Recent advancements in remote sensing techniques have made it possible to overcome the
risky issues using conventional methods and have opened up new opportunities for …

Moving down a hillslope from ridge to valley, soil develops and becomes increasingly
weathered. Downslope variation in clay content, organic matter, and porosity should …

Our analysis of human sampling decision data reveals that scientists adapt their sampling
strategies to balance multiple objectives based on two key factors: the current level of …

The monitoring and prediction of slope displacement plays a vital role in slope stability
analysis. The displacement changes influences the stability of the slope. This paper …

We present a solution for autonomous forest inventory with a legged robotic platform.
Compared to their wheeled and aerial counterparts, legged platforms offer an attractive …

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology has great potential for the cooperation and navigation
among near ground mobile robots in GPS-denied environments. In this paper, an efficient …

Volcanoes represent one of the most critical geological settings for hazard modelling due to
their propensity to both unpredictably erupt and collapse, even in times of quiescence …

This paper reports on an autonomous ascent by a legged robotic platform in outdoor
forested terrain. Two controllers govern the integration of online inertial measurement unit …

Truly collaborative scientific field data collection between human scientists and autonomous
robot systems requires a shared understanding of the search objectives and tradeoffs faced …

Predicting the susceptibility of soil to wind erosion is difficult because it is a multivariate
function of grain size, soil moisture, compaction, and biological growth. Erosive agents like …