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A Review of ArcGIS Spatial Analysis in Chinese Archaeobotany: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

  • Zhikun Ma,
  • Siyu Yang,
  • Bingxin Shao,
  • Francesca Monteith and
  • Linlin Zhai

31 October 2025

Over the past decade, the rapid development of geospatial tools has significantly expanded the scope of archaeobotanical research, enabling unprecedented insights into ancient plant domestication, agricultural practices, and human-environment interac...

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  • Open Access
1,769 Views
27 Pages

This article presents a comprehensive evaluation of image segmentation methods for monitoring morphological changes in refugee camps, comparing five distinct approaches: ESRI Landviewer clustering, K-means clustering, U-Net segmentation, Meta’s...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,381 Views
25 Pages

Rural tourism development has been an essential driving force behind China’s promotion of integrated urban–rural development, sustainable rural development and rural revitalization in the new era. This study included 1470 villages on the...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,544 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2023

Southeastern Zhejiang boasts a large number of ancient architectural heritage sites and features, representing a rich cultural heritage. However, this region lacks a unified and effective planning system and coordination mechanism. Each county and ci...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,939 Views
27 Pages

GIS-Based Sustainable Accessibility Mapping of Urban Parks: Evidence from the Second Largest Settlement of Sindh, Pakistan

  • Shabir Hussain Khahro,
  • Mir Aftab Hussain Talpur,
  • Musrat Gul Bhellar,
  • Gopal Das,
  • Haris Shaikh and
  • Basel Sultan

4 April 2023

Hyderabad’s recreational amenities have made limited progress in comparison to the development of its industrial and commercial sectors. People require parks to unwind from their hectic lives. Parks can be a healthy location to host social even...

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  • Open Access
276 Views
21 Pages

Spatiotemporal Distribution of Ancient Stone Bridges in Wuxi, China and Their Relationship with the Natural Environment

  • Hongjun Peng,
  • Ping Li,
  • Zhuoyuan Du,
  • Haoran Jin,
  • Xinyue Gao,
  • Shengbei Zhou and
  • Chunyan Zhang

15 February 2026

As a significant component of hydraulic cultural heritage within the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, ancient stone bridges serve as vital physical evidence reflecting the evolutionary patterns of water conservancy and settlement spaces in Wuxi. Consequent...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,128 Views
23 Pages

Predicting Urban Waterlogging Risks by Regression Models and Internet Open-Data Sources

  • Ducthien Tran,
  • Dawei Xu,
  • Vanha Dang and
  • Abdulfattah.A.Q. Alwah

20 March 2020

In the context of climate change and rapid urbanization, urban waterlogging risks due to rainstorms are becoming more frequent and serious in developing countries. One of the most important means of solving this problem lies in elucidating the roles...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,249 Views
21 Pages

14 July 2022

Forestlands not only provide the conditions that support forested environments, but they also generate natural resources and ecosystem services that support human survival and social development. Using benchmark price to evaluate the economic value o...

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  • Open Access
621 Views
20 Pages

Study on the Allocation of Service Facilities for Integrated Communities: A Case Study of the Old City Center of Nanchang

  • Xueqiang Wang,
  • Xingyuan Zhu,
  • Nurulhusna Qamaruz Zaman and
  • Mimi Zaleha Abdul Ghani

13 November 2025

Based on the concept of integrated communities, this study focuses on improving public service facilities and perfecting convenient service facilities within integrated communities. Taking the central area of Nanchang’s old city as the research...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
970 Views
20 Pages

26 October 2025

The degree of urbanization and the uncontrolled expansion of the built environment play a defining role in shaping contemporary society, contributing significantly to abrupt temperature fluctuations and a declining quality of life. This study aims to...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,849 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2023

The coupling coordination relationship between regional highway transportation and new urbanization is an increasingly important issue in the field of regional sustainable development. This paper aims to establish an index system and develop an integ...

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  • Open Access
1,363 Views
31 Pages

In data-scarce regions and ungauged basins, remotely sensed evapotranspiration (ET) products are increasingly employed to support hydrological model calibration. In this study, a high-resolution hydrological model was developed for the Upper Anthemou...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,483 Views
22 Pages

8 September 2023

At present, there is obvious regional segmentation in the protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. ArcGIS spatial analysis method and minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) models are used to investigate the d...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,368 Views
14 Pages

PM2.5 is the main cause of haze pollution, and studying its spatio-temporal distribution and driving factors can provide a scientific basis for prevention and control policies. Therefore, this study uses air quality monitoring information and socioec...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,606 Views
27 Pages

30 September 2024

The tourism development of industrial heritage is an effective way to activate cultural heritage and can provide new solutions for the renewal and protection of industrial heritage. This study focuses on the industrial heritage in Nanjing, aiming to...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,220 Views
18 Pages

Geospatial Analysis in Web Browsers—Comparison Study on WebGIS Process-Based Applications

  • Rostislav Netek,
  • Tereza Pohankova,
  • Oldrich Bittner and
  • Daniel Urban

With the rapid development of internet technologies in recent years, the shift from the desktop to the web platform can be seen within geospatial analysis. While analytical tools, such as buffer or clip, are routinely used in desktop environments, We...

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15 Citations
3,693 Views
16 Pages

Evaluating the Spatial Quality of Urban Living Streets: A Case Study of Hengyang City in Central South China

  • Jingpeng Duan,
  • Jianjun Liao,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Xiaoxuan Gao,
  • Ailin Shang and
  • Zhihuan Huang

5 July 2023

Evaluating the spatial quality of a living street entails identifying and assessing the outdoor space that influences residents’ leisure and recreation, which may contribute to urban renewal. The application of multi-source data and deep learni...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,195 Views
18 Pages

Using Spatial Analysis to Design a Solid Waste Collection System

  • Juan Antonio Araiza-Aguilar,
  • María Neftalí Rojas-Valencia,
  • Hugo Alejandro Nájera-Aguilar,
  • Rubén Fernando Gutiérrez-Hernández and
  • Carlos Manuel García-Lara

In this paper, a proposal was presented to improve the MSW collection service in the municipality of Reforma, in Chiapas, Mexico. Specific field work was developed and various spatial analysis techniques were applied in the GIS environment. The appli...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,308 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2025

Effective detection of center-pivot irrigation systems is crucial in understanding agricultural activity and managing groundwater resources for sustainable uses, especially in semi-arid regions such as North Dakota, where irrigation primarily depends...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,569 Views
22 Pages

To achieve high-quality sustainable development in arid areas based on the concept of ecological civilization, it is necessary to deeply study the territorial spatial structure characteristics. Taking the Aksu River Basin, an important ecological sec...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,507 Views
12 Pages

21 October 2022

Understanding the relations of urban elements is important in secondary school geography. Based on the price data of 22,684 listed apartments, this article aims to enable students to understand how geographical elements are related to the distributio...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,882 Views
19 Pages

Identifying Terrestrial Landscape Character Types in China

  • Yulian Pan,
  • Yunong Wu,
  • Xi Xu,
  • Bin Zhang and
  • Weifu Li

4 July 2022

Landscape character assessment (LCA) is a widely used tool that integrates natural, cultural, and perceptual attributes to identify and portray landscape. In this study, we used the LCA method to identify the landscape characteristics of China at the...

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  • Open Access
1,895 Views
27 Pages

12 January 2024

A geographical information system (GIS) is an advanced tool for collecting, managing, and analyzing spatially-referenced data. The contribution of GIS use to process performance indicators can be improved by combining it with multi-criteria decision...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,937 Views
24 Pages

29 December 2022

It is well acknowledged that sustainable soil management can play a crucial role in reducing the vulnerability of urban areas, but are soil characteristics properly evaluated in the decision-making process concerning urbanization? Within this work, w...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,002 Views
36 Pages

14 September 2022

In current urban regeneration, the conservation and reuse of traditional village space are significant measures to activate urban-rural development. Traditional villages in the Jiangnan region of eastern China represent the typical vernacular culture...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,616 Views
12 Pages

Geospatial Information System-Based Modeling Approach for Leakage Management in Urban Water Distribution Networks

  • Parima Mirshafiei,
  • Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki,
  • Maryam Shakeri and
  • Soo-Mi Choi

20 August 2019

The purpose of this paper is to model one of the urban network problems, the issue of water leakage. In order to manage water leakage, the specific area should be partially isolated from the rest of the network. As Geospatial Information System (GIS)...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,906 Views
13 Pages

Geospatial Assessment of the Territorial Road Network by Fractal Method

  • Mikolaj Karpinski,
  • Svitlana Kuznichenko,
  • Nadiia Kazakova,
  • Oleksii Fraze-Frazenko and
  • Daniel Jancarczyk

17 November 2020

This paper proposes an approach to the geospatial assessment of a territorial road network based on the fractals theory. This approach allows us to obtain quantitative values of spatial complexity for any transport network and, in contrast to the cla...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,998 Views
17 Pages

13 November 2015

This paper analyzes coal consumption in the 31 provinces and regions of China from 1995 to 2012. Using spatial analysis in Arc geographical information systems (ArcGIS) and the concept of the center of gravity in physics, we explore the regional diff...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,519 Views
17 Pages

5 June 2021

Urban parks are critical for sustainable urban development. They are of theoretical and practical significance for analyzing the visual landscape of recreational spaces from the perspective of the elderly. This analysis can be used for exploring new...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,459 Views
12 Pages

In this research, we have used spatial information analysis techniques and procedures to process storm, flood, and snow damage risks, and apply premium rates to produce a Storm and Flood Insurance Management Map. To calculate risk, we used ArcGIS&rsq...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,422 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2022

The human ecosystems embrace complex human-dominated systems, which often result in disparaging multifaceted social and ecological outcomes in various localities of the world. Green infrastructure (GI) with a well-planned and managed spatial organiza...

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37 Citations
7,734 Views
18 Pages

Severity, Spatial Pattern and Statistical Analysis of Road Traffic Crash Hot Spots in Ethiopia

  • Alamirew Mulugeta Tola,
  • Tamene Adugna Demissie,
  • Fokke Saathoff and
  • Alemayehu Gebissa

23 September 2021

The reduction of traffic crashes, as well as their socio-economic consequences, has captivated the attention of safety professionals and transportation agencies. The most important activity for an effective road safety practice is to identify hazardo...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,615 Views
27 Pages

20 February 2024

This study focuses on the cultural heritage of Xiamen and uses the spatial analysis method of ArcGIS to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution and distribution characteristics of cultural heritage. Through analysis, we aim to optimize the structure of...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,298 Views
19 Pages

Contributing to Taijiquan studies, this research uses spatial analysis tools in ArcGIS 10.3 and SPSS 23.0 to map out the spatial distributional pattern of the Taijiquan organizations in London, and then explores factors attributing to the spatial dis...

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54 Citations
7,133 Views
16 Pages

5 March 2021

An increasing scarcity of water, as well as rapid global climate change, requires more effective water conservation alternatives. One promising alternative is rainwater harvesting (RWH). Nevertheless, the evaluation of RWH potential together with the...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,166 Views
12 Pages

The main objective of this paper is to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for identifying spatial accessibility to health centers in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia based on the drive-time analysis technique. A geo-database was created that include...

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2 Citations
2,637 Views
18 Pages

Design and Development of a Local-First Collaborative 3D WebGIS Application for Mapping

  • Bohua Wang,
  • Qiansheng Zhao,
  • Di Zeng,
  • Yibin Yao,
  • Chunchun Hu and
  • Nianxue Luo

Real-time collaborative WebGIS represents a significant trend in the evolution of Geographic Information Systems. Current commercial collaborative WebGIS platforms, such as ArcGIS Online and Felt, rely on centralized servers for data storage and spat...

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10 Citations
3,035 Views
21 Pages

In recent years, with the acceleration of urbanization and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather globally, the risk of urban flood disasters has gradually increased, and its potential consequences are immeasurable. Therefore, conducting risk ass...

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  • Open Access
574 Views
27 Pages

Digitizing Legacy Gravimetric Data Through GIS and Field Surveys: Toward an Updated Gravity Database for Kazakhstan

  • Elmira Orynbassarova,
  • Katima Zhanakulova,
  • Hemayatullah Ahmadi,
  • Khaini-Kamal Kassymkanova,
  • Daulet Kairatov and
  • Kanat Bulegenov

This study presents the digitization and integration of Kazakhstan’s legacy gravimetric maps at a scale of 1:200,000 into a modern geospatial database using ArcGIS. The primary objective was to convert analog gravity data into a structured, que...

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6 Citations
2,273 Views
37 Pages

3 August 2024

Rural electrification is a crucial step for the socio-economic development of isolated communities. Decentralized power generation, typically more favorable for renewable energies, requires an accurate analysis of the different electrification option...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,807 Views
24 Pages

30 June 2023

This article presents an assessment of atmospheric pollutant concentrations based on state-of-the-art geoinformation research methods that utilize Sentinel-5 satellite imagery, the cloud computing platform Google Earth Engine (GEE), and ArcGIS 10.8 s...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,010 Views
28 Pages

The Yellow River Basin faces severe challenges in water security and ecological protection: at the basin scale, complex hydrological processes and fragile ecosystems undermine the water security pattern; at the local scale, waterlogging risks have in...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,379 Views
23 Pages

Application of Physical and Numerical Modeling for Determination of Waterway Safety under the Bridge in Kaunas City, Lithuania

  • Tomasz Dysarz,
  • Tomasz Kałuża,
  • Karolis Mickevičius,
  • Jonas Veigneris,
  • Paweł Zawadzki,
  • Sebastian Kujawiak,
  • Stanisław Zaborowski,
  • Joanna Wicher-Dysarz,
  • Natalia Walczak and
  • Raimundas Baublys
  • + 1 author

12 February 2023

The main problem presented in this paper is the safety inlet navigation of the waterway below the bridge in the city of Kaunas in Lithuania. The analyzed reach is located in the Nemunas river downstream of the Kaunas dam. It is a part of the waterway...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,896 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2024

Traditional villages are one of the basic types of rural revitalisation and one of the important carriers of cultural inheritance. This research is based on the data of 53 traditional villages in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with the aid of...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,136 Views
18 Pages

12 April 2023

This study considers the spatial analysis and evaluation layout of electric vehicle charging infrastructures, taking the central urban area of Chongqing as an example. Mathematical model analysis, ArcGIS spatial analysis, field investigation, questio...

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  • Open Access
3,395 Views
18 Pages

Post-Graduate Geographical Education in China: Can Talents Meet the Need of Sustainable Development?

  • Renfeng Ma,
  • Yuxian Cheng,
  • Lidong Liu,
  • Ruolan Xiao,
  • Xinyi Su,
  • Weiqin Wang,
  • Yuting Sheng,
  • Zicheng Huang and
  • Jiaming Li

13 June 2022

As widely acknowledged and targeted in Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, talents education and training is an important measure to systematically solve the problem of economically, societally, resource, and environm...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,830 Views
22 Pages

15 October 2024

Situated in central China, the region surrounding Mount Song is a pivotal area within the Central Plains, renowned for its extensive and high-grade cultural heritage. This study aims to analyze the spatiotemporal distribution of this heritage using a...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,374 Views
13 Pages

19 July 2021

As the material carrier of industrial heritage, industrial landscape planning integrates industrial heritage, post-industrial, and industrial tourism landscapes. In this study, we define the concept of industrial landscape planning. As a subsystem of...

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  • Open Access
795 Views
26 Pages

17 December 2025

City walk is an emerging form of short-term urban activity in which participants explore city streets and alleys to perceive distinctive cultural symbols, social connections, and spatial organizations of a place. This practice provides a new pathway...

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9 Citations
2,409 Views
22 Pages

17 April 2024

This article takes the spatial vitality of Huaihe Road Commercial Block in Hefei city as the research object and defines two evaluation dimensions, including external characteristic elements and constituent elements of spatial vitality. The external...

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