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Tingting Wu, Bisong Hu, Jin Luo and Shuhua Qi
The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) pandemic has caused enormous impacts around the world. Characterizing the risk dynamics for urgent epidemics such as COVID-19 is of great benefit to epidemic control and emergency management. This article presen...
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Bin Jiang and Terry Slocum
The Earth?s surface or any territory is a coherent whole or subwhole, in which the notion of ?far more small things than large ones? recurs at different levels of scale ranging from the smallest of a couple of meters to the largest of the Earth?s surface...
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Ran Tao, Zhaoya Gong, Qiwei Ma and Jean-Claude Thill
One of the enduring issues of spatial origin-destination (OD) flow data analysis is the computational inefficiency or even the impossibility to handle large datasets. Despite the recent advancements in high performance computing (HPC) and the ready avail...
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Hong Zhang and Zhiwei Wu
Shannon entropy is the most popular method for quantifying information in a system. However, Shannon entropy is considered incapable of quantifying spatial data, such as raster data, hence it has not been applied to such datasets. Recently, a method for ...
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Chris A. de Rijke, Gloria Macassa, Mats Sandberg and Bin Jiang
Human actions and interactions are shaped in part by our direct environment. The studies of Christopher Alexander show that objects and structures can inhibit natural properties and characteristics; this is measured in living structure. He also found tha...
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Christos Karydas and Bin Jiang
A new method for selecting optimal scales when mapping topographic or hydrographic features is introduced. The method employs rank-size partition of heavy-tailed distributions to detect nodes of rescaling invariance in the underlying hierarchy of the dat...
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Ding Ma, Zhigang Zhao, Ye Zheng, Renzhong Guo and Wei Zhu
Map generalization is a process of reducing the contents of a map or data to properly show a geographic feature(s) at a smaller extent. Over the past few years, the fractal way of thinking has emerged as a new paradigm for map generalization. A geographi...
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