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Spatial Data Management in Geosciences, Urban Planning, Land Management, and Cultural Heritage

A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 21832

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Dr. Domenica Costantino

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, del Territorio, Edile e di Chimica, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: DTM; surveying; photogrammetry; geomatics; environment; geographic information system; remote sensing; spatial analysis; geography; navigation
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Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Pepe

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Department of Engineering and Geology, University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, 65127 Pescara, Italy
Interests: geomatics engineering; 3D survey; spatial analysis; remote sensing; photogrammetry; GIS; BIM; 3D modeling; cartography; aerial survey
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The management of geospatial information is a prerequisite when it comes to governing a territory. The data acquired can be structured in a way that is more consonant with its use. Many platforms are currently in use, starting from GIS (geographic information system) and WebGIS up to the current 3D GIS with the possibility to interface with BIM (building information modeling) or CityGML processes. The Special Issue aims to deepen the design and scientific issues on the management of 2D and 3D spatial data in geophysics, geosciences, urban planning, digital cultural heritage, and geomatics applications. Therefore, research articles addressing the following (not exhaustive) list of topics are invited:

  • GIS;
  • Geosciences;
  • BIM and HeritageBIM;
  • Integration GIS-BIM;
  • 3D city model;
  • Territory governance;
  • Integrated modeling of geospatial data.

Prof. Dr. Costantino Domenica
Dr. Massimiliano Pepe
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Keywords

  • GIS
  • WEBGIS
  • BIM
  • 3D model
  • Integrated survey
  • Geospatial database

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Construction of a WebGIS Tool Based on a GIS Semiautomated Processing for the Localization of P2G Plants in Sicily (Italy)
by Marcello La Guardia, Filippo D’Ippolito and Maurizio Cellura
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(10), 671; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10100671 - 02 Oct 2021
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The recent diffusion of RES (Renewable Energy Sources), considering the electric energy produced by photovoltaic and wind plants, brought to light the problem of the unpredictable nature of wind and solar energy. P2G (Power to Gas) implementation seems to be the right solution, [...] Read more.
The recent diffusion of RES (Renewable Energy Sources), considering the electric energy produced by photovoltaic and wind plants, brought to light the problem of the unpredictable nature of wind and solar energy. P2G (Power to Gas) implementation seems to be the right solution, transforming curtailed energy in hydrogen. The choice of the settlement of P2G plants is linked to many factors like the distances between the gas grid and the settlement of RES plants, the transportation networks, the energy production, and population distribution. In light of this, the implementation of a Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) into a Geographic Information System (GIS) processing represents a good strategy to achieve the goal in a specific territorial asset. In this work, this method has been applied to the case of study of Sicily (Italy). The paper shows in detail the geomatic semi-automated processing that allows to find the set of possible solutions and further to choose the best localization for new P2G plants, connected to a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and integrated with a WebGIS visualization for real-time analysis. This system is useful for the management, the development, and the study of hydrogen technologies, in order to link the electrical network and the gas network datasets with economical and infrastructural assets through GIS processing. In the future new factors will join in the process as policies on hydrogen take shape. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Data Management in Geosciences, Urban Planning, Land Management, and Cultural Heritage)
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Smartphone GPS Locations of Students’ Movements to and from Campus
by Patricia K. Doyle-Baker, Andrew Ladle, Angela Rout and Paul Galpern
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(8), 517; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10080517 - 31 Jul 2021
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For many university students, commuting to and from campus constitutes a large proportion of their daily movement, and therefore it may influence their ability and willingness to spend time on campus or to participate in campus activities. To assess student engagement on campus, [...] Read more.
For many university students, commuting to and from campus constitutes a large proportion of their daily movement, and therefore it may influence their ability and willingness to spend time on campus or to participate in campus activities. To assess student engagement on campus, we collected smartphone GPS location histories from volunteers (n = 280) attending university in a major Canadian city. We investigated how campus visit length and frequency were related to characteristics of the commute using Bayesian regression models. Slower commutes and commutes over longer distances were associated with more time spent but less frequent visits to campus. Our results demonstrate that exposure to campus life, and therefore the potential for student engagement, may relate not just to whether a student lives on or near campus, but also to urban environmental factors that interact to influence the commuting experience. Full article
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Evaluating Cultural Landscape Remediation Design Based on VR Technology
by Zhengsong Lin, Lu Zhang, Su Tang, Yang Song and Xinyue Ye
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(6), 423; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10060423 - 21 Jun 2021
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Due to the recent excessive pursuit of rapid economic development in China, the cultural heritage resources have been gradually destroyed. This paper proposes cultural recovery and ecological remediation patterns, and adopts virtual reality (VR) technology to evaluate the visual aesthetic effect of the [...] Read more.
Due to the recent excessive pursuit of rapid economic development in China, the cultural heritage resources have been gradually destroyed. This paper proposes cultural recovery and ecological remediation patterns, and adopts virtual reality (VR) technology to evaluate the visual aesthetic effect of the restored landscape. The results show that: (1) the average vegetation coverage increased, providing data support for remediation design evaluation; and (2) the fixation counts and average saccade counts of the subjects increased after the remediation design, indicating that the restored cultural landscape reduced visual fatigue and provided a better visual aesthetic experience. Furthermore, the comparative analysis of the quality of the water environment shows that the remediation design project improved the ecological environment quality of the relics area. The results of this study will contribute to rural revitalization in minority areas in southwest China. Full article
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A GloVe-Based POI Type Embedding Model for Extracting and Identifying Urban Functional Regions
by Chengkun Zhang, Liuchang Xu, Zhen Yan and Sensen Wu
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(6), 372; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10060372 - 31 May 2021
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Points-of-interest (POIs) are an important carriers of location text information in smart cities and have been widely used to extract and identify urban functional regions. However, it is difficult to model the relationship between POIs and urban functional types using existing methods due [...] Read more.
Points-of-interest (POIs) are an important carriers of location text information in smart cities and have been widely used to extract and identify urban functional regions. However, it is difficult to model the relationship between POIs and urban functional types using existing methods due to insufficient POIs information mining. In this study, we propose a Global Vectors (GloVe)-based, POI type embedding model (GPTEM) to extract and identify urban functional regions at the scale of traffic analysis zones (TAZs) by integrating the co-occurrence information and spatial context of POIs. This method has three main steps. First, we utilize buffer zones centered on each POI to construct the urban functional corpus. Second, we use the constructed corpus and GPTEM to train POI type vectors. Third, we cluster the TAZs and annotate the urban functional types in clustered regions by calculating enrichment factors. The results are evaluated by comparing them against manual annotations and food takeout delivery data, showing that the overall identification accuracy of the proposed method (78.44%) is significantly higher than that of a baseline method based on word2vec. Our work can assist urban planners to efficiently evaluate the development of and changes in the functions of various urban regions. Full article
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Roman Aqueduct Flow Estimation Using Geomatic Measurement
by Claudio Alimonti, Valerio Baiocchi, Giorgia Bonanotte and Gábor Molnár
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(6), 360; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10060360 - 25 May 2021
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The aqueducts built by the ancient Romans are among the most impressive evidence of their engineering skills. The water inside the aqueducts was transported for kilometers, exploiting only the slight but constant differences in altitude throughout the route. To keep the differences in [...] Read more.
The aqueducts built by the ancient Romans are among the most impressive evidence of their engineering skills. The water inside the aqueducts was transported for kilometers, exploiting only the slight but constant differences in altitude throughout the route. To keep the differences in height constant, the aqueducts could proceed underground or aboveground on well-known arched structures that supported lead, ceramic or stone pipes. In order to reconstruct the characteristics of these structures, it is necessary to carry out an accurate survey of the orthometric heights, and therefore the most suitable technology is geometric levelling. In this case, however, it is not applicable, and therefore here we propose an alternative methodology. The final goal of this work was to estimate the flow of some sectors of these aqueducts preserved in the area south of the city of Rome. This has two main purposes: The first is to reconstruct the flow rate of these aqueducts for historical studies; the second is to check how much the orthometric heights have changed over the centuries, in order to reconstruct the movements from a geophysical and geodynamic point of view. The latter analysis will be developed in a following phase of this research. For this purpose, a high-precision geomatic survey was carried out in the area under study, partly retracing a survey already carried out in 1917 whose purpose and methodologies are not known. The area has been affected by a gradual subsidence over centuries, including since 1917. The observed sections of the aqueducts showed average inclinations, slightly lower than the 2 per thousand that is reported in the literature for similar aqueducts. The measurements carried out allowed the flow rate of the two specific aqueducts to be estimated more accurately, both as they were originally and in the presence of deposits that have accumulated during the years of use of the aqueducts. The reconstruction of the initial geometry will later be used as a reference to estimate how much the geodynamic deformations of the area have deformed the aqueducts themselves. Full article
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Simulation of Land-Use Changes Using the Partitioned ANN-CA Model and Considering the Influence of Land-Use Change Frequency
by Quanli Xu, Qing Wang, Jing Liu and Hong Liang
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(5), 346; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10050346 - 18 May 2021
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Land-use change is a typical geographic evolutionary process characterized by spatial heterogeneity. As such, the driving factors, conversion rules, and rate of change vary for different regions around the world. However, most cellular automata (CA) models use the same transition rules for all [...] Read more.
Land-use change is a typical geographic evolutionary process characterized by spatial heterogeneity. As such, the driving factors, conversion rules, and rate of change vary for different regions around the world. However, most cellular automata (CA) models use the same transition rules for all cells in the model space when simulating land-use change. Thus, spatial heterogeneity change is ignored in the model, which means that these models are prone to over- or under simulation, resulting in a large deviation from reality. An effective means of accounting for the influence of spatial heterogeneity on the quality of the CA model is to establish a partitioned model based on cellular space partitioning. This study established a partitioned, dual-constrained CA model using the area-weighted frequency of land-use change (AWFLUC) to capture its spatial heterogeneity. This model was used to simulate the land-use evolution of the Dianchi Lake watershed. First, the CA space was divided into subzones using a dual-constrained spatial clustering method. Second, an artificial neural network (ANN) was used to automatically acquire conversion rules to construct an ANN-CA model of land-use change. Finally, land-use changes were simulated using the ANN-CA model based on data from 2006 to 2016, and model reliability was validated. The experimental results showed that compared with the non-partitioned CA model, the partitioned counterpart was able to improve the accuracy of land-use change simulation significantly. Furthermore, AWFLUC is an important indicator of the spatial heterogeneity of land-use change. The shapes of the division spaces were more similar to reality and the simulation accuracy was higher when AWFLUC was considered as a land-use change characteristic. Full article
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The Extension of IFC For Supporting 3D Cadastre LADM Geometry
by Marija Petronijević, Nenad Višnjevac, Nataša Praščević and Branislav Bajat
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(5), 297; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10050297 - 05 May 2021
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The growth of densely populated urban areas has caused traditional cadastral registration systems to face many difficulties in representing complex and multilevel property situations on 2D maps. These challenges, combined with the rapid development of 3D technologies, have forced the research and progress [...] Read more.
The growth of densely populated urban areas has caused traditional cadastral registration systems to face many difficulties in representing complex and multilevel property situations on 2D maps. These challenges, combined with the rapid development of 3D technologies, have forced the research and progress of 3D cadastre systems. The aim of this study is to investigate how a Building Information Model (BIM) can be used as a data source for the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) based 3D cadastre system, and how that process can be improved. The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format and the LADM-based model were selected because both are international open standards that have a significant impact in their own domain. The data sample for the 3D cadastre system was extracted from a BIM model. The paper proposes an IFC format extension which makes it possible to define 3D geometry according to the LADM standard. In order to demonstrate this extension, the West 65 residential and business complex, Belgrade, was selected as a case study. The IFC format extension presented here is a step towards data harmonization between BIM in the IFC format and 3D cadastre systems; it should provide more suitable data in the current IFC schema and enable easy data flow between BIM projects and 3D cadastral data. Full article
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