In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly put into use to address cities'
economic, social, environmental, and governance challenges. Thanks to its advanced …

The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

Map** the distribution, pattern, and composition of urban land use categories plays a
valuable role in understanding urban environmental dynamics and facilitating sustainable …

Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and
practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have …

Measuring the human sense of place and quantifying the connections among the visual
features of the built environment that impact the human sense of place have long been of …

The Internet of Things (IoT) boom has revolutionized almost every corner of people's daily
lives: healthcare, environment, transportation, manufacturing, supply chain, and so on. With …

The last decade has witnessed very active development in two broad, but separate fields,
both involving understanding and modeling of how individuals move in time and space …

Social media platforms are playing increasingly critical roles in disaster response and
rescue operations. During emergencies, users can post rescue requests along with their …

Data about points of interest (POI) have been widely used in studying urban land use types
and for sensing human behavior. However, it is difficult to quantify the correct mix or the …