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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 12, Issue 9

2023 September - 39 articles

Cover Story: The intelligent integration of earth observation (EO) data, primarily represented in the form of raster data cubes using knowledge graphs (KGs), plays a crucial role in managing geospatial data heterogeneity and enhancing semantics. This paper introduces a framework that conceptually defines a semantic model for raster data cubes, extending GeoSPARQL ontology. This model combines raster data cube semantics with feature-based geometry and spatial relationships, enabling spatiotemporal queries using SPARQL through ontological concepts. The implementation of this framework involves virtual querying, which refers to dynamically constructing the geospatial knowledge graph during the querying process. This approach eliminates the need to pre-translate all data into a KG, thereby reducing redundancy and cutting storage and processing costs. View this paper
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,964 Views
31 Pages

Urban construction has accelerated the deterioration of the urban sound environment, which has constrained urban development and harmed people’s health. This study aims to explore the spatiotemporal patterns of environmental sound and determine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,502 Views
22 Pages

The concept of green and low-carbon development is integrated into territorial spatial planning and district control research. It is one of the systematic policy tools for emission reduction and carbon sequestration, greatly contributing to achieving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,436 Views
19 Pages

Exploring the relationship between leisure walking and the built environment will provide an improvement in human health and well-being. It is, therefore, necessary to explore the most relevant scale for leisure walking and how the association betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,179 Views
38 Pages

Typhoons are destructive weather events. News media reports contain large amounts of typhoon information. Transforming this information into useful knowledge to provide a basis for mining typhoon knowledge and supporting disaster prevention and relie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,078 Views
19 Pages

Satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) techniques are increasingly valuable for deriving high-quality bathymetric maps of coral reefs. Investigating the performance of the related SDB algorithms in purely spaceborne active–passive fusion bathymetry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,613 Views
25 Pages

Cross-Attention-Guided Feature Alignment Network for Road Crack Detection

  • Chuan Xu,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Liye Mei,
  • Xiufeng Chang,
  • Zhaoyi Ye,
  • Junjian Wang,
  • Lang Ye and
  • Wei Yang

Road crack detection is one of the important issues in the field of traffic safety and urban planning. Currently, road damage varies in type and scale, and often has different sizes and depths, making the detection task more challenging. To address t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,605 Views
25 Pages

The increasing prevalence of cognitive disorders among the elderly is a significant consequence of the global aging phenomenon. Wandering stands out as the most prominent and challenging symptom in these patients, with potential irreversible conseque...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,914 Views
26 Pages

The North Train Railway in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) extends over vast areas, crossing various terrains, including valleys, sand veins, plateaus, and hills. Therefore, the railway was designed and implemented to suit this environmental divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,673 Views
14 Pages

With the rapid development of the economy, car ownership has grown rapidly, which causes many traffic problems. In recent years, intelligent transportation systems have been used to solve various traffic problems. To achieve effective and efficient t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,952 Views
16 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Geoparsing for Public Chinese Resumes

  • Xiaolong Li,
  • Wu Zhang,
  • Yanjie Wang,
  • Yongbin Tan and
  • Jing Xia

As an important carrier of individual information, the resume is an important data source for studying the spatio-temporal evolutionary characteristics of individual and group behaviors. This study focuses on spatio-temporal information extraction an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,859 Views
21 Pages

Learning to use geographic information system (GIS) software effectively may be intimidating due to the extensive range of features it offers. The GRASS GIS software, in particular, presents additional challenges for first-time users in terms of its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,781 Views
30 Pages

The integration of the raster data cube alongside another form of geospatial data (e.g., vector data) raises considerable challenges when it comes to managing and representing it using knowledge graphs. Such integration can play an invaluable role in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,032 Views
18 Pages

Geospatial Analysis in Web Browsers—Comparison Study on WebGIS Process-Based Applications

  • Rostislav Netek,
  • Tereza Pohankova,
  • Oldrich Bittner and
  • Daniel Urban

With the rapid development of internet technologies in recent years, the shift from the desktop to the web platform can be seen within geospatial analysis. While analytical tools, such as buffer or clip, are routinely used in desktop environments, We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,742 Views
21 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated its ability to complete complex tasks in various fields. In urban studies, AI technology has been utilized in some limited domains, such as control of traffic and air quality. This study uses AI to better...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,510 Views
21 Pages

OpenStreetMap (OSM) road networks provide public digital maps underlying many spatial applications such as routing engines and navigation services. However, turning relationships and time restrictions at OSM intersections are lacking in these maps, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,855 Views
22 Pages

Determining the optimal planning scale for urban life circles and analyzing the associated built environment factors are crucial for comprehending and regulating residential differentiation. This study aims to bridge the current research void concern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,808 Views
25 Pages

The frequency and severity of extremes, including extreme precipitation events, extreme evapotranspiration and extreme water storage deficit events, are changing. Thus, the necessity for developing a framework that estimates non-stationary conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,971 Views
21 Pages

Large-Scale Mobile-Based Analysis for National Travel Demand Modeling

  • Bat-hen Nahmias-Biran,
  • Shuki Cohen,
  • Vladimir Simon and
  • Israel Feldman

Mobile phones have achieved a high rate of penetration and gained great interest in the field of travel behavior studies. However, mobile phone data exploitation for national travel models has only been sporadically studied thus far. This work focuse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,029 Views
21 Pages

A Spatial Information Extraction Method Based on Multi-Modal Social Media Data: A Case Study on Urban Inundation

  • Yilong Wu,
  • Yingjie Chen,
  • Rongyu Zhang,
  • Zhenfei Cui,
  • Xinyi Liu,
  • Jiayi Zhang,
  • Meizhen Wang and
  • Yong Wu

With the proliferation and development of social media platforms, social media data have become an important source for acquiring spatiotemporal information on various urban events. Providing accurate spatiotemporal information for events contributes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,412 Views
22 Pages

Gated Recurrent Unit Embedded with Dual Spatial Convolution for Long-Term Traffic Flow Prediction

  • Qingyong Zhang,
  • Lingfeng Zhou,
  • Yixin Su,
  • Huiwen Xia and
  • Bingrong Xu

Considering the spatial and temporal correlation of traffic flow data is essential to improve the accuracy of traffic flow prediction. This paper proposes a traffic flow prediction model named Dual Spatial Convolution Gated Recurrent Unit (DSC-GRU)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,388 Views
22 Pages

Given the significant role of the Ningxia Urban Agglomeration along the Yellow River in reshaping the urban network and promoting coordinated development in the upper Yellow River region of China, this paper takes enterprise flow as the explicit mani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,325 Views
25 Pages

Despite water being a basic human need, the residents of Sibi in Ghana’s Nkwanta North District struggle to obtain potable water, which negatively influences their livelihoods. This study aimed to evaluate the impacts on households’ livel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,674 Views
19 Pages

In the face of persistent challenges posed by urbanization and climate change, the contemporary era has witnessed a growing urgency for urban intelligence and sustainable development. Consequently, a plethora of smart city schedules and policies have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,281 Views
19 Pages

With the increasing availability of remote sensing images, the regularization of jagged building outlines extracted from high-resolution remote sensing images has become a current research hotspot. Based on an existing method proposed earlier by this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,141 Views
16 Pages

Clarifying urban-rural spatial explicit structure changes is of great significance for understanding the urban-rural relationship evolution. Previous studies have mostly focused on urban internal spatial structure evolutions and less on the regional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,874 Views
24 Pages

With the growing availability of remote sensing orbital spatial data, the applications of machine learning (ML) algorithms have been leveraging the field of process automation in image classification. The present work aimed to evaluate the precision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,522 Views
23 Pages

Taking location-based service (LBS) as the research scenario and aiming at the limitation of visualizing LBS points of interest (POI) in conventional web maps, this article proposes a visualization method of LBS-POI based on tag cloud, which is calle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,660 Views
20 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Relevance Classification from Geographic Texts Using Deep Learning

  • Miao Tian,
  • Xinxin Hu,
  • Jiakai Huang,
  • Kai Ma,
  • Haiyan Li,
  • Shuai Zheng,
  • Liufeng Tao and
  • Qinjun Qiu

The growing proliferation of geographic information presents a substantial challenge to the traditional framework of a geographic information analysis and service. The dynamic integration and representation of geographic knowledge, such as triples, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,961 Views
24 Pages

Architectural heritage refers to buildings, complexes, and sites with historical, cultural, artistic, technological, and geographical values, including ancient buildings, historical buildings, places of interest, dwellings, and industrial sites. Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,753 Views
18 Pages

The spatial accessibility of urban parks is an important indicator of the livability level of cities. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive multimodal two-step floating catchment area (CM2SFCA) method which integrates supply capacity, the selecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,273 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Type Features Embedded Deep Learning Framework for Residential Building Prediction

  • Yijiang Zhao,
  • Xiao Tang,
  • Zhuhua Liao,
  • Yizhi Liu,
  • Min Liu and
  • Jian Lin

Building type prediction is a critical task for urban planning and population estimation. The growing availability of multi-source data presents rich semantic information for building type prediction. However, existing residential building prediction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,757 Views
19 Pages

Carbon Biomass Estimation Using Vegetation Indices in Agriculture–Pasture Mosaics in the Brazilian Caatinga Dry Tropical Forest

  • Vicente de Paula Sousa Júnior,
  • Javier Sparacino,
  • Giovana Mira de Espindola and
  • Raimundo Jucier Sousa de Assis

Remote sensing is valuable for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) stocks. However, its application in agricultural and pasture areas is limited compared with forest areas. This study quantifies AGB in agriculture–pasture mosaics within Brazil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,693 Views
16 Pages

Research on the Cyberspace Map and Its Conceptual Model

  • Lan Zhang,
  • Guangxia Wang,
  • Xiong You,
  • Zhiyong Liu,
  • Lin Ma,
  • Jiangpeng Tian and
  • Mingzhan Su

The cyberspace map, as one of the important tools for describing cyberspace, provides a visual representation of the dynamic and elusive nature of cyberspace. It has become a research hotspot in multiple disciplinary fields. Compared with traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,545 Views
19 Pages

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has shown great value for both users and providers in location-based services. Existing methods mainly rely on partial information in users’ check-in sequences, and are brittle to users with few inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,142 Views
20 Pages

IFC-CityGML Data Integration for 3D Property Valuation

  • Siham El Yamani,
  • Rafika Hajji and
  • Roland Billen

The accurate assessment of proper value in complex and increasingly high-rise urban environments is a significant challenge. Previous research has identified property value as a composite of indoor elements, such as volume and height, and 3D simulati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,292 Views
21 Pages

The availability of spatial and spatiotemporal big data is increasing rapidly. Spatially and temporally high resolved data are especially gathered via the Internet of Things. This data can often be accessed as data streams that push new data tuples c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,457 Views
26 Pages

The development of the HSR station area is the result of the combined effect of the three elements of transport, place, and industry. This study introduces the industrial dimension and constructs the node-place-industry model to empirically analyze t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,763 Views
17 Pages

This study focuses on the positional accuracy of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and 3D vector features by considering that both datasets can be used as a product to assess or as a reference. The main objective is to provide an alternative method to...

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