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

December 2020 - 69 articles

Cover Story: Geodiversity denotes variability in abiotic components in a hierarchical natural environment. Arguably, geodiversity underpins biodiversity. As such, geodiversity is essential to geoheritage, geoconservation, and human well-being. While the value of geodiversity is established, the methods of assessing it are not. Geodiversity assessment mainly involves expert judgement. The reliance on expert judgement rather than on direct quantitative valuation introduces ambiguity into geodiversity assessment. Might, however, the aggregate judgement of many experts be better than the judgement of a few? This paper tries to answer the question by crowdsourcing expert judgements and computing geodiversity with spatial multicriteria techniques. The reliability of geodiversity values is conveyed by uncertainty of assessment, which is computed and mapped. View this paper
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Articles (69)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,354 Views
16 Pages

Binding and planned community regulations regarding INSPIRE and other documents resulting from work on INSPIRE have forced the member countries to implement new or updated regulations. The purpose of creating the spatial information infrastructure wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,358 Views
16 Pages

Data Gap Classification for Terrestrial Laser Scanning-Derived Digital Elevation Models

  • Matthew S. O’Banion,
  • Michael J. Olsen,
  • Jeff P. Hollenbeck and
  • William C. Wright

Extensive gaps in terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point cloud data can primarily be classified into two categories: occlusions and dropouts. These gaps adversely affect derived products such as 3D surface models and digital elevation models (DEMs),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,062 Views
20 Pages

Analysis of the Temporal Characteristics of the Elderly Traveling by Bus Using Smart Card Data

  • Zhicheng Shi,
  • Lilian S. C. Pun-Cheng,
  • Xintao Liu,
  • Jianhui Lai,
  • Chengzhuo Tong,
  • Anshu Zhang,
  • Min Zhang and
  • Wenzhong Shi

Many cities around the world face the challenge of an aging population. A full understanding of the mobility behavior characteristics of the elderly is one necessary and urgent consideration as regards the current aging trend if sustainable urban dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,306 Views
17 Pages

A Virtual Reality Simulation Method for Crowd Evacuation in a Multiexit Indoor Fire Environment

  • Yukun Guo,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Jinchuan Chai,
  • Weilian Li,
  • Lin Fu,
  • Bingli Xu and
  • Yuhang Gong

Evacuation simulations in virtual indoor fire scenes hold great significance for public safety. However, existing evacuation simulation methods are inefficient and provide poor visualized when applied to virtual reality (VR) simulations. Additionally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,426 Views
20 Pages

Opportunities and Challenges of Geospatial Analysis for Promoting Urban Livability in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning

  • Anna Kovacs-Györi,
  • Alina Ristea,
  • Clemens Havas,
  • Michael Mehaffy,
  • Hartwig H. Hochmair,
  • Bernd Resch,
  • Levente Juhasz,
  • Arthur Lehner,
  • Laxmi Ramasubramanian and
  • Thomas Blaschke

Urban systems involve a multitude of closely intertwined components, which are more measurable than before due to new sensors, data collection, and spatio-temporal analysis methods. Turning these data into knowledge to facilitate planning efforts in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,728 Views
22 Pages

The field of geographic information science has grown exponentially over the last few decades and, particularly within the context of the pervasiveness of the internet, bears witness to a rapid transition of its associated technologies from stand-alo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,187 Views
22 Pages

Flash floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters in Fujian Province, China, and they seriously threaten the safety of infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and human life. Thus, recognition of possible flash flood locations and exploitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,517 Views
25 Pages

The research analyzes the image of Barcelona and compares differences in quantity, variety and proximity of some essential services in diverse urban fragments. Focusing on food and health premises as critical universal services, series of maps provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,854 Views
22 Pages

A BIM Based Hybrid 3D Indoor Map Model for Indoor Positioning and Navigation

  • Jianhua Liu,
  • Jingyan Luo,
  • Jiwei Hou,
  • Danqi Wen,
  • Guoqiang Feng and
  • Xu Zhang

Accurate and fast indoor Location-Based Services (LBS) is very important for daily life and emergency response. Indoor map is the basis of indoor LBS. The model construction and data organization of indoor map are the key scientific problems that urg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,217 Views
18 Pages

Automatic Workflow for Roof Extraction and Generation of 3D CityGML Models from Low-Cost UAV Image-Derived Point Clouds

  • Arnadi Murtiyoso,
  • Mirza Veriandi,
  • Deni Suwardhi,
  • Budhy Soeksmantono and
  • Agung Budi Harto

Developments in UAV sensors and platforms in recent decades have stimulated an upsurge in its application for 3D mapping. The relatively low-cost nature of UAVs combined with the use of revolutionary photogrammetric algorithms, such as dense image ma...

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