Publications related to Modifiable areal unit problem

On the selection and effectiveness of pseudo-absences for species distribution modeling with deep learning

Devis Tuia, Nina Marion Aurélia Van Tiel, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger, Robin Adrien Zbinden, Lloyd Haydn Hughes

Species distribution modeling is a highly versatile tool for understanding the intricate relationship between environmental conditions and species occurrences. However, the available data often lacks information on confirmed species absence and is limited ...

2024

Geospatial Analysis of Sodium and Potassium Intake: A Swiss Population-Based Study

Stéphane Joost, Murielle Bochud, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder

Inadequate sodium and potassium dietary intakes are associated with major, yet preventable, health consequences. Local public health interventions can be facilitated and informed by fine-scale geospatial analyses. In this study, we assess the existence of ...

MDPI2021

Lane Detection and Lane Changing Phenomena Identification with Data from a Swarm of Drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

In the era of big data, new transportation-related concepts and methodologies need to be proposed for understanding how congestion propagates. pNEUMA, a unique dataset that was acquired during a first-of-its-kind experiment with a swarm of drones over a de ...

2020

Lane Detection and Lane-Changing Identification with High-Resolution Data from a Swarm of Drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

In the era of big data, new transportation-related concepts and methodologies need to be proposed to understand how congestion propagates. pNEUMA, a unique dataset that was acquired during a first-of-its-kind experiment using a swarm of drones over a dense ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Extremal behaviour of aggregated data with an application to downscaling

Sebastian Engelke, Raphaël Gérard Théodore Michel Marie de Deloÿe et Fourcade de Fondeville

The distribution of spatially aggregated data from a stochastic process may exhibit tail behaviour different from that of its marginal distributions. For a large class of aggregating functionals we introduce the -extremal coefficient, which quantifies this ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Overview and recommendations for regionalized life cycle impact assessment

Xun Liao, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Alexis Laurent

Purpose Regionalized life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) has rapidly developed in the past decade, though its widespread application, robustness, and validity still face multiple challenges. Under the umbrella of UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, a dedicat ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

Contribution of 3D coupled hydrodynamic-ecological modeling to assess the representativeness of a sampling protocol for lake water quality assessment

Damien Bouffard, Frédéric Charles Soulignac, Robert Eduard Uittenbogaard

This study deals with the impact of spatio-temporal heterogeneities on the assessment of lake ecological status according to the European water framework directive (WFD). A method, based on three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic and ecological modeling, is ...

EDP Sciences2019

PyLandStats: An open-source Pythonic library to compute landscape metrics

Martí Bosch Padrós

Quantifying the spatial pattern of landscapes has become a common task of many studies in landscape ecology. Most of the existing software to compute landscape metrics is not well suited to be used in interactive environments such as Jupyter notebooks nor ...

2019

A toolkit for multi-scale mapping of the solar energy-generation potential of buildings in urban environments under uncertainty

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Giuseppe Peronato, Parag Rastogi

Many municipalities and public authorities have supported the creation of solar cadastres to map the solar energy-generation potential of existing buildings. Despite advancements in modelling solar potential, most of these tools provide simple evaluations ...

2018

Mixed Finite Elements for spatial regression with PDE penalization

Fabio Nobile

We study a class of models at the interface between statistics and numerical analysis. Specifically, we consider nonparametric regression models for the estimation of spatial fields from pointwise and noisy observations, which account for problem-specific ...

2014

A comparison of body mass index spatial dependence among adults and children in a Swiss general population

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous

Background: Body mass index (BMI) may cluster in space among adults and be spatially dependent. Whether BMI clusters among children and how adults and children BMI clusters are related remains unknown. We aimed to identify and to compare BMI spatial depend ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Hydrodynamics of turbulent flows within arrays of circular cylinders

Ana Margarida Da Costa Ricardo

This article presents a detailed spatial description, employing Particle Image Velocimetry, of a flow within an array of rigid and emergent cylinders with varying density in controlled laboratory conditions. Its main objective is to discuss the spatial dis ...

TPU2013

Quantification of the Small-Scale Spatial Structure of the Raindrop Size Distribution from a Network of Disdrometers

Alexis Berne, Joël Jaffrain

The spatial structure of the raindrop size distribution (DSD) conveys crucial information for reliable quantitative estimation of rainfall using remote sensing techniques. To investigate this question, a network of 16 optical disdrometers has been deployed ...

American Meteorological Society2012