As an important policy tool for guiding the development and protection of territorial space, the specific impact of spatial planning on the evolution of territorial space and the effects of its implementation have not yet been fully recognized. At th...
Spatial data play a critical role in various domains such as cadastre, environment, navigation, and transportation. Therefore, ensuring the quality of geospatial data is essential to obtain reliable results and make accurate decisions. Typically, dat...
This paper presents an approach to geodiversity assessment based on spatial multicriteria analysis. Instead of relying solely on weighted linear combination (WLC) for aggregating factor ratings and weights to compute a synthetic measure of geodiversi...
Increasing emissions of ambient pollutants have caused considerable air pollution and negative health impact for human in various regions of China over the past decade. The resulting premature mortality and excessive morbidity caused huge human econo...
Spatial orientation and navigation are complex cognitive functions that integrate sensory information, attention, and memory, enabling individuals to locate themselves in their environment. These abilities decline with age, signaling cognitive impair...
Vulnerability theory is a fundamental scientific knowledge system in sustainable development, and vulnerability assessment is important in vulnerability studies. Economic vulnerability affects economic growth sustainability. Comprehensive assessment...
Evacuation shelters are the most important means for safeguarding people in hazardous areas and situations, and thus minimizing losses, particularly those due to a disaster. Therefore, evacuation shelter assignment and evacuation planning are some of...
Land finance is a special land financing mode in China under the nationalization of urban land since 1954. The policy authorizes local governments to collect fiscal revenue from land grant premiums and land taxes. As China is experiencing the social...
Today more than ever, people are demanding higher-quality housing, and therefore, there is an increasing need for scientifically sound methods of systematic housing assessment that are capable of addressing multiple, conflicting, and irreconcilable a...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the existing available methods that can potentially be applied to anthropogenic spatial entities to access their environmental sustainability. The paper offers an overview of existing sustainability assessment met...
Floods are among the most frequent and destructive natural hazards in Kazakhstan, particularly in the Abai Region, Kazakhstan, where topographic, hydrological, and climatic factors strongly influence flood occurrence. This study presents a comprehens...
Challenges remain in developing a comprehensive understanding of spatial cognition, including gender and developmental differences, partly due to limitations of well-established spatial measures. Many traditional tasks face accessibility constraints...
Coastal areas are dynamic multidimensional systems challenged by the complex interactions between natural, environmental, and human-induced pressures, as well as the ever-changing climate. A comprehensive evaluation of their spatial and temporal feat...
Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a neuropsychological syndrome characterized by a reduced awareness of, and attention toward, stimuli located in the contralesional space. The left side of the space is most frequently affected, due to the higher in...
Intensive agricultural practices lead to a deterioration in soil quality, causing a decline in farm productivity and quality, and disturbing the ecosystem balance in command areas. To achieve sustainable production and implement effective soil manage...
Satellite-based PM2.5 estimation has been widely used to assess health impact associated with PM2.5 exposure and might be affected by spatial resolutions of satellite input data, e.g., aerosol optical depth (AOD). Here, based on Multi-Angle Implement...
With global warming and the increasing frequency of extreme heat events, heat health risk assessment (HHRA) has become a critical topic in climate change studies. However, the study themes, methods, and governance orientation of HHRA vary significant...
With the wide applications of three-dimensional (3D) meshes in intelligent manufacturing, digital animation, virtual reality, digital cities and other fields, more and more processing techniques are being developed for 3D meshes, including watermarki...
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Many epidemiological studies examining long-term health effects of exposure to air pollutants have characterized exposure by the outdoor air concentrations at sites that may be distant to subjects’ residences at different points in time. The temporal...
The changing global climate and rapid urbanization make extreme rainstorm events frequent, and the flood disaster caused by rainstorm has become a prominent problem of urban public safety in China, which severely restricts the healthy and sustainable...
The way in which risk maps are used in decision support processes for spatial planning at local scale is critical to helping decision makers in the definition of a prevention strategy to minimize risks. This paper presents a spatial decision support...
COVID-19 is increasingly recognized as a multisystemic disease with significant neurocognitive consequences. However, its specific impact on spatial memory, a cognitive domain essential for daily navigation and functional independence, remains insuff...
Spatial planning is at the core of national land and urban development. Many countries and cities seek sustainable development through various means such as coordinated environmental planning, environmental assessment, and internalization of environm...
Assessment of groundwater quality is vital for the sustainable safe use of this inimitable resource. However, describing the overall groundwater quality condition—particularly in a mining basin—is more complicated due to the spatial variability of mu...
Accurate assessment of fish feeding intensity is significant for the timely understanding of feeding demands, dynamically adjusting feeding strategies, and reducing aquaculture costs. However, existing methods often rely on superficial visual feature...
The acceptance or rejection of a measurement is determined based on its associated measurement uncertainty. In this procedure, there is a risk of making incorrect decisions, including the potential rejection of compliant measurements or the acceptanc...
Northern Anhui constitutes a vital component of Anhui’s regional coordinated development and represents a less-developed region requiring focused attention under the high-quality development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta. Endowed with abu...
This study addresses the limited nationwide examination of Mountain Villages as strategic targets for regional revitalization amid rapid depopulation and population aging. Focusing on Mountain Villages located within Depopulation Regions in the Repub...
Landslides pose a serious threat to the safety of human life and property in mountainous regions. Susceptibility assessment for landslides is critical in landslide management strategy. Recent studies indicate that the traditional assessment models in...
This study assesses urban flood resilience at the subdistrict scale in Shenzhen, China, addressing the lack of fine-grained spatial analysis in existing city-level models. A multidimensional framework integrating natural geography, infrastructure, so...
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Landslide spatial probability and size are two essential components of landslide susceptibility. However, in existing slope-unit-based landslide susceptibility assessment methods, landslide size has not been explicitly considered. This paper develope...
Spatial sampling design is important for accurately assessing land use and land cover (LULC) classification results from remote sensing data. Spatial stratification can dramatically improve spatial sampling efficiency by dividing the study area into...
A comprehensive analysis of the spatial and temporal variations of heavy metals in wetland sediment can delineate the changes in possible contamination sources, providing valuable conservation strategies for further wetland management. Using the poll...
Large-scale cultural complexes serve significant numbers of child users, yet existing spatial assessment approaches are predominantly developed from adult perspectives and rarely consider child-height environmental exposure conditions at children&rsq...
This contribution focuses on the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as an important tool to ensure sustainable development and reach a high level of environmental protection. More specifically, this paper provides an evaluation method based on...
Satellite-derived ground deformation monitoring has become an essential tool for infrastructure management; however, the spatial heterogeneity of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) observations limits reliable assessment in regions with...
To achieve the sustainable development goals established by the United Nations in 2015, China has adopted a series of measures to promote the modernization of water conservancy. However, its construction in China is imbalanced across regions as the e...
Accuracy assessment of classification results has important significance for the application of remote sensing images, which can be achieved by sampling methods. However, the existing sampling methods either ignore spatial correlation or do not consi...
Coastal salt marsh restoration can support blue carbon sequestration, but spatial pre-assessment is needed to identify where environmental conditions support vegetation establishment before restoration design and carbon accounting. This study develop...
In system processing, video inevitably suffers from distortion, which leads to quality degradation and affects the user experience. Therefore, it is of great importance to design an accurate and effective objective video quality assessment (VQA) meth...
The spatial heterogeneity of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in a typical green tea-producing area in Zhejiang was investigated with application of geostatistics. The positive matrix factorization (PMF) was conducted for analysis of pollution sourc...
The spatial variability in rock mass mechanical parameters critically affects slope stability assessments. This study investigated the southern slope of the Bayan Obo open-pit mine. A representative elementary volume (REV) with a side length of 14 m...
City-scale UAV planning requires a clear distinction between areas screened out by operational constraints and areas retained for graded suitability assessment. To address this need, this study develops a grid-based framework for near-ground airspace...
Soil–structure interaction (SSI), which characterizes the dynamic interaction between a structure and its surrounding soil, is of great significance to the seismic assessment of structures. Past research endeavors have undertaken analytical, nu...
Accurate assessment of fish feeding intensity is essential for understanding feeding demand and optimising aquaculture efficiency. Fish feeding behaviour is inherently a 3D spatial activity, yet monocular vision can only provide 2D image information,...
In recent years, both mapping and assessing urban Ecosystem Services (ESs) to support urban planning has been a topic of great debate. This work aims at contributing to this discussion by developing and testing a methodological approach to first asse...
As forest fires are becoming a recurrent and severe issue in China, their temporal-spatial information and risk assessment are crucial for forest fire prevention and reduction. Based on provincial-level forest fire data during 1998–2017, this study a...
Traditional landslide susceptibility assessment (LSA) methods typically adopt a global modeling strategy, which struggles to account for the pronounced spatial heterogeneity arising from variations in topography, geology, and vegetation conditions wi...
The evaluation of smart affordable cities considering sustainable subsystems improves urban quality of life through efficient resource usage, reduced environmental impacts, and improved living conditions for residents. This study aims to develop an i...
Many studies acknowledge the significance of assessment frameworks for urban heritage sites in preserving their identities. Due to the pandemic and its impact on heritage sites and visitors, the spatial features and identities of many heritage sites...
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