An integrated cyberGIS and machine learning framework for fine-scale prediction of Urban Heat Island using satellite remote sensing and urban sensor network data

F Lyu, S Wang, SY Han, C Catlett, S Wang - Urban Informatics, 2022 - Springer
Due to climate change and rapid urbanization, Urban Heat Island (UHI), featuring
significantly higher temperature in metropolitan areas than surrounding areas, has caused …

Social sensing of urban land use based on analysis of Twitter users' mobility patterns

A Soliman, K Soltani, J Yin, A Padmanabhan, S Wang - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
A number of recent studies showed that digital footprints around built environments, such as
geo-located tweets, are promising data sources for characterizing urban land use. However …

A scalable architecture for real-time stream processing of spatiotemporal IoT stream data—Performance analysis on the example of map matching

M Laska, S Herle, R Klamma… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Scalable real-time processing of large amounts of data has become a research topic of
particular importance due to the continuously rising amount of data that is generated by …

UrbanPop: A spatial microsimulation framework for exploring demographic influences on human dynamics

J Tuccillo, R Stewart, A Rose, N Trombley, J Moehl… - Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ensuring the social equity of planning measures in social systems requires an
understanding of human dynamics, particularly how individual relationships, activities, and …

Towards POI-based large-scale land use modeling: spatial scale, semantic granularity, and geographic context

J Fan, G Thakur - International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The combination of spatial distribution, semantic characteristics, and sometimes temporal
dynamics of POIs inside a geographic region can capture its unique land use characteristics …

Humonet: A framework for realistic modeling and simulation of human mobility network

JS Kim, GM Thakur, L Amichi, A Burger… - 2024 25th IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding, analyzing, and predicting human mobility and dynamics are valuable to
solving pressing problems, developing effective plans, and prescribing timely remedies. As …

A Bayesian machine learning model for estimating building occupancy from open source data

R Stewart, M Urban, S Duchscherer, J Kaufman… - Natural Hazards, 2016 - Springer
Understanding building occupancy is critical to a wide array of applications including natural
hazards loss analysis, green building technologies, and population distribution modeling …

Improving land use inference by factorizing mobile phone call activity matrix

H Mao, YY Ahn, B Bhaduri, G Thakur - Journal of land use science, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Land use is shaped by human activities. Traditional methods of measuring land uses (eg
surveys and remote sensing techniques) often have difficulties in capturing human activities …

SONET: a semantic ontological network graph for managing points of interest data heterogeneity

R Palumbo, L Thompson, G Thakur - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Scalability, standardization, and management are important issues when working with very
large Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). VGI is a rich and valuable source of Points …

Likeness: a toolkit for connecting the social fabric of place to human dynamics

J Tuccillo, J Gaboardi - 2022 - osti.gov
The ability to produce richly-attributed synthetic populations is key for understanding human
dynamics, responding to emergencies, and preparing for future events, all while protecting …