International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, 2019

Editorial

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  Huadong Guo:
  From Digital Earth to big Earth data: accelerating scientific discovery and supporting global sustainable development. 1

Articles

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  Udaya K. Jayawardhana, Pece V. Gorsevski:
  An ontology-based framework for extracting spatio-temporal influenza data using Twitter. 2-24
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  Christoph Blut, Timothy Blut, Jörg Blankenbach:
  CityGML goes mobile: application of large 3D CityGML models on smartphones. 25-42
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  Cristian Mattar, Andrés Santamaría-Artigas, Flávio Ponzoni, Cibele T. Pinto, Carolina Barrientos, Glynn C. Hulley:
  Atacama Field Campaign: laboratory and in-situ measurements for remote sensing applications. 43-61
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  Xin Huang, Jiahao Xia, Rui Xiao, Tao He:
  Urban expansion patterns of 291 Chinese cities, 1990-2015. 62-77
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  Lifeng Shi, Hannes Taubenböck, Zengxiang Zhang, Fang Liu, Michael Wurm:
  Urbanization in China from the end of 1980s until 2010 - spatial dynamics and patterns of growth using EO-data. 78-94
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  Xinbo Liu, Jin Chen, Xihong Cui, Qixin Liu, Xin Cao, Xuehong Chen:
  Measurement of soil water content using ground-penetrating radar: a review of current methods. 95-118

Volume 12, Number 2, 2019

Human-Centered Virtual and Augmented Reality Geovisualization Environments
Editorial

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  Arzu Çöltekin, Danielle Oprean, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Alexander Klippel:
  Where are we now? Re-visiting the Digital Earth through human-centered virtual and augmented reality geovisualization environments. 119-122

Articles

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  Florian Hruby, Rainer Ressl, Genghis De la Borbolla del Valle:
  Geovisualization with immersive virtual environments in theory and practice. 123-136
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  Ismini E. Lokka, Arzu Çöltekin:
  Toward optimizing the design of virtual environments for route learning: empirically assessing the effects of changing levels of realism on memory. 137-155
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  Petr Kubícek, Cenek Sasinka, Zdenek Stachon, Lukás Herman, Vojtech Jurík, Tomás Urbánek, Jirí Chmelík:
  Identification of altitude profiles in 3D geovisualizations: the role of interaction and spatial abilities. 156-172
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  Hans-Balder Havenith, Philippe Cerfontaine, Anne-Sophie Mreyen:
  How virtual reality can help visualise and assess geohazards. 173-189
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  Ian M. Lochhead, Nick Hedley:
  Mixed reality emergency management: bringing virtual evacuation simulations into real-world built environments. 190-208
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  Byungyun Yang, Jungil Lee:
  Improving accuracy of automated 3-D building models for smart cities. 209-227
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  Wumeng Huang, Jing Chen:
  A multi-scale VR navigation method for VR globes. 228-249

Volume 12, Number 3, 2019

Articles

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  Hu Shao, Wenwen Li:
  A comprehensive optimization strategy for real-time spatial feature sharing and visual analytics in cyberinfrastructure. 250-269
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  Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior, Marcos Rafael Nanni, José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, Everson Cezar, Paulo Eduardo Teodoro, Rafael Coll Delgado, Luciano Shozo Shiratsuchi, Muhammad Shakir, Marcelo Luiz Chicati:
  Object-based image analysis supported by data mining to discriminate large areas of soybean. 270-292
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  Haiyan Tao, Keli Wang, Li Zhuo, Xuliang Li:
  Re-examining urban region and inferring regional function based on spatial-temporal interaction. 293-310
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  Pham Thi Thao Nhi, Dao Nguyen Khoi, Nguyen Xuan Hoan:
  Evaluation of five gridded rainfall datasets in simulating streamflow in the upper Dong Nai river basin, Vietnam. 311-327
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  Fang Huang, Yinjie Chen, Li Li, Ji Zhou, Jian Tao, Xicheng Tan, Guangsong Fan:
  Implementation of the parallel mean shift-based image segmentation algorithm on a GPU cluster. 328-353

Review article

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  Xiao Tang, Lei Zhang, Xiaoli Ding:
  SAR image despeckling with a multilayer perceptron neural network. 354-374

Volume 12, Number 4, 2019

Review article

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  Xiaohua Hao, Siqiong Luo, Tao Che, Jian Wang, Hongyi Li, Liyun Dai, Xiao Dong Huang, Qisheng Feng:
  Accuracy assessment of four cloud-free snow cover products over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. 375-393

Articles

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  Juan Mariano Camarillo Naranjo, José Ignacio Álvarez-Francoso, Natalia Limones-Rodríguez, María Fernanda Pita-López, Mónica Aguilar-Alba:
  The global climate monitor system: from climate data-handling to knowledge dissemination. 394-414
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  Hongqiang Wei, Guiyun Zhou, Suhua Fu:
  Efficient Priority-Flood depression filling in raster digital elevation models. 415-427
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  Zhaocong Wu, Nan Wang, Jie Shao, Guohui Deng:
  GPU ray casting method for visualizing 3D pipelines in a virtual globe. 428-441
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  Arzu Çöltekin, Julien Biland:
  Comparing the terrain reversal effect in satellite images and in shaded relief maps: an examination of the effects of color and texture on 3D shape perception from shading. 442-459
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  Michael L. Humber, Luigi Boschetti, Louis Giglio, Christopher O. Justice:
  Spatial and temporal intercomparison of four global burned area products. 460-484
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  Jing Tian, Xiangzheng Deng, Hongbo Su:
  Intercomparison of two trapezoid-based soil moisture downscaling methods using three scaling factors. 485-499

Volume 12, Number 5, 2019

Review article

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  Loudi Yap, Ludovic Houetchak Kandé, Robert Nouayou, Joseph Kamguia, Nasser Abdou Ngouh, Marie Brigitte Makuate:
  Vertical accuracy evaluation of freely available latest high-resolution (30 m) global digital elevation models over Cameroon (Central Africa) with GPS/leveling ground control points. 500-524

Articles

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  Hanjiang Xiong, Wei Ma, Xianwei Zheng, Jianya Gong, Douadi Abdelalim:
  Indoor scene texturing based on single mobile phone images and 3D model fusion. 525-543
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  Ignacio San-Miguel, David W. Andison, Nicholas C. Coops:
  Quantifying local fire regimes using the Landsat data-archive: a conceptual framework to derive detailed fire pattern metrics from pixel-level information. 544-565
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  Weixing Zhang, Weidong Li, Chuanrong Zhang, Tian Zhao:
  Parallel computing solutions for Markov chain spatial sequential simulation of categorical fields. 566-582
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  Marcos Arza-García, Mariluz Gil-Docampo, Juan Ortiz-Sanz, Santiago Martínez-Rodríguez:
  Virtual globes for UAV-based data integration: Sputnik GIS and Google Earth™ applications. 583-593
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  Simon Scheider, Andrea Ballatore, Rob Lemmens:
  Finding and sharing GIS methods based on the questions they answer. 594-613

Volume 12, Number 6, 2019

Review articles

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  Qun Wang, Jinghui Fan, Wei Zhou, Liqiang Tong, Zhaocheng Guo, Guang Liu, Weilin Yuan, Joaquim João Sousa, Zbigniew Perski:
  3D Surface velocity retrieval of mountain glacier using an offset tracking technique applied to ascending and descending SAR constellation data: a case study of the Yiga Glacier. 614-624
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  Xin Cao, Yu Liu, Xihong Cui, Jin Chen, Xuehong Chen:
  Mechanisms, monitoring and modeling of shrub encroachment into grassland: a review. 625-641

Articles

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  Jamal Jokar Arsanjani:
  Characterizing and monitoring global landscapes using GlobeLand30 datasets: the first decade of the twenty-first century. 642-660
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  Xiaoyu Sun, Zhou Huang, Xia Peng, Yiran Chen, Yu Liu:
  Building a model-based personalised recommendation approach for tourist attractions from geotagged social media data. 661-678
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  Hannes Taubenböck, Michael Wurm, Christian Geiß, Stefan W. Dech, Stefan Siedentop:
  Urbanization between compactness and dispersion: designing a spatial model for measuring 2D binary settlement landscape configurations. 679-698
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  Rogério Galante Negri, Alejandro C. Frery, Wagner B. Silva, Tatiana Sussel Gonçalves Mendes, Luciano Vieira Dutra:
  Region-based classification of PolSAR data using radial basis kernel functions with stochastic distances. 699-719
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  Ming Shang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Cong Du, Wenliang Liu:
  Object-based image analysis of suburban landscapes using Landsat-8 imagery. 720-736

Volume 12, Number 7, 2019

Review article

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  Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang, Tao He, Yunyue Yu:
  Remote sensing of earth's energy budget: synthesis and review. 737-780

Articles

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  Xiaohui Liu, Bandana Kar, Chaoyang Zhang, David M. Cochran:
  Assessing relevance of tweets for risk communication. 781-801
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  Ahmad Fallatah, Simon D. Jones, David Mitchell, Divyani Kohli:
  Mapping informal settlement indicators using object-oriented analysis in the Middle East. 802-824
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  Satya Katragadda, Jian Chen, Shaaban Abbady:
  Spatial hotspot detection using polygon propagation. 825-842
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  Yao Feng, Dongmei Chen, Xuehong Zhang:
  Atmospheric aerosol pollution across China: a spatiotemporal analysis of satellite-based aerosol optical depth during 2000-2016. 843-857

Volume 12, Number 8, 2019

The Arctic and High Altitude Mountain Cold Regions: Sustainable Earth Observations and Climate Change
Editorial

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  Jouni Pulliainen, Bin Cheng, Yubao Qiu:
  Sustainable earth observations for the Arctic, the Antarctic and the high-altitude mountain cold regions. 858-859

Articles

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  Lejiang Yu, Qinghua Yang, Mingyu Zhou, Donald H. Lenschow, Xianqiao Wang, Jiechen Zhao, Qizhen Sun, Zhongxiang Tian, Hui Shen, Lin Zhang:
  The variability of surface radiation fluxes over landfast sea ice near Zhongshan station, east Antarctica during austral spring. 860-877
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  Changwei Liu, Yubin Li, Qinghua Yang, Linlin Wang, Xianqiao Wang, Shimin Li, Zhiqiu Gao:
  On the surface fluxes characteristics and roughness lengths at Zhongshan station, Antarctica. 878-892
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  Lunxi Ouyang, Fengming Hui, Lixian Zhu, Xiao Cheng, Bin Cheng, Mohammed Shokr, Jiechen Zhao, Minghu Ding, Tao Zeng:
  The spatiotemporal patterns of sea ice in the Bohai Sea during the winter seasons of 2000-2016. 893-909
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  Adnan Ahmad Tahir, Samreen Abdul Hakeem, Tiesong Hu, Huma Hayat, Muhammad Yasir:
  Simulation of snowmelt-runoff under climate change scenarios in a data-scarce mountain environment. 910-930
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  Qingkai Wang, Zhijun Li, Peng Lu, Ruibo Lei, Bin Chen:
  2014 summer Arctic sea ice thickness and concentration from shipborne observations. 931-947
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  Alexander V. Evseev, Tatiana M. Krasovskaya, Vladimir S. Tikunov, Irina N. Tikunova:
  New look at territories of traditional nature use - traditional nature management lands at the coastal zone of the Ice Silk Road: a case study for the Russian Arctic. 948-961
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  Zeliang Liao, Bin Cheng, Jiechen Zhao, Timo Vihma, Keith Jackson, Qinghua Yang, Yu Yang, Lin Zhang, Zhijun Li, Yubao Qiu, Xiao Cheng:
  Snow depth and ice thickness derived from SIMBA ice mass balance buoy data using an automated algorithm. 962-979
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  Pingkai Wang, Tianjie Zhao, Jiancheng Shi, Tongxi Hu, Alexandre Roy, Yubao Qiu, Hui Lu:
  Parameterization of the freeze/thaw discriminant function algorithm using dense in-situ observation network data. 980-994

Volume 12, Number 9, 2019

Articles

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  Zelong Yang, Wenwen Li, Qi Chen, Sheng Wu, Shanjun Liu, Jianya Gong:
  A scalable cyberinfrastructure and cloud computing platform for forest aboveground biomass estimation based on the Google Earth Engine. 995-1012
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  Hong Jiang, Sen Wang, Xiaojie Cao, Chenghai Yang, Zhaoming Zhang, Xiaoqin Wang:
  A shadow- eliminated vegetation index (SEVI) for removal of self and cast shadow effects on vegetation in rugged terrains. 1013-1029
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  Bryan Hally, Luke Wallace, Karin Reinke, Simon D. Jones, Andrew K. Skidmore:
  Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data. 1030-1045
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  Peijun Sun, Russell G. Congalton, Yaozhong Pan:
  Using a simulation analysis to evaluate the impact of crop mapping error on crop area estimation from stratified sampling. 1046-1066
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  Péter Enyedi, Melinda Pap, Zoltán Kovács, László Takács-Szilágyi, Szilárd Szabó:
  Efficiency of local minima and GLM techniques in sinkhole extraction from a LiDAR-based terrain model. 1067-1082
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  Xuan Shi, Bowei Xue, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Xinyue Ye, Brian H. Spitzberg, Jean Mark Gawron, Heather Corliss, Jay Lee, Ruoming Jin:
  Detecting events from the social media through exemplar-enhanced supervised learning. 1083-1097

Volume 12, Number 10, 2019

Remote Sensing of Land Use/Cover Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries
Editorial

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  Krishna Prasad Vadrevu, Andreas Heinimann, Garik Gutman, Chris Justice:
  Remote sensing of land use/cover changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. 1099-1102

Articles

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  Fatwa Ramdani, Sabaruddin Rahman, Chandra P. Giri:
  Principal polar spectral indices for mapping mangroves forest in South East Asia: study case Indonesia. 1103-1117
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  Quang-Thanh Bui, Van-Manh Pham, Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang, Quoc-Huy Nguyen, Xuan Linh Nguyen, Pham Minh Hai, Tran Anh Tuan, Pham Van Cu:
  Hybrid model to optimize object-based land cover classification by meta-heuristic algorithm: an example for supporting urban management in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. 1118-1132
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  Noora Khalid, Saleem Ullah, Sheikh Saeed Ahmad, Asad Ali, Farrukh Chishtie:
  A remotely sensed tracking of forest cover and associated temperature change in Margalla hills. 1133-1150
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  Fajar Yulianto, Taufik Maulana, Muhammad Rokhis Khomarudin:
  Analysis of the dynamics of land use change and its prediction based on the integration of remotely sensed data and CA-Markov model, in the upstream Citarum Watershed, West Java, Indonesia. 1151-1176
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  Amit Kumar Sharma, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Sriramulu Buvaneshwari, Muddu Sekhar, Laurent Ruiz, Soumya Bandyopadhyay, Shiv Mohan, Samuel Corgne:
  Evaluation of Radarsat-2 quad-pol SAR time-series images for monitoring groundwater irrigation. 1177-1197

Volume 12, Number 11, 2019

Social Sensing and Big Data Computing for Disaster Management
Editorial

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  Zhenlong Li, Qunying Huang, Christopher T. Emrich:
  Introduction to social sensing and big data computing for disaster management. 1198-1204

Articles

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  Muhammed Ali Sit, Caglar Koylu, Ibrahim Demir:
  Identifying disaster-related tweets and their semantic, spatial and temporal context using deep learning, natural language processing and spatial analysis: a case study of Hurricane Irma. 1205-1229
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  Manzhu Yu, Qunying Huang, Han Qin, Chris Scheele, Chaowei Yang:
  Deep learning for real-time social media text classification for situation awareness - using Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, and Irma as case studies. 1230-1247
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  Xiao Huang, Cuizhen Wang, Zhenlong Li, Huan Ning:
  A visual-textual fused approach to automated tagging of flood-related tweets during a flood event. 1248-1264
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  Yandong Wang, Shisi Ruan, Teng Wang, Mengling Qiao:
  Rapid estimation of an earthquake impact area using a spatial logistic growth model based on social media data. 1265-1284
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  Huina Mao, Gautam S. Thakur, Kevin A. Sparks, Jibonananda Sanyal, Budhendra Bhaduri:
  Mapping near-real-time power outages from social media. 1285-1299
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  Lei Zou, Nina Siu-Ngan Lam, Shayan Shams, Heng Cai, Michelle A. Meyer, Seungwon Yang, Kisung Lee, Seung-Jong Park, Margaret A. Reams:
  Social and geographical disparities in Twitter use during Hurricane Harvey. 1300-1318
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  Petr Kubícek, Milan Konecný, Zdenek Stachon, Jie Shen, Lukás Herman, Tomás Rezník, Karel Stanek, Radim Stampach, Simon Leitgeb:
  Population distribution modelling at fine spatio-temporal scale based on mobile phone data. 1319-1340
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  Liang Zheng, Fei Wang, Xiaocui Zheng, Binbin Liu:
  Discovering the relationship of disasters from big scholar and social media news datasets. 1341-1363
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  Zhe Zhang, Hao Hu, Dandong Yin, Shakil Kashem, Ruopu Li, Heng Cai, Dylan Perkins, Shaowen Wang:
  A cyberGIS-enabled multi-criteria spatial decision support system: A case study on flood emergency management. 1364-1381

Volume 12, Number 12, 2019

Lists of Reviewers

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  List of reviewers for International Journal of Digital Earth.

Articles

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  Deren Li, Jun Ma, Tao Cheng, John L. van Genderen, Zhenfeng Shao:
  Challenges and opportunities for the development of MEGACITIES. 1382-1395
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  Xinyue Ye, V. Kelly Turner, Bing She:
  Automating land parcel classification for neighborhood-scale urban analysis. 1396-1405
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  Yanjun Wang, Qi Chen, Lin Liu, Kai Li:
  A Hierarchical unsupervised method for power line classification from airborne LiDAR data. 1406-1422
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  Lajiao Chen, Liying Sun, Weijiang Liu, Lizhe Wang, Hui Wu, A-Xing Zhu, Yiqi Luo:
  Evapotranspiration partitioning using an optimality-based ecohydrological model in a semiarid shrubland. 1423-1440
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  Lianchong Zhang, Guoqing Li, Chi Zhang, Huanyin Yue, Xiaohan Liao:
  Approach and practice: integrating earth observation resources for data sharing in China GEOSS. 1441-1456
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  Xin Zhang, Wanqian Deng, Yuwu Jiang:
  New insight into smart ocean: how is it different from digital ocean? 1457-1464

Miscellany

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  The 11th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Florence DECLARATION by the International Society for Digital Earth. 1465-1466