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Data-Driven Geospatial Approaches and Systems for Informed Decision Making in Sustainable Urban and Regional Development

Advancements in data-driven methods have transformed spatial planning, fostering informed decision-making and sustainable urban development. The complex interplay between data-driven insights and planning st...

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Urban Analysis with Remote Sensing

Remote sensing is a significant data provider for observing urban growth and analysing changes in the land. Furthermore, remote sensing may be used to evaluate the industrial environment of air and water pol...

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Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) is to:make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Important indicators for this goal are the number of people living in urban slums...

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Geospatial Responses to COVID-19 in Africa

As the world bade farewell to the year 2019 and anticipating the New Year 2020, the coronavirus infection popularly called COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan city of China. Within three months of its emergence, it ...

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Automated map generalization: emerging techniques and new trends

Automated map generalization has been a major area of research for decades but has still not reached maturity. Besides the needs for more adaptive algorithms, a fundamental question remains: can we transfer ...

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New techniques and Methods for Modelling, Visualization and Analysis of 3D Cities

Semantics, spatial forms and spatial relationships of 3D city objects are fundamental for smart cities. Modelling the 3D cities includes extracting the semantics and spatial geometry of 3D city objects and r...

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Data-intensive Spatial Optimization and Urban Analytics

Achieving sustainable urban development has been one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since 2015. Urban population growth and associated needs for improving urban sustainability acr...

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Location Data Analysis and Applications

Location information is essential for many applications such as location-based services, smart routing, emergency response and urban planning. Location data types vary and have different characteristics. Thi...

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Narrative cartography: Reconstructing place, culture, emotion and society

The term ‘narrative’ is coneptualized as ‘any cultural artefact that tells a story’ (Bal, 2009), and is described as “a blueprint for constructing a world” by David Herman (2009). Originally elaborated for l...

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Utilizing IoT for Urban Microclimate Monitoring

Nowadays, due to the increase in climate change problems worldwide, there is a need to enhance the monitoring techniques for improving nature's climate, especially in urban areas. Analysis and real-time moni...

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Visualization of the Invisible

Many geographical phenomena are visible for humans, while others may be hidden or are invisible by nature. By using visualization methods, the “invisible” may become visible and more understandable. These re...

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Innovative approaches, tools and visualization techniques for analyzing land use structures and dynamics of cities and regions

Sustainable land use development is a pressing challenge all over the world. As the world's population will continue to grow and more and more people will be living in cities, land as a limited resource must...

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