Humanity is facing many grand challenges at unprecedented rates, nearly everywhere, and
at all levels. Yet virtually all these challenges can be traced back to the decision and …

Social media analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

Free and open source tools present numerous opportunities to support current urban
planning practice. However, their overview is fragmented, and the uptake among planning …

It is widely acknowledged that the emergence of “Big Data” is having a profound and often
controversial impact on the production of knowledge. In this context, Data Science has …

Social media has played a significant role in disaster management, as it enables the general
public to contribute to the monitoring of disasters by reporting incidents related to disaster …

A digital elevation model (DEM) is a digital representation of ground surface topography or
terrain. It is also widely known as a digital terrain model (DTM). A DEM can be represented …

Traditional gazetteers are built and maintained by authoritative map** agencies. In the
age of Big Data, it is possible to construct gazetteers in a data-driven approach by mining …

Integrated geographic modelling and simulation is a computational means to improve
understanding of the environment. With the development of Service Oriented Architecture …

In the five years since the publication of the first edition of Spatial Analysis: Statistics,
Visualization, and Computational Methods, many new developments have taken shape …

Since its introduction more than 15 years ago, the GeoDa software for the exploration of
spatial data has transitioned from a closed source Windows‐only solution to an open source …