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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 7, Issue 8

August 2018 - 45 articles

Cover Story: Rural areas in Africa are largely characterized by poor road networks. This poor state of rural roads contributes to the vulnerability of communities in developing countries by hampering access to vital social services and opportunities. In addition, maps of the road networks are largely incomplete and not up-to-date. In this paper, motorcycle taxis, which are a dominant mode of transport in rural areas in Africa, were tracked using affordable GPS data loggers. The resulting GPS trajectories revealed the village-level road networks that are used by rural residents. The results showed that GPS trajectories from motorcycle taxis can improve the map coverage of rural road networks and boost other mapping initiatives like OpenStreetMap (OSM). Specifically, GPS-derived data can improve the coverage of official road maps in rural areas by up to 70% and OSM data by up to 60%. View the paper here.
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Articles (45)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,451 Views
22 Pages

We compared three methods for deriving communication viewsheds, which indicate the coverage areas for transmitter points from high-resolution digital surface models. Communication viewsheds were analyzed with a novel 3D Fresnel zone method, as well a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,226 Views
26 Pages

Analyzing the Tagging Quality of the Spanish OpenStreetMap

  • Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez and
  • Antonio Becerra-Terón

In this paper, a framework for the assessment of the quality of OpenStreetMap is presented, comprising a batch of methods to analyze the quality of entity tagging. The approach uses Taginfo as a reference base and analyses quality measures such as co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,679 Views
12 Pages

Information mined from building information models as well as associated geographical data and Geographic Information System (GIS) analyses can increase the success of construction processes and asset management, including buildings, roads, and publi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,453 Views
19 Pages

Exploring Railway Network Dynamics in China from 2008 to 2017

  • Yaping Huang,
  • Shiwei Lu,
  • Xiping Yang and
  • Zhiyuan Zhao

China’s high speed rail (HSR) network has been rapidly constructed and developed during the past 10 years. However, few studies have reported the spatiotemporal changes of railway network structures and how those structures have been affected b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,126 Views
21 Pages

A Methodology for Planar Representation of Frescoed Oval Domes: Formulation and Testing on Pisa Cathedral

  • Andrea Piemonte,
  • Gabriella Caroti,
  • Isabel Martínez-Espejo Zaragoza,
  • Filippo Fantini and
  • Luca Cipriani

This paper presents an original methodology for planar development of a frescoed dome with an oval plan. Input data include a rigorous geometric survey, performed with a laser scanner, and a photogrammetry campaign, which associates a high-quality ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,235 Views
17 Pages

The rapid detection of information on continuously changing intersection auxiliary through lane is a major task of lane-level navigation data updates. However, existing lane number detection methods possess long update cycles and high computational c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,849 Views
15 Pages

The advance in Information Communication Technology (ICT) has contributed to global challenges of improving urban air quality. Ubiquitous computing technology enables citizens to easily access air quality information services without spatial or tempo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,353 Views
20 Pages

Multidimensional Arrays for Analysing Geoscientific Data

  • Meng Lu,
  • Marius Appel and
  • Edzer Pebesma

Geographic data is growing in size and variety, which calls for big data management tools and analysis methods. To efficiently integrate information from high dimensional data, this paper explicitly proposes array-based modeling. A large portion of E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,180 Views
21 Pages

Multi-Temporal Image Analysis for Fluvial Morphological Characterization with Application to Albanian Rivers

  • Daniele Spada,
  • Paolo Molinari,
  • Walter Bertoldi,
  • Alfonso Vitti and
  • Guido Zolezzi

A procedure for the characterization of the temporal evolution of river morphology is presented. Wet and active river channels are obtained from the processing of imagery datasets. Information about channel widths and active channel surface subdivisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
6,035 Views
18 Pages

Improving Tree Species Classification Using UAS Multispectral Images and Texture Measures

  • Rossana Gini,
  • Giovanna Sona,
  • Giulia Ronchetti,
  • Daniele Passoni and
  • Livio Pinto

This paper focuses on the use of ultra-high resolution Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) imagery to classify tree species. Multispectral surveys were performed on a plant nursery to produce Digital Surface Models and orthophotos with ground sample dist...

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