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Implementing effective geospatial data discovery mechanisms in geoportals is crucial for facilitating easy access to geospatial data and services. Despite existing efforts to formulate geoportal design requirements, understanding end-user issues beyo...

Producing high-quality analytical reports for the environmental domain is typically time-consuming and requires significant human expertise. This paper describes MeteoChat, a semi-automatic framework for efficiently generating specialized environment...

Contingency epidemic outbreaks, such as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, have underscored the vital function of public health emergency response systems within national strategic frameworks. Public health surveillance and early warn...

Exploring future habitat quality changes in the Mid-Section of the Tianshan Mountains (MSTM) is crucial for regional biodiversity conservation. This study utilizes climate projection data from CMIP6 and integrates the SD-PLUS-InVEST analytical framew...

General-purpose large language models excel at open-domain question answering, but in railway operation and maintenance (O&M) scenarios they still suffer from hallucinated knowledge and poor domain adaptation. In practice, railway O&M knowled...

Cropland non-agriculturalization (CNA) threatens food security, ecosystem services, and sustainable development amid accelerating global urbanization. However, existing monitoring methods are often retrospective and lack adequate spatial and temporal...

Most machine learning (ML)-based facility location studies utilize uniform grid partitioning, often overlooking spatial heterogeneity. This limitation can compromise the validity and practical applicability of the resulting site selections. In respon...

Despite advancements in navigation apps for wheelchair users, there is no consensus on which environmental factors to prioritize for personalized accessible routes. This scoping review synthesizes factors influencing wheelchair mobility in urban sett...

Background: Research on spatial imagery as perceived by humans is an important frontier for deepening the theoretical understanding of Tourism Destination Image and promoting sustainable urban development. Significance: This study, from the perspecti...

Spatial analyses of built-up areas based on aggregated land cover data are inherently affected by the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP). This study quantifies the influence of the data scale and the areal unit configuration on Lorenz-based measure...

This paper exposes the latent but potent role of seemingly hidden spatial autocorrelation (SA) in all geographic theories, highlighting that it is everywhere, matters, and is a fundamental property of geotagged phenomena. This narrative examines and...

The conventional Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) method treats large-scale facilities as single centroids, leading to systematic under- and overestimation of spatial accessibility measures. To address this limitation, this study proposes a G...

Transportation infrastructure is vital for sustaining communities and fostering economic development. Urbanization and climate change have led to the rapid deterioration of road transport systems, posing significant challenges for future sustainabili...

Modern geo-information platforms commonly adopt multi-window map interfaces that integrate heterogeneous data, such as dynamic maps and live camera feeds. These interfaces impose high cognitive load and slow spatial event detection. Operators must ra...

High-Definition (HD) Maps have become a cornerstone of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, enabling precise localization, perception, and decision-making. Despite their increasing prominence in the automotive and geospatial industries, HD Maps remain...

Duckweed/algal bloom-type black–odorous waters (DAWs) exhibit composite optical properties of vegetation and pollution, posing intractable remote sensing identification challenges in complex environments. Current methods suffer from three criti...

All-sky cameras provide continuous hemispherical observations essential for atmospheric monitoring and observatory operations; however, automated classification of sky conditions in tropical environments remains challenging due to strong illumination...

The unique geographical isolation and climate sensitivity of island ecosystems make them valuable for ecological research. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is an important indicator when monitoring and evaluating these systems, and i...

To develop targeted forest management strategies, management staff must understand the statistical relationships between forest aesthetic values and landscape metrics across specified distance ranges. However, as the existing studies based on distanc...

Ensuring equitable and inclusive access to children’s extracurricular activity facilities represents a profound manifestation of educational equity and is crucial for promoting children’s holistic development and societal sustainability....

Street layout has a significant effect on accessibility and intelligibility, which ultimately affects navigation and movement efficiency. While previous research has examined planned and unplanned street patterns, most studies focus on single-scale a...

To enhance the autonomous navigation capability of intelligent agents in complex environments, this paper presents a visual localization algorithm for dynamic scenes that leverages multi-source information fusion. The proposed approach is built upon...

Efficient level-of-detail (LOD) management is crucial for handling large-scale 3D meshes in BIM, GIS, and digital twin applications. In practice, both individual models and complex multi-mesh scenes require multi-resolution representations. Yet two p...

The growing availability of spatial data from remote sensing, laser scanning (LiDAR), and photogrammetric techniques stimulates the dynamic development of methods for the automatic detection and classification of topographic objects. In recent years,...

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Kazakhstan, located in Central Asia, is experiencing faster warming than the global trend, making it an important region regarding the study of how climate change is affecting climatic zones. This research aims to identify projected shifts in Kö...

Activity space represents the spatiotemporal interaction between individuals and their environment. While most studies measure potential activity space using short-term data, few have defined or measured its actual internal structure. This study intr...

The urban physical environment is composed of multiple elements that collectively influence the spatial pattern of crime. Existing research has predominantly focused on the relationship between individual types of facilities and crime, yet there rema...

This study presents a robust framework for optimizing the site selection of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) in Qatar by integrating a Geographic Information System (GIS) with a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) model. The core innovatio...

This article discusses public transport fare evasion from the point of view of the relations between inspection actions and detected evasion, with the aim of improving the efficacy of the former. By applying spatial statistics methods to a large data...

GNN approaches to property valuation typically rely on spatial proximity, assuming that nearby properties exhibit similar price patterns. In practice, this assumption often fails as neighborhood and administrative boundaries create sharp price discon...

This study proposes a systematic framework for establishing ethical guidelines for GeoAI (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence), which integrates AI with spatial data science, GIS, and remote sensing. While general AI ethics have advanced through the O...

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart industry, the demand for high-precision indoor positioning is becoming increasingly urgent. Ultra-ideband (UWB) technology has become a research hotspot due to its centimeter-level rangin...

Exploring the spatiotemporal evolution of building stock in African countries is of great significance for understanding the urbanization process, regional development disparities, and sustainable development pathways in the Global South. Integrating...

Investigating the spatial distribution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage is vital for climate change mitigation. However, horizontal spatial analyses often overlook heterogeneity in complex terrains. Here, we focused on the Gonghe Basin on t...

In a situation where cities are increasingly being developed vertically and complexly, a novel approach for analyzing vertical urban functional patterns is proposed. For this purpose, a multi-dimensional GDC (Geo Data Cube) consisting of spatial and...

Spatial data has distinctive properties that differentiate it from non-spatial data. One prominent characteristic is spatial autocorrelation (SA). When machine learning techniques are applied for spatial data modeling, they require spatially explicit...

This observation-based and explainable approach demonstrates the applicability of multi-source remote sensing for flood assessment in data-scarce regions, offering a robust scientific basis for flood management and spatial planning in monsoon-affecte...

Spatial accessibility to healthcare services is commonly determined by three core components: demand, supply, and traffic speed. Although understanding which factors contribute to accessibility changes can help prioritize interventions to enhance acc...

Forecasting the spatio-temporal evolutions of cellular traffic is crucial for urban management. However, achieving accurate forecasting is challenging due to “complex correlation modeling” and “model-blindness” issues. Specifi...

Pedestrian trajectory prediction plays a vital role in autonomous driving and intelligent surveillance systems. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable effectiveness in this task by explicitly modeling social interactions among pedestrians...

Rebalancing shared bikes poses a significant challenge for dockless bike-sharing (DLBS) operators, as inevitable spatiotemporal mismatches between demand and supply lead to high redistribution costs. Despite its operational significance, empirical re...

The walking accessibility of primary healthcare institutions (PHCIs) is a pivotal determinant of health equity. However, prior studies often lack a comprehensive assessment that integrates the spatiotemporal dynamics of both multi-faceted supply and...

Temporal reasoning is an important part of the field of time geography and spatio-temporal data science. Recent advances in qualitative temporal reasoning have developed a set of 74 relations that apply between discretized time intervals of at least...

In the context of the “Dual Carbon” goals, accurately predicting the spatiotemporal evolution of urban Net Primary Productivity (NPP) is crucial for resilient urban planning. While recent studies have coupled land use models with ecosyste...

Ensuring the safety of autonomous driving systems (ADS) requires scenario-based testing that reflects the complexity and variability of real-world driving conditions. However, the nondeterministic nature of actual traffic environments makes physical...

This article studies the application of deep neural networks for automatic building detection in aerial RGB images. Special focus is put on accuracy robustness in both well-structured and poorly planned urban scenarios, which pose significant challen...

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced geospatial artificial intelligence; however, geospatial knowledge-base question answering (GeoKBQA) remains underdeveloped. Prior systems have relied on handcrafted rules and have omitted the splitting of da...

Population activity drives urban development, and high-spatiotemporal-resolution population distribution provides critical insights for refined urban management and social services. However, mixed population activity patterns and spatial heterogeneit...

Indoor positioning systems (IPSs) are increasingly applied in indoor settings where satellite-based GNSS signals are unavailable, including museums and other cultural heritage spaces. Within the META-MUSEUM project, we present a pilot study integrati...