Internet of things enabled smart agriculture: Current status, latest advancements, challenges and countermeasures by Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Hayati Yassin

“…Smart agriculture, interchangeably known as smart farming, utilizes IoT and related enabling technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and big data in agriculture and offers the potential to enhance agricultural operations by automating and making intelligent decisions, resulting in increased efficiency and a better yield with minimum waste. …”
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Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through Earth Observation Satellite Data: Current Insights and Future Directions by Qiang Zhao, Le Yu

“…Additionally, the integration of big Earth data cloud platforms, such as Google Earth Engine, has facilitated data processing and analysis, underscoring the importance of open data policies and cross-platform collaboration for advancing SDG research. …”
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An Algorithm for Retrieving Precipitable Water Vapor over Land Based on Passive Microwave Satellite Data by Fang-Cheng Zhou, Xiaoning Song, Pei Leng, Hua Wu, Bo-Hui Tang

“…In Zhangye, the algorithm had a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 4.39 mm and a bias of 0.36 mm on cloud-free days, while on cloudy days there was an RMSE of 4.84 mm and a bias of 0.52 mm because of the effect of liquid water in clouds. …”
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Modeling of Time of Arrival Method for Lightning Locating Systems by Saeed Vahabi-Mashak, Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek, Kamyar Mehranzamir, Hadi Nabipour-Afrouzi, Behnam Salimi, Chin-Leong Wooi

“…Various methods are used to locate cloud-to-ground lightning flashes. Even though a higher cost is incurred, a network of sensor stations is preferable to a single station due to the improved accuracy. …”
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The implementation of a system of CardioQVARK to personalize treatment in terms of the digital ecosystem healthcare formation by V. Isaenko, M. Rybina

“…Testing and expert assessment practitioners showed that portable CardioQVARK system has a great potential in registration records electrocardiograms using a portable CardioQVARK monitor with data transmission on the Internet of a mobile operator through cloud service in annex CardioQvark Doctor. Development and application in the practice of everyday life CardioQVARK system shows and identifies a number of common socio-economic problems and risks in the digital economy. …”
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Weakened future surface warming in China due to national planned afforestation through biophysical feedback by Shuaifeng Song, Xiaodong Yan, Xuezhen Zhang, Zhibo Gao, Wenqiang Xie

“…On the diurnal cycles, afforestation induces daytime cooling effects of −0.21 °C caused by increased latent heat fluxes, while nighttime warming effects of 0.05 °C induced mainly by cloud feedback. Our findings highlight the importance of the scientific identification of afforestation areas when developing land-management strategies and biophysical feedback for climate change mitigation.…”
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Consistent patterns of LiDAR-derived measures of savanna vegetation complexity between wet and dry seasons by Zhengyang Wang, Jenia Singh, Andrew B. Davies

“…We repeated our analysis at a thinned point cloud density of 10 points/m2 and found that seasonal consistencies were not resolution dependent. …”
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Experimental Analysis Using IoT-Based Smart Power Quality Analyzer System With Remote Data Access and GSM Alerting Mechanism by Balasubbareddy Mallala, Mohammad Faridun Naim Tajuddin, Sudhakar Babu Thanikanti, Rajasekhar Reddy Manyam

“…Internet of Things (IoT) is a potential technology to design Smart PQAs for remote monitoring and easy integration of the field information on the cloud platform using gateway units. This paper focuses on the development of a Smart PQA system using low-cost IoT hardware and software design solutions. …”
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A Hybrid Strategy Two‐Dimensional Concrete Aggregate Filling Algorithm by Xu Tian, Jun Ao, ChunBo Ma, JunJie Shi, HanJun Guo

“…In order to improve the efficiency of aggregate placement in modeling concrete meso‐models, we proposed a hybrid‐strategy point cloud placement algorithm that combines the re‐placement and sedimentation strategies. …”
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Distributed Storage Strategy and Visual Analysis for Economic Big Data by Xiangli Chang, Hailang Cui

“…With the increasing popularity of a large number of Internet-based services and a large number of services hosted on cloud platforms, a more powerful back-end storage system is needed to support these services. …”
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Record Keeping Practices at Kabale University Central Registry. by Asiimwe, Peter

“…The researcher recommends that they purchase a good-quality photocopying machine and they should adopt the use of record management systems such as the cloud, the disposition methods include burning and archiving and the researcher recommends purchasing a shredder to ease the disposition of records.…”
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Ice-nucleating particles active below −24 °C in a Finnish boreal forest and their relationship to bioaerosols by F. Vogel, F. Vogel, M. P. Adams, L. Lacher, P. B. Foster, G. C. E. Porter, G. C. E. Porter, B. Bertozzi, B. Bertozzi, K. Höhler, J. Schneider, T. Schorr, N. S. Umo, J. Nadolny, Z. Brasseur, P. Heikkilä, E. S. Thomson, N. Büttner, M. I. Daily, R. Fösig, A. D. Harrison, J. Keskinen, U. Proske, U. Proske, U. Proske, J. Duplissy, J. Duplissy, M. Kulmala, T. Petäjä, O. Möhler, B. J. Murray

“…<p>Cloud properties are strongly influenced by ice formation; hence, we need to understand the sources of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) around the globe. …”
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Systematic Characterization of the Chemical Components of Canna edulis Ker-Gawl Based on UHPLC Q-Exactive Orbitrap MS Technology by Liqiao Lv, Chi Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Dachuan Zhang, Fangyuan Zhao, Lv Bu Aga, Nan Wang, Junling Li, Leimengyuan Tang, Baosheng Zhao, Chunguo Wang, Xueyong Wang

“…We used retention time, accurate molecular weight, parent peaks, fragment peaks, fragmentation characteristics, comparative analysis with the literature, reference standards, and standard databases, including ChemSpider, mzVault, MassBank, and mzCloud. A total of 54 chemical constituents were identified from the methanol extract of the rhizome, including 36 organic acids (with six phenolic acids), three phenols, one sugar (and its derivatives), one coumarin, one triterpenoid, ten N-containing organic compounds (including seven amino acids), and two other compounds. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities in Fog Computing Scheduling: A Literature Review by Wu Chia Chuan, Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari, Selvakumar Manickam, Erum Ashraf, Shankar Karuppayah

“…Nonetheless, both IoT and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications face obstacles concerning the availability of computing resources, security, and constraints on energy consumption. While cloud computing provides certain resolutions, it also poses additional challenges, including heightened communication expenses and security vulnerabilities due to its physical disconnection from endpoint devices. …”
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Evaluation of the Cost of Intelligent Upgrades of Transportation Infrastructure for Intelligent Connected Vehicles by Zongwei Liu, Haokun Song, Hong Tan, Han Hao, Fuquan Zhao

“…The results show that the intelligent transportation infrastructure for advanced ICVs mainly includes communication base stations, roadside units (RSUs), vision sensors, millimeter-wave radars, laser radars (LiDARs), meteorological sensors, intelligent signal machines, edge computing servers, and cloud computing centers. The route of deploying primary intelligent transportation infrastructure at first and then directly upgrading them to advanced level can well match the functional requirements of ICVs on the basis of lower costs. …”
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Evaluation of aerosol loading and its relationship with geopotential height in Nigeria’s Guinea Coast by Onyinyechi Caroline Ibe, Okechukwu Kelechi Nwofor, Ugochukwu Kingsley Okoro

“…Aerosols impact the Earth's climate by influencing cloud formation, scattering radiation, and cooling the planet. …”
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Study on scour simulation and boundary condition conversion technology for a shallow foundation bridge by Gangping Fan, Huanzhe Li, Tianzhuo Wang, Jian Che, Xing Li, Chunyang Dou, Tong Wu

“…This method utilizes point cloud reverse engineering technology to generate a riverbed surface from the three-dimensional coordinate matrix of the boundary and import it into the structural analysis field. …”
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Incremental Instance-Oriented 3D Semantic Mapping via RGB-D Cameras for Unknown Indoor Scene by Wei Li, Junhua Gu, Benwen Chen, Jungong Han

“…To obtain accurate point cloud cluster, we adopt the Gaussian mixture model as an optimizer after processing 2D to 3D projection. …”
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Smartphone-Based Automated Non-Destructive Testing Devices by V. F. Petryk, A. G. Protasov, R. M. Galagan, A. V. Muraviov, I. I. Lysenko

“…The purpose of this work was to develop an ultrasonic flaw detector, which uses a smartphone to process the test results, as well as transfer them directly to an powerful information processing center, or to a cloud storage to share operational information with specialists from anywhere in the world.The proposed flaw detector consists of a sensor unit and a smartphone. …”
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Validation of Two MODIS Aerosols Algorithms with SKYNET and Prospects for Future Climate Satellites Such as the GCOM-C/SGLI by Jules R. Dim, Tamio Takamura, Akiko Higurashi, Pradeep Kathri, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Takahashi Y. Nakajima

“…The uncertainties explaining these ground-satellites’ algorithms discrepancies are examined: the cloud contamination affects differently the aerosols properties (AOT and AE) of both satellites’ algorithms due to the retrieval scale differences between these algorithms. …”
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