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Modeling the Spatial and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 in Poland Based on a Spatial Interaction Model

  • Piotr A. Werner,
  • Małgorzata Kęsik-Brodacka,
  • Karolina Nowak,
  • Robert Olszewski,
  • Mariusz Kaleta and
  • David T. Liebers

This article describes an original methodology for integrating global SIR-like epidemic models with spatial interaction models, which enables the forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in Poland through time and space. Mobility level, estimated by the regi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Spatial Components of COVID-19 Pandemic)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,872 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2020

This manuscript develops a theoretical spatial interaction model using the entropy approach to relax the assumption of the deterministic utility function. The spatial healthcare accessibility improves as the demand for healthcare increases or the opp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Econometrics Analysis of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,809 Views
19 Pages

Geospatial phenomena often have spatial heterogeneity, which is caused by differences in the data generation process from place to place. There are two types of spatial heterogeneity: continuous and discrete, and there has been much discussion about...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,041 Views
23 Pages

This research aims to develop a novel spatial optimization model for locating obnoxious facilities. While various obnoxious facility location problems (OFLP) have been introduced, the optimal spatial arrangements in existing models may not adequately...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,621 Views
19 Pages

SceneDiffusion: Scene Generation Model Embedded with Spatial Constraints

  • Shanshan Yu,
  • Jiaxin Zhu,
  • Jiaqi Li,
  • Xunchun Li,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Jian Tu and
  • Danhuai Guo

Spatial scenes, as fundamental units of geospatial cognition, encompass rich objects and spatial relationships, and their generation techniques hold significant application value in disaster simulation and emergency drills, delayed spatial reconstruc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in AI-Driven Geospatial Analysis and Data Generation (2nd Edition))
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,188 Views
14 Pages

The Implementation of Spatial Planning Objects in a 3D Cadastral Model

  • Jarosław Bydłosz,
  • Agnieszka Bieda and
  • Piotr Parzych

The paper concerns spatial planning in Poland and its connection with the cadastre. The Polish spatial planning system defines the set of colours, lines, hatches, etc. destined for the preparations of spatial plans, though this has so far not been fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Productive, Livable and Accessible Cities—The Role of 3D City Models)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,088 Views
24 Pages

Spatial Autocorrelation Incorporated Machine Learning Model for Geotechnical Subsurface Modeling

  • Hyeong-Joo Kim,
  • Kevin Bagas Arifki Mawuntu,
  • Tae-Woong Park,
  • Hyeong-Soo Kim,
  • Jun-Young Park and
  • Yeong-Seong Jeong

1 April 2023

Machine learning models for spatial prediction have been applied in various types of research. However, spatial relation has not been fully considered in modeling, since the Cartesian coordinates of the observed points are directly employed as the lo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,729 Views
20 Pages

Spatial Survival Model for COVID-19 in México

  • Eduardo Pérez-Castro,
  • María Guzmán-Martínez,
  • Flaviano Godínez-Jaimes,
  • Ramón Reyes-Carreto,
  • Cruz Vargas-de-León and
  • Alejandro Iván Aguirre-Salado

24 January 2024

A spatial survival analysis was performed to identify some of the factors that influence the survival of patients with COVID-19 in the states of Guerrero, México, and Chihuahua. The data that we analyzed correspond to the period from 28 Februa...

(This article belongs to the Topic Spatial Epidemiology and GeoInformatics)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,183 Views
22 Pages

A rapid growth in spatial open datasets has led to a huge demand for regression approaches accommodating spatial and non-spatial effects in big data. Regression model selection is particularly important to stably estimate flexible regression models....

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,305 Views
11 Pages

Background: Air pollution is one source of harm to the health of residents, and the impact of air pollution on health expenditure has become a hot topic worldwide. However, few studies aim at the spatial spillover effects of air pollution on the heal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hazardous Waste and Human Health)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,048 Views
12 Pages

Estimation in Partial Functional Linear Spatial Autoregressive Model

  • Yuping Hu,
  • Siyu Wu,
  • Sanying Feng and
  • Junliang Jin

1 October 2020

Functional regression allows for a scalar response to be dependent on a functional predictor; however, not much work has been done when response variables are dependence spatial variables. In this paper, we introduce a new partial functional linear s...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
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12 Pages

Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Model for Frequency of Tornadoes

  • Haitao Zheng,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Qiaoju Chen,
  • Qingshan Yang,
  • Guoqing Huang,
  • Dahai Wang and
  • Ruili Liu

27 February 2023

Frequency analysis of tornadoes is very important for risk analysis and disaster control. In this paper, the annual frequency of tornadoes that occurred in the United States from 1967 to 2016 is analyzed. The simple analysis shows that frequencies of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational Wind Engineering and Wind Energy)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,249 Views
16 Pages

Seamless Integration of Rainfall Spatial Variability and a Conceptual Hydrological Model

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Zhongmin Liang,
  • Binquan Li,
  • Yixin Huang,
  • Kai Wang and
  • Yiming Hu

23 March 2021

Rainfall is an important input to conceptual hydrological models, and its accuracy would have a considerable effect on that of the model simulations. However, traditional conceptual rainfall-runoff models commonly use catchment-average rainfall as in...

(This article belongs to the Collection Modeling and Simulations for Sustainable Water Environments)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,776 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...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,414 Views
13 Pages

A Spatial Lattice Model Applied for Meteorological Visualization and Analysis

  • Mingyue Lu,
  • Min Chen,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Jinzhong Min and
  • Aili Liu

Meteorological information has obvious spatial-temporal characteristics. Although it is meaningful to employ a geographic information system (GIS) to visualize and analyze the meteorological information for better identification and forecasting of me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction: Big Data Concepts for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR))
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,083 Views
21 Pages

Building fire is a complex geographic process related to the indoor spatial environment, a smart spatial data model can accurately describe the spatial-temporal information of a building fire scene, which is important for modeling a fire process. Wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,012 Views
16 Pages

Spatial Linear Mixed Effects Modelling for OCT Images: SLME Model

  • Wenyue Zhu,
  • Jae Yee Ku,
  • Yalin Zheng,
  • Paul C. Knox,
  • Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona and
  • Gabriela Czanner

Much recent research focuses on how to make disease detection more accurate as well as “slimmer”, i.e., allowing analysis with smaller datasets. Explanatory models are a hot research topic because they explain how the data are generated....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MIUA2019)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,008 Views
25 Pages

21 August 2018

The multi planning contradictions and maladjustment of spatial management that evolved from an unbalanced development are becoming increasingly serious in China; therefore, it is imperative to know how to coordinate spatial planning. The scientific d...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,591 Views
16 Pages

Decoupling of the Municipal Thermal Environment Using a Spatial Autoregressive Model

  • Qingrui Jiang,
  • Xiaochang Liu,
  • Zhiqiang Wu,
  • Yuankai Wang and
  • Jiahua Dong

8 December 2022

In the rapid urbanization process, climate change has a huge impact on the urban thermal environment, and the urban heat island has attracted widespread attention from society. How to better detect, analyze, and evaluate the urban heat island effect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Technologies in Landscape and Urban Planning Response to Climate Change)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,098 Views
12 Pages

15 November 2022

In recent years, spatial data widely exist in various fields such as finance, geology, environment, and natural science. These data collected by many scholars often have geographical characteristics. The spatial autoregressive model is a general meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Methods for Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,090 Views
15 Pages

11 April 2017

Subpixel mapping (SPM) is a technique that produces hard classification maps at a spatial resolution finer than that of the input images produced when handling mixed pixels. Existing spatial attraction model (SAM) techniques have been proven to be an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,535 Views
16 Pages

The global COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on health, social, and economic costs since the end of 2019. Predicting the spread of a pandemic is essential to developing effective intervention policies. Since the beginning of this pandemic, man...

(This article belongs to the Section Infectious Disease Epidemiology)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,645 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2022

Under the “double carbon” target, it is important to reduce carbon emissions in each region. Using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA), the center of gravity method, and spatial econometric models, we analyzed the characteristics and...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,902 Views
22 Pages

Spatial Non-Stationarity-Based Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Using PCAMGWR Model

  • Yange Li,
  • Shuangfei Huang,
  • Jiaying Li,
  • Jianling Huang and
  • Weidong Wang

11 March 2022

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment (LSA) is a fundamental component of landslide risk management and a substantial area of geospatial research. Previous researchers have considered the spatial non-stationarity relationship between landslide occurren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and GIS for Geological Hazards Assessment)
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  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,698 Views
21 Pages

29 June 2018

Understanding the spatial distribution of land surface temperature (LST) and its impact factors is crucial for mitigating urban heat island effect. However, few studies have quantitatively investigated the spatial non-stationarity and spatial scale e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Remote Sensing: Sustainability of Earth’s Environment, Resources and Ecology)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,457 Views
17 Pages

We consider the problem of testing for a structural break in the spatial lag parameter in a panel model (spatial autoregressive). We propose a likelihood ratio test of the null hypothesis of no break against the alternative hypothesis of a single bre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unit Roots and Structural Breaks)
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  • Open Access
789 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
24 Citations
6,445 Views
17 Pages

Hybrid Spatial Data Model for Indoor Space: Combined Topology and Grid

  • Zhiyong Lin,
  • Zhimin Xu,
  • Dan Hu,
  • Qinwu Hu and
  • Wenjing Li

The construction and application of an indoor spatial data model is an important prerequisite to meet the requirements of diversified indoor spatial location services. The traditional indoor spatial topology model focuses on the construction of topol...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,960 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2022

Spatial pattern-oriented evaluations of distributed hydrological models have contributed towards an improved realism of hydrological simulations. This advancement has been supported by the broad range of readily available satellite-based datasets of...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,654 Views
15 Pages

Spatial Model for Energy Consumption of LEED-Certified Buildings

  • Jonghoon Kim,
  • Soo-Young Moon and
  • Daehee Jang

20 November 2023

In this research endeavor, we undertook a comprehensive examination of the factors influencing the energy consumption of LEED-certified buildings, employing both a general linear regression model and a spatial delayed regression model. Gaining a prof...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency in Building and Energy Balance)
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  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,865 Views
19 Pages

27 February 2021

Improving agricultural water use efficiency (AWUE) is an important way to solve the shortage of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. This study used the Super-DEA (data envelopment analysis) to measure the AWUE of 52 cities in Northwest Chi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Management for Agricultural, Environmental and Urban Uses)
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  • Open Access
705 Views
28 Pages

Bayesian Estimation of Spatial Lagged Panel Quantile Regression Model

  • Man Zhao,
  • Rushan Huang,
  • Hanfang Li,
  • Youxi Luo and
  • Qiming Liu

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...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,546 Views
8 Pages

16 April 2021

The existing spatial panel structural vector auto-regressive model can effectively capture the time and spatial dynamic dependence of endogenous variables. However, the hypothesis that the common factors have the same effect for all spatial units is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,376 Views
27 Pages

Hyperspectral Unmixing with Gaussian Mixture Model and Spatial Group Sparsity

  • Qiwen Jin,
  • Yong Ma,
  • Erting Pan,
  • Fan Fan,
  • Jun Huang,
  • Hao Li,
  • Chenhong Sui and
  • Xiaoguang Mei

20 October 2019

In recent years, endmember variability has received much attention in the field of hyperspectral unmixing. To solve the problem caused by the inaccuracy of the endmember signature, the endmembers are usually modeled to assume followed by a statistica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robust Multispectral/Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,431 Views
25 Pages

28 March 2019

The overall planning of urban and rural areas is the focus of municipal administrative area (MAA) planning in the process of economic globalization, and village-town system planning is the key to the overall planning of urban and rural areas. Based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
679 Views
33 Pages

An Improved CatBoost Model for Predicting Landslide Spatial Distribution

  • Shuqing Li,
  • Yang Zeng,
  • Jianyang Dong and
  • Yanyan Qin

12 May 2026

Landslides are widespread and highly destructive geological hazards that pose serious threats to infrastructure and densely populated areas. Conducting scientific and accurate predictions of landslide spatial distribution is therefore of great practi...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,588 Views
18 Pages

16 April 2023

Most developed countries in the world are maritime powers. This article constructs an ecological efficiency evaluation system based on the characteristics of the ocean itself while taking into account the relationship between land and sea. Based on s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,743 Views
22 Pages

20 December 2023

With the widespread application of spatial data in fields like econometrics and geographic information science, the methods to enhance the robustness of spatial econometric model estimation and variable selection have become a central focus of resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,555 Views
13 Pages

Small Area Estimation Using a Semiparametric Spatial Model with Application in Insurance

  • Seyede Elahe Hosseini,
  • Davood Shahsavani,
  • Mohammad Reza Rabiei,
  • Mohammad Arashi and
  • Hossein Baghishani

18 October 2022

Additional information and borrowing strength from the related sites and other sources will improve estimation in small areas. Generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMMs) have been frequently used in small area estimation; however, the relationsh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Multivariate Analysis)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,258 Views
25 Pages

Spatial Downscaling of Sea Surface Temperature Using Diffusion Model

  • Shuo Wang,
  • Xiaoyan Li,
  • Xueming Zhu,
  • Jiandong Li and
  • Shaojing Guo

16 October 2024

In recent years, advancements in high-resolution digital twin platforms or artificial intelligence marine forecasting have led to the increased requirements of high-resolution oceanic data. However, existing sea surface temperature (SST) products fro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Ocean Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,487 Views
23 Pages

22 January 2026

In regions with limited meteorological monitoring systems, spatial drought modeling is of importance for efficient water resource management. This study recommends an alternative drought modeling strategy for Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspira...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,087 Views
23 Pages

30 January 2023

With the continuous application of spatial dependent data in various fields, spatial econometric models have attracted more and more attention. In this paper, a robust variable selection method based on exponential squared loss and adaptive lasso is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Methods for Modeling High-Dimensional and Complex Data)
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  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,775 Views
16 Pages

A Comparison of Model Averaging Techniques to Predict the Spatial Distribution of Soil Properties

  • Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi,
  • Hossein Khademi,
  • Fatemeh Khayamim,
  • Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh,
  • Brandon Heung and
  • Thomas Scholten

19 January 2022

This study tested and evaluated a suite of nine individual base learners and seven model averaging techniques for predicting the spatial distribution of soil properties in central Iran. Based on the nested-cross validation approach, the results showe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Soil Properties)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,775 Views
15 Pages

Nonlinear estimation of the gravity model with Poisson-type regression methods has become popular for modelling international trade flows, because it permits a better accounting for zero flows and extreme values in the distribution tail. Nevertheless...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,258 Views
13 Pages

A Spatial Survival Model for Risk Factors of Under-Five Child Mortality in Kenya

  • Kilemi Daniel,
  • Nelson Owuor Onyango and
  • Rachel Jelagat Sarguta

Child mortality is high in Sub-Saharan Africa compared to other regions in the world. In Kenya, the risk of mortality is assumed to vary from county to county due to diversity in socio-economic and even climatic factors. Recently, the country was spl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Spatial-Temporal Statistics and Applications for Disease Mapping, Spatial Dependence and Capacity Building in Biostatistics in Sub-Saharan Africa Countries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,724 Views
40 Pages

A Computational Model of Human-Robot Spatial Interactions Based on a Qualitative Trajectory Calculus

  • Christian Dondrup,
  • Nicola Bellotto,
  • Marc Hanheide,
  • Kerstin Eder and
  • Ute Leonards

23 March 2015

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Representations and Reasoning for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,078 Views
16 Pages

An Enhanced Spatial Capture Model for Population Analysis Using Unidentified Counts through Camera Encounters

  • Mohamed Jaber,
  • Farag Hamad,
  • Robert D. Breininger and
  • Nezamoddin N. Kachouie

29 November 2023

Spatial capture models are broadly used for population analysis in ecological statistics. Spatial capture models for unidentified individuals rely on data augmentation to create a zero-inflated population. The unknown true population size can be cons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic and Statistical Analysis in Natural Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,503 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2025

Variable selection methods have been a focus in the context of econometrics and statistics literature. In this paper, we consider additive spatial autoregressive model with high-dimensional covariates. Instead of adopting the traditional regularizati...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,280 Views
13 Pages

COVID-19 has seriously threatened people’s health and well-being across the globe since it was first reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019. This study investigates the mechanism of COVID-19 transmission in different periods within and between cities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
599 Views
24 Pages

23 April 2026

Enhancing carbon productivity is fundamental to achieving carbon neutrality while sustaining economic growth. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset of Chinese cities from 2010, 2015, and 2020, this study investigates the spatiotemporal patterns and under...

(This article belongs to the Topic Global Trends and Local Practices in Land Use and Territorial Spatial Planning: Driving Forces, Innovation Strategies, and Future Challenges)

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