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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,990 Views
16 Pages

Nowadays, various technologies exist with differing rendering performance for interactive web maps. These maps are consumed on devices with varying capabilities; therefore, choosing the best-performing library for a dataset is emphasized. Unlike exis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cartography and Geovisual Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
16,196 Views
18 Pages

Developers have long used game engines for visualizing virtual worlds for players to explore. However, using real-world data in a game engine is always a challenging task, since most game engines have very little support for geospatial data. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gaming and Geospatial Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,037 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2020

A general problem in large cities is mobility. Every day, there are incidents (accidents, construction, or meteorological events) that increase the duration of the journeys in a city and exert negative effects on the lives of citizens. A particular c...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,839 Views
13 Pages

A High-performance Cross-platform Map Rendering Engine for Mobile Geographic Information System (GIS)

  • Shaojie Li,
  • Shaohua Wang,
  • Yong Guan,
  • Zhiyan Xie and ,
  • Kejia Huang,
  • Ming Wen and
  • Lixin Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

With the diversification of terminal equipment and operating systems, higher requirements are placed on the rendering performance of maps. The traditional map rendering engine relies on the corresponding operating system graphics library, and there a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geovisualization and Map Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,208 Views
27 Pages

Conserving Working Rangelands: A Social–Ecological Case Study from Northeastern Colorado

  • Jasmine E. Bruno,
  • Stephen J. Leisz,
  • Jake S. Bobula and
  • María E. Fernández-Giménez

17 December 2021

Land changes in rangeland systems cascade through interconnected social and ecological spheres, affecting both humans and the environment. This study applied a multi-method approach to examine the causes and consequences of change in two rangeland co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,527 Views
15 Pages

Voice assistants can elevate interaction in geospatial data web platforms. This research introduces a voice assistant in the BStreams platform and focuses on understanding user commands in the geospatial domain. We developed a specialised geospatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,451 Views
20 Pages

Evaluating the Performance of Three Popular Web Mapping Libraries: A Case Study Using Argentina’s Life Quality Index

  • Alejandro Zunino,
  • Guillermo Velázquez,
  • Juan Pablo Celemín,
  • Cristian Mateos and ,
  • Matías Hirsch and
  • Juan Manuel Rodriguez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Recent Web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL have enabled powerful and highly dynamic Web mapping applications executing on standard Web browsers. Despite the complexity for developing such applications has been greatly reduced by Web...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,435 Citations
78,420 Views
20 Pages

Albumentations: Fast and Flexible Image Augmentations

  • Alexander Buslaev,
  • Vladimir I. Iglovikov,
  • Eugene Khvedchenya,
  • Alex Parinov and ,
  • Mikhail Druzhinin and
  • Alexandr A. Kalinin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 February 2020

Data augmentation is a commonly used technique for increasing both the size and the diversity of labeled training sets by leveraging input transformations that preserve corresponding output labels. In computer vision, image augmentations have become...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning with Python)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,126 Views
16 Pages

We are now generating exponentially more data from more sources than a few years ago. Big data, an already familiar term, has been generally defined as a massive volume of structured, semi-structured, and/or unstructured data, which may not be effect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cartography for Big Data Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,727 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Sensing Technology Approach for the Environmental Monitoring of the Ystwyth River

  • Edore Akpokodje,
  • Nnamdi Valbosco Ugwuoke,
  • Mari Davies,
  • Syeda Fizzah Jilani and ,
  • Maria de la Puera Fernández,
  • Lucy Thompson and
  • Elizabeth Hart
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 November 2025

Monitoring water quality in Welsh rivers has become a critical public concern, particularly in efforts to address pollution and protect the environment. This study presents the development and assessment of an interactive web and mobile application,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
26 Pages

27 September 2026

Landslides are among the most destructive natural hazards in mountainous and environmentally sensitive regions, causing significant damage to infrastructure, ecosystems, and human life. This study proposes a framework as a prototype Geo Digital Twin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and AI in Geohazard Detection and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,062 Views
19 Pages

25 January 2021

Traditional in-app virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) applications pose a challenge of reaching users due to their dependency on operating systems (Android, iOS). Besides, it is difficult for general users to create their own VR/AR applicati...

(This article belongs to the Collection Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
33 Pages

15 May 2026

Autonomous ground vehicle navigation in dynamic real-world environments demands path planning systems that simultaneously accommodate real-time environmental hazards and diverse user-defined objectives requirements that classical algorithms, with the...