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Borderlands Modeling and Analysis

A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2015) | Viewed by 35101

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Prof. Dr. Xiao-guang Zhou

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School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
Interests: spatiotemporal data model; incremental update; topological relationship; change detection; crowdsourcing data; data integration
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Dr. Weihua Dong

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School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai St., Hai Dian District, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: geospatial cognition and geocomputation; cartography and geovisualization

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Borderlands are the spaces adjoining national boundaries and geographic units. Often, they encompass common ethnicities, economic patterns, cultures, and natural resources that are shared with neighboring countries. Such cross-border commonalities potentially contribute to sustainable development within the world. These commonalities cannot be divided by the politically-dictated, artificial boundary lines. People, goods, services, and ideas flow across boundaries from state to state very easily. In the past, data on the borderlands was difficult to obtain. This limited progress on borderland-related research. In recent years, data collection technologies have developed greatly, these technologies include remote sensing imagery and volunteered geographic information from Web 2.0 communities. These technologies provide opportunities for modeling and analyzing phenomena in borderland areas.

This Special Issue focuses on Progress in Borderlands Modeling and Analysis. The issue’s scope includes, but is not limited to, significant improvements in both the modeling and representation of digital borderlands and the capture and evaluation of reliable borderland information, geo-computing infrastructures for borderland studies, and analytical and quantitative methods for borderland research. Prospective authors are invited to contribute to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Geo-Information by submitting an original manuscript. Contributions may focus on, but are not limited to:

  • Spatial Data Infrastructures for digital borderlands
  • Capture methods for borderland information
  • Reliability evaluation methods for borderland information
  • Spatio-temporal borderland data modeling
  • Updating of borderland databases
  • Visualization methods for borderland data
  • Analytical and quantitative methods
  • Simulation models and techniques
  • Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) for borderland business
  • Data standards for borderland information
  • Borderland data quality and uncertainty
  • Web Crawler Technology
  • Metadata architecture for digital boundaries
  • Multi-source data integration methods for borderland information
  • Boundary environment models
  • GPS/Mobile GIS applications in borderland data collection
  • Borderland information extraction from remote sensing

Prof. Dr. Xiao-guang Zhou
Dr. Weihua Dong
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • geographic information (GI) technologies and sciences
  • borderland regions
  • spatio-temporal data model
  • incremental updating
  • geo-computation
  • geo-visualization
  • crowdsourcing data / volunteered geographic information
  • reliability evaluation
  • spatial data analysis
  • simulation models and techniques
  • geo-statistics
  • spatial simulation
  • cartography
  • geospatial data handling
  • data quality or uncertainty
  • web crawler
  • geo-referenced text
  • place name
  • borderlines
  • metadata
  • data standards
  • spatial decision support systems

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A Spatio-Temporal VGI Model Considering Trust-Related Information
by Yijiang Zhao, Xiaoguang Zhou, Guangqiang Li and Hanfa Xing
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2016, 5(2), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi5020010 - 03 Feb 2016
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Over the past several years, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has expanded rapidly. VGI collection has been proven to serve as a highly successful means of acquiring timely and detailed global spatial data. However, VGI includes several special properties. For example, the contributor’s reputation [...] Read more.
Over the past several years, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has expanded rapidly. VGI collection has been proven to serve as a highly successful means of acquiring timely and detailed global spatial data. However, VGI includes several special properties. For example, the contributor’s reputation affects the quality of objects edited, and a geographic object may have multiple versions. The existing spatio-temporal data model cannot describe the unique properties of VGI. Therefore, a spatio-temporal VGI model considering trust-related information is presented in this paper. In this model, central elements of the VGI environment, e.g., geographic entity, entity state, state version, contributor, reputation, geographic event, and edit event, and their interaction mechanisms are analysed. Major VGI objects and relations are determined using the object-oriented method and trust-related operations, and their relationships are analysed, and nine linkage rules among trust-related operations are found to maintain the consistency of corresponding data. A prototype system for the spatio-temporal VGI model is presented, and the effectiveness of the model is verified. Full article
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Dynamically Integrating OSM Data into a Borderland Database
by Xiaoguang Zhou, Lu Zeng, Yu Jiang, Kaixuan Zhou and Yijiang Zhao
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2015, 4(3), 1707-1728; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4031707 - 08 Sep 2015
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Spatial data are fundamental for borderland analyses of geography, natural resources, demography, politics, economy, and culture. As the spatial data used in borderland research usually cover the borderland regions of several neighboring countries, it is difficult for anyone research institution of government to [...] Read more.
Spatial data are fundamental for borderland analyses of geography, natural resources, demography, politics, economy, and culture. As the spatial data used in borderland research usually cover the borderland regions of several neighboring countries, it is difficult for anyone research institution of government to collect them. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a highly successful method for acquiring timely and detailed global spatial data at a very low cost. Therefore, VGI is a reasonable source of borderland spatial data. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is known as the most successful VGI resource. However, OSM's data model is far different from the traditional geographic information model. Thus, the OSM data must be converted in the scientist’s customized data model. Because the real world changes rapidly, the converted data must be updated incrementally. Therefore, this paper presents a method used to dynamically integrate OSM data into the borderland database. In this method, a basic transformation rule base is formed by comparing the OSM Map Feature description document and the destination model definitions. Using the basic rules, the main features can be automatically converted to the destination model. A human-computer interaction model transformation and a rule/automatic-remember mechanism are developed to interactively transfer the unusual features that cannot be transferred by the basic rules to the target model and to remember the reusable rules automatically. To keep the borderland database current, the global OsmChange daily diff file is used to extract the change-only information for the research region. To extract the changed objects in the region under study, the relationship between the changed object and the research region is analyzed considering the evolution of the involved objects. In addition, five rules are determined to select the objects and integrate the changed objects with multi-versions over time. The objects’ change-type evolution is analyzed, and seven rules are used to determine the change-type of the changed objects. Based on these rules and algorithms, we programmed an automatic (or semi-automatic) integrating and updating prototype system for the borderland database. The developed system was intensively tested using OSM data for Vietnam and Pakistan as the experimental data. Full article
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Towards Measuring and Visualizing Sustainable National Power—A Case Study of China and Neighboring Countries
by Hua Liao, Weihua Dong, Huiping Liu and Yuejing Ge
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2015, 4(3), 1672-1692; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4031672 - 02 Sep 2015
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This paper presents a new perspective of national power—sustainable national power (SNP)—emphasizing both the traditional comprehensive national power (CNP) and social and environmental sustainability. We propose a measurement to quantify the SNP based on the measurement of comprehensive national power [...] Read more.
This paper presents a new perspective of national power—sustainable national power (SNP)—emphasizing both the traditional comprehensive national power (CNP) and social and environmental sustainability. We propose a measurement to quantify the SNP based on the measurement of comprehensive national power and a sustainable adjusted index. In addition, density-equalizing maps are adopted to visualize the sustainable national power of countries in order to gain a better understanding for its current state and future development from a cartographic perspective. China and its neighboring countries are selected as a case study area. The results show that China outperforms other countries in most of the CNP dimensions but performs poorly in various SNP-adjusted dimensions within the study area. The composite score shows that China is with the highest regional SNP, followed by Japan, Russia, South Korea and India. Furthermore, time series of cartograms reveal evidence showing power transitions among countries. In addition, the effectiveness of cartograms for cartographic communication is discussed. Full article
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A Geoweb-Based Tagging System for Borderlands Data Acquisition
by Hanfa Xing, Jun Chen and Xiaoguang Zhou
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2015, 4(3), 1530-1548; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4031530 - 21 Aug 2015
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Borderlands modeling and understanding depend on both spatial and non-spatial data, which were difficult to obtain in the past. This has limited the progress of borderland-related research. In recent years, data collection technologies have developed greatly, especially geospatial Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, [...] Read more.
Borderlands modeling and understanding depend on both spatial and non-spatial data, which were difficult to obtain in the past. This has limited the progress of borderland-related research. In recent years, data collection technologies have developed greatly, especially geospatial Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, publish/subscribe, mashups, and GeoRSS, which provide opportunities for data acquisition in borderland areas. This paper introduces the design and development of a Geoweb-based tagging system that enables users to tag and edit geographical information. We first establish the GeoBlog model, which consists of a set of geospatial components, posts, indicators, and comments, as the foundation of the tagging system. GeoBlog is implemented such that blogs are mashed up with OpenStreetMap. Moreover, we present an improvement to existing publish/subscribe systems with support for spatio-temporal events and subscriptions, called Spatial Publish/Subscribe, as well as the event agency network for routing messages from the publishers to the subscribers. A prototype system based on this approach is implemented in experiments. The results of this study provide an approach for asynchronous interaction and message-ordered transfer in the tagging system. Full article
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GIS-Based Borderlands Modeling and Understanding: A Perspective
by Jun Chen, Ran Li, Weihua Dong, Yuejing Ge, Hua Liao and Yang Cheng
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2015, 4(2), 661-676; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020661 - 20 Apr 2015
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Borderland regions are special areas and deserve more attention in global sustainable development. Reliable geo-information and effective analysis tools are requested to support borderlands studies through the integrated utilization of geospatial analysis, web service, as well as the other domain-specific expertise. This paper [...] Read more.
Borderland regions are special areas and deserve more attention in global sustainable development. Reliable geo-information and effective analysis tools are requested to support borderlands studies through the integrated utilization of geospatial analysis, web service, as well as the other domain-specific expertise. This paper has reviewed the state-of-the-art of geospatial information sciences, (GIS)-based borderlands modeling, and understanding. From the perspective of GIS, integrated data modeling, comprehensive analysis, and collaborative information service are identified as the three major challenges in this filed. A research agenda is further proposed with four topics, i.e., classification and representation of borderland information, derivation of neighborhood information, development of synergetic analysis, and design and development of a geo-portal for borderlands studies. This interdisciplinary study requires a closer and in-depth collaboration of geopolitics, international relation, geography and geo-spatial information sciences. Full article
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