Predicting student dropout is a challenging problem in the education sector. This is due to
an imbalance in student dropout data, mainly because the number of registered students is …

As global climate change intensifies, climate protection is important for the sustainable
development of human society. In the process of urbanization and industrialization, carbon …

Efforts have been made to detect both naturally occurring and anthropogenic changes to the
Earth's surface by using satellite remote sensing imagery. There is a need to maintain the …

Proactive planning and management of rapidly urbanizing cities using up-to-date spatially
explicit datasets is an urgent need. This requires a good understanding of the driving factors …

High spatiotemporal population data are critical for a wide range of applications (eg urban
planning and management, risk assessment, and epidemic control). However, such data are …

Predicting student dropout is a challenging problem in the education sector. This is due to
an imbalance in student dropout data, mainly because the number of registered students is …

Abstract Design and development of a practical land use change (LUC) model require both
a high prediction accuracy, to predict the future changes, and a well-fitted model reflecting …

Due to the rapid growth of urban areas in the past decades, it has become increasingly
important to model and monitor urban growth in mega cities. Although several researchers …