The Global NEST Journal is an open access journal that publishes original research articles, short papers and critical reviews on all aspects of Environmental Science and Technology. These comprise, but are not limited to, Pollution Control Technology, Global Environmental Change, Air Quality, Water Quality, Water and Waste Water Treatment, Solid Waste Management, Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis, Emerging pollutants. Relevant topics incorporating the methodologies and state of the art of disciplines such as Environmental Management Policies, Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management, Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Clean Energy and Sustainability are included.
Submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the editor and selected after rigorous peer review by scientists in order to assess the significance, originality and appropriateness for publication.
Articles submitted to Global NEST Journal benefit from its broad scope and readership. We aim for a turnaround time of 4 weeks from submission to first decision.
Global NEST Journal is addressed to professionals in Academic, Consulting Offices, Government Agencies and Organisations, as well as others responsible for the investigations, evaluation of complicated environmental issues of global interest.
Tea Disease Spot Recognition Based on Image Feature Points Extraction and Matching
CLEANWAS
Objective: adaptation of tea disease spot recognition method based on image feature points extraction and matching, can achieve fast and accurate recognition of tea disease spot, and provide reference for remote sensing disease monitoring with plant protection UAV at low altitude. Methods...
Ecological Remote Sensing Image Monitoring Method for Vegetation Destruction in Waterfront Greenway Based on Genetic Algorithm
CLEANWAS
Because the traditional remote sensing image monitoring method has the problem of poor ability of capturing vegetation destruction, an ecological remote sensing image method for vegetation destruction in waterfront greenway based on genetic algorithm is proposed. The vegetation index data of...
Hyper Spectral Image Characteristics of Aronia Melanocarpa Leaves under Saline Alkali Stress
CLEANWAS
Objective: To obtain the characteristics analysis results of aronia melanocarpa leaves under saline alkali stress state and improve yield and quality of aronia melanocarpa. Methods: Using hyper spectral imaging system to obtain hyper spectral images of aronia melanocarpa leaves under saline alkali...
Advanced deep learning method for Aerial image segmentation of landscape changes in pre-and post-disaster scenarios
Environmental data analysis and modelling
The precise analysis of conditions in the landscape before and aftermath of the disaster is a mandatory challenge in aerial image landscape monitoring. The change in patterns of landscape, damaged pathways, and damaged areas will have a major impact without monitoring and redevelopment. Therefore...
Deep Learning Driven Crop Classification and Chlorophyll Content Estimation for the Nexus Food higher Productions using Multi-spectral Remote Sensing Images
Water, Energy and/or Food Nexus
Due to the development of open access medium-high resolution remote sensing data like multispectral remote sensing images, crop classification becomes a hot research topic to be realized on large scale using machine learning (ML) models. At the same time, chlorophyll content is a critical index used...
Exploiting Drone Images for Forest Fire Detection using Metaheuristics with Deep Learning Model
Biodiversity conservation
Forest fires are a global natural calamity causing significant economic damage and loss of lives. Professionals forecast that forest fires would raise in the future because of climate change. Early prediction and identification of fire spread would enhance firefighting and reduce affected zones...
Rural Tourism Image Optimization by Big Data Technology in Green Environment
Ecology, environmental change and management
In recent years, the need for the rapid development of rural tourism in China has resulted in a large consumption of ecological resources, which has seriously damaged the ecological balance of travel destinations. Rural tourism in many parts of China is increasingly lacking distinctive local...
Integrated Disaster Risk Management for Flood Detection on Remote Sensing Images using Deep Learning techniques
Floods, Droughts and Water scarcity
Floods are one of the leading causes of damage, prompting mortality and substantial destruction to the structure and total economy of the affected nations. Remote sensing, satellite imagery, global positioning system, and geographic information system (GIS) are widely employed for flood...
Integrated Early Flood Prediction using Sentinel-2 Imagery with VANET-MARL-based Deep Neural RNN
Floods, Droughts and Water scarcity
Floods are a major contributor to the destruction of infrastructure and the overall economy of afflicted countries, leading to loss of life and significant damage. Remote sensing, satellite imagery photography, global positioning system, and geographic information system (GIS) are commonly used to...
Prediction of Land Use and Landcover Changes in Tiruppur Tamilnadu Using Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network
Environmental data analysis and modelling
Land use and landcover change (LU/LC) are important in global change studies because they can transform the local and global environment by developing the biochemical, biochemical and biogeographic properties of the Earth's structure. This paper is intended to develop Hybrid Convolutional Neural...
Measuring the turbulent characteristics in an open channel using the PIV method
General
Investigation of open channel flows is very important for a wide range of applications, including restoration and enhancement of river aquatic systems. As a result, the scientific community has focused on providing further insights on the flow characteristics in vegetated channels. Vegetation may be...
Air Pollution Monitoring Model in Real-time with cloud based Channel Ranging and Stego Privacy Preservation
Air Quality
Monitoring air quality in polluted environments is crucial for human health, but traditional methods using meteorological equipment have limitations in complex terrains and are costly. This study proposes a novel approach to address air pollution monitoring in urban areas by visually assessing the...
Development of an Air Quality Forecasting System Using a Multimodal Deep Learning Framework Based on Satellite Images of Delhi City
Air Quality
With the rapid expansion of science and technology, there is a growing hazard to public health from many forms of pollution in the air, particularly fine dust, which can aggravate or induce heart and lung disorders. Furthermore, this threat is expanding as a consequence of the rapid progression of...
Dynamic Monitoring Method of Forest Coverage Based on GIS Technology
CLEANWAS
When studying the dynamic monitoring method of forest coverage based on GIS technology, a dynamic monitoring system of forest coverage based on GIS technology was constructed, and forest coverage was dynamically monitored by means of the system. The system constructs attribute database and spatial...
Assessment of Object-Based Classification for Mapping Land Use and Land Cover using Google Earth
Environmental data analysis and modelling
Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) maps perform a significant part in Remote Sensing (RS) in monitoring and analyzing earth information for human development. Because of the high spectrum variability, LULC classification from RS data is extremely difficult. The study's objective is to assess the object...
Coastline change rate estimation on the southern coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, India using the multi temporal Google Earth images and GIS based statistical approach
Ecology, environmental change and management
Coastal erosion is the process of wearing away material from the coastal profile due to an imbalance in the supply and export of material from a particular section of the coast which cause property damage, and the loss of land. This study investigates the rate of erosion and accretion along the...
Landcover change modeling through visualization and classification enhancement of multi-temporal imagery
General
The natural environment endures natural and human-induced changes. Remote sensing has been providing monitoring oriented solutions by a series of methodologies which contribute to prudent environmental management. Analysis of multi-temporal satellite images for the observation of the land changes...
Change in snow depletion pattern in a river basin of Arunachal Pradesh under projected climatic scenarios
General
Snow depletion curves (SDCs) are important in hydrological studies for predicting snowmelt generated runoff in high mountain catchments. The present study deals with the derivation of the average snow depletion pattern in the Mago basin of Arunachal Pradesh, which falls in the eastern Himalayan...
Optimizing Object Detection in Bio-Waste Management with Improved Hyperbolic Tangent YOLOv5 and Binarization-Adapted K-Means Algorithm
Biowaste
With the increasing importance of green development, bio-waste classification has become an important element of green development. However, in garbage stacking scenarios, the task of segmenting highly overlapping objects is difficult because the bottom garbage is in an occluded state and it is...
Efficient Biomedical Waste Management: Optimizing Segmentation and Classification with EnU-Net-DNN-BMWC
Solid Waste Management
In India, biomedical waste (BMW) management is governed by strict regulations to mitigate health and environmental risks. It includes materials such as sharps, infectious wastes, pharmaceuticals, and non-hazardous items contaminated with potentially infectious substances. Proper management and...
Prediction of Ozone Depletion Levels using Intelligent CNN-SVM Classification System
Environmental data analysis and modelling
The concentration of ozone in the earth atmosphere has been steadily falling by 4% in the total amount since late 1970. With the widespread usage of modern industry chlorofluorocarbons, the rate at which ozone content decreases is escalating, resulting in an ozone hole. The depletion permits harmful...
Spatio-temporal change assessment using normalize difference vegetative index and spectral analysis techniques for vegetation cover on Wadi Auranah
Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management
Wadi Auranah is one of the potential wadis in respect of land use, located on the western shield (Hijaz escarpment) of Saudi Arabia. A spatio-temporal change assessment of this wadi (valley) was conducted with the help of landsat data. The results of the spectral analysis and NDVI for vegetation...
IMPACTS OF RECIRCULATION EVENT ON AEROSOL DISPERSION AND RAINFALL PATTERNS IN PARTS OF NIGERIA
Pollution Control Technology
The peculiarity of the lower atmosphere of south west region of Nigeria was explored using theoretical and experimental approach. In the theoretical approach, the reconstruction of 1D model as an extraction from the 3D aerosol dispersion model was used to examine the physics of the recirculation...
Non-thermal plasma-assisted growth of ZnWO4 hierarchical nanostructures: morphology, structure and photoactivity
General
Zinc tungstate (ZnWO4) photocatalyst was synthesized by precipitation method and treated with different non-thermal plasma to study its morphology, structure and photocatalytic activity. The X-ray diffraction results revealed that the plasma-treated ZnWO4 exhibited only wolframite structure and its...
Estimation of changes in the Dead Sea surface water area through multiple water indices and geospatial techniques
Water Resources Management
The study calculated the changes in the Dead Sea surface area from 1984 to 2019. The satellite images of 1985, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2019 were classified by applying four different methods to estimate the changes in the Dead Sea surface water area. The methods included normalized difference water...
Thematic areas
Circular economy
Climate change and air pollution
Solid waste management
Water and wastewater
Study on the Degradation of Brominated Flame Retardants in Waste Circuit Boards Using a Supercritical Fluid Method: Methodology, Influencing Factors, and Optimal Fluid Type
Innovative environmental solutions
07-11-2024
Degradation of polystyrene plastics by alkane monooxygenase and alcohol dehydrogenase
Solid Waste Management
05-11-2024
Environmental Impact Assessment of Solid Waste Disposal on Groundwater Quality
Water Quality
05-11-2024
LC MS/MS Phytochemical analysis of Ruta montana and the Hepatic Preventive Effects in male Rats exposed to Tebuconazole
Environmental Health
05-11-2024
Review of Remote Sensing, GIS and Soft Computing Tool for Predicting the Land-use and Environment Changes
Innovative environmental solutions
04-11-2024
Integrated Early Flood Prediction using Sentinel-2 Imagery with VANET-MARL-based Deep Neural RNN
Floods, Droughts and...
04-11-2024
Phytochemical characterization and valorization of Quercus ilex (west of Algeria)
General
30-10-2024
Performance Analysis of Gasification Coupled with IC Engine for Emission Control: Enhancing Environmental Sustainability
Biowaste
02-01-2025
An Exploratory Alternative Approach to Potential Incident Simulation, Control, and Evaluation System for Prediction of Oil Spill Behavior Through Supervised Machine Learning
Environmental data analysis...
02-01-2025
PUBLIC AWARENESS, BEHAVIOR AND PREVENTIVE PRACTICES OF THE RURAL PEOPLE IN THE ADAPTATION TO SMOG EPISODES
Air Quality
02-01-2025
ECOLOGICAL INNOVATION: THERMOSETTING RESINS AND WATER HYACINTH FIBER IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE BIO-COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT
Nanomaterials in the environment:...
02-01-2025
Analysis of Combustion, Performance, and Emissions of a Diesel Engine Fueled by Blends of Waste Paraffin Oil
Sustainable Energy
02-01-2025
OPTIMIZING BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT THROUGH A HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM FOR SMART CITIES
Solid Waste Management
02-01-2025
An investigation into the composition of the mineral phase of fly ash using advanced techniques
General
02-01-2025