Publications associées à Scale (geography)

At what spatial scale does natural selection operate? Using multiscale frameworks to calibrate the effects of environmental factors across landscape continuums

Patterns in nature arise from processes interacting across a continuum of spatial scales, where new relationships emerge at each level of investigation. These patterns are nested features encompassing fine-scale local patterns, such as topography and geolo ...

EPFL2024

Urban sustainability assessment through spatial lenses: turning the spotlight on the local neighbourhood unit

Melissa Pang

With global environmental change and quality of life issues at the forefront of international discussions today, urban development strategies and policies are often framed around various sustainability or liveability goals. Regardless of the sustainability ...

EPFL2023

Modeling and simulation of neocortical micro- and mesocircuitry. Part II: Physiology and experimentation

Henry Markram, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael Reimann, James Gonzalo King, Rajnish Ranjan, Armando Romani, Mustafa Anil Tuncel, Aleksandra Zuzanna Teska, Polina Litvak, Matthias Wolf, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Alexis Arnaudon, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Giuseppe Chindemi, András Ecker, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Christian Andreas Rössert, Vishal Sood, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, James Bryden Isbister, Judit Planas Carbonell, Daniela Egas Santander, Omar Awile, Maria Reva, Joni Henrikki Herttuainen, Genrich Ivaska, Natali Barros Zulaica, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Christoph Pokorny, Elvis Boci, Thomas Brice Delemontex, Jorge Blanco Alonso, Tanguy Pierre Louis Damart, Alexander Dietz, Darshan Mandge, ,

An automated calibration framework and open source tools for 3D lake hydrodynamic models

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Andrea Cimatoribus, Theo Baracchini

Understanding lake dynamics is crucial to provide scientifically credible information for ecosystem management. In this context, three-dimensional hydrodynamic models are a key information source to assess critical but often subtle changes in lake dynamics ...

2020

Learning Trajectory Dependencies for Human Motion Prediction

Mathieu Salzmann, Hongwei Li, Wei Mao

Human motion prediction, i.e., forecasting future body poses given observed pose sequence, has typically been tackled with recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, as evidenced by prior work, the resulted RNN models suffer from prediction errors accumula ...

IEEE2019

LAF-Net: Locally Adaptive Fusion Networks for Stereo Confidence Estimation

Seungryong Kim

We present a novel method that estimates confidence map of an initial disparity by making full use of tri-modal input, including matching cost, disparity, and color image through deep networks. The proposed network, termed as Locally Adaptive Fusion Networ ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Automated 3D Optical Coherence Tomography to Elucidate Biofilm Morphogenesis Over Large Spatial Scales

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Anna Depetris, Antoine Wiedmer

Biofilms are a most successful microbial lifestyle and prevail in a multitude of environmental and engineered settings. Understanding biofilm morphogenesis, that is the structural diversification of biofilms during community assembly, represents a remarkab ...

2019

Overview and recommendations for regionalized life cycle impact assessment

Xun Liao, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Alexis Laurent

Purpose Regionalized life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) has rapidly developed in the past decade, though its widespread application, robustness, and validity still face multiple challenges. Under the umbrella of UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, a dedicat ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

A temporal geography of encounters

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Integrating social and spatial networks will be critical to new approaches to cities as systems of interaction. In this paper, we focus on the spatial and temporal conditions of encounters as a key condition for the formation of social networks. Drawing on ...

2018

Large-scale and meso-scale surface heat flux patterns of Lake Geneva

Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

Diverse studies have confirmed the adverse impact of global climate change in lakes. In order to establish effective water quality management policies, it is essential to understand how the heat exchange between the atmosphere and the lake evolves under th ...

EPFL2018

Scale-dependent effects of solar radiation patterns on the snow-dominated hydrologic response

Andrea Rinaldo, Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Francesco Comola, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Gianluca Botter, Pierfrancesco Da Ronco

Solar radiation is a dominant driver of snowmelt dynamics and streamflow generation in alpine catchments. A better understanding of how solar radiation patterns affect the hydrologic response is needed to assess when calibrated temperature-index models are ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Spatial correlations in bed load transport: Evidence, importance, and modeling

Christophe Ancey, Joris Heyman, François Mettra, Hongbo Ma

This article examines the spatial {dynamics of bed load particles} in water. We focus particularly on the fluctuations of particle activity, which is defined as the number of moving particles per unit bed {length}. Based on a stochastic model recently prop ...

Amer Geophysical Union2014

Biodiversity Mapping in a Tropical West African Forest with Airborne Hyperspectral Data

Francesco Giuseppe Miglietta, Qi Chen

Tropical forests are major repositories of biodiversity, but are fast disappearing as land is converted to agriculture. Decision-makers need to know which of the remaining forests to prioritize for conservation, but the only spatial information on forest b ...

Public Library of Science2014

Continental-Scale Footprint of Balancing and Positive Selection in a Small Rodent (Microtus arvalis)

Matthieu Foll

Genetic adaptation to different environmental conditions is expected to lead to large differences between populations at selected loci, thus providing a signature of positive selection. Whereas balancing selection can maintain polymorphisms over long evolu ...

Public Library of Science2014

Ecology and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities Associated with Chloroethene-Contaminated Aquifers

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Massive usage, along with careless handling, storage, spills, and leakages made chloroethenes (CEs) one of the most abundant classes of groundwater contaminants. Anaerobic organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) can couple reductive dechlorination of CEs wi ...

Frontiers Media SA2012

Visual spatiotemporal processing in the elderly

Michael Herzog

We used backward masking paradigm to investigate the effects of aging on visual spatiotemporal processing. First, thirty-three older (M=65.3 years) and ten younger adults (M=24.3 years) had to indicate the offset direction of a vernier that was masked by a ...

Pion Ltd.2012

Relatedness and scale dependency in very high resolution digital elevation models derivatives

Stéphane Joost, Kevin Leempoel

In the field of landscape genetics, environmental variables are needed to assess the influence of the environment on the spatial distribution of the genetic information of animals or plants. However, measuring variables (e.g. temperature, precipitation) at ...

Lulu.com2012

Statistical analysis of rainfall intermittency at small spatial and temporal scales

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss, Joël Jaffrain

Rainfall intermittency is analyzed and quantified at small spatial and temporal scales using 2 years of radar and disdrometer data collected in Switzerland. Analytical models are fitted and used to describe the intermittency for spatial scales between 0 an ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan

Natural ecosystems are characterized by striking diversity of form and functions and yet exhibit deep symmetries emerging across scales of space, time, and organizational complexity. Species-area relationships and species-abundance distributions are exampl ...

2011

Invasion and eradication of a competitively superior species in heterogeneous landscapes

Alexandre Buttler, Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco, Nicolas Perrin

The effect of heterogeneous environments upon the dynamics of invasion and the eradication or control of invasive species is poorly understood, although it is a major challenge for biodiversity conservation. Here, we first investigate how the probability a ...

Elsevier2011