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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 7, Issue 12

December 2018 - 37 articles

Cover Story: Vegetation mapping and classification has been a major component of remote sensing since its inception. Increasingly, high spatial resolution sensors have allowed us to ask specific questions about vegetation at precise spatial locations. In this study, we sought to answer the question "where do trees extend over residential rooftops?" for the City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our GEOBIA-based approach is applied to high-resolution multispectral imagery and leverages Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to reduce processing requirements—an important enhancement when working with city-spanning, sub-meter spatial resolution imagery. We generate detailed urban maps of vegetation over rooftops using a machine learning classifier on a VGI-filtered set of image objects. View this paper.
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Articles (37)

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,223 Views
28 Pages

Developing a Dynamic Web-GIS Based Landslide Early Warning System for the Chittagong Metropolitan Area, Bangladesh

  • Bayes Ahmed,
  • Md. Shahinoor Rahman,
  • Rahenul Islam,
  • Peter Sammonds,
  • Chao Zhou,
  • Kabir Uddin and
  • Tahmeed M. Al-Hussaini

This article aims to develop a Web-GIS based landslide early warning system (EWS) for the Chittagong Metropolitan Area (CMA), Bangladesh, where, in recent years, rainfall-induced landslides have caused great losses of lives and property. A method for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,616 Views
18 Pages

Land surface temperature (LST) can significantly alter seasonal vegetation phenology which in turn affects the global and regional energy balance. These are the most important parameters of surface–atmosphere interactions and climate change. Me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,911 Views
22 Pages

Checking the Consistency of Volunteered Phenological Observations While Analysing Their Synchrony

  • Hamed Mehdipoor,
  • Raul Zurita-Milla,
  • Ellen-Wien Augustijn and
  • Arnold J. H. Van Vliet

The increasing availability of volunteered geographic information (VGI) enables novel studies in many scientific domains. However, inconsistent VGI can negatively affect these studies. This paper describes a workflow that checks the consistency of Vo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,090 Views
26 Pages

Hyperspectral imagery provides detailed spectral information that can be used for tree species discrimination. The aim of this study is to assess spectral–spatial complexity reduction techniques for tree species classification using an airborne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,349 Views
12 Pages

Air Pollution Dispersion Modelling Using Spatial Analyses

  • Jan Bitta,
  • Irena Pavlíková,
  • Vladislav Svozilík and
  • Petr Jančík

Air pollution dispersion modelling via spatial analyses (Land Use Regression—LUR) is an alternative approach to the standard air pollution dispersion modelling techniques in air quality assessment. Its advantages are mainly a much simpler mathe...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,579 Views
15 Pages

Creating a Story Map Using Geographic Information Systems to Explore Geomorphology and History of Methana Peninsula

  • Varvara Antoniou,
  • Lemonia Ragia,
  • Paraskevi Nomikou,
  • Pavlina Bardouli,
  • Danai Lampridou,
  • Theodora Ioannou,
  • Ilias Kalisperakis and
  • Christos Stentoumis

Story maps are used as an interactive tool for communication and information dissemination. A web-based application using story mapping technology is presented to explore the Methana peninsula. This volcanic area is characterized by specific volcanic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,985 Views
19 Pages

Towards Detecting Social Events by Mining Geographical Patterns with VGI Data

  • Zhewei Liu,
  • Xiaolin Zhou,
  • Wenzhong Shi and
  • Anshu Zhang

Detecting events using social media data is important for timely emergency response and urban monitoring. Current studies primarily use semantic-based methods, in which “bursts” of certain semantic signals are detected to identify emergin...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,101 Views
15 Pages

Challenges of Mapping Sustainable Development Goals Indicators Data

  • Menno Jan Kraak,
  • Britta Ricker and
  • Yuri Engelhardt

The global population is growing at an incomprehensible rate and with it come complex environmental consequences that often result in social injustices. The United Nations has established a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an attempt to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,167 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Scale and Multi-Sensor 3D Documentation of Heritage Complexes in Urban Areas

  • Arnadi Murtiyoso,
  • Pierre Grussenmeyer,
  • Deni Suwardhi and
  • Rabby Awalludin

The 3D documentation of heritage complexes or quarters often requires more than one scale due to its extended area. While the documentation of individual buildings requires a technique with finer resolution, that of the complex itself may not need th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,271 Views
22 Pages

Combining the Two-Layers PageRank Approach with the APA Centrality in Networks with Data

  • Taras Agryzkov,
  • Francisco Pedroche,
  • Leandro Tortosa and
  • José F. Vicent

Identifying the influential nodes in complex networks is a fundamental and practical topic at the moment. In this paper, a new centrality measure for complex networks is proposed based on two contrasting models that have their common origin in the we...

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