Modeling urban growth using spatially heterogeneous cellular automata models: Comparison of spatial lag,spatial error and GWR

Many methods can be used to construct geographical cellular automata (CA) models of urban land use, but most do not adequately capture spatial heterogeneity in urban dynamics. Spatial regression is particularly appropriate to address the problem to reproduce urban patterns. To examine the advantages and disadvantages of spatial regression, we compare a spatial lag CA model (SLM-CA), a spatial error CA model (SEM-CA) and a geographically-weighted regression CA model (GWR-CA) by simulating urban growth at Nanjing, China. Each CA model is calibrated from 1995 to 2005 and validated from 2005 to 2015. Among these, SLM and SEM are spatial autoregressive (SAR) models that consider spatial autocorrelation of urban growth and yield highly similar land transition probability maps. Both SAR-CA and GWR-CA accurately reproduce urban growth at Nanjing during the calibration and validation phases, yielding overall accuracies (OAs) exceeding 94% and 85%, respectively. SAR-CA is superior in simulating urban growth when measured by OA and figure-of-merit (FOM) while GWR-CA is superior regarding the ability to address spatial heterogeneity. A concentric ring buffer-based assessment shows OA valleys that correspond to FOM peaks, where the ranges of valleys and peaks indicate the areas with active urban development. By comparison, SAR-CA captures more newly-urbanized patches in highly-dense urban areas and shows better performance in terms of simulation accuracy; whereas, GWR-CA captures more in the suburbs and shows better ability to address spatial heterogeneity. Our results demonstrate that spatial regression can help produce accurate simulations of urban dynamics featured by spatial heterogeneity, either implicitly or explicitly. Our work should help select appropriate CA models of urban growth in different terrain and socioeconomic contexts.     

A Student's t-based density peaks clustering with superpixel segmentation (tDPCSS) method for image color clustering

Image color clustering is a basic technique in image processing and computer vision, which is often applied in image segmentation, color transfer, contrast enhancement, object detection, skin color capture, and so forth. Various clustering algorithms have been employed for image color clustering in recent years. However, most of the algorithms require a large amount of memory or a predetermined number of clusters. In addition, some of the existing algorithms are sensitive to the parameter configurations. In order to tackle the above problems, we propose an image color clustering method named Student's t-based density peaks clustering with superpixel segmentation (tDPCSS), which can automatically obtain clustering results, without requiring a large amount of memory, and is not dependent on the parameters of the algorithm or the number of clusters. In tDPCSS, superpixels are obtained based on automatic and constrained simple non-iterative clustering, to automatically decrease the image data volume. A Student's t kernel function and a cluster center selection method are adopted to eliminate the dependence of the density peak clustering on parameters and the number of clusters, respectively. The experiments undertaken in this study confirmed that the proposed approach outperforms k-means, fuzzy c-means, mean-shift clustering, and density peak clustering with superpixel segmentation in the accuracy of the cluster centers and the validity of the clustering results.     

A spatio-temporal fusion method for remote sensing data Using a linear injection model and local neighbourhood information

This paper presents a spatio-temporal fusion method for remote sensing images by using a linear injection model and local neighbourhood information. In this method, the linear injection model is first introduced to generate an initial fused image, the spatial details are extracted from the fine-resolution image at the base date, and are weighted by a proper injection gains. Then, the spatial details and the relative spectral information from the coarse-resolution images are blended to generate the fusion result. To further enhance its robustness to the noise, the local neighbourhood information, derived from the fine-resolution image and the fused result simultaneously, is introduced to refine the initial fused image to obtain a more accurate prediction result. The algorithm can effectively capture phenology change or land-cover-type change with minimum input data. Simulated data and two types of real satellite images with seasonal changes and land-cover-type changes are employed to test the performance of the proposed method. Compared with a spatial and temporal adaptive reflectance fusion model (STARFM) and a flexible spatio-temporal fusion algorithm (FSDAF), results show that the proposed approach improves the accuracy of fused images in phenology change area and effectively captures land-cover-type reflectance changes.     

Revisiting the Parallel Strategy for DOACROSS Loops

Journal of Computer Science and Technology - DOACROSS loops are significant parts in many important scientific and engineering applications, which are generally exploited pipeline/wave-front...     

Prediction of Undrained Sinkhole Collapse

Sinkholes are surface depressions or shafts resulting from the collapse of a submerged cavity in soil. The cavities that lead to sinkholes form as a result of underlying geology in limestone areas, or as a result of human activity such as mining or leakage from a sewer. The formation of sinkholes is often sudden and can lead to extensive damage and loss of life, especially in urban areas. Much of the literature on the subject of sinkhole formation is empirical in nature, often being associated with specific locations. This paper presents the results of a study, using numerical modeling, of the undrained stability of the submerged cavities that lead to sinkhole formation. Finite-element limit analysis techniques (using programs developed at the University of Newcastle) are used to obtain upper and lower bound values of a suitable load parameter, which bracket the exact solution. The results are compared to analytical solutions, both from literature and derived independently.     

Feeble interfaces in bimaterials

Summary In the present paper, the thermal and thermo-elastic response of a bi-material to temperature changes is analyzed, when its interface exhibits a simultaneous weakness in traction transferring and heat flow conducting (feeble interface). Such a pathological behavior of an interface is described by two sets of constitutive relationships relating the heat flow passing through the interface to the temperature jump and the interfacial components of the traction to those of the displacement jump. The bimaterial model considered is that of a circular inhomogeneity in an elastic matrix with linear forms of the constitutive relationships. When the solutions of both heat conduction and thermoelastic problems with a perfect interface are known, the corresponding problems with a feeble interface are reduced to the solution of two dislocation problems: a heat conduction problem with an appropriate temperature dislocation applied across the interface, and an elasticity problem with an appropriate displacement dislocation of Somigliana type acting across the interface. For both dislocation problems, general representations of their solutions in terms of two-phase potential functions of complex variables are provided. Detailed analytical results are given for a circular inhomogeneity with a feeble interface disturbing a linear distribution of the temperature change in the matrix. In this case, the stress field within the inhomogeneity has a linear distribution and it vanishes for the limiting case of a sliding interface. For a specific value of the interface parameter H, which characterizes the thermal imperfection, there are no shear stresses within the inhomogeneity. Finally, since the constitutive laws describing the thermal and mechanical interface behavior correlate tensors of different order, the resulting fields in the system are drastically affected by the inhomogeneity size.     

Fuzzy-ART背景抑制的单帧红外弱小目标检测

针对现有背景抑制算法未能有效地抑制背景而导致目标检测率低的问题,提出一种基于模糊自适应共振理论(Fuzzy-ART)进行背景抑制、基于行列k均值(k-means)聚类实现阈值分割的单帧红外弱小目标检测算法.首先依据红外成像原理仿真生成红外弱小目标训练样本;然后采用Fuzzy-ART神经网络建立目标模型,并以此分析各像素点的目标模糊隶属度来抑制背景杂波;最后采用基于行列k-means聚类的自适应阈值分割算法来检测真实目标.实验结果表明,该算法能有效地抑制背景杂波和突显目标,并能有效地提高信噪比检测弱小目标.     

A graph-based semi-supervised approach to classification learning in digital geographies

As the distinction between online and physical spaces rapidly degrades, social media have now become an integral component of how many people's everyday experiences are mediated. As such, increasing interest has emerged in exploring how the content shared through those online platforms comes to contribute to the collaborative creation of places in physical space at the urban scale. Exploring digital geographies of social media data using methods such as qualitative coding (i.e., content labelling) is a flexible but complex task, commonly limited to small samples due to its impracticality over large datasets. In this paper, we propose a new tool for studies in digital geographies, bridging qualitative and quantitative approaches, able to learn a set of arbitrary labels (qualitative codes) on a small, manually-created sample and apply the same labels on a larger set. We introduce a semi-supervised, deep neural network approach to classify geo-located social media posts based on their textual and image content, as well as geographical and temporal aspects. Our innovative approach is rooted in our understanding of social media posts as augmentations of the time-space configurations that places are, and it comprises a stacked multi-modal autoencoder neural network to create joint representations of text and images, and a spatio-temporal graph convolution neural network for semi-supervised classification. The results presented in this paper show that our approach performs the classification of social media content with higher accuracy than traditional machine learning models as well as two state-of-art deep learning frameworks.     

A band selection approach based on wavelet support vector machine ensemble model and membrane whale optimization algorithm for hyperspectral image

Applied Intelligence - Hyperspectral Image (HSI) has become one of the important remote sensing sources for object interpretation by its abundant band information. Among them, band selection is...