The breakthrough developments in geospatial technologies and the increasing availability of spatial data make geoinformation a business and a decisional element to the management.Hence,it is important to have a manage...The breakthrough developments in geospatial technologies and the increasing availability of spatial data make geoinformation a business and a decisional element to the management.Hence,it is important to have a management plan to factor in practical and feasible data sources,in building geo applications.The authors of this paper are motivated by the fact that right data sources could outclass in-house resources in various application scenarios.This paper outlines pragmatic cases for the tangible benefits of the existing potential data and expeditious patterns for digital earth.This work also proposes‘good-enough’solutions based on the pragmatic cases,available literature,and the 3D city model developed that could be sufficient in contriving the objectives of the common public usage and open business models.To demonstrate this approach,the paper encapsulated the low-cost development of virtual 3D city model using publicly available cadastral data and web services.展开更多
There is an increasing availability of geospatial data describing patterns of human settlement and population such as various global remote-sensing based built-up land layers,fine-grained census-based population estim...There is an increasing availability of geospatial data describing patterns of human settlement and population such as various global remote-sensing based built-up land layers,fine-grained census-based population estimates,and publicly available cadastral and building footprint data.This development constitutes new integrative modeling opportunities to characterize the continuum of urban,peri-urban,and rural settlements and populations.However,little research has been done regarding the agreement between such data products in measuring human presence which is measured by different proxy variables(i.e.presence of built-up structures derived from different remote sensors,census-derived population counts,or cadastral land parcels).In this work,we quantitatively evaluate and cross-compare the ability of such data to model the urban continuum,using a unique,integrated validation database of cadastral and building footprint data,U.S.census data,and three different versions of the Global Human Settlement Layer(GHSL)derived from remotely sensed data.We identify advantages and shortcomings of these data types across different geographic settings in the U.S.,which will inform future data users on implications of data accuracy and suitability for a given application,even in data-poor regions of the world.展开更多
文摘The breakthrough developments in geospatial technologies and the increasing availability of spatial data make geoinformation a business and a decisional element to the management.Hence,it is important to have a management plan to factor in practical and feasible data sources,in building geo applications.The authors of this paper are motivated by the fact that right data sources could outclass in-house resources in various application scenarios.This paper outlines pragmatic cases for the tangible benefits of the existing potential data and expeditious patterns for digital earth.This work also proposes‘good-enough’solutions based on the pragmatic cases,available literature,and the 3D city model developed that could be sufficient in contriving the objectives of the common public usage and open business models.To demonstrate this approach,the paper encapsulated the low-cost development of virtual 3D city model using publicly available cadastral data and web services.
基金This research has been funded,in part,by the U.S.National Science Foundation(Directorate for Social,Behavioral and Economic Sciences)award#1416860 to the City University of New York,the Population Council,the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at BoulderIt has been supported,in part,by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P2CHD066613+1 种基金Furthermore,this work has been funded,in part,by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship(#G-F-16-53680)from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to D.BalkInnovative Seed Grant funding from the University of Colorado,support through Earth Lab,a University of Colorado Boulder Grand Challenge Initiative,as well as a development grant received from the University of Colorado Population Center(CUPC)at the Institute of Behavioral Science(University of Colorado Boulder),are acknowledged.
文摘There is an increasing availability of geospatial data describing patterns of human settlement and population such as various global remote-sensing based built-up land layers,fine-grained census-based population estimates,and publicly available cadastral and building footprint data.This development constitutes new integrative modeling opportunities to characterize the continuum of urban,peri-urban,and rural settlements and populations.However,little research has been done regarding the agreement between such data products in measuring human presence which is measured by different proxy variables(i.e.presence of built-up structures derived from different remote sensors,census-derived population counts,or cadastral land parcels).In this work,we quantitatively evaluate and cross-compare the ability of such data to model the urban continuum,using a unique,integrated validation database of cadastral and building footprint data,U.S.census data,and three different versions of the Global Human Settlement Layer(GHSL)derived from remotely sensed data.We identify advantages and shortcomings of these data types across different geographic settings in the U.S.,which will inform future data users on implications of data accuracy and suitability for a given application,even in data-poor regions of the world.
