Machine learning-enhanced GALDIT modeling for the Nile Delta aquifer vulnerability assessment in the Mediterranean region
Groundwater for Sustainable Development,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
28, С. 101403 - 101403
Опубликована: Янв. 7, 2025
Язык: Английский
Synergy of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies to Advance Sustainable Development Goals for Future Coastal Urbanization and Environmental Challenges in a Riverine Megacity
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
14(1), С. 30 - 30
Опубликована: Янв. 14, 2025
Riverine
coastal
megacities,
particularly
in
semi-arid
South
Asian
regions,
face
escalating
environmental
challenges
due
to
rapid
urbanization
and
climate
change.
While
previous
studies
have
examined
urban
growth
patterns
or
impacts
independently,
there
remains
a
critical
gap
understanding
the
integrated
of
land
use/land
cover
(LULC)
changes
on
both
ecosystem
vulnerability
sustainable
development
achievements.
This
study
addresses
this
through
an
innovative
integration
multitemporal
Landsat
imagery
(5,
7,
8),
SRTM-DEM,
historical
use
maps,
population
data
using
MOLUSCE
plugin
with
cellular
automata–artificial
neural
networks
(CA-ANN)
modelling
monitor
LULC
over
three
decades
(1990–2020)
project
future
for
2025,
2030,
2035,
supporting
Sustainable
Development
Goals
(SDGs)
Karachi,
southern
Pakistan,
one
world’s
most
populous
megacities.
The
framework
integrates
analysis
SDG
metrics,
achieving
overall
accuracy
greater
than
97%,
user
producer
accuracies
above
77%
Kappa
coefficient
approaching
1,
demonstrating
high
level
agreement.
Results
revealed
significant
expansion
from
13.4%
23.7%
total
area
between
1990
2020,
concurrent
reductions
vegetation
cover,
water
bodies,
wetlands.
Erosion
along
riverbank
has
caused
Malir
River’s
decrease
17.19
5.07
km2
by
highlighting
key
factor
contributing
flooding
during
monsoon
season.
Flood
risk
projections
indicate
that
urbanized
areas
will
be
affected,
66.65%
potentially
inundated
2035.
study’s
contribution
lies
quantifying
achievements,
showing
varied
progress:
26%
9
(Industry,
Innovation,
Infrastructure),
18%
11
(Sustainable
Cities
Communities),
13%
13
(Climate
Action),
16%
8
(Decent
Work
Economic
Growth).
However,
declining
bodies
pose
15
(Life
Land)
6
(Clean
Water
Sanitation),
11%,
respectively.
approach
provides
valuable
insights
planners,
offering
novel
adaptive
planning
strategies
advancing
practices
similar
stressed
megacity
regions.
Язык: Английский
Advancing Agricultural Land Suitability in Urbanized Semi-Arid Environments: Insights from Geospatial and Machine Learning Approaches
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
13(12), С. 436 - 436
Опубликована: Дек. 3, 2024
Rising
food
demands
are
increasingly
threatened
by
declining
crop
yields
in
urbanizing
riverine
regions
of
Southern
Asia,
exacerbated
erratic
weather
patterns.
Optimizing
agricultural
land
suitability
(AgLS)
offers
a
viable
solution
for
sustainable
productivity
such
challenging
environments.
This
study
integrates
remote
sensing
and
field-based
geospatial
data
with
five
machine
learning
(ML)
algorithms—Naïve
Bayes
(NB),
extra
trees
classifier
(ETC),
random
forest
(RF),
K-nearest
neighbors
(KNN),
support
vector
machines
(SVM)—alongside
land-use/land-cover
(LULC)
considerations
the
food-insecure
Dharmapuri
district,
India.
A
grid
searches
optimized
hyperparameters
using
factors
as
slope,
rainfall,
temperature,
texture,
pH,
electrical
conductivity,
organic
carbon,
available
nitrogen,
phosphorus,
potassium,
calcium
carbonate.
The
tuned
ETC
model
showed
lowest
root
mean
squared
error
(RMSE
=
0.15),
outperforming
RF
0.18),
NB
0.20),
SVM
0.22),
KNN
0.23).
AgLS-ETC
map
identified
29.09%
area
highly
suitable
(S1),
19.06%
moderately
(S2),
16.11%
marginally
(S3),
15.93%
currently
unsuitable
(N1),
19.21%
permanently
(N2).
By
incorporating
Landsat-8
derived
LULC
to
exclude
forests,
water
bodies,
settlements,
these
estimates
were
adjusted
19.08%
14.45%
11.40%
10.48%
9.58%
Focusing
on
model,
followed
land-use
analysis,
provides
robust
framework
optimizing
planning,
ensuring
protection
ecological
social
developing
countries.
Язык: Английский