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Natural hazards are considered to have a strong link with climate change and human activities. With the rapid advancements in remote sensing technology, real-time monitoring and high-resolution remote-sensing images have become increasingly available, which provide precise details about the Earth's surface and enable prompt updates to support risk identification and management. This paper proposes a new network framework with Transformer architecture and a Residual network for detecting the changes in high-resolution remote-sensing images. The proposed model is trained using remote-sensing images from Shandong and Anhui Provinces of China in 2021 and 2022 while one district in 2023 is used to test the prediction accuracy. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated by using five matrices and further compared to both convention-based and attention-based models. The results demonstrated that the proposed structure integrates the great capability of conventional neural networks for image feature extraction with the ability to obtain global context from the attention mechanism, resulting in significant improvements in balancing positive sample identification while avoiding false positives in complex image change detection. Additionally, a toolkit supporting image preprocessing is developed for practical applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid development of urbanization in China inevitably leads to a sharp increase in building energy consumption, and Passive House (PH) have received much attention in China in recent years. In this paper, the annual energy demand (AED) and summer discomfort hours (SUH) of PH are used as optimization objectives to establish a set of design solutions for multi-objective optimization (MTO) and economic analysis of a PH in Shandong Province, China. It is found that (1) the algorithm based on nearest neighbor component analysis (NCA) feature extraction applies to the sensitivity analysis of multivariate nonlinear high-dimensional data, and the NCA-GA-RBF neural network technique is proposed, which has significantly improved the goodness of fit and generalization ability for AED and SUH. (2) The NSGA-II genetic algorithm is used for the optimization search, and the results show that the overall improvement rates of AED and SUH are 25.5% and 21.6%, respectively, among the nine solutions after comprehensive evaluation; (3) Finally, the optimal scheme of energy saving and the optimal scheme of the economy are selected for economic evaluation. By comparing the economics of the two options and the improvement rates of AEDs and SUHs, the guidelines for design decision-makers are provided. In summary, the design scheme of this paper is forward-looking and reference-oriented and provides some reference suggestions for the development of PH in China. • The NCA algorithm is suitable for multivariate nonlinear sensitivity analysis. • NCA-GA-RBF has stronger and more stable generalization ability and accuracy. • In this paper, climate is the main factor affecting thermal parameters. • Global costs have a stronger economic interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Short-term load forecasting plays a significant role in the operation of power systems. Recently, deep learning has been generally employed in short-term load forecasting, primarily in the extraction of the characteristics of digital information in a single dimension without taking into account of the impact of external variables, particularly non-digital elements on load characteristics. In this paper, we propose a joint MFF-SAM-GCN to realize short-term load forecasting. First, we utilize a Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) network and One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) in parallel connection to form a multi-feature fusion (MFF) framework, which can extract spatiotemporal correlation features of the load data. In addition, we introduce a Self-Attention Mechanism (SAM) to further enhance the feature extraction capability of the 1D-CNN network. Then with the deployment of a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), the external non-digital features such as weather, strength, and direction of wind, etc., are extracted. Moreover, the generated weight matrices are incorporated into the load features to enhance feature recognition ability. Finally, we exploit Bayesian Optimization (BO) to find the optimal hyperparameters of the model to further improve the prediction accuracy. The simulation is taken from our proposed model and six benchmark schemes by using the bus load dataset of the Shandong Open Data Network, China. The results show that the RMSE of our proposed MFF-SAM-GCN model is 0.0284, while the SMAPE is 9.453%,the MBE is 0.025, and R-squared is 0.989, which is better than the selected three traditional machine learning methods and the three deep learning models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A long-term water quality prediction model with higher accuracy. • A graph convolutional network obtains topological information among sequences. • A subsequence cross-fusion network captures local features of a sequence. • A destationarizing attention weakens the distribution shift problem of sequences. Water quality prediction is important for maintaining water stability and control in marine environments. However, water quality parameters are affected by complex environmental factors.Marine time series data exhibit distribution shift and nonstationarity problems, owing to environmental heterogeneity.It is still difficult to obtain the spatial and time dependence of time series data with existing models and the model prediction accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, this paper proposes a graph-based convolutional neural network model, allowing networks and sequences to interact smoothly. The Time-graph convolutional fusion network(T-GCFN) consists of a graph convolutional fusion network(GCFN) and Time-pyramidal fusion attention(T-PFA). To obtain the spatial dependence of the original sequence, the original sequence is first decomposed into three subsequences by STL, and then the GCFN obtains the original sequence and trinomial subsequence through a multilayer T-GCN.Internal topology information is also obtained. Second, to eliminate the distribution differences between the training and test sets, the T-PFA is weakened using RevIN.To address the distribution shift problem of the sequence and the nonstationarity problem of the destationarized attention attenuation sequence, a higher weight is assigned to the sequence. Finally, depending on the long and short time series of the obtained sequence, the subsequence is downsampled by cross-learning, and the local features are extracted. Experiments on dissolved oxygen, salinity and temperature at six marine ranches on the Shandong peninsula were carried out using the T-GCFN, and the results were compared with those of other deep learning models. The experimental results show that the T-GCFN has better prediction performance and can achieve high-precision predictions of ocean chemistry parameters in the next three days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]