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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 9, Issue 6

2020 June - 72 articles

Cover Story: In the last two decades, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have successfully been used in different environments for diverse applications. For UAS LiDAR-based mapping missions, the requirements for flight planning differ from those of conventional UAS image-based flight plans because of various reasons related to the LiDAR scanning mechanism, scanning range, output scanning rate, field of view (FOV), and rotation speed, amongst others. The article presents flight planning simulations in which the UAS platform is equipped or, alternatively, three low-cost multi-beam LiDARs, namely Quanergy M8, Velodyne VLP-16, and Ouster OS-1-16. The specific characteristics of the three sensors were used to plan flights and acquire dense point clouds. The results show clear relationships between point density, flying speeds, and flying heights. View this paper
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Articles (72)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,506 Views
23 Pages

Digital Trade Feature Map: A New Method for Visualization and Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Bilateral Trade

  • Sijing Ye,
  • Changqing Song,
  • Changxiu Cheng,
  • Shi Shen,
  • Peichao Gao,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Xiaoqiang Chen,
  • Yuanhui Wang and
  • Changjun Wan

Product bilateral trade features can be organized and expressed in the Cartesian coordinate system by taking imports and exports as X and Y, which is similar to spatial visualization. Hence, geospatial expression and analysis methodologies can be app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,793 Views
27 Pages

Constructing the CityGML ADE for the Multi-Source Data Integration of Urban Flooding

  • Jie Shen,
  • Jingyi Zhou,
  • Jiemin Zhou,
  • Lukas Herman and
  • Tomas Reznik

Urban flooding, as one of the most serious natural disasters, has caused considerable personal injury and property damage throughout the world. To better cope with the problem of waterlogging, the experts have developed many waterlogging models that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,677 Views
21 Pages

This article analyzes the applicability of spatial data for evaluating and monitoring changes in land use and their impact on the local landscape. The Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE) Land Cover database was used to develop a p...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,569 Views
14 Pages

Extreme heat events at urban centers in combination with air pollution pose a serious risk to human health. Among these are financially distressed cities and neighborhoods that are facing enormous challenges without the scientific and technical capac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,226 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Driving Forces of Land Use and Land Cover Change in New England Area by a Mixed Method

  • Ruiting Zhai,
  • Chuanrong Zhang,
  • Weidong Li,
  • Xiang Zhang and
  • Xueke Li

Understanding the driving forces of land use/cover change (LUCC) is a requisite to mitigate and manage effects and consequences of LUCC. This study aims to analyze drivers of LUCC in New England, USA. It combines meta-study, GIS, and machine learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,114 Views
14 Pages

Preventing and controlling the risk of importing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has rapidly become a major concern. In addition to air freight, ocean-going ships play a non-negligible role in spreading COVID-19 due to frequent visits to countries...

  • Review
  • Open Access
93 Citations
23,722 Views
24 Pages

Issues of Healthcare Planning and GIS: A Review

  • Bandar Fuad Khashoggi and
  • Abdulkader Murad

Introduction: For the past 2400 years, the spatial relationship between health and location has been a concern for researchers. Studies have been conducted for decades to understand such a relationship, which has led to the identification of a number...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GIS in Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,665 Views
18 Pages

Accurate and Efficient Calculation of Three-Dimensional Cost Distance

  • Yaqian Chen,
  • Jiangfeng She,
  • Xingong Li,
  • Shuhua Zhang and
  • Junzhong Tan

Cost distance is one of the fundamental functions in geographical information systems (GISs). 3D cost distance function makes the analysis of movement in 3D frictions possible. In this paper, we propose an algorithm and efficient data structures to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,786 Views
23 Pages

While visual appearances play a main role in recognizing the concepts captured in images, additional information can provide complementary information for fine-grained image recognition, where concepts with similar visual appearances such as species...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,780 Views
19 Pages

Swedish emergency services still have relatively limited resources and time for proactive fire prevention. As a result of this, there is an extensive need for strategic working methods and knowledge to take advantage of spatial analyses. In addition,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
10,838 Views
15 Pages

Geospatial Assessment of Soil Erosion Intensity and Sediment Yield Using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) Model

  • Ahsen Maqsoom,
  • Bilal Aslam,
  • Usman Hassan,
  • Zaheer Abbas Kazmi,
  • Mahmoud Sodangi,
  • Rana Faisal Tufail and
  • Danish Farooq

Land degradation caused by soil erosion is considered among the most severe problems of the 21stcentury. It poses serious threats to soil fertility, food availability, human health, and the world ecosystem. The purpose of the study is to make a quant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Advances in Landscape Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,044 Views
19 Pages

The issue of site selection has become a critical challenge in the development of the retail industry with the growth of the Chinese economy and the improvement in the level of household consumption. Previous studies have considered the area of store...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,091 Views
16 Pages

Mathematically describing the physical process of a sequential data assimilation system perfectly is difficult and inevitably results in errors in the assimilation model. Filter divergence is a common phenomenon because of model inaccuracies and affe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
13,319 Views
22 Pages

Crowdsourcing Street View Imagery: A Comparison of Mapillary and OpenStreetCam

  • Ron Mahabir,
  • Ross Schuchard,
  • Andrew Crooks,
  • Arie Croitoru and
  • Anthony Stefanidis

Over the last decade, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a viable source of information on cities. During this time, the nature of VGI has been evolving, with new types and sources of data continually being added. In light of thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,021 Views
11 Pages

Empirical studies have focused on investigating the interactive relationships between crime pairs. However, many other types of crime patterns have not been extensively investigated. In this paper, we introduce three basic crime patterns in four comb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Crime Mapping and Analysis Using GIS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,789 Views
17 Pages

Ambient Population and Larceny-Theft: A Spatial Analysis Using Mobile Phone Data

  • Li He,
  • Antonio Páez,
  • Jianmin Jiao,
  • Ping An,
  • Chuntian Lu,
  • Wen Mao and
  • Dongping Long

In the spatial analysis of crime, the residential population has been a conventional measure of the population at risk. Recent studies suggest that the ambient population is a useful alternative measure of the population at risk that can better captu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using GIS to Improve (Public) Safety and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,019 Views
13 Pages

Crop growth modeling and yield forecasting are essential to improve food security policies worldwide. To estimate potato (Solanum tubersum L.) yield over Mexico at a municipal level, we used meteorological data provided by the ERA5 (ECMWF Re-Analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,462 Views
18 Pages

The spatial pattern of rural poverty and its influencing factors are unique in regions located in the “double zone”, overlaying the Loess Plateau landform and interprovincial border socioeconomic zone. Using Huining County, located in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,791 Views
16 Pages

Fine-scale population mapping is of great significance for capturing the spatial and temporal distribution of the urban population. Compared with traditional census data, population data obtained from mobile phone data has high availability and high...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geodata Science and Spatial Analysis in Urban Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,423 Views
20 Pages

The proportion of tenants will undoubtedly rise in Poland, where at present, the ownership housing model is very dominant. As a result, the rental housing market in Poland is currently under-researched in comparison with owner-occupancy. In order to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring, Mapping, Modeling, and Visualization of Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,511 Views
19 Pages

Reliable image matching is the basis of image-based three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. This study presents a quasi-dense matching method based on triangulation constraint and propagation as applied to different types of close-range image matching...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Virtual 3D City Models)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,546 Views
20 Pages

Time, Spatial, and Descriptive Features of Pedestrian Tracks on Set of Visualizations

  • Łukasz Wielebski,
  • Beata Medyńska-Gulij,
  • Łukasz Halik and
  • Frank Dickmann

The aim of the paper is to elaborate on and evaluate a multiperspective cartographic visualization of the spatial behavior of pedestrians in urban space. The detailed objective is to indicate the level of usefulness of the proposed visualization meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimedia Cartography)

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