A place reflects the collective cognition of the geographical extent and semantics of a named
spatial domain, acting as a vital reference to a particular space in daily discourse …

Food security has been one of the greatest global concerns facing the current complicated
situation. Among these, the impact of climate change on agricultural production is dynamic …

Food security is essential for human survival and sustainable development. Due to rapid
urbanization and industrialization, the farmland loss in Yangtze River Delta Urban …

As the frontier of urbanization, urban–rural fringes (URFs) transitionally connect urban
construction regions to the rural hinterland, and its identification is significant for the study of …

The problem of discovering regions that support particular functionalities in an urban setting
has been approached in literature using two general methodologies: top-down, encoding …

Fuzziness is an inherent property of geographical phenomena and the processes of data
acquisition, processing, and analysis often introduce uncertainty. Existing methods …

Descriptions of the spatial locations of disappeared objects are often recorded in eyewitness
records, travel notes, and historical documents. However, in geographic information system …

In ontology engineering, reusing (or extending) ontologies poses a significant challenge,
requiring revising their ontological commitments and ensuring accurate representation and …

In recent years, three-dimensional point clouds are used increasingly to document natural
environments. Each dataset contains a diverse set of objects, at varying shapes and sizes …

OpenStreetMap (OSM) as one of the most successful projects of Volunteered Geographical
Information (VGI) has attracted millions of contributors to work together and produces …