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The unprecedented rate and scale of activities, simulated by human abode in its entirety, is having large and accelerating effects on the integrity of biophysical elements of spatial capital, at local, regional, and global scales. Real appreciation o...

To understand and respond to the common ecological and environmental challenges faced by human beings, this study investigated the relationship between territorial spatial development (TSD), eco-environmental responses, and territorial spatial planni...

The role of open spatial data is growing in human-history research. Spatiality can be utilized to bring together and seamlessly examine data describing multiple aspects of human beings and their environment. Web-based spatial data platforms can creat...

Understanding human mobility patterns provides us with knowledge about human mobility in an urban context, which plays a critical role in urban planning, traffic management and the spread of disease. Recently, the availability of large-scale human-se...

Urban air has its typical structural characteristics. With the continuous optimization of urban human settlement indicators, the key issue and single system of “air quality” in urban human settlements needs to be further discussed. Based on air condi...

In this article, we introduce a novel framework for learning spatial concepts within a human-in-the-loop (HITL) context, highlighting the critical role of explainability in AI systems. By incorporating human feedback, the approach enhances the learni...

Targeting the problems of the insufficient utilization of temporal and spatial information in videos and a lower accuracy rate, this paper proposes a human action recognition method for dynamic videos of emergency rescue based on a spatial-temporal f...

Human settlements lay the basis for urban sustainable development and embody comprehensive urban competitiveness. Based on data from the period 2010–2019, the entropy value method, global spatial correlation, and local spatial correlation are a...

As the cornerstone of terrestrial ecosystems, forests have faced mounting challenges due to escalating human activities, jeopardizing their vital ecological functions and even their existence. It has become an important issue to explore how to promot...

In this work, we extend the previously proposed approach of improving mutual perception during human–robot collaboration by communicating the robot’s motion intentions and status to a human worker using hand-worn haptic feedback devices. The improvem...

In this paper we propose a probabilistic sequential model of Human-Robot Spatial Interaction (HRSI) using a well-established Qualitative Trajectory Calculus (QTC) to encode HRSI between a human and a mobile robot in a meaningful, tractable, and syste...

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...

Nighttime light (NTL) intensity is highly associated with the unique footprint of human activities, reflecting the development of socioeconomic and urbanization. Therefore, better understanding of the relationship between NTL intensity and human acti...

In highly urbanized areas, urban green spaces (UGSs) are important natural and cultural entities. Previous studies have shown some evidence of positive relationships between UGSs and human health. Most of these studies relied on self-reported health...

The only way for dengue to spread in the human population is through the human-mosquito-human cycle. Most research in this field discusses the dengue-mosquito or dengue-human relationships over a particular study area, but few have explored the local...

Human capital is an important catalyst for technology to play its role and the key to ensuring regional sustainable development. The current research on human capital mainly considers the imbalance of its stock and regional distribution without of th...

Traditional villages in Southwest China serve as vital carriers of ethnic culture, vernacular architecture, and ecological wisdom, embodying centuries of dynamic human–land interaction. This study explores the spatial distribution characteristi...

Achieving legibility within the context of historical districts has become a controversial problem due to their widespread growth and unconventional constructions within, which has led to inconsistencies in the urban context system, and a decrease in...

The “Anthropocene” has witnessed unprecedented challenges to the sustainability of human development. Resolving the contradiction between humans and land and achieving coordinated development has become a pressing issue across many discip...

The wisdom embedded within traditional human settlements offers profound insights for addressing contemporary ecological challenges. This study systematically investigates the spatial management strategies and ecological wisdom of ancient settlements...

The importance of regions in shaping sustainable economic growth trajectories has been the subject of extensive research in recent years. When sustainable growth has been investigated in developing countries, a particular focus has been on China’s un...

The goal of this study was to identify the spatial resolution requirements for accurate rotor detection and localization in human right ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Poor spatial resolution is often cited as a reason for the inaccuracy of cardiac map...

Soil erosion (SE) processes are closely related to natural conditions and human activities, posing a threat to environment and society. Identifying the human impact on regional SE changes is increasingly essential for pertinent SE management. Jiangxi...

Current energy efficiency indicators (such as energy intensity) do not properly reflect the inherent relationship between “energy-environment-health”. Therefore, this study introduces the indicator of energy intensity of human well-being...

This study examines the spatial imbalance and driving mechanisms of human–environment coupling in the Xiuhe River Basin, an important agricultural–ecological watershed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. We integrated th...

Land degradation is one of the world’s most serious environmental issues. Human activities play an important role in it. Therefore, human-induced land degradation monitoring is of crucial scientific significance in revealing the evolution of la...

Human activity area extraction, a popular research topic, refers to mining meaningful location clusters from raw activity data. However, varying densities of large-scale spatial data create a challenge for existing extraction methods. This research p...

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...

Vigorous human activities have strengthened the development and utilization of land, causing huge damage to the earth’s surface, while mining the disturbance pattern of human activities can capture the influence process and spatial interaction...

Exploring the spatial relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and human disturbance intensity (HDI) is vital for maintaining regional ecological security. This study aims to explore the spatial correlation between ES and HDI in the Guangdong–Hon...

Vegetation dynamics result from the interaction between human activities and climate change. Numerous studies have investigated the contributions of human activities and climate change to vegetation cover dynamics using statistical methods. However,...

Existing autonomous driving systems face challenges in accurately capturing drivers’ cognitive states, often resulting in decisions misaligned with drivers’ intentions. To address this limitation, this study introduces a pioneering human-...

It is very important to seek a sustainable improvement in human well-being under a limited resource supply and to promote the scientific and coordinated development of urban economic development, ecological environment protection, and human well-bein...

To explore the influence of human activities on natural resources and the correlation between these two characteristics, taking the region around Poyang Lake in China as the research area. Utilizing data from 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2020, includi...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a prevailing indicator to present the status and trend of sustainability of nations, hereby offers a valuable measurement on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Revealing the dynamics of the HDI of the Easte...

The article has an empirical nature. The subject of detailed analysis is the variations in spatial distribution of human capital in rural areas of Poland and the analysis of the correlation of this phenomenon with local structures of the socio-econom...

High-quality human habitat cities in developing countries are facing new urban environmental problems as a result of the significant resource footprints of wealthy urban populations in the process of rapid urbanization. These areas are desperate for...

Obvious spatial expansion of human settlement occurred in the lower Yellow River floodplain during the Longshan period, but the external factors driving this expansion remain unclear. In this study, we first delineated the hydroclimatic changes at bo...

In recent years, as Chinese cities have entered a stage of high-quality transformation, enhancing livability and achieving refined governance within existing urban spaces has become a central issue in urban planning and management. The establishment...

Wearable devices have been introduced for research purposes and especially for environmental monitoring, with the aim of collecting large amounts of data. In a previous study, we addressed the measurement reliability of low-cost thermohygrometers. In...

The use of advanced adaptive algorithms in Augmented Reality (AR) systems works to advance spatial skills with valuable relevance in many professional spheres by providing personalized feedback in an immersive environment. This study combines Bayesia...

Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is a key driver of China’s green development, and innovative human capital (IHC) plays a pivotal role in enhancing GTFP. This study examines the impact of the quantity and quality dimensions of IHC on regi...

The relationship between urban human dynamics and land use types has always been an important issue in the study of urban problems in China. This paper used location data from Sina Location Microblog (commonly known as Weibo) users to study the human...

Mainstream empirical studies on the spatial justice of medical facilities focus on equal accessibility or resource availability based on population scale, overlooking critiques that emphasize the importance of assessing inequality and the multidimens...

Numerous studies have shown that the emotional wellbeing of urban populations is influenced by various aspects of urban development, such as social factors and the presence of walkable areas and green spaces. However, there is a lack of research that...

Large-scale human land-use management is an effective method for ecosystem restoration and wind erosion prevention service (WEPS) improvement. However, the spatial differences of driving factors and the feedback in subsequent management have received...

Human action recognition is a computer vision task that identifies how a person or a group acts on a video sequence. Various methods that rely on deep-learning techniques, such as two- or three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (2D-CNNs, 3D-C...

Groundwater is an essential water source for drinking, domestic, irrigation and industrial production in Luxi Plain, Shandong Province, China. Understanding the spatial–temporal changes in groundwater quality and its influencing factors in the...

The Sanhe region in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is an important area for the origin and development of early civilization in China. Many early sites, from the Paleolithic to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, remain in the region, all of w...

China’s rapid urbanization drive, marked by extensive urban renewal projects, necessitates a meticulous examination of their transformational impact on the human settlement environment (HSE) across urban landscapes. This study investigates the...