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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,925 Views
14 Pages

A Spatial Data Infrastructure for Environmental Noise Data in Europe

  • Andrej Abramic,
  • Alexander Kotsev,
  • Vlado Cetl,
  • Stylianos Kephalopoulos and
  • Marco Paviotti

Access to high quality data is essential in order to better understand the environmental and health impact of noise in an increasingly urbanised world. This paper analyses how recent developments of spatial data infrastructures in Europe can signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,328 Views
18 Pages

Towards a Planetary Spatial Data Infrastructure

  • Jason R. Laura,
  • Trent M. Hare,
  • Lisa R. Gaddis,
  • Robin L. Fergason,
  • James A. Skinner,
  • Justin J. Hagerty and
  • Brent A. Archinal

Planetary science is the study of planets, moons, irregular bodies such as asteroids and the processes that create and modify them. Like terrestrial sciences, planetary science research is heavily dependent on collecting, processing and archiving lar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,624 Views
13 Pages

An Automated Method for Extracting and Analyzing Railway Infrastructure Cost Data

  • Daniel Adanza Dopazo,
  • Lamine Mahdjoubi and
  • Bill Gething

22 September 2023

The capability of extracting information and analyzing it so that it is in a common format is essential for performing predictions, comparing projects through cost benchmarking, and having a deeper understanding of the project costs. However, the lac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,195 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2020

The idea behind the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) project was to provide EU citizens with access to various types of information, including environmental protection and spatial management data. These resources can be view...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,405 Views
26 Pages

A Data Analytics/Big Data Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructure Data

  • Jenniffer S. Guerrero-Prado,
  • Wilfredo Alfonso-Morales and
  • Eduardo F. Caicedo-Bravo

22 August 2021

The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data represent a source of information in real time not only about electricity consumption but also as an indicator of other social, demographic, and economic dynamics within a city. This paper presents a Da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,100 Views
16 Pages

The Americas’ Spatial Data Infrastructure

  • Paloma Merodio Gómez,
  • Macarena Pérez García,
  • Gabriela García Seco,
  • Andrea Ramírez Santiago and
  • Catalina Tapia Johnson

During the last decade, the production of geospatial information has increased considerably; however, managing and sharing this information has become increasingly difficult for the organizations that produce it, because it comes from different data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,993 Views
19 Pages

Regulations related to the disclosure of environmental, governance, and social (ESG) factors are evolving rapidly and are a major concern for financial compliance worldwide. Information technology has the potential to reduce the effort and cost of ES...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,425 Views
19 Pages

Collaboration and Data Sharing in Inter-Organizational Infrastructure Construction Projects

  • Maryam R. Nezami,
  • Mark L. C. de Bruijne,
  • Marcel J. C. M. Hertogh and
  • Hans L. M. Bakker

15 December 2022

A close collaboration between infrastructure owners is crucial to address challenges in the design and execution of next-generation infrastructure projects for sustainable development. Managing and sharing data among parties involved in infrastructur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,660 Views
27 Pages

The Use of Earth Observation Data for Railway Infrastructure Monitoring—A Review

  • Milan Banic,
  • Danijela Ristic-Durrant,
  • Milos Madic,
  • Alina Klapper,
  • Milan Trifunovic,
  • Milos Simonovic and
  • Szabolcs Fischer

Satellite data have the potential to significantly enhance railway operations and drive the digitization of the rail sector. In the context of railways, satellite data primarily refers to the use of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,043 Views
20 Pages

Validating Pedestrian Infrastructure Data: How Well Do Street-View Imagery Audits Compare to Government Field Data?

  • Sajad Askari,
  • Devon Snyder,
  • Chu Li,
  • Michael Saugstad,
  • Jon E. Froehlich and
  • Yochai Eisenberg

Data on pedestrian infrastructure is essential for improving the mobility environment and for planning efficiency. Although governmental agencies are responsible for capturing data on pedestrian infrastructure mostly by field audits, most have not co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,291 Views
25 Pages

System Model for Spatial Data Collection in Post-War Transport Infrastructure Planning

  • Anatoliy Tryhuba,
  • Szymon Glowacki,
  • Oleg Zachko,
  • Inna Tryhuba,
  • Sergii Slobodian,
  • Vasyl Demchyna,
  • Iryna Horetska and
  • Taras Hutsol

26 August 2025

This study presents a system model developed for collecting and analyzing spatial data on the project environment of transport infrastructure development in the post-war context, with a focus on supporting sustainable management and recovery planning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,356 Views
41 Pages

Data Fusion for Smart Civil Infrastructure Management: A Conceptual Digital Twin Framework

  • Obaidullah Hakimi,
  • Hexu Liu,
  • Osama Abudayyeh,
  • Azim Houshyar,
  • Manea Almatared and
  • Ali Alhawiti

29 October 2023

Effective civil infrastructure management necessitates the utilization of timely data across the entire asset lifecycle for condition assessment and predictive maintenance. A notable gap in current predictive maintenance practices is the reliance on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,315 Views
17 Pages

National spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) is an essential framework for managing and sharing geospatial data across different sectors and organizations. In Bangladesh, the development of NSDI is still in its early stages, and there are several chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,992 Views
19 Pages

Geospatial information is indispensable for various real-world applications and is thus a prominent part of today’s data science landscape. Geospatial data is primarily maintained and disseminated through spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
16,799 Views
27 Pages

TerraBrasilis: A Spatial Data Analytics Infrastructure for Large-Scale Thematic Mapping

  • Luiz Fernando F. G. Assis,
  • Karine Reis Ferreira,
  • Lubia Vinhas,
  • Luis Maurano,
  • Claudio Almeida,
  • Andre Carvalho,
  • Jether Rodrigues,
  • Adeline Maciel and
  • Claudinei Camargo

The physical phenomena derived from an analysis of remotely sensed imagery provide a clearer understanding of the spectral variations of a large number of land use and cover (LUC) classes. The creation of LUC maps have corroborated this view by enabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,434 Views
17 Pages

7 November 2023

Material research and development driven by data analysis necessitates a substantial volume of data. However, conventional material data sharing platforms encounter challenges in sharing and integrating data across multiple platforms. This article pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,303 Views
15 Pages

Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) related to marine spatial data is known as marine SDI (MSDI). In this paper, we determine data themes under the MSDI in the order of usefulness and efficiency. The purpose is to streamline and support the prioritisat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,068 Views
18 Pages

Research on Safety Resilience Evaluation Model of Data Center Physical Infrastructure: An ANP-Based Approach

  • Xiaer Xiahou,
  • Jialong Chen,
  • Bangyi Zhao,
  • Zixuan Yan,
  • Peng Cui,
  • Qiming Li and
  • Zhou Yu

7 November 2022

With the development of the digital economy, the number and scale of data centers are expanding rapidly. Data centers are playing an increasingly important role in social and economic development. However, a short downtime of a data center may result...

  • Article
  • Open Access
829 Views
20 Pages

Green Data Centres: Sustainable Solutions with Green Energy and Green–Blue Infrastructure

  • Magdalena Grochulska-Salak,
  • Eliza Maciejewska,
  • Piotr Bujak,
  • Mateusz Płoszaj-Mazurek,
  • Monika Pękalska,
  • Oskar Amiri,
  • Kinga Rybak-Niedziółka and
  • Tomasz Wężyk

17 December 2025

The advent of digital transformation, social learning, and the increasing use of artificial intelligence is driving requisite changes in the development of data centres, which are buildings designed to process and store data. Green innovation is an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,217 Views
27 Pages

A Spatial Data Infrastructure Integrating Multisource Heterogeneous Geospatial Data and Time Series: A Study Case in Agriculture

  • Gloria Bordogna,
  • Tomáš Kliment,
  • Luca Frigerio,
  • Pietro Alessandro Brivio,
  • Alberto Crema,
  • Daniela Stroppiana,
  • Mirco Boschetti and
  • Simone Sterlacchini

Currently, the best practice to support land planning calls for the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) capable of integrating both geospatial datasets and time series information from multiple sources, e.g., multitemporal satellite dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,447 Views
25 Pages

7 June 2023

The construction of mega infrastructure projects has the characteristics of repeatability, long duration, and high complexity. Therefore, it is particularly important to implement dynamic decision-making in projects. This study takes data-driven deci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,556 Views
22 Pages

28 September 2025

This study aims to identify the key factors contributing to time and cost deviations in educational infrastructure projects in Colombia, using a data-driven approach based on open government datasets. By examining 175 procurement records from Colombi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,034 Views
27 Pages

Toward the Evolution of National Spatial Data Infrastructure Development in Indonesia

  • Tandang Yuliadi Dwi Putra,
  • Yoshihide Sekimoto and
  • Ryosuke Shibasaki

Over the last 25 years, the potential benefits of sharing and reusing geographic information for national development programs have led many countries to establish their own national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI). Indonesia is among the early ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,038 Views
19 Pages

AI and Blockchain-Based Secure Data Dissemination Architecture for IoT-Enabled Critical Infrastructure

  • Tejal Rathod,
  • Nilesh Kumar Jadav,
  • Sudeep Tanwar,
  • Zdzislaw Polkowski,
  • Nagendar Yamsani,
  • Ravi Sharma,
  • Fayez Alqahtani and
  • Amr Gafar

2 November 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most abundant technology in the fields of manufacturing, automation, transportation, robotics, and agriculture, utilizing the IoT’s sensors-sensing capability. It plays a vital role in digital transformation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,865 Views
33 Pages

National Spatial Data Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Good Governance and Policy Improvements in Pakistan

  • Munir Ahmad,
  • Asmat Ali,
  • Muhammad Nawaz,
  • Farha Sattar and
  • Hammad Hussain

This study explores the potential of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) to strengthen governance and policy processes in Pakistan. Drawing on the UNESCAP principles of good governance and the EGU policy cycle model, this research applies a d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,272 Views
16 Pages

Preliminary Planning and Optimization Approach for Wastewater Infrastructure for Regions with Low Data Availability

  • Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar,
  • Sara Paola Ramos Rodriguez,
  • Thomas Aubron,
  • Khaja Zillur Rahman,
  • Nadeem Khalil,
  • Manfred van Afferden,
  • Marc Breulmann,
  • Jan Friesen and
  • Roland Arno Müller

27 February 2024

For decades, there has been ongoing discussion about whether centralized or decentralized wastewater management systems are better. Decision-makers need to define the best option but do not always have the necessary tools to develop, compare, and ide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
996 Views
24 Pages

Geotechnical Data-Driven Mapping for Resilient Infrastructure: An Augmented Spatial Interpolation Framework

  • Nauman Ijaz,
  • Zain Ijaz,
  • Nianqing Zhou,
  • Zia ur Rehman,
  • Syed Taseer Abbas Jaffar,
  • Hamdoon Ijaz and
  • Aashan Ijaz

5 September 2025

Spatial heterogeneity in soil deposition poses a significant challenge to accurate geotechnical characterization, which is essential for sustainable infrastructure development. This study presents an advanced geotechnical data-driven mapping framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
19 Pages

Drivers of Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in the Wastewater Sector: Dynamic Panel Data Evidence from Romania

  • Mari-Isabella Stan,
  • George Banghiore,
  • Octavia Moise,
  • Dragoș-Florian Vintilă,
  • Diana-Doina Țenea,
  • Dorin Jula,
  • Elena Condrea and
  • Kamer-Ainur Aivaz

18 December 2025

This study investigates the complex interactions between operational and financial variables that influence infrastructure investment in Romania’s wastewater sector, a serious area for environmental sustainability and compliance with European e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,107 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2024

In this paper, a Segment Anything Model (SAM)-based pedestrian infrastructure segmentation workflow is designed and optimized, which is capable of efficiently processing multi-sourced geospatial data, including LiDAR data and satellite imagery data....

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,237 Views
25 Pages

Segment-Based Spatial Analysis for Assessing Road Infrastructure Performance Using Monitoring Observations and Remote Sensing Data

  • Yongze Song,
  • Graeme Wright,
  • Peng Wu,
  • Dominique Thatcher,
  • Tom McHugh,
  • Qindong Li,
  • Shuk Jin Li and
  • Xiangyu Wang

26 October 2018

Road infrastructure is important to the well-being and economic health of all nations. The performance of road pavement infrastructure is sophisticated and affected by numerous factors and varies greatly across different roads. Large scale spatial an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,498 Views
18 Pages

Electric Vehicle Public Charging Infrastructure Planning Using Real-World Charging Data

  • Benedict J. Mortimer,
  • Christopher Hecht,
  • Rafael Goldbeck,
  • Dirk Uwe Sauer and
  • Rik W. De Doncker

The current increase of electric vehicles in Germany requires an adequately developed charging infrastructure. Large numbers of public and semi-public charging stations are necessary to ensure sufficient coverage. To make the installation worthwhile...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,330 Views
19 Pages

Nigeria recently witnessed a decade of urban, economic, and social transformation. However, certain features of the Nigerian business environment act as constraints on economic growth. These characteristics also deter investment and exasperate busine...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,539 Views
17 Pages

The development of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) officially started with the entry into force of the INSPIRE Directive in 2007. INSPIRE’s implementation phase should be completed by the European Union (EU) and its member states a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,838 Views
19 Pages

Role of Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure and Marine Cadastre in a Sustainable World

  • Ivana Racetin,
  • Jelena Kilić Pamuković and
  • Mladen Zrinjski

2 October 2022

This paper explains the extent to which the importance of Marine Cadastre (MC) and Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) is recognized in the context of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), Blue Economy (BE) and Blue Growth (BG), in the scientific comm...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,890 Views
28 Pages

A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Spatial Data Infrastructure in a Smart City Context

  • DMSLB Dissanayake,
  • Manjula Ranagalage,
  • JMSB Jayasundara,
  • PSK Rajapakshe,
  • NSK Herath,
  • Samali Ayoma Marasinghe,
  • WMSB Wanninayake,
  • HUK Dilanjani,
  • ALWM Perera and
  • Yukthi Herath

27 February 2025

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) research and its application in city development. The fast urbanization and growing complexity of urban management recognize the importance of SDI in supporting sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,608 Views
26 Pages

The Korean government released the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Portal (NSDIP) by integrating the spatial information possessed by 205 agencies to implement governance through the portal. In this study, four evaluation criteria groups (disclo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
14,397 Views
17 Pages

25 October 2022

Moving homes has long been considered stressful, but how stressful is it? This study is an original attempt to utilise a micro-level individual dataset in the New Zealand Government’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to reconstruct the Soci...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,853 Views
16 Pages

INSPECTORMAP: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Applied to the Maintenance of Solar Plants Using Free Satellite Imagery

  • Esteban Ruiz de Oña,
  • María Sánchez-Aparicio,
  • Susana Del Pozo and
  • Diego González-Aguilera

22 December 2021

Photovoltaic solar plants are one of the main facilities away from urban centers for the generation of clean energy. Since its appropriate maintenance ensures its suitable operation, optimizing their maintenance tasks in a preventive way is key. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,435 Views
30 Pages

10 July 2025

Monitoring the structural health of bridges in road infrastructure is crucial for ensuring public safety and efficient maintenance. This paper presents a multi-level semi-automatic methodology for bridge monitoring, using Multi-Temporal Differential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,973 Views
15 Pages

4 December 2024

Satellite data have emerged as a widely used tool for global research. In particular, satellite data aid in overcoming long-term observational challenges caused by seasonal effects, facilitating comprehensive monitoring of large regions and simplifyi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,057 Views
19 Pages

Energy security is a crucial issue for political, environmental, and economic reasons. This article presents a modern approach to securing critical infrastructure in energy transmission networks, which are managed by advanced IT systems. This paper f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
16,046 Views
14 Pages

2 November 2009

The paper presents thoughts on Sustainable Data Infrastructure (SDI) development, and its user requirements bases. It brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly governmental) t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,571 Views
24 Pages

17 September 2021

Nowadays, simulation modeling is a relevant and practically significant means in the field for research of infrastructure object functioning. It forms the basis for studying the most important components of such objects represented by their digital t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,956 Views
31 Pages

6 November 2024

Earthquakes are one of the most life-threatening natural phenomena, and their prediction is of constant concern among scientists. The study proposes that abrupt weather parameter value fluctuations may influence the occurrence of shallow seismic even...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,541 Views
17 Pages

Commuting behaviour has been intensively examined by geographers, urban planners, and transportation researchers, but little is known about how commuting behaviour is spatially linked with the job and housing markets in urban cities. New Zealand has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,536 Views
27 Pages

15 August 2023

The importance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in influencing students’ understanding of and behavior toward sustainability cannot be overstated. However, prior studies have shown that students generally lack comprehension of how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,592 Views
18 Pages

In this paper, we present an implementation of a research data management system that features structured data storage for spatio-temporal experimental data (environmental perception and navigation in the framework of autonomous driving), including m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,726 Views
29 Pages

13 February 2025

The rapid integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into smart city infrastructures necessitates advanced security measures to ensure their safe and sustainable operation. However, existing Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,889 Views
18 Pages

4 October 2021

Comprehensive datasets for nature-based solutions (NBS), and their diverse relationships have not yet been accumulated into a deployable format. This research describes the development of a novel National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) system for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,653 Views
18 Pages

A Formal Model for Reliable Data Acquisition and Control in Legacy Critical Infrastructures

  • José Miguel Blanco,
  • Jose M. Del Alamo,
  • Juan C. Dueñas and
  • Felix Cuadrado

The digital transformation of critical infrastructures, such as energy or water distribution systems, is essential for their smart management. Faster issue identification and smoother services enable better adaptation to consumers’ evolving dem...

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