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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 12, Issue 8

2023 August - 49 articles

Cover Story: It is important that both static and dynamic information are efficiently used to create a suitable tourism plan. However, collecting, accumulating and managing dynamic information can cost tourists time, money and energy. In the present study, an original tourism support system was designed and developed with the purpose of reducing the burden on tourists who are unfamiliar with urban tourist destinations in particular. An original tourism planning support system and web-geographic information systems (Web-GIS) were integrated into a single system, and two original functions were implemented. The system was operated by targeting Osaka City, Japan, for a period of one month. The information concerning 529 sightseeing spots was collected from tourism-related web media and then saved to the database of the system beforehand. View this paper
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,064 Views
26 Pages

The comprehensive and accurate assessment of the indoor air quality (IAQ) in large spaces, such as offices or multipurpose facilities, is essential for IAQ management. It is widely recognized that various IAQ factors affect the well-being, health, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,174 Views
16 Pages

Traffic prediction plays a significant part in creating intelligent cities such as traffic management, urban computing, and public safety. Nevertheless, the complex spatio-temporal linkages and dynamically shifting patterns make it somewhat challengi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,701 Views
16 Pages

Old Mine Map Georeferencing: Case of Marsigli’s 1696 Map of the Smolník Mines

  • Ladislav Hvizdák,
  • Dana Tometzová,
  • Barbora Iannaccone,
  • Marieta Šoltésová,
  • Lucia Domaracká and
  • Kamil Kyšeľa

Historical maps represent a unique and irreplaceable source of information about the history of a country, be it large (historical) regions, individual geomorphological units or specifically defined sites. Using a methodologically correct, critical h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,338 Views
15 Pages

Using a people-centered approach to new urbanization, China has committed to building high-quality living environments through improving urban livability and promoting a stronger sense of belonging among residents. Retail stores serve as one of the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,917 Views
17 Pages

With rapid urbanization, urban functional zones have become important for rational government and resource allocation. Points of interest (POIs), as informative and open-access data, have been widely used in studies of urban functions. However, most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,614 Views
27 Pages

Land Use and Land Cover Classification in the Northern Region of Mozambique Based on Landsat Time Series and Machine Learning

  • Lucrêncio Silvestre Macarringue,
  • Édson Luis Bolfe,
  • Soltan Galano Duverger,
  • Edson Eyji Sano,
  • Marcellus Marques Caldas,
  • Marcos César Ferreira,
  • Jurandir Zullo Junior and
  • Lindon Fonseca Matias

Accurate land use and land cover (LULC) mapping is essential for scientific and decision-making purposes. The objective of this paper was to map LULC classes in the northern region of Mozambique between 2011 and 2020 based on Landsat time series proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,122 Views
30 Pages

Multi-Criterion Analysis of Cyclone Risk along the Coast of Tamil Nadu, India—A Geospatial Approach

  • Subbarayan Saravanan,
  • Devanantham Abijith,
  • Parthasarathy Kulithalai Shiyam Sundar,
  • Nagireddy Masthan Reddy,
  • Hussein Almohamad,
  • Ahmed Abdullah Al Dughairi,
  • Motrih Al-Mutiry and
  • Hazem Ghassan Abdo

A tropical cyclone is a significant natural phenomenon that results in substantial socio-economic and environmental damage. These catastrophes impact millions of people every year, with those who live close to coastal areas being particularly affecte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,018 Views
22 Pages

Analyzing the influencing factors of PM2.5 concentration, scenario simulations, and countermeasure research to address the problem of PM2.5 pollution in Guangdong Province is of great significance for governments at all levels for formulating relevan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,237 Views
22 Pages

Animal movements are realizations of complex spatiotemporal processes. Central to these processes are the varied environmental contexts in which animals move, which fundamentally impact the movement trajectories of individuals at fine spatial and tem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,169 Views
19 Pages

Profiling Public Transit Passenger Mobility Using Adversarial Learning

  • Yicong Li,
  • Tong Zhang,
  • Xiaofei Lv,
  • Yingxi Lu and
  • Wangshu Wang

It is important to capture passengers’ public transit behavior and their mobility to create profiles, which are critical for analyzing human activities, understanding the social and economic structure of cities, improving public transportation,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,899 Views
19 Pages

As an essential role in cartographic generalization, road network selection produces basic geographic information across map scales. However, the previous selection methods could not simultaneously consider both attribute characteristics and spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,939 Views
26 Pages

From an extensive search of papers related to the comparison of Global Digital Elevation Models (hereinafter GDEMs), an analysis is carried out that aims to answer several questions such as: Which GDEMs have been compared? Where have the comparisons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,078 Views
21 Pages

An Evaluation of Smartphone Tracking for Travel Behavior Studies

  • Dominique Gillis,
  • Angel J. Lopez and
  • Sidharta Gautama

The use of smartphone tracking is seen as the way forward in data collection for travel behavior studies. It overcomes some of the weaknesses of the classical approach (which uses paper trip diaries) in terms of accuracy and user annoyance. This arti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,544 Views
19 Pages

An Improved Adaptive Sparrow Search Algorithm for TDOA-Based Localization

  • Jiaqi Dong,
  • Zengzeng Lian,
  • Jingcheng Xu and
  • Zhe Yue

The Ultra-Wideband (UWB) indoor positioning method is widely used in areas where no satellite signals are available. However, during the measurement process of UWB, the collected data contain random errors. To alleviate the effect of random errors on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,704 Views
15 Pages

This study compares the environmental sustainability of two cities in Saudi Arabia, Abha, and Bisha, through their green spaces, by analyzing green spaces in both cities. And the application of spatial statistics tools in the Arc Map program, to meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,008 Views
15 Pages

Detection of Forest Fires through Deep Unsupervised Learning Modeling of Sentinel-1 Time Series

  • Thomas Di Martino,
  • Bertrand Le Saux,
  • Régis Guinvarc’h,
  • Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre and
  • Elise Colin

With an increase in the amount of natural disasters, the combined use of cloud-penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar and deep learning becomes unavoidable for their monitoring. This article proposes a methodology for forest fire detection using unsupe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,484 Views
17 Pages

Personalized mappings become popular among the public with the support of data diversity and device diversity. To develop personalized maps, constructing map symbols through automated ways is beneficial. The formal representation of map symbols (i.e....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,206 Views
19 Pages

Map matching of trajectory data has wide applications in path planning, traffic flow analysis, and intelligent driving. The process of map matching involves matching GPS trajectory points to roads in a roadway network, thereby converting a trajectory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,297 Views
17 Pages

This paper addresses two common challenges in analyzing spatial epidemiological data, specifically disease incidence rates recorded over small areas: filtering noise caused by small local population sizes and deriving estimates at different spatial s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,847 Views
24 Pages

Based on a study of the spatial distribution of coffee shops in the main urban area of Beijing, the main influencing factors were selected based on the multi-source space data. Subsequently, three regression models were compared, and the best site se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,835 Views
22 Pages

The urban road network is a large and complex system characterized by significant heterogeneity arising from different spatial structures and traffic demands. To facilitate effective management and control, it is necessary to partition the road netwo...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2,185 Views
6 Pages

Cartography and Geomedia in Pragmatic Dimensions

  • Beata Medyńska-Gulij,
  • David Forrest and
  • Thomas P. Kersten

This article summarizes the Special Issue of Cartography and Geomedia. Here, Cartography and Geomedia presents a view of cartography as a combination of technology, science, and art, with a focus on the development of geomedia in a geomatic and desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,625 Views
13 Pages

Historical geographic data play an important supporting role in the study of long-term geographic studies, such as climate change, urban expansion and land-use and land-cover change. These data vary in source, format and accuracy and are widely found...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,906 Views
37 Pages

The evaluation of anthropogenic impacts on the landscape is an issue that has traditionally been carried out from a descriptive or at least somewhat qualitative perspective. However, in recent years, the technological improvements provided by geograp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,366 Views
20 Pages

Achieving seamless integration between virtual objects and real scenes has always been an important issue in augmented reality (AR) research. To achieve this, it is necessary to provide virtual objects with real-time and accurate lighting conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,971 Views
22 Pages

In this research, we focused on armed conflicts and related violence. The study reviewed the use of machine learning to predict the likelihood of conflict escalation and the role of conditioning factors. The results showed that machine learning and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,550 Views
18 Pages

Rural tourism has long been recognized as a significant strategy for promoting rural revitalization in China. Excessive development has had a number of negative consequences for rural tourism. As a result, there is a growing need to optimize the deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,658 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of the Bike-Sharing Socioeconomic Equity in the Use of Routes

  • Rafael Suárez-Vega,
  • Yolanda Santana-Jiménez,
  • Juan M. Hernández and
  • José Juan Santana-Figueroa

(1) Background: This work analyzes socioeconomic equity in bike-sharing systems. Specifically, we study the effect of income on bike use in an innovative way by analyzing the frequency of bike routes connecting areas with different mean incomes. (2)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,678 Views
27 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Vehicle Routing Problem from Online Car-Hailing Trajectories

  • Xuyu Feng,
  • Jianhua Yu,
  • Zihan Kan,
  • Lin Zhou,
  • Luliang Tang and
  • Xue Yang

With the advent of the information age and rapid population growth, the urban transportation environment is deteriorating. Travel-route planning is a key issue in modern sustainable transportation systems. When conducting route planning, identifying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,869 Views
14 Pages

It is essential to understand the spatial equity of healthcare services to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Spatial and non-spatial factors affect access to healthcare, resulting in inequality in the hierarchical medical treatment system. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,586 Views
22 Pages

National-level traditional villages in Liandu District and Qingyuan County, Lishui City, in the southwestern mountainous area of Zhejiang Province serve as research objects in our exploration of the external representation and deep spatial structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,680 Views
15 Pages

Hessian Distributed Ant Optimized Perron–Frobenius Eigen Centrality for Social Networks

  • P.V. Kumaraguru,
  • Vidyavathi Kamalakkannan,
  • Gururaj H L,
  • Francesco Flammini,
  • Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood and
  • Rajesh Natarajan

Terabytes of data are now being handled by an increasing number of apps, and rapid user decision-making is hampered by data analysis. At the same time, there is a rise in interest in big data analysis for social networks at the moment. Thus, adopting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,837 Views
20 Pages

Investigating Metropolitan Hierarchies through a Spatially Explicit (Local) Approach

  • Rosanna Salvia,
  • Giovanni Quaranta,
  • Kostas Rontos,
  • Pavel Cudlin and
  • Luca Salvati

Assuming a non-neutral impact of space, an explicit assessment of metropolitan hierarchies based on local regression models produces a refined description of population settlement patterns and processes over time. We used Geographically Weighted Regr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,341 Views
23 Pages

Application of Hydro-Based Morphological Models for Environmental Assessment of Watersheds

  • Silvio Luís Rafaeli Neto,
  • Vanessa Jutel dos Santos,
  • Emili Louise Diconcili Schutz,
  • Leticia Margarete de Moliner,
  • Cristiane Gracieli Kloth,
  • Daiane Teixeira Schier,
  • Arsalan Ahmed Othman,
  • Veraldo Liesenberg and
  • Polyanna da Conceição Bispo

Hydro-based morphological models are representations of the terrain related to the flow or storage of water in the landscape. However, their application in the context of an integrated environmental assessment has been scarcely explored in the litera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,925 Views
19 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Approximation of Coverage Path Planning Results for Parking Lots

  • Andrius Kriščiūnas,
  • Dalia Čalnerytė,
  • Tautvydas Fyleris,
  • Tadas Jurgutis,
  • Dalius Makackas and
  • Rimantas Barauskas

Parking lots have wide variety of shapes because of surrounding environment and the objects inside the parking lot, such as trees, manholes, etc. In the case of paving the parking lot, as much area as possible should be covered by the construction ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,745 Views
32 Pages

Iraq, including the investigated watershed, has endured destructive floods and drought due to precipitation variability in recent years. Protecting susceptible areas from flooding and ensuring water supply is essential for maintaining basic human nee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,638 Views
20 Pages

Usefulness of an Urban Growth Model in Creating Scenarios for City Resilience Planning: An End-User Perspective

  • Ripan Debnath,
  • Christopher Pettit,
  • Balamurugan Soundararaj,
  • Sara Shirowzhan and
  • Ajith Shamila Jayasekare

Urban growth models are increasingly being used to generate scenarios within city and regional planning support systems (PSS). However, their usefulness in land use planning applications, particularly in city resilience planning, is not fully underst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,488 Views
28 Pages

Schematic maps have widely been used for representing transport networks. In the schematization process, preserving the relative position of nodes and the relative length of segments are considered highly important for constructing spatial cognition....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,324 Views
22 Pages

Open Geospatial Data Integration in Game Engine for Urban Digital Twin Applications

  • Toni Rantanen,
  • Arttu Julin,
  • Juho-Pekka Virtanen,
  • Hannu Hyyppä and
  • Matti T. Vaaja

Increasing interest has recently been shown towards the digital twins of cities. These urban digital twins utilize 3D city models together with other data sources, such as open data, which can be accessed, e.g., through application programming interf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,437 Views
23 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic affected many aspects of human mobility and resulted in unprecedented changes in population dynamics, including lifestyle and mobility. Recognizing the effects of the pandemic is crucial to understand changes and mitigate negati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,471 Views
19 Pages

Geological Hazard Assessment of Secondary Collapses Due to Volcanic Earthquakes on Changbai Mountain in China

  • Zengkai Pan,
  • Qiuling Lang,
  • Yichen Zhang,
  • Jiquan Zhang,
  • Chenglong Yu and
  • Chenyang Wu

In recent years, the volcanic activity of Changbai Mountain has been accompanied by several earthquakes, and the frequent human engineering activities have led to a gradual increase in the number of collapses in the region, which severely impacts res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,190 Views
20 Pages

Geospatial factors, because of their spatio-temporal correlations with demand-driven limited service, offer to improve urban planning decisions and expand the knowledge base in cities. Spatio-temporal analyses require an efficient and comprehensible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,487 Views
21 Pages

Deforestation as a land-cover change process is linked to several environmental problems including desertification, biodiversity loss, and ultimately climate change. Understanding the land-cover change process and its relation to human–environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,329 Views
19 Pages

A low-cost, timely, and durable long-term approach to resident travel surveys is crucial for authorities to understand the city’s transportation systems and formulate transportation planning and management policies. This paper summarizes common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,629 Views
24 Pages

The urban thermal environment has become a challenging issue. Streets, as an essential public space in cities, can be laid out in such a way to effectively alleviate a problematic urban thermal environment. In this study, we calculated the layout cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,839 Views
21 Pages

Studying the development characteristics of the urban catering industry holds significant importance for understanding the spatial patterns of cities. In this manuscript, according to the characteristics of the distribution of catering points and bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,255 Views
21 Pages

It is important that both static and dynamic information is efficiently used to create a suitable tourism plan. However, collecting, accumulating and managing dynamic information can cost tourists time, money and energy. In the present study, an orig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,605 Views
22 Pages

Target Localization Method Based on Image Degradation Suppression and Multi-Similarity Fusion in Low-Illumination Environments

  • Huapeng Tang,
  • Danyang Qin,
  • Jiaqiang Yang,
  • Haoze Bie,
  • Mengying Yan,
  • Gengxin Zhang and
  • Lin Ma

Frame buildings as important nodes of urban space. The include high-speed railway stations, airports, residences, and office buildings, which carry various activities and functions. Due to illumination irrationality and mutual occlusion between compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,070 Views
20 Pages

Ride-hailing, a newly emerging mobility service that is popular worldwide, has become an efficient new mode of transportation. Nonetheless, the use and value of ride-hailing remain unclear for newly developed areas in the suburbs. We crawled through...

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