In recent years, next location prediction has been of paramount importance for a wide range of location-based social network (LBSN) services. The influence of geographical and temporal contextual information (GTCI) is crucial for analyzing individual behaviors for personalized point-of-interest (POI) recommendations. A number of studies have considered GTCI to improve the performance of POI prediction algorithms, but they have limitations. Moreover, reviewing the related literature revealed that no research has investigated and evaluated the GTCI of LBSN data for location prediction in the form presented in this study. Here, we extended the gated recurrent unit (GRU) model by adding additional attention gates to separately consider GTCI for location prediction based on LBSN data and introduced the extended attention GRU (EAGRU) model. Furthermore, we used the flexibility of the EAGRU architecture and developed it in four states to compare the efficacy of GTCI for location prediction for LBSN users. Real-world, large-scale datasets based on two LBSNs (Gowalla and Foursquare) were used for a complete review. The results revealed that the performance of the EAGRU model was higher than that of competitive baseline methods. In addition, the efficacy of the geographical CI was significantly higher than the temporal CI.
{"title":"Using a Flexible Model to Compare the Efficacy of Geographical and Temporal Contextual Information of Location-Based Social Network Data for Location Prediction","authors":"F. Ghanaati, G. Ekbatanifard, K. Khoshhal","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12040137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12040137","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, next location prediction has been of paramount importance for a wide range of location-based social network (LBSN) services. The influence of geographical and temporal contextual information (GTCI) is crucial for analyzing individual behaviors for personalized point-of-interest (POI) recommendations. A number of studies have considered GTCI to improve the performance of POI prediction algorithms, but they have limitations. Moreover, reviewing the related literature revealed that no research has investigated and evaluated the GTCI of LBSN data for location prediction in the form presented in this study. Here, we extended the gated recurrent unit (GRU) model by adding additional attention gates to separately consider GTCI for location prediction based on LBSN data and introduced the extended attention GRU (EAGRU) model. Furthermore, we used the flexibility of the EAGRU architecture and developed it in four states to compare the efficacy of GTCI for location prediction for LBSN users. Real-world, large-scale datasets based on two LBSNs (Gowalla and Foursquare) were used for a complete review. The results revealed that the performance of the EAGRU model was higher than that of competitive baseline methods. In addition, the efficacy of the geographical CI was significantly higher than the temporal CI.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"36 1","pages":"137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90799725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yesid Ediver Anacona Mopan, Andrés Felipe Solis Pino, O. Ovalle, Helmer Paz, Isabel Ramirez Mejia
Avocado is an important export and consumption product in Colombia, and its economic importance is expected to increase in the coming years. With its vast potential territory for avocado cultivation, the department of Cauca is a crucial area for producing this variety. However, small producers in the region often need more knowledge of the most suitable locations for planting. This study seeks to determine the ideal areas for Hass avocado cultivation in Cauca using geographic information tools and multi-criteria decision analysis, using a set of official data from different governmental entities and the hierarchical analytical process that allows determining the intensity of the interrelation of factors in the cultivation of Hass avocado. The results indicate that the municipalities near the Popayán plateau have the most significant potential for Hass avocado production, using the analytical hierarchy process. Approximately 9.2% of the administrative territory of the region is classified as highly suitable for Hass avocado cultivation, and an additional 14.2% is considered moderately suitable, constituting about 700,000 hectares of arable land. This research provides decision-makers and producers with valuable knowledge to support and improve Hass avocado agriculture in the region by implementing agricultural engineering practices.
{"title":"Spatial Analysis of the Suitability of Hass Avocado Cultivation in the Cauca Department, Colombia, Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Geographic Information Systems","authors":"Yesid Ediver Anacona Mopan, Andrés Felipe Solis Pino, O. Ovalle, Helmer Paz, Isabel Ramirez Mejia","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12040136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12040136","url":null,"abstract":"Avocado is an important export and consumption product in Colombia, and its economic importance is expected to increase in the coming years. With its vast potential territory for avocado cultivation, the department of Cauca is a crucial area for producing this variety. However, small producers in the region often need more knowledge of the most suitable locations for planting. This study seeks to determine the ideal areas for Hass avocado cultivation in Cauca using geographic information tools and multi-criteria decision analysis, using a set of official data from different governmental entities and the hierarchical analytical process that allows determining the intensity of the interrelation of factors in the cultivation of Hass avocado. The results indicate that the municipalities near the Popayán plateau have the most significant potential for Hass avocado production, using the analytical hierarchy process. Approximately 9.2% of the administrative territory of the region is classified as highly suitable for Hass avocado cultivation, and an additional 14.2% is considered moderately suitable, constituting about 700,000 hectares of arable land. This research provides decision-makers and producers with valuable knowledge to support and improve Hass avocado agriculture in the region by implementing agricultural engineering practices.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"131 1","pages":"136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79206324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With the rapid development of urbanization, fire risk factors have increased greatly, indicating a higher requirement for urban firefighting security. Fire rescue capabilities can be effectively improved by the scientific layout of fire stations, and therefore, the optimal spatial arrangement of fire stations has practical implications for urban safety. In this paper, a method for planning the locations of urban fire stations is presented, taking into account the fire risk points of interest (POIs) data, road networks and fire station planning principles. The combined model method is validated against the nearest facility point model, and the service area model is proposed for the coverage of POIs and regional areas of planned new sites. The efficacy of the model is demonstrated through an improvement in the coverage of crosspoints of the regional area and points of interest (POIs), with increases of 10.20% and 12.43%, respectively. We applied the combined model method to Fengdong New Town, Shaanxi Province, China. A total of 11 new potential sites were proposed to improve the efficiency of spatial coverage, and subsequently, the coverage rate of the POIs and regional area reached 97.66% and 84.80%, respectively. This study provides application guidelines for the decision-making of fire services and the allocation of firefighting resources.
{"title":"Research on Urban Fire Station Layout Planning Based on a Combined Model Method","authors":"Zhijin Yu, Lan Xu, Shuangshuang Chen, Ce Jin","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030135","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of urbanization, fire risk factors have increased greatly, indicating a higher requirement for urban firefighting security. Fire rescue capabilities can be effectively improved by the scientific layout of fire stations, and therefore, the optimal spatial arrangement of fire stations has practical implications for urban safety. In this paper, a method for planning the locations of urban fire stations is presented, taking into account the fire risk points of interest (POIs) data, road networks and fire station planning principles. The combined model method is validated against the nearest facility point model, and the service area model is proposed for the coverage of POIs and regional areas of planned new sites. The efficacy of the model is demonstrated through an improvement in the coverage of crosspoints of the regional area and points of interest (POIs), with increases of 10.20% and 12.43%, respectively. We applied the combined model method to Fengdong New Town, Shaanxi Province, China. A total of 11 new potential sites were proposed to improve the efficiency of spatial coverage, and subsequently, the coverage rate of the POIs and regional area reached 97.66% and 84.80%, respectively. This study provides application guidelines for the decision-making of fire services and the allocation of firefighting resources.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"52 1","pages":"135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85125415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With the rapid development of information technology, virtual reality and gesture interaction have been gradually applied in the research and development of map navigation systems. Traditional visualization methods are no longer suitable for this novel interactive map. This research offers a dynamic visualization plan for a virtual reality (VR) navigation map focusing on natural gesture interaction to give examples for creating similar systems. The principal work is composed of two experiments. The first experiment focuses on designing map navigation gestures (moving, rotating, and zooming). Heuristic experiments are used to collect users’ subjective preferences and design suggestions about gestures. The second experiment is designed as a behavioral study to investigate which types of gestures and visualizations, among those obtained from the heuristic experiment in the first part, yield higher performance in our specific scenario. This result offers a practical VR map dynamic display approach through experimental validation. It also provides the basis for a human factor and technology support for future investigations.
{"title":"Dynamic Visualization of VR Map Navigation Systems Supporting Gesture Interaction","authors":"W. Xiao, Xiaolei Lv, Chengqi Xue","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030133","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of information technology, virtual reality and gesture interaction have been gradually applied in the research and development of map navigation systems. Traditional visualization methods are no longer suitable for this novel interactive map. This research offers a dynamic visualization plan for a virtual reality (VR) navigation map focusing on natural gesture interaction to give examples for creating similar systems. The principal work is composed of two experiments. The first experiment focuses on designing map navigation gestures (moving, rotating, and zooming). Heuristic experiments are used to collect users’ subjective preferences and design suggestions about gestures. The second experiment is designed as a behavioral study to investigate which types of gestures and visualizations, among those obtained from the heuristic experiment in the first part, yield higher performance in our specific scenario. This result offers a practical VR map dynamic display approach through experimental validation. It also provides the basis for a human factor and technology support for future investigations.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"22 1","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85252441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical activity (PA) plays a vital role in children’s physical and mental health. The built, natural, and socio-demographic environmental variables affect children’s PA behaviors in various ways. However, few studies focus on systematically measuring the environmental spatiality to enhance PA research. We propose a Physical activity Access Disparity (PAD) index for children. This study aims to design, test, and apply an integrated approach to the children’s PAD index. We adopt five dimensions of “access” to healthcare to measure the children’s PAD index for the United States (US) and the state of Georgia at the county level. The PAD index sorts 18 environmental measures with 23 variables into accessibility, availability, accommodation, affordability, and acceptability (5 As) for children’s PA. We use the self-organizing map (SOM) method to measure how the 5 As affect the PAD index values. According to the result, the children’s PAD index’s ranking normalizes from 0 to 1 and identifies “play oases” to “play deserts” in the US and Georgia using diverse 5 As combinations. The children’s PAD index shows Low disparity in the north and coastal region and High disparity in Deep South states in the US. Moreover, the PAD index shows Low disparity and High disparity in the north and south of Georgia. The PAD index provides a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers to analyze disparity in children’s “access” to the PA environment. The flexible parameters and the weighing scheme also extend the method’s generality and allow users to customize the PAD index based on local preferences and conditions.
{"title":"Measuring and Mapping Physical Activity Disparity (PAD) Index Based on Physical Activity Environment for Children","authors":"Jue Yang, Lan Mu, Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030134","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity (PA) plays a vital role in children’s physical and mental health. The built, natural, and socio-demographic environmental variables affect children’s PA behaviors in various ways. However, few studies focus on systematically measuring the environmental spatiality to enhance PA research. We propose a Physical activity Access Disparity (PAD) index for children. This study aims to design, test, and apply an integrated approach to the children’s PAD index. We adopt five dimensions of “access” to healthcare to measure the children’s PAD index for the United States (US) and the state of Georgia at the county level. The PAD index sorts 18 environmental measures with 23 variables into accessibility, availability, accommodation, affordability, and acceptability (5 As) for children’s PA. We use the self-organizing map (SOM) method to measure how the 5 As affect the PAD index values. According to the result, the children’s PAD index’s ranking normalizes from 0 to 1 and identifies “play oases” to “play deserts” in the US and Georgia using diverse 5 As combinations. The children’s PAD index shows Low disparity in the north and coastal region and High disparity in Deep South states in the US. Moreover, the PAD index shows Low disparity and High disparity in the north and south of Georgia. The PAD index provides a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers to analyze disparity in children’s “access” to the PA environment. The flexible parameters and the weighing scheme also extend the method’s generality and allow users to customize the PAD index based on local preferences and conditions.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"90 1","pages":"134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88403780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Seong, Yun-Seok Kim, Hyewon Goh, Hyunmin Kim, A. Stanescu
Quantifying traffic congestion is a critical task for transportation planning and research. Numerous metrics have been developed, mainly focusing on changes in vehicle speeds, their extents, and travel time. In this study, new metrics are presented using the Hägerstrand’s space-time cube that has been studied from time geography perspectives since the 1960s. Particularly, the product of distance and time, i.e., distanceTime, is proposed as a base metric to measure traffic congestion amounts. Using the base metric such as mileHours, metrics of weighted congestion and normalized congestion amounts were also developed. New metrics were applied to six metropolitan areas and their vicinities in the United States (Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Dallas and Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and New York), and congestion amounts were calculated and compared. The Google Traffic Layer API was used to obtain traffic congestion datasets for six months (April–September 2022), and GIS (geographic information systems) was used for delineating road features and traffic intensity levels. Among the six areas, New York and its vicinity showed the largest congestion when only heavy congestion was used. Los Angeles and its vicinity showed the largest congestion when all congestion levels were considered. This study shows that the proposed metrics are very effective in summarizing traffic amounts and broadly applicable for further analyses of traffic congestion phenomena by associating various other factors, such as weekdays, months, or gas prices. The new metrics developed in this research may help transportation researchers and practitioners by providing them with a set of metrics applicable to summarizing congestion amounts by synthesizing congestion intensity, extent, and duration.
{"title":"Measuring Traffic Congestion with Novel Metrics: A Case Study of Six U.S. Metropolitan Areas","authors":"J. Seong, Yun-Seok Kim, Hyewon Goh, Hyunmin Kim, A. Stanescu","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030130","url":null,"abstract":"Quantifying traffic congestion is a critical task for transportation planning and research. Numerous metrics have been developed, mainly focusing on changes in vehicle speeds, their extents, and travel time. In this study, new metrics are presented using the Hägerstrand’s space-time cube that has been studied from time geography perspectives since the 1960s. Particularly, the product of distance and time, i.e., distanceTime, is proposed as a base metric to measure traffic congestion amounts. Using the base metric such as mileHours, metrics of weighted congestion and normalized congestion amounts were also developed. New metrics were applied to six metropolitan areas and their vicinities in the United States (Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Dallas and Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and New York), and congestion amounts were calculated and compared. The Google Traffic Layer API was used to obtain traffic congestion datasets for six months (April–September 2022), and GIS (geographic information systems) was used for delineating road features and traffic intensity levels. Among the six areas, New York and its vicinity showed the largest congestion when only heavy congestion was used. Los Angeles and its vicinity showed the largest congestion when all congestion levels were considered. This study shows that the proposed metrics are very effective in summarizing traffic amounts and broadly applicable for further analyses of traffic congestion phenomena by associating various other factors, such as weekdays, months, or gas prices. The new metrics developed in this research may help transportation researchers and practitioners by providing them with a set of metrics applicable to summarizing congestion amounts by synthesizing congestion intensity, extent, and duration.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"3 9 1","pages":"130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83533266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yongchao Song, Tao Huang, Xin Fu, Yahong Jiang, Jindong Xu, Jindong Zhao, Weiqing Yan, X. Wang
Lane line detection is a fundamental and critical task for geographic information perception of driverless and advanced assisted driving. However, the traditional lane line detection method relies on manual adjustment of parameters, and has poor universality, a heavy workload, and poor robustness. Most deep learning-based methods make it difficult to effectively balance accuracy and efficiency. To improve the comprehensive perception ability of lane line geographic information in a natural traffic environment, a lane line detection algorithm based on a mixed-attention mechanism residual network (ResNet) and row anchor classification is proposed. A mixed-attention mechanism is added after the backbone network convolution, normalization and activation layers, respectively, so that the model can focus more on important lane line features to improve the pertinence and efficiency of feature extraction. In addition, to achieve faster detection speed and solve the problem of no vision, the method of lane line location selection and classification based on the row direction is used to detect whether there are lane lines in each candidate point according to the row anchor, reducing the high computational complexity caused by segmentation on a pixel-by-pixel basis of traditional semantic segmentation. Based on TuSimple and CurveLane datasets, multi-scene, multi-environment, multi-linear road image datasets and video sequences are integrated and self-built, and several experiments are designed and tested to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The test accuracy of the mixed-attention mechanism network model reached 95.96%, and the average time efficiency is nearly 180 FPS, which can achieve a high level of accuracy and real-time detection process. Therefore, the proposed method can meet the safety perception effect of lane line geographic information in natural traffic environments, and achieve an effective balance between the accuracy and efficiency of actual road application scenarios.
{"title":"A Novel Lane Line Detection Algorithm for Driverless Geographic Information Perception Using Mixed-Attention Mechanism ResNet and Row Anchor Classification","authors":"Yongchao Song, Tao Huang, Xin Fu, Yahong Jiang, Jindong Xu, Jindong Zhao, Weiqing Yan, X. Wang","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030132","url":null,"abstract":"Lane line detection is a fundamental and critical task for geographic information perception of driverless and advanced assisted driving. However, the traditional lane line detection method relies on manual adjustment of parameters, and has poor universality, a heavy workload, and poor robustness. Most deep learning-based methods make it difficult to effectively balance accuracy and efficiency. To improve the comprehensive perception ability of lane line geographic information in a natural traffic environment, a lane line detection algorithm based on a mixed-attention mechanism residual network (ResNet) and row anchor classification is proposed. A mixed-attention mechanism is added after the backbone network convolution, normalization and activation layers, respectively, so that the model can focus more on important lane line features to improve the pertinence and efficiency of feature extraction. In addition, to achieve faster detection speed and solve the problem of no vision, the method of lane line location selection and classification based on the row direction is used to detect whether there are lane lines in each candidate point according to the row anchor, reducing the high computational complexity caused by segmentation on a pixel-by-pixel basis of traditional semantic segmentation. Based on TuSimple and CurveLane datasets, multi-scene, multi-environment, multi-linear road image datasets and video sequences are integrated and self-built, and several experiments are designed and tested to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The test accuracy of the mixed-attention mechanism network model reached 95.96%, and the average time efficiency is nearly 180 FPS, which can achieve a high level of accuracy and real-time detection process. Therefore, the proposed method can meet the safety perception effect of lane line geographic information in natural traffic environments, and achieve an effective balance between the accuracy and efficiency of actual road application scenarios.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"16 1","pages":"132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86247422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on the data of existing warehouse supermarkets in Liaoning Province, China, spatial autocorrelation analysis, kernel density analysis, composite correlation coefficient analysis and other methods have been adopted to analyze their spatial-temporal evolution pattern to reflect the general law of the development of China’s existing warehouse supermarkets and fill the gap in this research field. The results show that the spatial distribution of warehouse supermarkets in Liaoning Province is extremely uneven, and areas with high nuclear density are distributed along the “Shenyang-Dalian” line belonging to the aggregation distribution. The Lorentz curve shows a downward trend with a large degree of spatial imbalance, that is, the regional concentration of warehouse supermarkets is high. Through global and local autocorrelation analysis, the regions with similar development levels of warehouse supermarkets in Liaoning Province tend to gather together, and the spatial distribution has a strong correlation. The distribution of warehousing supermarkets in Liaoning Province is affected by traffic location conditions, economic conditions, population quantity and population density, the number of urban functional areas, policy conditions and the role of the government, especially by economic conditions.
{"title":"Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Evolution Pattern and Its Influencing Factors of Warehouse Supermarkets in Liaoning Province","authors":"Hao-Cheng Huang, Di-feng Li, Zenglin Han, Haotong Zhang, Hongye Wang, Ye Duan","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030131","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the data of existing warehouse supermarkets in Liaoning Province, China, spatial autocorrelation analysis, kernel density analysis, composite correlation coefficient analysis and other methods have been adopted to analyze their spatial-temporal evolution pattern to reflect the general law of the development of China’s existing warehouse supermarkets and fill the gap in this research field. The results show that the spatial distribution of warehouse supermarkets in Liaoning Province is extremely uneven, and areas with high nuclear density are distributed along the “Shenyang-Dalian” line belonging to the aggregation distribution. The Lorentz curve shows a downward trend with a large degree of spatial imbalance, that is, the regional concentration of warehouse supermarkets is high. Through global and local autocorrelation analysis, the regions with similar development levels of warehouse supermarkets in Liaoning Province tend to gather together, and the spatial distribution has a strong correlation. The distribution of warehousing supermarkets in Liaoning Province is affected by traffic location conditions, economic conditions, population quantity and population density, the number of urban functional areas, policy conditions and the role of the government, especially by economic conditions.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"34 1","pages":"131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75060228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingming Wang, Futao Wang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Jianwan Ji, Zhenqing Wang, Qing Zhao, Longfei Liu
Under the background of intensified human activities and global climate warming, the frequency and intensity of flood disasters have increased, causing many casualties and economic losses every year. Given the difficulty of mountain shadow removal from large-scale watershed flood monitoring based on Sentinel-1 SAR images and the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform, this paper first adopted the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to extract the water body information during flooding. Then, a function model was proposed based on the mountain shadow samples to remove the mountain shadows from the flood maps. Finally, this paper analyzed the flood disasters in the middle and lower basin of the Yangtze River (MLB) in 2020. The main results showed that: (1) compared with the other two methods, the SVM model had the highest accuracy. The accuracy and kappa coefficients of the trained SVM model in the testing dataset were 97.77% and 0.9521, respectively. (2) The function model proposed based on the samples achieved the best effect compared with other shadow removal methods with a shadow recognition rate of 75.46%, and it alleviated the interference of mountain shadows for flood monitoring in a large basin. (3) The flood inundated area was 8526 km2, among which, cropland was severely affected (6160 km2). This study could provide effective suggestions for relevant stakeholders in policy making.
{"title":"Flood Monitoring in the Middle and Lower Basin of the Yangtze River Using Google Earth Engine and Machine Learning Methods","authors":"Jingming Wang, Futao Wang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Jianwan Ji, Zhenqing Wang, Qing Zhao, Longfei Liu","doi":"10.3390/ijgi12030129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030129","url":null,"abstract":"Under the background of intensified human activities and global climate warming, the frequency and intensity of flood disasters have increased, causing many casualties and economic losses every year. Given the difficulty of mountain shadow removal from large-scale watershed flood monitoring based on Sentinel-1 SAR images and the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform, this paper first adopted the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to extract the water body information during flooding. Then, a function model was proposed based on the mountain shadow samples to remove the mountain shadows from the flood maps. Finally, this paper analyzed the flood disasters in the middle and lower basin of the Yangtze River (MLB) in 2020. The main results showed that: (1) compared with the other two methods, the SVM model had the highest accuracy. The accuracy and kappa coefficients of the trained SVM model in the testing dataset were 97.77% and 0.9521, respectively. (2) The function model proposed based on the samples achieved the best effect compared with other shadow removal methods with a shadow recognition rate of 75.46%, and it alleviated the interference of mountain shadows for flood monitoring in a large basin. (3) The flood inundated area was 8526 km2, among which, cropland was severely affected (6160 km2). This study could provide effective suggestions for relevant stakeholders in policy making.","PeriodicalId":14614,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.","volume":"10 1","pages":"129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73323814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhi Cai, Tao Wang, Qing Mi, Xing Su, Limin Guo, Zhiming Ding
Many events such as large-scale activities and traffic accidents could cause an increase in vehicle density in an area, which makes the evacuation of vehicles important. However, the existing evacuation methods are not efficient limit to multi-vehicles sequences or destinations. In this paper, we introduce a novel dynamic weighted road network model for route planning. Based on the model, the route planning algorithm can obtain higher search efficiency while avoiding congested roads. For multi-vehicles evacuation, we propose a spatial diversity theory to evaluate the overlaps of routes between vehicles to be evacuated and those already evacuated. To verify the efficiency and effectiveness of our model, we conducted experiments on real road network. The results showed that our methods and algorithms can provide more reasonable paths and manage the process more efficiently.
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