2025 January - 39 articles
Understanding intra-urban travel patterns through quantitative analysis is crucial for effective urban planning and transportation management. In previous studies, a range of distribution functions were modeled to lay the groundwork for human mobilit...
The city of Valparaíso, Chile, faces significant mobility challenges due to its steep slopes, complex urban infrastructure, and socioeconomic conditions. In this direction, this study explores the potential promotion of E-bike uses by identify...
The Qin-Mang River Basin is an important biodiversity conservation area in the Yellow River Basin. Studying the spatiotemporal changes in its ecosystem services (ESs) and the trade-offs and synergies (TOSs) between them is crucial for regional ecolog...
Existing concepts and frameworks of soundscapes focus on the analysis and description of the sound source but do not explore geographical environment parameters and receiver characteristics in the geographical scene. Existing soundscape data models i...
The expansion of the tourism industry has led to the development of various methods to find optimal tourism paths. However, planning tourism paths in hilly areas remains complex and has specific challenges. Different algorithms have been used to plan...
Cartographic design is fundamental to effective mapmaking, requiring adherence to principles such as visual hierarchy, symbolization, and color theory to convey spatial information accurately and intuitively, while Artificial Intelligence (AI) and La...
Rapid urban expansion and chaotic urban land-use patterns cause many socio-economic and environmental issues, e.g., traffic congestion and urban heat islands; thus, scientific planning considering land-use trade-offs and layout optimization is highly...
The United States identifies, monitors, and defends a vast network of controlled airspaces surrounding its own and allied territories. These controlled airspaces include civilian aviation classes (A through G), drone flying regions, and special use (...
Maritime accidents frequently occur in the Philippine archipelagic waters, often resulting in significant loss of life. These incidents highlight the urgent need for improvements in the country’s maritime safety systems. By utilising accident d...
Riverine coastal megacities, particularly in semi-arid South Asian regions, face escalating environmental challenges due to rapid urbanization and climate change. While previous studies have examined urban growth patterns or environmental impacts ind...
Despite nearly a century of research on water-related issues, water erosion remains one of the greatest threats to soil health and soil ecosystem services around the world. Yet, to date, data on water erosion needed to develop mitigation strategies a...
Public spaces are vital for urban living, contributing to the environmental, social, and economic aspects of city life. Hatirjheel Lakefront, a newly developed recreational area in Dhaka, offers significant potential for enhancing accessibility and c...
Indoor location-based services and applications need to obtain information about the indoor spatial layouts and topological relationships of indoor spaces. The 3D city modeling data standard CityGML describes the indoor geometric and semantic informa...
The key to geospatial data integration lies in identifying corresponding objects from different sources. Aiming at the problem of the low matching accuracy of geospatial entities under a single feature attribute, a geospatial entity matching method b...
The rectangular cartogram is a geospatial visualization method that blends the characteristics of maps and charts. By simplifying geographic regions into rectangles and using the area of each rectangle to represent statistical data, it enables effici...
City influence is a critical topic in regional studies, reflecting how cities draw attention and exert impact in various domains. Understanding city influence is essential for fostering sustainable urban growth. However, existing studies have failed...
As a crucial component of urban economic activities, the layout and optimization of urban commercial spaces directly influence the economic prosperity and quality of life of residents. Therefore, comprehensively and accurately characterizing the dist...
The study of cross-border transport connectivity is significant for the development of regional integration and insight into global patterns. Comprehensive connectivity evaluations are lacking and insufficient attention has been paid to Latin America...
This study addresses the prevalent challenges of inefficiency and suboptimal quality in indoor 3D scene generation and rendering by proposing a parameter-tuning strategy for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Through a systematic quantitative analysis of...
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely adopted in urban planning to alleviate traffic congestion, urban sprawl, and other problems. The TOD metro station area, as a dynamic and open spatial system, presents typical complex features. To im...
Real-scene 3D digital campuses are essential for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of spatial data representation, facilitating informed decision-making for university administrators, optimizing resource management, and enriching user engageme...
The Geographic Knowledge Graph (GeoKG) serves as an effective method for organizing geographic knowledge, playing a crucial role in facilitating semantic interoperability across heterogeneous data sources. However, existing GeoKGs are limited by a la...
In this article we present three instruments: (1) a social vulnerability to extreme heat index to identify the areas of a city (and populations thereof) more vulnerable to extreme heat due to climate change (heat islands); (2) a new overall fragility...
In recent years, shared e-scooters have become increasingly popular as a mode of transportation in urban areas. Shared e-scooters have emerged as a convenient and sustainable transportation option in urban areas, providing users with a flexible and e...
Spatial optimization is an integral part of GIS and spatial analysis. It involves making various decisions in space, ranging from the location of public facilities to vehicle routing and political districting. While useful, such problems (especially...
This paper examines the evolution of urban vitality measurement, emphasizing the transformative impact of big data and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Traditionally assessed through direct observations and surveys, urban vitality measurement h...
Urbanized riverine cities in southern Asian developing countries face significant challenges in understanding the spatiotemporal thermal impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) changes driven by rapid urbanization and climatic variability. While previo...
As monitoring technologies and data collection methodologies advance, landslide disaster data reflects attributes such as diverse sources, heterogeneity, substantial volumes, and stringent real-time requirements. To bolster the data support capabilit...
Traffic flow prediction is one of the most important and attractive topics in geographical information science (GIS), traffic management, and logistics. Traffic flows exhibit significant complexity and dynamics, requiring a thorough understanding of...
Accurate forecasting of multivariate traffic flow poses formidable challenges, primarily due to the ever-evolving spatio-temporal dynamics and intricate spatial heterogeneity, where the heterogeneity signifies that the correlations among locations ar...
Although there are many articles dealing with web map applications, they often focus on just one or a few applications. Several articles deal with the technical solution of the applications, but relatively few are focused on the cartographic aspects...
Remote sensing imagery contains rich information about geographical targets, and performing super-resolution (SR) reconstruction on such images requires greater feature representation capabilities. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods exc...
Land management strategies play a pivotal role in the sustainable development of a region. Integrating space syntax into the ecological–social perspective to assess habitat services and optimize multi-scenario simulations and evaluations is cru...
Extracting building outlines from 3D models poses significant challenges stemming from the intricate diversity of structures and the complexity of urban scenes. Current techniques heavily rely on human expertise and involve repetitive, labor-intensiv...
With the continuous advancement of technology for obtaining geographic spatial data, the accumulated volume of such data has been increasing, thus imposing higher demands on the storage, organization, and management of such data. As a new form of dat...
New York State (NYS) passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) in March of 2021 to legalize adult-use recreational cannabis that allows for its distribution, retail sale, and on-site consumption in licensed businesses. While the state (...
Identifying suitable sites for urban, industrial, and tourist development is important, especially in areas with increasing population and limited land availability. Kharga Oasis, Egypt, stands out as a promising area for such development, which can...
Dispatching goods is becoming more difficult to manage in the field of logistics due to the high demand for order shipments. This is related to the increasing popularity of the use of e-commerce platforms by consumers, where products are required to...
Vector road networks are vital components of intelligent transportation systems and electronic navigation maps. There is a pressing need for efficient and rapid dynamic updates for road network data. In this paper, we propose a series of methods desi...
