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  • Open Access
37 Citations
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1 November 2016

To achieve rapid real-time transient stability prediction, a power system transient stability prediction method based on the extraction of the post-fault trajectory cluster features of generators is proposed. This approach is conducted using data-min...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric Power Systems Research 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,680 Views
24 Pages

Ship Trajectory Clustering Based on Trajectory Resampling and Enhanced BIRCH Algorithm

  • Zhaojin Yan,
  • Guanghao Yang,
  • Rong He,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Hui Ci and
  • Ran Wang

13 February 2023

Automatic identification systems (AIS) provides massive ship trajectory data for maritime traffic management, route planning, and other research. In order to explore the valuable ship traffic characteristics contained implicitly in massive AIS data,...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,467 Views
21 Pages

Scientific Production on GPS Trajectory Clustering: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Gary Reyes,
  • Roberto Tolozano-Benites,
  • Laura Lanzarini,
  • César Estrebou and
  • Aurelio F. Bariviera

Clustering algorithms or methods for GPS trajectories are in constant evolution due to the interest aroused in part of the scientific community. With the development of clustering algorithms considered traditional, improvements to these algorithms an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,833 Views
19 Pages

25 October 2022

The maneuvering characteristics and range of motion of real aircraft are highly uncertain, which significantly increases the difficulty of trajectory prediction. To solve the problem that high-speed maneuvers and excessive trajectories in airspace ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
155 Citations
14,311 Views
20 Pages

Ship AIS Trajectory Clustering: An HDBSCAN-Based Approach

  • Lianhui Wang,
  • Pengfei Chen,
  • Linying Chen and
  • Junmin Mou

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) of ships provides massive data for maritime transportation management and related researches. Trajectory clustering has been widely used in recent years as a fundamental method of maritime traffic analysis to...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
354 Views
28 Pages

18 August 2026

Maritime transportation, handling over 80% of global trade, is critical to the world economy. Automatic Identification System (AIS) data provides extensive static and dynamic information of vessels, enabling trajectory reconstruction and vessel behav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Ship and Harbor Maneuvering: Modeling and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
10,146 Views
20 Pages

Anomalous taxi trajectories are those chosen by a small number of drivers that are different from the regular choices of other drivers. These anomalous driving trajectories provide us an opportunity to extract driver or passenger behaviors and monito...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discovery and Prediction of Moving Objects in Databases using GIS-based Tools)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,216 Views
21 Pages

Performing clustering analysis on a large amount of historical trajectory data can obtain information such as frequent flight patterns of aircraft and air traffic flow distribution, which can provide a reference for the revision of standard flight pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,251 Views
19 Pages

24 January 2025

To address the issue of suboptimal clustering performance arising from the limitations of distance measurement in traditional trajectory clustering methods, this paper presents a novel trajectory clustering strategy that integrates the bag-of-words m...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,909 Views
20 Pages

28 May 2024

Oceanic trajectories frequently exhibit multiple periodic patterns across various time intervals, e.g., tidal variations, mesoscale eddies, and El Niño events correspond to diurnal, seasonal, and interannual fluctuations in environmental facto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,235 Views
12 Pages

A Lagrangian Backward Air Parcel Trajectories Clustering Framework

  • Iulia-Maria Rădulescu,
  • Alexandru Boicea,
  • Florin Rădulescu and
  • Daniel-Călin Popeangă

17 December 2021

Many studies concerning atmosphere moisture paths use Lagrangian backward air parcel trajectories to determine the humidity sources for specific locations. Automatically grouping trajectories according to their geographical position simplifies and sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Water Solutions with Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
482 Views
27 Pages

Ship Trajectory Clustering Method Considering Navigation Behavior Sequences

  • Shaxige Wu,
  • Lihua Zhang,
  • Yinfei Zhou,
  • Shuai Wei and
  • Changlin Chen

Existing ship trajectory clustering methods often overlook the impact of navigation behaviors (e.g., heading and speed variations) on clustering performance. To address this limitation, a novel ship trajectory clustering method that explicitly incorp...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,376 Views
20 Pages

Trajectory Clustering for Air Traffic Categorisation

  • Tatjana Bolić,
  • Lorenzo Castelli,
  • Andrea De Lorenzo and
  • Fulvio Vascotto

Availability of different types of data and advances in data-driven techniques open the path to more detailed analyses of various phenomena. Here, we examine the insights that can be gained through the analysis of historical flight trajectories, usin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Closing the Gap in Aircraft Trajectories: Enhancing Optimization and Prediction Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Citations
10,717 Views
26 Pages

A Dimensionality Reduction-Based Multi-Step Clustering Method for Robust Vessel Trajectory Analysis

  • Huanhuan Li,
  • Jingxian Liu,
  • Ryan Wen Liu,
  • Naixue Xiong,
  • Kefeng Wu and
  • Tai-hoon Kim

4 August 2017

The Shipboard Automatic Identification System (AIS) is crucial for navigation safety and maritime surveillance, data mining and pattern analysis of AIS information have attracted considerable attention in terms of both basic research and practical ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models, Systems and Applications for Sensors in Cyber Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,608 Views
21 Pages

Research on the Optimization of Ship Trajectory Clustering Based on the OD–Hausdorff Distance

  • Zhiyao Liu,
  • Haining Yang,
  • Chenghuai Xiong,
  • Feng Xu,
  • Langxiong Gan,
  • Tao Yan and
  • Yaqing Shu

With the growth of global trade, port shipping is becoming more and more important. In this paper, an analysis of a ship’s inbound and outbound track characteristics is conducted using the OD–Hausdorff distance. The accuracy and efficienc...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,734 Views
23 Pages

Rapidly growing GPS (Global Positioning System) trajectories hide much valuable information, such as city road planning, urban travel demand, and population migration. In order to mine the hidden information and to capture better clustering results,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,680 Views
15 Pages

Using the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model to obtain backward trajectories and then conduct clustering analysis is a common method to analyze potential sources and transmission paths of atmospheric particulate p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Quality Management)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,958 Views
15 Pages

2 March 2018

Analyzing trajectory data plays an important role in practical applications, and clustering is one of the most widely used techniques for this task. The clustering approach based on information bottleneck (IB) principle has shown its effectiveness fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory Application in Visualization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,814 Views
16 Pages

The trajectory data of aircraft, ships, and so on, can be analyzed to obtain valuable information. Clustering is the basic technology of trajectory analysis, and the feature extraction process is one of the decisive factors for clustering performance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,392 Views
25 Pages

21 March 2023

Human movement anomalies in indoor spaces commonly involve urgent situations, such as security threats, accidents, and fires. This paper proposes a two-phase framework for detecting indoor human trajectory anomalies based on density-based spatial clu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Methods for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,014 Views
23 Pages

STRP-DBSCAN: A Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Based on Spatial-Temporal Random Partitioning for Clustering Trajectory Data

  • Xiaoya An,
  • Ziming Wang,
  • Ding Wang,
  • Song Liu,
  • Cheng Jin,
  • Xinpeng Xu and
  • Jianjun Cao

10 October 2023

Trajectory clustering algorithms analyze the movement trajectory of the target objects to mine the potential movement trend, regularity, and behavioral patterns of the object. Therefore, the trajectory clustering algorithm has a wide range of applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,334 Views
13 Pages

Clustering Moving Object Trajectories: Integration in CROSS-CPP Analytic Toolbox

  • Alberto Blazquez-Herranz,
  • Juan-Ignacio Caballero-Garzon,
  • Albert Zilverberg,
  • Christian Wolff,
  • Alejandro Rodríguez-Gonzalez and
  • Ernestina Menasalvas

20 April 2021

Mobile devices equipped with sensors are generating an amount of geo-spatial related data that, properly analyzed can be used for future applications. In particular, being able to establish similar trajectories is crucial to analyze events on common...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computing and Artificial Intelligence for Visual Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,040 Views
22 Pages

The equal division of tropical cyclone (TC) trajectory method, the mass moment of the TC trajectory method, and the mixed regression model method are clustering algorithms that use space and shape information from complete TC trajectories. In this ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Geo-Information for Environmental Forensics and Environmental Risk Management in the Anthropocene)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,552 Views
23 Pages

30 October 2024

When conducting maneuver target tracking, trajectory initialization plays a crucial role in enhancing the accuracy of tracking algorithms. During maneuver target tracking, the accuracy of the tracking algorithm can be significantly improved through t...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,628 Views
18 Pages

Differential Privacy-Based Spatial-Temporal Trajectory Clustering Scheme for LBSNs

  • Liang Zhu,
  • Tingting Lei,
  • Jinqiao Mu,
  • Jingzhe Mu,
  • Zengyu Cai and
  • Jianwei Zhang

6 September 2023

Location privacy preserving for location-based social networks (LBSNs) has been attracting a great deal of attention. Existing location privacy protection methods are disadvantaged by issues such as information leakage and low data availability, whic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Edge Intelligence Collaborative Technology over Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,184 Views
18 Pages

Trajectories, representing the movements of objects in the real world, carry significant stop/move semantics. The detection of trajectory stops poses a critical problem in the study of moving objects and becomes even more challenging due to the inevi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,375 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2017

Clustering analysis is one of the most important issues in trajectory data mining. Trajectory clustering can be widely applied in the detection of hotspots, mobile pattern analysis, urban transportation control, and hurricane prediction, etc. To obta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,035 Views
34 Pages

A Deep Ship Trajectory Clustering Method Based on Feature Embedded Representation Learning

  • Yifei Liu,
  • Zhangsong Shi,
  • Bing Fu,
  • Jiankang Ke,
  • Huihui Xu and
  • Xuan Wang

Trajectory clustering is of great significance for identifying behavioral patterns and vessel types of non-cooperative ships. However, existing trajectory clustering methods suffer from limitations in extracting cross-spatiotemporal scale features an...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,214 Views
10 Pages

Trajectory Clustering within the Terminal Airspace Utilizing a Weighted Distance Function

  • Samantha J. Corrado,
  • Tejas G. Puranik,
  • Oliva J. Pinon and
  • Dimitri N. Mavris

To support efforts to modernize aviation systems to be safer and more efficient, high-precision trajectory prediction and robust anomaly detection methods are required. The terminal airspace is identified as the most critical airspace for individual...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 8th OpenSky Symposium 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
11,113 Views
18 Pages

16 September 2021

The aircraft trajectory clustering analysis in the terminal airspace is conducive to determining the representative route structure of the arrival and departure trajectory and extracting their typical patterns, which is important for air traffic mana...

(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,936 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2024

To address the challenges posed by the large scale of agricultural machinery trajectory data and the complexity of actual movement trajectories, this paper proposes a two-stage joint clustering method for agricultural machinery trajectory recognition...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,851 Views
20 Pages

Road Congestion Detection Based on Trajectory Stay-Place Clustering

  • Qingying Yu,
  • Yonglong Luo,
  • Chuanming Chen and
  • Xiaoyao Zheng

The results of road congestion detection can be used for the rational planning of travel routes and as guidance for traffic management. The trajectory data of moving objects can record their positions at each moment and reflect their moving features....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,370 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2020

The current airspace route system consists mainly of pre-defined routes with a low number of intersections to facilitate air traffic controllers to oversee the traffic. Our aim is a method to create an artificial and reliable route network based on p...

(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
10,542 Views
17 Pages

A Two-Step Clustering Approach to Extract Locations from Individual GPS Trajectory Data

  • Zhongliang Fu,
  • Zongshun Tian,
  • Yanqing Xu and
  • Changjian Qiao

High-accuracy location identification is the basis of location awareness and location services. However, because of the influence of GPS signal loss, data drift and repeated access in the individual trajectory data, the efficiency and accuracy of exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Citations
9,055 Views
22 Pages

21 September 2021

According to the statistics of maritime accidents, most collision accidents have been caused by human factors. In an encounter situation, the prediction of ship’s trajectory is a good way to notice the intention of the other ship. This paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Maritime Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,584 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2025

Clustering algorithms are widely used in statistical data analysis as a form of unsupervised machine learning, playing a crucial role in big data mining research for Maritime Intelligent Transportation Systems. While numerous studies have explored me...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
223 Views
22 Pages

Grouping vehicles with similar paths is important for traffic analysis, but camera-image trajectories are distorted by perspective, and unsupervised clustering does not directly reveal how many traffic movements should be expected. This paper present...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future of Vehicles (FoV2026))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,995 Views
19 Pages

3 August 2023

With the emergence of intelligent transportation and smart city system, the issue of how to perform an efficient and reasonable clustering analysis of the mass vehicle trajectories on multi-camera monitoring videos through computer vision has become...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,601 Views
17 Pages

Urban hotspot area detection is an important issue that needs to be explored for urban planning and traffic management. It is of great significance to mine hotspots from taxi trajectory data, which reflect residents’ travel characteristics and the op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,501 Views
27 Pages

30 October 2025

Clustering of aircraft trajectories in terminal airspace is essential for procedure evaluation, flow monitoring, and anomaly detection, yet it is challenged by dense traffic, irregular sampling, and diverse maneuvering behaviors. This study proposes...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,801 Views
27 Pages

26 November 2024

Existing route-clustering methods often fail to identify abnormal sections or similarities between routes, mainly when working with large or long datasets. While sub-route clustering can detect regional patterns, it struggles to accurately capture th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Maritime Navigation and Ship Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,888 Views
21 Pages

Massive trajectory data generated by ubiquitous position acquisition technology are valuable for knowledge discovery. The study of trajectory mining that converts knowledge into decision support becomes appealing. Mobility modes awareness is one of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,797 Views
16 Pages

Long-Term Trajectory Prediction for Oil Tankers via Grid-Based Clustering

  • Xuhang Xu,
  • Chunshan Liu,
  • Jianghui Li,
  • Yongchun Miao and
  • Lou Zhao

Vessel trajectory prediction is an important step in route planning, which could help improve the efficiency of maritime transportation. In this article, a high-accuracy long-term trajectory prediction algorithm is proposed for oil tankers. The propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Control and Path Planning of Marine Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
9,566 Views
13 Pages

5 July 2018

Shipping route analysis is essential for vessel traffic management and relies on professional technical facilities for collecting and recording specific information about vessel behaviors. The recent Automatic Identification System (AIS) onboard has...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,950 Views
19 Pages

Trajectory Clustering and k-NN for Robust Privacy Preserving Spatiotemporal Databases

  • Elias Dritsas,
  • Maria Trigka,
  • Panagiotis Gerolymatos and
  • Spyros Sioutas

14 December 2018

In the context of this research work, we studied the problem of privacy preserving on spatiotemporal databases. In particular, we investigated the k-anonymity of mobile users based on real trajectory data. The k-anonymity set consists of the k neares...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Humanistic Data Mining: Tools and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,074 Views
11 Pages

13 June 2021

The Aral Sea basin is the most active source of salt-dust storms in the central Asian region, while its exposed bottom is acting as a “distributer” of salts and chemicals over the adjoining areas. In this study, the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,450 Views
22 Pages

This study aims to analyze long-term gait recovery patterns in sub-acute post-stroke hemiplegic patients by applying end-to-end deep learning (DL)-based clustering to sagittal joint-angle trajectories throughout the gait cycle. To address the data sc...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomechanics and Sports Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,574 Views
18 Pages

Many real-world dynamic features such as ocean eddies, rain clouds, and air masses may split or merge while they are migrating within a space. Topologically, the migration trajectories of such features are structurally more complex as they may have m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Complexity: Concepts, Theories, and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,322 Views
20 Pages

26 September 2023

The proliferation of the Internet and the widespread adoption of mobile devices have given rise to an immense volume of real-time trajectory big data. However, a single computer and conventional databases with limited scalability struggle to manage t...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
22 Pages

FedTULGAC: A Federated Learning Method for Trajectory User Linking Based on Graph Attention and Clustering

  • Haitao Zhang,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Huixiang Jiang,
  • Yuanjian Liu,
  • Weigang Wang,
  • Yi Li,
  • Yuhao Luo and
  • Yuxuan Ge

18 December 2025

Trajectory User Linking (TUL) is a pivotal technology for identifying and associating the trajectory information from the same user across various data sources. To address the privacy leakage challenges inherent in traditional TUL methods, this study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning for Graph Neural Networks)

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