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

2023 November - 28 articles

Cover Story: Can you imagine being able to talk to a map? This paper explores this idea by presenting a novel voice assistant that facilitates user interaction with geospatial web platforms. It explores the nuanced understanding of users’ commands in the geospatial domain, underpinned by a specialised geospatial discourse framework developed through carefully structured prototyping. A survey identified some common English geospatial interaction terminologies. Using ChatGPT, we found that the term suggestions aligned with the survey results, with a notable correlation between the NPL model's probability scores and the prevalence of terms in the survey data. This work marks a meaningful step forward in the field of geospatial data visualisation, proposing a user-friendly, accessible and intuitive interface for complex data interactions. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,773 Views
14 Pages

Lane-level road information is especially crucial now that high-precision navigation maps are in more demand. Road information may be obtained rapidly and affordably by mining floating vehicle data (FCD). A method is proposed to extract the number of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,074 Views
26 Pages

Flash Flood Hazard Assessment along the Red Sea Coast Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

  • Mohamed Rashwan,
  • Adel K. Mohamed,
  • Fahad Alshehri,
  • Sattam Almadani,
  • Mohammed Khattab and
  • Lamees Mohamed

The Egyptian Red Sea coast is periodically exposed to flash floods that cause severe human and economic losses. That is due to its hydro-geomorphological characteristics. Therefore, identifying flash flood hazards in these areas is critically importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,336 Views
33 Pages

Early Flood Monitoring and Forecasting System Using a Hybrid Machine Learning-Based Approach

  • Eleni-Ioanna Koutsovili,
  • Ourania Tzoraki,
  • Nicolaos Theodossiou and
  • George E. Tsekouras

The occurrence of flash floods in urban catchments within the Mediterranean climate zone has witnessed a substantial rise due to climate change, underscoring the urgent need for early-warning systems. This paper examines the implementation of an earl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,891 Views
18 Pages

Flood inundation causes socioeconomic losses for coastal tourism under climate extremes, progressively attracting global attention. Predicting, mapping, and evaluating the flood inundation risk (FIR) is important for coastal tourism. This study devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,198 Views
25 Pages

Historic districts may be damaged during urban renewal. Landscape sensitivity can be used as a method to judge the ability of a landscape to resist change. This study proposes an improved method for assessing landscape sensitivity based on a geograph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,968 Views
28 Pages

Cultural tourism development potential (CTDP) is the future value and supporting force of the environmental value, economic and social efficiency, innovation ability and supporting system of cultural tourism. At present, there are few relevant studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,052 Views
24 Pages

Population growth in urban centres and the intensification of segregation phenomena associated with international mobility require improved urban planning and decision-making. More effective planning in turn requires better analysis and geospatial mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,557 Views
16 Pages

Dysentery is still a serious global public health problem. In Chongqing, China, there were 37,140 reported cases of dysentery from 2015 to 2021. However, previous research has relied on statistical data of dysentery incidence rate data based on admin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,079 Views
15 Pages

Urban function evolution (UFE) has become more and more complex in emerging cities. However, insufficient theoretical support exists for the visual expression of the spatial correlation between UFE patterns. In order to fill this gap, we use the 2013...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,606 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Scale Road Matching Based on the Summation Product of Orientation and Distance and Shape Descriptors

  • Ying Sun,
  • Yuefeng Lu,
  • Ziqi Ding,
  • Qiao Wen,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yanru Liu and
  • Kaizhong Yao

Most commonly used road-based homonymous entity matching algorithms are only applicable to the same scale, and are weak in recognizing the one-to-many and many-to-many types that are common in matching at different scales. This paper explores model m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,176 Views
16 Pages

A doline is a natural closed depression formed as a result of karstification, and it is the most common landform in karst areas. These depressions damage many living areas and various engineering structures, and this type of collapse event has create...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,954 Views
14 Pages

Geo-Visualization of Spatial Occupancy on Smart Campus Using Wi-Fi Connection Log Data

  • Zihao Zhao,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Yiru Zhang,
  • Zixiang Wang and
  • Ruixuan Geng

As a typical and special type of urban setting, the university campus usually faces similar challenges as cities raised by high-density inhabitants. The smart campus has been introduced based on the smart city, as concepts, technologies, and solution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,573 Views
15 Pages

Vegetation encroachment in power line corridors remains a major challenge for modern energy-dependent societies, as it can cause power outages and lead to significant financial losses. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,981 Views
16 Pages

With the rapid pace of global urbanization, understanding the impact of the urban built environment on travel behavior has become increasingly significant for developing sustainable and efficient transportation systems. This study conducts a bibliome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,677 Views
17 Pages

Old residential communities are integral parts of urban areas, with their environmental quality affecting residents’ well-being. Spontaneous informal spaces (SIS) often emerge within these communities. These are predominantly crafted by the eld...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,296 Views
18 Pages

Mountainous cities face various land use challenges, including complex topography, low land use efficiency, and the insufficient control of land use in small-scale areas at the urban fringe. Considering population changes, environmental conservation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,616 Views
18 Pages

Crop classification using remote sensing data has emerged as a prominent research area in recent decades. Studies have demonstrated that fusing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical images can significantly enhance the accuracy of classification...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,147 Views
20 Pages

There is ongoing debate regarding the association between disorder and criminality. The literature has shown mixed, reduced, or no effects between the two phenomena, although few studies have dealt with the problem in terms of social disorder and its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,870 Views
19 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Characteristics of Spatially Aggregated Elements in an Urban Area: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

  • Zhihao Sun,
  • Dezhi Kang,
  • Hongzan Jiao,
  • Ya Yang,
  • Wei Xue,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Lingbo Liu,
  • Yuwei Su and
  • Zhenghong Peng

Urban spatial elements present agglomeration and dispersion geographic processes in the urban development. Identifying the characteristics of their distribution changes and accurately capturing the evolution of the urban spatial structure is of great...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,865 Views
23 Pages

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the rise of global sustainability science have led to the increasing recognition of basins as the key natural geographical units for human–land system coupling and spatial coordinated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,185 Views
38 Pages

The quality of urban living environments has become a focal point for local governments and citizens. By conducting a thorough analysis of the human settlement environment, the study can not only gain an intuitive insight into the quality of life of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,023 Views
22 Pages

Morphometric Analysis of Trail Network and Tourist Vulnerability in a Highly Frequented Protected Area

  • Guido Paliaga,
  • Andrea Ferrando,
  • Pierluigi Brandolini,
  • Paola Coratza and
  • Francesco Faccini

Increasing interest in the natural environment and greater hiking activity have resulted in higher anthropogenic pressure in areas characterized by a geographic/physical setting that could present hazardous conditions. The development of these activi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,894 Views
25 Pages

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) causes a high mortality rate each year, which is a threat to human well-being and health. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is an effective device for heart attack-related diseases and is a panacea to sav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,946 Views
19 Pages

COVID-19 has caused a serious economic shock which challenges the resilience of businesses around the world. Understanding the spatial distribution pattern of business resilience, as well as identifying factors that promote business resilience, is cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,935 Views
19 Pages

Geographical indication (GI) offers a unique protection scheme to preserve high-quality agricultural products and support rural sustainability at the territorial level. However, not all the areas with traditional agricultural products are acknowledge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,866 Views
15 Pages

Voice assistants can elevate interaction in geospatial data web platforms. This research introduces a voice assistant in the BStreams platform and focuses on understanding user commands in the geospatial domain. We developed a specialised geospatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,066 Views
20 Pages

Augmented reality (AR) technology enables paper maps to dynamically express three-dimensional geographic information, realizing the fusion of virtual and real information. However, in the current mainstream AR development software, the virtual inform...

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ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. - ISSN 2220-9964