Big geo-data

Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics

The dynamics of human activities can illustrate how a city operates at different times. In today's highly connected urban systems, the travel flow rhythms can help uncover the functionalities of urban spaces. For efficient land use and traffic …

A Framework for Mixed-Use Decomposition Based on Temporal Activity Signatures Extracted from Big Geo-Data

Mixed use has been extensively applied as an urban planning principle and hinders the study of single urban functions. To address this problem, it is worth decomposing the mixed use. Inspired by the concept of spectral unmixing in remote sensing …

Inferring Demographics from Human Trajectories and Geographical Context

The advances of positioning technologies and the widespread use of mobile devices bring us massive data with location information, or so-called big geo-data. One important part of big geo-data is massive digital human trajectories recorded by …

The Scale Effect on Spatial Interaction Patterns: An Empirical Study Using Taxi O-D Data of Beijing and Shanghai

Spatial scale is a fundamental issue for geographical phenomena because the size of the spatial unit adopted for analysis can have a significant effect on aggregated spatial data and the corresponding analytical results. There exists much research on …

Street as a Big Geo-Data Assembly and Analysis Unit in Urban Studies: A Case Study Using Beijing Taxi Data

Quantitative research of urban geography has benefited greatly from the rapid development of big geo-data. Spatial assembly is an essential analytical step to summarize and perceive geographical environment from individual behaviours. Most research …