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PISA: A proximity-based social networking (PBSN) protection model
The widespread adoption of Proximity-based Social Networking (PBSN) applications has been accompanied with several privacy concerns involving...
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Mapping Potential Wilderness in China with Location-based Services Data
Wilderness mapping can provide valuable information for natural resource management. In this article, a novel, straightforward approach has been...
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Rehumanize geoprivacy: from disclosure control to human perception
Traditional boundaries between people are vanishing due to the rise of Internet of Things technology. Our smart devices keep us connected to the...
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The Urban Facilities Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Spatial Association Patterns Mining in Wuhan, China
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant global impacts on human society. With the evolution of cities during this period, urban facilities...
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A Bayesian Model for Estimating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Wildlife Habitats Based on Nighttime Light Data and INLA-SPDE
Nighttime light (NTL) data records the nocturnal emission signals of human activities and provides an accurate and continuous basis for the study of...
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Smartphone-Based Indoor Positioning Technologies
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have achieved great success in providing localization information in outdoor open areas. However, due to...
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Accuracy of Local Authority Population Forecasts Produced by a New Minimal Data Model: A Case Study of England
The preparation of forecasts for small and local area populations involves many challenges. Standard cohort-component models are problematic because...
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Uncovering Online Sharing Vehicle Mobility Patterns from Massive GPS Trajectories
The advancement of spatial information technology (SIT) boosts the location-based services (LBS) and smart urban applications. It brings the public...
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A Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm for the Truck-Drone Routing Problem
The rise in e-commerce sales has increased the demand for logistics companies to handle the problem of last-mile delivery, which is complex and...
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Layering Segregation in Life and Death: The Social and Environmental Character of the Bois Marchand Cemetery, Mauritius
The Bois Marchand Cemetery in Mauritius was established in 1867 in response to the massive death toll exerted by a disastrous malaria epidemic that...
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Platformizing Informality, One Gig at a Time
The emergence of increasingly powerful and affordable digital technologies with applications across a range of domains to extract business value has...
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Building Capitals Pending Revolution: Gardens Behind Bars as Clinical Sociology
This chapter analyzes prison gardens through a clinical sociological lens and provides a comparative analysis across all data. Our projects represent...
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Household and Neighborhood Dynamics in Historic San José, California
San José is a flourishing urban center within Silicon Valley that emerged from the first pueblo in California. Recent results from five...
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Why Design for Industry Will Not Work as Design for Community
This chapter provides the anatomy of a senior design project and course as traditionally taught in engineering education. It shows how adopting...
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Wreck 15377: A Probable Immigrant and Cargo Packet of the Mid-Nineteenth Century in the Gulf of Mexico
A shipwreck discovered in 2005 and subsequently studied in 2013 and 2017 is the remains of a copper-sheathed, early to mid-nineteenth-century sailing...
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Geoprivacy, Convenience, and the Pursuit of Anonymity in Digital Cities
Cities demand spatial efficiencies that can be achieved only through sharing of information. Current technologies support collection, processing, and...
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Digital Governance for Smart City and Future Community Building: From Concept to Application
The interaction between technology, community, and citizens is the core of smart city development. With the increasing penetration of Internet...
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Geosmartness for Personalized and Sustainable Future Urban Mobility
Urban mobility and the transport of people have been increasing in volume inexorably for decades. Despite the advantages and opportunities mobility...
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SS Tennessee: A Near-shore Shipwreck from the California Gold Rush
The author’s first maritime archaeological project, commenced in 1980, was a multi-year assessment of a near-shore shipwreck, SS Tennessee (1853) in...
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Multi-level Inter-regional Migrant Population Estimation Using Multi-source Spatiotemporal Big Data: A Case Study of Migrants in Hubei Province During the Outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan
Preventing the spread of COVID-19 is the most urgent need for society now. Before the closure of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, more than 5 million...
