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Spatial Information for Improved Living Spaces
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Spatial Information for Improved Living Spaces

A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 2715

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ivana Ivánová

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School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin Perth, Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Interests: spatial data quality and spatial metadata; provenance of spatial resources; spatial information infrastructures
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Dr. Yongze Song

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School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
Interests: sustainable development; spatial statistics; geospatial methods; urban remote sensing; sustainable infrastructure
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Prof. Dr. Sisi Zlatanova

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Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: 3D indoor modelling; 3D GIS; integration of BIM and GIS; 3D spatial analysis; DBMS; emergency response
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue covers the crucial roles of advanced spatial information and geospatial technologies in improving living spaces' quality and sustainability. Studies on spatial information for improving living spaces require interdisciplinary knowledge and technologies in various fields, such as spatial data representation, artificial intelligence, geo-computation, and digital twins. This topic is crucial for addressing complex challenges related to urban and regional development, public health, and environmental sustainability. Improving living spaces is essential for making well-informed decisions and fostering innovation in the public and private sectors. It also plays a significant role in driving progress, leading to more the growth of livable communities.

This Special Issue will present advanced research and discuss the practical uses of spatial information technology that enhance living spaces. The topic aligns closely with the journal's focus on promoting interdisciplinary studies related to the processing, analysis, and visualization of spatial data. Our objective is to connect theoretical progress with practical implementations for the influence of spatial information on improving living spaces, such as urban and regional environments, public health, and cultural heritage conservation.

The Special Issue welcomes diverse submissions, encompassing original research articles and reviews on various topics such as spatial data interoperability, AI-powered spatial analysis, geo-computation and simulation, digital twins for urban planning, and extended reality in geovisualization. The contributions may also contain novel methodologies in sensor web, Internet of Things (IoT) applications for intelligent environments, spatially enabled health interventions, the visualization of cultural heritage, and the incorporation of spatial information for achieving the sustainable development objectives of promoting progress in spatial science and encouraging its utilization for enhancing living spaces.

This Special Issue will support the ISPRS TC IV Symposium 2024 in Perth, Australia. For more information, use this link: https://www.isprs.org/tc4-symposium2024/index.html.

Dr. Ivana Ivánová
Dr. Yongze Song
Prof. Dr. Sisi Zlatanova
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • spatial data interoperability
  • artificial intelligence in spatial analysis
  • geo-computation and geo-simulation
  • digital twins and urban planning
  • extended reality in geovisualization
  • sensor web and IoT for smart environments
  • spatial information for public health
  • cultural heritage visualization

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WC-CP: A Bluetooth Low Energy Indoor Positioning Method Based on the Weighted Centroid of the Convex Polygon
by Jinjin Yan, Manyu Zhang, Jinquan Yang, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Weijie Yuan and You Li
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2024, 13(10), 354; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13100354 - 6 Oct 2024
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Indoor navigation has attracted significant attention from both academic and industrial perspectives. Indoor positioning is a critical component of indoor navigation. Several solutions or technologies have been proposed, such as Wi-Fi, UWB, and Bluetooth. Among them, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is cost-effective, easily [...] Read more.
Indoor navigation has attracted significant attention from both academic and industrial perspectives. Indoor positioning is a critical component of indoor navigation. Several solutions or technologies have been proposed, such as Wi-Fi, UWB, and Bluetooth. Among them, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is cost-effective, easily deployable, flexible, and efficient. This paper focuses on indoor positioning solely based on BLE. Motivated by two observations, namely, that (i) involving more anchor nodes can enhance positioning accuracy, and that (ii) narrowing the area for unknown location determination can also lead to improved accuracy, a new distance-based method, the Weighted Centroid of the Convex Polygon (WC-CP), is proposed. While it is generally acknowledged that incorporating more anchor nodes can enhance indoor positioning performance, the current state of the art lacks a robust methodology for selecting and utilizing these nodes. The WC-CP approach addresses this gap by introducing a systematic and efficient method for identifying and employing the most suitable anchor nodes. By avoiding nodes that could potentially introduce significant errors or lead to incorrect localization, our method ensures more accurate and reliable indoor positioning. The efficacy of WC-CP is demonstrated in an indoor environment, achieving an RMSE of 1.35 m. This result shows significant improvements over three state-of-the-art approaches, about 34.15% better than LSBM, 32.50% better than TWCBM, and 30.05% better than ITWCBM. These findings underscore the potential of WC-CP for enhanced accuracy and reliability in indoor positioning based on BLE. Full article
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Influencing Factors of Street Vitality in Historic Districts Based on Multisource Data: Evidence from China
by Bing Yu, Jing Sun, Zhaoxing Wang and Sanfeng Jin
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2024, 13(8), 277; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13080277 - 5 Aug 2024
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Amid urban expansion, historic districts face challenges such as declining vitality and deteriorating spatial quality. Using the streets of Xi’an’s historical and cultural district as examples, this research utilizes multisource data, including points of interest (POIs), street view images, and Baidu heatmaps, alongside [...] Read more.
Amid urban expansion, historic districts face challenges such as declining vitality and deteriorating spatial quality. Using the streets of Xi’an’s historical and cultural district as examples, this research utilizes multisource data, including points of interest (POIs), street view images, and Baidu heatmaps, alongside analytical techniques such as machine learning. This study explores the determinants of street vitality from the dual perspectives of its external manifestation and spatial carriers. A quantitative framework for measuring street vitality in historic districts is established, thoroughly examining the driving factors behind street vitality. Additionally, the relationship between built environment indicators and street vitality is elucidated through statistical analysis methods. The findings reveal significant, time-varying influences of these spatial carriers on human vitality, with distinct spatial distribution patterns of human activity across different times, and the significance of the influence of external representations of human vitality and various types of spatial carriers varies over time. Based on these insights, this paper proposes strategies for enhancing the vitality of historic streets, aiming to rejuvenate and sustain the diverse and dynamic energy of these districts. It provides a foundation for revitalizing the vigor of cultural heritage zones and offers strategies applicable to similar urban contexts. Full article
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