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{"title":"Association between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Environmental Quality in the United States","authors":"Jianyong Wu, Alexander C. McLain, Paul Rosile, Darryl B. Hood","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090308","url":null,"abstract":"Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an emerging public health problem. The impact of multiple environmental factors on the prevalence of ASD remains unclear. This study examined the association between the prevalence of ASD and the environmental quality index (EQI), an indicator of cumulative environmental quality in five major domains, including air, water, land, built and sociodemographic variables in the United States. The results from Poisson regression models show that the prevalence of ASD has a positive association with the overall EQI with a risk ratio (RR) of 1.03 and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of 1.01–1.06, indicating that children in counties with poor environmental quality might have a higher risk of ASD. Additionally, the prevalence of ASD has a positive association with the air index (RR = 1.04, 95% CI: 1.01–1.06). These associations varied in different rural–urban groups and different climate regions. This study provided evidence for adverse effects of poor environmental quality, particularly air pollutants, on children’s neurodevelopment.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Theoretical Link between Optimized Geospatial Conflation Models for Linear Features","authors":"Zhen Lei, Zhangshun Yuan, Ting L. Lei","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090310","url":null,"abstract":"Geospatial data conflation involves matching and combining two maps to create a new map. It has received increased research attention in recent years due to its wide range of applications in GIS (Geographic Information System) data production and analysis. The map assignment problem (conceptualized in the 1980s) is one of the earliest conflation methods, in which GIS features from two maps are matched by minimizing their total discrepancy or distance. Recently, more flexible optimization models have been proposed. This includes conflation models based on the network flow problem and new models based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). A natural question is: how are these models related or different, and how do they compare? In this study, an analytic review of major optimized conflation models in the literature is conducted and the structural linkages between them are identified. Moreover, a MILP model (the base-matching problem) and its bi-matching version are presented as a common basis. Our analysis shows that the assignment problem and all other optimized conflation models in the literature can be viewed or reformulated as variants of the base models. For network-flow based models, proof is presented that the base-matching problem is equivalent to the network-flow based fixed-charge-matching model. The equivalence of the MILP reformulation is also verified experimentally. For the existing MILP-based models, common notation is established and used to demonstrate that they are extensions of the base models in straight-forward ways. The contributions of this study are threefold. Firstly, it helps the analyst to understand the structural commonalities and differences of current conflation models and to choose different models. Secondly, by reformulating the network-flow models (and therefore, all current models) using MILP, the presented work eases the practical application of conflation by leveraging the many off-the-shelf MILP solvers. Thirdly, the base models can serve as a common ground for studying and writing new conflation models by allowing a modular and incremental way of model development.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"165 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CSMNER: A Toponym Entity Recognition Model for Chinese Social Media","authors":"Yuyang Qi, Renjian Zhai, Fang Wu, Jichong Yin, Xianyong Gong, Li Zhu, Haikun Yu","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090311","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of information explosion, Chinese social media has become a repository for massive geographic information; however, its unique unstructured nature and diverse expressions are challenging to toponym entity recognition. To address this problem, we propose a Chinese social media named entity recognition (CSMNER) model to improve the accuracy and robustness of toponym recognition in Chinese social media texts. By combining the BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) pre-trained model with an improved IDCNN-BiLSTM-CRF (Iterated Dilated Convolutional Neural Network- Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory- Conditional Random Field) architecture, this study innovatively incorporates a boundary extension module to effectively extract the local boundary features and contextual semantic features of the toponym, successfully addressing the recognition challenges posed by noise interference and language expression variability. To verify the effectiveness of the model, experiments were carried out on three datasets: WeiboNER, MSRA, and the Chinese social named entity recognition (CSNER) dataset, a self-built named entity recognition dataset. Compared with the existing models, CSMNER achieves significant performance improvement in toponym recognition tasks.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Efficient Algorithm for Extracting Railway Tracks Based on Spatial-Channel Graph Convolutional Network and Deep Neural Residual Network","authors":"Yanbin Weng, Meng Xu, Xiahu Chen, Cheng Peng, Hui Xiang, Peixin Xie, Hua Yin","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090309","url":null,"abstract":"The accurate detection of railway tracks is essential for ensuring the safe operation of railways. This study introduces an innovative algorithm that utilizes a graph convolutional network (GCN) and deep neural residual network to enhance feature extraction from high-resolution aerial imagery. The traditional encoder–decoder architecture is expanded with GCN, which improves neighborhood definitions and enables long-range information exchange in a single layer. As a result, complex track features and contextual information are captured more effectively. The deep neural residual network, which incorporates depthwise separable convolution and an inverted bottleneck design, improves the representation of long-distance positional information and addresses occlusion caused by train carriages. The scSE attention mechanism reduces noise and optimizes feature representation. The algorithm was trained and tested on custom and Massachusetts datasets, demonstrating an 89.79% recall rate. This is a 3.17% improvement over the original U-Net model, indicating excellent performance in railway track segmentation. These findings suggest that the proposed algorithm not only excels in railway track segmentation but also offers significant competitive advantages in performance.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating Sequential Backward Selection (SBS) and CatBoost for Snow Avalanche Susceptibility Mapping at Catchment Scale","authors":"Sinem Cetinkaya, Sultan Kocaman","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090312","url":null,"abstract":"Snow avalanche susceptibility (AS) mapping is a crucial step in predicting and mitigating avalanche risks in mountainous regions. The conditioning factors used in AS modeling are diverse, and the optimal set of factors depends on the environmental and geological characteristics of the region. Using a sub-optimal set of input features with a data-driven machine learning (ML) method can lead to challenges like dealing with high-dimensional data, overfitting, and reduced model generalization. This study implemented a robust framework involving the Sequential Backward Selection (SBS) algorithm and a decision-tree based ML model, CatBoost, for the automatic selection of predictive variables for AS mapping. A comprehensive inventory of a large avalanche period, previously derived from satellite images, was used for the investigations in three distinct catchment areas in the Swiss Alps. The integrated SBS-CatBoost approach achieved very high classification accuracies between 94% and 97% for the three catchments. In addition, the Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) method was employed to analyze the contributions of each feature to avalanche occurrences. The proposed methodology revealed the benefits of integrating advanced feature selection algorithms with ML techniques for AS assessment. We aimed to contribute to avalanche hazard knowledge by assessing the impact of each feature in model learning.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Retrospective Analysis of Municipal Geoportal Usability in the Context of the Evolution of Online Data Presentation Techniques","authors":"Karol Król","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090307","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to assess the usability of selected map portals with a checklist. The methods employed allowed the author to conduct user experience tests from a longer temporal perspective against a retrospective analysis of the evolution of design techniques for presenting spatial data online. The author performed user experience tests on three versions of Tomice Municipality’s geoportal available on the Internet. The desktop and mobile laboratory tests were performed by fourteen experts following a test scenario. The study employs the exploratory approach, inspection method, and System Usability Scale (SUS). The author calculated the Geoportal Overall Quality (GOQ) index to better illustrate the relationships among the subjective perceptions of the usability quality of the three geoportals. The usability results were juxtaposed with performance measurements. Normalised and aggregated results of user experience demonstrated that the expert assessments of the usability of geoportals G1 and G3 on mobile devices were similar despite significant development differences. The overall results under the employed research design have confirmed that geoportal G2 offers the lowest usability in both mobile and desktop modes. The study has demonstrated that some websites can retain usability even considering the dynamic advances in hardware and software despite their design, which is perceived as outdated today. Users still expect well-performing and quick map applications, even if this means limited functionality and usability. Moreover, the results indirectly show that the past resolution of the ‘large raster problem’ led to the aggravation of the issue of ‘large scripts’.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Landslide Recognition Based on Machine Learning Considering Terrain Feature Fusion","authors":"Jincan Wang, Zhiheng Wang, Liyao Peng, Chenzhihao Qian","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090306","url":null,"abstract":"Landslides are one of the major disasters that exist worldwide, posing a serious threat to human life and property safety. Rapid and accurate detection and mapping of landslides are crucial for risk assessment and humanitarian assistance in affected areas. To achieve this goal, this study proposes a landslide recognition method based on machine learning (ML) and terrain feature fusion. Taking the Dawan River Basin in Detuo Township and Tianwan Yi Ethnic Township as the research area, firstly, landslide-related data were compiled, including a landslide inventory based on field surveys, satellite images, historical data, high-resolution remote sensing images, and terrain data. Then, different training datasets for landslide recognition are constructed, including full feature datasets that fusion terrain features and remote sensing features and datasets that only contain remote sensing features. At the same time, different ratios of landslide to non-landslide (or positive/negative, P/N) samples are set in the training data. Subsequently, five ML algorithms, including Extreme Gradient Boost (XGBoost), Adaptive Boost (AdaBoost), Light Gradient Boost (LightGBM), Random Forest (RF), and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), were used to train each training dataset, and landslide recognition was performed on the validation area. Finally, accuracy (A), precision (P), recall (R), F1 score (F1), and intersection over union (IOU) were selected to evaluate the landslide recognition ability of different models. The research results indicate that selecting ML models suitable for the study area and the ratio of the P/N samples can improve the A, R, F1, and IOU of landslide identification results, resulting in more accurate and reasonable landslide identification results; Fusion terrain features can make the model recognize landslides more comprehensively and align better with the actual conditions. The best-performing model in the study is LightGBM. When the input data includes all features and the P/N sample ratio is optimal, the A, P, R, F1, and IOU of landslide recognition results for this model are 97.47%, 85.40%, 76.95%, 80.95%, and 71.28%, respectively. Compared to the landslide recognition results using only remote sensing features, this model shows improvements of 4.51%, 35.66%, 5.41%, 22.27%, and 29.16% in A, P, R, F1, and IOU, respectively. This study serves as a valuable reference for the precise and comprehensive identification of landslide areas.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Vegetation Greenness and Its Response to Climate Change in the Tarim River Basin, China","authors":"Kai Jin, Yansong Jin, Cuijin Li, Lin Li","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090304","url":null,"abstract":"Vegetation in ecologically sensitive regions has experienced significant alterations due to global climate change. The underlying mechanisms remain somewhat obscure owing to the spatial heterogeneity of influencing factors, particularly in the Tarim River Basin (TRB) in China. Therefore, this study targets the TRB, analyzing the spatial and temporal dynamics of vegetation greenness and its climatic determinants across multiple spatial scales. Utilizing Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data, vegetation greenness trends over the past 23 years were assessed, with future projections based on the Hurst exponent. Partial correlation and multiple linear regression analyses were employed to correlate NDVI with temperature (TMP), precipitation (PRE), and potential evapotranspiration (PET), elucidating NDVI’s response to climatic variations. Results revealed that from 2000 to 2022, 90.1% of the TRB exhibited an increase in NDVI, with a significant overall trend of 0.032/decade (p < 0.01). The difference in NDVI change across sub-basins and vegetation types highlighted the spatial disparity in greening. Notable greening predominantly occurred near rivers at lower elevations and in extensive cropland areas, with projections indicating continued greening in some regions. Conversely, future trends mainly suggested a shift towards browning, particularly in higher-elevation areas with minimal human influence. From 2000 to 2022, the TRB experienced a gradual increase in TMP, PRE, and PET. The latter two factors were significantly correlated with NDVI, indicating their substantial role in greening. However, vegetation sensitivity to climate change varied across sub-basins, vegetation types, and elevations, likely due to differences in plant characteristics, hydrothermal conditions, and human disturbances. Despite climate change influencing vegetation dynamics in 51.5% of the TRB, its impact accounted for only 25% of the total NDVI trend. These findings enhance the understanding of vegetation ecosystems in arid regions and provide a scientific basis for developing ecological protection strategies in the TRB.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating Resident–Tourist Sharing of Urban Public Recreation Space and Its Influencing Factors","authors":"Yanan Tang, Lin Li, Yilin Gan, Shuangyu Xie","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090305","url":null,"abstract":"Urban public recreation space (UPRS) is an integral part of the urban public space system. With the rise of urban tourism, these areas have evolved into important spaces for leisure and entertainment, serving both residents and tourists. However, the extent to which these spaces are shared by the two groups remains unclear. This study quantified the level of UPRS equally shared by residents and tourists in Wuhan, China, using geotagged check-in data from 74 UPRS. We evaluated and compared the resident–tourist sharing degree across various types of UPRS and explored its influencing factors using multiple linear regression (MLR). The results indicated the following: (1) The sharing degree was at a moderate level and it varied significantly across different types of UPRS. (2) Characteristic streets had the highest sharing degree, followed by cultural spaces, urban parks, and tourist scenic spots. (3) The number of nearby tourist attractions, road density, and number of transport stops positively affected sharing degree. These findings suggest that the combination layout of UPRS with other tourist attractions and enhanced accessibility can effectively improve the shared usage of UPRS.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"1219 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study on the Spatiotemporal Distribution and Usage Pattern of Dockless Shared Bicycles—The Case of Nanjing","authors":"Yi Shi, Zhonghu Zhang, Chunyu Zhou, Ruxia Bai, Chen Li","doi":"10.3390/ijgi13090301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13090301","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the spatiotemporal deployment strategy for dockless shared bicycles in urban blocks has always been a focal point for city managers and planners. Extensive research has delved into the usage patterns in terms of time and space, deduced travel purposes, and scrutinized the relationship between trips and the built environment. The elements of the built environment are significantly correlated with the starting and ending points of dockless shared bicycle trips, leading to a scarcity of shared bicycles in areas that are more frequently used as starting points and an abundance of idle bicycles in areas that serve as endpoints. This paper posits that the idle state of shared bicycles is as important as their usage. Utilizing a case study of Xinjiekou Central District in Nanjing, China, we propose a framework for analyzing the temporal and spatial usage and idleness of shared bicycles. We also discuss the impact of various factors, such as proximity to transit stations, land use, and road accessibility, on the different usage and idle states of dockless shared bicycles. The findings reveal that the public transportation system has a similar influence on both the utilization and idleness of dockless shared bicycles, indicating that areas with a dense concentration of transportation services experience greater demand for shared bicycles as both origins and destinations. The influence of other factors on the usage and idleness of dockless shared bicycles varies significantly, resulting in either a shortage or surplus of these bicycles. Consequently, based on the findings regarding the use and idleness of dockless shared bicycles, we formulate a redistribution and zone-based management strategy for shared bicycles. This paper offers new insights into the spatiotemporal distribution and utilization of shared bicycles under the influence of different built environments, contributing to the further optimization of dockless shared bicycle resource allocation.","PeriodicalId":48738,"journal":{"name":"ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}