Volume 31, Number 12, 2017
Editorial Board.

Automation and evaluation of graduated dot maps.

Nicholas D. Arnold Bernhard Jenny Denis White

Designing spatially cohesive nature reserves with backup coverage.

Eric Delmelle Michael R. Desjardins Jing Deng

Calibrating a Land Parcel Cellular Automaton (LP-CA) for urban growth simulation based on ensemble learning.

Yimin Chen Xiaoping Liu Xia Li

Simulating urban land-use changes at a large scale by integrating dynamic land parcel subdivision and vector-based cellular automata.

Yao Yao Xiaoping Liu Xia Li Penghua Liu Ye Hong Yatao Zhang Ke Mai

Extracting and analyzing semantic relatedness between cities using news articles.

Yingjie Hu Xinyue Ye Shih-Lung Shaw

Social Distance metric: from coordinates to neighborhoods.

Vagan Y. Terziyan

Assessing the applicability of OpenStreetMap data to assist the validation of land use/land cover maps.

Cidália Costa Fonte Nuno Martinho

A collective human mobility analysis method based on data usage detail records.

Hao Jiang Qian Li Xian Zhou Yanqiu Chen Shuwen Yi Hai Wang Zheng Lu

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

Wei Tu Jinzhou Cao Yang Yue Shih-Lung Shaw Meng Zhou Zhensheng Wang Xiaomeng Chang Yang Xu Qingquan Li


Volume 31, Number 11, 2017
Introduction to GIS programming and fundamentals with python and ArcGIS.

Gilbert Kotzbek

A comprehensive methodology for discovering semantic relationships among geospatial vocabularies using oceanographic data discovery as an example.

Yongyao Jiang Yun Li Chaowei Yang Kai Liu Edward M. Armstrong Thomas S. Huang David Moroni Christopher J. Finch

Color map design for visualization in flood risk assessment.

Stefan Seipel Nancy Joy Lim

Reducing the grid orientation dependence of flow routing on square-grid digital elevation models.

Jari Hyväluoma

Knowledge-guided consistent correlation analysis of multimode landslide monitoring data.

Shuangxi Miao Qing Zhu Bo Zhang Yuling Ding Junxiao Zhang Jun Zhu Yan Zhou Huagui He Weijun Yang Liyan Chen

A new algorithm to find raster-based least-cost paths using cut and fill operations.

Jieun Baek Yosoon Choi

Computing a hierarchy favored optimal route in a Voronoi-based road network with multiple levels of detail.

Zhenghua Hu Tao Jia Guofeng Wang Jiye Wang Lingkui Meng

Exploring the performance of spatio-temporal assimilation in an urban cellular automata model.

Xuecao Li Hui Lu Yuyu Zhou Tengyun Hu Lu Liang Xiaoping Liu Guohua Hu Le Yu

Kinetic prisms: incorporating acceleration limits into space-time prisms.

Bart Kuijpers Harvey J. Miller Walied Othman

A GIS-based fire spread simulator integrating a simplified physical wildland fire model and a wind field model.

D. Prieto Herráez M. Isabel Asensio Luis Ferragut José Manuel Cascón Barbero A. Morillo Rodríguez

Spatiotemporal model for assessing the stability of urban human convergence and divergence patterns.

Zhixiang Fang Xiping Yang Yang Xu Shih-Lung Shaw Ling Yin


Volume 31, Number 10, 2017
Linked data: a geographic perspective.

Carsten Keßler

Critical GIS pedagogies beyond 'Week 10: Ethics'.

Sarah Elwood Matthew Wilson

A GPU-accelerated adaptive kernel density estimation approach for efficient point pattern analysis on spatial big data.

Guiming Zhang A-Xing Zhu Qunying Huang

Template-based GIS computation: a geometric algebra approach.

Wen Luo Zhaoyuan Yu Linwang Yuan Yong Hu A-Xing Zhu Guonian Lü

An artificial bee colony-based multi-objective route planning algorithm for use in pedestrian navigation at night.

Zhixiang Fang Ling Li Bijun Li Jingwei Zhu Qingquan Li Shengwu Xiong

Estimating the prediction performance of spatial models via spatial k-fold cross validation.

Jonne Pohjankukka Tapio Pahikkala Paavo Nevalainen Jukka Heikkonen

Evaluation of a spatially adaptive approach for land surface classification from digital elevation models.

Maria Dekavalla Demetre Argialas

Performance of shape indices and classification schemes for characterising perceptual shape complexity of building footprints in GIS.

Melih Basaraner Sinan Cetinkaya

Quality assessment of building footprint data using a deep autoencoder network.

Yongyang Xu Zhanlong Chen Zhong Xie Liang Wu

Simultaneously simulate vertical and horizontal expansions of a future urban landscape: a case study in Wuhan, Central China.

Qingsong He Yaolin Liu Chen Zeng Yin Chaohui Ronghui Tan


Volume 31, Number 9, 2017
Optimization of simulation and visualization analysis of dam-failure flood disaster for diverse computing systems.

Mingwei Liu Jun Zhu Qing Zhu Hua Qi Lingzhi Yin Xiang Zhang Bin Feng Huagui He Weijun Yang Liyan Chen

Integrating multi-source big data to infer building functions.

Ning Niu Xiaoping Liu He Jin Xinyue Ye Yu Liu Xia Li Yimin Chen Shaoying Li

Multi-level method for discovery of regional co-location patterns.

Min Deng Jiannan Cai Qiliang Liu Zhanjun He Jianbo Tang

MapMosaic: dynamic layer compositing for interactive geovisualization.

María-Jesús Lobo Caroline Appert Emmanuel Pietriga

A CA-based land system change model: LANDSCAPE.

Xinli Ke Weiwei Zheng Ting Zhou Xiaoping Liu

Gaze-Informed location-based services.

Vasileios Athanasios Anagnostopoulos Michal Havlena Peter Kiefer Ioannis Giannopoulos Konrad Schindler Martin Raubal

A feature extraction and similarity metric-learning framework for urban model retrieval.

Yuebin Wang Liqiang Zhang Xiaohua Tong Suhong Liu Tian Fang

The geometry of space-time prisms with uncertain anchors.

Bart Kuijpers Walied Othman

Ontologies and representation spaces for sketch map interpretation.

Jia Wang Michael F. Worboys


Volume 31, Number 8, 2017
Classifying urban land use by integrating remote sensing and social media data.

Xiaoping Liu Jialv He Yao Yao Jinbao Zhang Haolin Liang Huan Wang Ye Hong

Data-driven estimation of building interior plans.

Julian F. Rosser Gavin Smith Jeremy G. Morley

Enhancing spatial accuracy of mobile phone data using multi-temporal dasymetric interpolation.

Olle Järv Henrikki Tenkanen Tuuli Toivonen

Experiences and issues of using cellular automata for assisting urban and regional planning in China.

Xia Li Yimin Chen Xiaoping Liu Xiaocong Xu Guangliang Chen

Aggregation-based information retrieval system for geospatial data catalogs.

Javier Lacasta Francisco Javier López-Pellicer Borja Espejo-García Javier Nogueras-Iso F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria

PolarGlobe: A web-wide virtual globe system for visualizing multidimensional, time-varying, big climate data.

Wenwen Li Sizhe Wang

A linear tessellation model to identify spatial pattern in urban street networks.

Yakun He Tinghua Ai Wenhao Yu Xiang Zhang

Force-directed layout of origin-destination flow maps.

Bernhard Jenny Daniel M. Stephen Ian Muehlenhaus Brooke E. Marston Ritesh Sharma Eugene Zhang Helen Jenny

Shape-adaptive geometric simplification of heterogeneous line datasets.

Timofey E. Samsonov Olga P. Yakimova


Volume 31, Number 7, 2017
Parallel constrained Delaunay triangulation on the GPU.

Narcís Coll Marité Guerrieri

Safe separation distance score: a new metric for evaluating wildland firefighter safety zones using lidar.

Michael J. Campbell Philip E. Dennison Bret W. Butler

Mapping changes of residence with passive mobile positioning data: the case of Estonia.

Pilleriine Kamenjuk Anto Aasa Jaanus Sellin

A similarity-based automatic data recommendation approach for geographic models.

Yunqiang Zhu A-Xing Zhu Min Feng Jia Song Hongwei Zhao Jie Yang Qiuyi Zhang Kai Sun Jinqu Zhang Ling Yao

Global multi-layer network of human mobility.

Alexander Belyi Iva Bojic Stanislav Sobolevsky Izabela Sitko Bartosz Hawelka Lada Rudikova Alexander Kurbatski Carlo Ratti

3D building roof reconstruction from airborne LiDAR point clouds: a framework based on a spatial database.

Rujun Cao Yongjun Zhang Xinyi Liu Zongze Zhao

Ripe for the picking? Dataset maturity assessment based on temporal dynamics of feature definitions.

Stephen Maguire Martin Tomko

Modeling urban expansion by using variable weights logistic cellular automata: a case study of Nanjing, China.

Bangrong Shu Martha M. Bakker Honghui Zhang Yongle Li Wei Qin Gerrit J. Carsjens

Depicting urban boundaries from a mobility network of spatial interactions: a case study of Great Britain with geo-located Twitter data.

Junjun Yin Aiman Soliman Dandong Yin Shaowen Wang

The GRASS GIS temporal framework.

Sören Gebbert Edzer J. Pebesma


Volume 31, Number 6, 2017
A data-synthesis-driven method for detecting and extracting vague cognitive regions.

Song Gao Krzysztof Janowicz Daniel R. Montello Yingjie Hu Jiue-An Yang Grant McKenzie Yiting Ju Li Gong Benjamin Adams Bo Yan

Mapping fine-scale population distributions at the building level by integrating multisource geospatial big data.

Yao Yao Xiaoping Liu Xia Li Jinbao Zhang Zhaotang Liang Ke Mai Yatao Zhang

Modeling dynamic urban land-use change with geographical cellular automata and generalized pattern search-optimized rules.

Yongjiu Feng

Enabling smart data selection based on data completeness measures: a quality-aware approach.

Jung-Hong Hong Min-Lang Huang

Exploring spatiotemporal clusters based on extended kernel estimation methods.

Jay Lee Junfang Gong Shengwen Li

A framework of spatio-temporal trajectory simplification methods.

Luke Bermingham Ickjai Lee

A trajectory clustering approach based on decision graph and data field for detecting hotspots.

Pengxiang Zhao Kun Qin Xinyue Ye Yulong Wang Yixiang Chen

The analysis and measurement of building patterns using texton co-occurrence matrices.

Wenhao Yu Tinghua Ai Pengcheng Liu Xiaoqiang Cheng

Parallel identification and filling of depressions in raster digital elevation models.

Guiyun Zhou Xiaoli Liu Suhua Fu Zhongxuan Sun


Volume 31, Number 5, 2017
A simplified linear feature matching method using decision tree analysis, weighted linear directional mean, and topological relationships.

Ick Hoi Kim Chen-Chieh Feng Yi-Chen Wang

An intelligent spatial land use planning support system using socially rational agents.

Seyed Morsal Ghavami Mohammad Taleai Theo A. Arentze

3D tree modeling from incomplete point clouds via optimization and L1-MST.

Jie Mei Liqiang Zhang Shihao Wu Zhen Wang Liang Zhang

Geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics.

Binbin Lu Chris Brunsdon Martin Charlton Paul Harris

The Network-Max-P-Regions model.

Bing She Juan C. Duque Xinyue Ye

A 3D multi-threshold, region-growing algorithm for identifying dust storm features from model simulations.

Manzhu Yu Chaowei Yang

A cyber-enabled spatial decision support system to inventory Mangroves in Mozambique: coupling scientific workflows and cloud computing.

Wenwu Tang Wenpeng Feng Meijuan Jia Jiyang Shi Huifang Zuo Christina E. Stringer Carl C. Trettin

GIS diffusion in Uganda.

Sami Eria Robert B. McMaster

A context-sensitive correlated random walk: a new simulation model for movement.

Sean C. Ahearn Somayeh Dodge Achara Simcharoen Glenn Xavier James L. D. Smith

A cartographic modeling approach to isopleth mapping.

Jie Lin Dean M. Hanink Robert G. Cromley


Volume 31, Number 4, 2017
Sensing spatial distribution of urban land use by integrating points-of-interest and Google Word2Vec model.

Yao Yao Xia Li Xiaoping Liu Penghua Liu Zhaotang Liang Jinbao Zhang Ke Mai

Improving the sampling strategy for point-to-point line-of-sight modelling in urban environments.

Phil J. Bartie William A. Mackaness

Measuring place-based accessibility under travel time uncertainty.

Bi Yu Chen Hui Yuan Qingquan Li Donggen Wang Shih-Lung Shaw Hui-Ping Chen William H. K. Lam

A spatial zoning approach to calibrate and validate urban growth models.

Ali Kazemzadeh-Zow Saeed Zanganeh Shahraki Luca Salvati Najmeh Samani Neisani

Sensitivity of a stochastic land-cover change model to pixel versus polygonal land units.

Hui Xu Daniel G. Brown

A hybrid genetic algorithm with local optimiser improves calibration of a vegetation change cellular automata model.

Rachel Whitsed Lisa T. Smallbone

Towards a knowledge base to support geoprocessing workflow development.

Barbara Hofer Stephan Mäs Johannes Brauner Lars Bernard

Testing spatial heterogeneity in geographically weighted principal components analysis.

Javier Roca-Pardiñas Celestino Ordóñez Tomás R. Cotos-Yáñez Rubén Pérez-Álvarez

Measurements of POI-based mixed use and their relationships with neighbourhood vibrancy.

Yang Yue Yan Zhuang Anthony Gar-On Yeh Jin-Yun Xie Cheng-Lin Ma Qingquan Li

Calculating on a round planet.

Nicholas Chrisman


Volume 31, Number 3, 2017
Configuring the neighbourhood effect in irregular cellular automata based models.

Pablo Barreira González Joana Barros

Personalized sightseeing tours: a model for visits in art museums.

Mayeul Mathias Fen Zhou Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno Didier Josselin Marie-Sylvie Poli Andréa Carneiro Linhares

An efficient incremental algorithm for generating the characteristic shape of a dynamic set of points in the plane.

Xu Zhong Matt Duckham

Classifying natural-language spatial relation terms with random forest algorithm.

Shihong Du Xiaonan Wang Chen-Chieh Feng Xiuyuan Zhang

Mining online footprints to predict user's next location.

Qunying Huang

Extending a BIM-based data model to support 3D digital management of complex ownership spaces.

Behnam Atazadeh Mohsen Kalantari Abbas Rajabifard Serene Ho Tom Champion

GIS-based dynamic modelling and analysis of flash floods considering land-use planning.

Chunlu Liu Yan Li

A participatory framework for developing public participation GIS solutions to improve resource management systems.

Nagesh Kolagani Palaniappan Ramu

Multi-granularity periodic activity discovery for moving objects.

Guan Yuan Jie Zhao Shixiong Xia Yanmei Zhang Wen Li

30 years of IJGIS: the changing landscape of geographical information science and the road ahead.

May Yuan


Volume 31, Number 2, 2017
Object-oriented tracking of the dynamic behavior of urban heat islands.

Rui Zhu Eric Guilbert Man Sing Wong

A peak-cluster assessment method for the identification of upland planation surfaces.

Liyang Xiong Guoan Tang A-Xing Zhu Yeqing Qian

Unusual behavior detection and object ranking from movement trajectories in target regions.

Mateus Barragana Luis Otávio Alvares Vania Bogorny

AFV refueling stations and the complexity of freeway intersections: the scale dependency of network representation.

Scott Kelley

Visual analytics of delays and interaction in movement data.

Maximilian Konzack Thomas J. McKetterick Tim Ophelders Maike Buchin Luca Giuggioli Jed A. Long Trisalyn A. Nelson Michel A. Westenberg Kevin Buchin

Envelope generation and simplification of polylines using Delaunay triangulation.

Tinghua Ai Shu Ke Min Yang Jingzhong Li

Spatial co-location pattern mining of facility points-of-interest improved by network neighborhood and distance decay effects.

Wenhao Yu Tinghua Ai Yakun He Shiwei Shao

Shape similarity measurement model for holed polygons based on position graphs and Fourier descriptors.

Yongyang Xu Zhong Xie Zhanlong Chen Liang Wu

For your eyes only? Evaluating a coordinated and multiple views tool with a map, a parallel coordinated plot and a table using an eye-tracking approach.

Izabela Golebiowska Tomasz Opach Jan Ketil Rød

The benefits of a high-resolution analysis of transit accessibility.

Itzhak Benenson Eran Ben-Elia Yodan Rofè Dmitry Geyzersky


Volume 31, Number 1, 2017
Climatic niche breadth can explain variation in geographical range size of alpine and subalpine plants.

Fangyuan Yu Thomas A. Groen Tiejun Wang Andrew K. Skidmore Jihong Huang Ke-Ping Ma

Predicting the visualization intensity for interactive spatio-temporal visual analytics: a data-driven view-dependent approach.

Jing Li Tong Zhang Qing Liu Manzhu Yu

A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods.

Hansi Senaratne Amin Mobasheri Ahmed Loai Ali Cristina Capineri Mordechai (Muki) Haklay

A modelling framework for the study of Spatial Data Infrastructures applied to coastal management and planning.

Jade Georis-Creuseveau Christophe Claramunt Françoise Gourmelon

Measuring urban activities using Foursquare data and network analysis: a case study of Murcia (Spain).

Taras Agryzkov Pablo Martí Leandro Tortosa José-Francisco Vicent

A city hit by an earthquake: an HGIS approach to reconstructing the damage in Tiberias (Israel) in 1837.

Motti Zohar

Similarity matching for integrating spatial information extracted from place descriptions.

Junchul Kim Maria Vasardani Stephan Winter

Spatiotemporal correlation in WebGIS group-user intensive access patterns.

Rui Li Jiapei Fan Jie Jiang Huayi Wu

A spatiotemporal indexing approach for efficient processing of big array-based climate data with MapReduce.

Zhenlong Li Fei Hu John L. Schnase Daniel Q. Duffy Tsengdar Lee Michael K. Bowen Chaowei Yang

Embedding user-generated content into oblique airborne photogrammetry-based 3D city model.

Jianming Liang Shen Shen Jianhua Gong Jin Liu Jinming Zhang