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A multi-platform LiDAR dataset for standardized forest inventory measurement at long term ecological monitoring sites

Michael R. Chang, Anna Candotti, Karl von Ellenrieder, Enrico Tomelleri, Marco Camurri · 2026

We present a curated multi-platform LiDAR reference dataset from an instrumented ICOS forest plot, explicitly designed to support calibration, benchmarking, and integration of 3D structural data with …

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BioDCASE 2026 Challenge Baseline for Cross-Domain Mosquito Species Classification

Yuanbo Hou, Vanja Zdravkovic, Marianne Sinka, Yunpeng Li, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Kathy Willis, Stephen Roberts · 2026

Mosquito-borne diseases affect more than one billion people each year and cause close to one million deaths. Traditional surveillance methods rely on traps and manual identification that are slow, lab…

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Soft Surfaced Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for Bipedal Robot Applications

Jaeeun Kim, Junhee Lim, Yu She · 2026

Legged locomotion benefits from embodied sensing, where perception emerges from the physical interaction between body and environment. We present a soft-surfaced, vision-based tactile foot sensor that…

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dLITE: Differentiable Lighting-Informed Trajectory Evaluation for On-Orbit Inspection

Jack Naylor, Raghav Mishra, Nicholas H. Barbara, Donald G. Dansereau · 2025

Visual inspection of space-borne assets is of increasing interest to spacecraft operators looking to plan maintenance, characterise damage, and extend the life of high-value satellites in orbit. The e…

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Pivot-Only Azimuthal Control and Attitude Estimation of Balloon-borne Payloads

Philippe Voyer, Simon Tartakovsky, Steven J. Benton, William C. Jones · 2025

This paper presents an attitude estimation and yaw-rate control framework for balloon-borne payloads using pivot-only actuation, motivated by the Taurus experiment. Taurus is a long-duration balloon i…

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Managing Charging Induced Grid Stress and Battery Degradation in Electric Taxi Fleets

Michael Yuhas, Rajesh K. Ahir, Laksamana Vixell Tanjaya Hartono, Muhammad Dzaki Dwi Putranto, Arvind Easwaran, Suhono Harso Supangkat · 2025

Operating fleets of electric vehicles (EVs) introduces several challenges, some of which are borne by the fleet operator, and some of which are borne by the power grid. To maximize short-term profit a…

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A Human-Vector Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Model for Analyzing and Controlling the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases

Lorenzo Zino, Alessandro Casu, Alessandro Rizzo · 2025

We propose an epidemic model for the spread of vector-borne diseases. The model, which is built extending the classical susceptible-infected-susceptible model, accounts for two populations -- humans a…

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A Drone-mounted Magnetometer System for Automatic Interference Removal and Landmine Detection

Alex Paul Hoffmann, Matthew G. Finley, Eftyhia Zesta, Mark B. Moldwin, Lauro V. Ojeda · 2025

Landmines have been extensively used in conflict zones as an indiscriminate weapon to control military movements, often remaining active long after hostilities have ended. Their presence poses a persi…

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UAV-Borne Digital Radar System for Coherent Multistatic SAR Imaging

Julian Kanz, Christian Gesell, Christina Bonfert, David Werbunat, Alexander Grathwohl, Julian Aguilar, Martin Vossiek, Christian Waldschmidt · 2025

Advancements in analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology have enabled higher sampling rates, making it feasible to adopt digital radar architectures that directly sample the radio-frequency (RF) s…

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AVSim -- Realistic Simulation Framework for Airborne and Vector-Borne Disease Dynamics

Pandula Thennakoon, Mario De Silva, M. Mahesha Viduranga, Sashini Liyanage, Roshan Godaliyadda, Mervyn Parakrama Ekanayake, Vijitha Herath, Anuruddhika Rathnayake, Ganga Thilakarathne, Janaka Ekanayake, Samath Dharmarathne · 2025

Computational disease modeling plays a crucial role in understanding and controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. While agent-based models (ABMs) provide detailed insights into individual …

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Soil moisture estimation of bare and vegetation-covered areas using a P/L/C-band SAR

Gian Ore, Jhonnatan Yepes, Juliana A. Goes, Luciano P. Oliveira, Barbara Teruel, Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa · 2024

The paper introduces a novel approach for estimating soil moisture in vegetated surfaces, specifically focusing on sugarcane crops throughout various growth stages in agriculture applications. While e…

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Ant Nest Detection Using Underground P-Band TomoSAR

Gian Ore, Alexandre Santos, Daniele Ukan, Ronald Zanetti, Mariane Camargo, Luciano P. Oliveira, Guillermo Kemper, Alonso Sanchez, Aldo Diaz, Jorge Gonzalez, Ruth Rubio-Noriega, Levy Boccato, Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa · 2024

Leaf-cutting ants, notorious for causing defoliation in commercial forest plantations, significantly contribute to biomass and productivity losses, impacting forest producers in Brazil. These ants con…

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MosquitoMiner: A Light Weight Rover for Detecting and Eliminating Mosquito Breeding Sites

Md. Adnanul Islam, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Jannatul Ferdous Deepti, Shahanur Rahman Bappy, Safrin Sanzida Islam, Fahim Hafiz · 2024

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the development and deployment of an autonomous mosquito breeding place detector rover with the object and obstacle detection capabilities to control mosq…

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SHADE: Semantic Hypernym Annotator for Domain-specific Entities -- DnD Domain Use Case

Akila Peiris, Nisansa de Silva · 2024

Manual data annotation is an important NLP task but one that takes considerable amount of resources and effort. In spite of the costs, labeling and categorizing entities is essential for NLP tasks suc…

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Optimizing Air-borne Network-in-a-box Deployment for Efficient Remote Coverage

Sidrah Javed, Yunfei Chen, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Cheng-Xiang Wang · 2024

Among many envisaged drivers for the sixth generation, one is from the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals 2030 to eliminate digital inequality. Remote coverage in sparsely populated areas…

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Deep Joint Semantic Coding and Beamforming for Near-Space Airship-Borne Massive MIMO Network

Minghui Wu, Zhen Gao, Zhaocheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, George K. Karagiannidis, Sheng Chen · 2024

Near-space airship-borne communication network is recognized to be an indispensable component of the future integrated ground-air-space network thanks to airships' advantage of long-term residency at …

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Spherical Geometry Algorithm for Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

Xinhua Mao · 2024

Higher spatial resolution and larger imaging scene are always the goals pursued by advanced space-borne SAR system.High resolution and wide swath SAR imaging can provide more information about the ill…

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Spectrum Coexistence of Satellite-borne Passive Radiometry and Terrestrial Next-G Networks

Mohammad Koosha, Nicholas Mastronarde · 2024

Spectrum coexistence between terrestrial Next-G cellular networks and space-borne remote sensing (RS) is now gaining attention. One major question is how this would impact RS equipment. In this study,…

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A Robust Super-resolution Gridless Imaging Framework for UAV-borne SAR Tomography

Silin Gao, Wenlong Wang, Muhan Wang, Zhe Zhang, Zai Yang, Xiaolan Qiu, Bingchen Zhang, Yirong Wu · 2024

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) retrieves three-dimensional (3-D) information from multiple SAR images, effectively addresses the layover problem, and has become pivotal in urban m…

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UAV-Borne Mapping Algorithms for Low-Altitude and High-Speed Drone Applications

Jincheng Zhang, Artur Wolek, Andrew R. Willis · 2024

This article presents an analysis of current state-of-the-art sensors and how these sensors work with several mapping algorithms for UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) applications, focusing on low-altitud…

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