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Open AccessUnderstanding pedestrian movement using urban sensing technologies: the promise of audio-based sensors
While various sensors have been deployed to monitor vehicular flows, sensing pedestrian movement is still nascent. Yet walking is a significant mode of travel in many cities, especially those in Europe, Africa...
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Spatio-temporal characteristics of farmland occupation of construction land expansion and its spatial relationship with grain yield in China for 2000–2020
Construction land expansion is a key driver of urbanization and industrialization, yet it poses the risk of losing farmland and cascading impacts on food supply. The spatial characteristics of farmland occupie...
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Detecting Landslides with Deformable Adaptive Focal YOLO: Enhanced Performance with Reduced False Detection
Landslide detection algorithms employing You Only Look Once (YOLO) often exhibit subpar performance in scenarios characterized by similar backgrounds and boundary blur, leading to high miss and false rates. To...
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Changes in the spatial distribution of mariculture in China over the past 20 years
China’s mariculture provides more than 60% of the world’s mariculture products and plays an important role in the world’s aquaculture and food supply. Research on changes in the spatial distribution pattern of...
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Open AccessLandscape values of large-scale civic infrastructure from visitors’ spatial perception: a content analysis
Many studies have investigated the improvement and evaluation of urban landscape development. However, only a few have discussed how to implement and align landscape values embedded in large-scale civic infras...
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Performance evaluation of resource-based city transformation: A case study of energy-enriched areas in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia
Resource-based cities are important bases for resources and energy in China. However, the world and the country’s sustainable development goals require them to undergo transformation. The complexity of this tr...
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Open AccessA systematic framework for the complex system engineering of city data governance
The importance of data governance in the information age has become a deep consensus among all sectors. Under this context, data-driven urban governance has also become a key requirement for city development. ...
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Development of center pivot irrigation farmlands from 2009 to 2018 in the Mu Us dune field, China: Implication for land use planning
The Mu Us dune field in China has become a focal region for research of the prevention and control of desertification. Agricultural practices in this area have been modernized in recent years, evidenced by the...
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Open AccessAn urban infrastructure assessment system built on geo-tagged images and machine learning
In modern era, the maintenance of public infrastructure often takes up a large share of financial budget for a city. The management of these urban assets is supported by a frequently updated inventory reflecti...
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Open AccessDesigning Mixed Reality-Based Indoor Navigation for User Studies
Mixed reality (MR) is increasingly applied in indoor navigation. With the development of MR devices and indoor navigation algorithms, special attention has been paid to related cognitive issues and many user s...
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Evaluation and structural analysis of the functions of the Tibetan Plateau National Park Cluster
National parks are useful entities for looking at coordinated efforts to improve the Tibetan Plateau’s function as an ecological safety barrier and the region’s green development. Research on the characteristi...
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Vegetation-related dry deposition of global PM2.5 from satellite observations
Vegetation plays an important role in the dry deposition of particles with significant spatial variability, but the magnitude remains unclear at the global scale. With the aid of satellite products, this study...
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Space-Time Cube for Visual Queries over Metadata of Heterogeneous Geodata
Nowadays, huge amounts of geodata are increasingly made accessible on geodata portals. Typically, these data portals provide extensive metadata with various attributes, such as topic, size, and quality, that d...
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Contributions of climate change to cereal yields in Tibet, 1993–2017
Climate change is a global environmental crisis, but there have been few studies of the effects of climate change on cereal yields on the Tibetan Plateau. We used data from meteorological stations and statisti...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the urban life pattern of young people from delivery data
Young people are the backbone of urban development and an important pillar of social stability. The growth of young floating population in China has given rise to urban land expansion. Understanding the urban ...
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Open Access“What should be computed” for supporting post-pandemic recovery policymaking? A life-oriented perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused various impacts on people’s lives, while changes in people’s lives have shown mixed effects on mitigating the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Understanding how to capture such ...
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Impact of changes in precipitation pattern on food supply in a monsoon interlacing area and its mechanism: A case study of Yunnan Province
Following climate change, changes in precipitation patterns and food security are major challenges faced by humans. However, research on how these changes in precipitation pattern impacts food supply is limite...
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Climate change and multi-dimensional sustainable urbanization
Global large-scale urbanization and climate change have become indisputable scientific facts yet are unresolved issues, and are a common concern for mankind. The relationship between these two topics is unclea...
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Monitoring thermal field, humidity field and energy balance over heterogeneous surfaces in the typical valley-city
Land use and land cover (LULC) alteration has changed original energy balance and heat fluxes between land and atmosphere, and thus affects the structure characteristics of temperature and humidity fields over...
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Beach morphodynamic characteristics and classifications on the straight coastal sectors in the west Guangdong
Currently beach morphodynamic classification is the most important foundation to conduct associated coastal geomorphological studies. This paper carried out beach morphodynamic classifications for 12 straight ...
