Extracting urban functional regions from points of interest and human activities on location‐based social networks

S Gao, K Janowicz, H Couclelis - Transactions in GIS, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Data about points of interest (POI) have been widely used in studying urban land use types
and for sensing human behavior. However, it is difficult to quantify the correct mix or the …

Delineating urban functional areas with building-level social media data: A dynamic time warping (DTW) distance based k-medoids method

Y Chen, X Liu, X Li, X Liu, Y Yao, G Hu, X Xu… - Landscape and Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method for delineating urban functional areas based on
building-level social media data. Our method assumes that social media activities in …

[HTML][HTML] The combined use of remote sensing and social sensing data in fine-grained urban land use mapping: A case study in Beijing, China

Y Zhang, Q Li, H Huang, W Wu, X Du, H Wang - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
In light of the need for fine-grained, accurate, and timely urban land use information, a per-
field classification approach was proposed in this paper to automatically map fine-grained …

IS2Fun: Identification of subway station functions using massive urban data

J Wang, X Kong, A Rahim, F Xia, A Tolba… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urbanization and modernization accelerate the evolution of urban morphology with the
formation of different functional regions. To develop a smart city, how to efficiently identify the …

Inferring urban air quality based on social media

Y Wang, X Fu, W Jiang, T Wang, MH Tsou… - … , Environment and Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
Outdoor air pollution is a serious environmental problem in many developing countries;
obtaining timely and accurate information about urban air quality is a first step toward air …

[HTML][HTML] Employing crowdsourced geographic information to classify land cover with spatial clustering and topic model

H Xing, Y Meng, D Hou, J Song, H Xu - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Land cover classification is the most important element of land cover mapping and is a key
input to many societal benefits. Traditional classification methods require a large amount of …

A novel methodology for prediction of spatial-temporal activities using latent features

QL Guo, HA Karimi - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
In today's era of big data, huge amounts of spatial-temporal data are generated daily from all
kinds of citywide infrastructures. Understanding and predicting accurately such a large …

Um método de detecçao de regioes funcionais utilizando dados de redes sociais

AAF Menezes, JWV Santos, BA Souza… - Anais do XXXV …, 2017 - sol.sbc.org.br
O Sensoriamento Social é umaárea de pesquisa emergente devidoá quantidade de
informaçõesúteis que são fornecidas pelos usuários de redes sociais. Vários trabalhos na …