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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 8, Issue 2

February 2019 - 49 articles

Cover Story: In this paper, we investigated the trade-offs between social, psychological, and energy potential of the fundamental elements of urban form: the street network and the building volumes. First, we present a methodological and technical framework for evaluating social, psychological, and energy potentials of urban form. Second, we present a method to identify distinct clusters of urban form and, for each, explore the trade-offs between the three potentials. We applied this method to two case studies (Weimar and Zurich), identifying nine types of urban form and their respective potential trade-offs, which are directly applicable for the assessment of strategic decisions regarding urban form during the early planning stages. View this paper.
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,376 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Process-Oriented Graph Storage for Dynamic Geographic Phenomena

  • Cunjin Xue,
  • Chengbin Wu,
  • Jingyi Liu and
  • Fenzhen Su

There exists a sort of dynamic geographic phenomenon in the real world that has a property which is maintained from production through development to death. Using traditional storage units, e.g., point, line, and polygon, researchers face great chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,049 Views
18 Pages

Accurate and reasonable clustering of spatial data results facilitates the exploration of patterns and spatial association rules. Although a broad range of research has focused on the clustering of spatial data, only a few studies have conducted a de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
13,492 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Method for Improving Air Pollution Prediction Based on Machine Learning Approaches: A Case Study Applied to the Capital City of Tehran

  • Mahmoud Reza Delavar,
  • Amin Gholami,
  • Gholam Reza Shiran,
  • Yousef Rashidi,
  • Gholam Reza Nakhaeizadeh,
  • Kurt Fedra and
  • Smaeil Hatefi Afshar

Environmental pollution has mainly been attributed to urbanization and industrial developments across the globe. Air pollution has been marked as one of the major problems of metropolitan areas around the world, especially in Tehran, the capital of I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
10,562 Views
15 Pages

In terms of providing various scattering mechanisms, polarimetric target decompositions provide certain benefits for the interpretation of PolSAR images. This paper tested the capabilities of different polarimetric target decompositions in crop class...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
9,446 Views
23 Pages

As a result of the Gorkha earthquake in 2015, about 9000 people lost their lives and many more were injured. Most of these losses were caused by earthquake-induced landslides. Sustainable planning and decision-making are required to reduce the losses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,434 Views
11 Pages

The positive effects of active mobility on mental and physical health as well as on air quality are widely acknowledged. Increasing the share of active travel is therefore an aim in many countries. Providing bicycle-safe infrastructure is one way to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
17,268 Views
19 Pages

Principles and Applications of the Global Human Settlement Layer as Baseline for the Land Use Efficiency Indicator—SDG 11.3.1

  • Michele Melchiorri,
  • Martino Pesaresi,
  • Aneta J. Florczyk,
  • Christina Corbane and
  • Thomas Kemper

The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produces new global spatial information, evidence-based analytics describing the human presence on the planet that is based mainly on two quantitative factors: (i) the spatial distribution (density) of built-u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,960 Views
22 Pages

Function-Based Search of Place Using Theoretical, Empirical and Probabilistic Patterns

  • Emmanuel Papadakis,
  • George Baryannis,
  • Andreas Petutschnig and
  • Thomas Blaschke

Searching for places rather than traditional keyword-based search represents significant challenges. The most prevalent method of addressing place-related queries is based on place names but has limited potential due to the vagueness of natural langu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,392 Views
25 Pages

An urban, commercial central district is often regarded as the heart of a city. Therefore, quantitative research on commercial central districts plays an important role when studying the development and evaluation of urban spatial layouts. However, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,895 Views
21 Pages

Multi-Sensor UAV Application for Thermal Analysis on a Dry-Stone Terraced Vineyard in Rural Tuscany Landscape

  • Grazia Tucci,
  • Erica Isabella Parisi,
  • Giulio Castelli,
  • Alessandro Errico,
  • Manuela Corongiu,
  • Giovanna Sona,
  • Enea Viviani,
  • Elena Bresci and
  • Federico Preti

Italian dry-stone wall terracing represents one of the most iconic features of agricultural landscapes across Europe, with sites listed among UNESCO World Heritage Sites and FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The analysis o...

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