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The Correlation Between Crime Frequency and Urban Spatial Hierarchy in Busan

  • Yao Lu,
  • Shan Gao,
  • Tingting Hong,
  • Zhe Cao,
  • Heangwoo Lee,
  • Eunkil Cho and
  • Xiaolong Zhao

21 March 2025

This study examined the relationship between urban spatial hierarchy and crime rates in Busan using space syntax. This research study investigated the correlation between crime frequency and Busan’s urban space structure. The findings are as fo...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,554 Views
17 Pages

22 April 2025

With the global trend of waterfront urban expansion, nonlinear urban growth has generated skyline patterns marked by multidimensional spatial heterogeneity. Traditional single-viewpoint methods often fall short in capturing the layered spatial relati...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,014 Views
24 Pages

Triple Spatial Effects of the Administrative Hierarchy on Urban Built-Up Areas in Fujian Province, China: Heterogeneity, Radiation, and Segmentation

  • Yu Liu,
  • Zhuorui Yu,
  • Daining Liu,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Long Zhou,
  • Guoqiang Shen,
  • Chasong Zhu,
  • Yiheng Sun and
  • Yanran Wang

12 December 2022

The expansion of urban built-up areas is one of the most prominent characteristics of land use change in China. A growing body of literature has emphasized the triple spatial effects of the administrative hierarchy on urban built-up areas expansion,...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,865 Views
24 Pages

30 March 2023

This paper constructs a counterfactual framework based on the opening-up policies of provinces in the eastern coastal region. It analyzes the role of the political hierarchy of the opening-up policy in China’s carbon reduction at the county lev...

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  • Open Access
135 Views
20 Pages

Adaptive reuse projects frequently involve substantial plan-level reorganization; however, the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchy within interior layouts remains insufficiently examined at the building scale. Background: This study investigates how...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,520 Views
25 Pages

15 March 2021

Runoff water harvesting (RWH) is considered as an important tool for overcoming water scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions. The present work focuses on identifying potential RWH sites in the Wadi Watir watershed in the south-eastern part of the Sin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,041 Views
32 Pages

18 January 2024

Robust evidence suggests that humans explore their environment using a combination of topological landmarks and coarse-grained path integration. This approach relies on identifiable environmental features (topological landmarks) in tandem with estima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,919 Views
25 Pages

Integrating Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Ecosystem Services into Spatial Optimization of Urban Functions

  • Tianlin Zhai,
  • Mingyuan Chang,
  • Yingchao Li,
  • Longyang Huang,
  • Ye Chen,
  • Guanyu Ding,
  • Chenchen Zhao,
  • Ling Li,
  • Weiqiang Chen and
  • Jing Wang
  • + 3 authors

24 August 2023

It is vital to conduct urban ecosystem service evaluations and demarcate ecological management zoning to preserve regional ecological security and the spatial optimization of urban functions. This study assessed and examined the spatial distribution...

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  • Open Access
1,037 Views
17 Pages

17 October 2024

The RPN-based Siamese tracker has achieved remarkable performance with real-time speed but suffers from a lack of robustness in complex motion tracking. Especially when the target comes into an abrupt motion scenario, the assumption of motion smoothn...

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  • Open Access
127 Citations
10,280 Views
19 Pages

15 March 2019

Floods are common natural disasters worldwide, frequently causing loss of lives and huge economic and environmental damages. A spatial vulnerability mapping approach incorporating multi-criteria at the local scale is essential for deriving detailed v...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,004 Views
25 Pages

16 April 2024

In order to improve the simulation efficiency under the premise of ensuring the fidelity of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulation images, we propose a BVH-assisted fast SAR image simulation method based on spatial segmentation. The beam scanning...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,984 Views
21 Pages

GIS-Based Spatial Modeling of Snow Avalanches Using Analytic Hierarchy Process. A Case Study of the Šar Mountains, Serbia

  • Uroš Durlević,
  • Aleksandar Valjarević,
  • Ivan Novković,
  • Nina B. Ćurčić,
  • Mirjana Smiljić,
  • Cezar Morar,
  • Alina Stoica,
  • Danijel Barišić and
  • Tin Lukić

3 August 2022

Snow avalanches are one of the most devastating natural hazards in the highlands that often cause human casualties and economic losses. The complex process of modeling terrain susceptibility requires the application of modern methods and software. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,189 Views
21 Pages

21 March 2024

On a global scale, traffic incidents are a leading cause of mortality and material damage. Romania exhibits the highest rate of road traffic fatalities both in the European Union and worldwide, requiring a comprehensive examination of its overall inf...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,730 Views
28 Pages

13 June 2022

As one of the primary means of Earth observation, high-spatial-resolution remote sensing images can describe the geometry, texture and structure of objects in detail. It has become a research hotspot to recognize the semantic information of objects,...

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  • Open Access
3,002 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2024

The process of siting municipal solid waste landfills in Greece faces significant challenges due to land resource limitations, the country’s mountainous and water-permeable terrain, and strong public opposition. This study introduces a novel me...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,789 Views
16 Pages

Analyses of urban hierarchy and scale distribution are crucial in urban research, as they examine the laws of urban development and the functional layout of urban spatial systems. However, previous studies have focused on the macro-spatial distributi...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,536 Views
11 Pages

6 February 2017

The aim of the paper is to map and evaluate the state of the multifunctional landscape of the municipality of Naples (Italy) and its surroundings, through a Spatial Decision-Making support system (SDSS) combining geographic information system (GIS) a...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,505 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2016

Spatial planning aims to improve the socioeconomic and environmental sustainability of a region, yet, in the spatial planning framework, it is difficult to capture the environmental impacts of the lifestyle of residents as a whole. We use carbon load...

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  • Open Access
277 Views
30 Pages

RAPT-Net: Reliability-Aware Precision-Preserving Tolerance-Enhanced Network for Tiny Target Detection in Wide-Area Coverage Aerial Remote Sensing

  • Peida Zhou,
  • Xiaojun Guo,
  • Xiaoyong Sun,
  • Bei Sun,
  • Shaojing Su,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Runze Guo,
  • Zhaoyang Dang and
  • Siyang Huang

1 February 2026

Multi-platform aerial remote sensing supports critical applications including wide-area surveillance, traffic monitoring, maritime security, and search and rescue. However, constrained by observation altitude and sensor resolution, targets inherently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,291 Views
17 Pages

6 January 2021

This manuscript analyzes an inter-parish housing rents gradient with respect to surrounding parishes. Using data on housing rents for 4049 Portuguese parishes in 278 municipalities, the paper explores the spatial patterns of housing rents using the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,790 Views
22 Pages

9 April 2020

This study aimed to analyze and assess the spatial and temporal trends in distribution of reserves and production of igneous and metamorphic dimension stones and crushed rocks in the Lower Silesia region, which with 90% of total supply is the key sou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,131 Views
28 Pages

Oil spills threaten marine ecosystems and hinder progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 on ocean conservation and sustainable marine resource use. Coastal ecosystems in Myanmar face growing risks from expanding maritime infrastructure,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,108 Views
35 Pages

Territorial tourism has brought new development opportunities for historic and cultural neighborhoods. However, an insufficient understanding of the spatial distribution and influencing mechanisms of neighborhood vitality continues to constrain effec...

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  • Open Access
1,105 Views
19 Pages

7 August 2025

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...

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  • Open Access
2,166 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2023

This paper examines the effects of political hierarchy on firms’ long-term total factor productivity using evidence from the elevation of Chongqing to provincial-level government in China. Using the elevation as an exogenous shock and the Sichu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,484 Views
25 Pages

In the context of intensive urban development, urban complexes have emerged as crucial public spaces that address the needs of urban populations. However, current research on urban complexes is predominantly qualitative and lacks a rigorous scientifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
830 Views
30 Pages

Ecological Sensitivity Zoning and Functional Optimization of the Longyuwan National Forest Park

  • Jing He,
  • Yigeng Zhu,
  • Wenwen Zhong,
  • Qiupeng Yuan,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Jue Li,
  • Shuang Yao,
  • Tailin Zhong and
  • Zhi Li

10 October 2025

In the context of sustainable forest resource development, balancing ecological conservation with rational utilization is essential to achieving forest multifunctionality. Longyuwan National Forest Park, located in Luanchuan County, Henan Province, s...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,956 Views
17 Pages

To achieve sustainable development in the road sector, the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) appears as a positive response to transport emissions. Among the available technologies, dynamic charging seems to overcome the main weakness points of EVs, eve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,484 Views
18 Pages

Spatially Explicit Model for Anaerobic Co-Digestion Facilities Location and Pre-Dimensioning Considering Spatial Distribution of Resource Supply and Biogas Yield in Northwest Portugal

  • Renata D’arc Coura,
  • Joaquim Mamede Alonso,
  • Ana Cristina Rodrigues,
  • Ana Isabel Ferraz,
  • Nuno Mouta,
  • Renato Silva and
  • A. G. Brito

19 February 2021

The high volumes of animal manure and sewage sludge, as a consequence of the development of intensive and specialized cattle dairy farms in peri-urban areas, pose challenges to local environmental quality and demands for systems innovation. Besides t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,297 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2019

Land cover classification of urban areas is critical for understanding the urban environment. High-resolution remotely sensed imagery provides abundant, detailed spatial information for urban classification. In the meantime, OpenStreetMap (OSM) data,...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,214 Views
24 Pages

13 July 2025

This study investigates rural settlement patterns and land suitability in Rwanda’s Western Highlands, a mountainous region highly vulnerable to geohazards like landslides and flooding. Its primary aim is to inform sustainable, climate-resilient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,594 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2021

This study proposes a technology that allows automatic extraction of vectorized indoor spatial information from raster images of floor plans. Automatic reconstruction of indoor spaces from floor plans is based on a deep learning algorithm, which trai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,025 Views
19 Pages

As China is a mountainous country, a large quantity of the population has to live in mountainous areas due to limited living space. Most of them cluster along roads in areas with relatively poor traffic conditions. In view of the spatial-temporal cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,259 Views
28 Pages

11 August 2025

This study develops a comprehensive evaluation framework for urban street alfresco spaces by integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Entropy Weight Method. Daxue Road in Shanghai is selected as a representative case to analyze key factor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,882 Views
20 Pages

Investigating Metropolitan Hierarchies through a Spatially Explicit (Local) Approach

  • Rosanna Salvia,
  • Giovanni Quaranta,
  • Kostas Rontos,
  • Pavel Cudlin and
  • Luca Salvati

Assuming a non-neutral impact of space, an explicit assessment of metropolitan hierarchies based on local regression models produces a refined description of population settlement patterns and processes over time. We used Geographically Weighted Regr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,326 Views
13 Pages

The Adaptive Capacity of Alien and Rare Species in China

  • Quanlai Zhou,
  • Zhiming Xin,
  • Yongcui Wang,
  • Renhui Miao,
  • Zhimin Liu,
  • Lu Zong,
  • Xuehua Li,
  • Qun Ma,
  • Wei Liang and
  • Lixin Wang
  • + 1 author

27 November 2022

Alien and rare plants tend to adapt to contrasting biotic and abiotic conditions. However, adaptability assessments of alien and rare plants using biological and habitat characteristics in stressful and disturbed environments are limited. We collecte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
13,320 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2021

Shifting from a fossil-fueled to an eco-friendly vehicle fleet in cities could pave the way towards a more sustainable future. Electric Vehicles (EVs) should thus be prioritized, so that they could replace conventional vehicles gradually. In this con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,604 Views
29 Pages

18 December 2019

This study seeks a scientific methodology for ecological leisure industry planners to contribute to a more ecologically friendly leisure industry. This study creates an environment suitability model (LIDES) for leisure industry development. This mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,670 Views
16 Pages

25 April 2022

Green infrastructure planning has been receiving great attention since the end of the last century. Although green infrastructure has been known for its ability to respond to a wide range of environmental, social, and economic challenges, the concept...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,842 Views
28 Pages

Identifying Sustainable Offshore Wind Farm Sites in Greece Under Climate Change

  • Vasiliki I. Chalastani,
  • Elissavet Feloni,
  • Carlos M. Duarte and
  • Vasiliki K. Tsoukala

Wind power has gained attention as a vital renewable energy source capable of reducing emissions and serving as an effective alternative to fossil fuels. Floating wind farms could significantly enhance the energy capacities of Mediterranean countries...

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  • Open Access
333 Views
33 Pages

Mapping Grassland Suitability Through GIS and AHP for Sustainable Management: A Case Study of Hunedoara County, Romania

  • Luminiţa L. Cojocariu,
  • Nicolae Marinel Horablaga,
  • Cosmin Alin Popescu,
  • Adina Horablaga,
  • Monica Bella-Sfîrcoci and
  • Loredana Copăcean

23 January 2026

Grasslands represent an essential resource for rural economies and for the provision of ecosystem services, yet they are increasingly affected by anthropogenic pressures, functional land-use changes, and institutional constraints. This study develops...

  • Article
  • Open Access

GIS-Based Methodologies for the Design of Urban Biomass Energy Generators

  • Yessica Trujillo Ladino,
  • Javier Rosero Garcia and
  • Juan Galvis

14 March 2026

Urban areas require context-specific bioenergy solutions to advance toward circular and sustainable energy systems. In Bogotá, urban pruning and grass-cutting residues constitute a relatively stable biomass stream; however, the absence of dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,226 Views
29 Pages

Geospatial Mudflow Risk Modeling: Integration of MCDA and RAMMS

  • Ainur Mussina,
  • Assel Abdullayeva,
  • Victor Blagovechshenskiy,
  • Sandugash Ranova,
  • Zhixiong Zeng,
  • Aidana Kamalbekova and
  • Ulzhan Aldabergen

4 August 2025

This article presents a comprehensive assessment of mudflow risk in the Talgar River basin through the application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods and numerical modeling using the Rapid Mass Movement Simulation (RAMMS) environment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,702 Views
20 Pages

Remotely Sensed Data Fusion for Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Analysis of Forest Fire Hazard

  • Stavros Sakellariou,
  • Pedro Cabral,
  • Mário Caetano,
  • Filiberto Pla,
  • Marco Painho,
  • Olga Christopoulou,
  • Athanassios Sfougaris,
  • Nicolas Dalezios and
  • Christos Vasilakos

3 September 2020

Forest fires are a natural phenomenon which might have severe implications on natural and anthropogenic ecosystems. Future projections predict that, under a climate change environment, the fire season would be lengthier with higher levels of droughts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,363 Views
20 Pages

Effects, Monitoring and Management of Forest Roads Using Remote Sensing and GIS in Angolan Miombo Woodlands

  • Vasco Chiteculo,
  • Azadeh Abdollahnejad,
  • Dimitrios Panagiotidis and
  • Peter Surový

29 March 2022

Angola’s forests are abundant and highly productive with enormous potential to support local needs and exportation. The forests are well distributed across the country, but the existing road network is generally poor and, in some cases, inappro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,703 Views
15 Pages

12 October 2022

The reason for changes in ranking within urban systems is the subject of much debate. Employing the census data from 1990 to 2020, this paper investigates population dynamics across urban hierarchies and its influencing factors in the Yangtze River D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,646 Views
16 Pages

Architectural design and urban renewal that adapt to an ageing society and are localized are urgent needs around the world. On the other hand, the concept of grey space, which refers to transitional space and is an in-between concept, has been propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Views
27 Pages

5 March 2026

In the context of rapid urban tourism expansion and the growing emphasis on equitable and sustainable transport development, understanding how transport systems support different types of attractions has become increasingly important. This study inve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,655 Views
25 Pages

23 November 2016

Water pollution has become a global problem and its impact on the health of the human population is growing day by day. This study aims to assess the pollution of the Cibin River (Romania) by a physicochemical analysis. Water samples have been collec...

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