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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 11, Issue 12

2022 December - 52 articles

Cover Story: In this paper, a Geographical Information System (GIS)-based agent-based model (ABM) was implemented to understand the spatial dynamics of COVID-19 spread and assess the efficacy of two policy measures to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Montreal, Canada. The evolution of the outbreak was studied by means of precise and realistic consideration of people’s mobility and interactions based on geospatial data. The overall aim of this research was to improve our understanding of the COVID-19 epidemic amid an urban population. As a result of our model and simulations, a map of critical locations of COVID-19 spreading was produced. Similarly, the evaluation of the effectiveness of two measures to manage the COVID-19 outbreak provided some insights into the decision-making process used by health policymakers to navigate through the pandemic. View this paper
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Articles (52)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,897 Views
19 Pages

Integrating Remote Sensing and Street View Imagery for Mapping Slums

  • Abbas Najmi,
  • Caroline M. Gevaert,
  • Divyani Kohli,
  • Monika Kuffer and
  • Jati Pratomo

Mapping slums is vital for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. In the absence of reliable data, Remote Sensing (RS)-based approaches, particularly the Deep Learning (DL) methods, have gained recognition and high accuracies f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,523 Views
17 Pages

The Effects of Colour Content and Cumulative Area of Outdoor Advertisement Billboards on the Visual Quality of Urban Streets

  • Mastura Adam,
  • Ammar Al-Sharaa,
  • Norafida Ab Ghafar,
  • Riyadh Mundher,
  • Shamsul Abu Bakar and
  • Ameer Alhasan

Visual comfort has a critical effect that significantly influences public appreciation of urban environments. Although colour is an integral part of billboard design, little empirical evidence exists to support some of the popularly held ideas about...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,878 Views
18 Pages

Domain Constraints-Driven Automatic Service Composition for Online Land Cover Geoprocessing

  • Huaqiao Xing,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Rui Li,
  • Haihang Wang,
  • Jinhua Zhang and
  • Huayi Wu

With the rapid development of web service technology, automatic land cover web service composition has become one of the key challenges in solving complex geoprocessing tasks of land cover. Service composition requires the creation of service chains...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,190 Views
23 Pages

Urban street space is a critical reflection of a city’s vitality and image and a critical component of urban planning. While visual perceptual information about an urban street space can reflect the composition of place elements and spatial rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,271 Views
26 Pages

Among the most prevalent natural hazards, flooding has been threatening human lives and properties. Robust flood simulation is required for effective response and prevention. Machine learning is widely used in flood modeling due to its high performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,233 Views
26 Pages

In China’s fourteenth five-year plan, urban regeneration has become one of the most crucial strategies for activating the existing cities. Since creating vibrant urban spaces is a critical component of urban regeneration, understanding the patt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,816 Views
17 Pages

The recommendation system is one of the hotspots in the field of artificial intelligence that can be applied to recommend suitable ecological patterns for the countryside. Countryside ecological patterns mean advanced patterns that can be recommended...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,481 Views
25 Pages

As a representative indicator for the level and sustainability of urban development, urban vitality has been widely used to assess the quality of urban development. However, urban vitality is too blurry to be accurately quantified and is often limite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,356 Views
25 Pages

TOD (transit-oriented development) is a planning concept that uses public transportation stations as the center of development, and it aims to integrate land use efficiency and transportation planning linkages to encourage the use of public transport...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,249 Views
14 Pages

Research on Gridding of Urban Spatial Form Based on Fractal Theory

  • Qindong Fan,
  • Xuejian Mei,
  • Chenming Zhang and
  • Xiaoyu Yang

Urban spatial form is a significant reference to getting to know cities and running the cities. The fractal theory is an effective means to quantify urban spatial form. Taking the buildings in the outer ring of Zhengzhou City as the research object,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,331 Views
16 Pages

Trajectory big data is suitable for distributed storage retrieval due to its fast update speed and huge data volume, but currently there are problems such as hot data writing, storage skew, high I/O overhead and slow retrieval speed. In order to solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,088 Views
15 Pages

Geographically neural network weighted regression is an improved model of GWR combined with a neural network. It has a stronger ability to fit nonlinear functions, and complex geographical processes can be modeled more fully. GNNWR uses the distance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,167 Views
15 Pages

Periodic traffic prediction and analysis is essential for urbanisation and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). However, traffic prediction is challenging due to the nonlinear flow of traffic and its interdependencies on spatiotemporal features....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,215 Views
22 Pages

Parametric Modeling Method for 3D Symbols of Fold Structures

  • An-Bo Li,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Xiao-Feng Du,
  • Guo-Kai Sun and
  • Xian-Yu Liu

Most fabrication methods for three-dimensional (3D) geological symbols are limited to two types: directly increasing the dimensionality of a 2D geological symbol or performing appropriate modeling for an actual 3D geological situation. The former can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,869 Views
27 Pages

The outbreak of the Delta Variant of COVID-19 presents a natural experiment without modern precedent. As authorities scrambled to control the spread of the disease in Australia’s largest cities, construction workers were allowed to keep working...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,751 Views
16 Pages

Spatial Distribution of Urban Parks’ Effect on Air Pollution-Related Health and the Associated Factors in Beijing City

  • Huimin Ji,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Yanrong Zhu,
  • Changsheng Shi,
  • Shaohua Wang,
  • Guoqing Zhi and
  • Bin Meng

Urban parks play an essential role in mitigating the effects of air pollution on human health in a healthy city construction process. However, due to the data limitations, little is known about the spatial distribution of real-time expressed air poll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,653 Views
14 Pages

The ambient population has been regarded as an important indicator for analyzing or predicting thefts. However, the literature has taken it as a homogenous group and seldom explored the varied impacts of different kinds of ambient populations on thef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,026 Views
16 Pages

This study examined the urban structure of colonial Seoul in the 1930s, the capital city of Korea under the rule of the Japanese empire, by adopting quantitative geographical methods. We utilized a job accessibility index to operationalize the urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,071 Views
25 Pages

Protecting residents’ health and improving equality are important goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has placed a heavy burden on the medical systems of many countries and been disastrous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,795 Views
20 Pages

VGI and Satellite Imagery Integration for Crisis Mapping of Flood Events

  • Alberto Vavassori,
  • Daniela Carrion,
  • Benito Zaragozi and
  • Federica Migliaccio

Timely mapping of flooded areas is critical to several emergency management tasks including response and recovery activities. In fact, flood crisis maps embed key information for an effective response to the natural disaster by delineating its spatia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,972 Views
23 Pages

Urban-scale green spaces have been a central topic as of late, but community-scale green spaces are overlooked in urban studies. This paper takes community green spaces in the main urban area of Beijing as the case to quantitatively interpret the spa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,359 Views
20 Pages

Collapse is a common cartographic generalization operation in multi-scale representation and cascade updating of vector spatial data. During transformation from large- to small-scale, the dual-line river shows progressive collapse from narrow river s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,165 Views
13 Pages

Tiled maps are one of the key GIS technologies used in the development and construction of WebGIS in the era of big data; there is an urgent need for high-performance tile map services hosted on big data GIS platforms. To address the current ineffici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,538 Views
22 Pages

DP-CSM: Efficient Differentially Private Synthesis for Human Mobility Trajectory with Coresets and Staircase Mechanism

  • Xin Yao,
  • Juan Yu,
  • Jianmin Han,
  • Jianfeng Lu,
  • Hao Peng,
  • Yijia Wu and
  • Xiaoqian Cao

Generating differentially private synthetic human mobility trajectories from real trajectories is a commonly used approach for privacy-preserving trajectory publishing. However, existing synthetic trajectory generation methods suffer from the drawbac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,030 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Approach Based on Machine Learning and Public Engagement to Predict Water-Scarcity Risk in Urban Areas

  • Sadeq Khaleefah Hanoon,
  • Ahmad Fikri Abdullah,
  • Helmi Z. M. Shafri and
  • Aimrun Wayayok

Climate change, population growth and urban sprawl have put a strain on water supplies across the world, making it difficult to meet water demand, especially in city regions where more than half of the world’s population now reside. Due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,924 Views
18 Pages

The development of high nature value farmland (HNVf) can effectively improve the problems of biodiversity reduction, non-point source pollution and carbon loss in intensive farmland. To this end, we developed a set of general indicators based on Land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,116 Views
25 Pages

Route choice is a complex issue in simulating individual behaviors and reproducing collective phenomena during evacuations. A growing concern has been given to the individual cognitive mechanism to investigate how routing decisions are made in specif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,535 Views
30 Pages

One of the most critical processes for the long-term management of groundwater resources is Groundwater Potential Zonation (GWPZ). Despite their importance, traditional groundwater studies are costly, difficult, complex, and time-consuming. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,434 Views
21 Pages

A Comparison Study of Landslide Susceptibility Spatial Modeling Using Machine Learning

  • Nurwatik Nurwatik,
  • Muhammad Hidayatul Ummah,
  • Agung Budi Cahyono,
  • Mohammad Rohmaneo Darminto and
  • Jung-Hong Hong

One hundred seventeen landslides occurred in Malang Regency throughout 2021, triggering the need for practical hazard assessments to strengthen the disaster mitigation process. In terms of providing a solution for investigating the location of landsl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,833 Views
16 Pages

In this study, we explored the characteristics of thermal anomalies other than biomass burning to establish a zone map of false-positive active fires to support efficient ground validation for firefighters. We used the ASCII file of VIIRS active fire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,211 Views
18 Pages

Spatiotemporal Changes and Driving Factors of Ecosystem Health in the Qinling-Daba Mountains

  • Ting Xiang,
  • Xiaoliang Meng,
  • Xinshuang Wang,
  • Jing Xiong and
  • Zelin Xu

Rapid industrialization and urbanization have accelerated land-use changes in mountainous areas, with dramatic impacts on ecosystem health. In particular, the Qinling-Daba Mountains, as China’s central water tower, ecological green lung, and bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,269 Views
17 Pages

Road networks are the skeletal elements of topographic maps at different scales, and road selection is a prerequisite for implementing continuous multiscale spatial representations of road networks. The mesh-based approach is a common, advanced and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,446 Views
22 Pages

Geographic Named Entity Recognition by Employing Natural Language Processing and an Improved BERT Model

  • Liufeng Tao,
  • Zhong Xie,
  • Dexin Xu,
  • Kai Ma,
  • Qinjun Qiu,
  • Shengyong Pan and
  • Bo Huang

Toponym recognition, or the challenge of detecting place names that have a similar referent, is involved in a number of activities connected to geographical information retrieval and geographical information sciences. This research focuses on recogni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,246 Views
18 Pages

Mobility in urban and interurban areas, mainly by cars, is a day-to-day activity of many people. However, some of its main drawbacks are traffic jams and accidents. Newly made vehicles have pre-installed driving evaluation systems, which can prevent...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,184 Views
23 Pages

Throughout history, pandemics have forced societies to think beyond typical management and control protocols. The main goals of this study were to simulate and understand the spatial dynamics of COVID-19 spread and assess the efficacy of two policy m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,703 Views
29 Pages

A GtoG Direct Coding Mapping Method for Multi-Type Global Discrete Grids Based on Space Filling Curves

  • Yalu Li,
  • Xuesheng Zhao,
  • Wenbin Sun,
  • Guangsong Wang,
  • Fuli Luo,
  • Zheng Wang and
  • Yuanzheng Duan

DGGS (Discrete Global Grid System) has many subdivision models and coding methods. Due to the lack of underlying consistency of different DGGS codes, most of them are converted through longitude–latitude, which greatly reduces the interoperabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,000 Views
22 Pages

Wind energy is an effective solution for achieving the carbon-neutrality target and mitigating climate change. The expansion of onshore wind energy evokes extensive attention to environmental impact in the locality. The landscape visual impact has be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,659 Views
15 Pages

A Study on the Emergency Shelter Spatial Accessibility Based on the Adaptive Catchment Size 2SFCA Method

  • Zilin Ding,
  • Hongjun Dong,
  • Liang Yang,
  • Na Xue,
  • Lanping He and
  • Xinqiang Yao

In order to access the spatial accessibility of emergency shelters, the relationship between the supply and demand of emergency shelters in the two dimensions of space and non-space must be comprehensively considered. Meanwhile, it is vital to unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,107 Views
25 Pages

The Limits of GIS Implementation in Education: A Systematic Review

  • Veronika Bernhäuserová,
  • Lenka Havelková,
  • Kateřina Hátlová and
  • Martin Hanus

Despite the extensive discussion on the educational potential of GIS and the changes made in the curricula in many countries, the implementation of GIS in classrooms has still been relatively slow. This is because of variables limiting the process of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,238 Views
20 Pages

The study of convolutional neural networks for 3D point clouds is becoming increasingly popular, and the difficulty lies mainly in the disorder and irregularity of point clouds. At present, it is straightforward to propose a convolution operation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,893 Views
29 Pages

Interday Stability of Taxi Travel Flow in Urban Areas

  • Ping Tu,
  • Wei Yao,
  • Zhiyuan Zhao,
  • Pengzhou Wang,
  • Sheng Wu and
  • Zhixiang Fang

Taxi travel flow patterns and their interday stability play an important role in the planning of urban transportation and public service facilities. Existing studies pay little attention to the stability of the travel flow patterns between days, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,506 Views
23 Pages

As a form of rapid mass transportation, urban rail systems have always been widely used to alleviate urban traffic congestion and reconstruct urban structures. Land use characteristics are indispensable to this system and correlate with urban ridersh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,999 Views
15 Pages

Land Use Changes and Ecosystem Services: The Case Study of the Abruzzo Region Coastal Strip

  • Francesco Zullo,
  • Cristina Montaldi,
  • Gianni Di Pietro and
  • Chiara Cattani

Consistent and optimized territorial planning, imply the use of numerous variables aimed at improving life quality and reduction of environmental impacts. The resilience of the territory to climate change threats is strongly linked to its progressive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,737 Views
21 Pages

An open problem impeding the use of deep learning (DL) models for forecasting land cover (LC) changes is their bias toward persistent cells. By providing sample weights for model training, LC changes can be allocated greater influence in adjustments...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,503 Views
16 Pages

Ship Target Recognition Based on Context-Enhanced Trajectory

  • Zhan Kong,
  • Yaqi Cui,
  • Wei Xiong,
  • Zhenyu Xiong and
  • Pingliang Xu

Ship target recognition based on trajectories has great potential in the field of target recognition. In the existing research, the context information is ignored, which limits the improvement of ship target recognition ability. In addition, the proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,039 Views
17 Pages

The role of small towns in regional development is being emphasized, especially in developing countries, where small towns are driving regional spatial integration and optimization from the ‘bottom up’. In the context of further refinemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,623 Views
17 Pages

To improve the multi-resolution segmentation (MRS) quality of plastic greenhouses (PGs) in GaoFen-2 (GF-2) images, the effects of atmospheric correction and image enhancement on effective PG segments (EPGSs) were evaluated. A new semi-automatic metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,636 Views
19 Pages

Traditional frequency-domain watermarking algorithms for vector geographic data suffer from disadvantages such as the random watermark embedding position, unpredictable embedding strength, and difficulty in resisting multiple attacks at the same time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,676 Views
20 Pages

Georeferencing Accuracy Assessment of Historical Aerial Photos Using a Custom-Built Online Georeferencing Tool

  • Su Zhang,
  • Hays A. Barrett,
  • Shirley V. Baros,
  • Paul R. H. Neville,
  • Sandeep Talasila and
  • Lisa L. Sinclair

As one of the earliest forms of remote sensing, aerial photography has been regarded as an important part of the mapmaking process. Aerial photos, especially historical aerial photos, provide significant amount of valuable information for many applic...

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