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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,939 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation and Improvement of Cultivated Land Leisure Service Function Based on Multisource Spatial Data

  • Yiming Yang,
  • Xiuli Wang,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Yiwei Geng,
  • Weiqiang Chen,
  • Qun Wu and
  • Xiaoke Guan

16 February 2022

The leisure service function is an important component of the derivative function and non-market function of cultivated land. Therefore, exploring the strength of the cultivated land leisure service function with the help of spatial information techn...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,109 Views
13 Pages

9 January 2023

This article is concerned with an original approach to generative classification of spatiotemporal areal (or lattice) data based on implementation of spatial weighting to Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). In the framework of this approach data model at ea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,424 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2018

The automatic image registration serves as a technical prerequisite for multimodal remote sensing image fusion. Meanwhile, it is also the technical basis for change detection, image stitching and target recognition. The demands of subpixel level regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,159 Views
19 Pages

26 July 2022

The full-width at half-maximum or probe length of the Lorentzian weighting function of continuous-wave Doppler lidars increases quadratically with the focus distance, which results in a deterioration in the spatial resolution of measurements. What is...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,116 Views
13 Pages

17 September 2021

A novel continuous-wave (CW) direct detection lidar (DDL) is demonstrated to be capable of wind speed measurement 40 m away with an update rate of 4 Hz using a fiber-based scanning Fabry–Perot interferometer as an optical frequency discriminator. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,625 Views
23 Pages

Comparative Study on Different Interpolation Methods and Source Analysis of Soil Toxic Element Pollution in Cangxi County, Guangyuan City, China

  • Jiajun Zhang,
  • Junsheng Peng,
  • Xingyi Chen,
  • Xinyi Shi,
  • Ziwei Feng,
  • Yichen Meng,
  • Wende Chen and
  • Yingping Liu

24 April 2024

Spatial interpolation is a crucial aspect of soil toxic element pollution research, serving as a vital foundation for pollution assessment, treatment, and sustainability efforts. The selection and adjustment of interpolation methods directly influenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
877 Views
20 Pages

An Analysis of Spatial Variation in Human Impact on Forest Ecological Functions

  • Qingjun Wu,
  • Liyong Fu,
  • Ram P. Sharma,
  • Yaquan Dou and
  • Xiaodi Zhao

27 April 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,010 Views
26 Pages

25 August 2025

China’s major function-oriented zoning (MFOZ) serves as a crucial policy instrument for functional regulation of land use, playing a significant role in the latest territorial spatial planning. Studies on the implementation of MFOZ have been co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,164 Views
22 Pages

A Multi-Scenario Analysis of Urban Vitality Driven by Socio-Ecological Land Functions in Luohe, China

  • Xinyu Wang,
  • Tian Bai,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Guifang Wang,
  • Guohang Tian and
  • László Kollányi

22 August 2024

Urban Vitality (UV) is a critical indicator for measuring sustainable urban development and quality. It reflects the dynamic interactions and supply–demand coordination within urban systems, especially concerning the human–land relationsh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,937 Views
16 Pages

This paper considers a functional-coefficient spatial Durbin model with nonparametric spatial weights. Applying the series approximation method, we estimate the unknown functional coefficients and spatial weighting functions via a nonparametric two-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,016 Views
9 Pages

9 April 2018

Due to the endurance of alternating high pressure and temperature, the carbide anvils of the high-press apparatus, which are widely used in the synthetic diamond industry, are prone to crack. In this paper, an acoustic method is used to monitor the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,851 Views
22 Pages

11 December 2024

Detailed spatial planning serves as statutory guidance for regulating specific spatial functions, including public services, living conditions, and production spaces. It emphasizes meeting the comprehensive needs of the local population, making it cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,654 Views
23 Pages

Improving fertilizer use efficiency (FUE) is an effective means to reduce fertilizer use and environmental contamination. Few studies have considered the spatial effects of FUE and its determinants. This paper calculated the FUE of agricultural produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,780 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2024

A weighting method is proposed for the correlation radiation measurement system based on Mills cross array. The Mills cross array achieves high spatial resolution by the product of two orthogonal fan beams. However, the product power pattern of the M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,557 Views
23 Pages

As an important part of urban vitality, street vitality is an external manifestation of street economic prosperity and is affected by the built environment and the surrounding street vitality. However, existing research on the formation mechanism of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,535 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2023

The identification of urban spatial functional units is of great significance in urban planning, construction, management, and services. Conventional field surveys are labour-intensive and time-consuming, while the abundant data available via the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,041 Views
17 Pages

The Geographically Weighted Multivariate Poisson Inverse Gaussian Regression Model and Its Applications

  • Selvi Mardalena,
  • Purhadi Purhadi,
  • Jerry Dwi Trijoyo Purnomo and
  • Dedy Dwi Prastyo

21 April 2022

This study aims to develop a method for multivariate spatial overdispersion count data with mixed Poisson distribution, namely the Geographically Weighted Multivariate Poisson Inverse Gaussian Regression (GWMPIGR) model. The parameters of the GWMPIGR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,572 Views
21 Pages

Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is an effective method for detecting spatial non-stationary features based on the hypothesis of proximity correlation. In reality, especially in the social and economic fields, research objects not only have s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,855 Views
22 Pages

5 February 2016

Remote sensing image clustering is a challenging task considering its intrinsic complexity. Recently, by combining the spectral and spatial information of the remote sensing data, the clustering performance can be dramatically enhanced, termed as Spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,174 Views
11 Pages

In a point set in dimension superior to 1, the statistical distribution of the number of pairs of points as a function of distance between the points of the pair is not uniform. This distribution is not considered in a large number of classic methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,024 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2019

Fusing the panchromatic (PAN) image and low spatial-resolution multispectral (LR MS) images is an effective technology for generating high spatial-resolution MS (HR MS) images. Some image-fusion methods inspired by neighbor embedding (NE) are propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,947 Views
24 Pages

20 August 2025

This study proposes a geographically weighted (GW) quantile machine learning (GWQML) framework for soil moisture (SM) prediction, integrating spatial kernel functions with quantile-based prediction and uncertainty quantification. The framework incorp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,459 Views
13 Pages

28 December 2022

Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is the development of multiple linear regression models used in spatial data. The assumption of spatial heterogeneity results in each location having different characteristics and allows the relationships betw...

  • Review
  • Open Access
182 Citations
36,241 Views
29 Pages

Structural Features, Modification, and Functionalities of Beta-Glucan

  • Ramandeep Kaur,
  • Minaxi Sharma,
  • Dawei Ji,
  • Min Xu and
  • Dominic Agyei

20 December 2019

Β-glucan is a strongly hydrophilic non-starchy polysaccharide, which, when incorporated in food, is renowned for its ability to alter functional characteristics such as viscosity, rheology, texture, and sensory properties of the food product. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,311 Views
24 Pages

A Scenario-Based Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision-Making System for Urban Environment Quality Assessment: Case Study of Tehran

  • Bahare Moradi,
  • Rojin Akbari,
  • Seyedeh Reyhaneh Taghavi,
  • Farnaz Fardad,
  • Abdulsalam Esmailzadeh,
  • Mohammad Zia Ahmadi,
  • Sina Attarroshan,
  • Fatemeh Nickravesh,
  • Jamal Jokar Arsanjani and
  • Igor Martek
  • + 1 author

24 August 2023

Spatial evaluation of urban environment quality (UEQ) is a key prerequisite in urban planning and development. The main goal of this study is to present a scenario-based spatial multi-criteria decision-making system for evaluating UEQ. Therefore, sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,027 Views
27 Pages

30 August 2025

The Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Mega Region (CCEMR), as a strategic economic hub in Western China, is increasingly facing challenges in balancing urban growth, agricultural stability, and ecological conservation within its territorial spatial pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,447 Views
27 Pages

The siting of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills is a complex decision process. Existing siting methods utilize expert scores to determine criteria weights, however, they ignore the uncertainty of data and criterion weights and the efficacy of res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,040 Views
15 Pages

13 November 2024

In order to solve the problem that the array beampattern varies greatly with the angle during spatial scanning, this paper presents a synthesis method of the conformal array beampattern based on “spatial-variability (SV)” suppression. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,140 Views
19 Pages

Siamese Tracking Network with Spatial-Semantic-Aware Attention and Flexible Spatiotemporal Constraint

  • Huanlong Zhang,
  • Panyun Wang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Fengxian Wang,
  • Xiaohui Song and
  • Hebin Zhou

3 January 2024

Siamese trackers based on classification and regression have drawn extensive attention due to their appropriate balance between accuracy and efficiency. However, most of them are prone to failure in the face of abrupt motion or appearance changes. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,066 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2017

This research aims to test a scalable and transferable Geographic Information System (GIS)-based evaluation methodology for the identification, quantification and assessment of multi-functional landscape features. The evaluation of multi-functional f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,323 Views
19 Pages

Geospatial Least Squares Support Vector Regression Fused with Spatial Weight Matrix

  • Haiqi Wang,
  • Liuke Li,
  • Lei Che,
  • Haoran Kong,
  • Qiong Wang,
  • Zhihai Wang and
  • Jianbo Xu

Due to the increasingly complex objects and massive information involved in spatial statistics analysis, least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR) with a good stability and high calculation speed is widely applied in regression problems of geo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,207 Views
22 Pages

In order to explore the spatiotemporal evolution of land use function and its driving factors in China, taking both sides of the Hu Line as an example, we used Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Geographically Weighted Regression methods to reveal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,695 Views
27 Pages

Research on Multi-Source Data Fusion Urban Functional Area Identification Method Based on Random Forest Model

  • Yue Wang,
  • Cailin Li,
  • Hongjun Zhang,
  • Yihui Lu,
  • Baoyun Guo,
  • Xianlong Wei and
  • Zhao Hai

10 January 2025

Identifying urban functional zones is an important task in urban planning and smart city construction. Accurately identifying urban functional zones and analyzing their spatial distribution is crucial for optimizing urban spatial layout, improving ur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
352 Views
28 Pages

How Land-Use Planning Deeply Affects the Spatial Distribution of Composite Soundscapes

  • Li-Yi Feng,
  • Fangbing Hu,
  • Bin-Yan Liu,
  • Dan-Yin Zhang,
  • Lian-Huan Guo,
  • Shanshan Yu and
  • Xin-Chen Hong

7 December 2025

Urban noise pollution poses a significant obstacle to sustainable development by compromising public health and well-being. Within this context, the soundscape emerges as a critical component in creating healthier and more livable cities. To further...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,623 Views
21 Pages

Flood Risk Management-Level Analysis of Subway Station Spaces

  • Yan Li,
  • Xinxin Xu,
  • Shaoxuan Hou,
  • Xin Dang,
  • Zhuolun Li and
  • Yongwei Gong

5 April 2025

In recent years, heavy rainfall-induced flood incidents have occurred frequently in subway stations worldwide. Flooding in complex underground facilities, such as subway stations, can result in significant casualties and property damage. Therefore, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,546 Views
23 Pages

2 June 2025

Evaluating the walkability of embedded community service facilities is crucial for fostering age-friendly neighborhoods. Existing studies predominantly focus on qualitative analyses of single age groups, lacking a quantitative framework that integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,088 Views
15 Pages

Geographically neural network weighted regression is an improved model of GWR combined with a neural network. It has a stronger ability to fit nonlinear functions, and complex geographical processes can be modeled more fully. GNNWR uses the distance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,593 Views
20 Pages

23 August 2022

Identifying spatial communities in vehicle movements is vital for sensing human mobility patterns and urban structures. Spatial community detection has been proven to be an NP-Hard problem. Heuristic algorithms were widely used for detecting spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,426 Views
23 Pages

26 March 2025

Under the context of global climate change, floods are one of the major challenges facing urban development. Based on resilience theory, this study proposed an evaluation method to accurately assess the resilience of urban flooding prevention and con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,827 Views
25 Pages

27 February 2016

Pansharpening algorithms fuse higher spatial resolution panchromatic with lower spatial resolution multispectral imagery to create higher spatial resolution multispectral images. The free-availability and systematic global acquisition of Landsat 8 da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,986 Views
21 Pages

16 January 2023

An investigation into the pricing mechanism of Airbnb is crucial for achieving the sustainable development of sharing economy accommodations and has great academic and practical significance. The existing pricing studies on sharing economy accommodat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
296 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2025

To address the limitations of traditional non-local mean (NLM) denoising algorithms in terms of neighborhood similarity metrics, weight calculation, and computational efficiency, this paper proposed a structural-tensor-driven and dynamic window-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,621 Views
32 Pages

6 February 2025

Spatial cognition, a critical component of human cognitive function, can be enhanced through targeted training, such as virtual reality (VR)-based interventions. Recent advances in electroencephalography (EEG)-based functional connectivity analysis h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,120 Views
17 Pages

24 May 2019

The problem of image segmentation can be reduced to the clustering of pixels in the intensity space. The traditional fuzzy c-means algorithm only uses pixel membership information and does not make full use of spatial information around the pixel, so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,893 Views
27 Pages

18 July 2024

Understanding the response of ecological quality (EQ) to forest landscape connectivity is essential to global biodiversity conservation and national ecological security. However, quantitatively measuring the properties and intensities within these re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
191 Views
29 Pages

21 January 2026

Socio-ecological systems in basin regions characterized by diverse cultural traditions and hierarchical village spatial structure are undergoing profound transformation driven by multifunctional demands and spatial restructuring. This study develops...

  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
23 Pages

We compare three modern Bayesian approaches, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC), Variational Bayes (VB), and Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA), for two classic spatial econometric specifications: the spatial lag model and spatial error model....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,269 Views
23 Pages

19 October 2022

Continuous crop monitoring often requires a time-series set of satellite images. Since satellite images have a trade-off in spatial and temporal resolution, spatiotemporal image fusion (STIF) has been applied to construct time-series images at a cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
25 Pages

11 December 2025

As the foundational carrier of socio-economic development and ecological security, territorial space reflects the degree of coordination between functional structure and efficiency output. However, most existing evaluation methods overlook the hetero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,738 Views
18 Pages

4 September 2019

The multi-functionality of land as the basis of land use and utilization is under increasing investigation. This study assesses the spatiotemporal dynamic multi-functionality of land use and analyzes the obstacle indicators in Xiangxi using two metho...

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