29 articles in this issue
Ke Shang, Zeyu Wan, Yulin Zhang, Zhiwei Cui, Zihan Zhang, Chenchen Jiang and Feizhou Zhang
The accurate and rapid prediction of parking availability is helpful for improving parking efficiency and to optimize traffic systems. However, previous studies have suffered from limited training sample sizes and a lack of thorough investigation into the... see more
Nanyu Chen, Anran Yang, Luo Chen, Wei Xiong and Ning Jing
Spatio-temporal association analysis has attracted attention in various fields, such as urban computing and crime analysis. The proliferation of positioning technology and location-based services has facilitated the expansion of association analysis acros... see more
Yonghong Zhang, Huajun Zhao, Guangyi Ma, Donglin Xie, Sutong Geng, Huanyu Lu, Wei Tian and Kenny Thiam Choy Lim Kam Sian
The classification of land use information is important for land resource management. With the purpose of extracting precise spatial information, we present a novel land use classification model based on a mixed attention module and adjustable feature enh... see more
Alfieri Ek, Grant Drawve, Samantha Robinson and Jyotishka Datta
Law enforcement agencies continue to grow in the use of spatial analysis to assist in identifying patterns of outcomes. Despite the critical nature of proper resource allocation for mental health incidents, there has been little progress in statistical mo... see more
Gloria Bordogna, Paola Carrara, Luca Frigerio and Simone Lella
The current practice of users searching for different types of geo-resources in a geographic area and wishing to identify the most convenient routes for visiting the most relevant ones, requires the iterative formulation of several queries: first to ident... see more
Mengyue Ding, Nadeem Ullah, Sara Grigoryan, Yike Hu and Yan Song
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in e-commerce, which has prompted residents to shift their purchasing habits from offline to online. As a result, Smart Parcel Lockers (SPLs) have emerged as an accessible end-to-end delivery service... see more
Ruien Tang, Guolin Hou and Rui Du
Catering and urban elements have a strong spatial association. The spatial clustering and dispersal patterns of catering can effectively influence cities’ economic and socio-spatial reconfiguration. This research first introduced the concept of the ARTR (... see more
Ning Ding, Yiming Zhai and Hongyu Lv
Tangible cultural heritage is vulnerable to various risks, particularly those stemming from criminal activity. Through analyzing the distribution and flow of crime risks from a spatial perspective based on quantitative methods, risks can be better managed... see more
Margot Geerts, Seppe vanden Broucke and Jochen De Weerdt
Predicting house prices is a challenging task that many researchers have attempted to address. As accurate house prices allow better informing parties in the real estate market, improving housing policies and real estate appraisal, a comprehensive overvie... see more
Jiankun Zhu, Zhen Zhang, Fei Zhao, Haoran Su, Zhengnan Gu and Leilei Wang
The rapid development of remote sensing image sensor technology has led to exponential increases in available image data. The real-time scheduling of gigabyte-level images and the storage and management of massive image datasets are incredibly challenging... see more
Liang Liu, Jiqiu Deng and Yu Tang
The landslide early warning system (LEWS) relies on various models for data processing, prediction, forecasting, and warning level discrimination. The potential different programming implementations and dependencies of these models complicate the deployme... see more
Yingze Song, Degang Yang, Weicheng Wu, Xin Zhang, Jie Zhou, Zhaoxu Tian, Chencan Wang and Yingxu Song
Landslide susceptibility assessment (LSA) based on machine learning methods has been widely used in landslide geological hazard management and research. However, the problem of sample imbalance in landslide susceptibility assessment, where landslide sampl... see more
Chengkun Zhang, Yiran Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Junwei Yao, Hongjiu Liu, Tao He, Xinyu Zheng, Xingyu Xue, Liang Xu, Jing Yang, Yuanyuan Wang and Liuchang Xu
In recent years, the Chinese tourism industry has developed rapidly, leading to significant changes in the relationship between people and space patterns in scenic regions. To attract more tourists, the surrounding environment of a scenic region is usuall... see more
Luke Bergmann, Luis Fernando Chaves, David O’Sullivan and Robert G. Wallace
The spread of COVID-19 is geographically uneven in agricultural regions. Explanations proposed include differences in occupational risks, access to healthcare, racial inequalities, and approaches to public health. Here, we additionally explore the impacts... see more
Ogbaje Andrew, Armando Apan, Dev Raj Paudyal and Kithsiri Perera
The accuracy of most SAR-based flood classification and segmentation derived from semi-automated algorithms is often limited due to complicated radar backscatter. However, deep learning techniques, now widely applied in image classifications, have demonst... see more
Jinming Yan, Qiuyu Wan, Jingyi Feng, Jianjun Wang, Yiwen Hu and Xuexin Yan
Although many studies have investigated the non-linear relationship between the built environment and rail patronage, it remains unclear whether this influence is equally applicable to primary and secondary school students due to their physiological chara... see more
Siham Mousa Alhaider
The investigation of linguistic landscapes (LL) among the Arab community in downtown Brooklyn, New York City, is an underserved public space in the literature. This research focused on social and commercial or ‘bottom-up signs’ in LL to understand their p... see more
Paolo Dabove, Chiara Colombero and Andrea Salerno Quaroni
Analyses of climate change, due to its impact not only on the weather and the environment but also on human health and life, are one of the most important study activities made in recent years. There is relatively high confidence that glacial melt and hea... see more
Marcos V. L. Sousa, Silas N. Melo, Juciana C. B. Souza, Carlos F. A. Silva, Yuri Feitosa and Lindon F. Matias
Protected areas (PAs) help in strategies for maintaining biodiversity and inhibiting deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. However, there are few studies that evaluate the effectiveness of lands protected by states (or federation units). Our goal was to... see more
Xiaomin Jiang, Ziwan Zheng, Ye Zheng and Zhewei Mao
Theft is an inevitable problem in the context of urbanization and poses a challenge to people’s lives and social stability. The study of theft and criminal behavior using spatiotemporal, big, demographic, and neighborhood data is important for guiding sec... see more
Hongxing Deng, Wen Wen and Wenhui Zhang
The structural characteristics of an urban road network directly affect the urban road network’s overall function and service level. Because the hierarchical division and layout form of an urban road network has self-similarity and scale invariance, the u... see more
You Wan, Xicheng Tan and Hua Shu
Youngok Kang, Jiyeon Kim, Jiyoung Park and Jiyoon Lee
As neighborhood walkability has gradually become an important topic in various fields, many cities around the world are promoting an eco-friendly and people-centered walking environment as a top priority in urban planning. The purpose of this study is to ... see more
Andrea Miletic, Ana Kuveždic Divjak and Frederika Welle Donker
Open data portals are web services that serve as a central access point for all government-published open data and can exist at local, regional, national, and international levels. They are an important element of most open data initiatives that have enab... see more
Gregorio Rosario Michel, María Ester Gonzalez-Campos, Fernando Manzano Aybar and Joep Crompvoets
The Dominican Republic (DR) is a small island developing state (SIDS) highly exposed to disaster-risk phenomena, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) enables coordination and sharing of spatial information and servic... see more
Yurun Wang, Pu Zhao, Senkai Xie and Wenjia Zhang
Understanding the spatial structure of a megaregion with urban and rural areas is crucial for promoting sustainable urbanization and urban–rural integration. Compared to the city network (or the network of urban areas), however, fewer studies focus on the... see more
Wajeeha Nasar, Ricardo Da Silva Torres, Odd Erik Gundersen and Anniken T. Karlsen
Whenever natural and human-made disasters strike, the proper response of the concerned authorities often relies on search and rescue services. Search and rescue services are complex multidisciplinary processes that involve several degrees of interdependen... see more
Lin Yang, Jing Wei, Zejun Zuo and Shunping Zhou
Community roads are crucial to community navigation. There are automatic methods to obtain community roads using trajectories, but the sparsity and uneven density distribution of community trajectories present significant challenges in identifying communi... see more
Sultan Alamri, Kiki Adhinugraha, Nasser Allheeib and David Taniar
The public transport system plays an important role in a city as it moves people from one place to another efficiently and economically. The public transport network must be organized in a way that will cover as many places and as much of the population a... see more