OpenStreetMap: Challenges and opportunities in machine learning and remote sensing

JE Vargas-Munoz, S Srivastava, D Tuia… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community-based, freely available, editable map service created
as an alternative to authoritative sources. Given that it is edited mainly by volunteers with …

Progress and challenges in infectious disease cartography

MUG Kraemer, SI Hay, DM Pigott, DL Smith… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
Quantitatively mapping the spatial distributions of infectious diseases is key to both
investigating their epidemiology and identifying populations at risk of infection. Important …

The six dimensions of built environment on urban vitality: Fusion evidence from multi-source data

X Li, Y Li, T Jia, L Zhou, IH Hijazi - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-standing attention has been given to urban vitality and its association with the built
environment (BE). However, the multiplicity and complex impacts of BE factors that shape …

The world's user-generated road map is more than 80% complete

C Barrington-Leigh, A Millard-Ball - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced geographic database, provides the only global-level,
openly licensed source of geospatial road data, and the only national-level source in many …

Spatially disaggregated population estimates in the absence of national population and housing census data

NA Wardrop, WC Jochem, TJ Bird… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Population numbers at local levels are fundamental data for many applications, including
the delivery and planning of services, election preparation, and response to disasters. In …

Classifying urban land use by integrating remote sensing and social media data

X Liu, J He, Y Yao, J Zhang, H Liang… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Urban land use information plays an important role in urban management, government
policy-making, and population activity monitoring. However, the accurate classification of …

Improved population mapping for China using remotely sensed and points-of-interest data within a random forests model

T Ye, N Zhao, X Yang, Z Ouyang, X Liu, Q Chen… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Remote sensing image products (eg brightness of nighttime lights and land cover/land use
types) have been widely used to disaggregate census data to produce gridded population …

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

Y Yao, X Liu, X Li, J Zhang, Z Liang, K Mai… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Fine-scale population distribution data at the building level play an essential role in
numerous fields, for example urban planning and disaster prevention. The rapid …

Assessment of the sustainable development of rural minority settlements based on multidimensional data and geographical detector method: A case study in Dehong …

F Zhao, S Zhang, Q Du, J Ding, G Luan, Z Xie - Socio-Economic Planning …, 2021 - Elsevier
In a developing country, paying attention to the sustainable development of rural areas is
conducive to the development of the entire country. Ethnic minority areas are an important …

An optimized random forest model and its generalization ability in landslide susceptibility mapping: application in two areas of Three Gorges Reservoir, China

D Sun, J Xu, H Wen, Y Wang - Journal of Earth Science, 2020 - Springer
Numerous researches have been published on the application of landslide susceptibility
assessment models; however, they were only applied in the same areas as the models were …