Wildfire monitoring in tropical regions requires robust frameworks capable of transforming heterogeneous satellite detections into consistent, event-level information suitable for decision support. This study presents the DescrEVE Fogo (Descriç...
Natural-language access to spatial databases requires relation interpretation, entity grounding, metric normalization, and database-specific execution semantics. Direct generation of Structured Query Language (SQL) by large language models (LLMs) can...
Incorporating data stored in a geographical information system (GIS) within the development of hydraulic simulation models is crucial for operating, updating, and hence redesigning water supply systems (WSS). Building and updating hydraulic models ca...
16 November 2021
Pompeii represents a unique archaeological site in the world for the knowledge potential that it preserves, coinciding with an entire city of the ancient world—a fragile urban organism whose conservation represents an enormous challenge. The Pompeii...
High-definition (HD) maps are essential for safe and reliable autonomous driving, but their growing size and the need for real-time updates pose significant challenges for in-vehicle storage and communication efficiency. This study proposes a lightwe...
18 November 2021
The reconstruction of ancient civilizations requires the analysis of the material manifestations that have come down to us. This complex process involves the collection, comparison, and joint analysis of multiple types of data that can benefit from t...
The mutual identification of spatial objects is a fundamental issue when updating geographic data with other data sets. Representations of spatial objects in different sources may not have the same identifiers, which would unambiguously assign them t...
Natural-language interfaces make urban spatial databases accessible, but generated structured query language (SQL) can execute successfully while returning a semantically incorrect answer. We evaluate a post-generation correctness-ranking layer on 18...
In the era of big data, Internet-based geospatial information services such as various LBS apps are deployed everywhere, followed by an increasing number of queries against the massive spatial data. As a result, the traditional relational spatial dat...
Remote sensing data have become an important data source for urban and regional change detection, owing to their advantages of authenticity, objectivity, immediacy, and low cost. The method of collection and management for remote sensing change detec...
This work examines the implementation and evaluation of shortest-path algorithm in a Geographic Information System environment integrating QGIS with a PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial database. Spatial edge and junction layers stored in the PostgreSQL/Post...
Networks of permanent GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) reference stations generate large volumes of observation and ephemeris files, as well as the position estimates and quality indicators derived from them. These data are still typically s...
Engineering infrastructures require regular maintenance and/or repair activities that have important social, environmental, and economic impacts. Despite their growing importance, few studies have focused on fully integrated analyses. This work prese...
9 August 2018
Intense urbanisation, combined with climate change impacts such as increased rainfall intensity, is overloading conventional drainage systems, increasing the number of combined sewer overflow events and making treatment plants outdated. There is a ne...
Historic earthen architecture—particularly rammed earth—is underrepresented in digital heritage initiatives despite its widespread historical use and vulnerability to degradation. This paper presents a novel methodology for integrating se...
Proper control and planning of water resource use, especially in those catchments with large surface, climatic variability and intensive irrigation activity, is essential for a sustainable water management. Decision support systems based on useful to...
The interest in mobility data analysis has grown dramatically with the wide availability of devices that track the position of moving objects. Mobility analysis can be applied, for example, to analyze traffic flows. To support mobility analysis, traj...
The Italian coastline stretches over about 8350 km, with 3600 km of beaches, representing a significant resource for the country. Natural processes and anthropic interventions keep threatening its morphology, moulding its shape and triggering soil er...
A drought-monitoring and forecasting system developed for the Tuscany region was improved in order to provide a semi-automatic, more detailed, timely and comprehensive operational service for decision making, water authorities, researchers and genera...
Air traffic management (ATM) requires the handling big data of moving objects, such as flight trajectories. There is, however, a lack of specialized tools for trajectory-data management, where the spatiotemporal data are first class citizens. Instead...
Indonesia is an archipelago country in which the tourism sector plays a role as an economic locomotive. In 2016, Indonesia joined the World Halal Tourism Award (WHTA) and won 12 awards, three of which were won by West Sumatra. Bukittinggi is the prin...
River water is one of the most important natural resources for economic development and environmental sustainability. However, river water systems are vulnerable in some of the densely populated regions across the globe. Intense sand mining and waste...
Some of the most powerful spatial analysis software solutions (Oracle, Google Earth Engine, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, etc.) are currently performing geometric calculations directly on the ellipsoid (a quadratic surface that models the earth shape), with...
Although significant progress has been achieved in the development of spatio-temporal models that capture real-world phenomena, more interaction between phenomenon-based and business-based modeling approaches is still required. This represents a much...
Sustainable land use policy planning requires integrated approaches that account for environmental and socio-economic trade-offs of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures. This study presents a spatial decision-support tool developed to support the...
To address the difficulty of synergizing multi-source spatial data with geological text and the limited spatial reasoning of large language models (LLMs), this paper proposes an intention-driven hybrid semantic–spatial retrieval–augmented...
Earthquake surface ruptures provide critical geological evidence for identifying seismogenic structures, reconstructing rupture processes of strong earthquakes, and assessing seismic hazards associated with active faults. The Mainland China Surface R...
Indonesia aims to strengthen its local regions and villages. This has led to the encouragement of smart village development through several forms of assistance, including Information Technology (IT) services from the government. Koto Gadang, one of t...
Every day large quantities of spatio-temporal data are captured, whether by Web-based companies for social data mining or by other industries for a variety of applications ranging from disaster relief to marine data analysis. Making sense of all this...
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas has collected approximately 1000 terabytes (TB) of radar depth sounding data over the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets since 1993 in an effort to map the thickness of the...
Open fiscal data in Ecuador remains largely unexplored beyond basic descriptive reporting, despite its potential for territorial intelligence and fiscal planning. This study examines how taxpayers are distributed across Ecuador’s provinces and...
A wide range of disciplines require population data with high spatial resolution. In particular, accessibility instruments for active mobility need data on the building access level. Data availability varies by context. Spatially detailed national ce...