On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review

SE Bibri - Journal of Big Data, 2019 - Springer
There has recently been a conscious push for cities across the globe to be smart and even
smarter and thus more sustainable by develo** and implementing big data technologies …

[PDF][PDF] A literature survey on smart cities

CT Yin, Z ** (DTW) distance based k-medoids method
Y Chen, X Liu, X Li, X Liu, Y Yao, G Hu, X Xu… - Landscape and Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method for delineating urban functional areas based on
building-level social media data. Our method assumes that social media activities in …

Using Landsat and nighttime lights for supervised pixel-based image classification of urban land cover

R Goldblatt, MF Stuhlmacher, B Tellman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Reliable representations of global urban extent remain limited, hindering scientific progress
across a range of disciplines that study functionality of sustainable cities. We present an …

A review of regional science applications of satellite remote sensing in urban settings

JE Patino, JC Duque - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the potential applications of satellite remote sensing to regional science
research in urban settings. Regional science is the study of social problems that have a …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial analysis of surface urban heat islands in four rapidly growing African cities

M Simwanda, M Ranagalage, RC Estoque… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Africa's unprecedented, uncontrolled and unplanned urbanization has put many African
cities under constant ecological and environmental threat. One of the critical ecological …

Land-use classification using taxi GPS traces

G Pan, G Qi, Z Wu, D Zhang, S Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detailed land use, which is difficult to obtain, is an integral part of urban planning. Currently,
GPS traces of vehicles are becoming readily available. It conveys human mobility and …

Characterizing the magnitude, timing and duration of urban growth from time series of Landsat-based estimates of impervious cover

XP Song, JO Sexton, C Huang, S Channan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding the dynamics of land-change processes in urban areas requires long-term
land cover and land use data at high spatial and temporal resolution. Extending an …