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  • Open Access
21 Citations
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Multi-Purpose Ontology-Based Visualization of Spatio-Temporal Data: A Case Study on Silk Heritage

  • Javier Sevilla,
  • Pablo Casanova-Salas,
  • Sergio Casas-Yrurzum and
  • Cristina Portalés

11 February 2021

Due to the increasing use of data analytics, information visualization is getting more and more important. However, as data get more complex, so does visualization, often leading to ad hoc and cumbersome solutions. A recent alternative is the use of...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,947 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2022

Environmental data visualization tools are used for data validation, maintenance, and assessment of status and trends of environmental variables. However, currently available visualization tools do not meet all the requirements needed for efficient d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems Applied to Maritime Environment Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,080 Views
35 Pages

15 May 2025

The development of smart cities provides a vital foundation for the intelligent advancement of landscape architecture and engineering technologies, where multimodal spatio-temporal data visualization plays a key role. This study conducts a scoping re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,941 Views
24 Pages

Urban road traffic spatio-temporal characters reflect how citizens move and how goods are transported, which is crucial for trip planning, traffic management, and urban design. Video surveillance camera plays an important role in intelligent transpor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,123 Views
18 Pages

A Spatio-Temporal Visualization Approach of PM10 Concentration Data in Metropolitan Lima

  • Alexandra Abigail Encalada-Malca,
  • Javier David Cochachi-Bustamante,
  • Paulo Canas Rodrigues,
  • Rodrigo Salas and
  • Javier Linkolk López-Gonzales

Lima is considered one of the cities with the highest air pollution in Latin America. Institutions such as DIGESA, PROTRANSPORTE and SENAMHI are in charge of permanently monitoring air quality; therefore, the air quality visualization system must man...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,447 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Graph-Based Spatio-Temporal Indexing Method for Task-Oriented Multi-Modal Scene Data Organization

  • Bin Feng,
  • Qing Zhu,
  • Mingwei Liu,
  • Yun Li and ,
  • Junxiao Zhang,
  • Xiao Fu,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Maosu Li,
  • Huagui He and
  • Weijun Yang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Task-oriented scene data in big data and cloud environments of a smart city that must be time-critically processed are dynamic and associated with increasing complexities and heterogeneities. Existing hybrid tree-based external indexing methods are i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,061 Views
19 Pages

MAP-Vis: A Distributed Spatio-Temporal Big Data Visualization Framework Based on a Multi-Dimensional Aggregation Pyramid Model

  • Xuefeng Guan,
  • Chong Xie,
  • Linxu Han,
  • Yumei Zeng and ,
  • Dannan Shen and
  • Weiran Xing
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 January 2020

During the exploration and visualization of big spatio-temporal data, massive volume poses a number of challenges to the achievement of interactive visualization, including large memory consumption, high rendering delay, and poor visual effects. Rese...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,022 Views
20 Pages

A Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Visualization Method of Time-Varying Wind Fields Based on Particle System

  • Lele Chu,
  • Bo Ai,
  • Yubo Wen,
  • Qingtong Shi and ,
  • Huadong Ma and
  • Wenjun Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The particle system is widely used in vector field feature visualization due to its dynamics and simulation. However, there are some defects of the vector field visualization method based on the Euler fields, such as unclear feature expression and di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,132 Views
24 Pages

Physical simulations aim at modeling and computing spatio-temporal phenomena. As the simulations depend on initial conditions and/or parameter settings whose impact is to be investigated, a larger number of simulation runs is commonly executed. Analy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IVAPP 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,889 Views
16 Pages

2 November 2012

In this paper we present a visual analytics approach for deriving spatio-temporal patterns of collective human mobility from a vast mobile network traffic data set. More than 88 million movements between pairs of radio cells—so-called handovers—serve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,432 Views
28 Pages

Interactive Timeline Approach for Contextual Spatio-Temporal ECT Data Investigation

  • Andrzej Romanowski,
  • Zbigniew Chaniecki,
  • Aleksandra Koralczyk,
  • Mikołaj Woźniak and ,
  • Adam Nowak,
  • Przemysław Kucharski,
  • Tomasz Jaworski,
  • Maja Malaya,
  • Paweł Rózga and
  • Krzysztof Grudzień
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

25 August 2020

This paper presents a novel approach to a complex process of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) measurement data analysis. ECT is frequently employed for non-invasive monitoring of industrial process phenomena. Proposed methodology is based on t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tomography Sensing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
28,106 Views
20 Pages

29 February 2016

In recent years, frequent occurrences of significant air pollution events in China have routinely caused panic and are a major topic of discussion by the public and air pollution experts in government and academia. Therefore, this study proposed an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,730 Views
24 Pages

Optimized Spatiotemporal Data Scheduling Based on Maximum Flow for Multilevel Visualization Tasks

  • Qing Zhu,
  • Meite Chen,
  • Bin Feng,
  • Yan Zhou and ,
  • Maosu Li,
  • Zhaowen Xu,
  • Yulin Ding,
  • Mingwei Liu,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Xiao Xie
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Massive spatiotemporal data scheduling in a cloud environment play a significant role in real-time visualization. Existing methods focus on preloading, prefetching, multithread processing and multilevel cache collaboration, which waste hardware resou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Geospatial Science: Analytics and Management for Large Geospatial Datasets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
584 Views
20 Pages

Visual analysis provides a powerful approach for exploring multidimensional spatiotemporal data, yet it faces significant challenges in simultaneously representing temporal and spatial attributes. A key limitation is the difficulty of visually encodi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
804 Views
13 Pages

30 December 2025

Significant changes in the global climate are a focus of widespread concern, with profound implications for economies, daily life, and sustainable development. Analyzing and forecasting these trends relies heavily on meteorological data, which typica...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,056 Views
26 Pages

Sensor networks generate substantial amounts of frequently updated, highly dynamic data that are transmitted as packets in a data stream. The high frequency and continuous unbound nature of data streams leads to challenges when deriving knowledge fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,786 Views
15 Pages

Information concerning the home and workplace of residents is the basis of analyzing the urban job-housing spatial relationship. Traditional methods conduct time-consuming user surveys to obtain personal job and housing location information. Some new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Big Data and Urban Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,341 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Topic Analysis and Visual Analytics for Trajectory Data: A Spatial Embedding Approach

  • Huarong Chen,
  • Yadong Wu,
  • Jing Lei,
  • Weixin Zhao and ,
  • Guijuan Wang,
  • Jing Liao and
  • Fupan Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 December 2025

Analyzing the evolution of trajectory topics is fundamental to understanding urban mobility and human activity. Existing methods, however, often struggle to capture complex spatio-temporal semantics and are constrained by fixed time windows, which li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,384 Views
23 Pages

MicrocrackAttentionNext: Advancing Microcrack Detection in Wave Field Analysis Using Deep Neural Networks Through Feature Visualization

  • Fatahlla Moreh,
  • Yusuf Hasan,
  • Bilal Zahid Hussain,
  • Mohammad Ammar and ,
  • Frank Wuttke and
  • Sven Tomforde
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 March 2025

Microcrack detection using deep neural networks (DNNs) through an automated pipeline using wave fields interacting with the damaged areas is highly sought after. However, these high-dimensional spatio–temporal crack data are limited. Moreover,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sensing Technology in Non-Destructive Testing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
34,814 Views
23 Pages

How to Make Sense of Team Sport Data: From Acquisition to Data Modeling and Research Aspects

  • Manuel Stein,
  • Halldór Janetzko,
  • Daniel Seebacher,
  • Alexander Jäger and ,
  • Manuel Nagel,
  • Jürgen Hölsch,
  • Sven Kosub,
  • Tobias Schreck,
  • Daniel A. Keim and
  • Michael Grossniklaus
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

1 January 2017

Automatic and interactive data analysis is instrumental in making use of increasing amounts of complex data. Owing to novel sensor modalities, analysis of data generated in professional team sport leagues such as soccer, baseball, and basketball has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,653 Views
22 Pages

With the development of strategic oil and gas assets, massive spatiotemporal oil and gas data have been accumulated. Application systems that assist in the storage and management of the voluminous and complex oil and gas datasets are in high demand....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Web/Cloud Based Mapping and Geoinformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,458 Views
20 Pages

11 April 2025

With the development of high-performance computers, cloud storage, and advanced sensors, people’s ability to gather complex learning data has greatly improved. However, analyzing these data remains a significant challenge. Especially for spatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interaction Design Technologies for Education: Advancements, Challenges, and Impacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,047 Views
26 Pages

As we move into the big data era, data grows not just in size, but also in complexity, containing a rich set of attributes, including location and time information, such as data from mobile devices (e.g., smart phones), natural disasters (e.g., earth...

  • Review
  • Open Access
98 Citations
19,861 Views
28 Pages

15 January 2019

Intelligent Transportation Systems are an important enabler for the smart cities paradigm. Currently, such systems generate massive amounts of granular data that can be analyzed to better understand people’s dynamics. To address the multivariat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,228 Views
19 Pages

4D Time Density of Trajectories: Discovering Spatiotemporal Patterns in Movement Data

  • Yebin Zou,
  • Yijin Chen,
  • Jing He,
  • Gehu Pang and
  • Kaixuan Zhang

Modern positioning and sensor technology enable the acquisition of movement positions and attributes on an unprecedented scale. Therefore, a large amount of trajectory data can be used to analyze various movement phenomena. In cartography, a common w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for GIS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,848 Views
14 Pages

Automating Air Pollution Map Analysis with Multi-Modal AI and Visual Context Engineering

  • Szymon Cogiel,
  • Mateusz Zareba,
  • Tomasz Danek and
  • Filip Arnaut

19 December 2025

The increasing volume of data from IoT sensors has made manual inspection time-consuming and prone to bias, particularly for spatiotemporal air pollution maps. While rule-based methods are adequate for simple datasets or individual maps, they are ins...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,302 Views
23 Pages

A GIS-Based Platform for Efficient Governance of Illegal Land Use and Construction: A Case Study of Xiamen City

  • Chuxin Li,
  • Yuanrong He,
  • Yuanmao Zheng,
  • Yuantong Jiang and ,
  • Xinhui Wu,
  • Panlin Hao,
  • Min Luo and
  • Yuting Kang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 January 2026

By addressing the challenges of management difficulties, insufficient integration of driver analysis, and single-dimensional analysis in the governance of illegal land use and illegal construction (collectively referred to as the “Two Illegalit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,640 Views
16 Pages

Understanding atmospheric phenomena involves analysis of large-scale spatiotemporal multivariate data. The complexity and heterogeneity of such data pose a significant challenge in discovering and understanding the association between multiple climat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,742 Views
15 Pages

Visual Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data Predictions with Deep Learning Models

  • Hyesook Son,
  • Seokyeon Kim,
  • Hanbyul Yeon,
  • Yejin Kim and ,
  • Yun Jang and
  • Seung-Eock Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 June 2021

The output of a deep-learning model delivers different predictions depending on the input of the deep learning model. In particular, the input characteristics might affect the output of a deep learning model. When predicting data that are measured wi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Big Data Analysis and Visualization Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,964 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic 3D Simulation of Flood Risk Based on the Integration of Spatio-Temporal GIS and Hydrodynamic Models

  • Yongxing Wu,
  • Fei Peng,
  • Yang Peng,
  • Xiaoyang Kong and ,
  • Heming Liang and
  • Qi Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Dynamic visual simulation of flood risk is crucial for scientific and intelligent emergency management of flood disasters, in which data quality, availability, visualization, and interoperability are important. Here, a seamless integration of a spati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geo-Spatial Analysis in Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
757 Views
23 Pages

22 July 2026

Small objects in video streams occupy a small proportion in the image; the texture and shape information they carry is limited, making it difficult to continuously track and identify. To solve this problem, a method for continuous tracking and recogn...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,840 Views
16 Pages

Accurate information on the number and distribution of pedestrians in space and time helps urban planners maintain current city infrastructure and design better public spaces for local residents and visitors. Previous studies have demonstrated that u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring, Mapping, Modeling, and Visualization of Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,302 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2019

The primary objective of this study is to explore spatio-temporal effects of the built environment on station-based travel distances through large-scale data processing. Previous studies mainly used global models in the causal analysis, but spatial a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Rail and Metro Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,746 Views
16 Pages

The representations of space and time are fundamental issues in GIScience. In prevalent GIS and analytical systems, time is modeled as a linear stream of real numbers and space is represented as flat layers with timestamps. Despite their dominance in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,033 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2024

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables models to recognize categories not encountered during training, which is crucial for categories with limited data. Existing methods overlook efficient temporal modeling in multimodal data. This paper proposes a Tempor...

(This article belongs to the Topic Research on Deep Neural Networks for Video Motion Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
536 Views
30 Pages

A Spatio-Temporal Conceptual Model for Sound Representation in Geographic Information Systems

  • Chamseddine Zaki,
  • Houssein Taleb,
  • Mostafa Rizk,
  • Hussein Sheaib and ,
  • Chadia Sawaya,
  • Bilel Neji and
  • Abbass Nasser
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Geographic information systems have traditionally focused on the representation of visual and geometric aspects of geographic phenomena, while auditory information has largely been ignored or reduced to simple numerical attributes. Although numerous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,347 Views
18 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Visualization Method for Urban Waterlogging Warning Based on Dynamic Grading

  • Jingyi Zhou,
  • Jie Shen,
  • Kaiyue Zang,
  • Xiao Shi and ,
  • Yixian Du and
  • Petr Šilhák
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the acceleration of the urbanization process, the problems caused by extreme weather such as heavy rainstorm events have become more and more serious. During such events, the road and its auxiliary facilities may be damaged in the process of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Observation-Driven Understanding, Prediction, and Management in Hydrological/Hydraulic Hazard and Risk Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,694 Views
18 Pages

5 June 2018

Landsat and MODIS data have been widely utilized in many remote sensing applications, however, the trade-off between the spatial resolution and temporal frequency has limited their capacities in monitoring detailed spatio-temporal dynamics. Spatio-te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multisensor Data Fusion in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,560 Views
20 Pages

The Covid-19 pandemic put a heavy burden on member states in the European Union. To govern the pandemic, having access to reliable geo-information is key for monitoring the spatial distribution of the outbreak over time. This study aims to analyze th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatio-Temporal Models and Geo-Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,711 Views
17 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Water Quality Parameters in Machángara River with Nonuniform Interpolation Methods

  • Iván P. Vizcaíno,
  • Enrique V. Carrera,
  • Margarita Sanromán-Junquera,
  • Sergio Muñoz-Romero and ,
  • José Luis Rojo-Álvarez and
  • Luis H. Cumbal
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 November 2016

Water quality measurements in rivers are usually performed at intervals of days or months in monitoring campaigns, but little attention has been paid to the spatial and temporal dynamics of those measurements. In this work, we propose scrutinizing th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,901 Views
25 Pages

26 November 2022

Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) has drawn increasing attention from scientists in recent years because of its fast decline in the Boreal summer and early fall. The measurement of SIE is derived from remote sensing data and is both a lagged and leading in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics: Methods and Applications in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,118 Views
21 Pages

Grand sites are important witnesses of human civilization. The archeology of grand sites has the characteristics of a long period, interdisciplinary study, irreversibility and uncertainties. Because of the lack of effective methods and valid tools, l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Databases: Design, Management, and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,305 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2023

Interpolating and approximating scattered scalar and vector data is fundamental in resolving numerous engineering challenges. These methodologies predominantly rely on establishing a triangulated structure within the data domain, typically constraine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Database Engineered Applications 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,100 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2020

Numerical modelling increasingly generates massive, high-dimensional spatio-temporal datasets. Exploring such datasets relies on effective visualization. This study presents a generic workflow to (i) project high-dimensional spatio-temporal data on a...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,366 Views
18 Pages

As a result of changes in boundaries, the political affiliation of locations also changes. Data on such locations are now collected in datasets with reference to the present or to the past space. Therefore, they can refer to localities that either no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Storytelling with Geographic Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,696 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2023

In recent years, with the frequency of marine disasters, water quality has become an important environmental problem for researchers, and much effort has been put into the prediction of marine water quality. The temporal and spatial correlation of ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial–Temporal Data Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,559 Views
23 Pages

Trajectory Clustering and k-NN for Robust Privacy Preserving k-NN Query Processing in GeoSpark

  • Elias Dritsas,
  • Andreas Kanavos,
  • Maria Trigka,
  • Gerasimos Vonitsanos and ,
  • Spyros Sioutas and
  • Athanasios Tsakalidis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2020

Privacy Preserving and Anonymity have gained significant concern from the big data perspective. We have the view that the forthcoming frameworks and theories will establish several solutions for privacy protection. The k-anonymity is considered a key...

(This article belongs to the Section Databases and Data Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,848 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2016

Clouds usually cause invalid observations for sensors aboard satellites, which corrupts the spatio-temporal continuity of land surface parameters retrieved from remote sensing data (e.g., MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data) an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,241 Views
24 Pages

19 June 2018

The massive urban social management data with geographical coordinates from the inspectors, volunteers, and citizens of the city are a new source of spatio-temporal data, which can be used for the data mining of city management and the evolution of h...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,725 Views
24 Pages

20 July 2026

Modern Bayesian hierarchical methodologies allow us to leverage spatio-temporal dependencies between observations, enhancing both health effect estimation and map visualization in efficient and flexible ways. However, the necessary levels of statisti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Biostatistics in Medical Sciences and Global Health)

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