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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 14, Issue 6

2025 June - 28 articles

Cover Story: Integrating spatio-temporal kriging with machine learning enhances overall estimation accuracy by addressing complex spatial and temporal variations. However, the improvements are largely attributed to the effective modeling of global trends, which is not sufficient to justify the selection of kriging methods. This study evaluates the effectiveness of combining these approaches, focusing on their impact on overall accuracy and the contributions to global trends and spatio-temporal interactions. The results indicate the integration improves overall accuracy. Polynomial regression produces smoother patterns by capturing gradual variations in global trends, whereas random forest and boosting yield more abrupt patterns. This study highlights the importance of considering the sources of variation in phenomena when selecting kriging methods. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,794 Views
27 Pages

High-Resolution Global Land Cover Maps and Their Assessment Strategies

  • Qiongjie Xu,
  • Vasil Yordanov,
  • Lorenzo Bruzzone and
  • Maria Antonia Brovelli

Global High-Resolution Land Cover Maps (GHRLCs), characterized by spatial resolutions higher than 30 m per pixel, have become essential tools for environmental monitoring, urban planning, and climate modeling. Over the past two decades, new GHRLCs ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,573 Views
26 Pages

The generation of road interchange networks benefits various applications, such as vehicle navigation and intelligent transportation systems. Traditional methods often focus on common road structures but fail to fully utilize long-term trajectory con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,165 Views
21 Pages

Spatial Proximity Relations-Driven Semantic Representation for Geospatial Entity Categories

  • Yongbin Tan,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Rongfeng Cai,
  • Lingling Gao,
  • Zhonghai Yu and
  • Xin Li

Unsupervised representation learning can train deep learning models to formally express the semantic connotations of objects in the case of unlabeled data, which can effectively realize the expression of the semantics of geospatial entity categories...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,104 Views
24 Pages

Accurate and detailed spatial data on wind energy infrastructure is essential for renewable energy planning, grid integration, and system analysis. However, publicly available datasets often suffer from limited spatial accuracy, missing attributes, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,424 Views
23 Pages

R-MLGTI: A Grid- and R-Tree-Based Hybrid Index for Unevenly Distributed Spatial Data

  • Yuqin Li,
  • Jining Yan,
  • Xiaohui Huang,
  • Xiangyou He,
  • Ze Deng and
  • Yunliang Chen

In recent years, with the development of sensor technology, the volume of spatial data has grown exponentially. However, this data is often unevenly distributed, and traditional indexing methods cannot predict the overall data distribution when data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,088 Views
21 Pages

With the advancement of spatial positioning technology, trajectory data have been growing rapidly. Trajectory data record the spatiotemporal information and behavioral characteristics of moving objects, and in-depth analysis can provide decision supp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,062 Views
16 Pages

A Spatial Decision Support Model for Fire Station Construction Prioritization Under Resource Constraints

  • Yuan Zeng,
  • Dingli Liu,
  • Diping Yuan,
  • Weijun Liu,
  • Guohua Wu and
  • Xiao Lei

Governments often plan multiple fire stations simultaneously to improve firefighting capabilities, but constructing them within limited resources and time remains a challenge. A spatial decision support model is proposed in this study to determine th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
19 Pages

Vegetation change profoundly influences ecosystem sustainability and human activities, with solar radiation serving as a primary driver. However, the effects of surface radiative forcing (SRF) and related factors on vegetation dynamics remain poorly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,279 Views
23 Pages

A Multi-Semantic Feature Fusion Method for Complex Address Matching of Chinese Addresses

  • Pengpeng Li,
  • Qing Zhu,
  • Jiping Liu,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Ping Du,
  • Shuangtong Liu and
  • Yuting Zhang

Accurate address matching is crucial for the analysis, integration, and intelligent management of urban geospatial data and is also a key step in achieving geocoding. However, due to the complexity, diversity, and irregularity of address expression,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,093 Views
21 Pages

A Network Approach for Discovering Spatially Associated Objects

  • Changfeng Jing,
  • Tao Liang,
  • Yunlong Feng,
  • Jianing Li,
  • Sensen Wu,
  • Jiale Ding,
  • Gaoran Xu and
  • Yang Hu

Discovering spatially associated objects involves measuring objects’ similarities and retrieving associated objects. The integration of spatial topology and network models for discovering associated objects remains largely unexplored. Here, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,675 Views
27 Pages

Examining the relationship between built environment (BE) and urban vitality (UV) is beneficial for promoting urban planning, as it deepens the understanding of how spatial design shapes urban life and activity patterns. However, the nonlinear effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,008 Views
13 Pages

Integrating spatio-temporal kriging with machine learning improves estimation accuracy by addressing complex spatial and temporal variations in spatio-temporal phenomena. The improvement can be attributed to the enhanced flexibility of machine learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,387 Views
18 Pages

Machine Learning-Enhanced 3D GIS Urban Noise Mapping with Multi-Modal Factors

  • Jianping Pan,
  • Yuzhe He,
  • Wei Ma,
  • Shengwang An,
  • Lu Li,
  • Dan Huang and
  • Dunxin Jia

Geographic Information System (GIS)-based noise management is crucial in urban environments as it provides precise spatial analysis, helping to identify noise hotspots and optimize noise control measures. By integrating noise propagation models with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
834 Views
22 Pages

Accurate clustering of buildings is a prerequisite for map generalization in densely populated urban data. Edge buildings at the edge of building groups, identified through human-eye recognition, may serve as boundary constraints for clustering. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,741 Views
23 Pages

Extensive scientific evidence underscores the importance of identifying spatiotemporal patterns for investigating urban dynamics. The recent proliferation of location-based social networks (LBSNs) facilitates the measurement of urban rhythms through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,036 Views
15 Pages

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically through convolutional neural networks (CNNs), is paving the way for significant advancements in archaeological research. This study explores the innovative application of the so-called Mas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,017 Views
17 Pages

Viewpoint Selection for 3D Scenes in Map Narratives

  • Shichuan Liu,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Qing Tang and
  • Yaoyao Han

Narrative mapping, an advanced geographic information visualization technology, presents spatial information episodically, enhancing readers’ spatial understanding and event cognition. However, during 3D scene construction, viewpoint selection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,321 Views
19 Pages

Exploring the Application of NeRF in Enhancing Post-Disaster Response: A Case Study of the Sasebo Landslide in Japan

  • Jinge Zhang,
  • Yan Du,
  • Yujing Jiang,
  • Sunhao Zhang,
  • Hongbin Chen and
  • Dongqi Shang

Rapid acquisition of 3D reconstruction models of landslides is crucial for post-disaster emergency response and rescue operations. This study explores the application potential of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) technology for rapid post-disaster site...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,862 Views
22 Pages

In the context of digital transformation, examining the differences in commercial site selection and the factors influencing these decisions holds significant practical value for understanding market adaptation strategies across varying business mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,452 Views
26 Pages

Hierarchical Data Visualization Based on Rectangular Cartograms

  • Lina Wang,
  • Haoxun Yuan,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Yaru Li,
  • Danfei Zhang and
  • Haoqi Hu

As the diversity and complexity of geographic statistical data continue to increase, it becomes increasingly important to present multi-level information in order to meet a broader range of needs. In response to the limitations of existing visualizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
851 Views
21 Pages

Micro-terrain recognition plays a crucial role in the planning, design, and safe operation of transmission lines. To achieve intelligent and automatic recognition of micro-terrain surrounding transmission lines, this paper proposes an improved semant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
922 Views
22 Pages

GeoFAN: Point Pattern Recognition in Spatial Vector Data

  • Zhuoyi Yang,
  • Zeyi Li,
  • Haitao Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Yanwei Wang and
  • Yihang Huang

The recognition of point patterns in spatial vector data has important applications in geographic mapping and formation recognition. However, the application of traditional methods to spatial vector data faces two difficulties. Firstly, these data ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
838 Views
24 Pages

Recognizing functionally cohesive building groups is crucial for urban analysis, geospatial intelligence, and smart city applications. Traditional methods rely heavily on geometric information and often overlook the functional and semantic coherence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,310 Views
25 Pages

While deep learning-based image matching methods excel at extracting high-level semantic features from remote sensing data, their performance degrades significantly under cross-daylight conditions and wide-baseline geometric distortions, particularly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,096 Views
32 Pages

This study collected site and spatial morphological data from 63 typical aging community activity spaces and extracted 12 spatial types through statistical analysis. A parametric modeling tool was used to generate spatial models. Based on clearly def...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,752 Views
25 Pages

A Playful Participatory Planning System (P-PPS): A Framework for Collecting and Analyzing Player-Generated Spatial Data from Minecraft Worlds

  • Ítalo Sousa de Sena,
  • Lasith Niroshan,
  • Jonáš Rosecký,
  • Vojtěch Brůža,
  • Micheál Butler and
  • Chiara Cocco

Digital tools, especially games, are increasingly important for enabling citizen participation in urban planning. Among these, Minecraft has been widely utilized to engage children, leveraging its virtual environment to represent geospatial data. How...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,791 Views
32 Pages

This study presents an innovative approach to mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect by constructing a cold island spatial pattern (CSP) from the perspective of landscape connectivity, integrating three-dimensional (3D) urban morphology and me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,170 Views
21 Pages

As climate change intensifies, cities are experiencing more severe rainfall and frequent waterlogging. When rainfall exceeds the carrying capacity of urban drainage networks, it poses a significant risk to urban facilities and public safety, seriousl...

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