Advancements in intelligent vehicular networks and computing systems have created new possibilities for innovative approaches that enhance traffic safety, comfort, and transportation performance. Machine Learning (ML) has become widely employed for boosting conventional data-driven methodologies in various scientific study domains. The integration of a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) system with ML enables the acquisition of knowledge from multiple places, enhances the operator’s awareness, and predicts future crashes to prevent them. The information serves multiple functions, such as determining the most efficient route, increasing the driver’s knowledge, forecasting movement strategy to avoid risky circumstances, and eventually improving user convenience, security, and overall highway experiences. This article thoroughly examines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ML methods that are now investigated through different study endeavors in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Furthermore, it examines the benefits and drawbacks accompanying such intelligent methods in the context of the VANETs system and simulation tools. Ultimately, this study pinpoints prospective domains for vehicular network development that can utilize the capabilities of AI and ML.

One of the most challenging aspects of satellite remote sensing is image fusion. Image fusion increases the visual interpretation of the image and has many applications such as monitoring water bodies, land cover, urbanisation, agriculture, national defence, and so forth. Remote sensing applications require images with a high spatial and spectral resolution for accurately processing and distinguishing the land cover classes with fine texture and shape details. Due to technical limitations, most satellites cannot take high‐resolution multi‐spectral images but can get high‐resolution panchromatic images and low‐resolution multi‐spectral satellite images separately. This article proposes a novel fusion method, geospatial data fusion (GDF), to obtain high‐resolution multi‐spectral images. GDF, along with three well‐known fusion methods viz., Brovey Transform (BT), wavelet transform (WT), and Fourier transform (FT), have been comparatively implemented to fuse the Cartosat‐2 and Sentinel‐2 imageries of the Sangam area of Prayagraj, India. The fusion has been done to extract the earth’s surface features from the fused imagery. In this research, the fused image is utilised for river water mapping. Results confirm that the GDF outperforms other existing fusion methods and successfully maps the river water in the study area.

Multispectral Satellite Imageries (MSI) are strong enough to delineate features of interest by suppressing others. The water index is a method applied to delineate the water features by combining the multispectral band images. This research proposes a novel index for extracting water features from multi-sensor MSIs named Multi Sensor Water Index (MSWI). The proposed index, along with existing indices, is applied on Landsat-8 OLI imageries, a comparative analysis is done, and it is found that the proposed index is outperforming with 99.77% accuracy. The proposed index was validated on other sensors, such as a series of Landsat (5, 7, 8, and 9), Sentinel-2, Resourcesat, and Modis satellite imagery, by mapping water features successfully. Further, the proposed index maps marine pollution by discriminating phytoplankton and algal bloom from the water feature. It is observed that the increase in phytoplankton or algal bloom is the result of eutrophication. The blooming of phytoplankton and algae is on the surface of the water. Thus, it causes shading at the bottom of the marine ecosystem and negatively impacts the growth of seagrasses, dissolved oxygen levels, fish suffocation, water properties, and other bottom habitats. The three test sites, viz., lake Villarrica, lake Okeechobee and the Atlantic Ocean, have been considered to study increasing phytoplankton and algal bloom. The proposed index successfully discriminates the phytoplankton and algal bloom from the water features.