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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,067 Views
18 Pages

With the development of machine learning technology, research cases for spatial estimation through machine learning approach (MLA) in addition to the traditional geostatistical techniques are increasing. MLA has the advantage that spatial estimation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,444 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2024

This paper proposes a semiparametric spatial lag model and develops a Bayesian estimation method for this model. In the estimation of the model, the paper combines Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) algorithm, random walk Metropolis sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,200 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2022

To estimate the pose of satellites in space, the docking ring component has strong rigid body characteristics and can provide a fixed circular feature, which is an important object. However, due to the need for additional constraints to estimate a si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,528 Views
29 Pages

9 February 2023

Multiscale estimation for geographically weighted regression (GWR) and the related models has attracted much attention due to their superiority. This kind of estimation method will not only improve the accuracy of the coefficient estimators but also...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Bayesian Estimation of Spatial Lagged Panel Quantile Regression Model

  • Man Zhao,
  • Rushan Huang,
  • Hanfang Li,
  • Youxi Luo and
  • Qiming Liu
Appl. Sci.2026, 16(4), 1927;https://doi.org/10.3390/app16041927 
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14 February 2026

This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation method for spatial lagged panel quantile models. The proposed model simultaneously considers spatial lag effects of the dependent variable and the quantile regression framework, enabling effective capture of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,744 Views
13 Pages

19 July 2022

In spatial econometrics, we usually assume that the spatial dependence structure is known and that all information about it is contained in a spatial weights matrix W. However, in practice, the structure of W is unknown a priori and difficult to obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
23 Pages

13 November 2025

As urban built-up areas are the main generators of carbon emissions, scientific and accurate estimation of carbon emission levels in urban built-up areas is an important method to help implement the carbon neutrality target. Nowadays, developing a sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,218 Views
25 Pages

A Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Transportation Flow Estimation

  • Ifigenia Drosouli,
  • Athanasios Voulodimos,
  • Paris Mastorocostas,
  • Georgios Miaoulis and
  • Djamchid Ghazanfarpour

30 August 2023

Accurate estimation of transportation flow is a challenging task in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Transporting data with dynamic spatial-temporal dependencies elevates transportation flow forecasting to a significant issue for operational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,320 Views
16 Pages

22 December 2022

Online multi-microphone speech enhancement aims to extract target speech from multiple noisy inputs by exploiting the spatial information as well as the spectro-temporal characteristics with low latency. Acoustic parameters such as the acoustic trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,820 Views
19 Pages

Equivalent Spatial Plane-Based Relative Pose Estimation of UAVs

  • Hangyu Wang,
  • Shuangyi Gong,
  • Chaobo Chen and
  • Jichao Li

8 August 2024

The accuracy of relative pose estimation is an important foundation for ensuring the safety and stability of autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and in response to this problem, a relative pose estimation method of UA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,976 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2023

In this paper, the spatial dynamic panel data (SDPD) model with fixed effects is extended to a non-parametric form by relaxing the linear or nonlinear parameter structure of explanatory variables. The non-parametric spatial dynamic panel data (NSDPD)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,989 Views
17 Pages

Pilot-Based Adaptive Channel Estimation for Underwater Spatial Modulation Technologies

  • Naveed Ur Rehman Junejo,
  • Hamada Esmaiel,
  • Haixin Sun,
  • Zeyad A. H. Qasem and
  • Junfeng Wang

24 May 2019

Spatial Modulation Technologies (SMTs) are schemes that reduce inter-carrier interference (ICI), inter-channel interference, inter-antenna synchronization (IAS), and system complexity for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,256 Views
26 Pages

Spatial Spectrum Estimation of Co-Channel Direct Signal in Passive Radar Based on Coprime Array

  • Haodong Xu,
  • Haitao Wang,
  • Kefei Liao,
  • Shan Ouyang and
  • Yanyun Gong

24 October 2022

The received signal of passive radar based on mobile communication signals contains direct and multipath interference (DMI) signals from multiple co-channel base stations (CCBS). The direct signal spatial spectrum of each CCBS should be obtained firs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,741 Views
14 Pages

Fast Method for Liquid Crystal Cell Spatial Variations Estimation Based on Modeling the Spectral Transmission

  • Shauli Shmilovich,
  • Liat Revah,
  • Yaniv Oiknine,
  • Isaac August,
  • Ibrahim Abdulhalim and
  • Adrian Stern

8 September 2019

Liquid crystal phase retarders are utilized by photonic devices and imaging systems for various applications, such as tunable filtering, light modulation, polarimetric imaging, remote sensing and quality inspection. Due to technical difficulties in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,572 Views
19 Pages

Learning Temporal–Spatial Contextual Adaptation for Three-Dimensional Human Pose Estimation

  • Hexin Wang,
  • Wei Quan,
  • Runjing Zhao,
  • Miaomiao Zhang and
  • Na Jiang

8 July 2024

Three-dimensional human pose estimation focuses on generating 3D pose sequences from 2D videos. It has enormous potential in the fields of human–robot interaction, remote sensing, virtual reality, and computer vision. Existing excellent methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,446 Views
13 Pages

DOA-Estimation Method Based on Improved Spatial-Smoothing Technique

  • Yujun Hou,
  • Xuhu Wang,
  • Lei Ding,
  • Xu Jin and
  • Qunfei Zhang

22 December 2023

To improve the data utilization of the sensor array and direction-of-arrival-(DOA)-estimation performance for coherent signals, a DOA-estimation method with a modified spatial-smoothing technique is proposed. The covariance matrix of the received dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,710 Views
16 Pages

1 July 2023

In this paper, the spatial dynamic panel data (SDPD) model is extended to the single-index spatial dynamic panel data (Si-SDPD) model by introducing a nonlinear connection function to reflect the interaction between explanatory variables. The Si-SDPD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,763 Views
20 Pages

10 May 2024

This study addresses the problem of parameter estimation in spatial autoregressive models with missing data and measurement errors in covariates. Specifically, a corrected likelihood estimation approach is employed to rectify the bias in the log-maxi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,562 Views
24 Pages

Spatial Spectrum Estimation of Weak Scattering Wave Signal in Range-Doppler Domain

  • Hang Xu,
  • Hong Ma,
  • Li Wang,
  • Jiang Jin,
  • Hua Zhang and
  • Xiaodong Liu

16 June 2024

How to enhance the desired signal with low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a difficult problem in the estimation process of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the target scattering wave signal. In this paper, the feasibility of spatial spectrum estimat...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,843 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2023

This paper investigates the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of coherent signals with a moving coprime array (MCA). Spatial smoothing techniques are often used to deal with the covariance matrix of coherent signals, but they cannot be used in sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,490 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2013

This study aims to investigate the impact of the spatial size of the study domain on the performance of the triangle method using progressively smaller domains and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations in the Heihe River...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,183 Views
17 Pages

Infrared imaging is widely applied in the discrimination of spatial targets. Extracting distinguishable features from the infrared signature of spatial targets is an important premise for this task. When a target in outer space experiences micro-moti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,414 Views
18 Pages

The development of urban agglomerations dominated by the service industry is an important driving force for further sustainable economic growth of China. Spatial analysis marked by population density and regional integration is an essential perspecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,586 Views
19 Pages

25 January 2024

Spatial regression models are widely available across several disciplines, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis, econometrics, and house price analysis. In nature, sparsity occurs when a limited number of factors strongly impact ove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,279 Views
16 Pages

We present a scheme aimed at estimating daily spatial snow water equivalent (SWE) maps in real time and at high spatial resolution from scarce in-situ SWE measurements from Internet of Things (IoT) devices at actual sensor locations and historical SW...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,710 Views
12 Pages

10 October 2024

Accurately estimating the state of charge of a lithium-ion battery plays an important role in managing the health of a battery and estimating its charging state. Traditional state-of-charge estimation methods encounter difficulties in processing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,107 Views
17 Pages

A Lightweight 6D Pose Estimation Network Based on Improved Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling

  • Fupan Wang,
  • Xiaohang Tang,
  • Yadong Wu,
  • Yinfan Wang,
  • Huarong Chen,
  • Guijuan Wang and
  • Jing Liao

It is difficult for lightweight neural networks to produce accurate 6DoF pose estimation effects due to their accuracy being affected by scale changes. To solve this problem, we propose a method with good performance and robustness based on previous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,884 Views
30 Pages

Optimal Vehicle Pose Estimation Network Based on Time Series and Spatial Tightness with 3D LiDARs

  • Hanqi Wang,
  • Zhiling Wang,
  • Linglong Lin,
  • Fengyu Xu,
  • Jie Yu and
  • Huawei Liang

14 October 2021

Vehicle pose estimation is essential in autonomous vehicle (AV) perception technology. However, due to the different density distributions of the point cloud, it is challenging to achieve sensitive direction extraction based on 3D LiDAR by using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,418 Views
19 Pages

Fusion Classification of HSI and MSI Using a Spatial-Spectral Vision Transformer for Wetland Biodiversity Estimation

  • Yunhao Gao,
  • Xiukai Song,
  • Wei Li,
  • Jianbu Wang,
  • Jianlong He,
  • Xiangyang Jiang and
  • Yinyin Feng

11 February 2022

The rapid development of remote sensing technology provides wealthy data for earth observation. Land-cover mapping indirectly achieves biodiversity estimation at a coarse scale. Therefore, accurate land-cover mapping is the precondition of biodiversi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
568 Views
25 Pages

26 July 2025

In the field of tunnel engineering, the precise determination of the spatial coordinates of karst water-rich pipelines represents a critical area of research for disaster prevention and control. Traditional detection methods often exhibit limitations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,448 Views
14 Pages

24 August 2017

This paper proposes an improved spatial differencing (ISD) scheme for two-dimensional direction of arrival (2-D DOA) estimation of coherent signals with uniform rectangular arrays (URAs). We first divide the URA into a number of row rectangular subar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,599 Views
18 Pages

9 June 2023

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation methods are highly versatile and find extensive applications in satellite communication. DoA methods are employed across a range of orbits, from low Earth orbits (LEO) to geostationary Earth orbits (GEO). They se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,021 Views
27 Pages

31 July 2023

Accurate snow water equivalent (SWE) products are vital for monitoring hydrological processes and managing water resources effectively. However, the coarse spatial resolution (typically at 25 km from passive microwave remote sensing images) of the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
700 Views
22 Pages

4 April 2025

The high-precision estimation of multi-dimensional parameters for spatial targets based on high-resolution range profiles is crucial for target recognition. However, existing estimation methods face difficulties in resolving the strong coupling betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,898 Views
21 Pages

Deep Learning Framework Using Spatial Attention Mechanisms for Adaptable Angle Estimation Across Diverse Array Configurations

  • Constantinos M. Mylonakis,
  • Pantelis Velanas,
  • Pavlos I. Lazaridis,
  • Panagiotis Sarigiannidis,
  • Sotirios K. Goudos and
  • Zaharias D. Zaharis

Rapid advancement of wireless communication systems and the increasing need for accurate, real-time signal processing have driven innovations in direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation techniques. This paper introduces a novel convolutional neural netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
882 Views
15 Pages

1 October 2025

Transformer-based 2D-to-3D lifting methods have demonstrated outstanding performance in 3D human pose estimation from 2D pose sequences. However, they still encounter challenges with the relatively poor quality of 2D joints and substantial computatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,959 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2014

In the design phase of sensor arrays during array signal processing, the estimation performance and system cost are largely determined by array aperture size. In this article, we address the problem of joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,076 Views
26 Pages

12 December 2023

Spectral unmixing poses a significant challenge within hyperspectral image processing, traditionally addressed by supervised convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approaches employing patch-to-pixel (pixel-wise) methods. However, such pixel-wise m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,054 Views
27 Pages

23 December 2019

The point detections obtained from radars or sonars in surveillance environments include clutter measurements, as well as target measurements. Target tracking with these data requires data association, which distinguishes the detections from targets...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,749 Views
15 Pages

Volunteer-contributed geographic data (VGI) is an important source of geospatial big data that support research and applications. A major concern on VGI data quality is that the underlying observation processes are inherently biased. Detecting observ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,703 Views
18 Pages

Estimating disaster relief supplies is crucial for governments coordinating and executing disaster relief operations. Rapid and accurate estimation of disaster relief supplies can assist the government to optimize the allocation of resources and bett...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,113 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2021

Nighttime light (NTL) data are increasingly used in urban studies and urban planning owing to their strong connection with human activities, although the detection capacity is limited by the spatial resolution of older data. In the present study, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,028 Views
16 Pages

21 July 2023

This paper proposes a stereo-vision-based method that detects and registers the positions and postures of muti-type, randomly placed miniature circuit breaker (MCB) components within scene point clouds acquired by a 3D stereo camera. The method is de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,938 Views
25 Pages

21 March 2021

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation has always been a hot topic for researchers. The complex and changeable environment makes it very challenging to estimate the DOA in a small snapshot and strong noise environment. The direction-of-arrival estimat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,020 Views
15 Pages

17 February 2024

In this study, we analyzed the impact of model spatial resolution on streamflow predictions, focusing on high-resolution scenarios (<1 km) and flooding conditions at catchment scale. Simulation experiments were implemented for the Geumho River cat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,567 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2024

The limited surface area and structural constraints of small underwater communication devices necessitate a dense placement of transmitting and receiving array elements in optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The compact layout lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,963 Views
33 Pages

9 September 2022

In this paper, we address a class of heterogeneous spatial autoregressive models with all n(n1) spatial coefficients taking m distinct true values, where m is independent of the sample size n, and we establish asymptotic properties of the maxi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,003 Views
21 Pages

Information Theory Estimators for the First-Order Spatial Autoregressive Model

  • Evgeniy V. Perevodchikov,
  • Thomas L. Marsh and
  • Ron C. Mittelhammer

4 July 2012

Information theoretic estimators for the first-order spatial autoregressive model are introduced, small sample properties are investigated, and the estimator is applied empirically. Monte Carlo experiments are used to compare finite sample performanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,732 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2023

In this paper, a novel two-dimensional direction of arrival (2D-DOA) estimation method with total variation regularization is proposed to deal with the problem of sparse DOA estimation for spatially extended sources. In a general sparse framework, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,921 Views
26 Pages

Indirect Inference Estimation of Spatial Autoregressions

  • Yong Bao,
  • Xiaotian Liu and
  • Lihong Yang

The ordinary least squares (OLS) estimator for spatial autoregressions may be consistent as pointed out by Lee (2002), provided that each spatial unit is influenced aggregately by a significant portion of the total units. This paper presents a unifie...

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