Sensors for sustainable smart cities: A review

MA Ramírez-Moreno, S Keshtkar, DA Padilla-Reyes… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Experts confirm that 85% of the world's population is expected to live in cities by 2050.
Therefore, cities should be prepared to satisfy the needs of their citizens and provide the …

Coupling mobile phone and social media data: A new approach to understanding urban functions and diurnal patterns

W Tu, J Cao, Y Yue, SL Shaw, M Zhou… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding urban functions and their relationships with human activities has great
implications for smart and sustainable urban development. In this study, we present a novel …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental exposure during travel: A research review and suggestions forward

A Poom, E Willberg, T Toivonen - Health & Place, 2021 - Elsevier
Daily travel through the urban fabric exposes urban dwellers to a range of environmental
conditions that may have an impact on their health and wellbeing. Knowledge about …

Social sensing from street-level imagery: A case study in learning spatio-temporal urban mobility patterns

F Zhang, L Wu, D Zhu, Y Liu - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Street-level imagery has covered the comprehensive landscape of urban areas. Compared
to satellite imagery, this new source of image data has the advantage in fine-grained …

COVID-19 is spatial: Ensuring that mobile Big Data is used for social good

A Poom, O Järv, M Zook, T Toivonen - Big Data & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The mobility restrictions related to COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in the biggest
disruption to individual mobilities in modern times. The crisis is clearly spatial in nature, and …

A geoprivacy manifesto

C Keßler, G McKenzie - Transactions in GIS, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As location‐enabled technologies are becoming ubiquitous, our location is being shared
with an ever‐growing number of external services. Issues revolving around location privacy …

Seoul's Wi-Fi hotspots: Wi-Fi access points as an indicator of urban vitality

YL Kim - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Advances in information and communication technology and the collection of big data at
small spatiotemporal scales have opened up new opportunities to reveal spatiotemporal …

Urban function recognition by integrating social media and street-level imagery

C Ye, F Zhang, L Mu, Y Gao… - Environment and Planning …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recognizing urban functions is crucial for understanding urban spatial structures and urban
planning. Previous work has investigated urban functions based on human activities that …

Portraying urban functional zones by coupling remote sensing imagery and human sensing data

W Tu, Z Hu, L Li, J Cao, J Jiang, Q Li, Q Li - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Portraying urban functional zones provides useful insights into understanding complex
urban systems and establishing rational urban planning. Although several studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Big data and understanding change in the context of planning transport systems

D Milne, D Watling - Journal of Transport Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper considers the implications of so-called 'big data'for the analysis, modelling and
planning of transport systems. The primary conceptual focus is on the needs of the practical …