You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

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
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (69)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,158 Views
15 Pages

Investigating the spatial distribution of urban forest biomass and its potential influencing factors would provide useful insights for configuring urban greenspace. Although China is experiencing an unprecedented scale of urbanization, the spatial pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,697 Views
20 Pages

Recognition Method of New Address Elements in Chinese Address Matching Based on Deep Learning

  • Hongwei Zhang,
  • Fu Ren,
  • Huiting Li,
  • Renfei Yang,
  • Shuai Zhang and
  • Qingyun Du

Location services based on address matching play an important role in people’s daily lives. However, with the rapid development of cities, new addresses are constantly emerging. Due to the untimely updating of word segmentation dictionaries and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,698 Views
19 Pages

Spatial Modeling for Homicide Rates Estimation in Pernambuco State-Brazil

  • Carlos Silva,
  • Silas Melo,
  • Alex Santos,
  • Pedro Almeida Junior,
  • Simone Sato,
  • Katarina Santiago and
  • Lucilene Sá

Homicide rates have been increasing worldwide, especially in Latin America, where it is considered one of the most lethal of the continents. Despite that, the occurrence of homicides are not homogeneous in time and space on the continent or in the Br...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,071 Views
30 Pages

The article describes the design process carried out to deliver a tool for the virtual fruition of the resources of the Puglia Regional Museum Directorate through multimedia content, within the frame of the Vi.S.T.A. (Virtual and Social heritage Tour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,274 Views
20 Pages

Human activities generate diverse and sophisticated functional areas and may impact the existing planning of functional areas. Understanding the relationship between human activities and functional areas is key to identifying the real-time urban func...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,002 Views
14 Pages

Correlation between Geochemical and Multispectral Patterns in an Area Severely Contaminated by Former Hg-As Mining

  • Carlos Boente,
  • Lorena Salgado,
  • Emilio Romero-Macías,
  • Arturo Colina,
  • Carlos A. López-Sánchez and
  • José Luis R. Gallego

In the context of soil pollution, plants suffer stress when exposed to extreme concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs). The alterations to the plants caused by such stressors can be monitored by multispectral imagery in the form of vegeta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,733 Views
18 Pages

This study was conducted to explore the distribution and changes of groundwater resources in the research area, and to promote the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology and its deep learning methods in chemical type distributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,021 Views
21 Pages

A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach for Modelling Uncertainty in Open Geospatial Data on Landfill Suitability Analysis

  • Neema Nicodemus Lyimo,
  • Zhenfeng Shao,
  • Ally Mgelwa Ally,
  • Nana Yaw Danquah Twumasi,
  • Orhan Altan and
  • Camilius A. Sanga

Besides OpenStreetMap (OSM), there are other local sources, such as open government data (OGD), that have the potential to enrich the modeling process with decision criteria that uniquely reflect some local patterns. However, both data are affected b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,934 Views
28 Pages

The paper presents the methodology for creating variable resolution maps, which was developed by the author and implemented to generate passability maps. These studies are used in military applications and crisis management in order to determine the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,000 Views
25 Pages

Combining Satellite Remote Sensing and Climate Data in Species Distribution Models to Improve the Conservation of Iberian White Oaks (Quercus L.)

  • Carlos Vila-Viçosa,
  • Salvador Arenas-Castro,
  • Bruno Marcos,
  • João Honrado,
  • Cristina García,
  • Francisco M. Vázquez,
  • Rubim Almeida and
  • João Gonçalves

The Iberian Peninsula hosts a high diversity of oak species, being a hot-spot for the conservation of European White Oaks (Quercus) due to their environmental heterogeneity and its critical role as a phylogeographic refugium. Identifying and ranking...

of 7

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

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