38 articles in this issue
Qingqing Hong, Xinyi Zhong, Weitong Chen, Zhenghua Zhang and Bin Li
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are pivotal in various fields due to their rich spectral–spatial information. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have notably enhanced HSI classification, they often generate redundant spatial features. To address this,... see more
Liu Yang
The need for addressing the adverse impacts of transport infrastructure on public spaces and human activities (TSH) emphasizes the importance of designing integrated TSH system, thereby necessitating tailored planning support systems (PSS). This study beg... see more
Benjamabhorn Pumhirunroj, Patiwat Littidej, Thidarut Boonmars, Kanokwan Bootyothee, Atchara Artchayasawat, Phusit Khamphilung and Donald Slack
Infection of liver flukes (Opisthorchis viverrini) is partly due to their suitability for habitats in sub-basin areas, which causes the intermediate host to remain in the watershed system in all seasons. The spatial monitoring of fluke at the small basin ... see more
Daping Xi, Yuhao Feng, Wenping Jiang, Nai Yang, Xini Hu and Chuyuan Wang
The extraction of ship behavior patterns from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data and the subsequent prediction of travel routes play crucial roles in mitigating the risk of ship accidents. This study focuses on the Wuhan section of the dendritic r... see more
Mengxiao Liu, Yong Ge, Shan Hu and Haiguang Hao
Recognizing the spatial effects of regional poverty is essential for achieving sustainable poverty alleviation. This study investigates these spatial effects and their determinants across three distinct administrative levels within Hubei Province, China. ... see more
Liat David, Motti Zohar and Ilan Shimshoni
This study offers a quantitative solution that automates the creation of a historical timeline starting with old drawings from the beginning of the 18th century and ending with present-day photographs of the Old City of Jerusalem. This is performed using ... see more
Shaojun Liu, Xiawei Chen, Fengji Zhang, Yiyan Liu and Junlian Ge
With the rapid pace of urbanization, enhancing the quality of life has become an urgent demand for the general public in both developed and developing countries. This study addresses the pressing need to understand the spatial distribution and underlying ... see more
Chengpeng Li, Xi Kuai, Biao He, Zhigang Zhao, Haojia Lin, Wei Zhu, Yu Liu and Renzhong Guo
(1) Background: The smart city management system, with GIS technology as its core, is based on realistic visualization of multiple types of 3D model data syntheses. However, the efficiency barriers to achieving smooth and continuous visualization from out... see more
Changwha Oh, Yongwan Chun and Hyun Kim
This research employs a spatial optimization approach customized for addressing equitable emergency medical facility location problems through the p-dispersed-median problem (p-DIME). The p-DIME integrates two conflicting classes of spatial optimization p... see more
Wenjing Li and Zihao Luo
Predicting traffic accidents involves analyzing historical data, determining the relevant factors affecting the occurrence of traffic accidents, and predicting the likelihood of future traffic accidents. Most of the previous studies used statistical metho... see more
Renata Duraciová
The mutual identification of spatial objects is a fundamental issue when updating geographic data with other data sets. Representations of spatial objects in different sources may not have the same identifiers, which would unambiguously assign them to eac... see more
Ruihang Xie, Sisi Zlatanova, Jinwoo (Brian) Lee and Mitko Aleksandrov
Three-dimensional (3D) indoor models are a crucial component to simulate pedestrian evacuations realistically in indoor environments. However, existing 3D indoor models cannot fully represent realistic indoor environments to enable the simulation of 3D pe... see more
Zuoquan Nie, Qiuling Lang, Yichen Zhang, Jiquan Zhang, Yanan Chen and Zengkai Pan
Based on the data from two field surveys in 2015 and 2022, this paper calculates the weight of values using the entropy weight method and the variation coefficient method, and evaluates risk using the information quantity method. The information quantitie... see more
Miguel Saraiva and Bárbara Teixeira
In post-pandemic, climate-changing societies, the presence of urban greenspace assumes paramount functions, at the same time that socio-economic crises and shocks augment vulnerabilities and insecurities. The recent literature on environmental criminology... see more
Changzhen Wang, Michael Leitner and Gernot Paulus
Health care accessibility studies are well established in the US but lacking in Austria, even though both experience high costs and have hospital care as the largest contributor to health care spending. This study aims to examine multiscale spatial access... see more
Miljenko Lapaine
The article belongs to the field of theoretical research on map projections. It is observed that there is no unique and generally accepted definition of standard parallels in the cartographic literature. For some authors, a standard line is a line along w... see more
Ryunosuke Komura and Masayuki Matsuoka
Malaria is a major public health concern, and accurate mapping of malaria risk is essential to effectively managing the disease. However, current models are unable to predict malaria risk with high temporal and spatial resolution. This study describes a c... see more
Tongxin Chen, Kate Bowers and Tao Cheng
This study aimed to evaluate the relationships between different groups of explanatory variables (i.e., dynamic human activity variables, static variables of social disorganisation and crime generators, and combinations of both sets of variables) and prop... see more
Klemen Prah and Ashton M. Shortridge
This paper investigated the surface length of roads from both horizontal and vertical perspectives using the theory of fractal dimension of surfaces and curves. Three progressive experiments were conducted. The first demonstrated the magnitude of the diff... see more
Shihang Fu, Ying Fang, Nannan Wang, Zhaomin Tong and Yaolin Liu
With the sustainable and coordinated development of cities, the formulation of urban street policies requires multiangle analysis. In regard to the existing street research, a large number of studies have focused on specific landscapes or accessibility of... see more
Tingting Wu, Bisong Hu, Jin Luo and Shuhua Qi
The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) pandemic has caused enormous impacts around the world. Characterizing the risk dynamics for urgent epidemics such as COVID-19 is of great benefit to epidemic control and emergency management. This article present... see more
Karol Król and Wojciech Sroka
The spatial planning system in Poland is undergoing a fundamental reform. It emphasises the digital representation of spatial data. Low performance of geoportals, no Internet access, or poor connectivity can contribute to the exclusion from the spatial pl... see more
Haoxian Cai and Wei Duan
Urban airports are typically large infrastructures with significant cultural, economic, and ecological impacts; meanwhile, abandoned airports are common worldwide. However, there is limited knowledge regarding transformation strategies for the renewal of ... see more
Gyuwon Jeon, Yujin Park and Jean-Michel Guldmann
Yan Jin, Yong Ge, Haoyu Fan, Zeshuo Li, Yaojie Liu and Yan Jia
Accurate spatial distribution of gridded gross domestic product (GDP) data is crucial for revealing regional disparities within administrative units, thus facilitating a deeper understanding of regional economic dynamics, industrial distribution, and urba... see more
Liping Zhang, Jing Li and Song Li
A new spatial keyword group query method is proposed in this paper to address the existing issue of user privacy leakage and exclusion of preferences in road networks. The proposed query method is based on the IGgram-tree index and minimum hash set. To de... see more
Csaba Szigeti-Pap, Dávid Kis and Gáspár Albert
Misinterpreting maps can have serious consequences, especially in situations requiring quick decisions like using car navigation systems. Studies indicate that a map reader’s experience is crucial for understanding maps, but factors such as age, education... see more
Yu Chen, Yuehong Chen and Yuqi Lu
Decarbonizing the transport sector using electric vehicles (EVs) is a vital pathway for China to achieve the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. Despite the unprecedented growth of EV diffusion in China, little information is available for the spatia... see more
Jiayi Yang, Di Hu, Zihan Chen, Yicheng Xu, Zewei Zou and Ying Zhu
As an exquisite asset of Chinese traditional culture, traditional opera occupies a place of high esteem within the world’s cultural and artistic treasury. The impact of emerging cultures has threatened the future of traditional opera culture, necessitatin... see more
Hongyun Guo, Nai Yang, Zhong Wang and Hao Fang
How can the interactive mode of a map be optimized to facilitate efficient positioning and improve cognitive efficiency? This paper addresses this crucial aspect of map design. It explores the impact of spatial reference frames, map dimensionality, and na... see more
Xiayin Lou, Min Sun, Hanjun Yang and Shihao Yang
The development of a cooperative pursuit strategy for capturing escaping criminals or dangerous animals in urban public safety emergencies is becoming increasingly in demand. An ideal strategy should consider both the encirclement needed to prevent crimin... see more
Yan Li, Guozhou Wu, Shuai Zhang, Manchun Li, Beidou Nie and Zhenjie Chen
Wildfires spread rapidly and cause considerable ecological and socioeconomic losses. Inner Mongolia is among the regions in China that suffer the most from wildfires. A simple, effective model that uses fewer parameters to simulate wildfire spread is cruc... see more
Lei Liu, Yong Sun, Min Ji, Huimeng Wang and Jiantao Liu
The three-dimensional (3D) geological voxel model is essential for numerical simulation and resource calculation. However, it can be challenging due to the point in polygon test in 3D voxel modeling. The commonly used Winding number algorithm requires the... see more
Liang Kong, Qinglin Wu, Jie Deng, Leichao Bai, Zhongsheng Chen, Zhong Du and Mingliang Luo
With the deepening of urbanization in China, the coordinated development of cities in different regions is an important part of the sustainable development of the country, and the reasonable quantification of the unbalanced development of cities in differ... see more
Hiroyuki Miura, Masashi Matsuoka, Juan C. Reyes, Nelson Pulido, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Andrea C. Riaño, Alvaro Hurtado, Raul Rincon, Helber García and Carlos Lozano
Early disaster responses in damaged areas after a large earthquake are indispensable for stakeholders to assess and grasp the impacts such as building and infrastructure damage and disrupted community functionality as soon as possible. This study introduc... see more
Jing Zhao, Ning Liu, Junhui Li, Xi Guo, Hongtao Deng and Jinshan Sun
The road transportation of explosives is highly concerning due to its substantial impact on social safety. For the safety management of explosive transportation, e.g., transport route planning and emergency rescue, explosion consequence evaluation is of p... see more
Linghui Kong, Haizhong Qian, Yuqing Wu, Xinyu Niu, Di Wang and Zhekun Huang
Building outlines are important for emergency response, urban planning, and change analysis and can be quickly extracted from remote sensing images and raster maps using deep learning technology. However, such building outlines often have irregular bounda... see more
Mingyang Yu, Haiqing Xu, Fangliang Zhou, Shuai Xu and Hongling Yin
Accurate and efficient classification maps of urban functional zones (UFZs) are crucial to urban planning, management, and decision making. Due to the complex socioeconomic UFZ properties, it is increasingly challenging to identify urban functional zones ... see more