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  1. FlashLightNet: An End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Detection and Classification of Static and Flashing Traffic Light States

    Article • Sensors, October 2025, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  2. Validating Capacitive Pressure Sensors for Mobile Gait Assessment

    Article • Biomechanics, August 2025, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  3. Improved fish tracking in underwater images for marine biodiversity monitoring

    Article • May 2025, SPIE

    James E Ball

  4. Automatic classification of radar and communication waveforms through interpretable deep learning

    Article • May 2025, SPIE

    James E Ball

  5. Micro-Doppler models of drones, birds, and bird-like drones

    Article • May 2025, SPIE

    James E Ball

  6. Comparative analysis of feature selection techniques to identify a set of optimal features for crop yield estimation using UAS-based multisensor data

    Article • May 2025, SPIE

    James E Ball

  7. FishART: A platform for enhancing underwater fish detection and classification

    Article • May 2025, SPIE

    James E Ball

  8. The Impact of National Climate Change Guidance on Flood Estimation in NSW, Australia

    Article • May 2025, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  9. Investigation of multisource object detection fusion for improving scene awareness for enhanced autonomy

    Article • November 2024, SPIE

    James E Ball

  10. Agent-based models of groundwater systems: A review of an emerging approach to simulate the interactions between groundwater and society

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, April 2024, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  11. Agent-Based Models of groundwater systems - Database

    Article • September 2023, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)

    James E Ball

  12. A method of estimating imperviousness for the catchment modelling of urban environments

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, March 2023, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  13. An initial parameter estimation approach for urban catchment modelling

    Article • Urban Water Journal, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  14. Prediction of evaporation from dam reservoirs under climate change using soft computing techniques

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Ball

  15. Data-Driven Covariance Estimation

    Article • October 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  16. The hydrological performance of a green roof in Sydney, Australia: A tale of two towers

    Article • Building and Environment, August 2022, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  17. Dynamic path planning for traversing autonomous vehicle in off-road environment using MAVS

    Article • June 2022, SPIE

    James E Ball

  18. Long short-term memory networks for vehicle sensor fusion

    Article • June 2022, SPIE

    James E Ball

  19. Urban land-use land-cover extraction for catchment modelling using deep learning techniques

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, March 2022, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  20. CaT: CAVS Traversability Dataset for Off-Road Autonomous Driving

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  21. A Generalized Fuzzy Extension Principle and Its Application to Information Fusion

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  22. Modelling accuracy for urban design flood estimation

    Article • Urban Water Journal, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  23. A comparison of frameworks for separating the impacts of human activities and climate change on river flow in existing records and different near‐future scenarios

    Article • Hydrological Processes, July 2021, Wiley

    James E Ball

  24. In Silico Finite Element Analysis of the Foot Ankle Complex Biomechanics: A Literature Review

    Article • Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, June 2021, ASME International

    James E Ball

  25. Early stopping technique using a genetic algorithm for calibration of an urban runoff model

    Article • International Journal of River Basin Management, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  26. Optimizing flow diversion structure as an effective pier-scour countermeasure

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Research, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  27. Using a socio-hydrology stance to address the paradox between global decarbonisation, lithium fever, and sustainability in the Atacama Salt Deposit

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    James E Ball

  28. Comment on "Fluxes from Soil Moisture Measurements (FluSM v1.0). A Data-driven Water Balance Framework for Permeable Pavements"

    Article • November 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    James E Ball

  29. An Investigation of Modelling Accuracy Needs for Urban Design Flood Estimation

    Article • October 2020, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  30. Hyperspectral Band Selection Using Moth-Flame Metaheuristic Optimization

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  31. Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis Feature Reduction with Gabor Filtering and CNN

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  32. Closing the Wearable Gap-Part VII: A Retrospective of Stretch Sensor Tool Kit Development for Benchmark Testing

    Article • Electronics, September 2020, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  33. Estimating and Leveraging Uncertainties in Deep Learning for Remaining Useful Life Prediction in Mechanical Systems

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  34. Thermal imaging for rapid noninvasive on-site insulation diagnostics

    Article • May 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  35. Hyperspectral and LiDAR data fusion using collaborative representation

    Article • May 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  36. Wearable Stretch Sensors for Human Movement Monitoring and Fall Detection in Ergonomics

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2020, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  37. Are the current On-site Stormwater Detention (OSD) policies the best solution for source control stormwater management? A case study of Australian and Brazilian cities

    Article • Urban Water Journal, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  38. Closing the Wearable Gap—Part VI: Human Gait Recognition Using Deep Learning Methodologies

    Article • Electronics, May 2020, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  39. An Assessment of Continuous Modeling for Robust Design Flood Estimation in Urban Environments

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, April 2020, Frontiers

    James E Ball

  40. Classifying WiFi "physical fingerprints" using complex deep learning

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  41. Identifying unlabeled WiFi devices with zero-shot learning

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  42. Extending free‐space mapping to unstructured, off‐road environments

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  43. Performance analysis of semantic segmentation algorithms trained with JPEG compressed datasets

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  44. Towards simulating multipath interference at detectors: a tool for validating location fingerprinting methods

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    James E Ball

  45. Recursive Multi-Scale Image Deraining With Sub-Pixel Convolution Based Feature Fusion and Context Aggregation

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  46. Cause analysis for a new type of devastating flash flood

    Article • Hydrology Research, November 2019, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  47. Closing the Wearable Gap—Part IV: 3D Motion Capture Cameras Versus Soft Robotic Sensors Comparison of Gait Movement Assessment

    Article • Electronics, November 2019, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  48. State-of-the-art review of athletic wearable technology: What 113 strength and conditioning coaches and athletic trainers from the USA said about technology in sports

    Article • International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    James E Ball

  49. Closing the Wearable Gap—Part III: Use of Stretch Sensors in Detecting Ankle Joint Kinematics During Unexpected and Expected Slip and Trip Perturbations

    Article • Electronics, September 2019, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  50. CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON DESIGN FLOOD ESTIMATION

    Article • September 2019, Research Publishing Services

    James E Ball

  51. Machine Learning and Embedded Computing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

    Article • Electronics, July 2019, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  52. Rollover-Free Path Planning for Off-Road Autonomous Driving

    Article • Electronics, May 2019, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  53. Flow Structures Around a Circular Bridge Pier with a Submerged Prism at Upstream

    Article • April 2019, Avestia Publishing

    James E Ball

  54. Uncertainty Estimation Using the Glue and Bayesian Approaches in Flood Estimation: A case Study—Ba River, Vietnam

    Article • Water, November 2018, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  55. Protecting bridge pier against local scour using flow diversion structure

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, July 2018, ICE Publishing

    Mohsen Ranjbar Zahedani, James E Ball

  56. Flow and Longitudinal Dispersion in Channel with Partly Rigid Floodplain Vegetation

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, May 2018, ICE Publishing

    Alireza Keshavarzi, James E Ball

  57. Estimation of maximum scour depths at upstream of front and rear piers for two in-line circular columns

    Article • Environmental Fluid Mechanics, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mohsen Ranjbar Zahedani, James E Ball

  58. Application of Statistical Inference for Analysis of Heavy Metal Variability in Roadside Soil

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Ball

  59. A message from the Editor-in-Chief, James Ball

    Article • International Journal of River Basin Management, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  60. Comprehensive survey of deep learning in remote sensing: theories, tools, and challenges for the community

    Article • Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, September 2017, SPIE

    James E Ball

  61. Radar and Radio Signal Processing

    Article • Electronics, September 2017, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  62. Experimental study of flow structure around two in-line bridge piers

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, June 2017, ICE Publishing

    James E Ball, Mohsen Ranjbar Zahedani

  63. Aggregation of Choquet integrals in GPR and EMI for handheld platform-based explosive hazard detection

    Article • May 2017, SPIE

    James E Ball

  64. Screening Mississippi River Levees Using Texture-Based and Polarimetric-Based Features from Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

    Article • Electronics, March 2017, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  65. Mechanical Design, Prototyping, and Validation of A Martian Robot Mining System

    Article • SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems, March 2017, SAE International

    James E Ball

  66. Radar Angle of Arrival System Design Optimization Using a Genetic Algorithm

    Article • Electronics, March 2017, MDPI AG

    James E Ball

  67. Improving the Xin'anjiang Hydrological Model Based on Mass-Energy Balance

    Article • January 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    James E Ball

  68. Parameter estimation for a large catchment

    Article • Australasian Journal of Water Resources, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  69. A SURVEY OF SECURITY IN ROBOTIC SYSTEMS: VULNERABILITIES, ATTACKS, AND SOLUTIONS

    Article • International Journal of Robotics and Automation, January 2017, ACTA Press

    James E Ball

  70. Scour at partially blocked box-culverts under steady flow

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, December 2016, ICE Publishing

    James E Ball

  71. Pullout strength of monocortical and bicortical screws in meta -physeal and diaphyseal regions of the canine humerus

    Article • Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, November 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    James E Ball

  72. The influence of the calibration metric on design flood estimation using continuous simulation

    Article • International Journal of River Basin Management, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  73. Concept of the Integrated Hydrological Ensemble Prediction System applied for the Nattai River Catchment, Australia

    Article • Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  74. Enhancing PIV image and fractal descriptor for velocity and shear stresses propagation around a circular pier

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, August 2016, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  75. CLODD based band group selection

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  76. Bed morphology in vegetated estuarine river with mild-curved meander bend

    Article • Hydrological Sciences Journal, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  77. Multi-sensor conflict measurement and information fusion

    Article • May 2016, SPIE

    James E Ball

  78. Curvelet filter based prescreener for explosive hazard detection in hand-held ground penetrating radar

    Article • May 2016, SPIE

    James E Ball

  79. Background adaptive division filtering for hand-held ground penetrating radar

    Article • May 2016, SPIE

    James E Ball

  80. Comparison of spatial frequency domain features for the detection of side attack explosive ballistics in synthetic aperture acoustics

    Article • May 2016, SPIE

    James E Ball

  81. Proactive management of estuarine algal blooms using an automated monitoring buoy coupled with an artificial neural network

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, November 2014, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  82. Location of the maximum scouring depth at the outlet of partially-blocked and non-blocked box culvert

    Article • August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  83. Riverbed layering impact on scour at the abutments

    Article • August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  84. Hyperspectral band selection based on the aggregation of proximity measures for automated target detection

    Article • June 2014, SPIE

    Dr Sathishkumar Samiappan, James E Ball

  85. Prediction of Scouring Depth at the Outlet of Partially Blocked Box Culvert

    Article • May 2014, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  86. DISCHARGE COEFFICIENT OF SHARP-CRESTED SIDE WEIR IN TRAPEZOIDAL CHANNEL WITH DIFFERENT SIDE-WALL SLOPES UNDER SUBCRITICAL FLOW CONDITIONS

    Article • Irrigation and Drainage, May 2014, Wiley

    James E Ball

  87. Three-dimensional analysis of coherent turbulent flow structure around a single circular bridge pier

    Article • Environmental Fluid Mechanics, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Ball

  88. Blockage Effects on Scouring Downstream of Box Culverts Under Unsteady Flow

    Article • Australasian Journal of Water Resources, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  89. Adequate Balance between Water's Withdrawal and Rivers' Environmental Protection

    Article • August 2013, Research Publishing Services

    James E Ball

  90. Study of blockage effect on scouring pattern downstream of a box culvert

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  91. Frequency pattern of turbulent flow and sediment entrainment over ripples using image processing

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, January 2012, Copernicus GmbH

    James E Ball

  92. Optimising round-edged entrance of 55° river water intake

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, January 2012, ICE Publishing

    James E Ball

  93. Study of frequency pattern of coherent turbulent flow over ripples using image processing with implication in river restoration

    Article • August 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    James E Ball

  94. Transition Probability of the Coherent Turbulent Flow around a Circular Bridge Pier

    Article • May 2011, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  95. Phosphorous release from gross pollutant traps in urban environments

    Article • June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  96. The hydrological performance of a permeable pavement

    Article • Urban Water Journal, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  97. A Likelihood Approach for Modeling Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Storms Using Radar and Land Data

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    James E Ball

  98. Experimental Study of the Effects of Submerged Dikes on the Energy and Momentum Coefficients in Compound Channel

    Article • Engineering, January 2010, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    James E Ball

  99. Streamflow data Preparation for Regional Flood Frequency Analysis: Lessons from Southeast Australia

    Article • Australasian Journal of Water Resources, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  100. Discussion of “Automatic Calibration of the U.S. EPA SWMM Model for a Large Urban Catchment” by J. Barco, K. M. Wong, and M. K. Stenstrom

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, December 2009, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  101. 2009 Special Issue of the Journal of Hydroinformatics on Advances in Hydroinformatics

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, July 2009, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  102. Application of a regionalized Clark IUH model with limited hydrologic data availability

    Article • Hydrological Processes, August 2008, Wiley

    James E Ball

  103. Level Set Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Best Band Analysis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  104. Evaluation of spatially variable control parameters in a complex catchment modelling system: a genetic algorithm application

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, July 2007, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  105. Selected papers from The Ninth Annual Environmental Research Conference 2005 (ERE 2005)

    Article • The Environmentalist, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Ball

  106. An alternative approach to modelling stormwater runoff from small urban catchments

    Article • International Journal of Water, January 2007, Inderscience Publishers

    James E Ball

  107. New Method for Estimation of Discharge

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, October 2006, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  108. Pollutant removal efficiency of alternative filtration media in stormwater treatment

    Article • Water Science & Technology Water Supply, September 2006, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  109. Level Set Hyperspectral Segmentation: Near-Optimal Speed Functions using Best Band Analysis and Scaled Spectral Angle Mapper

    Article • July 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  110. Quantifying the impact of runoff events on microbiological contaminant concentrations entering surface drinking source waters

    Article • Journal of Water and Health, December 2005, IWA Publishing

    James E Ball

  111. Rainfall models for catchment simulation

    Article • Australasian Journal of Water Resources, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  112. A Neural Network Approach to Rainfall Forecasting in Urban Environments

    Article • May 2004, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  113. Hydraulic grade lines in urban stormwater systems – do they predict surcharge conditions?

    Article • Australasian Journal of Water Resources, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  114. Estimation of Rainfall Heterogeneity across Space and Time Scale

    Article • September 2002, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  115. Investigation of Model Complexity and Structure on the Calibration Process

    Article • September 2002, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  116. IMPORTANCE OF RAINFALL MODELS IN CATCHMENT SIMULATION

    Article • July 2002, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    James E Ball

  117. Parameter estimation for urban runoff modelling

    Article • Urban Water, March 2002, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  118. Parameter Estimation for Urban Stormwater Models

    Article • November 2001, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  119. A Participative Planning Methodology: Urban Stormwater Quality Management at the Watershed

    Article • May 2001, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  120. An application of artificial neural networks for rainfall forecasting

    Article • Mathematical and Computer Modelling, March 2001, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  121. A study of optimal model lag and spatial inputs to artificial neural network for rainfall forecasting

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, January 2000, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  122. An application of image processing in the study of sediment motion

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Research, July 1999, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  123. An investigation of the relationship between the flood wave speed and parameters in runoff-routing models

    Article • Hydrological Sciences Journal, April 1998, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  124. Modeling Spatial Variability of Rainfall over a Catchment

    Article • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, April 1998, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  125. An assessment of the availability of pollutant constituents on road surfaces

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 1998, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  126. An analysis of the characteristics of rough bed turbulent shear stresses in an open channel

    Article • Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    James E Ball

  127. How Much STEALTH?

    Article • Naval Engineers Journal, May 1996, Wiley

    James E Ball

  128. The influence of storm temporal patterns on catchment response—Reply

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, November 1995, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  129. Incipient Sediment Mot Ion On Non-Horizontal Slopes

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Research, September 1995, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  130. The influence of storm temporal patterns on catchment response

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, June 1994, Elsevier

    James E Ball

  131. Fractal Concept Used in Time‐of‐Concentration Estimates

    Article • Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, September 1991, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    James E Ball

  132. Rate of benzene sorption by O-alkylated Illinois No. 6 coal

    Article • Energy & Fuels, July 1991, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    James E Ball

  133. An algorithm for routing unsteady flows in urban drainage networks

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Research, August 1985, Taylor & Francis

    James E Ball

  134. The Planning and Implementation of the Public Television Satellite Interconnection System

    Article • SMPTE Journal, December 1978, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

    James E Ball

  135. Satellite television covers the world

    Article • IEEE Spectrum, August 1973, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    James E Ball

  136. Preliminary circular orbit from a single station of range-only data.

    Article • AIAA Journal, December 1967, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    James E Ball

  137. A Classic Hydroinformatic Problem - Floods

    Article • EasyChair

    James E Ball