase in the user and producer accuracies of classes with a rapid temporal change behavior, such as crops and vegetation.
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- Vahid Eisavi
- Remote Sensing and GIS Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran,
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Shahbazi M, Homayouni S, Saadatseresht M, Sattari M. Range camera self-calibration based on integrated bundle adjustment via joint setup with a 2D digital camera. Sensors (Basel) 2011; 11:8721-40. [PMID: 22164102 PMCID: PMC3231487 DOI: 10.3390/s110908721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Revised: 08/12/2011] [Accepted: 08/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Time-of-flight cameras, based on Photonic Mixer Device (PMD) technology, are capable of measuring distances to objects at high frame rates, however, the measured ranges and the intensity data contain systematic errors that need to be corrected. In this paper, a new integrated range camera self-calibration method via joint setup with a digital (RGB) camera is presented. This method can simultaneously estimate the systematic range error parameters as well as the interior and external orientation parameters of the camera. The calibration approach is based on photogrammetric bundle adjustment of observation equations originating from collinearity condition and a range errors model. Addition of a digital camera to the calibration process overcomes the limitations of small field of view and low pixel resolution of the range camera. The tests are performed on a dataset captured by a PMD[vision]-O3 camera from a multi-resolution test field of high contrast targets. An average improvement of 83% in RMS of range error and 72% in RMS of coordinate residual, over that achieved with basic calibration, was realized in an independent accuracy assessment. Our proposed calibration method also achieved 25% and 36% improvement on RMS of range error and coordinate residual, respectively, over that obtained by integrated calibration of the single PMD camera.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mozhdeh Shahbazi
- Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Tehran, North Amriabad Street, Tehran 11155-4563, Iran; E-Mails: (S.H.); (M.S.)
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +98-311-793-4075; Fax: +98-311-793-2675
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- Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Tehran, North Amriabad Street, Tehran 11155-4563, Iran; E-Mails: (S.H.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Tehran, North Amriabad Street, Tehran 11155-4563, Iran; E-Mails: (S.H.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Isfahan, HezarJerib Street, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran; E-Mail:
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Gorbar EV, Homayouni S, Miransky VA. Chiral dynamics in QED and QCD in a magnetic background and nonlocal noncommutative field theories. Int J Clin Exp Med 2005. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.72.065014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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