A Progressive Noise Removal Method for ICESat-2 Data Based on Terrain Slope Adaptive Calculation by Z. Hui, Z. Hui, Z. Hui, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, Y. Chen, P. Cheng, P. Cheng, P. Cheng, Y. Xia, Y. Xia, Y. Xia, T. Hui, Z. Huang

“…The Douglas-Peucker algorithm is then used to merge data segments with similar slopes, enabling the adaptive calculation of terrain slopes within local photon regions. …”
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Landslide susceptibility evaluation in Fengjie County based on slope units extracted using the MIA-HSU method by Xiuying WANG, Hongjuan YANG, Yifan JIA, Shaojie ZHANG, Jianyang SONG, Hua TIAN

“…Taking Fengjie County, Chongqing as the study area, 15 factors including elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference built-up index(NDBI), topographic relief, distance from rivers, distance from roads, lithology, profile curvature, land use, topographic wetness index (TWI), stream power index (SPI), sediment transport index (STI), and topographic position index(TPI) were selected to evaluate landslide susceptibility using the information value method. …”
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Regreening Practices and Effectiveness Evaluation for Rocky Slope Drawdown Zones in Pumped Storage Power Station Reservoirs by YANG Zhi-chao, MA Xiao-xiao, CHANG Shi-ju, TANG Yu-shuang, ZHAO Rui-yi, WAN Dan, ZHANG Qian-zhu

“…This study focuses on the ecological restoration of the rocky slope drawdown zone in the Henan Tianchi Pumped Storage Power Station reservoir to ensure water resource security. …”
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A Practical Quantitative Tool Based on the EXCASS System for the Use of Hoek-Brown’s Disturbance Factor in Slope Excavations by Gulseren Dagdelenler, Harun Sonmez

“…This integrated approach enables a more realistic evaluation of excavation-induced damage in slope stability analyses.…”
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Evolutionary analysis of slope direction deformation in the Gaojiawan landslide based on time-series InSAR and Kalman filtering. by Jingchuan Yao, Runqing Zhan, Jiliang Guo, Wei Wang, Muce Yuan, Guangyu Li, Bo Zhang, Rui Zhang

“…Based on the ascending and descending Sentinel-1 SAR data from 2016 to 2023, it extracts the temporal series of slope body deformation to further explore its impact on the internal transportation infrastructure of the slope body. …”
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Effects of soil water on fungal community composition along elevational gradients on the northern slope of the Central Kunlun Mountains by Yongguang Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Chaonan Li, Zhihao Zhang, Chenhong Li, Bo Zhang, Hongchen Jiang, Waqar Islam, Xiangzhen Li, Fanjiang Zeng

“…Here, we investigated the diversity patterns and underlying mechanisms shaping soil fungal communities along an elevational gradient (1,707–3,548 m) on the northern slope of the Central Kunlun Mountains in northwest China. …”
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Forecasting Air Passenger Traffic by Support Vector Machines with Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition and Slope-Based Method by Yukun Bao, Tao Xiong, Zhongyi Hu

“…With regard to the nonlinearity and irregularity along with implicit seasonality and trend in the context of air passenger traffic forecasting, this study proposes an ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) based support vector machines (SVMs) modeling framework incorporating a slope-based method to restrain the end effect issue occurring during the shifting process of EEMD, which is abbreviated as EEMD-Slope-SVMs. …”
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Efficient reliability analysis of unsaturated slope stability under rapid drawdown using XGBoost-based surrogate model by Wengang Zhang, Bo Ran, Xin Gu, Yanmei Zhang, Yulin Zou, Peiqing Wang

“…A c-φ slope is selected as an illustrative example to investigate the coupled influence of the non-stationary characteristic of shear strength parameters and saturated hydraulic conductivity, as well as water level drawdown velocity, maximum drop height and scale of fluctuation on the slope failure probability. …”
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Study on the Development Characteristics of Ductile Shear Zone andDeformation Response of Slope Excavation in a Hydropower Station by LU Bifeng, DENG Hui, HAO Hao, LI Anrun, LI Wancai

“…Inorder to study the mechanism and rule of deformation response of high rock slope excavation underthis condition, this paper selects the right-bank dam axis slope of hydropower station as theresearch object, and simulates the excavation process of the slope by the UDEC (universal distinctelement code). …”
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Soil Chemical Properties and Nutrient Status on Various Land Slopes of Gayo Arabica Coffee Plantation, Aceh, Indonesia by Muyassir Muyassir*, Helmi Helmi, Meidilla Rahyunnisa

“…The determination of the research location and sample points was selected by purposive sampling, with the slope of the land serving as the independent variable and the chemical composition of the soil serving as the dependent variable. …”
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Failure risk study of anchor bolts durability for loess slope under long-term hydro-thermal effect by Zhou Chang, Weifeng Sun, Changgen Yan, Hengxing Lan, Yuling Shi, Han Bao

“…This study presents the observed temperature, humidity, and anchor bolt stress at varying depths from four-year remote real-time monitoring of the selected loess highway cut-slope. The potential correlation between slope hydrothermal environment and anchor stress is analyzed. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Sidewall Excavation Width and Rock Wall Slope on the Stability of the Surrounding Rock in Hanging Tunnels by Hao Zhang, Tianyu Luo, Zhao Xiang, Zhiwei Cai, Tongqing Wu, Dong Zhang, Bing Liu, Hu Feng

“…Firstly, based on the similarity principle and orthogonal experiments, river sand, bentonite, gypsum and P.O42.5 ordinary Portland cement were selected as the raw materials to configure similar materials from limestone. …”
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Vertical Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Content in Farmland on Southern Slope of Qilian Mountains by Qiu Xunxun, Cao Guangchao, Cao Shengkui, Zhang Zhuo, Cheng Mengyuan, He Qixin, Gao Siyuan, Zhao Meiliang

“…[Methods] Nineteen representative farmland sample plots were selected on a southern slope of the middle section of the Qilian Mountains. …”
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Unstable Slope Identification and Monitoring Using Polarization-Enhanced DS-InSAR: A Case Study in the Bailong River Basin by Yahui Qiu, Yuanjian Wang, Ximin Cui, Debao Yuan, Peixian Li

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Discussion of the spectral slope of the lidar ratio between 355 and 1064 nm from multiwavelength Raman lidar observations by M. Haarig, R. Engelmann, H. Baars, B. Gast, D. Althausen, A. Ansmann

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Root Evaluation of Slope Protection Vegetation Characteristic Indexes on Expansive Soil in Nanning City Based on Entropy Value Method by Xu Yingzi, Zhu Qiaosheng, Huang Xiao

“…[Objective] The protective effect of plants on the slope of an expansive soil was evaluated in order to provide a scientific reference for the selection of protective vegetation on the slope of expansive soils. …”
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Improved in-situ direct shear test of rock mass structural plane and its application to stability analysis of bedding slope by Zhiming Wang, Changguang Qi, Zhichao Zhang, Rufa Huang, Chaoxu Guo, Lijin Dong, Rongyue Zheng

“…Hence, it provides a more reasonable parameter selection basis for the evaluation and support design of bedding rocky slope.…”
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Predicting Railway Slope Failure Under Heavy Rainfall Using the Soil Moisture Extended Cohesive Damage Element Method by Sudath Loku-Pathirage, Jiye Chen, Min Fu

“…The proposed SMECDE approach is used to predict the failure propagation of a selected railway embankment slope at the critical soil moisture or rainfall intensity. …”
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Stability prediction of circular sliding failure soil slopes based on a genetic algorithm optimization of random forest algorithm by Shengming Hu, Yongfei Lu, Xuanchi Liu, Cheng Huang, Zhou Wang, Lei Huang, Weihang Zhang, Xiaoyang Li

“…Based on 80 sets of typical slope samples, weight (γ), slope height (H), pore pressure value (P), cohesion force (C), internal friction angle (φ) and slope inclination angle (°) were selected as characteristic variables for slope stability evaluation. …”
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Monsoonal climate and asymmetric heating facilitate the slope-aspect to influence landscape-scale tree structure in the Western Ghats, India by Devi Maheshwori, Shreyas Managave, Girish Jathar, Sham Davande

“…The asymmetry associated with these modes increases with the slope angle. Our study shows the slope-dependence of the north-south and west-east asymmetries in TC and CH is established by lower TC and CH selectively on the steeper south- and east-facing slopes. …”
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