Urban Informatics.
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| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | The Urban Book Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Editors
- 1 Overall Introduction
- 1.1 Defining Urban Informatics
- 1.2 The Background: The Origins of Urban Informatics
- 1.3 Structure of the Book
- 1.4 Retrospective and Prospective
- References
- Part IDimensions of Urban Science
- 2 Introduction to Urban Science
- 3 Defining Urban Science
- 3.1 A Science of Cities
- 3.2 City Systems and Systems of Cities
- 3.3 Urban Growth: Urbanization from the Bottom Up
- 3.4 Scale and Size, Networks, and Flows
- 3.5 The Development of Operational Urban Models
- 3.6 Future Directions in Urban Informatics
- References
- 4 Street View Imaging for Automated Assessments of Urban Infrastructure and Services
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Data Collection and Object Localization
- 4.3 Deriving Urban Functions from Object Statistics
- 4.4 Discussion
- References
- 5 Urban Human Dynamics
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Urban Dynamics
- 5.2.1 Cellular Automata for Urban Dynamics Research
- 5.2.2 Other Urban Dynamics Approaches
- 5.3 Human Dynamics
- 5.3.1 Effects of Information and Communications Technologies on Human Dynamics
- 5.3.2 Time Geography
- 5.3.3 Big Data and Space-Time GIS for Human Dynamics Research
- 5.3.4 Some Other Examples Human Dynamics Studies
- 5.4 Urban Human Dynamics and Urban Informatics
- References
- 6 Geosmartness for Personalized and Sustainable Future Urban Mobility
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Geosmartness
- 6.3 Analyzing Urban-Mobility Patterns
- 6.3.1 Data
- 6.3.2 Computational Methods for Large-Scale Spatio-temporal Mobility-Pattern Analysis
- 6.3.3 Studies
- 6.3.4 SBB Green Class (Multi-modal and Energy-Efficient Mobility)
- 6.4 Behavioral Change and Sustainable Mobility
- 6.4.1 Motivation
- 6.4.2 Detecting and Supporting Behavioral Change
- 6.4.3 Studies
- 6.4.4 GoEco!
- 6.5 Mobile Decision Making.
- 6.5.1 Mobile Eye-Tracking and Gaze-Based Interaction
- 6.5.2 Personalized Gaze-Based Decision Support
- 6.6 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- 7 Urban Metabolism
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 History of Urban Metabolism
- 7.3 Methods of Urban Metabolism
- 7.3.1 Bottom-Up Methods
- 7.3.2 Top-Down Methods
- 7.3.3 Hybrid Methods
- 7.4 A Case Study: The Metabolism of Singapore
- 7.5 Urban Metabolism Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
- 7.6 Conclusions
- References
- 8 Spatial Economics, Urban Informatics, and Transport Accessibility
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Intellectual Context
- 8.3 Econometric Models
- 8.3.1 Isotropic Versus Hierarchical Market Linkages for Economic Mass (EM) Computation
- 8.3.2 Control Variables
- 8.3.3 Representing Spatial Spillover Effects
- 8.4 Data
- 8.5 Model Test Results
- 8.6 Discussions
- 8.7 Conclusions
- References
- 9 Conceptualizing the City of the Information Age
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.1.1 Urban Complexity in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies
- 9.1.2 A Different Kind of City
- 9.1.3 The Smart City
- 9.1.4 Urban Informatics
- 9.2 Urban Research and Planning, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
- 9.2.1 The City as Place
- 9.2.2 The City as Node on a Network
- 9.2.3 Planning the City
- 9.3 Speculations
- 9.3.1 The Robotic Era?
- 9.3.2 The City's Epistemic Planes
- 9.4 Conclusion
- References
- Part IIUrban Systems and Applications
- 10 Introduction to Urban Systems and Applications
- 11 Characterizing Urban Mobility Patterns: A Case Study of Mexico City
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Data Collection of POIs
- 11.2.1 Parsing Algorithm
- 11.3 Spatial Distribution of POIs
- 11.3.1 Extended Radiation Model for Human Mobility
- 11.3.2 Results
- 11.4 Analyzing Human Mobility by Mode of Transportation
- 11.4.1 Detected Mobility Groups
- 11.5 Conclusions.
- References
- 12 Laboratories for Research on Freight Systems and Planning
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Future Mobility Sensing, a Behavioral Laboratory
- 12.2.1 Background
- 12.2.2 FMS Architecture
- 12.2.3 Applications
- 12.3 SimMobility, a Simulation Laboratory
- 12.3.1 Background
- 12.3.2 SimMobility Architecture
- 12.3.3 Applications
- 12.4 Demonstrations
- 12.4.1 Freight-Vehicle Route-Choice Model
- 12.4.2 Quantification of Model Performance
- 12.4.3 Replication of Specific Freight and Non-Freight-Vehicle Tours
- 12.5 Concluding Remarks
- References
- 13 Urban Risks and Resilience
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Risks, Exposure, and Vulnerability
- 13.3 Urban Resilience and Capacities
- 13.3.1 The Definitional Quagmire
- 13.3.2 Objects of Analysis
- 13.4 Measurement and Assessment Informatics
- 13.5 Science Informs Practice and Practice Informs Science
- 13.6 Moving Forward
- References
- 14 Urban Crime and Security
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Urban Crime
- 14.2.1 Historical Roots in Understanding Urban Crime: An Environmental Perspective
- 14.2.2 Theoretical Concepts in Environmental Criminology
- 14.3 Urban Security
- 14.3.1 Fear of Crime in Urban Areas
- 14.3.2 Implementation of Crime Prevention
- 14.4 Latest Tools in Urban Crime Analysis and Security
- 14.4.1 Crime Hotspot Mapping: From Retrospective Analysis to Prediction
- 14.4.2 Advanced Police Patrolling Strategies
- 14.5 Intelligent Data-Driven Policing
- 14.6 Summary
- References
- 15 Urban Governance
- 15.1 Transparency and City Open Data
- 15.1.1 Open Data Platforms
- 15.1.2 Open Data and Accountability
- 15.1.3 Why Are Goals Important?
- 15.1.4 Dashboards and Performance Indicators
- 15.2 Algorithmic Decision-Making
- 15.2.1 Positioning Algorithms
- 15.2.2 Challenges for Operationalizing Algorithms
- 15.3 Conclusion
- References.
- 16 Urban Pollution
- 16.1 Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas
- 16.2 Remote Sensing of the Urban Heat Island
- 16.2.1 Spatial Resolution of Satellite Sensors Related to Scales of Urban Climate
- 16.2.2 Relationship Between Surface Temperature and Air Temperature
- 16.2.3 Time of Imaging in Relation to Heat Island Maximum
- 16.2.4 Anisotropy of the Satellite View
- 16.2.5 The Need for Emissivity and Atmospheric Correction
- 16.3 Monitoring Water Quality Along Urban Coastlines
- References
- 17 Urban Health and Wellbeing
- 17.1 Smart Cities and Health
- 17.2 Data
- 17.2.1 Big Data
- 17.2.2 Individual and Population Data
- 17.2.3 Environmental Data
- 17.3 Methods and Techniques
- 17.4 BERTHA Studies
- 17.4.1 AirGIS
- 17.4.2 Personalized Tracking and Sensing
- 17.4.3 Personalized Air-Pollution Sensors
- 17.4.4 Mental Health
- 17.4.5 Physical Activity
- 17.4.6 Danish Blood-Donor Study
- 17.5 Privacy
- 17.6 Conclusions
- References
- 18 Urban Energy Systems: Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Population and Land Use
- 18.2.1 Big Data and GeoAI to Create Population and Land-Use Data
- 18.2.2 Estimating Urban Electricity Use in Data-Poor Regions
- 18.2.3 Estimating Household-Level Energy Consumption
- 18.3 Sustainable Mobility
- 18.3.1 Human Interactions with Transportation Systems
- 18.3.2 Emerging Options for Freight Delivery for Businesses
- 18.4 Energy-Water Nexus
- 18.5 Urban Resiliency
- 18.5.1 Renewable Energy-Infrastructure Assessment
- 18.5.2 Optimizing Energy and Safety Through Precision De-icing
- 18.6 Situational Awareness of National Energy Infrastructure
- 18.7 Conclusion
- References
- Part IIIUrban Sensing
- 19 Introduction to Urban Sensing
- 20 Optical Remote Sensing
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 History of Optical Remote Sensing.
- 20.3 Latest Developments in Optical Remote Sensing
- 20.3.1 Introduction to Representative Optical Satellite Sensors
- 20.4 Processing of Remote Sensing Satellite Images
- 20.4.1 Image Pre-processing
- 20.4.2 Image Processing
- 20.4.3 Image Post-Processing
- 20.5 Applications of Optical Remote Sensing
- 20.5.1 Land-Use and Land-Cover Mapping
- 20.5.2 Urban Vegetation Phenology
- 20.5.3 Urban Heat Island Mapping
- 20.5.4 Rock Outcrops Identification
- 20.6 Summary
- References
- 21 Urban Sensing with Spaceborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
- 21.1 Synthetic Aperture Radar
- 21.2 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
- 21.3 Multi-temporal InSAR (MTInSAR)
- 21.4 Applications in Urban Areas
- 21.4.1 Construction of Fine Resolution DEM
- 21.4.2 Subsidence Measurement
- 21.4.3 Monitoring Stability of Infrastructures
- 21.5 Summary
- References
- 22 Airborne LiDAR for Detection and Characterization of Urban Objects and Traffic Dynamics
- 22.1 Introduction
- 22.2 Detection of Urban Objects with ALS and Co-registered Imagery
- 22.2.1 General Strategy
- 22.2.2 Feature Derivation
- 22.2.3 AdaBoost Classification
- 22.3 Detection of Urban Traffic Dynamics with ALS Data
- 22.3.1 Artifacts Effect of Vehicle Motion in ALS Data
- 22.3.2 Detection of Moving Vehicles
- 22.3.3 Concept for Vehicle Velocity Estimation with ALS Data
- 22.4 Experiments and Results
- 22.4.1 Detection of Urban Objects with ALS Data Associated with Aerial Imagery
- 22.4.2 Accuracy Prediction for Vehicle Velocity Estimation Using ALS Aata
- 22.5 Summary
- References
- 23 Photogrammetry for 3D Mapping in Urban Areas
- 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 Fundamentals of Photogrammetry
- 23.2.1 Image Orientation
- 23.2.2 Bundle Adjustment
- 23.2.3 Image Matching
- 23.3 Advances in Photogrammetry for 3D Mapping in Urban Areas.
- 23.3.1 Structure from Motion and Multi-view Stereo.


