Asymmetric Four-Terminal Solar Concentrator Improving Power Collection in Bifacial Solar Cells by Floriana Morabito, Daniela Fontani, Paola Sansoni, Salvatore Lombardo, Andrea Farina, Silvia Maria Pietralunga

“…A prerequisite for this is the effective collection of backscattered diffuse light from albedo, to which self-shading is an obstacle. …”
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Temporal variability in remote sensing accuracy for wetland mapping: a case study from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 in Northeast China by Wenqi Zhang, Chong Luo, Zongming Wang, Dehua Mao

“…Wetlands are vital ecosystems that support regional ecological balance and require efficient, accurate, and cost-effective monitoring approaches. …”
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Plankton Distribution Analysis with Underwater Acoustic Remote Sensing by A Abdullah, Pratomo D.G., Khomsin

“…Hydroacoustic methods are rapidly growing as a key technique in marine ecology, particularly for efficient and non-invasive monitoring of plankton and fish. …”
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Underwater Image Recovery Under the Nonuniform Optical Field Based on Polarimetric Imaging by Haofeng Hu, Lin Zhao, Xiaobo Li, Hui Wang, Tiegen Liu

“…The underwater imaging could be severely degraded by the scattering media due the backscatter veiling and signal attenuation. Image recovery based on polarization information has shown its efficiency in improving the quality of image in scattering medium, but few of them considered the effect of nonuniform optical field on the image recovery. …”
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Proximal Policy Optimization-based Task Offloading Framework for Smart Disaster Monitoring using UAV-assisted WSNs by C.N. Vanitha, P. Anusuya, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, Dragan Pamucar, Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Khasawneh

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly employed in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to enhance communication, coverage, and energy efficiency, particularly in disaster monitoring and remote surveillance scenarios. …”
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Modeling complex polycrystalline alloys using a Generative Adversarial Network enabled computational platform by Brayan Murgas, Joshua Stickel, Luke Brewer, Somnath Ghosh

“…Sub-volume elements are simulated for efficient computations and their responses are averaged for overall stress-strain response. …”
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Power beacon-assisted energy harvesting symbiotic radio networks: Outage performance. by Tran Cong Hung, Bui Vu Minh, Tan N Nguyen, Miroslav Voznak

“…The evolution of next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) in recent years exhibits a unique segment that wireless communication paradigms are oriented towards not only improved spectral efficiency transmission but also energy efficiency. …”
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Information Metasurface Technology-enabled Integrated Passive Wireless Communication System Based on Synthetic Aperture Radar by Hua LI, Kaiyu LIU, Yunkai DENG, Zhenning LI, Chao LUO, Jichen LI, Taoyu REN, Yao CHEN, Kaijiang XU

“…Additionally, by leveraging electromagnetic backscatter properties instead of active transmission mechanisms, the system effectively ensures the electromagnetic concealment and information security of the communication link. …”
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Detection of Inverted Channels Using Sentinel-1 Data and Sentinel-2 Data on Google Earth Engine: A Comparative Analysis by Xuhua Weng

“…The proposed workflow provides an efficient method for detecting inverted channel, offering a valuable tool for geomorphological research, landscape evolution studies, and hydrological exploration in arid environments.…”
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Contributon-Informed Approach to RPV Irradiation Study Using Hybrid Shielding Methodology by Mario Matijević, Krešimir Trontl, Dubravko Pevec

“…The complex design of a typical PWR is posing a deep penetration shielding problem for which an elaborate simulation model is needed, not only in geometrical aspects but also in efficient computational algorithms for solving particle transport. …”
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Self-supervised feature learning for acoustic data analysis by Ahmet Pala, Anna Oleynik, Ketil Malde, Nils Olav Handegard

“…This study thus contributes to the ongoing efforts to improve the efficiency of acoustic surveys in fisheries management.…”
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SARMoistX: temporal forecasting of vegetation moisture using SAR imagery by Abdul Hanan, Mehak Khan, Meruyert Kenzhebay, Amir Miraki, Nieves Fernandez-Anez, Reza Arghandeh

“…An ablation study highlights that Backscatter VV polarization outperforms VH for vegetation moisture prediction, with a hybrid VV-VH approach yielding minimal improvement. …”
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Gridded, high-resolution ocean observatories initiative profiler data from the Washington continental slope, 2014–2025Zenodo by Craig M. Risien, Russell A. Desiderio, Jonathan P. Fram, Edward P. Dever

“…This mooring includes a McLane® Moored Profiler (MMP), which carries energy-efficient instruments that simultaneously measure water temperature, conductivity, pressure, and dissolved oxygen, as well as photosynthetically active radiation, chlorophyll-a fluorescence, coloured dissolved organic matter, optical backscatter, and water velocity. …”
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3D Acoustic Remote Sensing mapping of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Marine Protected Area of Baia submerged Park (Bay of Pozzuoli, Southern Italy) by C. Violante, N. Abate, D. Ferdani, N. Masini, E. Gallocchio, A. Pagano, F. Pagano

“…These methods are efficient in data acquisition and yield results that are both repeatable and quantifiable.…”
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Automated system for high-throughput process-structure-property dataset generation of structural materials: A γ/γ′ superalloy case study by Thomas Hoefler, Ayako Ikeda, Toshio Osada, Toru Hara, Kyoko Kawagishi, Takahito Ohmura

“…While the necessary topographic data is typically acquired using atomic force microscopy, a significant speedup was achieved by automatic indent detection and scanning using Angular selective Backscatter FE-SEM analysis. As a method to rapidly assemble comprehensive and consistent P-S-P datasets, we expect it to facilitate efficient alloy design, given a vast majority of modeling approaches still heavily rely on empirical data.…”
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Rapid Flood Inundation Mapping for Effective Management: A Machine Learning and Pixel‐Based Classification Approach in Feni District, Bangladesh by Kabir Uddin, Sazzad Hossain, Birendra Bajracharya, Bayes Ahmed, Md. Khairul Islam

“…Water bodies characterized by lower backscatter values in VH polarization ranging from −41.15 to −24.06 dB and VV polarization from −31.66 to −15.94 dB were identified as suitable thresholds for flood inundation area delineation. …”
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CATPE protocol with capture effect for RFID tag anti-collision by Xi YANG, Hai-feng WU, Yu ZENG

“…In a passive RFID system, when multiple tags backscatter their signals to a reader simultaneously,capture ef-fect will make the reader successfully receive one of the tag signals.To enhance the identification efficiency with capture effect,a capture-aware and tag-population-estimation protocol (CATPE) for RFID tag anti-collision is proposed. …”
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A Comparative Crash-Test of Manual and Semi-Automated Methods for Detecting Complex Submarine Morphologies by Vasiliki Lioupa, Panagiotis Karsiotis, Riccardo Arosio, Thomas Hasiotis, Andrew J. Wheeler

“…The analysis reveals that the semi-automated methods provided more efficient results in comparison with the time-consuming manual mapping. …”
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Fast heating annealing of V-microalloyed TWIP steel: Pathway to ultrafine grains and enhanced mechanical performance by Atef Hamada, Ali Khosravifard, Tuomas Alatarvas, Matias Jaskari, Walaa Abd-Elaziem, Tarek Allam, Antti Järvenpää

“…The microstructures achieved through FHA were characterized using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), while mechanical performance was evaluated through uniaxial tensile testing and physically based modeling.FHA at lower temperatures (700–800 °C) promoted partially recrystallized structures, while fully recrystallized ultrafine-grained microstructures were obtained at 850–900 °C. …”
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Stiffness based in-situ assessment of static recrystallization kinetics for cold-rolled aluminum alloys by Thomas Obermayer, Christian Krempaszky, Ewald Werner

“…Complementary analyses by applying electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) or by analyzing the evolution of the yield strength are conducted to verify the described method.…”
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