Muhammad Zubair

• Doctor of Engineering
• Senior Researcher at Southeast University

On a global scale, four constituents of greenhouse gas (GHGs) namely, carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4) and fluorinated gases (F-gases) have undergone significant rise due to human activities. CO2 from road transport is the main contributor among constituents for GHGs emissions. The current study analyzed 42 fueling vehicles...

Monitoring and understanding Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) is critical for sustainable development, as it can impact various environmental, social, and economic systems. For example, deforestation and land degradation can lead to soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions, affecting the quality of soil, air, and water resources....

The agricultural sector faces several challenges that hinder productivity, including poor soil management, insect and parasite invasion, output impedance, and a lack of understanding among agricultural producers. A new generation of technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), has recently been introduced into the a...

Travel well-being (TWB) is an important aspect in human life, particularly in travel behavior. This study quantifies TWB using travel, personal and family attributes by employing structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. For this purpose, recent American time use survey (ATUS) dataset consists of 44 parameters was utilized for analysis. The oute...

Mapping and monitoring cropping patterns is essential for a sustainable agriculture. This study aims to map and monitor cropping patterns in the Multan district located in Pakistan. For this purpose, the dataset comprising 16-day composite products at a 250-m resolution from MODIS (onboard the Terra platform) and Landsat satellite images was used o...

The Food and Agriculture Organization recommends that the Penman–Monteith Method contains Equation 56 (PMF) as a widely accepted standard for reference evapotranspiration (ETo) calculation. Despite this, the PMF cannot be employed when meteorological variables are constrained; therefore, alternative models for ETo estimation requiring fewer variabl...

The current study determined the changes in Land Use/Land Change (LU/LC) and variation in land surface temperature (LST) in the Green Belt (Nasirabad district) area of Balochistan, Pakistan. To achieve this, we used GIS software (ArcMap 10.7.1) to analyze remote sensing data acquired from Landsat imagery taken in 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023. A super...

Objective With the increase in aging populations worldwide, the travel well-being of the elders has gained attention. The objective of this study is to examine the nonlinear relationships between the well-being of the older people in China and factors associated with travel and health. Method Based on the data collected in China, combined embedded...

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the water cycle and agricultural water balance. Planning, managing, and regulating agricultural water resources rely on reliable estimates of agricultural water consumption. It leads to establishing a sustainable water balance, mitigates the consequences of water scarcity, and prevents the waste...

Pakistan experiences extreme water scarcity, which has an impact on the sustainability of agricultural output. Irrigated agriculture could benefit from effective water management employing geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) approaches. This study has shown that quantifying the transfer of soil-vegetation and atmosphere coul...

In the effort to urgently develop new and improved methodologies to compute and assess CO2 emissions from transportation, results have been less than ideal; this article provides a review of the methodologies currently available. When it comes to the discharge of harmful gases into the air, transportation is the biggest offender. Methods are still...

Land use/land cover (LULC) changes are among the most significant human-caused global variations affecting the natural environment and ecosystems. Pakistan's LULC patterns have undergone huge changes since the 1900s, with no clear mitigation plan. This paper aims to determine LULC and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) changes as well as...

One of the most important parts of the hydrological cycle is evapotranspiration (ET). Accurate estimates of ET in irrigated regions are critical to the planning, control, and regulation of agricultural natural resources. Accurate ET estimation is necessary for agricultural irrigation scheduling. ET is a nonlinear and complex process that cannot be...

For developing countries, scarcity of climatic data is the biggest challenge, and model development with limited meteorological input is of critical importance. In this study, five data intelligent and hybrid metaheuristic machine learning algorithms, namely additive regression (AR), AR-bagging, AR-random subspace (AR-RSS), AR-M5P, and AR-REPTree,...

Traveler emotional well-being as a specific domain of subjective well-being has attracted attention across the field of transportation. Studies on identifying factors of travel-related emotional well-being can help policy makers to formulate concrete strategies to improve travelers’ experiences and public health. This research used the Maximal Info...

Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is considered as an essential component in hydrological and agro meteorological processes. Its accurate estimation becomes an imperative in the planning and management of irrigation practices. ETo estimation also plays a vital role in improving the irrigation efficiency, water reuse and irrigation scheduling. The...